THE US AND BIBLE PROPHECY

I’ve tried to keep my religious opinion out of my blog (not that I’ve never expressed them, but I write this blog as a commentary of how I see things politically with in our country). I don’t write about local or state politics, I focus on what is going on in DC. However, I do believe that religion does and should play a factor in how we are governed … and so did the founding fathers. I do not, and have never, supported a national religion, but at the same time I disagree with anyone that states we are not a religious country or that we are no longer a Christian nation, because that could not be farther from the truth of who and what we are as a nation.

I am a Bible believing Christian. I believe that Jesus is who the bible says He is … the Son Of God. I also believe in biblical prophecy. I am no bible scholar, just as I’m not a legal scholar, or a scholar of any kind. I count on scholarly people to help me with my understanding of things. I listen and pay attention to those who have a calling to preach and teach about those topics that compel them. I listen to political minds that I agree with and I do the same thing when it comes to religion. I’m not alone in that philosophy … almost everyone follows teachings that they agree with in matters of religion, politics, finances, education, etc.

From what I’ve read and heard from experts in biblical prophecy, they almost all agree that the United States does have any significant role in bible prophecy. The US does not appear in biblical prophecy. Some experts believe that may be simply because the United States did not exist in biblical times, while other say it is because the United State is not significant in prophesy. I’ve been raised believing that the return of Jesus is near, just how near no one knows. When I was young, I thought His return was very near and that I would see His return. As I got older, I started to believe that the chances of me seeing His return were slim … after all, there are millions of Christians that have passed away believing that they would be alive to see His return, but did not.

When I hit my thirties, I became more convinced that I would not see the return of Jesus Christ. I did not stop believing in Him or give up on being a Christian, but I thought it may be centuries more before we see His return. Now, I’m not as good a Christian as I ought to be, and I probably don’t love Him as much as I should … but Jesus isn’t done with me yet. Here lately, a lot has happened that has caused me to wonder just why the United States does not have a significant role in prophesy. Aren’t we the greatest nation the world has ever known? Aren’t we the freest people on earth when it comes to religious and political liberty? Aren’t we the most powerful country in the world? Aren’t we a primarily Christian nation? So why aren’t we as important a nation as the others mentioned in prophesy? I’m not saying our nation should be mentioned literally in the bible, because many nations aren’t either, but bible experts have been able to determine which countries play a significant role and have identified them through biblical text.

As a child, some of the first stories I heard were from the book of Revelations and end times prophesies. I’ve seen movies and heard stories about all the things that would be signs of the end times. It hasn’t been until recently that I’d heard that the United State not only hasn’t had any role in prophesy but, more interestingly, the US is not at all significant in the end times. Why is that? Again, experts say it is because this country must not have any great role to play in those times. Why might that be? They will say it is because we will no longer have power and influence when those times come. I never would have believed that in the past. The United States is not a significant country when the end comes? … no way. I’d have thought that those people had gone off of the deep end and were religious loons ... but things are different now. With the world economies in trouble (ours included), with a crippling debt and no clear plan of dealing with that debt, our nation (as well as others) will soon be broke. I think that we are broke already, that is why we have such staggering debt. At some point, that debt will become so unmanageable that the country won’t be able to pay it and loans will go into default. Those loans are to other countries … now do you think when the time comes that this nation will simply roll over and hand ourselves, our position, and our sovereignty to our debtors? No … but, as a nation without economic strength, we will be a nation without influence. Sure we will have a military (that won’t be able to buy fuel and weapons) and modern cities (we won’t be able to provide basic services to) and an infrastructure (that we will not be able to maintain). Why will that be? … because of the actions our government has been taking for at least the last 30 years (some say for even longer than that), and the ever faster and bigger run-a-way spending that is happening now with the current leadership in DC.

I have been reading and listing to President Obama’s philosophies for at least three years. Me and millions of Americans have known all about his radicalism and of those he has chosen to surround himself with. However, those people have been around before … how many of them that are with him now were with the Clintons? What Bill and Hilary Clinton could not do, he has done. However, not all by himself … he’s had the help of a willing Democrat leadership, a Congress that has chosen to serve him instead of the people from the districts and states they represent, and Republicans that seem to have forgotten that the Congress is there to be a check on the White House and the Courts. Together they have placed a burden on the American people and, by default, on our nation that can kill it or severely weaken it. That is the plan of many of the people that are in power now … they don’t want to kill the country, they just want to weaken it and put it in its proper place. They call themselves citizens of the world instead of their country. Obama believes that … and so do a lot of others we’ve sent to Washington DC. We must never forget that we the people are our nation … not those in political office and government bureaucrats.

Biblical prophecy does not include the United States … up until now I could not understand why … now I do. We have people in power that are no longer willing to give God credit for our blessings of freedom and liberty and a President that openly states we are no longer a Christian nation. When did he get to decide? His plans (if what I am hearing is correct) and the plans of the socialists and communists that are advising him won’t make us a more perfect union, but will make us a lesser, inconsequential nation in the eyes of the world … and, I fear, in the eyes of God.

There you have it.
Pass it on if you like or let me know if I don’t have a clue.

Eddie