Ezekiel 28 and the US

Hear the burden of the Lord.
America is doomed. You knew that, of course. Maybe you’d be surprised by how many, and who, are convinced that it can be turned around. Even among the most cynical, it can still be a shock when you discover what’s going on behind the scenes. I get tired of being associated with the kooks who take off with a small piece of truth and blow it out of proportion, so I tend to avoid mentioning the real conspiracies behind the wild theories.
Instead, I stick with my mission from God. A major element in that mission is making sure Americans know why God is pouring out His wrath on us. Another major element is offering pastoral care to the victims of this wrath. Pastoral care includes explaining how to repent from the things earning us all that wrath.
There are two elements of wrath at work here. The first is what we would view as automated processes, as it were, in Creation itself. That is, by rejecting just about every part of Noah’s Covenant, everything we do is bound to fail eventually. There is a sense in which God actively keeps Creation running according to the moral code defined in Noah and elsewhere. But in terms of how it functions in our lives individually and as a nation, it helps to realize that we get hurt the same way every other human in history gets hurt: We don’t live according to the revealed moral fabric of Creation. Our human wiring is a major element in this moral fabric business, and when you defy what is known to work, you end up with tremendous people problems.
Thus, a great deal of what I teach here is simply a matter of recognizing the basic moral principles. Of course, my biggest struggle is explaining that our intellectual assumptions about morality are all completely wrong because it’s Western, not Ancient Near Eastern as the Bible is.
That particularly failure leads to the second, more egregious violations against God’s revealed expectations: unspeakable arrogance. This falls into the collection of things God says He takes personally. On these issues, He will act with more direct attention, providing a unique punishment that fits our peculiar brand of arrogance.
Granted, we are one of the most generous nations in history. The problem is all our generosity is captured by psychopaths. That is, we give to a cause, but refuse to notice when those collecting our giving are criminals. For example, there was a time when the Red Cross did a good job of handling our generosity. They did fine work in the German labor camps during WW2. We’ve allowed some folks to cover up their honest reporting about that work, but the Red Cross was generally honest. Ironically, we now tend to believe the Red Cross after they have become lying scumbags who blow most of their donations on internal operations and lavish living. Ask them what happened to the donations for 9/11. I realize that whole mess was politicized and is such a huge pile of lies and deception it boggles the mind, but the Red Cross had a simple mandate based on a fairly simple promise. They kept most of the money.
Yet I can assure you the Red Cross is still the least dishonest of just about all the other intermediaries for our great national generosity. Your tax dollars in the form of foreign aid, emergency and routine, have bought so much corruption around the world, there isn’t room to discuss it here. It’s equally evil here at home. If this very day we handed our entire government over to the combined leadership of the drug cartels, we’d get a better deal and the tax burden would go down precipitously. That’s not hyperbole, either.
Most individuals in the rest of the world generally like individual Americans they meet, in large part because we carry that generosity everywhere. But it’s wrapped in an insufferable arrogance that makes them glad to see us go. It’s not enough that we have rejected everything God revealed as necessary to claim the best possible in this life, but we forcibly demand others do the same. I’m not saying we aren’t ready to accept someone’s different viewpoint about things; we reject their right to say anything in the first place. We already know it’s not in accordance with the noise echoing in our heads, so we dismiss them as evil and stupid before we even hear what they think. It’s bad enough we do that to each other, but as a whole nation we are the most intrusive and forceful nannies the world has ever spawned. We make the British colonists of previous centuries look tame, simply because the British Empire at least understood what they were oppressing.
Yes, bland generalizations, but accurate enough in terms of how it earns us God’s wrath. The UK managed to surrender most of their empire with decency and good grace in the long run. We are losing ours with all the rancor of jackals who’ve had a stinking carcase stolen from them. Granted, the UK government is truly awful, mindlessly stupid with their own, but they seem to recognize the limits of their power over the rest of the world. Our government can’t imagine anyone in the world not lining up, enthusiastically anticipating rape by our little godlings in uniform.
We are in for some special attention from God on this matter. When we are humbled by the tool of His choosing, it will come as a shock to everyone. Worst of all, I seriously doubt there might be more than a precious few who learn anything from it.
Ezekiel 28 could easily be about the US.
Edit: Perhaps I should state the obvious here. The one thing America could do to restrain the worst of God’s wrath right now is bring the troops and CIA home and stop meddling in other peoples’ business. If I have to go back and explain how the entire history of our foreign policy and war-making has always been a mass of lies, you aren’t going to understand much of anything else I write. If we don’t stop it now and pull it all back within our own borders, there is no hope for America. National humiliation is just around the corner for us. Enjoy.