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#Biblesecretsrevealed #IranandIsraelprophecy #TheBookofEnoch #thebible #Enoch #InsideTheBible #Almost no one speaks of the silence, the deafening prophetic silence within the
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Holy Scriptures concerning the most powerful nation in modern history. We search for the name America in the
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concordances and find nothing. We listen for its echo in the visions of Daniel or the pronouncements of Isaiah, and we
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hear only the ghosts of ancient empires, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome. For
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centuries, this absence has puzzled theologians and believers alike. How could the nation that commands the
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world's economies, that projects its military might across every ocean, that exports its culture to the farthest
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corners of the earth, would be missing from the divine narrative of the end times? But what if this silence is not
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an omission but a message in itself? What if the identity of this nation is
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not hidden under a name but woven into a pattern, a spiritual blueprint of rise,
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purpose, and judgment that mirrors the great powers of old? What if the clues to its fate were written not in plain
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letters, but in the shadows of prophecy, visible only to those who understand
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that God speaks as much through what is absent as through what is present. The truth, as we shall see, is not buried.
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It has been waiting. In the grand and solemn theater of biblical prophecy, the empires of the world rise and fall upon
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a stage illuminated by the very word of God. We hear the lion's roar of Babylon,
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the bear's lumbering might of Persia, the leopard's swift conquest of Greece, and the iron teeth of Rome. Dreadful and
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terrible. Their names are etched into the scrolls of Daniel and the visions of John. Their destinies sealed by divine
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decree serve as signposts on the long road of salvation history. And yet, as
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the curtain rises on the modern age, a profound and unsettling silence falls
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upon the stage. A new power emerges. A nation unlike any that came before it. A
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republic forged in the fires of revolution and faith. Rising from a wilderness to become the most dominant
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force the world has ever known. The United States of America. Its currency dictates the flow of global commerce.
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Its armies stand watch over the earth. Its culture, a torrent of sound and light, pours into every nation, shaping
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the desires and dreams of billions. But when we turn to the sacred text, searching for its name, for a clear and
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certain prophecy of its rise or its fall, we find nothing. This void, this
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apparent omission, is the great enigma of modern esquetology. It is a question
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that has haunted the faithful and fueled endless speculation. How can the god who
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declared the end from the beginning have overlooked the colossus that brides the final centuries of this age? The answer,
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however, does not lie in finding a forgotten verse or a hidden code. The answer lies in understanding that
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America was not born as a subject of prophecy, but as a nation conceived in the language of prophecy. Its story
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begins not with a divine utterance about its future, but with a human longing to
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fulfill an ancient divine pattern. To find its origins, we must go back. Back
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to a time of bitter persecution and spiritual hunger. Back to the cold, windswept shores of the old world, where
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a small band of believers, Puritans, and separatists saw the church of their day
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as a new Egypt, a house of bondage from which they were called to flee. They read the stories of Abraham called to
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leave his country for a land God would show him. They read of Israel delivered from Pharaoh's hand and led through the
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wilderness to a promised land. And in these ancient narratives, they saw a reflection of their own destiny. They
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did not see themselves merely as refugees seeking new lands, but as pilgrims on a divine errand, a holy
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exodus into a new wilderness, there to build a new Zion. This conviction reached its first momentous expression
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in the year of our Lord 1,620. Aboard a small stormtossed vessel named
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the Mayflower. Tossed upon the gray and unforgiving Atlantic, a group of these
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pilgrims gathered. Before they ever set foot on the shores of what would one day become Massachusetts, they bound
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themselves together with a document. It was not a charter for trade, nor a declaration of rebellion. It was a
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covenant. The historic Mayflower Compact begins not with an appeal to a king or a
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parliament, but with an invocation to the King of Kings. In the name of God,
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amen. The text declares their purpose in undertaking the voyage for the glory of
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God and the advancement of the Christian faith. In that moment, on the deck of
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that ship, a nation was conceived. It was conceived as a body politic bound by
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a sacred oath, a community whose very reason for existence was theological.
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They were attempting to form a civil body directly under the gaze and authority of Almighty God. a mirror
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image of the covenant God made with Israel at the foot of Mount Si. This was not a fleeting moment of piety. It was
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the bedrock of their entire world view. A decade later, this idea was given its
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most powerful voice by John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. As he stood before his
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fellow colonists on the cusp of building their new society, he delivered a sermon that would echo through the centuries
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titled A Model of Christian Charity. He did not speak to them of riches or power, but of responsibility and divine
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scrutiny. Quoting the very words of Jesus Christ from the sermon on the mount, he declared their destiny. For we
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must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. The depth of this statement
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cannot be overstated. Winthrop was telling them that their fledgling colony was not a private enterprise. It was a
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public spectacle for the entire world and for heaven itself to witness. If they lived in righteousness, brotherly
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love, and obedience to God's law, their community would shine as a beacon, a
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testament to the goodness and faithfulness of God. But if they failed, if they forsook their covenant and fell
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into wickedness, their failure would bring shame upon the name of God and give the enemies of the faith caused to
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blaspheme. Their success or failure was tied directly to the honor of God. This
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was a burden of breathtaking weight. It was a self-conscious acceptance of a covenantal relationship with all its
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promised blessings for obedience and its terrifying curses for apostasy. This way
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of thinking did not emerge from a vacuum. It was deeply rooted in the theological soil of the church fathers.
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Centuries earlier, Augustinine of Hippo in his monumental work, The City of God,
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had written of two cities perpetually at war throughout history. The earthly city
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built on the love of self to the contempt of God, and the heavenly city
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built on the love of God to the contempt of self. The Puritans saw themselves as agents of the city of God, attempting to
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carve out a society on earth that however imperfectly mirrored the justice, order, and piety of the
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heavenly realm. They believed that law, education, and government should not be
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secular pursuits, but sacred instruments dedicated to restraining evil and
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promoting righteousness, all for the glory of God. It is within this framework, this profound sense of being
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a chosen people on a divine mission, that the seeds of prophetic speculation
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first began to sprout. As this new society took root and grew, some began
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to look at the scriptures with new eyes, wondering if God had perhaps left a veiled hint of this great work. They
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turned to passages like the 18th chapter of the prophet Isaiah. The chapter opens with a mysterious oracle. Woe to the
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land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in
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vessels of bull rushes upon the waters. The prophet describes a powerful and formidable nation, a land of great
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rivers, feared far and wide. For millennia, this passage was thought to
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refer to ancient Kush or Ethiopia. But now, some began to wonder, could this
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prophecy have a dual fulfillment? Could this land beyond the rivers, a mighty nation located far from the biblical
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world, be a veiled reference to this new world, this America? The argument was
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not conclusive, nor was it meant to be. But it reveals a critical truth. The earliest Americans were already thinking
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in prophetic terms. They were searching the scriptures not just for salvation, but for their own national identity and
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purpose within God's grand unfolding plan. Thus, the question of America's
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place in the Bible is not a modern invention. It is woven into the very spiritual DNA of the nation itself. It
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was born from the conviction that God can and does raise up nations for his
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divine purposes, just as he raised up Israel. It was nurtured by the belief
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that they stood in a special covenant relationship with the Almighty. A relationship that came with incredible
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blessings, but also a terrifying accountability. They saw themselves as a new Israel, a city on a hill, a light to
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the nations. This profound and heavy mantle of spiritual destiny is the only
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key that can unlock the mystery of what America became. The role it would play on the world stage and the shadows that
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would one day begin to gather over its shining hills. For if a nation is built upon the foundation of a covenant with
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God, its history must ultimately be judged by the terms of that covenant. The vision proclaimed by John Winthrop
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of a city upon a hill was no mere flight of poetic fancy or a fleeting moment of
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spiritual fervor. It was a blueprint. It was the solemn architectural design for
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the soul of a nation. And for the next three centuries, the builders of that nation would labor to raise its walls
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upon that very foundation. The covenantal promise first whispered on the deck of the Mayflower was not left
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at the water's edge. It was carried ashore, huned into the timbers of their first meeting houses, inscribed upon the
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charters of their first colleges, and woven into the very fabric of their laws. To understand the immense weight
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of America's destiny, one must first walk through the halls of its history and see how deeply the word of God was
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chiseled into its stones. In the colonial era, there was no chasm between the law of God and the law of the land.
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The early legal codes of colonies like Massachusetts and Connecticut read less like modern statutes and more like
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commentaries on the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy. The Ten Commandments were not seen as mere suggestions for
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personal piety. They were the bedrock of public order. Crimes that are now considered matters of private morality
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such as adultery, blasphemy, and public idolatry were prosecuted by the civil
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authorities. Not because the founders were creating a heavy-handed theocracy, but because they believed a just society
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could not long endure if it openly defied the revealed moral order of its creator. They understood a truth that
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has since been forgotten, that every law is an expression of a moral code, and a
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nation that does not anchor its laws in the eternal law of God will inevitably find itself a drift on the chaotic seas
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of human opinion. This commitment to a biblical worldview extended to the highest centers of learning. The most
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prestigious universities in the nation. Institutions that are today seen as bastions of secular thought were
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originally founded for the express purpose of advancing the Christian faith. Consider the founding of Harvard
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College in 1636. Its first mission was not to produce statesmen or merchants,
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but to train ministers of the gospel, ensuring that the pulpits of New England would never fall silent for lack of
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educated men who could rightly divide the word of truth. Harvard's original motto was not a vague appeal to
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knowledge, but a declaration of allegiance. Veritas Christo ecclesi
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truth for Christ and the church. Likewise, Yale was established in 1701
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out of a concern that Harvard was becoming too liberal, seeking to restore a stricter, more orthodox Christian
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curriculum. Princeton followed, born from the fires of the first great awakening to be a seminary of devout
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Calvinist theology. For these founders, education was not a neutral tool. It was
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a sacred trust, a means of equipping generations to understand, defend, and
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propagate the Christian faith, studying the scriptures in their original Greek and Hebrew tongues to draw ever closer
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to the fountain head of all truth. This reverence for the Bible as the central pillar of society was perhaps never more
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clearly demonstrated than during the nation's founding struggle. In 1782,
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during the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, the importation of Bibles from England had ceased. In
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response to a national shortage of the scriptures, the United States Congress itself took official action. They
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investigated the matter and formally approved a petition from a Philadelphia printer named Robert Atken, authorizing
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him to print what became known as the Atken Bible, the first English language
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Bible printed in North America. Congress declared it to be a neat addition of the Holy Scriptures for the use of schools
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and recommended it to the American people. Imagine such an act today. The very legislative body fighting for the
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nation's political freedom recognized that its ultimate survival depended not
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on musketss and cannons alone, but on the enduring presence of the word of God in the hearts and homes of its people.
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This deep cultural piety was not merely an institutional affair. It was kept
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alive by powerful periodic outpourings of the Holy Spirit known as the Great
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Awakenings. In the 1,732nd and 42nd, preachers like Jonathan
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Edwards and George Whitfield set the colonies ablaze with fervent calls to repentance and new birth, reminding the
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people that their covenant with God was a personal one. Later in the 19th
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century, the second great awakening led by figures like Charles Finny swept
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across the frontier, transforming society and fueling movements for social
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reform. These revivals were the lifeblood of the nation, a divine means of calling a people back to their first
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love, reminding them that the city on a hill required not just good laws, but hearts set on fire for God. This
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foundational American belief in a covenant society, one that must consciously choose its moral path, finds
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a startling echo in one of the earliest Christian documents outside the New Testament itself. The ded or the
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teaching of the twel apostles, a text from the late 1st or early 2nd century
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begins with a stark and powerful declaration. There are two ways, one of
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life and one of death. And there is a great difference between the two ways. The text then lays out the way of life,
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the path of loving God and neighbor rooted in the commandments and the way of death, the path of vice, greed,
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murder, and idolatry. The early Puritans in their own way had rediscovered this
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ancient Christian principle. They understood that they were building a society that stood at a perpetual
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crossroads, forced to choose generation after generation between the way of life
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offered by their covenant with God and the way of death that awaited any nation that turned its back on him. As America
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grew in power and influence, its sense of divine purpose expanded beyond its own borders. Having been a recipient of
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God's light, it felt a profound obligation to become a bearer of that light to the world. The 19th and 20th
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centuries saw the United States become the single greatest force for global evangelism in history. American churches
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and mission societies sent hundreds of thousands of missionaries to the farthest reaches of Africa, Asia, and
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Latin America. American resources funded the translation of the Bible into
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thousands of languages. Movements born on American soil, from the Pentecostal revival at Isuza Street to the worldwide
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crusades of Billy Graham, carried the message of salvation to countless millions. The city on a hill was now
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broadcasting its light to the entire globe. But perhaps the most distinct and prophetically significant role America
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has played is that of a guardian and ally to the nation of Israel. When the state of Israel was miraculously reborn
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in 1948, fulfilling prophecies that had lain dormant for millennia, the United
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States was among the very first nations to recognize its existence. For over seven decades since, through thick and
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thin, America has remained Israel's most powerful and steadfast friend, providing
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unparalleled diplomatic, economic, and military support. This relationship transcends mere geopolitics. For many
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American leaders and citizens, it is a matter of profound biblical conviction. But what if the promise God made to
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Abraham in Genesis 12 was not merely a historical record, but an eternal
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principle governing the rise and fall of nations. The scripture declares, "And I
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will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that cursseeth thee." Many believe that America's unprecedented
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blessings and its rise to global preeminence are inextricably linked to
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its fulfillment of this verse. That in blessing Abraham's descendants, America itself has been immeasurably blessed.
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This then is the awesome weight of America's spiritual inheritance. It was founded not as just another nation, but
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as a covenant project. Its laws, its great institutions, and its very
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identity were infused with the language and principles of holy scripture. It was used by God as a primary instrument to
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spread the gospel and to protect his ancient people, Israel. It received more
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light, more blessing, and a clearer sense of divine purpose than perhaps any
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gentile nation in history. But the Bible is a book of balance. And to whom much
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is given, much will be required. The story of America's rise is only half the
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tale. For the light of a city on a hill casts a long shadow, and the terms of a covenant are binding in both their
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blessings and their curses. A covenant, however, is a double-edged sword. It is
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forged in the fires of divine promise, but its edges are sharpened by the stone of divine requirement. The same God who
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promises blessing for obedience decrees judgment for rebellion. The higher a
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nation is lifted in privilege, the farther it has to fall. For centuries, the light from America's city on a hill
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had shone brightly. A beacon of faith and freedom. But in the fullness of the 20th century, a shadow began to creep
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over that hill. It did not come like a conquering army with banners and trumpets, but like a subtle creeping fog
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rising from the valleys of prosperity and comfort, so slowly at first that few even noticed the chill. The great
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spiritual awakenings that had once renewed the nation's soul gave way to a deep spiritual slumber. And while the
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watchmen slept, the foundations began to crack. The shift began quietly in the
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halls of academia and in the pulpits of once faithful churches. A new theology
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born in the universities of Europe and imported under the guise of intellectual progress began to sew seeds of doubt.
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This theological liberalism questioned the miracles of scripture, denied the
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divinity of Christ and dismissed the reality of sin and judgment. It hollowed out the gospel from within, leaving
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behind a hollow shell of religious moralism, powerless to save and unable to sanctify. At the same time, the
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unprecedented material blessings that had been poured out upon the nation began to work a spiritual poison into
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its heart. The pursuit of holiness was slowly replaced by the pursuit of happiness, and the cross of self-denial
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was exchanged for the comfort of materialism. The nation that had once been defined by its faith began to be
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defined by its possessions. The church, meant to be a hospital for the broken,
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too often became a theater for the entertained. Then came the turning points, the moments when the slow, quiet
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drift became a catastrophic public break. On the 22nd of January, 1,973,
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in the case of Roie Wade, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the laws of the nation and declared a
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constitutional right to abortion. This was more than a legal decision. It was a spiritual seismic event. It was the
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moment the nation that had once printed Bibles with congressional approval now gave federal sanction to the shedding of
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innocent blood on an industrial scale. The blood of Abel, the first victim of unjust violence, cried out to God from
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the ground. And now the silent cries of tens of millions of the unborn began to
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ascend before the throne of a holy God. A God who in the book of Psalms declares
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that he knits us together in our mother's womb. A nation had declared that what God was forming, man had a
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right to destroy. The covenant was not just being neglected. It was being actively defied. And here an ancient and
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unsettling voice from the sands of time speaks with a chilling relevance. In a
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text known as the Apocalypse of Peter, an apocryphal book cherished by many early Christians before the final cannon
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was settled, the Apostle Peter is given a vision of the torments of hell. He sees a place of judgment prepared for
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sinners and the punishments are made to fit the crimes. The text describes a harrowing scene. And I saw women who had
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been made to miscarry and their offspring sitting opposite them crying out, and flashes of fire went forth from
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those offspring and smoked the women in the eyes. Regardless of its canonical status, this text reveals the profound
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horror with which the early church viewed this sin. They saw it not as a political issue, but as an act of cosmic
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rebellion against the author of life, a sin so grievous that it cried out for a
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unique and terrible justice. The modern world in its supposed enlightenment had
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embraced a practice that the earliest followers of Christ saw as a straight path to damnation. The legal and moral
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breaks with the nation's foundation did not stop there. In 2015, the Supreme Court in Oberfel v. Hodgeges redefined
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the institution of marriage. An institution established by God himself at the dawn of creation. In Genesis, God
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ordained marriage to be between one man and one woman, a sacred union meant to reflect the relationship between Christ
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and his church. The nation's highest court now set itself in opposition to the first chapter of Genesis, declaring
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that it knew better than the creator. This act represented a deeper level of rebellion. Not just breaking God's law,
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but attempting to rewrite it. But what if this moral and spiritual freefall is not merely a sign of future judgment,
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but a form of judgment itself? The Apostle Paul in his epistle to the Romans, chapter 1, reveals the terrible
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mechanics of how God judges a society that suppresses his truth. Paul does not
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speak of fire from heaven or invading armies. He describes a far more terrifying judgment, divine abandonment.
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Three times he declares that God gave them up. First, God gave them up to uncleanness. Then, God gave them up to
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dishonorable passions. And finally, most terrifyingly, God gave them up to a
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debased mind to do what ought not to be done. This is a progressive judgment.
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When a people persistently reject the light they have been given, God does not always strike them down. Instead, he
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withdraws his hand of restraint. He allows them to have what they want. He lets them spiral deeper and deeper into
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their own sin until their society begins to consume itself from within. Many
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discerning voices now believe that America is in the throws of this very judgment. A nation being given over to
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its own lusts and its own delusions. Tragically, this apostasy was not confined to the secular world. Judgment,
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as the Apostle Peter declares, begins at the household of God. A false gospel
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born on American soil and exported to the world began to flourish. This
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prosperity gospel turned God into a means to a selfish end. Teaching that Jesus came not primarily to save men
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from their sins, but to make them healthy, wealthy, and successful. It
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replaced the call to repentance with formulas for riches, the cross with the credit card. Great megaurches arose that
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prioritized spectacle over substance, emotional highs over holy living. Expository preaching of the word was
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replaced by motivational talks on self-esteem. The fear of God was replaced by the applause of men. The
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salt in many places had lost its savor and was, as Jesus warned, good for
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nothing but to be cast out and trampled underfoot. And so the nation that was founded to be a city on a hill found
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itself shrouded in a deepening twilight. A nation whose founders believed they were in covenant with the God of
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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob now stood in open legal and cultural rebellion
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against his most foundational laws. The light had been great, and therefore the responsibility was immense. The covenant
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had been broken. The shadow had lengthened until it threatened to swallow the hill itself. The question
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that now hangs heavy in the prophetic air is no longer if this nation will be judged, but what that judgment will look
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like, and whether its form can be glimpsed in the veiled prophecies concerning the final days. Given the
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covenant made and the covenant broken, the soul of the believer is stirred to ask the inevitable fearsome question,
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where then is the judgment for these things written? If God has spoken so clearly about the fates of Babylon and
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Ty, of Egypt and Assyria, where is the oracle concerning America? The silence
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in the prophetic scriptures, once a mere curiosity, now becomes ominous, heavy
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with unspoken portant. But perhaps the silence is not an absence of an answer,
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but the answer itself. Perhaps God did not give us the nation's name, but instead painted its portrait, leaving it
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for a generation with discerning eyes to recognize the likeness. In the prophetic
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gallery of the end times, there hang several portraits that bear a startling and deeply unsettling resemblance to the
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American superpower. The first and most imposing of these is the portrait of Babylon the Great found in the 17th and
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18th chapters of the book of Revelation. The Apostle John is shown a vision of a woman, a great harlot, seated upon a
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scarlet beast. She is arrayed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, holding a
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golden cup full of abominations. On her forehead is a name of mystery. Babylon
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the great mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations. This entity is described as a global power of
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unimaginable wealth and influence. She sits on many waters which the angel explains are peoples and multitudes and
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nations and languages. Her sin is not merely local. It is a global contagion.
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For all the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality. and the kings of the earth have
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committed immorality with her and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.
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When she finally falls, her collapse is not a regional event. It is a worldwide economic cataclysm. The merchants of the
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earth weep and mourn, for no one buys their cargo anymore. For centuries, interpreters saw this as a clear
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reference to ancient Rome, the idolatrous persecuting power of John's day. Others looked to a future rebuilt
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literal city of Babylon on the plains of Iraq. But as the 20th century unfolded,
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many began to see these ancient words cast a new and chilling shadow across
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the Atlantic. They look at a nation whose economic heart, Wall Street, dictates the financial pulse of the
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planet. They see a nation that has exported its culture, its films, its music, its ideologies to every corner of
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the globe. a culture that so often celebrates the very abominations described in the vision. They see a
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superpower whose influence sits upon the many waters of the world's nations. And they ask, "Is it possible that America
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in its final apostate form becomes this great economic Babylon, a system of
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luxurious godless materialism destined for a sudden and catastrophic collapse?
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The parallels are too striking to be easily dismissed. And yet this is not the only possible identity. In another
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ancient text, we find a different symbol for a great world ruling power. The
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apocryphal book of four Ezra written in the aftermath of Jerusalem's destruction in 70 ampere. D contains a profound
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vision. The prophet sees a terrifying eagle rising from the sea having 12
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wings and three heads. This eagle, a symbol hauntingly familiar to any
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American, represents a great and oppressive empire, unquestionably the Roman Empire in its original context. It
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reigned over all the earth and over all who dwell in it with much oppression.
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But the vision concludes with the eagle being rebuked and judged by a lion
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representing the coming Messiah. The vision of four Ezra established a powerful precedent. God can and does use
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the symbol of a great eagle to represent a dominant and ultimately judged world
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power. The question for the modern reader is a sober one. Has history come full circle with a new eagle, a new
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world power unwittingly fulfilling a similar prophetic pattern. A second, more subtle portrait is found in the
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prophecies of Ezekiel chapter 38. Here the prophet describes a great end times
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invasion of Israel led by Gog from Mog. Gog is joined by a coalition of nations
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from the north. Together they descend upon the mountains of Israel like a cloud to cover the land. As this mighty
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army descends upon Israel, a curious thing happens. Certain nations stand by
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observing but not intervening. They are described as Sheba and Ddan and the
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merchants of Tarsish and all its young lions. Their response is not a call to arms but a question of plunder. Have you
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come to take spoil? Have you gathered your company to plunder, to carry away silver and gold? To take away livestock
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and goods? To seize great spoil? Many scholars have identified Tarsish with a
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great maritime power in the far west of the ancient world, perhaps Spain or Britain. Its young lions would then be
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its colonial offspring, its descendants. In this interpretation, the United
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States would be the chief among these young lions. If this is so, the prophecy is stunning in its implications. It
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suggests that in the hour of Israel's greatest peril, its most powerful and historic ally, America, will be reduced
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to the role of a passive spectator. It will be either unable or unwilling to come to Israel's defense. its roar of
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defiance reduced to a whimper of economic inquiry. This scenario, which
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would have been unthinkable for most of the past 70 years, suddenly seems disturbingly plausible in a world of
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shifting alliances, internal decay, and waning national will. This leads us to
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the third and perhaps most terrifying hypothesis, the theory of prophetic silence. This view argues that the
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reason America is not clearly mentioned in the final prophecies of the tribulation is because by that time it
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will have ceased to exist as a sovereign and influential power. Its absence from the stage is the prophecy. How could
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such a collapse occur? Some point to the internal rot described in the previous chapter. the economic implosion, the
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civil strife, the moral decay leading to a fall from within, after which it is simply absorbed into the one world
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governmental system of the beast, described in Revelation 13 as having
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authority over every tribe and people and language and nation. But there is another more cataclysmic possibility,
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one rooted in a promise made not to a nation, but to the church. But what if the church itself is the key to
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America's prophetic disappearance? In his first letter to the Thessalonians, the Apostle Paul speaks of a moment when
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the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, and the
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dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be
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caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. This event known as the rapture would have a
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devastating impact on any nation. But on America, the consequences would be
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nation shattering. Imagine a country where in the twinkling of an eye, millions of its most prayerful, honest,
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and stable citizens vanish. Imagine pastors, Christian leaders, engineers,
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doctors, soldiers, and parents disappearing without a trace. The nation would be paralyzed. Its social,
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military, and spiritual infrastructure would implode overnight. The collapse would be so total that the United States
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would be instantly removed as a significant player on the world stage, leaving a power vacuum to be filled by
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the rising antichrist. This singular event, the sudden disappearance of the church after the end of World War II
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became a major cornerstone of evangelical thought and esquetology, provides the most direct and for many
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the most compelling explanation for America's conspicuous absence from the final seven years of this age. Whether
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as a decadent Babylon awaiting fire, a neutered lion watching from the sidelines, or a hollowedout ruin after
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the departure of the faithful, every major prophetic hypothesis points to the same conclusion, the end of America as
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we know it. The silence in the scripture is not a sign of irrelevance, but a space reserved for a verdict. It is a
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quiet testament to the fact that no nation, no matter how powerful or blessed, is immune to the unchanging law
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of God. The wages of sin is death. And the nation that forsakes God will itself
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be forsaken. And so we arrive at the threshold of the verdict. We have walked the path of America's covenantal birth,
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witnessed its ascent as a city on a hill, and traced the lengthening shadow of its spiritual rebellion. We have
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peered into the veiled gallery of prophecy, seeing its faint reflection in the face of Babylon, the eagle, and the
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silenced lion. But now we must turn from the shadows of speculation to the
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unwavering substance of divine law. For the ultimate fate of any nation is not
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determined by correctly deciphering a symbol, but by submitting to the unchanging character of the judge of all
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the earth. The final question is not what does the prophecy say about America, but rather what do the eternal
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principles of God say about a nation such as this? T + B 261
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B279. He first and most immutable principle is found in the Apostle Paul's warning to
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the Galatians. Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. For whatever one sws,
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that will he also reap. This is the law of the spiritual harvest as certain as
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the law of gravity. It applies to individuals and it applies to empires.
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For generations, America swed seeds of faith, liberty, and the gospel. It
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reaped a harvest of unprecedented blessing, power, and influence. But in recent times, the nation has swn to the
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wind. It has swn pride, the shedding of innocent blood, sexual immorality, and
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rebellion against the creator's design. It has sown greed, materialism, and the
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idolatry of self. It must therefore reap the whirlwind. Judgment is not merely a
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possibility. It is a spiritual necessity. To believe otherwise is to believe that God can be mocked, that his
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holy law has no teeth, and that his justice is a mere suggestion. In the divine courtroom, precedent is
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paramount. God's dealings with the nations of the past serve as legal case
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studies for the present. And the most sobering president of all is his own chosen people, Israel. After delivering
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them from Egypt and establishing his covenant with them, he did not grant them immunity from judgment. On the
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contrary, he held them to a higher standard. Through the prophet Amos, God
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delivered this chilling verdict. You only have I known of all the families of the earth. Therefore, I will punish you
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for all your iniquities. The principle is clear. Greater light brings greater responsibility and greater privilege
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invites greater judgment. No nation in modern history has been given more light than the United States. It had open
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Bibles, freedom of worship, and a church on nearly every corner. It knew the
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truth. Therefore, its rebellion is not the stumbling of an ignorant pagan. It
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is the apostasy of a privileged son. Its judgment will be measured accordingly.
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And yet, the halls of divine justice are not without a door of mercy. The case of
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Nineveh stands as a timeless testament to the power of repentance. It was the
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capital of the brutal Assyrian Empire, a city steeped in violence and paganism,
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the enemy of God's people. Yet, when God sent the reluctant prophet Jonah with a simple 8-word sermon of impending doom,
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yet 40 days and Nineveh shall be overthrown, the unthinkable happened.
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The people of Nineveh believed God. The king rose from his throne, laid aside
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his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. He issued a decree for a national fast, a collective
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cry for mercy from man and beast alike. And scripture records one of the most beautiful sentences in all of prophecy.
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When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster that he had said he
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would do to them, and he did not do it. The most wicked city of its day was spared, not because of its merit, but
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because of its humility. God's justice was satisfied not by their punishment but by their repentance. There was a
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time when the leaders of America understood this profound truth. On the 30th of March 1,863,
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in the darkest hour of a brutal civil war that was tearing the nation apart, President Abraham Lincoln did something
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unimaginable to the modern political mind. He issued a proclamation calling for a national day of humiliation,
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fasting, and prayer. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other
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nation has ever grown, but we have forgotten God. He went on to confess the
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national sins of boastful pride and being too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving
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grace. He concluded that it was the duty of nations as well as of men to confess
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their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy
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and pardon. A president in the midst of national agony called his people not to
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arms but to their knees. He saw the war not as a political failure but as a just
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judgment from a holy God and he knew the only path to healing was through national confession. The ancient saints
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of the church also knew this principle well. Cyprien, the bishop of Carthage,
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writing in the 3rd century during a time of devastating plague and persecution, admonished his flock not to despair, but
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to see the hand of a loving father in their suffering. He wrote, "The Lord, wishing to prove his people and to test
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and examine his family, searches the hidden depths and tries the secret recesses of the heart. He never ceases
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as a diligent cultivator to prune and to purify his vineyard. For Cyprien,
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hardship and judgment were not signs of God's hatred, but of his purifying love, a divine call to examine the heart, to
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cast off sin, and to cling more tightly to the eternal. He saw calamity as a
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mercy, a severe grace intended to save the soul from the greater damnation of unrepentant sin. This brings us to the
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final sovereign principle upon which America's destiny now hangs. It is found
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in the words God gave to the prophet Jeremiah as he sat watching a potter at his wheel. But what if the fate of a
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nation like the clay on the potter's wheel could be reshaped even after a sentence had been pronounced? In
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Jeremiah 18, God reveals his sovereign right over the nations. If at any time I
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declare concerning a nation or a kingdom to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it, and if that nation
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concerning which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.
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Conversely, if he promises to bless a nation, and it turns to evil, he will
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relent of the good he intended. Here is the final open-ended truth. America's
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destiny is not a fixed point in a prophetic timeline. It is a conditional verdict. The nation stands before the
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judge of all the earth, having broken the covenant and squandered its immense spiritual inheritance. The sentence of
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judgment is justified and righteous. But the judge in his infinite mercy holds
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out the possibility of a pardon. The future of the United States will not be decided in its halls of government or on
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the trading floors of its markets. It will not be secured by its military might or its technological prowess. The
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fate of this nation will be decided at the altar. It will be decided on the knees of its people, in closets of
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prayer, in gatherings of humble intercession. The call is not to political action, but to spiritual
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desperation. The call is for the remnant of the faithful to stand in the gap, to
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weep, to fast, and to cry out as Lincoln did in humble sorrow. If that nation
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concerning which God has warned turns from its evil ways, the God of Nineveh
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is the same yesterday, today, and forever, he can and he will relent. But
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if it does not, the city on a hill will be brought low, and its light will be extinguished. A final silent testament
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to the solemn truth that the Lord God Almighty cannot and will not be mocked.
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The weight of prophecy, the gravity of judgment, and the echoes of broken covenants can leave the soul trembling.
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It is easy to be swept away by the currents of fear or the clamor of speculation. But now, let the storm of
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information pass. Let the dust of historical debate settle. Breathe deeply of the spirit of peace that transcends
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all understanding. Remember that behind the throne of judgment sits the heart of a father. The voice that thunders from
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Sinai is the same voice that whispers, "Come to me all who are weary." The hand
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that topples empires is the same hand that was pierced for your transgressions. The story of nations is
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vast and often tragic, but the story of salvation is intimate and eternally hopeful. Do not let the fate of kingdoms
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eclipse the promise made to your own soul. The path laid before you is not one of national destiny, but of personal
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disciplehip. It is the ancient way, the good way spoken of by the prophet
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Jeremiah, a path of walking humbly with your God, of seeking his face in the
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quiet of the morning, and of finding rest for your soul in the finished work of the cross. Whatever tempests may
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gather on the horizon of the world, in him there is a perfect peace. In him
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there is a refuge. In him the anchor of your soul holds fast and firm. Trust in
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the Lord. He will protect you.