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Posted: January 23, 2009 Repent or Perish Is Detroit a Foretaste of America’s Future? By Mike Azinger Used by permission from Guarding the Landmarks For more information about Evangelist Mike Azinger or Guarding the Landmarks Ministry please visit his web site at http://www.guardingthelandmarks.com/blog/
The title of the actual article inside the magazine is even more ominous: “The City Where the Sirens Never Stop“. The sirens could be of any variety in this summa-slum city, but for the purposes of this article it means the fire-engine kind. Detroit has so many abandoned buildings that the city can’t keep up with their need for demolition, so they are continuously falling prey to arsonists. In 2005-06, the city of Detroit tore down 909 structures and, though with less money this year, they still propose demolishing 522 more structures, but that still doesn’t come close to keeping up with the work to be done. Real estate is dirt cheap in many areas of Detroit; you may have heard the story of several homes being put up for sale at the rock bottom–and I mean bottom–price of a measly dollar.
The whole time
I was reading of Detroit’s demise I couldn’t help wondering how a great city
could come to such ruin. Especially in America. And the whole time I was
reading this fifteen-page article strewn with photos of Detroit’s abandoned
neighborhoods (think Hurricane Katrina), I couldn’t help but think of the
bailout and the 700 billion dollar TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program)
funds and the feel-as-we-go leadership in Washington and the feel-as-we-go
election that was won
Mark Steyn gave a plausible anecdote in a fascinating article in National Review recently that floored me simply because I never had heard the scenario he proposed, and did not know it even existed. From Steyn’s article: “Brian T. Kennedy of the Claremont Institute had a grim piece in the Wall Street Journal the other day positing an Iranian-directed freighter somewhere off America’s shores capable of firing a nuclear-armed Shahab-3 missile that explodes in space over Chicago: ‘Gamma rays from the explosion, through the Compton Effect, generate three classes of disruptive electromagnetic pulses, which permanently destroy consumer electronics, the electronics in some automobiles and, most importantly, the hundreds of large transformers that distribute power throughout the U.S. All of our lights, refrigerators, water-pumping stations, TVs and radios stop running. We have no communication and no ability to provide food and water to 300 million Americans. This is what is referred to as an EMP attack, and such an attack would effectively throw America back technologically into the early 19th century.’ Then the stunning conclusion: ‘An EMP attack is not one from which America would recover as we did after Pearl Harbor’, Kennedy warns. ‘Such an attack might mean the end of the United States and most likely the Free World.’ A nightmare like this would make Detroit look like Hilton Head Island.
The LORD told Moses to warn Israel before they entered the Promised Land that, “…when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.” News Flash: More Americans are now obese than are merely overweight. We have not merely waxen fat, literally, we have waxen rotund literally, and fat in many ways metophorically. Fat people–slaves to food and celebrity and wealth and video games–are not up to resisting religious fanatics. In Florida last week, Muslims were protesting in the streets shouting “Allah Akbar!” and “Go back to the oven!” to the few lonely Jews across the boulevard doing their best to shout back. Meanwhile, most Americans were inside playing XBox 360 and eating cake. Watch Video of Pro-Hamas Demonstration in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Warning: Extremely Graphic Language Do Not Watch With Children Present Baptist Vision of Georgia Note: I'll bet you didn't see this on the news. There were protests like this all over America. Please understand this is not the only issue where violence is erupting in America.
We have come a long way from the Mayflower when our Pilgrim fathers gathered in the bowels of that little ship crossing the Atlantic and recorded for posterity their covenant with God and each other in the Mayflower Compact… “In ye name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten…having undertaken, for ye glorie of God, and advancemente of ye Christian faith…”, to begin a nation for God’s glory and the furtherance of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Idolatry reigns supreme in America, and Detroit may well be our country’s future. An EMP attack from an Iranian ship could be the tool God uses to judge us for our sinful and idolotrous ways. Or a financial collapse. Or slow, acidic moral decay. Or we could repent. Or, we could be greeted each day with the eerie cry of “Allah Akbar!” “They that hate you shall reign over you.” (Lev. 26:17b) Mike Azinger is an evangelist, works in a church radio ministry and does some political consulting in election years. In 1998 and 2000, Mike ran for U.S. Congress successfully winning the Republican primary in 2000. Mike currently resides in Indiana with his wife, Jackie, their two sons, Thomas and Zachary, ages 7 and 5 respectively and they have another blessing from the Lord due in June. |
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Detroit’s
recent mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, was arrested for corruption (I’ll spare you
the details) and now wears an orange jumper instead of his custom 5-button
suit. Kilpatrick was mayor of a city of 900,000, which is roughly half its
population since it began declining in 1950. Detroit reigns, as the Labash’s
article explains, as the “most murderous city, the poorest city, the most
segregated city, and as the place with the most heart attacks, slowest
income growth, and fewest sunny days.” And to add insult to injury, it
cannot boast of one single national grocery store chain. It gets worse: 47%
of Detroit’s adults are functionally illiterate, it was called by one
magazine “America’s sexual disease capital”, and Detriot is dangerously
lacking in police staff. Its crime lab has been closed, for example, and one
criminal infamously became so frustrated from getting no response from the
police to his confession of murder that he went to a station in Toledo and
confessed there instead.
on a word–”Change!”–by millions of people that feel
their way through life. And I couldn’t help but wonder if what happened in
Detroit could happen to an entire nation. Is Detroit a fore-taste of
America’s future?
On September
11th, 2001, planes steered by Islamic madmen slammed into several of
America’s most prominent buildings, killing thousands. The part we did not
see, or I am sure, even expect, was that, with the planes, Islam itself
slammed its philosophies and theology and fascist customs into a morally
weak American culture. It is now in many ways a part of us, and accepted by
many Americans even though I am positive most Americans secretly fear it. As
well they should. Ironically, however, in our weakness–morally and
spiritually and intellectually–we now protect most the religion that would
cut our throats.