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God's Final Warning to America

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The first chapter of Warning Judgments records in detail, with dates, the severe weather-related incidents and natural disasters that have happened in this country since the mid-1980's.

Other chapters catalog natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, 500-year floods, and economic chaos caused by these events and stock market crashes. All these disasters are linked statistically by dates to actual activities by our government, on a local, state and national level. Among the activities included are passage of laws favoring abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia. On a national level, disasters linked to the President's veto of the Partial-Birth Abortion Act are listed, as are disasters linked to presidential support for peace initiatives which force Israel to give back land to the Palestinians.

Years ago people felt that natural disasters were a warning from God. These days, people seem to have lost that understanding. God's Final Warning to America brings that idea back into sharp focus with details and statistics given in a highly readeable form.

God's Final Warning to America is a book that should provide a wake-up call to Americans who are concerned that this country is going down the wrong path! Reading the book will be an eye-opener and hopefully will be an encouragement for people to get active on a grass-roots level in their government. It is also a call to prayer for those people who have a religious outlook.

The book gives concise and well-documented information in chapters that are well-organized and easy to read. Mr. McTernan has really done his homework!

God's Final Warning To America is a thought provoking and emotionally rousing look at the spiritual condition of America. Mr. McTernan's perspective is God exists and is very active in the lives of men. He makes a strong case with a body of evidence showing that God is using national disasters to call attention to America's recent propensity for sinful destructive lifestyles. Throughout the book he makes connections between national disasters and events of national sin. His book is very well documented and logically laid out. A must read for all who love America.

John McTernan has written an important book that explicitly documents how Americans' disobedience to the will of God inevitably results in divine retribution. The proof is in the news clippings! and in Gen. 12 and Matt. 25. By His mercy, the Lord is giving America one final chance to repent of its sins of tolerance for homosexuality and abortion and failure to stand with Israel. If these warnings are not heeded, judgment surely awaits. This book is a vital wake-up call to the body of Christ and to America at large. The Lord God is not pleased. Share this book with your friends who are on the fence.

Excelent book cant say enought about it . If your into endtimes like me you will love this

A friend of mine loaned me this book. Thank God, (and, yes, there is one), I didn't expend money to buy it.

As noted, the author is an evangelist. He has no familiarity with the principles of logic or physical science that I can discern.

OF COURSE, there are going to be more weather-related disasters in America than was so in times past, FOR THE SIMPLE REASON THAT THE COUNTRY IS BECOMING MORE CROWDED. The tornado that chews up a subdivision today would have swirled the grass in an empty field just a few years ago, for example. Does this mean God hates us? Hardly, except to folks like McTiernan, perhaps.

This sort of writing dumbs down America in my opinion, and I certainly could not possibly recommend to any intelligent reader.

This book is full of lies straight from hell!




God is a good God! He isn't mad at us. He not only loves us, He likes us! He will never leave us nor forsake us, no matter how badly we miss it. His love is unconditional. His mercies are new every morning. Great is His faithfulness!

These are radical statements! They go contrary to the typical Christian teaching concerning God. Usually God is represented as stern, angry, and ready to get us for the slightest misstep. This leads to conclusions and attitudes about God that hinder an intimate relationship with Him.

There are reasons for the Lord being represented harshly. In the Old Testament, the Lord vented His anger and judgment often and in devastating ways. There was Noah's flood; the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; a death angel killed all the first born of Egypt in one night; an angel killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers in one night; and on and on the list goes. There is no doubt our God is a holy God who hates sin and demands justice.

But there is also the portrait of God that Jesus painted through His teachings and actions. He showed mercy on the worst of sinners. He associated with publicans and harlots. The only people to receive His harsh rebukes were religious hypocrites. And His ultimate action of dying for our sins proved beyond any doubt that He came to save, not condemn the world.

How does this fit with the Old Testament view of the harshness and severity of God? Is God schizophrenic? Does He sometimes love us and other times hate us? How can we have a healthy relationship with someone who changes His moods frequently?

These are questions that present a dilemma keeping many people at arm's length from the Lord. The vast majority of people KNOW there is a God. They just don't know how to relate to Him. They are confused because there have been confusing signals sent to them, often by the church.

A minister will say that it was the Lord who sovereignly killed a baby and in the next breath ask if anyone wants to serve this GOOD GOD. We are told that God won't answer the prayer of anyone in sin, yet we are told that we all sin. Where does that leave us?

Without a prayer!

There is a simple answer to these questions and a harmony between the wrath and mercy of God. God is not schizophrenic. There is one true nature of God clearly represented in the Word and that is LOVE! First John 4:8 says,

"...God is love."

He doesn't just love at times. Love is the nature of God! Jesus gave us the greatest representation of the true nature of God ever presented. But what about the harshness of God's judgments in the Old Testament? Many expect God's mercies when we do well, but what about when we sin?

God placed our sin on Jesus and punished Him in our place. God satisfied His own demands for justice, not by punishing us but by punishing His Son in our place. This wasn't a partial payment for our sins, conditional on our holiness being added to it. It was a total payment that leaves us with nothing to do except believe and receive or doubt and do without.

Jesus' payment for our sins forever changed our relationship with the Father. If Jesus had made His sacrifice for sins in the Old Testament, then we wouldn't have seen the wrath of God vented as recorded in the Old Testament scriptures.

Here's an example. In 2 Kings 1, Elijah called fire down from heaven and killed 102 soldiers who had come to arrest him. Jesus' disciples asked to do the same thing and cited Elijah as their example. Jesus rebuked them for even thinking about such an act, saying,

"Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them..." (Lk. 9:55-56)

Jesus rebuked His disciples for trying to follow Elijah's example. This shows that if Jesus had been present on the earth in His role as Messiah, Elijah's act of judgment wouldn't have happened.

There is a difference between the way God dealt with mankind under the Old Covenant and the way He deals with mankind under the New Covenant. One of the biggest problems in the church today is a failure to understand these differences. Before the sacrifice of Jesus there was harsh judgment. It wasn't because the Lord desired to punish us. His nature has always been love. But there was a price that had to be paid for sin, and until that price was paid by Jesus, He had to do something to restrain sin.

It's similar to the way we train our children. If you wait until your child is twenty years old and can comprehend exactly what you say before you begin disciplining him, you and the child will be in big trouble. A child has to be restrained from doing wrong from a very young age. At one or two years old, a child may not understand that it is the devil tempting him to take his sibling's toys. But he can understand, "If you do that again, you are going to get a spanking." He may not comprehend the issues of heaven and hell, but when the devil tempts him with covetousness, he will say "NO!" because of the fear of a spanking.

Likewise, before the new birth, the Lord restrained the amount of sin in the earth through enforcing the strict Old Testament law by harsh judgments. This put the fear of God in men, but. . .

"...fear has torment." (1 Jn. 4:18)

Although the amount of sin may have decreased by those under the law, the sin they did commit became more exceedingly sinful and damaging to their lives through the law (Rom. 7:8-13). Therefore, the law wasn't God's best, or first, way of dealing with sin. Prior to the time God gave the law through Moses, God didn't impute men's sins unto them. That means He wasn't holding men's sins against them or, as the word impute literally means, God wasn't putting men's sins on their account. Romans 5:13 says,

"Until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law."

Men were sinning, and that sin was destroying their lives. God didn't want to punish them. He was willing to show them mercy, in a sense on credit, looking forward to the sacrifice of His own Son for their sins. But men began to take the lack of God's judgment as approval.

This can be clearly seen with Cain and his descendants. Cain killed his brother Abel (Gen. 4). Instead of punishment, God extended mercy toward Cain, even putting a mark on his forehead to warn others that God was protecting him. But Cain's great-great-grandson, Lamech, interpreted this as approval of Cain's murder. Lamech killed a man in self-defense and therefore felt more justified in his killing than Cain was. He said,

"If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold." (Gen. 4:24)

God didn't say that. Lamech said that. Lamech was being presumptuous because of God's lack of punishment upon Cain. Therefore, mankind began to move so far away from a proper standard of holiness that if God had not intervened there wouldn't have been a virgin left from whom Jesus could've been born.

As Paul stated in 2 Corinthians 10:12,

"...but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise."

This has always been the case. If one gets by with sin, others will be emboldened to commit more sin. So, before the Lord could produce the new birth where He came to live within us and guide us through the indwelling of His Holy Spirit, He placed external restraints on sin that even lost people could understand. "You sin and you die." That's the way it was. Not because that's the way God really wanted it to be, but sin had to be restrained until Jesus' atoning sacrifice could be made.

God's lack of punishment on sin had also led to a total loss of a true standard of right and wrong. Men compared themselves with others so often and for so long that no one knew what God originally intended. Something had to be done.

Therefore, God gave the law, but not because it was His best. He could have given the law to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden when they first transgressed, but He waited 2000 years until the time of Moses. That's because the law had serious side effects of condemnation and guilt. God didn't want us to run from Him but to Him. However, sin was destroying the human race and had to have some restraint before Jesus came. That's why He gave the law.

The law wasn't God attempting to save mankind. It was God showing us that we could never measure up to His holy standard. It was to drive us away from self-righteousness and toward receiving the sacrifice of Jesus by faith. Yet, amazingly, the church has interpreted it in a completely opposite manner. Most Christians think the law is wonderful and something that we are obliged to comply with as much as possible. Not!

The law was given for two main purposes. It caused us to fear God's punishment on our sins, and therefore, to those who listened, it lessened the amount of sin in our lives, thereby diminishing Satan's in-roads. Second, it totally took away all hope of being saved by any virtue of our own. The law made everyone guilty before God with no hope of justice. We needed mercy.

Those were the main purposes of the law. It was not God's list of steps one through ten thousand of what you must do to be right with God. It was God's list of all you have done wrong, proving that you can never be right with God unless He provides another form of payment. It was not to set you free. The law was to bind and destroy you. It was a severe spanking for the whole human race to turn us from sin and self-salvation.




Luke 2:14 says,
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will TOWARD MEN."

1 John 2:2,
"And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the WHOLE WORLD."

Romans 2:4,
"knowing that it is the GOODNESS of God that leads man to repentence."


Before I learned these truths, I used to say that God would have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah if He didn't judge America, because we are just as deserving of judgment as they were. But now that I know the truth, I say, "If God does judge America, He will have to apologize to Jesus, because Jesus satisfied God's demands of justice."

"God is angry, at you!" is the underlying message of Gods final warning to America.
This is yet another in a long line of books that uses vague predictions, coincidence and half truths in what seems like an attempt to feed the ego of the author. John McTernan tries to show a
direct link between severe natural disasters and events he perceives to be against God. For example the Big Bear earthquake in Los Angeles , happened on June 28, 1992 Gay Pride Day. Of course he conveniently forgets to mention that during 1992 Los Angeles experienced hundreds of earthquakes, and if you try hard enough you're sure to be able to link each one to an event somewhere in the world.
Mr. Mcternan seems to be an expert at "prophesying after the fact", taking past events and placing them in a context that suits his needs. While I found this book entertaining, I doubt my enjoyment was the goal of the author. Bottom line, if your looking for a few laughs this might be right up your ally. If you looking for right wing religious doomsday warnings, watch the 700 club.