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“Religion begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother." - Catton Mather

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. (Proverbs 1:29-33 [KJV])

A nation may overcome adversity, and affliction, but the final test is that of affluence. In the context of an unprecedented high standard of living, the decline of living, evangelical faith is corespondent with the moral decline of the culture, the voting of which reveals what they believe is a priority.

While evangelicals have long professed to be the most conservative major voting block (voting 74% to 80% GOP for decades in presidential elections), yet they largely lost their own young - and (as with Catholics) embraced contraception thus having less of them - as well as overall not effectually engaging those without, and with many preaching a gospel of salvation by ineffectual, non-Abrahamic faith.

What does the man on the street in most localities personally encounter that evidences that someone cares for their soul, and opposes sin, aside from cults?

In addition, to varying degrees and scope, the masses overall increasingly have rejected both the innate moral sense as well as the express word of God, running after idols of the heart and media and politics. Thus, the nation that once professed to be "one nation under God" increasingly becomes on nation under satan, as the United States of Sodom.

Due to the above, every generation since (add year here _______) has been the most Biblically ignorant and morally confused and immoral that America has ever raised. And increasingly lacking the basic attributes of reliable, faithful, industrious character which every nation must have to endure.

And along with the rise of mass media, of increasingly pervasive purveyors of persuasive, perversions of what God ordained, promoting Wokeducation and conformity and persecution of moral dissidents. then the decline of the nation has been hastened.

Yet it is the very thing that the church sought to escape, that of persecution, is what has become necessary to purge and purify it to a potent force thru a distinctive remnant, as judgment must begin at the house of God. (1 Peter 4:17; Ezekiel 9:3-6)

Meanwhile, the USA itself will realize chastisement via an increasing cohorts of enemies within and without.

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Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. (Hosea 8:3-4) I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. (Hosea 8:12) For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. (Hosea 8:14) .