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America's Decline: Spiritual and Economic

Chadwick Harvey · starts at 57:09 of 2 hr 46 min · part of Solar Eclipse August 12th (Av 29) - How it correlates the Ancient Ottoman Empire to America

In this segment: Chadwick explains Yahweh's judgment on America by detailing its spiritual and financial decline. He cites issues like national pride, legalized homosexuality and abortion, and idolatry, alongside a national debt nearing $40 trillion, massive deficits, and Americans' inability to cover emergency expenses.

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So, now let's look at Yah's judgment on America. Please note these are measurable facts regardless of one's prophetic or political perspective. So, let's look at America's spiritual condition. And these are just the things that I thought of off the top of my head. You know, I'm sure there's more that you guys could probably add to, but this is our spiritual condition. And I don't think this is too debatable. I think America and the government are prideful and arrogant. I think that's pretty common. We're a very prideful nation. We're very arrogant as Americans. The government is very arrogant. Donald Trump is very arrogant and prideful. So, again, that's just facts. Homosexuality. We've got a law. We've got a law in our law books that's saying that two men can marry and two women can marry in our law books at the federal level of the United States of America. My friends, that's just going against God's creation, and that is abomination. Abortion. Another abomination. We've killed about 60 to 70 million children, babies, in the United States of America. So, again, that is an abomination. Pagan worship. That's all over the United States. I mean, you go look at Washington D.C., it is paganville. You go look at any monument up in Washington D.C., it is pagan. It's Babylonian. Go look at the Babylonian tall tower, Babylonian. What do they call it? The Lincoln Tower or something. Babylonian. What Trump is about to do with the arch. Babylonian. These are idols. These open up bad spirits. Everybody, please realize and understand that this country, go look at the dollar bill. Go look at all of these things. It's pagan. All of this pagan worship when you look at it. And it just, it is what it is. Then we've got the church. The American church. Lawless. Man-made ways, abominations, blasphemies, heresies across the American church. Again, across all churches in the world, but I'm just talking about the American church because it's about America. Lawlessness, I mean, all over the place. And the problem is, is they don't care about it. I mean, you could talk to most Christians about these things. They don't care. They've got the grace. They've got the grace to do whatever they want. We're going to find out. Spiritual adultery, or that goes back into basically worshiping a different way. Idolatry of politics. I think that's pretty common. There's a lot of people who have idolatry of Donald Trump. There's people who had idolatry of Barack Obama. Those are the two main ones that I've seen: Barack Obama and Donald Trump. I mean, boy howdy. You talking about idolatry? Goodness gracious. And right now, we all know that a lot of Christians are in idolatry with Donald Trump right now as well. We are the largest exporter of pornography. America is. We have one of the largest child sex trafficking countries there is. Foreign wars. We've been over foreign wars for 25 years, and we've murdered approximately two million civilians over in the Middle East. A million Iraqis, 650,000 Syrians, and then the other 350 or whatever it is would be from the rest of the nations that we've been over there trying to conquer or trying to do whatever we're trying to do, which doesn't make any sense at all. So, again, my friends, those are just facts. Those are just facts of what our country is spiritually speaking. And I don't think that's too debatable, to be honest with you, not to be arrogant or not to be prideful or anything at all, but just look at our country. Pride, arrogance, homosexuality, abortion, pagan worship, lawlessness in the church, man-made ways, spiritual adultery, idolatry of politics, largest exporter of pornography, child sex trafficking, porn wars, murdered two million people, murdered 70 million children, abortion. So, you tell me, is this country in good shape spiritually speaking with Yah? Of course not. I mean, why would we be? I mean, the world's not. So, it's not just about America. The whole world's this way. Including Israel. I mean, Israel had a homosexuality town parade or whatever in Sodom, June 1st through June 4th of this year, a couple months ago, down in Sodom. They had a homosexuality city or whatever for a weekend, with all the homosexuals there. The government supported that, by the way, the Israeli government did. So, you guys tell me. It's all over the world. I mean, the whole world is about homosexuality. The whole world is aborting kids. The whole world, I mean, just murderers all over the place. So, you guys tell me that's, again, the whole world's this way, but our country is as well. And that's what I don't think the Christians really understand here in America, that our country is Babylon. Our country is Sodom and Egypt is what we are. And until we understand that, until we come to grips with that and put some of the responsibility on each and every one of us, also our nation as well, especially the politicians, then we're going to be on a downhill glide.

America's financial condition. These are facts as well, and please go confirm these as well. The national debt is approaching $40 trillion. In the Torah, Deuteronomy 28 through 30, God tells Moses tells Israel that if you are a debtor nation, you are a cursed nation. So, if He thinks that of His own people, Israel, then He thinks that with everybody. If we are a debtor nation, you are a cursed nation according to God's word. So, Israel is a debtor nation right now, and America is a debtor nation right now. Most countries are debtor nations right now. China, Russia, all of France, you name it, Britain, all of the major countries in the world. And we'll be doing a video on this. They're all in massive debt. Massive debt. And we're at the top of the list, everybody. $40 trillion. So, no gold standard, everybody. This is where we're at. $40 trillion and counting. And we're going to go through some more statistics as well with this as well, but that's where we are, my friends. $40 trillion dollars. The annual interest cost exceed one trillion. So, we're paying $1 trillion just in interest. Just in interest, everybody, $1 trillion. We print money or borrow money to go to war. How smart is that? We debase our currency. Continue deficit spending. And we have concerns over defense industrial capacity after prolonged military support abroad, especially for the last 25 years. My friends, our munitions are not where they need to be. I think there's been reports out with President Trump and the defense secretary, or the war secretary, as he calls himself, Pete Hegseth, that they kind of hooked horns, locked horns a little bit over these munitions. And these have been, I mean, this has been going on since the war began. And we're finally understanding that in the American media that our munitions are low. I mean, we've talked about this on the channel for six months from all these other smart people, these generals and these colonels who don't have a political bone, and they're just calling it like it is because they love America. They love American citizens and soldiers. And they have been saying this for six months. And now we're finally getting this to the front of the table with President Trump and Hegseth and the American media, who's been lying to people all over the place on how good this war has gone for America over in Iran. No, take off the blinders, take off the sunglasses, and put the 3D glasses back on and get the popcorn ready, because this has been a catastrophe over in the Middle East. I think that's pretty common sense for anybody who wants to go look at some true news instead of all the false news over in America. So, we've got to understand where we are, my friends. We've been at war for 25 years in the Middle East with zero victories. Zero victories. We've been at war. We don't have any munitions. We don't have any money. We don't have anything. But our pride and our egos is what America has right now. And that's going to fall down. Because God, my thing is with the Christians is we all know what God says about pride in the Bible. So, I don't know why all these people are supporting a bunch of prideful leaders in the world. When the Bible tells us not to be supporting prideful and arrogant leaders in the world. But the Christians and the Jews, they don't read the Bible. And if they do, they just want to be worldly. They don't want to follow God. They want to follow political leaders. And let me ask you, how's that going, by the way, in the United States of America? How's that going in Israel right now? By the way, not too good, I don't think. As of August 3rd, 2026, Treasury data showed approximately $32.04 trillion debt held by the public, $7.7 trillion in governmental holdings, approximately $39.74 trillion total federal debt, most in world history, everybody. So, congratulations, American people. You've got $40 trillion. You've hit a mile marker. You've got $40 trillion. I said this before. Our kids, we have left our kids in one heck of a mess. We must hate our children to leave them in $40 trillion of debt. Congratulations, our children. Here you go. $40 trillion in debt that they're going to have to somehow work off. The CBO, or the Congressional Budget Office, projects for fiscal year 2026 approximately $7.4 trillion in federal spending, approximately $5.6 trillion in revenue. My friends, we don't have to be a math major to understand this. That's a $1.8 trillion deficit. Approximately $1 trillion in net interest outlays. I mean, just think about that. I mean, that is just gross. That is just so irresponsible as a country in our political leaders that we are spending $7.4 trillion dollars and we're only taking in $5.6 trillion. So, again, how long can you keep this up? $1.8 trillion deficit every single year, everybody. Every year. So, if I was a hundred thousand in debt, and I just keep borrowing another hundred thousand, borrow another hundred thousand, I mean, how do you ever come out? I would go bankrupt as an individual or as a business owner in real estate. So, this is the same thing, my friends. This is fantasy land. This is just math 101. This is easy for anybody who knows 1 plus 1 equals 2. You're one, you're negative $1.8 trillion every single year with a trillion dollar, a trillion dollar interest payment every single year. I mean, goodness gracious. Goodness gracious. So, the CBO explicitly describes the fiscal trajectory as unsustainable. You think? You think? I think they got that one right. It is unsustainable. America's credit rating and credit card debt. Let's look at this as well. For decades, the United States held the highest possible credit rating from all three major rating agencies. Then in 2011, Standard & Poor's downgraded the US from AAA to AA+ for the first time in history. 2023, which is very three years ago, Fitch Ratings also downgraded the US from AAA to AA+. And then in 2025, last year, my friends, Moody's, the last of the three major agencies to maintain a AAA rating for the United States, also downgraded the United States to AA1, meaning all three major agencies have now removed the nation's top-tier credit rating. My friends, just this alone should give American citizens a pause on what we're doing, on how we're doing it, on what we're doing. Foreign wars, what we're doing with all of these things with the lobbyists and supporting everybody in the world but the American citizens. I mean, that's what we're seeing right now. We've got billions and dollars are going out to other people, and our citizens are homeless. Our citizens are hungry. Our citizens are not making ends meet. Our children are not being able to buy homes. I mean, you tell me, but we've got all the money to go to war that we want, but we can't take care of our citizens here at home. And I think the American citizens are about to be over that, I think, as the polls do show. That is a historically significant change. It doesn't mean the US is about to default today, but it signals concerns over long-term fiscal sustainability, persistent deficits, rising debt, and political dysfunction surrounding fiscal policy with the Republicans and the Democrats. Proverbs 22:7 says, "The borrower is a servant to the lender." Amen to that. America has enjoyed unprecedented prosperity and success. But today, it is increasingly dependent upon borrowing to finance its government. Whether one views this economically or biblically, debt eventually has consequences. So, now let's look at America's credit card debt. And this is not to judge anybody out there whatsoever. This is just stats that I'm just showing.

This is no judgment or condemnation on anyone, but the facts are the facts. The total US credit card debt is approximately 1.25 trillion dollars, a near-record high. The average credit card balance for those carrying a balance is about $6,500 per cardholder. Total household debt, including mortgages, auto loans, student loans, and credit cards, amounts to $18.8 trillion for American citizens, another record. Credit card interest rates commonly range from 20% to 25% APR, making revolving debt extremely expensive. America is not only a nation living on borrowed money, but its people are increasingly doing the same, which is very concerning. The federal government is approaching $40 trillion in debt, while American households owe approximately $18.8 trillion in various forms of debt. Credit card balances alone exceed $1.25 trillion. Proverbs 22:7 states, "The borrower is a servant to the lender," which creates a striking parallel. Government debt, household debt, corporate debt, and a nationwide credit downgrade all point to a nation becoming increasingly dependent on borrowing. An interesting poll revealed that about one-third of Americans say they could not cover a $400 emergency expense with cash or its equivalent without borrowing or selling something. This speaks to how financially vulnerable many households have become, even while consumer debt remains near record lows.

Again, this is not condemnation, but a statement of facts from a poll. About one-third of Americans polled said they could not cover a $400 emergency expense with cash or its equivalent without borrowing or selling something. This shows us where our economy is heading. In summary, national debt is approaching $40 trillion, annual interest payments are around $1 trillion, annual deficits are approaching $2 trillion, and unfunded liabilities for Social Security and Medicare stretch into the tens of trillions. Interest payments now rival or exceed what America spends on many major federal departments. Americans' credit card debt also contributes to this picture, demonstrating America's increasing dependence on debt.

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