If you read the article "The Coming Invasion of Israel" on this web site, you know that Bible prophecy reveals that a conglomeration of countries will invade Israel in the future. In the last sixty years no non-Arabic nation has dared attack it. There is one very simple reason for this. Any country outside the Middle East knows that America would defend Israel militarily if they initiated a war with them. During the 1967 Six Day War, Russia saw that Israel was decimating its Arab allies. They considered intervening in the conflict but knew that America would have to respond. Thus, a major conflict between the superpowers was averted. Such is the case to this day. However, because of the prophecy God gave to Ezekiel, I believe that America has to lose its superpower status. With a weakened America the invasion of Israel can take place.
Is this another Christian fanatic declaring the sky is falling? Not if you listen to what the U.S. Comptroller General (who heads the United States Government Accounting Office) stated recently in an interview. He is very pessimistic about America's future as these excerpts from the Financial Times article will reveal:
Inspector General Walker lays out a pretty dismal scenario for America's future. I agree with him. In the 1960s, Ruth Graham, wife of Billy Graham, read a chapter out of her husband's new book. After handing the book back to him she said, "Billy, if God doesn't come soon and bring judgment upon the United States, He's going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah!" We as a nation continue to live our lives as if God doesn't exist. Our political leaders' only goal is to maintain their power at whatever the cost to America's security. The Judicial system releases child predators, rapists, murderers on a frequent basis. A segment of America wants to ignore the laws of America by allowing anyone to violate the Immigration Laws of the United States. There is a mindset in our culture that declares the criminal is the victim, a victim of bad upbringing or bad circumstances. Pornography, homosexuality, adultery are prevalent throughout our entertainment and in our lifestyles. The legalization of abortion has resulted in the deaths of nearly 50 million unborn babies. The difference now is that society accepts these behaviors as alternative lifestyles. Liberal Churches deny the miracles of the Bible. They deny the Bible's authority to guide human beings. The lists of America's ills goes on and on. The rest of the world is no better. Although God's judgment is coming upon the world, I believe He will start with America.
In the Old Testament God made a covenant with the patriarch Abraham (Genesis 12:1-3; 15:1-21). He promised that Abraham's descendants would be as numerous as the stars and that they would inherit the land of Israel forever. However, God told Abraham that before his heirs would live in the land they would first be exiles and strangers in the land of Egypt. After four hundred years He would return Abraham's descendants to Israel. The reason God gave for the delay is a revealing insight into how God deals with countries:
"13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land [i.e. Egypt] that is not their's, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full." (Genesis 15:13-16)
God was going to judge the Amorites who were then living in the land of Canaan [i.e. Israel]. However, He was going to give the Amorites four hundred years to repent of their iniquity yet the Amororites would never avail themselves of God's mercy. In other words, God was going to allow the Amorites to commit a certain amount of evil before He judged them. Once they had arrived at the limit of God's choosing, He was going to send the Israelites into the land and execute His judgment upon the people. No one knows the limit of America's iniquity before God chooses to send judgment upon it. The first permanent English settlement in America started in 1607 at Jamestown, Virginia. Since then America has evolved from a God-fearing nation into a God-rejecting nation. The Bible is no longer used as a moral compass by our society. Later in Israel's history God pronounced judgment upon it because of its rebellion against His laws:
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly. (Isaiah 5:20-26)
If God did not allow His chosen people to flaunt their evil deeds and attitudes before Him, why should America be spared His wrath for flaunting its inquities before Him? As Ruth Graham pointed out above, if God doesn't remain true to His principles of judgment and thereby judge America, He will have to apologize to all the other countries that have risen and fallen in history.
The downfall of America may come as a result of a financial collapse. It could come from a military defeat. The War on Terror is not going to go away. Just ask the Israelis after six decades of fighting it. The moral climate which declares there is no right or wrong will also play a part. Whatever it takes for the rest of the world to see that America is weak will happen. Once this occurs, the other powers in the world will have a free hand to wreak havoc wherever they please. This will lead to the invasion of Israel and the End-Times.
James Jackson
Sept 2007
