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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 51
abandoned God and his law can be seen in every segment of our society. Since 1962 “violent
crime has increased 560 percent, illegitimate births have risen 400 percent, divorces have
quadrupled, the number of children living in single-parent homes has tripled, and teenage
suicides have increased more than 200 percent. High school SAT scores have dropped an
average of 75 points!” The U.S. is at or near the top in rates of abortions, divorces, and unwed
births. We lead the industrialized world in murder, rape, and violent crime. And in elementary
and secondary education, we are at or near the bottom in achievement scores.”
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Further statistics
include:
91% of Americans lie regularly.
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One third of married men and women admit to having had an affair.
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53% of Americans would have an affair (cheat on their spouse) if they had the chance.
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The number of men and woman cohabitating (living together) has risen 1,000% since
1960.
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By age thirty 50% of women have cohabitated (lived with a man outside of marriage).
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20% of Americans are infected with an incurable sexually transmitted disease.
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Americans consume 50% of the world’s illegal drugs.
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The crime rate is up 800% since 1962.
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A higher percentage of Americans are in jail than anywhere else in the world, 1 out of
every 270 Americans.
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This is in spite of the fact that many convicted criminals go free.
“[C]ompared to Japan, a person in the U.S. is six times more likely to be burglarized, 10
times more likely to be murdered and 208 times more likely to be robbed.”
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America’s moral state has not gone unnoticed. Many Christian leaders are warning from
the pulpit and are writing books informing America that a Holy God cannot tolerate our
sins much longer and judgment is not far off. One of Billy Graham’s most quoted
statements is “If God doesn’t judge America, He will have to apologize to Sodom &
Gomorrah.”
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God Will Curse and Judge The Nation That Abandons Him
As we learned in the last chapter, God's word clearly states that he will curse and judge
the nation that abandons him:
But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these
commandments; And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my
judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments… I also will do this unto
you… I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies:
they that hate you shall reign over you…(Leviticus 26:14-17).
God kept his promise and repeatedly judged Israel for abandoning him and his law. He
will keep this promise with America as well.
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