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While she still has opportunity, the Church should evangelize with new vigor and call nations to repentance from sin to avert the coming crisis. The progress of history is not inevitable. Not even the progress of judgment is inevitable. When God decided to judge Nineveh, he sent Jonah to preach repentance. Nineveh repented of her sin and judgment was spared. Said Isaiah the prophet: "Except the Lord of hosts had left to us a very small remnant we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah."

When and in what measure judgment shall fall will be determined by the depth of the Church's dedication to her Lord. Can we say that the Church as it exists in the United States is made up of God's people? Are we the ones of whom the Scripture declares: "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death" (Rev. 12:11)?

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October (Web-only) 2008, Vol. 52