If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted,
torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil,
then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.
Jeremiah 18:7-8
Let’s look a little further at America’s downfall. I believe it is likely that if America is not an End-Times player, it is because we will not be a factor. The Bible records a very long history of God judging nations for not following Him and for coming against His people. Look at Ezekiel 25-29 for several prophetic examples.
I would argue that America fits the mold all too perfectly as a nation that should expect God’s judgment. We’ve looked some at our nation’s journey in the wrong direction. Let’s bring it to the present. We are the world’s largest purveyor of pornography. The majority of U.S. citizens now officially reject God’s first covenant between man and woman. We have killed more people than Stalin and Hitler combined through abortion. Think of it – only 23 out of 200 nations have living populations larger than the number we have murdered in the womb. Our nation’s perch atop the world is but a ticking time bomb.
The church in America certainly can share a healthy portion of the blame. We sit silently in the pews while moral decline accelerates. We should be the country’s solution to poverty, not the government’s (my opinion), and yet only five percent of Americans tithe. Some churches have clung so tightly to tradition and liturgy that the Holy Spirit can’t be found. On the other hand, other churches have tried so hard to be welcoming to people that their services are more similar to a rock concert, where sin is not dealt with, than a holy gathering of saints crashing the gates of hell. There are many different ways the American Body of Christ has either watered down or stifled the simple Gospel message.
Even if you don’t believe anything I’ve written about America’s future from a spiritual standpoint, simple economics or mathematics will clearly show you that our economy is built on a house of cards set to collapse at the slightest breath. We simply cannot borrow, print money, and go into debt the way we have without consequences. The current federal debt is headed for the number 20 with a dozen zeroes behind it. Well over three billion dollars a day in debt is being added.
How might our nation fall? Pick your poison. My guess is that it will be a domino effect that includes some or all of these possibilities: extreme natural disaster, terrorist attack(s), foreign invasion, catastrophic warfare (chemical, nuclear, biological, etc.), economic collapse, and anarchy. If you think this is impossible, then I ask you to study history. Examine your heart and see if your viewpoint is based in naïve nationalistic pride. There are many peoples and nations that would love to take a swing at us, get revenge, and pillage our natural resources.