God Cannot Live in the Presence of Sin

James F. Gauss

December 30, 2021

The following is an excerpt from the author’s book, Revelation 18 and the Fate of America (2021 Edition).

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God, the God of the Bible, cannot and will not co-habit with sin.  We cannot come before God without repentance and a contrite heart.  No one can call upon God and plead for His mercy without first repenting of his or her wrong-doing. As America’s sins have piled high with a growing repudiation of her sinfulness, God, as He did with His chosen people (the Jewish nation) will have no choice but to turn her over to the consequences of her sins.

Despite the millions of practicing Jews and Christians in America, the United States as a whole has become a nation of idol worshippers who have turned away from the God of the Founding Fathers.  Just like the rapid collapse of Israel and Judah, present and future generations will be astonished at the rapid decline of so great a nation that had so much potential under God’s guidance.   However, like the Jews, America “forsook the Lord their God” and “embraced other gods, and worshipped them and served them” (see 1 Kings 9:8-9).

“Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!” Isaiah warned the Jews on behalf of God.  “Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea” (Isaiah 48:18).   Many of America’s leaders, both secular and religious, have been boastful and egotistical for some time, refusing to consult God for the right path.  They have not only fully rejected God’s ways but they have embraced the sinfulness of the world around them.  And, in many cases they have created that very sinfulness with wicked hearts.

Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

John Adams, letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814

The leaders and people of America would do well to heed the warnings of the prophet Isaiah to the Jews over 2,700 years ago. 

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, who write misfortune, which they have prescribed to rob the needy of justice,  and  to  take  what  is  right  from  the  poor of My  people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless. What will you do in the day of punishment, and in the desolation which will come from afar?  To whom will you flee for help?  And where will you leave your glory?” (Isaiah 10:1-3) 

Isaiah warned that Israel’s sins had caused a great separation between them and God and they were guilty of shedding innocent blood, and God would be forced to turn His face away from them and not hear their pleas (Isaiah 59:1-3, 6-9).  The Jews were so full of sin, Isaiah said, they no longer knew the way of truth and righteousness.  Therefore true peace and justice escaped them.  Although they sought the light of understanding to guide them, they were surrounded by nothing but darkness.

From a secular viewpoint, James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution” and fourth president of the United States, understood, “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny”  (Federalist  No. 48,  February  1,  1788).    Madison recognized that if the United States ever drifted away from the separation of powers wisely set up in the U.S. Constitution by the Founding Fathers, and became one monolithic governing body without any “checks and balances”, America would descend into tyranny.  Unfortunately, that is where America finds itself under past and current political leadership.

Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves.

Thomas Jefferson

Letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787

Once again, Isaiah lamented what he saw was in Israel’s future if they did not repent.  If they did not turn from their wicked ways and seek God’s salvation, then God would turn away from them (Isaiah  64:5-7). “But  we  are  all  like  an  unclean  thing,”  Isaiah proclaimed, “and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away” (verse 6).  Because no one called on God in repentance and appealed to Him for help, Isaiah was constrained to ask God, “Will You restrain Yourself because of these things, O Lord?  Will You hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?” (Isaiah 64:12).

As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them.  O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

Isaiah 3:12

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