What would it look like if God were to give an end times message to America, Israel and the Church in the last days with a ‘progress report’ on how they were doing?

If God were somehow to bring back our Founding Fathers to have a chat with our current government, what might they say to them? If God were to bring back the prophets of the Old Testament to speak with the leaders of modern-day Israel, what might that look like? If God were to bring back the apostles of the News Testament to give our modern-day church a ‘progress report’, how do you think that might go? On this Sunday Service, we image from the Bible just what those three events might look like. Preached live this morning at the Bible Believers Church at the Bookstore in Palatka, Florida.

“Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;” Revelation 1:19 (KJB)

SUNDAY SERVICE STUDY NOTES: A Message For America, Israel And The Church In The Last Days

 A Message For America, Israel And The Church In The Last Days

What Would the Founding Fathers Say to America’s Leaders Today?

Like it or not, America has been tied to the Jews from the very beginning, long before Israel became a nation again. The primary Jewish financier of the American Revolution was Haym Salomon, a Polish-born patriot and broker who played a crucial role in funding the war effort. He is credited with raising much of the money – $24,205,103.45 in today’s money –  needed to finance the Revolution and save the new nation from financial collapse.

Not only that but in the days of the American Revolution there was not the Geneva Bible but a different bible stuck in the pockets of the soldiers in the Continental Army. What became known as the ‘bible of the revolution’ was Robert Aitken’s 1771 King James New Testament, it was the Bible that ushered in victory for the fledging patriots. By 1782, Aitken had secured the backing of Congress to publish the entire King James Bible, one year later the war would be over, and America would officially and formally be a free nation. Those early Americans were not confused about the power behind the ‘word of a king’, and it was no accident or coincidence that the King James Bible was the foundation upon this nation was granted victory by Almighty God. In 1782, the Aitken King James Bible was endorsed by Congress for use in American schools. In 2021, that same Congress is right now crafting ‘hate speech’ laws in an attempt to make use of the Bible a crime. Think about that as you celebrate your freedom on the next Independence Day. God used a Jew and the King James Bible to establish America.

If the founding fathers could stand in the halls of power in Washington, D.C., and witness the state of this nation here on the cusp of the end times, I believe their words would thunder like they did in 1776 — but with even greater urgency. They would not mince words; they would speak plainly, prophetically, and with the clarity of men who feared God far more than they feared kings.

“I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.” Isaiah 65:1 (KJB)

A Rebuke for Abandoning the God Who Founded This Nation

The founders understood something our leaders have forgotten: that liberty cannot survive apart from the fear of the Lord. Though they were not all born-again Christians, they knew the Bible to be the moral foundation of a free people. Today’s leaders, drunk on power, would be reminded that:

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.”  Psalm 33:12 (KJB)

But America in 2025 wants the blessings of God without the obedience to God. The founders would tell our leaders that you cannot expel prayer from schools, celebrate abominations, redefine truth, exalt lawlessness, and then expect Heaven to smile on your rebellion.

They Would Condemn the Corruption of Government Power

Men like Washington, Adams, and Madison feared the rise of a centralized, tyrannical power more than foreign armies. They would look at our bloated federal machine — surveillance, censorship, endless bureaucracy, the militarized Department of War — and warn:

“This is exactly the kind of government we shed blood to escape.”

The founders believed the purpose of government was not to control the people, but to protect their God-given rights. Today, those rights are treated as bargaining chips. Freedom of speech? Negotiable. Religious liberty? Optional. Bodily autonomy? Only when politically convenient. The founders would see this as a betrayal of the very covenant they wrote into the Declaration of Independence.

They Would Warn That a Nation Without Virtue Cannot Stand

John Adams famously said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.” He meant that liberty requires personal responsibility, self-governance, and reverence for divine authority. Today’s leaders celebrate decadence, reward sloth, punish righteousness, and call evil good.

The founders would recognize this immediately — because they read the same Bible we hold in our hands:

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20 (KJB)

They would warn that no constitution, however brilliant, can preserve a people determined to destroy themselves through sin.

They Would Call America to Repentance

The founders would not offer political reform first — they would demand spiritual awakening. They would remind us that America rose because it aligned itself, however imperfectly, with the biblical principles of righteousness, liberty, and divine accountability. And they would remind our leaders that America will fall for the exact same reason ancient Israel fell:

“Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”  Proverbs 14:34 (KJB)

They Would Tell Our Leaders to Fear God Again

At the heart of it all, the founders would deliver a message that America desperately needs in this Laodicean hour:

“Return to the God of the Bible, for without Him America cannot and will not stand.”

They would tell our leaders that power without righteousness becomes tyranny. Freedom without morality becomes chaos. Prosperity without gratitude becomes idolatry.

And you may well imagine them closing with something like this:

“We gave you a republic — if you can keep it. But without the fear of God, you won’t.”

What Would the Old Testament Prophets Say to Modern-Day Israel’s Leaders Today?

If Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Amos, and the rest of God’s prophets could walk the streets of Jerusalem right now and sit across from the leaders of modern-day Israel, their message would be thunderous, uncompromising, and unmistakably biblical. The prophets were never politicians — they were mouthpieces for the LORD, and they spoke Truth even when Truth cost them everything.

Today, with Israel on the threshold of the time of Jacob’s trouble, those ancient voices would rise again with warnings that echo straight into the present hour.

They Would Rebuke Israel for Trusting in Human Alliances Over the LORD

The prophets would call out Israel’s dependence on America, the UN, global powers, and military might rather than the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Isaiah already addressed this mindset:

“Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!”  Isaiah 31:1 (KJB)

Modern Israel’s leaders — brilliant strategists, hardened soldiers, masters of intelligence — would be reminded that no Iron Dome can substitute for the LORD of Hosts.

They Would Condemn Israel’s Spiritual Blindness and Secularism

The prophets would look at Israel — a nation chosen by God, regathered in unbelief exactly as Ezekiel 37 foretold — and grieve that most of the people do not yet know their Messiah. They would say what they said before:

“Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.”  Isaiah 1:2 (KJB)

Israel’s leaders today, many of whom are secular, agnostic, or culturally religious at best, would hear the same rebuke Israel heard 2,700 years ago: You honor your heritage, but not your God.

They Would Warn That the Time of Jacob’s Trouble Is Approaching

Jeremiah would recognize this generation immediately. He would point at Israel’s enemies gathering around her, the rising hatred of the nations, and the coming false peace, and he’d declare:

“Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.”  Jeremiah 30:7 (KJB)

He would remind Israel’s leaders that the darkest night comes before the dawn of the Messiah’s return, and that the world is rapidly positioning itself for Daniel’s 70th Week.

They Would Expose the Danger of Dividing God’s Land

Joel, Amos, and Zechariah would thunder against any modern political plan that seeks to divide Jerusalem or carve up the land for false peace agreements:

“I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.” Joel 3:2 (KJB)

The prophets would tell Israel’s leaders — and the nations pressuring them — that the land belongs to the LORD, not diplomats or foreign governments. Every peace deal that trades land for promises is a step toward judgment, not stability.

They Would Call Out Hypocrisy, Corruption, and Injustice Within the Nation

The prophets were relentless about internal corruption. Amos would not hold back:

“Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.”  Amos 5:11 (KJB)

They would warn that spiritual revival cannot come without national repentance — not merely political reform, but a return to righteousness.

They Would Plead With Israel to Recognize Their Messiah

Above all, the prophets would point Israel back to the One they pierced (Zechariah 12:10). They would cry out that the Scriptures have already been fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth, and that the nation stands at the edge of the final prophetic timeline.

This would be the core of their message:

“Return unto the Messiah you rejected, for He is coming again — and soon.”

They Would Promise Hope — Real Hope — Based on God’s Covenant

But the prophets never ended with despair. They always returned to the unbreakable promises of God. They would remind Israel’s leaders that despite the coming chastisement, the LORD will keep His covenant:

“And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.” Amos 9:15 (KJB)

They would proclaim that the King is coming, the throne of David will be restored, and Israel’s Messiah will reign from Jerusalem in the Millennium.

What Would the Apostles of the New Testament Say to the Modern-Day Church?

If Peter, Paul, John, James, and Jude could stand in the pulpits of our Laodicean churches today, their message would not be soft, seeker-friendly, or politically correct. It would be a blistering rebuke, a call to repentance, and a reminder that the Church purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ has drifted far from the blueprint recorded in the Scriptures.

The apostles were men who preached Christ crucified, risen, and coming again. They feared God, not men. They understood the difference between the gospel of the kingdom and the gospel of the grace of God. And if they spoke to the modern church, they would expose just how far we have fallen in these last days.

They Would Rebuke the Church for Becoming Laodicean, Lukewarm, and Self-Satisfied

John, who penned Revelation by inspiration of the Holy Ghost, would immediately recognize our age:

“I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Revelation 3:15–16 (KJB)

The apostles would condemn our obsession with comfort, entertainment, and relevance. They would rebuke the pastors who replaced preaching with “conversations,” doctrine with dialogue, and holiness with humanism. Today’s church has become rich in goods, poor in faith, and blind to its own apostasy.

They Would Expose False Teachers, False Prophets, and False Gospels

Paul’s warning to the Galatians would thunder through the modern church world:

“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:8 (KJB)

They would condemn the prosperity preachers, celebrity pastors, motivational speakers, and wolves in sheep’s clothing who sell a sanitized Christianity without repentance, without separation, and without power. Jude would rise and remind the church that:

“Certain men crept in unawares… ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness…” Jude 1:4 (KJB)

They Would Call Christians Back to Preaching the Gospel of the Grace of God

The apostles would remind the church that the mission was never to build empires, accumulate wealth, or blend with the world. It was to preach the gospel — the gospel for the Church Age:

“For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:” 1 Corinthians 15:3–4 (KJB)

They would command the church to get back on the streets, back in the highways and hedges, back to winning lost souls before the catching away of the Church takes place.

They Would Rebuke the Church for Loving the World More Than the Lord

James would look at our compromise with culture and declare:

“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”  James 4:4 (KJB)

The apostles would condemn the churches that embrace woke ideology, promote sin, water down Scriptures, and imitate the world’s morals, music, methods, and mindset.

Paul would stand up and say what he already said:

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”  Romans 12:2 (KJB)

They Would Warn That Apostasy is the Sign of the End Times

Paul would explain that what we are witnessing now — the falling away, the denial of Scripture, the rise of counterfeit Christianity — is exactly what he prophesied:

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine…”  2 Timothy 4:3 (KJB)

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;”  2 Thessalonians 2:3 (KJB)

The apostles would make it clear that the church is not headed toward revival — but toward departure. And that departure will culminate not in renewed holiness, but in the blessed hope, the catching away of the Church.

They Would Call the Church to Purity, Boldness, and Separation

Peter would call believers back to holiness:

“Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:16 (KJB)

Paul would call them back to boldness:

“Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.”  1 Corinthians 16:13 (KJB)

John would call them back to truth:

“And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.”  1 John 5:19-21 (KJB)

And all the apostles would call them back to eager expectation for the Lord’s return, reminding the church that our citizenship is in Heaven, not this world.

They Would Tell the Modern Church to Wake Up — The Hour Is Late

Their final word would be one last cry to a sleeping church:

“Get back in the Book. Return to the gospel. Hasten to holiness. Sanctify yourselves to service. The Lord is at the door!!”

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” Revelation 3:20 (KJB)

Because in this Laodicean age, filled with deception, distraction, and delusion, the apostles would say exactly what they said 2,000 years ago — but with even more urgency:

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.”  Titus 2:13 (KJB)

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