Messages from Malachi to the United States
I realize the following scriptures are specifically to Israel and Judah, but God Himself is unchanging, and the United States, with the largest Jewish and Christian population anywhere in the world, is in some ways an extenstion of them. Therefore, I believe that the attitudes and concerns expressed by God in Malachi apply to us in this day as much as to Israel and Judah back in biblical times:
 2:17 You have wearied the LORD with your words.
      ”How have we wearied him?” you ask.
      By saying, “All who do evil are good in the eyes of the LORD, and he is pleased with them” or “Where is the God of justice?”
Today, as Americans, we make excuses for those who do evil. We excuse murderers from their justice; and we rob victims of theirs. We call violent criminals victims of circumstance. We capture terrorists and prosecute ourselves for saving lives with the information we extract from them. We give all who are evil every benefit of the doubt, hence depriving their victims of the justice they so richly deserve. That is what we do, and we consider ourselves enlightened for it, calling it things like “compassionate” or “taking the high road”. In my opinion, it’s the low road, as evidenced by the systematic removal of God from symbols and activities of our schools and public buildings, by the same group of people who rob Americans of justice.
 3:5 “So I will come near to you for judgment. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive aliens of justice, but do not fear me,” says the LORD Almighty.
Sorcery is not so big these days, so this one not so much. However, we had an adulterer/perjurer for president before Bush, whose party continues to defraud laborers of their wages, through excessive taxes and now excessive debt. Their policies of “compassion” enable those without husbands and fathers to receive financial aid that keeps them in poverty… because they receive the aid only as long as they do not work. Working earns them less money than the aid, and so they never move up out of their poverty… and that’s called compassionate. We lump illegal aliens in with legal when it comes to political polls and policies, hence discounting the loyalty that legal aliens show the United States as if being illegal is the same thing… where’s the justice in that? And justice has two sides… we make it next to impossible to enforce our laws against illegal aliens, and do nothing to help Mexico improve the conditions that drive their citizenry to sneak into our country illegally. Where is the justice in that? Justice has two aspects to it: reward and punishment, but we reward the illegals, and spit in the face of the legals. Even the Catholic church participates to an extent, by sheltering illegals because all are God’s children, a statement akin to verse 2:17 above: “All who do evil are good in the eyes of the LORD, and he is pleased with them.” It doesn’t say “are” evil, but “do”. And I would say that stealing the resources from a country’s hard working citizens, with the intention of giving it to others, whether it be through taxation or going to sneaking into the country and going to free clinics, is evil.
(I realize of course that I could be characterized as saying that illegal aliens are evil and a scourge. They are not. They are trying to feed their families, which is good, but it as at the expense of others, and I don’t mean charity. So, if you lump all actions into the bin of good or evil, well breaking the law then is evil. There are gradations within society of course, and it is certainly less evil than other crimes, like treason, rape, and murder, and for clarity in society we only use the word evil for the most bad things. But, biblically, “evil” applies to anything that is not “good”. I should not have to qualify this, but I do, lest I be misunderstood.)
When countries and churches do and allow these things, they are showing that they do not fear God. And as a country, increasingly we do not.