The waves rolled onto the Huntington Beach shoreline behind Pastor Jack Hibbs as he delivered a message that felt less like a sermon and more like a warning siren for America’s future. With the nation racing toward its 250th birthday, Hibbs spoke with the urgency of someone watching storm clouds gather on the horizon. America’s power, wealth and influence may still dominate the world stage today, but Hibbs made one thing unmistakably clear: a nation that forgets God eventually loses everything that made it strong in the first place.
“The United States has got an expiration date on it,” Hibbs declared. “America in her affluence has forgotten God.”
Hibbs walked listeners through what he believes is one of the biggest prophetic realities facing the modern church. Scripture names nations like Israel, Persia, Russia and Egypt in the last days, but America is missing entirely from the biblical end-times picture.
“What is the most affluent nation that has ever existed? United States of America,” Hibbs said. “What is the most militarily powerful nation that has ever existed in the history of man? The United States of America.”
Yet despite all of America’s military dominance, financial influence and technological power, Hibbs argued the nation is nowhere to be found when Ezekiel describes the future invasion of Israel.
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That absence matters.
Hibbs pointed to a country drowning in debt, addicted to comfort and steadily removing God from every corner of public life. He spoke about the Ten Commandments disappearing from schools, biblical truth being pushed out of classrooms and politicians treating faith like an outdated relic instead of the foundation that built the nation.
“Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord,” Hibbs said before asking, “Is America happy?”
The pastor challenged the illusion that America’s economy can hold everything together forever.
“In one moment, our economic stability and our economic foundations could crumble because we are a people that are profoundly in debt,” he warned.
Hibbs then turned toward the growing instability in the Middle East, pointing to tensions involving Iran and the prophetic coalition described in Ezekiel 38. According to Hibbs, the coming attack against Israel reveals something chilling about America’s future role in the world.
“There will be no intervention,” Hibbs said, explaining that America could be weakened, distracted or completely unable to respond by that point in history.
But Hibbs refused to frame the message as a reason for Christians to retreat or disengage. Instead, he blasted pastors who stay silent while culture spirals deeper into confusion and moral collapse.
“Any pastor who does not address those things is an idle shepherd,” Hibbs said.
He called on believers to stop sitting quietly on the sidelines and instead become active in their communities, schools, local governments and elections.
“We are to shine the light of what is right and what is true and stop being silent and stop being quiet,” Hibbs said.
The backdrop of the Pacific Ocean made the contrast impossible to miss. Behind Hibbs stood the beaches he described as symbols of freedom growing up in California. But even those memories carried frustration as he recalled pandemic-era shutdowns and government overreach that he believes exposed how quickly freedoms can disappear when fear replaces truth.
Still, Hibbs ended with hope fixed firmly beyond America itself.
“Don’t shed a tear that someday America will vanish from the world scene of influence because your citizenship, if you’re a believer, is in heaven,” Hibbs said.
His final words carried the heartbeat of the entire message: revival is still possible, but the clock is ticking.
“May God have mercy on His pastors in America. May God have mercy on His churches. But may God do that mercy by sending us profound revival.”
James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a journalism background from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and at the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine. For interviews and media inquiries, please contact [email protected].
