Luke 19:41-44 NKJV

41Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, 42saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, 44and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

Weeping Over Nations

I live in the United States of America where I was born into this world on December 31,1949. And I have lived here all my life. I have not ever visited another country but my own nation. And I have lived here in the USA in five different states and in ten different cities over my lifetime, as well as I have visited an additional nineteen US states over my years here on this earth. So the USA is my homeland, and it is what I know. And I weep over my nation much as Jesus wept over his, and for many of the same exact reasons.

So, why did Jesus weep over Jerusalem? Because he, their promised Messiah, the Christ who was to come had now come and was living among them, and he was performing all sorts of miracles in their sight, as well as he was teaching them the truth of the gospel of our salvation, but the majority of them hated him and they wanted him dead, and they were, in fact, plotting out his death at that time. Even though he taught them the truth, the majority of them rejected him and his teachings as false.

Even though the Scriptures which they had in their possession told them of his coming and of what he would be like and of the kinds of things that he would say and do, still most of them refused to acknowledge him as their Messiah, the Christ, the only begotten Son of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Even though their Scriptures written by many of their prophets of old told them about his coming and what kind of man he would be and what kinds of sufferings he would endure, still they did to him what was foretold.

Warnings in the Scriptures

Well, the Scriptures (Old Testament and New Testament) forewarned us of the last days before the return of our Lord, and of a Beast who would arise, and of a false prophet, and of an antichrist, and of the takeover of nations to bring us all into one tyrannical order of rule. And they told us that this Beast would force everyone to bow to him (or them) and to worship him, and that all who refused to bow to the beast, and to take his mark, would be killed or they would not be allowed to buy and sell. But many are ignoring all this.

Worse than that, many who profess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior have been following after a man of lawlessness who profanes the name of Jesus by his words and by his actions while he himself professes faith in Jesus as the Messiah. Not only that, but he raises himself up as some kind of God to be worshipped, and he creates idols of worship of himself for others to bow down to. And he thinks he is the greatest, and that everyone else should see that he is the greatest, for he is a very self-absorbed man, full of arrogance.

So, here we are, nearly 2000 years past Jesus’ death on that cross, and the things prophesied in the Scriptures about these last days before the return of Christ are being fulfilled. A New World Order of the Beast has been and is still being formed by the wealthy and powerful people of the world who are rulers of nations and CEOs of companies, etc. And the nations of this world have been and are being taken down one by one, and all of us are in the process of being brought underneath the rule of this Beast, it appears.

The Adulterous Church

And the church at large, at least here in the USA, has largely gone the way of the world and of the flesh, and they have mostly rejected the gospel of Christ taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles. And God has sent his messengers throughout my nation, I believe, to proclaim the same truth that Jesus taught – although we are few in number – and to refute the lies of the enemy being passed off as truth. Yet it appears that the majority who proclaim Christ are following after the lies, instead of obeying the truth.

And we are promised in the Scriptures that a harlot who serves this Beast will eventually be hated by the Beast and he will destroy her. And the US government, in combination with the institutional market-driven “churches” which support the government, fit this description of the harlot who has world-wide influence. For many generations this harlot has served the beast in taking down one nation after another, killing, raping, stealing, and destroying others for personal gain. And what goes around comes around.

But even though there are very obvious signs of the corruption of the USA government, and that our nation is now under a rule of order which does not fit with our nation’s constitution, and that our country’s leaders are allowing the USA to “go to hell,” basically, still many “Christians” are bowing to this man of lawlessness who raises himself up to God-like status, and they are ignoring the demise of our nation, and they are giving their support to a godless nation which has denied Jesus Christ as their Messiah and Lord.

Surrounded by Enemies

Therefore, the USA, as a nation, is on the brink of disaster and of being destroyed from within, and from without, by this New World Order of the Beast. We are in the process of being overtaken in full force because, as a nation, we did not honor the God we claimed to be “one nation under,” but as a nation, and as a people proclaiming faith in the Lord Jesus, we honored the flesh of man over and above God. And so many people have believed the lies of the enemy and have stubbornly refused to accept the truth of God’s Word. So God is bringing US under judgment, because our nation rebelled.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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If You Had Known
An Original Work / May 16, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love