What does Les say about the condition of the United States today?
The United States today is in complete derision, having rejected God's rule and gone its own way. It is past the point of return, no longer able to turn around. The nation is under God's derision and cannot reverse course.
Les teaches that the nations, including the United States, have declared, 'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us,' meaning they will not have God rule over them and want to go their own way. He notes that the Lord in heaven shall laugh and hold the nations in derision. Though it has taken 2,000 years beyond the first indications of prophecy, he asks where the nations are tonight and says they are in complete derision, thinking it is over and there is no return. Regarding the United States, he insists he is not a pessimist but an optimist, yet he sees things going on in our beloved nation that we are no longer able to turn around—we are past the point of return.