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As I concluded in part two, in the article entitled "Oh Israel, Why Will Ye Die?", I explain that before the Lord actually destroyed Jerusalem and Solomon's Temple -- which resulted in many thousands of Israelites being transported to and enslaved in Babylon -- He repeatedly pleaded with the stubborn Jews to repent, and asked them "Why will ye die?". Consider the following verses:

"Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?"


"Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?"


"Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?"


I wrote "Oh Israel, Why Will Ye Die?" in March of 1998. Now, fourteen years later, I feel motivated to ask the very same question of the people of the United States. In part two, I discussed the political corruption, the financial corruption and the materialism and greed which have plagued the nation. However, just like Israel of old, America's problems really run much deeper than that. In the previous verses, the Lord did not just fault the politicians or the religionists of Israel; He also accused the common people as well. In other words, the scope of their sins stretched from the very top echelons of Israeli society, to the lowest social strata. Many people were in fact worshipping the false heathen gods.

Ancient Israel was plagued by a serious disease which was not limited by social status, age or any other factor. Sadly, the very same insidious disease plagues the United States today. I first mentioned this disease fourteen years ago in "The Gay and Lesbian Agenda: To the Point!", and then again in my 2001 article entitled "When Sin is No Longer a Sin". While times have changed, the symptoms of the disease have not. The modern name for this destructive disease is multiculturalism. Just as it did with backslidden ancient Israel, this vile disease is weakening, rotting and destroying the United States from within. Just as ancient Israel worshipped heathen gods, the United States today is likewise literally full of all kinds of pagan belief systems and demonic practices.

The seed of Christian America has been polluted and diluted, just as the seed of ancient Israel was likewise polluted and diluted. To our own shame, many Americans -- including many Christian Americans -- have allowed themselves to be deceived by Satan's ruse. They have swallowed the treacherous lie that claims that we must respect the belief systems of others and accommodate them, even when their beliefs outright oppose and contradict our Christian heritage. Tragically, even America's current wayward president -- Barack Hussein Obama -- publicly acknowledges that the United States is no longer a Christian nation, but rather a multicultural nation. In a speech that he delivered in June of 2007, Obama -- who was then still an Illinois senator -- stated the following:

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"Whatever we once were, we're no longer a Christian nation. At least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers."

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Later, when asked to clarify some of his remarks regarding the Christian Right, Senator Obama wrote the following in an email message to David Brody, who at that time was the senior national correspondent for the Christian Broadcast Network, and who is now the Chief Political Correspondent for CBN:

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". . . Whatever we once were, we're no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers."

"We should acknowledge this and realize that when we're formulating policies from the state house to the Senate floor to the White House, we've got to work to translate our reasoning into values that are accessible to every one of our citizens, not just members of our own faith community."

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Sadly, what the president states is correct. While we would all like to continue believing that the United States is a strictly Christian nation, even though the vast majority of her citizens may still embrace one form of Christianity or another, the truth of the matter is that many other faiths have now taken root in the nation. These roots are slowly but surely spreading, and poisoning the populace, just as occurred with Israel. If you are interested, you can watch a very short YouTube flash video in which Senator Obama makes this statement at the following URL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC3IevZiik

But let us be clear here. This disease did not just suddenly spring up during the Obama administration. The real truth of the matter is that America knowingly invited this disease to her shores with her call of "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free". Yes, they did indeed come, by the millions, many with their non-Christian beliefs: Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists and more, and thus began America's decay from within. America received boatloads of cheap labor; that is, people who were willing to work extremely hard for meager wages; as long as they were given an opportunity to start a new life in America. Massive waves of immigrants arrived from Europe and elsewhere, and America was built upon their sweat and hard labor. My own great grandparents were among them.

But look at us now. Just like ancient Israel, we have aliens and strangers within our midst who do not believe in or love our God. While their beliefs and practices are protected and are even taught in the American public school system, it is no secret that with each passing year, the Christian faith is trampled upon and restricted more and more. We can put "God" on our money and in the Pledge of Allegiance, but to speak of Christ openly in the public avenue, or to place a monument of the Ten Commandments on government property, or a Nativity Scene in a public place, is frowned upon and sometimes even prohibited. As many of you will know, many merchants now rely upon laws regarding loitering and solicitation as a means to prevent Christians from witnessing and passing out tracts on their properties. This has been occurring for decades.

The tragedy is that America is increasingly less and less of a Christian-friendly nation. The attitude seems to be "Sorry God, but we are now a multicultural nation, so we have to be politically correct. We don't want to go out of our way and purposely offend people of other non-Christian faiths, so we have no choice but to tone down our witness. We need to hide our light under a bushel. Move over God. We need to make some room for all of these other gods, lest someone accuse us of not being fair."

Some people will no doubt argue that perhaps in His Wisdom, God brought all of these non-believers to our shores, so that we could be a witness to them. This is undoubtedly true in a lot of cases, and we should be very thankful for those people who do come to Christ; but let us speak the plain truth here. Many of these people -- millions of them in fact -- have zero interest in converting to Christianity. They are quite happy being Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or whatever religion they happen to embrace. As I noted earlier, the main reason why most of these immigrants came to the United States was for financial opportunity and nothing more. Now we are stuck with them. Some people will probably claim that this is what the American melting pot is all about; but that pot is full of spiritual poison; that is, false religion which refuses to acknowledge Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the Savior of the world.

Another argument which is sometimes put forth -- even by some Christian leaders -- is that if we start placing restrictions on other non-Christian religions, we might be next. So many people have already been deceived by this lie. Folks, it is time for you to wake up! As I have already made clear, our faith has already been restricted to services in a concrete box on weekends. As long as we keep our faith in church, and out of public life, few people will complain. Out of sight, and out of mind, and that is what many non-believers want. But just endeavor to be an active, faithful witness of your faith, and see what happens. The wolves will attack sooner or later! Just ask some of the brave street evangelists who are willing to confront the enemy face-to-face everyday.

Is that what Jesus instructed us to do? Did He instruct us to hide our spiritual light under a bushel lest -- God forbid -- we offend someone? If you honestly believe that your faith is supposed to be restricted to what occurs behind closed church doors on weekends, then I admonish you to carefully study the following verses:

"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."


"No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light."


"That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;"


"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."


"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:"


"And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem."


"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."


"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you."


"But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."


"And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house . . . Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears."


"How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things . . . So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."


"For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!"


"And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also."


"Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine."


Granted, not everyone is called to be, or can be, a foreign missionary or a flaming preacher of God's Word. However, I do believe that if we keep our eyes open, God does provide each of us with opportunities to be witnesses of our faith in small ways. We just have to be sensitive to His Spirit, so that we can recognize when those opportunities arise. Even people who are home-bound, disabled, or whatever, can find opportunities online to share their faith with others. I have been doing it everyday for many years now.

Returning to the issue concerning non-believers in our midst, by passing laws to protect the beliefs of non-Christians, are we actually shooting ourselves in the foot? Is this what God told the ancient Israelites to do? Did the Lord tell them to live and let live? Did the Lord say "As long as they do not infringe on your beliefs, leave them alone"? Absolutely not! The Lord clearly instructed Moses, Joshua and Caleb to drive out the heathen from the land of Canaan. Sadly, as we have already seen, because they did not completely obey the Lord's command, and allowed some of them to remain in the land, it wasn't before long that those heathen became a thorn in their side, and a spiritual snare as well which led the Israelites into a serious state of apostasy. Consider these verses:

"Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it. . . . But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them."


"Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you: Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you."


And sadly, that is exactly what happened to the Israelites. God repeatedly destroyed them, and removed them from Israel, a number of times down through history: the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Romans. For nearly two thousand years, the Jews were a minority population in Palestine.

Some of you may be thinking to yourselves "Well, Bill, you certainly seem to have hit the nail on the head. You have certainly identified the problem. But what is the solution? What can we do to rectify this situation?" Quite frankly, I think that it is already too late, and that there really is no practical solution. This disease of multiculturalism has already so polluted the American bloodstream, that to even attempt to eradicate it would destroy the body. America's financial system is now so dependent upon cheap labor from abroad, that it would probably collapse without it.

You see, in addition to the spiritual problems that years of multiculturalism have created, it has also affected America's work ethic. As we have already discussed, one of the primary reasons why American corporations enjoy hiring foreign labor, is because such laborers are willing to work for cheap. This means that greedy corporations pay little, while earning a huge profit. Most Americans are simply not willing to allow themselves to be taken advantage of like that. They want to be paid what they are worth, because they and their families cannot possibly survive on the meager wages that so many of these companies pay. As I mentioned earlier, it is not a real living wage. I honestly don't know what the real living wage is now, but I am certain that it is substantially higher than the minimum wage that most companies pay now.

We hear so much talk about "lazy Americans", and how so many people now receive welfare, WIC, food stamps/SNAP and related public assistance programs. While some people do in fact take advantage of these programs, it is also true that there are a lot of Americans on these programs because corporate America simply refuses to pay them what they are worth. Those greedy people want to pay slave wages, and quite often without even offering health or dental benefits. No doubt you are already familiar with the many stories of foreign workers who are sometimes never even paid, severely mistreated, and forced to live in substandard housing conditions. Two movies which take a look at this issue are 1990's "H-2 Worker" and 2003's "Life and Debt". The truth is that no company can or should expect loyalty or quality work from their workers when they pay them as little as they do, and treat them as poorly as they do.

Now, if any of you reading this doubt anything that I have stated here, then I want you to consider the major American corporations which operate huge factory complexes in foreign countries such as China. We all know why they do this: cheap labor and huge profits. Just recently I was reading about the poor working conditions which exist in Apple's factories in China; that is, at Foxconn. As a dedicated Macintosh user of more than two decades, I must confess that just reading the articles made me feel rather uncomfortable. Tim Cook -- who is Apple's new CEO -- just paid a visit to China; no doubt to do some damage control ahead of the release of the report by the Fair Labor Association. But my point is, whether at home or abroad, American corporations will pay as little as possible, as long as the job gets done, and they earn a big profit.

As much as I am not fond of President Obama and some of his policies and personal beliefs, I must applaud him for making an effort to rein in some of these US corporations and trying to pressure them into bringing their factories back home to the United States. But will he be successful?

As you may have heard, for their part, these US corporations claim that it is impossible to reverse the current trend of relying upon foreign labor in places such as Foxconn. For one thing, they say that such huge manufacturing facilities which hire hundreds of thousands of people, and which can turn out a new product in a matter of hours or days, simply do not exist in the continental United States. Furthermore, the fact that American workers demand higher wages does not give these greedy corporations any incentive to bring their factories back to American soil. Their profit margin is no doubt more important to them than making sure that working Americans can provide a decent life for their families.

Even if they were to bring their factories back home to the United States, if they were to pay American workers a decent living wage -- which is doubtful -- the immediate effect is that the cost of manufacturing their products would no doubt rise substantially, and they would be forced to pass along the difference to American consumers. Quite frankly, Apple computers are already so expensive as it is, that personally, I couldn't possibly afford to pay more for one, and many Mac users probably feel the same way.

Finally, there is the issue that we are no longer living in the 1930's, 40's or 50's. There is no war effort to support, or to which Americans feel the need to show their loyalty by working long, hard hours in an ammo factory. In fact, many Americans are sick and tired of the U.S. Government's foreign wars. In short, Americans -- particularly young Americans -- are no longer willing to work at extremely tedious, monotonous jobs where they must perform the same boring task hundreds or thousands of times each day. To be honest, I couldn't possibly do it either. It would probably drive me crazy. Even with this ministry, there are certain tasks I must perform which I find monotonous and don't enjoy doing. However, they must be done. China's Foxconn, on the other hand, provides workers such as these by the hundreds of thousands; and for meager wages no less.

Aside from the economic reasons, another reason why I believe that there is no practical way to undo the damage which has already been done by multiculturalism, is because to try to reverse the current trend would tear apart and destroy many families throughout America. Obviously, we can't just inform non-Christians that they must convert to our faith, or else leave the country. Who would go along with that? Imagine the widespread protests. Imagine what the rest of the world would think of the US Government, which for many years has promoted the image of America being the land of freedom, democracy and religious tolerance.

Furthermore, name me even one current American leader who has the audacity to suggest such a bold initiative. The notion of "convert or leave" would not be acceptable to very many folks other than to some Fundamentalist Christians. As I mention in other articles, it may surprise you to learn though, that in the Old Testament, after the Jews had returned from Babylon with their foreign wives, they did in fact make a vow to put away their foreign wives, and the children which had been born through them. Consider these verses:

"And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law . . . And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel. Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives. Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do . . . And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month. And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass . . . All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children."


While the ancient Israelites were willing to make such huge sacrifices in order to please the Lord, about six hundred years later, the Apostle Paul offered some very different advice for Christian believers. In his first Epistle to the brethren at Corinth, Paul offered the following personal counsel:

"But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?"


Please notice that Paul states clearly that this is only his personal advice. While it is wise advice, it isn't applicable to every situation in the United States. The reason why I say this is simply this: Paul is addressing couples where there is one believer and one non-believer. The situation which we are discussing is rather different, because as I said before, there are people in the US -- immigrants and their descendants -- who embrace Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc., who have absolutely no intentions of converting to Christianity. While we can continue to hope that one day they will come to the Light of Jesus Christ, in the meantime, they are having children, and spreading the influence of their faith even further.

So while some people will obviously not like to hear this, as I stated before, we need to recognize that this infusion of foreigners on American soil may very well be Satan's attempt to pollute and dilute our Christian heritage, through the centuries-old tactics of divide and conquer. If something is diluted enough, it becomes ineffective. However, at the same time, based on some of the verses that I shared with you in part two, it has occurred to me that this may very well be by God's design. Consider the following verses:

"And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice; I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died: That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua."


"Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan; Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath. And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses."


As you can see, we are told that God purposely allowed these heathen to remain in Canaan, for the purpose of proving -- or testing, from the Hebrew word "nacah" -- the Israelites. The Lord wanted to see if they would remain faithful to Him in spite of the opposition in their midst.

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