As many choose to celebrate America’s Independence Day today, July 4, many if not more are wondering what in the world has happened to this once great nation. Students of prophecy, I would suggest, are not as surprised by what has and is occurring in this country today considering the Bible does not mention our country in regards to the events of the end of this age. The following article by Pete Garcia of rev310.net is one of the best on this subject and I thought it would be appropriate reading as all too many are asking today, “what has happened to America”?
American Pie
Updated: Jan 4
The people of the great nations of the past seem normally to have imagined that their pre-eminence would last forever. Rome appeared to its citizens to be destined to be for all time the mistress of the world. The Abbasid Khalifs of Baghdad declared that God had appointed them to rule mankind until the day of judgment. Seventy-years ago, many people in Britain believed that the empire would endure forever. Although Hitler failed to achieve his objective, he declared that Germany would rule the world for a thousand years. That sentiments like these could be publicly expressed without evoking derision shows that, in all the ages, the regular rise and fall of great nations has passed unperceived. The simplest statistics prove the steady rotation of one nation after another at regular intervals. Sir John Glubb, the Fate of Empires
America, the shining city on a hill. Her untamed lands offered for centuries, a home for the homeless. She became a nation of immigrants, who, fleeing the lawlessness of their ancestral homelands, embraced the ideals of a nation whose arbiter of freedoms, were not granted by some fleeting and transient government, but by the Creator of the Universe. She was the last best hope for mankind. She was the last great respite for the weary and beleaguered huddled masses. If she, as President Reagan once soberly noted, falls, there was nowhere else on earth to run to.
To our surprise, we learn of our own Ozymandias' end
Besides emerging victorious after two world wars, America’s long list of crowning achievements made her the envy of every empire and nation. How could she lose? She conquered all of her domains- land, sea, air, and space. She split the atom, thus ushering in the Atomic Age. She put men on the moon, thus, ushering in the Space Age. She invented the Internet and thrust the world into the Age of Information. She was as indomitable as she was charitable. She was an impregnable fortress, guarded not by walls, but by her elastic resiliency.
America the beautiful could not fall, could she
The end of the American dream did not come with a whimper, but with a gasp. The divinely destined and hard-fought American dream, had by the mid-twentieth century, briefly offered life at the top of the geopolitical food chain for its patriotic citizenry. However, premiership came at a cost. Success would cause each successive generation to soften their moral resolve and despise their own position as the apex. Each new generation would feel, but ignore the birth pangs of gradualism, until finally; America gave birth to this generation’s hideous twins, immorality and socialism. Were we better off that these two remained orphaned.
Holy Writ warned, sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind
This self-induced spiritual diaspora was by design. Unseen malevolent spirits wisely spent the previous centuries reintroducing the foundation of humanistic “enlightenment” and “reason.” These foul demons regurgitated Hedonism, Gnosticism, and Paganism to the 18th-19th century academics and ideologues, who in turn, recast these as new illumination on forgotten knowledge. In reality, they were just as vain and empty as the first time the pagan Greeks and Romans embraced them.
However, piling onto these humanistic lunacies, was a new one brought about by emerging sciences. The new “scientific theories” prefaced that mankind’s existence here was accidental and by nothing more than sheer, dumb luck, we somehow climbed to the top of the evolutionary food chain. Simultaneous to this, Marxism made its debut and offered up an economic model that guaranteed the equal spreading of misery and death. For both, nihilism was its religion, and man himself became its god. It was here that the ungodly professors and ungodly pop culture iconoclasts religiously programmed their devotees to reject the good and embrace the growing counter-culture of Antichrist.
The whirlwind of lawlessness is now all we see
The American malcontents began asking the question anew, “Why should we have it so good?” Of course, this insane reasoning led to the need to rewrite history to reflect their ever-evolving positions of intersectionality and social justice. Post-modernism dogmatically rejected the tried and true, for the theoretical and subjective. The further they pushed the boundaries, the further they diminished their ability to understand truth and reason (Romans 1:18-32). This began the inevitable slippery slope of incrementalism. What was questionable to one generation became acceptable to the next. Feelings and emotions soon replaced logic and reasoning for the moral standard. This abandonment of reason, led to the inescapable introduction of the cancel-culture type cannibalism, evoking the Kristallnacht tactics of the Ku Klux Klan, the Third Reich, and the Taliban.
No one left to defend
The “progressives” began chanting that all cultures are equal. This, of course, led to the demands that we abandon our own history and culture and embrace all cultures equally, especially, the failed ones despite the obvious and unavoidable conclusions. The result, of course, is the inescapable end to the American saga. What began in Godly faith, and the blood, sweat, and tears of a pilgrim people, ended in air-conditioned malls, fast food, abortion on demand, and easy credit. Despite our last minute revival to Make America Great Again, we were already destined to become a relic of a bygone age. While we think of this perhaps, as an age of leisure, comfort, and dominance, will be known only as a cautionary tale to those who follow. The experiment that was the United States of America, like all its predecessors, would join a long line of momentary, but deceased empires.
Nowhere left to flee
Coda
To the unredeemed, this message reeks of doom, gloom, and biblical fatalism.
And that is partly true. First and foremost, the Christian faith is an apocalyptic faith. The Bible is adamant in its promotion of the believer keeping a ‘loose grip’ on terra firma. This current earth is slated for a total overhaul. Not just earth, but the heavens as well. All of it will go up in flames. (2nd Peter 3:10-11)
As Christians, we shouldn’t spend our time building our empires of dirt here, but rather, investing in our treasures in heaven, where neither moth, nor rust, nor thieves can steal or destroy (Matthew 6:19-20).
That is not the message this world promotes.
We are constantly bombarded with the inane propaganda to buy expensive things, wear expensive clothes, drink the finest drinks, and live in this place or that, to find happiness in this increasingly darkening world. We are told that unless we are living according to the world’s standard, we will never find fulfillment. Many churches in the West, and in particular, the United States, have jumped on board with the ludicrous notion that we have to invest “financial seeds” in human ministries in order to build the kingdom upon earth. We have mega pastor's promoting the ridiculous ideas of living our best life now, and/or being purpose-driven as if God needed our instruction.
Juxtaposed to these faux–Christian heretics, are the Bible skeptics who are divided on their messaging regarding the fate of America. Half of them hate the nation and hope she fails. As of August 2020, they are still unclear as to what should replace America and whether or not that will be an improvement. The malcontent of their own American privilege burns like a hot coal on their consciousness. They want an endless revolution, they want to rage against the system that has given them the freedom to do so. What they really rage again, or should I say, whom they rage against, is their Creator.
The other half of Bible skeptics believe America is indomitable, and that present troubles aside, we are just going through a “phase.” They will say, the way things are today, are the way things will always be. Life will go on as it always has. They say, even if Jesus were real, He is not coming back anytime soon. They are busy planning their 401Ks and retirements into the next fifty years, as if, all of this will remain as it always has.
The truth is, God had a purpose for the United States, and nothing, not the British, not the Confederates, not the Nazis, not Mother Nature, nor the Progressives, will end this nation one second earlier than God has predetermined. God has used this nation in mighty ways in the past, most notably; both to help restore Israel back to the table of nations, and to produce some of the greatest revivals and missionary efforts the world had ever seen.
However, when God says that something will end, neither heaven nor hell, nor anything in between, will stop that thing from happening. Since the Bible makes no mention of a superpower like the United States in the pages of Holy Writ, we can conclude, the world’s greatest nation is not in the picture at the end. Some would argue that the US was not in view when the Bible was written; however, God (the true author of the Bible) was well aware of all the nations who would ever come and go across the span of history. As the Apostle Paul stated in Acts 17:26,
And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings
Therefore, the end of our nation was foreseen and pre-appointed long before the first Pilgrim ever-set foot at Plymouth. In fact, our end was established long before God ever set the boundaries of the earth during Creation. The fact we as a nation, are not in Bible Prophecy, undoubtedly points to some less-than-desirable ending for our once-great nation. This thought has always brought me back, strangely enough, to the verse in Don McClean’s iconic song, American Pie.
Bye, bye Miss American PieDrove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dryAnd them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin’ this’ll be the day that I dieThis’ll be the day that I die
At present, our spiritual levee is dry. Whatever America was, is long dead. At present, around half of America seems determined to vote in national suicide Vis a Vis radical progressivism and socialism. At present, around half of the American churches are caught up preaching the false social justice gospel for the sake of social relevancy. Ironically, in the age of prophetic signs, many churches seem strangely detached from what is going on, preaching something akin to the normalcy bias gospel.
Most of the world is not looking for Christ to return. Most in the West, but do not care. The most blessed nation to ever exist has almost conceded to wickedness in every quarter. Where it not for the remnant, she would have conceded decades ago. However, when the Rapture does happen, America will gasp at the horror of what just transpired, and she will finally succumb to the lawlessness she had so long toyed with. The United States of America must decline, so that another may take her place.
Its name is The Beast.
It will rise out of the sea of humanity.
It consists of ten kings and kingdoms.
It tramples all before itself, reducing them to residue.
One man, The Antichrist, will eventually rise and lead it.
He must come from the boundaries of the ancient Roman Empire.
He will control ALL buying and selling in the world.
He will be fatally wounded, but resurrected by the power of Satan.
He will be possessed by Satan himself and will desecrate the newly rebuilt Jewish Temple.
He will convince the armies of the world to finally rid the world of Israel.
They will form in the Valley of Megiddo and will meet their inglorious end.
Israel’s Messiah, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and followed by the armies of heaven, will tear open the sky, as Jesus pours out His judgment upon the world’s armies.
The Beast and his False Prophet will then be cast alive into the Lake of Fire.
Satan will be bound in chains for 1,000 years while cast into the blackest abyss.
Christ will rescue the Jewish remnant and vanquish their foes.
Christ will judge the nations in righteousness.
Christ will bring His Kingdom to the earth.
The Rock built without human hands.
And we shall be His forever.
And Ever.
Amen.
And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold—the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.” Daniel 2:44-45
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The question I believe we should al be asking is not “what has happened to America”, but rather “am I prepared to go home to be with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”? Many would argue that what we are witnessing today is the final sign of just where we are on God’s calendar considering the obvious absence of this country in Bible prophecy. Are you prepared?
If you are reading this today and have never made the decision to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, I urge you to do it right now. Simply admit to God that you need His forgiveness because you are a sinner, be willing to turn away from your sins, believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, and invite Him to come in and control your life through the Holy Spirit by praying a simple prayer like this;
Jesus I know I am a sinner in need of salvation. I believe you sent your Son Jesus to die on the cross for my sin, and I ask you now to forgive me of my sins. I want to receive your gift of salvation so please come into my heart and help me to live and follow you as my Lord and Savior. In Jesus' name, Amen.
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
John 1:12 NKJV
If you have prayed that prayer, or one like it, you can rejoice that you will spend eternity with God.
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