Why is America not in end time prophecy?
Well many people say different things about that question. We do know that the USA is not mentioned in scripture. There can be many reasons for that.
One reason can be is after the Rapture of the Church millions of people around the world will disappear! We know that a majority of Christians live in the United States, so if millions of Americans disappear, that would change our country in many ways. The economy would be non existent, our defense would be in shambles, our government would be shaken. We would have to look somewhere else for leadership, and that could be Europe (revived Roman Empire as prophesied in Daniel).
Another reason we are not mentioned in scripture is if a nuclear war destroyed our country. That possibility sure seems a likely scenario these days.
We already are seeing a weakness grow in this country, our economy is a mess, our US dollar is not worth as much as it used to be and the whole world is turning to the euro.
There could be a lot of other reasons we are not mentioned in the Bible in the end times.
Let’s talk about what has happened in the last week since President Obama has taken office.
He has overturned President Bush's order to stop funding over seas abortions, so OUR tax money is going to fund abortions.
Another Executive Order was executed removing the Bush Executive Order whose intent was to protect doctors employed by health care networks and providers from facing loss of jobs or disciplinary actions in the event they refused to perform abortions on religious grounds. Those that take an affirmation to preserve life also had been placed in ethical dilemmas when the policies of hospitals and these networks, always more concerned with the buck than sometimes patient care, began outpatient procedures for on demand abortions.
With regard to sexual perversion, the President's policy goals are spelled out as follows:
1) Defeat all state and federal constitutional efforts to defend the definition of biblical marriage as being a union between one man and one woman.
2) Repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) signed by Bill Clinton. (This is currently the only line of defense keeping all 50 states from being forced to recognize so-called "same-sex marriages" from extremely liberal states like Massachusetts and Connecticut.)
3) Repeal the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
4) Pass "hate crimes" legislation granting homosexuals and cross dressers special rights denied to other Americans. (This legislation, depending on how it is drafted, could even attempt to muzzle any criticism of homosexuality as being unbiblical and unnatural perversion.)
5) Pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) which would force business owners (religious and otherwise) to abandon traditional values relative to sexual morality under penalty of law.
6) Create intentionally motherless and fatherless homes by expanding "gay adoption."
You can look up all this at http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/civil_rights/
President Obama also had an interview with a moderate Arab TV station, he said he wanted to let the Arab's know that we are not their enemy, (which is good to say but Obama does not understand the mentality that these people have about what it says in their Koran). They WILL NOT stop until they destroy Israel and the USA. You can not "talk" to these leaders who just want to wipe Israel off the map.
He also said he agrees with the Saudi peace plan, which will give the Palestinians Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem which includes the Temple Mount.
Where is this all leading? How much longer can God bless this once great country with all that this administration is doing, and this is just from the first week! I really wanted to believe the President was going to be better then I thought, but after this first week, I have changed that to I think he will be much worse then I ever imagined.
Romans 13 says to submit to authority because God is the one who put him in power. We must pray for Obama to have a change of heart, to change his way of thinking, we must pray daily for this!
Galatians 6:7-8 says; "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life."
Luke 12:47-48 says "And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more."
Pray for our country, pray for our leaders. God put these people in charge for a reason, He has the grand plan, and He will never leave us or forsake us. The time is near folks, are you ready?
God Bless,
The war between Israel and Gaza is still going on, so again please pray for all the people on both sides of this conflict.
What does the Bible say about this? It says this will happen in the last days, in which we are in now. It says that all nations will abandon Israel in the last days. Just look at what is going on today, the UN is backing Gaza which they normally do, and most other countries are calling Israel to stop their "aggression" against Gaza. Even though Israel has been being shot at day and night with rockets for years, Israel has shown remarkable restraint. If your community has been under a barrage of rockets for years, would you have been just sitting there doing nothing, no? If Mexico started bombing Texas day and night, would the US do nothing, I don't think so.
We keep hearing that the Jews are "occupying" Palestine; do you know there was never an official country of Palestine? Lets have a little hostory lesson, after the Jews were kicked out of their land in 70AD by the Romans, the land was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland.
When Jews began to immigrate to Palestine in large numbers in 1882, fewer than 250,000 Arabs lived there, and the majority of them had arrived in recent decades. Palestine was never an exclusively Arab country, although Arabic gradually became the language of most the population after the Muslim invasions of the seventh century. No independent Arab or Palestinian state ever existed in Palestine.
When the distinguished Arab-American historian, Princeton University Prof. Philip Hitti, testified against partition before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he said: "There is no such thing as 'Palestine' in history, absolutely not." In fact, Palestine is never explicitly mentioned in the Koran, rather it is called "the holy land" (al-Arad al-Muqaddash).
In fact, there never has been a state called Palestine, nor have the Palestinian Arabs ever been an independent people, and Jerusalem never has been an Arab or Muslim capital. Jerusalem has had an absolute Jewish majority for more than a century (and a plurality before that), and for the last three thousand years, only the Jewish people have called it their capital...To inveigh against 'Judaizing' Jerusalem is like protesting the Arabization of Cairo.
Now where did the name Palestine come from, the first time the name was used was in 70 AD when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The name was derived from the Philistines, a Goliathian people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury. They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that had even less staying power.
But from AD 640 until the 1960s, Arabs referred to this same Land as "Southern Syria." Arabs only started calling the Land "Palestine" in the 1960s.
Until about the eighteenth century, the Christian world called this same Land, "The Holy Land." Thereafter, they used two names: "The Holy Land" and "Palestine." When the League of Nations in 1922 gave Great Britain the mandate to prepare Palestine as a national home for the Jewish people, the official name of the Land became "Palestine" and remained so until the rebirth of the Israeli State in 1948.
During this very period, the leaders of the Arabs in the Land, however, called themselves Southern Syrians and clamored that the Land become a part of a "Greater Syria." This "Arab Nation" would include Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Transjordan as well as Palestine. An observation in Time Magazine well articulated how the Palestinian identity was born so belatedly in the 1960s:
Golda Meir once argued that there was no such thing as a Palestinian; at the time, she wasn't entirely wrong. Before Arafat began his proselytizing, most of the Arabs from the territory of Palestine thought of themselves as members of an all-embracing Arab nation. It was Arafat who made the intellectual leap to a definition of the Palestinians as a distinct people; he articulated the cause, organized for it, fought for it and brought it to the world's attention.
If there was an Arab Palestinian culture, a normal population increase over the centuries would have been expected. But with the exception of a relatively few families, the Arabs had no attachment to the Land. If Arabs from southern Syria drifted into Palestine for economic reasons, within a generation or so the cultural tug of Syria or other Arab lands would pull them back.
This factor is why the Arab population average remained low until the influx of Jewish financial investments and Jewish people in the late 1800s made the Land economically attractive. Then sometime between 1850 and 1918, the Arab population shot up to 560,000. Not to absolve the Jews but to defend British policy, the not overfriendly British secretary of state for the colonies, Malcolm MacDonald, declared in the House of Commons (November 24, 1938), "The Arabs cannot say that the Jews are driving them out of the country. If not a single Jew had come to Palestine after 1918, I believe the Arab population of Palestine would still have been around 600,000..."
Because Arabs until the 1960s spoke of Palestine as Southern Syria or part of Greater Syria, in 1919 the General Syrian Congress stated, "We ask that there should be no separation of the southern part of Syria, known as Palestine." In 1939 George Antonius noted the Arab view of Palestine in 1918:
"Faisal's views about the future of Palestine did not differ from those of his father and were identical with those held then by the great majority of politically-minded Arabs. The representative Arab view was substantially that which King Husain [Grand Sherif of Mecca, the great grandfather of the current King Hussein of Jordan] had expressed to the British Government...in January 1918. In the Arab view, Palestine was an Arab territory forming an integral part of Syria."
Referring to the same Arab view of Palestine in 1939, George Antonius spoke of "the whole of the country of that name [Syria] which is now split up into mandated territories..." His lament was that France's mandate over Syria did not include Palestine which was under Britain's mandate.
Syrian President Hafez Assad once told PLO leader Yassir Arafat:
"You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian People, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people."
Assad stated on March 8, 1974, "Palestine is a principal part of Southern Syria, and we consider that it is our right and duty to insist that it be a liberated partner of our Arab homeland and of Syria."
In the words of the late military commander of the PLO as well as member of the PLO Executive Council, Zuhair Muhsin:
"There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity....yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel."
The following are significant observations by Christians of the Arabs in Palestine in the 1800's:
"The Arabs themselves, who are its inhabitants, cannot be considered but temporary residents. They pitched their tents in its grazing fields or built their places of refuge in its ruined cities. They created nothing in it. Since they were strangers to the land, they never became its masters. The desert wind that brought them hither could one day carry them away without their leaving behind them any sign of their passage through it."
The fact is that today's Palestinians are immigrants from the surrounding nations. The history and origins of today's Palestinians are from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Christians from Greece, Muslim Sherkas from Russia, Muslims from Bosnia, and the Jordanians next door.
Therefore please do not fall for all the propaganda the world is using against the Jews, have discernment, God gave Israel to the Jewish people, not for a season, not for a few years, but forever.
When have you ever heard of a country that is defending itself that gets condemned by most countries and the UN?
We are in an upside-down world, were good is called evil and evil is called good.
One day there will be peace in the Middle East, but not by governments or people, it will be by the hand of Jesus Christ!
He is coming soon, are you ready?
Maranatha!