November 18, 2020

Why do we not see America in the Bible, especially in the End Times?

· America’s founding came 1,100 years after the Bible was closed.

· America could be destroyed before the Tribulation

· America may become irrelevant to the issue due to their moral, spiritual and economic decline; as implosion from within.

Prov. 14:34 “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”

· America could be swallowed up by Islam or Religious tolerance, leaving Christians in the wake of persecution prior to the Rapture. Therefore, America would turn on Israel and find them against God.

Do we need Israel? Gen. 12:3 “I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you.”

Any nation who tries to destroy Israel fails! America has always supported Israel, until these latter days. However, President Trump sided with Israel in moving the US headquarters from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

What is happening in America? Four Critical Realities in the US:

1. The Potential for an Economic Collapse

· US Debt today is $27 Trillion and counting

· $3.4 Trillion of Tax Revenue

· China holds 8% or 1.2 Trillion of US Debt – “To put China's ownership of U.S. debt in perspective, its holding of $1.2 trillion is even larger than the amount owned by American households. U.S. citizens hold only about $959 billion in U.S. debt, according to the Federal Reserve.”

· Only 53% of all eligible taxpayers pay taxes

· 46 States are on the verge of collapse

· Russia, China and Japan are calling on the US to replace the dollar with a world economic source

· Big Tech companies in the US with corporations are influencing the economy more than any other group and through the political system have a socialist agenda bathed in Marxism. 

2. Freedoms are Being Lost to Cultural and Religious Shifts – As Europe has shifted more and more secular, the US is also shifting. Rather than shifting toward secularism, we have sailed past that and now into the open waters of religious paganism. This shift and the political control we see in other countries are alarming. @ There was a Salvation Army nursing home in Switzerland, that received a letter from the government that said, “Even if you do not want to help people kill themselves, YOU HAVE TO!” When a government moves toward greater control of the people, even when it looks like a justified, there is only one result…a leader will emerge to tell everyone else what to do. This is where the US is heading!

3. Cultural, Moral and Political Corruption – Bible out, prayer out, abortion in and homosexual agenda in full pursuit; going the way of Europe. The recent political and current political drama and corruption are alarming but in line with where we have been heading as a nation for many years. In many ways, we are reaping what we have sown. @ Ronald Reagan used to say, “We are the light shining on the hill.” We are no longer that light for good and godliness and haven’t been for many years. The United States as a society has taken on 2 Timothy 3:1-5 as our modus operandi. Listen to what Paul says here and see how this fits much of our culture. 

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

4. Rapture – what happens when the Church is taken out of America? No one to call for moral absolutes. No one to share the Gospel. No one to stand for truth.

What does this mean?

1. God only mentions four major nations in biblical prophecy – Daniel 2:33-45 (Babylon, Medo-Persian, Greek, Roman) – Roman Empire will be renewed in the last days. All four of these kingdoms ruled over Israel. Israel, not the United States, is the central part of God’s plan.

2. Israel stands alone in the end – Ez. 38:1-18. As much as we have done for Israel recently and over the years, the Bible says nothing about a nations standing with Israel. More than likely, the United States will be weakened in its influence and power to the point that we have no resistance to the outside forces. You can see it now. If we adopt a progressive agenda, then we will continue to move farther from God and farther from a democratic union that is by the people and for the people. 

3. The US will more than likely stand against Israel – There is no love for Israel among a growing number of Muslim US residents and those influenced by them. We also have a growing number of Americans who refuse to accept Israel as an ally. We know in the end that Israel will face the wrath of the nations to the North and East of them (Ezekiel 38-39). Recently, Russia and China began to do military exercises together. What does this all mean? They are planning their attack one day with the Middle East countries being puppet states for them to use for bases of operation. As Babylon walked through the countries east of the Jordan, so China and Russia will walk through the Middle East. 

How do we live in light of this as Christians living in America? 

2 Pet. 3:1-17

This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” or they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you,[a] not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies[b] will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.

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