So, there is nothing new. Even thousands of years ago in Jeremiah's day, there were preachers doing the same thing as we have today— telling the people of God that they will have peace and that no calamity could come upon them, even though they walked in the stubbornness of their own hearts. Obviously, these preachers had not stood in the council of the Lord that they should see and hear His Word. And if today's modern preachers had heard from God, they would have turned the American “Christians” away from their sins, rather than giving them a license to sin. Remember, as it says in Psalm 81, those who despise the Lord are the ones who pretend obedience to Him while they refuse to obey God and continue in sin. So, it is the same in the American church today.