The Day America Died

When I was a little boy in the 1950s, we began each day in my public school room in Chicago by the class reciting the Lord's Prayer, and we bowed our little heads in reverence as we clasped our hands together and prayed toward God, because back then in America there was still such a thing as a fear of God in the land, and it was quite common for individual states to compose their own prayers for public recitation in the school system. In 1955, the New York Board of Regents approved a prayer to be made by all students at the start of each school day in public schools in the state of New York. The prayer read, Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on thee, and we beg thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country.

But everything changed because a few liberal Supreme Court justices bowed to a liberal member of the ACLU. Stephen Engle was a Jew who was upset to see his son with his hands clasped and his head bowed in prayer in that classroom in New York. Engle was a founding member of the New York Civil Liberties Union, and he brought a lawsuit against the Long Island New York school system, and it went up to the Supreme Court in Engle v. Vitelli.

And on the infamous day of June 25, 1962, the law of the land in America changed to outlaw God in public schools. There are very seldom reports of mass or multiple school shootings prior to 1960 in America. The mass killing of students on campuses in America began in 1966 when Charles Whitman climbed atop the observation desks at the University of Texas and killed 16 students and wounded 31 others in the shocking, violent, 96-minute shooting rampage.

I repeat, friends, prior to 1962, this kind of mass killing at school was practically unheard of in this country. But when America kicked out of the educational system in this land, mass killings have increased to such a common degree that if you have a kid in school today, he or she is a sitting duck. June 25, 1962 was the day America died, and since that time, when America turned its back on God, then God turned its back on America, and this country's streets became blood red with the violence of a killing ground.

You're not safe in church. You're not safe at school. You can be gunned down any minute by a madman in this country today.

How many more senseless mass killings are going to have to take place in this country before this country is brought to its knees in repentance and humility? Back to Almighty God. Gun control laws aren't the answer. When a nation's heart is sick with sin, then it is a spiritual problem.

This sin-sick land needs to be healed. The only solution to our national ills is a heaven-sent revival. They'll be brought about when the following occurs in this country from coast to coast.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Let us pray.