No, I would not have thought these things would come to pass, in my lifetime, and probably not really ever, if I’d thought of some of them. Not when I focus on the actual issues which have come to pass.
But I did always know that things would get very bad, very evil, with the passing of time, because of Bible prophecy. It was just beyond me to see the forms the evil would take, these things were too unimaginable. I had more in mind other things which are coming to pass, the erosion of our freedom, the whole Big Brother scenario, etc.
I knew sin would escalate, I just somehow never figured state-sanctioned sin like we already have into my thinking.
America doesn’t seem to figure in Bible prophecy, I don’t know if we pass from the scene in some one or few cataclysmic events, or just the snowballing slide into officially and societally-sanctioned sin and the loss of God’s blessing and protection, which will affect our status as a global economic power.
I mainly wonder how bad it can get before Christians are out of here-Christians in other places have been enduring much worse persecution for a much longer time, and still the Blessed Hope hasn’t happened. Maybe the US was to be one of last signifiers of adherence to Biblical Christianity before it happens, we have to self-destruct first, I don’t know.
We can expect outright physical persecution, torture, and murder of Christians.