6-25-20 Our American-Centric Perspective

Nearing Midnight: Our America-centric Perspective - Terry James - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/

 

America stands at the center of all the strangeness that has enveloped this moment in history. There is no other way to say it that fits the circumstance in which we find ourselves. At least there is no way to say it that I, myself, can offer.

 

This is what is meant by the title of the commentary.

 

It is true that the COVID-19 pandemic affects the entire world of humanity, not just the US. It is true that there is economic turmoil not just here, but in every nation on earth. It is true that there is violence based upon racial strife breaking out in major cities around the world, not just in America. But all of these things seem to center in and around, and stem from, this nation.

 

Perhaps it is just a matter of perspective. Maybe its nationalistic myopia from which I suffer in considering all we are enduring. But I don't think so.

 

America, as we have looked at many times, is the holdup to the globalist agenda hatched in the high places of wickedness by the powers and principalities, both human and demonic. My thoughts are stronger than ever in this regard in considering things from our America-centric prophetic perspective.

 

The most crucial presidential election yet, in my opinion, looms just ahead. One cannot just sense, but see-through minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour actions by the enraged-assaults from every angle against America as founded that the above perspective is the right vantage from which to draw conclusions.

 

It is the right perspective, not in the geopolitical sense of "right" vs "left," but the right perspective from the standpoint of what the Bible says about what is coming.

 

And what is coming is a regime so different from what we have known that it is unimaginable that it could ever happen in the minds of average Americans. It will be a regime that will produce, as Jesus put it, a time of tribulation "such as never was, nor will ever be." It will be a beast regime-that of the man who will be Antichrist.

 

The question we who teach, preach, and write about Bible prophecy get practically every time there is a forum for questions and answers is something like: "What about America-is it in Bible prophecy?"

 

The answer is "No, America isn't mentioned by name in Bible prophecy." But, it is always appropriate to follow up with: "However, America is certainly in prophecy in the sense of being among the nations foretold to influence the course of human history while the end of the age approaches and the Tribulation looms." We can say that, because here we are, right in the mix of things moving the world toward the climax of human history. And, are they ever moving!

 

With this nation at the black heart of all the satanically inspired rage, hatred, and determination to bring America down so globalist plans can proceed, I can't accept that I'm being America-centric unnecessarily. This nation is in the middle of a war, an end-times war in which I believe the Lord Himself intervened miraculously in the 2016 presidential election.

 

I have no answers to the war's outcome in the short term. We do know that the globalists will get their "New World Order" at some point. But for now, the battle rages, and the very fact that it does is most encouraging. God is still in the middle of the fight, and there is no better side to be on than that of the omnipotent Creator of all things.

 

America, A Golden Cup

 

Again, is the name "America" given anywhere in Scripture? Of course not. But, the influence this nation has exerted since coming to its full bloom as earth's greatest superpower in history makes it a prophetic nation. The Creator of all things continues to use America in His mighty hand to accomplish two very distinctive, supernatural purposes. As a matter of fact, the United States, in my view, has an overwhelming presence in Bible prophecy.

 

Its place is at the very heart of the end times things we see developing-matters we see unfolding in daily, even hourly, news reports. In this sense, I believe God is speaking of America-in type, if not by name, when His Word tells us the following:

 

Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. (Jeremiah 51:7).

 

Certainly, the United States of America has been a "golden cup" in the Lord's hand. No other nation of modern vintage can come close to claiming that achievement.

 

Some nations of Europe were formative in bringing forth Christianity into the world, thus shedding a degree of gospel light into a world of sin-darkness. But it is America that, despite its great shortcomings and more recent degeneration, has been a shining beacon, reflecting from that golden cup in God's hand.

 

Being the first nation in spreading to the whole world the gospel message that Jesus' sacrifice on the cross makes possible the only way to redemption for lost mankind is a feat no other country can claim. This, ultimately, has been done not by the offices, or under the auspices of American ingenuity, but by the omniscience and the omnipotence of the One holding the "golden cup."

 

It is God's grace and mercy that has put America as a beacon of God's light upon that mountain of gospel dissemination. God's providence gave this nation the industrial and technological genius-a fact that is denied, or that is so taken for granted today.

 

Israel the Real Target

 

No matter the other exigencies of the hour, it is Israel that is the true target of Satan and his minions in the high places of Ephesians 6: 12. The violent organization Black Lives Matter, despite the media trying to make it look like a force for righteousness in correcting past wrongs, is an anti-Semitic evil based upon so-called liberation theology. We heard the thrust of that theology when Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's pastor in Chicago, told God to God D**** America before the presidential election of 2008.

 

It is Israel that Satan is aiming at, ultimately. Bible prophecy culminates first with Antichrist declaring himself God in the temple in Jerusalem. He next leads an attack on Jerusalem when he is let out of the bottomless pit at the end of the millennial reign of Christ.

 

Israel, America's Saving Grace

 

This brings us to America's second reason for existence-toward the purpose of accomplishing God's great prophetic plan. In my view, this use of the phenomenally powerful American nation is among the most profound indicators we can find that America, indeed, is in prophecy. And, I believe that our nation being in prophecy includes God using it to be midwife in Israel's modern birth into the land promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob those thousands of years ago.

 

President Donald J. Trump has been a friend to Israel like no president since Harry S. Truman. This was a stark change from the anger and disrespect with which the Obama administration treated God's chosen nation.

 

Genesis 12:1-3 is still in effect. I have to believe that this counts significantly in God's great economy for explaining why both Mr. Trump and America continue to survive the most horrendous spiritual/supernatural assault yet endured on an American president and this nation.

 

So, all things considered, it is permitted to be America-centric in the matter of peering into Bible prophecy on the immediate horizon, I am convinced. Continue to pray the prayer of 2 Chronicles 7:14 and to hold fast to Titus 2:13 and Luke 21:28. Our redemption is drawing near.