Wow do I support your statement!
This parable supports your post so perfectly, and I will interpret:
"43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation." Matthew 12.
The Gentiles were not much part of the Old Testament at all. They were said to be "working out in the field". Abraham even did not have a child by a Gentile woman, as he did the other nations: Egypt, Hebrews, and the Canaanites.
So as savages and barbarians (considered evil spirits) in OT, the Gentiles did begin civilizing themselves as it came close to NT, through the Romans and Alexander the Great.
Jesus Christ established his Faith, and Salvation which went forward in time through the Gentiles. After many centuries of persecutions, murder, and torture, a handful of Christ loving people were lead to a land where they could worship Jesus Christ without ancient Religious Governments killing them.
Upon landing at this land- America, a 'covenant' was signed by all (Mayflower Compact).
A Government of Liberty and Freedom was built, America's pride "The White House", to stand and represent all the people in equality and freedoms. Some of those Freedoms had to be fought for, but what was right in the site of God always prevailed. The land grew fast and prospered! American Inventions stormed the world!
Yet, in just over 200 years, the faith in our Lord God Jesus Christ has diminished. People from all lands and all religions have come to America. America's own Laws to protect her citizens rights, are swept under the carpet now and ignored.
A religion came in that explains this parable:
The Gentiles who built this country began as seven biological sons of Japeth, son of Noah (Genesis 10:1-5).
The long long journey through time of being barbarians, into a Freeland of Liberty.
Then, Islam came in: the oldest son of Abraham, Ishmael and the six sons of his concubine Keturah, making the ancient Midianites of OT. That 'totals' seven but are not biological brothers. They constantly fought, warred, and killed the Hebrews and the Jews. OT calls them Locusts, Grasshoppers for their numbers. Revelation calls them the seven headed beast, with beast meaning dictator.
Islam is now neatly tucked into our Land, our Society, they war against us, have killed us, and calls or attempts to kill us further happen all the time.
We Even Now Have A President In Our "White House" That Leans Towards Them.
This is the evil seven times worse, than what we were before simply being barbarian Gentiles.
rumitoid wrote:
As important as it is to note where it appears God is being shunned by this nation, seven times that is needed for us to show and act where God's call to help the needy and disadvantaged is needed in government.