To: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Officials of the United States Government

From: Members of the Body of Christ in the United States

Date: April 2025

As members of the Christian community, we are convinced that it is past time to alert you that America has crossed several red lines drawn by God in Scripture, and as such the most severe consequences of His judgment are before us.

Our responsibility to warn you of our nation’s dangerous trajectory is rooted in God’s directives and in the principles of the U.S. Constitution, which asserts that the people are not to answer to government, but government is to answer to the people. And ultimately, we all will answer to God.

Also, we are mindful that, “Judgment begins in the house of God” (1 Peter 4:17). Therefore, within the church, we are taking the threat of national judgment, and our culpability in provoking God’s anger, with utmost sobriety. We, too, are making every effort to address our own waywardness to live under God's mercy and favor.

Turning from Pride

According to Scripture, America has committed the four great sins that lead to national destruction: forsaking God, sexual immorality, shedding innocent blood, and greed. The hubris of calling right wrong and wrong right cannot be overstated. We must acknowledge Proverbs 16:18, which says in no uncertain terms that “pride goes before judgment.”

In recent years, political leaders have rallied voters around campaign slogans such as Change You Can Believe In, Build Back Better, and Make America Great Again. However, America will not experience substantive change, build a brighter future, nor be great again without humbling ourselves before God.

Sure Foundation

Our Founding Fathers committed our nation to God, trusted Him for guidance, and built upon the Judeo/Christian foundation of divine goodness. Benjamin Franklin was not revered as a man of God; yet he understood the necessity of seeking God’s favor. In June 1787, he stated:

Groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly appealing to the Father of lights to illuminate our understanding … When we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers were heard, and they were graciously answered. [We] have observed frequent instances of a Superintending providence in our favor. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? 

We have been assured in the sacred writings, that “except the Lord build the House they labor in vain that build it.” I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and byword down to future ages.

Thankfully, when America found itself in the crucible of a great divide, Abraham Lincoln bowed his knee and called the nation to pray and fast. This humble response changed the course of the Civil War, assured the abolition of slavery, and brought our nation back in line with God’s destiny.

America’s Warning

However, whether we look at America’s threats from within or from without, we now see a nation in danger. A danger that in 1785, Thomas Jefferson wrote about: “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: [and] that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

God weighs every nation on His scales to determine whether a nation will experience judgment or blessing (Jeremiah 18:7-10). But how can we discern that the balance is tipping toward judgment?

In 1776, British parliament member Edward Gibbon published The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He lists the reasons for Rome’s collapse, which had held the civilized world together for 500 years. The parallels with America should be of great concern. In part, Gibbon explains that Rome fell because of:

• Spending beyond the government’s means and debasing the currency. National debt is an indicator that God has weighed a nation and found it deficient (Deuteronomy 28:12, 44).
  
  
• Society craved money, comfort, luxury, and entertainment. A nation is in rebellion against God wherever indulgence, greed, and exploiting the poor are at work (Ezekiel 16:49; Amos 6:1–7; James 5:4–6; Revelation 18:1–24). 
  
  
• Widespread sexual immorality and easy divorce destroyed the integrity of the family—the very institution God created (Genesis 1:27–28; 2:18–25; Malachi 2:26; Matthew 15:19; 19:3–9; 1 Corinthians 10:7–8; 2 Peter 2:6–7). 
  
  
• The spread of effeminacy—men looking and acting like girls. Whenever a nation redefines God's created order of male and female, it won’t stand (Deuteronomy 22:5; Matthew 19:4; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10). 
  
  
• Replacing God with false gods (Jeremiah 2:11; 15:4–6; 19:4–6).
   

Comparing the United States to the Roman Empire, we find ourselves awash in tens of trillions of dollars of debt; inflated currency; funded sex re-assignment surgeries and hormone therapy; given over to comfort, ease, luxury, and entertainment; greed that exploits the poor, 65 million innocent lives taken through abortion; pervasive no-fault divorce laws; and God’s sacred institution of marriage redefined in the Supreme Court’s Obergefell vs. Hodges ruling.

Instead of “One nation under God,” we have become a nation in rebellion to God. Yet, God continues to mercifully and repeatedly call us to wake-up and turn back to Him:

• On 9-11, God warned that forsaking Him results in the removal of His hand of protection (Psalm 127:1).
  
  
• The financial crisis of 2008 was a call to repent of greed and our trust in money (Palms 10:3–4; 106:13–15; Matthew 6:24).
  
  
• Through the loss of life during the Vietnam War, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, ongoing inner-city violence, natural disasters, and the world’s highest mortality rate during the COVID-19 pandemic, God has shaken America to turn us back to Him (2 Chronicles 15:5-6).
  
  
• As a direct consequence of the Supreme Court banning prayer from schools in 1962 and 1963, school shootings began in 1966 and have continued to the present day.

Instead of turning back to God, America’s leadership has made pronouncements evoking God’s judgment, such as “we will rebuild, we will recover” (Isaiah 9:10). If we exalt ourselves and ignore God’s warnings, He will pour out His righteous anger (Ezekiel 36:16–19; Romans 1:18–2:11).

While there has been a measure of turning back to God (such as the 2022 Dobbs vs. Jackson Williams Health ruling, which overturned Roe vs. Wade), we cannot minimize what has been left undone. In 1789, George Washington stated in his inaugural address, “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.”

Our Response

Scripture calls upon us, those in leadership and otherwise, to humble ourselves before God, seek Him, call upon Him for mercy, and to turn from our wicked ways (2 Chronicles 7:14).

Therefore, as an official of the U.S. government, we call upon you to hear what God is saying in this unprecedented hour. We urge you to heed the transcendent truths upon which America was founded. Instead of a political party, we implore you to give your allegiance to God.

We plead with you to humble yourself, turn from sin, call out to God for mercy for yourself and our nation, turn from corruption and self-interest, and promote righteousness in God’s sight.

We implore you to seek wisdom from God above in all your responsibilities. You, and those you govern, hang in the balance.

Respectfully and sincerely,

Signed on behalf of members of the body of Christ,
Dave Warn, Forerunners of America
Gary Crawford, ONEOMC
Gregg Healey, New Breed of Business
Dale Schlafer, Center for World Revival & Awakening
Stephen Burke, The Lord Will Provide

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