Kingdom Come

Popular Belief #1: America is not mentioned in the prophecies because the Rapture will have taken place…hundreds of millions of Christians will have vanished – causing enormous consternation among those who remain…

Unpopular Belief #2:

perhaps the United States may not be mentioned in Scripture because it might be devastated by a nuclear war…“The possibilities of it have never been greater”…

“I personally believe that the reason the U.S. is not mentioned in end time prophecy,” says Reagan, “is because we will suddenly cease to be a world power…The destruction of American power is most likely to occur in two stages. The first could be an economic catastrophe that will result from our out-of-control debt situation. Our god is the dollar and the Lord is going to destroy that god when the weight of our debt collapses our economy.”

In such a scenario the United States will not be gone in the last days. We will just not be worth mentioning.

The above speculations and personal opinions are discredited by

• ignoring the intrinsic fluidity of an empire’s geography since expansion is definitive of empire,
• ignoring that the other modern nations are not mentioned by name either,
• contradictorily attributing modern European nations’ historical roots to their current identities while not attributing America’s European historical roots to her current identity,
• treating the Atlantic Ocean as a barrier between segments of an empire when it never was for classical Rome, Spain, or England’s empires.

Instead of being omitted from Bible prophecy as many of the major eschatology scholars have taught for decades, what if America were at the very center of Bible prophecy?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is famous as “the father of modern science”, a philosopher, lawyer, statesman, and author. 

Bacon’s novel The New Atlantis identifies the lost continent of Atlantis with the discovery of America and portrays what can be accomplished in its remote setting isolated from European conflicts, with peacetime pursuits focused on bettering the lives of its inhabitants. Much of it reads like a prophesy of what has actually come to pass through technology in our own modern world. 

Francis Bacon played a leading role in establishing the British colonies in North America, notably Virginia, the Carolinas and Newfoundland and is considered by some to one of the Founders of the United States.

The full extent of Francis Bacon’s applications of his inquisitive and genius mind is unknown. He was an early and leading contender in the hunt to find the man who could have written Shakespeare’s plays. The dates are right, he possessed the intellectual scope and achieved success in his lifetime in multiple fields, claiming that he had taken all knowledge to be his province, and there is evidence supporting the theory. 

He is also considered by many to have been a member of secret societies, and given his life’s goal to learn all he could about everything, we must assume he at least spent time in learning their secrets, and in turn his having his beliefs embraced by them.

From the Secret Destiny of America, by Manly P. Hall.

Word was passed about through secret channels that here in the Western Hemisphere was the promised land of the future. One example will indicate the trend.  About 1690, the German Pietist theologian, Magistar Johannes Kelpius, settled in Pennsylvania and their descendents still flourish in Lancaster county. The Pietists brought with them the writings of the German mystic, Jacob Boehme, books on magic, astrology, alchemy, and the cabala. 

Any account of secret societies in America would have to include tribute to the man who has been called the “First American Gentleman”–Benjamin Franklin.  Although Dr. Franklin was never the country’s President, nor a military general, he stands out as one of the most important figures in the struggle for American independence….But up to the present day, few indeed are those who have realized that the source of his power lay in the secret societies to which he belonged and of which he was the appointed spokesman.

When Benjamin Franklin went to France to be honored by the State, he was received too by the Lodge of Perfection, the most famous of all the French secret orders; and his name, written in his own fine hand, is in their record ledger, close to that of the Marquis de Lafayette.

Franklin spoke for the Order of the Quest, and most of the men who worked with him in the early days of the American Revolution were also members.  The plan was working out, the New Atlantis was coming into being, in accordance with the program laid down by Francis Bacon a hundred and fifty years earlier.

At the appointed hour, the freedom of man was publicly declared.

Freedom from what, is the question. Whatever Francis Bacon’s true hopes and dreams were, the humanist agenda rejecting a sovereign God is what has transpired.

What if the Antichrist were an American leader? What if he were alive today and living in the U.S.A? 

Three authors, Douglas W. Krieger, Dene McGriff, and S. Douglas Woodward have written what may be seen as a landmark book rethinking the traditional prophetic scenario in light of developments in America and the Middle East. Combined, these authors bring over 100 years of study, teaching, and writing to the subject of Bible prophecy. The amazing blend of their respective backgrounds in the foreign services, evangelical ministries, and corporate America, lends unsurpassed credibility to their stunning and remarkably fresh presentation.

The Final Babylon, America and the Coming of Antichrist will awaken you to what has been happening right in front of our eyes that we simply couldn’t see due to our love of country and our faulty assumptions concerning the antagonists in the traditional prophetic scenario. This book may change your politics, your view of the Bible, and what you do day-to-day.

Follow the pattern. What starts as a pleasant excursion full of good intentions but without biblical grounding derails into catastrophic destruction by the antichrist.

The United States was born as a naval trading nation, and, two centuries before the oil boom, 20 percent of this trade was with the Middle East, which were also the hunting ground of Barbary corsairs. Thomas Jefferson insisted that the United States build a naval force to protect its maritime freedom. One of the arguments for the new U.S. Constitution was that a stronger federal government was needed to raise funds for just such a military force.

The American presence in the Middle East has revolved around faith and power. 

Power — whether military, diplomatic, or economic — is the pursuit of tangible American interests in the Middle East. Morocco was the first foreign country to recognize U.S. independence in 1777, and one of the first treaties made by the new U.S. government. Finding the right balance between friendly and adversarial power relations with Middle East players has challenged American leaders ever since.

Faith emerged from the colonial legacy established by Puritans and other Christians. The new United States viewed itself as a nation created not for its own benefit alone, but for the benefit of all humanity. The founding fathers agreed on this principle, looking back to the Old Testament and finding a God promising to rescue them from exile and restore them to the Holy Land. Quite a few religious American settlers appropriated those promises and considered themselves the “new Jews.” Some also believed that the return of the Jewish people to Palestine would make the country “bloom like a rose.” Similar sentiments found elaborate expression in the bestselling mid-1800s book Valley of the Vision by George Bush — ancestor of the two modern-day presidents.

In the twentieth century, U.S. policy toward the Middle East often involved the intersection of faith (whether in a democratic or religious mission) and power politics, with mixed results.

In 1948, Harry Truman — privately comparing himself to Cyrus, the Persian emperor who permitted the Jews to return to Judea from Babylonian exile — took pride in helping to re-create a Jewish nation by making the United States the first country to recognize the state of Israel. This illustrates how modern-day U.S. support for Israel is part of a long history of popular, partly faith-based sympathy for Jewish restoration to the Holy Land, almost as long as that of the United States itself.

We can’t miss the fact that America took over the “estate” of Nazi Germany’s military, technological and medical advances and the American president meets the prophetic criteria that:

“Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom:” (Daniel 11:20)

And taxation in America was indeed a big new deal at this time.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs forced an increase in taxes to generate needed funds.

• The Revenue Act of 1935 introduced
• the Wealth Tax, a new progressive tax that took up to 75 percent of the highest incomes.
• The Revenue Act of 1937 cracked down on tax evasion by revising tax laws and regulations.

The cost of World War II far exceeded federal tax revenues, and the planned development and production of nuclear weapons promised to be a hugely expensive undertaking. The Revenue Act of 1942 proposed the Victory Tax, the broadest and most progressive tax in American history. To ease taxpayers’ burden of paying a lump sum from this mass tax, and to create a regular flow of revenue into the Treasury, the government required employers to withhold money from employees’ paychecks. By the end of the war in 1945, about 90 percent of American workers submitted income tax forms.

How can any sentient person not recognize that America played its cards right – letting Great Britain and Nazi Germany destroy each other as the contestant for becoming the most powerful World empire, apparent in America taking over

1. Great Britain’s economic power
2. Great Britain’s naval superiority
3. Germany’s cutting edge scientific brainpower, in particular,
4. Nazi rocket science to launch the Space Age

Another of my wide-ranging personal experiences was graduating from the University of Huntsville, Alabama, where the [unofficial] motto is “It is rocket science”.