The fact that writing something like this in the United States can get you surveilled by the security services as a potential terrorist, only serves to strengthen the idea that the US will play a leading role in end-times events. The last “free” superpower is no longer free for those who try to hold back the tide of corruption, as Donald Trump and his team have discovered.
Many prophecy “experts” within the evangelical Christian world continue to cling doggedly to the conviction that the kingdom of the Beast spoken of in Revelation will be a “Revived Roman Empire”, based in Western Europe, with the European Union as its likely immediate progenitor. The traditional view has been that the United States would be the lone ranger; an island of sanity and freedom: a righteous John Wayne of prophecy, riding over the hill to rescue Israel from an all-out attack on Jerusalem by all the “other” world powers, as recorded in Zechariah and other Bible passages. But wait a moment: doesn’t Scripture declare that “all” the nations of the world will come against Jerusalem? Does “all” mean “all”, or does it mean “some”?
“…as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth…” (Luke 21:35).
Prophecy “experts” constantly miss the fact that Daniels prophecy of the so-called “Revived Roman Empire” (chapters 2 and 7) doesn’t seem to suggest that the empire will need any reviving. If you read carefully you’ll find that Rome-or its zeitgeist-appears to continue until its final form comes to fruition. And has not Europe, since Rome, continued on in great strength, dominating the world and to a large extent, shaping it to its own image?
WHERE IS THE U.S. IN BIBLE PROPHECY?
The “Europe is the Beast” view ignores the fact that the United States, and all of modern North America, came out of Europe. The US is an extension of Europe, even condering its independance from the motherlands. In fact, it is Europe’s ultimate expression. Of course, the name “United States” wasn’t used in Bible prophesies made many centuries ago. But neither was Britain or France or Germany, or Iran or China or Russia or the European Union.
Rome lived on through European history…broken as it was and is… just as the feet and toes of Daniel’s image were “partially of iron and partly clay”. Iron and clay do not successfully blend, and the unity of Rome is not quite with us and hasn’t been for centuries. But make no mistake, Rome lives on genetically and in spirit. And it doesn’t just live on in the disjointed European Union: it lives on in the United States.
This is an unwelcome and uncomfortable observation for those Americans who want to think that America is above all of that sort of thing, but it’s an unavoidable truth. And the more you look around, the more you see not only of the culture of Europe, but of the roots of our present “free” West, known as the Roman Empire. There are also numerous common features and traits. Rome was founded and settled by multitudes of immigrants from all around and pushed outwards. Rome did not always exist: it grew out of the surrounding nations. Its population and culture was a “melting pot”. It started strong but collapsed under the weight of its own corruption. Does all that sound familiar?
Many think that the US will be the “eagles wings” which come to the rescue of Israel in Revelation. Unfortunately, this is wishful thinking at best. The word “eagles” and the term “eagles wings” were sometimes used as metaphors for God’s own aid, or for armies of judgment in the Old Testament, long before transport planes and air-lifts were imagined (Exodus 19:4; Jeremiah 48:40-41). It is God himself-and more specifically his Christ-who will rescue Israel from their enemies-not a fallen, godless nation.
Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.” Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress? “I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained. For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come. I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me. I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground (Isaiah 63:1-5)”
Since “all nations” will attack Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:2), and considering the moral and political slide of the United States, and the near strangle-hold of those wanting to subdue us all to global treaties, laws and ideologies and a global, digital financial system, the most logical answer to the question, “Where is America in Bible prophecy” is that the US actually is very much a part of Bible prophecy. It will be a central part of the final world empire- perhaps even the driving force of it.
And, even more of a slant at traditional understandings of prophecy is the truth that the final beast could just as easily arise in the United States as any other part of the kingdom. I will add to that that he may “recover” his political power-and I’m not speaking of Trump. The first five verses of Revelation 13, to my mind, are driving at a recovery of authority, not a literal physical headwound (though that could be part of it).
The kingdom of the Beast will be an overpowering military force, according to Scripture:
“Who is like the Beast? Who can make war against him?” (Revelation 13:4).
At the present time and at no time in the foreseeable future could this be said for the European Union alone. But it could be said for a world governed by global powers such as the United States. Once the will for global governance takes complete hold, along with the influence of anti-Semitic ideology and religion, Revelation will be in full swing.
Add together the elements of end-times prophecies and current realitites and trends, and it’s difficult to see an increasingly aggressive US government as not being involved. Pehaps Trump will return and pause the rot, but after four years the trend will continue.
Fuel for Faith, Food for Thought 