BUT GOD!!
Deut 14:2: For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Israel's relationship to God was conditioned upon their obedience. If they fell away, which they inevitably did, He was going to destroy them Himself:
1 Kings 9:6 But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: 7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
Again:
Deut 4:25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
America began as a Christian nation and God, through Christ, blessed us immeasurably. But in the last half century, we've expelled the Godhead from virtually every institution in America.
Are we so obtuse as to not have learned from the tragic example of the Lord's Old Testament Church? Do you think we're special? Read my tagline.
Unless we repent and stop applauding the immoral insanity that's swept the nation....Gal 6:7: Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.