Franklin Graham: Recent gun shootings could lead to anarchy for Americans

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America's wicked ways and recent gun shooting tragedies that targeted and killed police officers could lead towards anarchy, said evangelist Franklin Graham, who prayed for Republican leaders and Divine intervention.

The 64-year-old son of the famed preacher Billy Graham and now president of the organization his father founded, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, hosted a Facebook Live event this week to pray for troubled America and its leaders.

On Graham's account of the nation, he said Americans removed God out of the equation and consequently led the nation towards a perilous path.

"Our country is beginning to implode. We are on the precipice of anarchy," said Graham in a Facebook video.

He also spoke out against the most recent racially-driven act of violence against white police officers in Texas, where five officers died, and in Louisiana, where three more law enforcers also died. He said there's just no excuse for the shootings and denounced them as acts of "lunacy."

"To think that we can have some kind of justice by going out and killing innocent policemen who are doing their job to protect us, this is crazy," he said.

The president of Samaritan's Purse also painted a bleak picture of America and so urged the need for Christians across the country to unite humbly in prayer to ask for God's healing.

"We are in desperate need of Divine intervention. We need healing," explained Graham.

Graham believes only God could save the country now. However, he also asserted that Christians still need to pray for their leaders because God uses them as instruments of His will.

"God uses politicians and we pray for the politicians, that they will listen to God's voice and that they will hear His voice," said the evangelical leader.

As he led Christians to prayer, Graham asked God's forgiveness for America's idolatry on materialism and pleasure and for its pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage legislations.

He then prayed for God's guidance for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his Vice Presidential running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence.

Graham also scheduled to pray for the Democratic National Convention on a Facebook Live event the following Monday.