The question is asked very
often, “Is America in Bible prophecy?” Many say
no. I believe God addresses America in His word,
albeit not by name. I believe this can be proven
in Bible scriptures.
There are references that
point to America in scripture, although not by
name; how could that be, it wasn’t named yet?
Because of the tremendous power
demonstrated by the U.S. since coming to power
through history indicates it is a prophetic
nation. There are scriptures that reference
America; past, present and
future. Let us look at
Jeremiah 18:7-10 “At what instant I shall
speak concerning a nation, and concerning a
kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to
destroy it; If that nation, against whom I have
pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent
of the evil that I thought to do unto them. And
at what instant I shall speak concerning a
kingdom, to build and to plant it. If it do evil
in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I
will repent of the good, wherewith I said I
would benefit them.”
An Amazing Beginning
We go to Isaiah 60:14,
15
“The sons also of them that
afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and
all they that despised thee shall bow themselves
down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall
call thee, the city of the Lord, The Zion of the
Holy One of Israel”
This passage is referencing
the gathering back of Israel as a nation. It
references the nations that despise Israel.
Isaiah is referencing the return to their
homeland. He speaks of how
they would be honored by the very nations that
have despised, even tried to eliminate them.
15 “Whereas thou hast been
forsaken and hated, so that no man went through
thee, I will make thee an eternal
excellency, a joy of many generations.”
This refers to the many
times Israel was and is being persecuted. From
70 A.D. to the 19th century, Israel
was disbursed even until
1945. For 2,000 years, Israel
was disbursed. Hitler tried to wipe them out,
others have tried, but they remain. In 1948,
they blossomed and became a nation.
16. “Thou (Israel) shalt
also suck the milk of the Gentiles, (in her
birth) and shalt suck the breast of kings; and
thou shalt know that I am the Lord am thy Savior
and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.”
This is a prophetic verse
if I have ever seen one in my life. America is a
land of Gentiles. England is run by a kingdom.
Israel would grow off the milk of the Gentiles
as she just started out in 1948.
Isaiah 60:21 “Thy
people also shall be all righteous: they shall
inherit the land for ever, the branch of my
planting, the work of my hands, that I may be
glorified.”
The verse above is very
interesting for several reasons.
First of all, we see through the
scriptures that whenever a passage ends with
“…that I may be glorified” this indicates the
end of a “thought or line of thought.” So, we
see that Isaiah completes the passages in which
he refers to
Israel. However, look at what verse 22
tells us (almost as a postscript):
“A little one shall become
a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I
the Lord will hasten it in his time.”
(his being a reflective pronoun, a
masculine noun, that nation’s time). America is
known as “Uncle Sam” therefore; the USA is
referred to as a “she,” a “her” as well as a
“he.”
This is powerful. America
may be the one being mentioned here. We must
recognize the hand of God in the formation of
our nation. How, in less than 240 years, did
America become such a strong nation?
How did it become such a world power?
This was no coincidence. It is the fastest gain
to power of any nation on the face of the earth.
Theodore Herzl is known as
the father of modern Zionism.
He believed that Hebrews from all over the world
would come back together and that the day was
soon coming when this would happen.
He wrote, he spoke, he began the
“movement” of the formation of Israel. God used
this man to help accomplish this. He petitioned
two nations in particular. He petitioned England
(refer to Isaiah 60:22) for Israel.
Britain had the Balfour Declaration and
basically held the “title” to the land. This
declaration was due to lapse in 1948. We see
that something is happening here around this
time, it is unfolding in these passages. What
did Britain do? It gave the homeland back to
Israel! This fulfilled prophecy of Isaiah that
Israel would become a nation overnight.
These are not just obscure
verses referenced. The word mentions Gentiles
and kings. America is a land of Gentiles. There
is another nation that would help Israel. It is
England, run by a kingdom. Indeed Israel became
a nation in 1948. When the
Balfour Declaration ended, Britain gave Israel
their land. Were these
coincidences? Who has been a staunch ally of the
Nation of Israel? Who has stood by Her? No,
clearly these scriptures refer to the United
States of America and to Britain.
In Isaiah, we are told “a
little one shall become a thousand and a small
one a strong nation…” It is important to note
the huge growth America has experienced in just
a short time. The American population in 1776
was 2.5 million people. That’s roughly the size
of greater Birmingham, Alabama. We should never
have been able to defeat England. How must that
have been done? By the hand
of God, that is how.
Something supernatural
happened when the Jewish were rallying to go
back to their homeland. The USA was having a
massive influx of immigrants coming from Gentile
Europe at the same time. In 1907, three million
people to America. 1913 brought six million
people and on and on….The potato famine in
Ireland brought millions of the Irish people to
our shores. The German goldmines closed and
people were coming to America. The Italian
economics were collapsing, so they were coming
as well. In Poland, crop failures pushed many to
the USA.
150 million persons came to
America in a short time, fulfilling Isaiah
Chapter 60. Today 306 million people are in
America…why? Look back at the scriptures.
And , The United States has historically
and prophetically gone straight to the heart of
a tiny nation called Israel.
When we see the incredible
growth of America’s immigration, we can see that
God was at work. He has
always been working in our nation and He has a
desire to see something from America. It
[America] has a divine destiny.
See it today and you will see it for the
rest of your life.
God’s eye is on Israel. God
caused America to grow in his time. Israel
became strong by a Gentile nation. It’s more
than a coincidence – it is in God’s Word and
it’s been there all along!
Jesus taught parable of the
fig tree, “…know that summer is nigh.” The fig
tree has blossomed. As our Lord said, the
generation that sees all the signs shall not
pass away before they see the return of Christ.
Israel became a nation on May 14, 1948
and America has backed her financially and
militarily since that time. We have fed her and
supported her as she has grown. Israel has one
of the most fierce armed forces in the world
because the United States has assisted them.
Who can’t get excited about
this? Manifest destiny is the belief that the
divine providence of God enabled us to grow
strong and bless all nations and that is indeed
what America has done. We have had leaders who
recognized and respected this. By 1945, we knew
what it meant. We were raised up to defend tiny
Israel from the 22 aggressive nations
surrounding her. We called
ourselves a Judeo-Christian nation….we didn’t
call ourselves anything but that.
We acknowledged God in this nation.
One nation, Under God
In 1943, five years before
Israel Zionism was mounting and talk was all
over the world of an Israeli nation, one state
in the United States of America passed a
unanimous decision to support Israel before
others. That was the State of Alabama. Five
years before Israel became a nation!
Interestingly enough, the Governor at that time
was named Israel Perkins. God
has used Christians everywhere throughout
history. This event further underscores that
fact.
By our very ancestry we
have a manifest destiny to support Israel.
Gen 12:2 gives us the account of what the
Lord promised Abram. “And I will make of thee a
great nation, and I will bless thee, and make
thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse
him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all
families of the earth be blessed.”
This was a promise from God to Abraham
and God has kept His promise.
He continues
to do it. For our entire national history, our
desire has been to bless the nations and to
bless Israel. In the past, Israel was the only
nation we gave money to that we never expected
to have repaid.
We have allowed Israel to
grow as a nation. We have obeyed God. We are
strong today and experience prosperity today
because this nation’s forefathers blessed
Israel. By our very ancestry,
our blessings depend upon blessing Israel. You
and I by our very ancestry have a manifest
destiny to support Israel. We are the future.
It has been said that when
the Japanese Admiral ordered Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor, he said, “I fear all we have done
is to awaken a sleeping giant.”
I believe it is time to awaken a sleeping
giant called the church. We have been too
divided by our differences and among ourselves.
Let it begin with me, let it begin with you.
It is time to STAND UP as Christians. The
enemy is not us, and it is time to stand up
against him. God has allowed many to give the
message to stand up to quit taking the
oppression, to unit together in Jesus Christ!
God has brought our nation
to where we are today. We Christians must unite
together – start a revolution for Jesus Christ
or we are never going to keep our nation….by the
pure love of God we must do this. Take back
America for Jesus Christ. We’ve got to have the
love of Jesus Christ in us in order to do this!
America has had an amazing beginning!
God continues to use
America to accomplish His purpose
supernaturally. But, there
are matters we see coming to pass that indicate
a change in our society. I
believe the Lord is speaking to American in type
and shadow in the following passage: Jeremiah
51:7 “Babylon hath been a golden cup in the
Lord’s hand, that made all
the earth drunken: the
nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the
nations are mad. “
Babylon in scripture can
and does refer to any nation that bends
toward the ungodly. I believe in Jeremiah, the
golden cup reference points to America. A cup
contains something. There is no other nation on
planet earth that has had the fullness of God
like America has had. Even old Babylon that
captured Israel was not full of God. There is a
quote,” America is great because America is
Godly. When she fails to be Godly she will fail
to be great…” Yes,
we’ve had our problems, but we’re the ones who
will unselfishly go and help.
It is not the government to which I am
referring. It has been
Churches ministering to others in their time of
need, people who care about people…not our
government. They
[the governments] care about our votes –
we are not destined to be ruled by man, but by
Jesus Christ when He takes the throne of David
and rules.
It is God’s mercy and grace
that has made America great in order to minister
to the poor of the world.
We’re the ones that will unselfishly go when no
one else will. We have a responsibility as
Christians to follow God. God’s hand has been on
us.
America was the sole
superpower – that is GOD’S handiwork.
Tragically, the US is the hybrid offspring of
the Babylonian system of the world. We have
walked down the path of Babylon. Our
appreciation for God has been devalued. Make no
mistake, God still values America. He is true to
His word. He is correcting America now. “For
whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a
father the son in whom he delighteth.”
Proverbs 3:12 God will not destroy America if
there is one righteous person in her.
Was 9/11 a wakeup call for
America? You bet it was. It’s about time we see
that. When we shy away from the truth because
we’re not popular, we’ve missed the gospel. 9/11
was an alarm clock for America. People went back
to church, they turned to God. After three
months, things went back to the way it was
before that tragic day. Something is missing.
People have better things
to do than to serve God here in America?
Was the tragedy of September 11, 2001
prophesied in your Bible? Was it foretold? You
be the judge.
Isaiah 30:25 “And
there shall be upon every high mountain, and
upon every high hill, rivers and streams of
waters in the day of the great slaughter, when
the towers fall.” Isaiah
33:18 “Thine heart shall meditate terror.
Where is the scribe? Where is the receiver?
Where is he that counted the towers?”
You remember watching it, we stood and
watched and saw as they fell. This has been in
our Bible since Isaiah wrote it in 1500 BC. It
was an act of terror. America is all over
scripture.
Is America in prophecy,
yes. Is God chastening
America? You bet. Right up to
this present hour. Our economy is failing
because our money has become our god. It’s time
we understand that money is not our god. If god
is behind it he will pay for it. You can bet on
that
God is calling to our
nation; to our churches, to us as individuals
today. No matter what this
man says, Obama does not show the fruits of a
Christian. 1942 marked the first National Day of
Prayer. Obama declared that America was no
longer a Christian nation. He is the first
president ever to not show up for the National
Day of Prayer. Yet, he takes off his shoes and
bows before Allah. This
matters to God. We are called to a higher level.
We are to serve the law of God before we serve
the law of men. Our nation
has been and will continue to receive judgment
of God for this unacceptable behavior.
The time has come, as
Christians that we should not satisfied with
church as usual. We must stand for Jesus now.
We don’t have to march to Washington
D.C., we march right where we are! The time has
come and we must submit ourselves to be used by
God. Lest we forget, the Lord
is still upon His throne, Isaiah 6 :1 In
the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the
Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up,
and his train filled the temple”
Yes, our Lord is still on the throne,
will we see what is happening or will we
continue to turn our back?
There is a big difference
between kingdom of God and the kingdom of the
world. During the last presidential campaign,
Gov. Huckabee was asked” if Jesus was around,
what side would He be on, Republican or
Democrat?” He said, “Jesus
wasn’t stupid enough to get involved in
politics.”
Rome was worse than the
Obama administration could ever be. Jesus said
you have another kingdom inside you. Yes we
vote, but government is not our answer, God
never fails. God can take care of us, His ways
are not our ways…we must focus on submission to
God. God forgives, God desires lasting
achievement, and man should yearn for the
approval of God. Go back to your Bible,
understand what is happening.
There are people who want
to hear the truth of God. We must answer God’s
call. Our president may not recognize it but it
can take a sleeping giant called the church and
wake her up. There is a time to sow and a time
to rend. Today is the time to speak out. Be
surefooted; take the message to the world. Be
proactive; tell your children “…as for me and my
house we serve the Lord.”
Tell people, I am a CHRISTIAN!”
We can take America back
one person at a time by the power of Jesus
Christ. Yes, America is in prophecy.
The God that created America,
that our government doesn’t recognize,
can revolutionize our nation.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-7 “To
every thing there is a season, and a time to
every purpose under the heaven: A time to be
born and a time to die; a time to plant, and a
time to pluck up that which is planted; A time
to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break
down, and a time to build up…a time to rend and
a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a
time to speak.” The time to
speak is now.
Today is a day to speak.
Today is a day to turn to God. Speak out. The
greatest thing we can speak out to is to God
Himself. God has His hand on these last days.
God has His hand on America. He is speaking to
all who will hear. I feel the
Hand of God, surely you have
felt it as well?
Psalms 22:2 “O my
God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not;
and in the night season, and am not silent…Our
fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou
didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and
were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were
not confounded.” We are
losing our rights as Christians…if we do not
stand up we will lose our very right to speak
the Word of God ,yet Muslims can call to prayer
five times a day while church bells cannot be
rung.
The pressure is here
so that the church can rise up. The cream always
rises to the top. The joy of God will be upon
us, we must stand. Persecution brings the move
of God. Stay as close to God as we can. Let
God’s work be done in our nation!
Yes, America is in Bible prophecy.
We are the hope of this
nation. God is calling to us.
He loves us, He will care for us, He will heal
us, He will raise us back up again, He has plans
for us. Look to Him at this moment. It is now
that He will meet our needs….stand up for Jesus
Christ.
Let it begin with me.