Dec 02, 2025
I can’t help but notice that we’re in serious decline, and I groan for the future of my children…and their children. The world they are going to have to endure is very different from the world you and I grew up in. North Carolina, and Charlotte, was once considered a safe, conservative part of the nation where people could live their lives peacefully.
That simply just isn’t the case anymore.
America doesn’t collapse overnight. Nations decay slowly, layer by layer, until the rot finally breaks through the surface. And when it breaks through, it looks exactly like what we’re watching now—a country stumbling through violence, theft, and mass chaos as if judgment were simply the natural weather pattern of the age.
Scripture doesn’t leave us guessing about moments like this. Romans 1:28 reads like a headline:
“Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.”
When we decide as a nation that righteousness is optional, God lets them feel the full weight of their choices. America wanted autonomy. What it got was abandonment.
Just look at the stories pouring out of my home state of North Carolina and beyond—repeat offenders who never see a jail cell, criminal illegals fighting with border patrol, city leaders engineering crime spikes through incompetence and ideology, and public spaces disintegrating into open anarchy. These aren’t random data points. They’re symptoms of a moral spiral that Scripture has already diagnosed.
We also have here the tragedy of Iryna Zarutska. A Ukrainian immigrant, murdered on a New York subway by a man who should never have been on the street. DeCarlos Brown had been arrested fourteen times before he took her life.
Fourteen.
Yet there he was—another product of the revolving door, another warning ignored.
Rep. Mark Harris put her story forward with a grim resolve, calling for “Iryna’s Law,” acknowledging that such legislation would barely scratch the surface. “We haven’t forgotten you, Iryna,” he wrote, sharing the haunting image of her final moments. America didn’t need another law. It needed accountability long before Brown ever stepped onto that train.
And Charlotte follows the same script. Sidney Truesdale—arrested for the twenty-ninth time after breaking into dozens of vehicles, all while out on bond for similar crimes. Twenty-eight arrests behind him, and still free to terrorize a city. Nothing says “judgment” quite like a justice system refusing to restrain evil.
Paul warned us of days exactly like this: “People will be lovers of themselves… unholy… without self-control… brutal… haters of good” (2 Timothy 3:1–4). When criminality stops receiving consequence, a society stops receiving protection. God withdraws His hand, and chaos rushes to fill the void.
And of course we have the whole immigration joke—the kind of deception that signals a culture allergic to truth itself. In North Carolina, an illegal immigrant accused of shooting two people in their car was officially recorded as a “white male.”
Matt Van Swol exposed the absurdity, posting a mugshot of Michael Steven Rodriguez-Flores—obviously Latino—next to the bureaucratic fiction forced into the paperwork. You cannot make this stuff up! Because of course you can’t. Only a nation that hates truth could produce it.
Isaiah saw this centuries earlier:
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.”
When the government lies about a criminal’s identity to protect an agenda, that’s not incompetence—that’s spiritual inversion. And nations that practiced this kind of denial in Scripture didn’t last long.
Israel didn’t.
Judah didn’t.
We won’t.
Leadership failure only accelerates the decline. Raleigh’s crime surge under former police chief Estella Patterson—the highest in thirty years—didn’t magically correct itself. It persisted, because the ideology behind it persisted. Patterson championed gender quotas in policing while crime devoured the city she was sworn to protect.
Meanwhile, her husband walked away with a nearly $100,000 settlement from Charlotte for alleged racial discrimination—despite the city’s own rules forbidding payouts under that threshold.
So what exactly is going on in Charlotte and all around this nation? Scripture has the answer:
“When the godly are in authority, the people rejoice. But when the wicked are in power, they groan.” (Proverbs 29:2).
The groaning is audible now.
And the decay spills into the mundane—the places that once symbolized basic order. Videos of mobs tearing through Walmart. Fights exploding over trivial grievances. A man smashing a Google car just to “prove he’s a real man.” Protesters blocking roads with performative rage. Thieves strolling out of stores with merchandise, eyes dead, shame nonexistent.
Matthew 24:12 tells us:
“Because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.”
That’s exactly what we’re watching—a coldness settling into the bones of the nation.
It’s Sodom with smartphones.
America is reaping what it has sown—not metaphorically, not symbolically, but literally. When a nation embraces relativism, excuses sin, abandons justice, and elevates rebellion to virtue, God responds the same way He always has:
He lets the nation choke on the fruit of its choices.
Galatians 6:7 warned us: “Whatever one sows, that will he also reap.” We planted lawlessness. We’re harvesting carnage.
Yet even judgment carries a mercy if the people will hear it. “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face…” (2 Chronicles 7:14). Repentance is still offered, even now—but the window is not infinite.
Everything happening—from Iryna’s murder to Truesdale’s endless arrests, to falsified immigration records, to crime-ridden cities, to brazen theft and public anarchy—testifies to the same truth:
God is judging America.
Not with plagues or fire from heaven, but with abandonment. With disorder. With the collapse of justice. With leaders who can’t restrain evil and citizens who no longer want them to.
There is only one way out—national repentance, a return to biblical order, leaders who enforce law without political theater, and a people willing to admit that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Short of that, the storm will not pass.
It will intensify.
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