As promised...here is a reading from the Bible. This would be your Old Testament but as we all know...it pertains to today.
This is the Book of HABAKKUK. He followed Jeremiah as a prophet of GOD.
The 12 tribes had split (Like AMERICA is splitting today) into TWO Kingdoms. The North and the South. The northern Kingdom of Israel was destroyed and taken into slavery and dispersed throughout the known world by Assyria. Only the two Southern Tribes of the independent state of Judah survived. Babylon then arose to Destroy Assyria. 600 years had past since the Sea Peoples and the end of the Bronze Age. David and Solomon were distant memories. Judah was safe only as long as it paid tribute.
As Job had done before him, HABAKKUK questioned the LORD GOD. And just as in todays world, he asked the same questions. Why do the rich get richer? Why do the wicked people of the world seem to be winning? And GOD gives his answer.
HABAKKUK:
vs2: How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save.
vs3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflicts abounds.
vs4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous so that justice is perverted.
LORD GOD:
vs5 "Look at the nations and watch-and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.
AND it gets better. Awesome book. And this is just before Daniel is taken captive. It's a bit of pre-prophecy. I would read the whole thing If I were you.
It's all coming to a head right now. Unfolding in front of our eyes. Every defeat is a victory. GOD cannot be stopped. What is written cannot be changed. Are you a saint for Christ or an unknowing pawn pushed across the board of life unknowingly fulfilling the Word?
Pray for America.