America's Controversy with God's Covenant Quotes

“And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’ ” – DEUTERONOMY 31:17”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“Then my anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured.” – DEUTERONOMY 31:17”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“The imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth.” – GENESIS 8:21”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“In short, the peace, prosperity and power once enjoyed will be taken from them and be replaced with fear, lack and weakness. That is just the beginning. The text goes on to say that, if still unrepentant, the nation will suffer attacks by wild beasts, loss of livestock, deserted highways and, eventually, “the sword” that “will execute the vengeance of the covenant” and “pestilence” (Leviticus 26:25). Any of these curses would be bad enough, but these last two, in light of recent events, are terrifyingly familiar when considering today’s world. Before examining the present, though, let us look back and see specifically what God told Israel would happen when they abandoned the covenant, why it happened, and how it actually unfolded.”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“you seven times more for your sins. I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.” – LEVITICUS 26:16-20”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you. And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“In short, a nation in covenant with God is assured peace, prosperity and power. In sharp contrast, look at what befalls the nation that abandons the covenant.”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.” – DEUTERONOMY 11:26-28”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.” – DEUTERONOMY 30:19”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“in this case, the blood of the Passover Lamb — means the difference between life and death. To ignore the requirements whereby the sign would be present is to invite death and destruction into your home and family — and your nation. So, to some degree, the choice to live or to die is left to us.”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. Now the blood shall be a sign (Hebrew ote) for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.” – EXODUS 12:12-13 Later, Moses would reaffirm this promise and indicate that the blood would protect them from the Destroyer. “For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.” – EXODUS 12:23”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“Think of it this way: how does it make you feel to see someone desecrate, maybe even burn, the American flag? How does it make you feel to hear Americans, living in America, ridiculing and mocking the emblem that represents so many others who have come before them and who gave their lives for what that emblem represents? Now imagine how God feels when His people break the covenant He has been so committed to. When God’s people forsake His covenant, it exceeds the disgraceful actions of those Americans who take the stars and stripes, throw it on the ground, trample it and then burn it. They are saying, “We want no part of what this represents.” Likewise, when we disregard and break God’s covenant, we are saying “We want no part of this,” and where God’s covenant is concerned, that can be very dangerous.”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.” – LUKE 9:23-24”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“those who are in the flesh cannot please God.” – ROMANS 8:7-8”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then,”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“When Pharaoh pursued Israel into the sea, it cost Egypt 600 chariots, 50,000 horsemen, and 200,000 footmen; not to mention that Egypt has NEVER regained the power and grandeur she enjoyed before touching God’s anointed.”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“would indict his passion; evil will become good, and good will become evil. Over time, he convinces himself that his view of reality is reality, hardening his heart to God’s correction. History testifies that each and every time God’s people felt justified in breaking His commandments and ignoring His laws, before it was too late, He would send warnings to urge them to abandon their ill-fated path, calling them to return to Him and to His Word. Sadly, they almost always continued in their disregard for His admonition, and after decades of breaking His commandments, eventually broke His covenant. Only then — when the bride had forsaken her husband for others — do we see that God allowed their strength to wane. Only then did He permit their enemies to invade and overrun them and force them from their land. Only then did they realize that God was no longer with them. That unfortunate result is what we now turn our attention to.”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost

“WHEN THERE IS NO REPENTANCE It is, unfortunately, man’s nature to redefine laws — commandments if you will — in order to accommodate his preferred lifestyle. In other words, rather than adjusting his errant deeds to conform to the reality of God’s laws, he will move or erase the boundaries of law so as to include that which he doesn’t wish to change about his life. If he can’t or won’t rein in his evil inclination, he will ignore that which”
― Perry Stone, America's Controversy with God's Covenant: America's Blessings are in Danger of Being Lost