''The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord is avenging and wrathful; The Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers... But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, a and will pursue his enemies into darkness..." Nahum 1

For the past thirty years God has been raising up prophetic voices in America  calling this country to repentance. We have reacted in the same manner as the ancient Israelites. We have mocked the prophets by arrogantly reminding them that we are a "Christian nation." 

Jim Nelson Black author of When Nations Die  traces the history of civilizations, and catalogued the symptoms present in a culture in crisis.

Black writes: ''in the past 2,000 years, every empire -- even those that seemed invincible at the height of their glory -- collapsed into ruin. Every one of these empires had three factors in common before they fell: civil society devalued human life, forsook religious belief, and celebrated sexual immorality. These three factors took root in the United States in the early 1960s. And the seeds sown over 40 years ago have ripened into bitter fruit."

Our behavior as a nation makes a mockery of Christianity. We lead the world in abortion, alcoholism, drug addiction, gambling, divorce, child abuse, violent crime, pornography and child pornography. We have stiffened our necks in our rebellion against God refused to repent while continuing to proclaim we are "One Nation Under God."

"And the word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast, even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God." Ezekiel 14

The current state of our nation is the fault of the Church, not the State. It is the believer, not the unbeliever, who has pushed America to the brink of destruction.

Indeed, "the natural man does not receive the things of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Corinthians 2:14

"And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
But God..." Ephesians 2

We cannot expect dead men to do what is right.

"If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land."2 Chronicles 7:14

"The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him." Nahum 1:11