"Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel, they have turned away backward." (Isa. 1:4)

"If someone on American television in 1959 claimed to have had a vision stating: In the next thirty years we will have murdered twenty-five million children in ways too barbaric to describe (abortion). Sodomites will be parading in the streets. Politicians will be proclaiming gay pride week. Your tax money will be going to fund blasphemy and homosexual pornography. It will be illegal for a public schoolteacher to recite the Lord's prayer or read Psalm 23 in her classroom, but that same teacher will be able to tell your child where to get a condom or an abortion without your consent or knowledge; that there would be a drug crisis, that we would have mass crime going on in our country. Who would have believed it? Nobody." (From By Divine Design, by Tana Key, p. 90)

Certainly, the morals of this country have been on a rapid decline in the last several years. Isaiah continued by exhorting the people: "Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. 'Come now, and let us reason together,' says the LORD, 'Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.'" (Isa. 1:16-18)