John MacArthur speaking to roughly a 3,000-strong Christian audience in Palm Springs, California said:

"Materialism, drunkard pleasure seeking, arrogant conceit, defiant sinfulness, moral perversion, and corrupt leadership… Do we not see these in America?”

Identifying Israel’s six sins leading to six curses on that nation from Isaiah 5, MacArthur said those misdeeds were not isolated to Israel, “I look at America too.

Americans have rejected the Word, the law of the LORD, and the Holy One Himself. When a society does not want to hear from God, but wants to be its own authority, where every man does that which is right in his own eyes, feeling that he is the ultimate authority, believing himself to be the ultimate source of truth then that society should expect God' judgment to come.

We have corrupt leaders who have prostituted their position and justified wicked people for a bribe, taking away the rights of the innocent they have become politicians and leaders who can be bought and sold for a price."'

The church appears to be no different than the world. Our churches are filled with those who are idling in intellectual neutral. Christians whose hearts and minds are being destroyed through false teachings and lack of knowledge and discernment. The depth of so many church-goers' theology goes no further than a collection of Biblical sounding, pop-Christian slogans and catch-phrases or televangelists spewing false hope without a Biblical base. Their theology is summed up in ~ "Let go and let God!', Do your best and God will do the rest', You need to expect to meet God when you...' and What Would Jesus Do?'... "

We are not a covenant people as is Israel, but we are a privileged people. Although America does not have a “divine promise as a unique nation called of God, we as a nation and a people have been given the Gospel of Jesus Christ and our nation was born out of a desire to be faithful and obedient to that living and abiding Word of God." But, we as a nation have become unfaithful, disobedient, living worldly lifestyles and the desire for holiness [to be separate from sinners] is not to be found.

We are a nation in crisis.

"My son, if you receive my Words, and treasure My commands within you, so that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understand: yes, if you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding, if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasure; then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of G-D. For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding..." Proverbs 2:1-6