God Has Spoken
We brought all this upon ourselves. Once a nation of Christians, we forgot about God and followed our own wicked, carnal desires and the enticements of foreign gods. The shepherds, who should have known better, were content to keep us all fat and happy with feel-good self-help "talks," and no fear of the Lord at all. So this is where we're at today. Let me take you to Deuteronomy 28, starting at verse 43:
"The foreigner who is
among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower
and lower. He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the
head and you shall be the tail. All these curses shall come upon you and
pursue you and overtake you 'til you are destroyed, because you did not obey
the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statues that
He commanded you." God has spoken.