On this 250th anniversary of America, we no longer find ourselves in America. The so-called America we find ourselves in today no longer even resembles yesterday’s America, which we once knew and loved. While I can celebrate on this 4th of July what we used to be, I cannot, in good conscience or in all sincerity, celebrate what we’ve now become.

We used to be the greatest Christian nation in the history of the world. A shining city on a hill that served not only as a beacon of liberty to the rest of the world, but also as the world’s greatest missionary country, sending the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the darkness corners of the earth. Today, however, we’ve become the book of Revelation’s “Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.” We’ve certainly committed the greatest spiritual harlotry in all of human history, by transforming ourselves from being the greatest Christian nation of all time into an end-time antichrist nation. In addition, we've stopped exporting our Christian faith to the ends of the earth and started exporting our abominations all over the world, such as flying gay pride flags at all of our U.S. embassies.

We are the Biblically predicted end-time superpower that is destined, under God’s judgment, to be reduced to rumble, so that the Biblically predicted beastly world power of the end-time can rise from our ruins and lead this fallen world in its final all-out war against the people of God, both God’s chosen people—Israel and the Jews—and God’s elect people—the church and Christians. This explains why antisemitism is spreading throughout our country and world and why both our country and world are becoming increasingly possessed with the spirit of antichrist, which the Bible predicts will possess our whole planet in the perilous times of the last days. Obviously, this is noting to celebrate over, but something to disassociate ourselves from, as the book of Revelation admonishes us to do, lest we also end up partakers of God’s judgment (Revelation 18:4).

We used to be a nation founded on fundamental and self-evident truths, which our Founding Fathers wisely spelled out for us in the Declaration of Independence, our nation’s birth certificate. These monumental words—“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”—are the capstone and cornerstone of our country. When broken down they provide us with the foundational principles of our constitutional republic.

First, our country is founded on the “self-evident” truth “that all men are created equal.” This is not only an acknowledgment of God, as our Creator, but also an assertion that creation is the only foundation of equality. In other words, our Founding Fathers believed that belief in God was a necessity for human equality. Yet, in today’s America, we’ve not only outlawed the teaching of creation to our posterity in our public schools, but mandated the teaching of evolution, despite the fact that evolution, which is essentially the survival of the fittest, renders equality an impossibility. According to evolution, the fittest or superior are destined to survive at either the expense or extinction of the less fit and inferior. How then can there be equality in such a dog eat dog world, where all men, in their desperate struggle for survival, are pitted against each other to either the detriment or demise of one another?

The second “self-evident” truth enumerated in our Declaration of Independence is that our “unalienable rights”; such as, our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are God-given, not government granted. They come from our God, not from our government. Therefore, government’s whole purpose, as our Founding Fathers also spelled out in our Declaration of Independence, is to protect and preserve our God-given rights. Since government did not give our unalienable or irrevocable rights to us, it cannot take them from us, but exist only for the sole purpose of securing them for us. In fact, our Founding Fathers wrote in our Declaration of Independence that any government that ceases to perform its intended purpose; namely, the protection and preservation of people’s God-given and unalienable rights, should be immediately overthrown by the people.

By founding our representative republic on a belief in God, from whom all of our unalienable rights are derived, our Founding Fathers declared God, not government, as supreme. In addition, they sought to spare us from ever even stepping onto the slippery slope of a centralized or autocratic form of government, such as socialism or communism, in which the state is supreme and the lone dispenser or denier of the rights and freedoms of its subjects, who all live under the state’s iron-fisted rule. Yet, in today’s America, our courts have outlawed our government’s acknowledgment of God, the fundament belief upon which our government was founded, and our populace, which is becoming more and more profane, is increasingly going to the polls to punch ballots for socialist candidates who are hellbent upon turning our representative republic into a tyrannical socialist state.

Just how foreboding all of this is to our future is found in some forewarning words from our Founding Fathers. First, Thomas Jefferson, the architect of our Declaration of Independence, once said, “Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift of God?” Second, John Adams, who served as our second president, once said; "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” How can we, a country that has removed the firm basis of our liberties—our government’s acknowledgment of God—and is fast becoming a land populated by the irreligious and immoral, conceivably survive much longer? 

As an additional harbinger of our country’s impending collapse, permit me to add one other stark difference between yesterday’s and today’s America. We were once a nation of legal immigrants, who came here to assimilate themselves into our American culture, to become loyal American citizens, and to salute and pledge allegiance to the American flag alone. Consequently, we were the world’s great melting pot, where “e pluribus unum” became our motto and the many were made one. In today’s America, however, we’ve been invaded by millions of illegal immigrants who have no intention of assimilating themselves into our culture, of becoming loyal citizens of our country, or of ever saluting or pledging allegiance to our flag. Instead of a melting pot, we’ve become a salad bowl, in which we’re being tossed to and fro by competing cultures and divided loyalties, even the allegiance of many an illegal alien to an adversarial nation.

While you’re free to celebrate this 250th anniversary of what we’re still calling America, I’ll spend my day fondly remembering what we once were, as well as cast down over what we’ve become. The tragic truth is; the real America, which we once knew and loved, is no more. Not only did it not make it to its 250th birthday, but what we’re celebrating today doesn’t even faintly resemble it.