The United States - A Backsliding Nation. The people of the United States, which in the last century have been the vanguard of evangelization, do not appear to believe any more in the Great Commission. With their courts’ interpretation of the principle of "Separation of Church and State" that denies any role of God in all affairs of government, America has abandoned its claim to Divine Destiny. The nation’s fanatical insistence on "Separation of Church and State" demanded, on the one hand, by the atheists so as not to be subjected to any religious celebration or ritual or both and, on the other hand, by the minority non-Christian religious groups as well as by the majority of the Protestant churches for fear of government encroaching into their turf of religious powers and privileges has, in fact, made America the image of the old Roman Empire with its worship of many gods. The result is that America has effectively eased out the One True God in Christ Jesus from the affairs of the State. Couple this "Separation of Church and State" fanaticism with the nation’s commitment to and worship of democracy as the "government of the people (6), by the people (6), and for the people (6)" and we see the United States of America evolving into an embodiment of the Beast in the book of Revelation with the mystery number of 666.

Also, the just and rightful demand of the Creator-God on humankind to fear and to glorify Him (Revelation 14:7) has been rejected by America in favor of protecting individual rights. To protect each and everyone’s right to glorify his/her own god, America, as a nation represented by the Federal Government, has relegated the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus (John 20:17) to the level of just one among the myriad of gods of humankind. The One and Only Creator-God, as with all the other gods, is to be worshiped only in the privacy of homes, churches, and temples; whose names, images, and related icons are to have no place in the halls and offices of state and federal governments; and whose words are not to be acknowledged as divine revelation nor are the principles, the moral values, and the laws upon which the nation was founded be attributed to the Holy Bible as the source of their inspiration. From their early history, the American nation and its government can and should be proud to be called "a Christian Nation, a Christian Government" and to walk in the name of God in Christ Jesus - NOT TO REJECT HIM AND HIS TEACHINGS - while acting as Protector of the rights of non-Christians to walk in the name of their gods (Micah 4:5) and non-gods.

Again, in the name of individual rights, the government’s protection of America’s women’s right not to bear children, has led to the legalized slaughter of millions of babies in their mothers’ wombs! The American people should recall God’s Law given to Noah (Genesis 9:6), thus to humankind, that says, "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man." This law has not been abrogated by any of Jesus’s teachings or pronouncements. We believe that it was also precisely this Law, if God’s righteousness and justice were to be upheld, that justified God of His command to the Israelites then to exterminate the inhabitants of Canaan (Deuteronomy 20:17) who had offered their sons and daughters as burnt offerings to their false gods (Deuteronomy 12:31). And this writer believes that the demand of this same divine Law led to the destruction, in the hands of Spanish and other European Christian forces (Wright, 1992), of the pre-Columbian nations and civilizations in South America which were notoriously offering human sacrifices to their gods (Wikipedia.org). So, the people of the United States of America and all nations that have LEGALIZED ABORTION, beware!

By all measures, America has, indeed, rejected divine wisdom (Proverbs 8:12-21) for human wisdom. Without the vision of Divine Destiny that once propelled America to become the greatest nation on earth, America has lost the guidance of Divine Providence. With the loss, America has allowed its natural resources and the wealth of its people, that God has given them to fund the Great Commission, to be drained by non-Christian nations, primarily by Japan for the past many years; presently and becoming more significantly also by China, and, within another decade, should include India. America has been led by the nose to waste its wealth on self-gratification, on wanton and extravagant materialism, on misguided wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - because of an utter lack of understanding of Islam, a lack of understanding that exposed America‘s military weakness rather than its strength - and on charities that glorify man’s goodness rather than God’s. Because of all these, the US government and the American people are now mired in debt. And it is becoming clear that whatever the middle class and the poor people give to their churches and evangelists, these are no longer intended to support the Great Commission but are now given as "prosperity tithes" with the hope for the returns promised in Mark 10:29-31 and Malachi 3:8-12. Such "tithes" only put the Lord to the test and add only to the people’s and the nation’s debts! The ongoing (2008) collapse of personal finances and of mammoth financial institutions attests to the ongoing chastisement from Above. Only its government’s authority to print more billions, if not trillions, worth of paper money is keeping the country afloat. But how long from now will the world accept the U.S. dollar as the world’s currency?

Calling the United States of America Back to the LORD. America, look back and see how far you have fallen from God’s grace! This writer beseeches the American Christians, as a people, to return to their first love, be healed and be lifted up among the nations once again! Put to heart Micah’s (4:5) words: "All the nations may walk in the name of their gods; (but) we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever" and live by them again! Proclaim with great pride God the Father in Christ Jesus as personal Savior individually and Sovereign of the Nation as a Christian Majority while protecting the rights, even of a single person, to walk in the name of his/her god or non-god!