America Has Fallen

Post 225

Please forgive the harder to read altered format, the new blog system is still giving me fits, I can't seem to change the provided font and editing has become much harder.

Also I simply don't have the time to give to posting that I used to and I am unable to organize my material into a regular post.

And further, this is my third attempt to write this post; the complexity of what is taking place is turning out to be very hard to explain on paper. So I attempt to break it down into bite sized pieces.

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In previous posts I revealed that I spent the last several years exclusive with God, “bulking up” my faith and relationship with God while time and circumstances allowed, knowing that times would change and I would not be able to continue in the unrestricted freedom to do so.

And so it passed that I am now removed from that unrestricted freedom to spend my entire day basking in the instruction of God in my home, and now my time is consumed with other obligations representing a form of captivity as I have a job to do away from home in an environment completely foreign to me and the nation in which I was raised (my meaning I hope to detail in future posts).

It is this form of captivity that is the focus of my message at this point as it represents what is now growing in America. The America of the past is no more. It is not something that we are waiting to happen, it has happened already. Now we simply are watching it mature as an infant is simply an adult not yet grown.

In post 149 America In Prophecy 1/11, I showed my interpretation that the fall of America was prophesied in the fall of Belshazzar just as the fall and return of Israel was prophesied in the fall and return of Nebuchadnezzar. Although the king and kingdom in the narrative are different entities, they are inseparably untied and so I suggest in representation the kingdom is the nation as an entity and the king is the ruling spirit/authority of the nation. As Nebuchadnezzar went insane and was cast out of this kingdom, so the people of Israel were stripped of their independence and removed from their homeland for a represented period of 7 just as Nebuchadnezzar was before being restored.

I presented the idea that by investigating the details in the parallel example of Nebuchadnezzar with that of Israel, we can transfer that parallel example pattern and discover the amazing parallel of America and Belshazzar who’s duration was short and ended swiftly, and how the end of his kingdom came only slightly less swiftly. The parallel is startling and the meaning profound. I suggested that America is represented there rather than some other nation, because America has a special and unique place in God’s plan. She is not simply one of a number of equal nations across the globe that has risen and fallen through time, America is the sister representation with Israel as the example of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth still to come.

Therefore, whether America was or was not founded as a Christian nation is not simply a matter of history, it is a matter of purpose. The answer is significant to the interpretation of God’s all encompassing design of history past and future.

I have declared by interpretation then that America need not fear the fall of nuclear bombs as a sudden complete destruction we now understand as possible with North Korea and Iraq possessing nukes along with several other dark nations, nor should we fear even being destroyed by fire falling from heaven or other such “natural” disaster such as destroyed Sodom. America’s fall will come easily and quietly unnoticed as it did for Belshazzar’s Babylon, which I showed by interpretation.

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Sodom and Gomorrah:

Now lets step back for a moment and review the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah to understand a spiritual principle that we can apply to our current situation confirming why America must fall as Babylon did under Belshazzar and not in a flaming fire such as the fall of Sodom.

The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, along with all but one (Genesis 19:21-22) in the entire plain (Genesis 19:17) were consumed early one morning (Genesis 19:23) in the wrath of God by fire, most probably as a volcanic eruption (Genesis 19:24-25, 28). The destruction was so sudden that it began at dawn and as Abram rose from his sleep that morning (Genesis 19:27) he saw the smoke of it. (Luke 17:29)

In the narrative of discussion between God and Abraham concerning the pending destruction of Sodom, we learn that God would not destroy that hub city if 50 righteous were found within it.

It is important to note that Abraham pleaded not for the righteous people but for God’s justice;

“…Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?...” Genesis 18:23

“That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” Genesis 18:25

And God allowed that he would not destroy Sodom if there were 50 righteous (Genesis 18:23-26).

But what is easily missed is the declaration of justice Abraham exposed as a principle here; Would God be any more Just if he treated just one righteous as if he were wicked?

This is what God allowed Abraham to draw out by his “negotiations” with God. God did not alter his plan, he simply allowed Abraham to figure out God’s justice; thinking outloud as it were (Genesis 18:27-33) but what we see is that Abraham still didn’t figure it out completely and ended his plea with 10, and God ended the long drawn out discussion (Genesis 18:32-33).

We, like Abraham, can assume God would destroy Sodom along with nine righteous but not ten, But as we read the narrative we discover that God would not destroy ANY righteous; Lot, the only righteous in the entire plain, had to be dragged out against his will by angels BEFORE they could destroy it!

“Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither….” Genesis 19:22

and further we learn that Lot alone saved a city called Zoar because he wanted to live there rather than flee to the mountains as directed (Genesis 19:21).

So now begs the question, why then did God drag Lot away from Sodom (Genesis 19:16) to destroy it, if Lot could save a city by wanting to live there?

The answer is found in the reason for the destruction; (Genesis 18:20-21 + 19:13).

And now we see the principle that even 10 righteous can save an entire city from the destroying wrath of God even after God sets his heart to destroy it because of its wickedness.

Likewise, a lesser wicked city such as Zoar, though slated for destruction because there were no righteous to redeem its wickedness as it were, was spared by Lot alone because its wickedness was not as great as Sodom and so one was all that was needed to stay God’s wrath of destruction.

Without Lot it would have been destroyed.

So when God destroyed the entire earth with a flood, ONLY Noah was found righteous.

Not much chance of one guy standing up for an entire planet and so God put him in a protective boat and drowned the earth.

That had to have been a bad place!

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Remember Elijah?

He was a prophet in a wicked land where idol worship was everywhere (I Kings 16:29,33)

“…and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him (combined).” I Kings 16:33

That had to be a pretty wicked place after such a long line of wicked kings (see previous chapter 15) Surely God had finally determined to destroy Israel NOW, right?

Weeeelll, It seems that God had already made that determination even further back;

“For the LORD shall smite Israel… and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger. And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.” I Kings 14:15-16

and yet the kingdom endured until Ahab who did even greater evil than Jeroboam as we saw in the previous verse.

Why did God delay destruction?

We learn why as we read the story of the prophet Elijah.

In I Kings 19:9 we find Elijah hiding in a cave thoroughly exhausted and emotionally unstable, where he finds himself in a discussion with the LORD.

“What are you doing here, Elijah?” The lord asks.

And in his reply we learn that he is quite sure that the evil of a long reign of wicked kings, ending with Ahab the worst of the worst, has succeeded in killing off all the righteous and he alone remains as the last target for elimination.

“…for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine alters, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.” I Kings 19:10

Things are really not looking good in Israel. So why has God not yet destroyed Israel like he destroyed Sodom?

But instead of sudden destruction, God shows Elijah another plan.

Not a fast and dramatic cataclysmic destruction, but a slow and painful process.

“…Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazarel to be king over Syria: and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.” I Kings 19:16.

Instead of the smoke and fire from heaven to destroy the wicked people, God layes out a plan that will continue even after Elijah.

“And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.” I Kings 19:17.

And Elijah should have known immediate destruction was not God’s plan, by his own prophetic prayer back at the dueling offering challenge; “Hear me, O LORD, her me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their hearts back again.” I Kings 18:37

As bad as things were in the day of Jeroboam, they were now worse in the day of Ahab; worse than ever before. Worse than all the bad before combined. Things were really, really bad.

And Elijah, God’s prophet, was sure he was the last of the faithful of God. Maybe he even saw himself as a second Noah, we don’t know. But if he was the last, then sudden and complete destruction was sure to fall as in Sodom.

But God had a surprising answer;

Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.” I Kings 19:18

It seems Israel was still awhile from inhalation because of the righteous that dwelt in Israel though quietly and unaffecting the political landscape due to ruling wickedness. The prophet of God did not even know they existed, yet their power with God kept Israel from the full wrath of God.

But by no means was Israel spared trouble as we read further in chapter 20. The king of Syria, anointed by Elijah came to do his divine work, and the Israelites were helpless to react in any way other than to bring his wrath, which was God’s plan. Please read I Kings 20:1-12 because it is important to understand the impossible straights Israel found themselves in.

Ok, I have to stop somewhere and get to the finish of my point, which is not the duration of the fall; we already know by the representation of the two kings of Babylon why one was drawn out while the other was swift, My point is why America's swift fall will transpire NOT in the wrath of God but easily by our own hand through subversion.

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As much as America has already politically rejected God as our high King, and the righteous have no more political voice to affect alteration of national decline into wickedness by the new motto “Separation of Church and State”, Christians can still flourish in their faith while being politically stifled and even soon imprisoned to block their voice.

And as much as America has already established her own doom by the innocent blood of abortion we have shed on our own land that must be paid; (Deuteronomy 19:10, I Kings 2:31, II Kings 21:16, Proverbs 6:17, Isaiah 59:7, Jeremiah 7:6, 22:3,)

“And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.” II Kings 24:4

“And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters… and the land was polluted with blood.” Psalm 106:38 (+:39-42)

"Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these" (done lawful) Jeremiah 2:34,

America is already slated for destruction.

But there is the little problem of the righteous.

And so, like Israel, God has ordained “rulers” to torment, and tear down, to take, and to oppress, to kill little by little and consume our land from under us while we remain immune to sudden destruction.

What does that look like in the prophetic example of Belshazzar’s Babylon?

The enemy sneaks under our protective walls completely unnoticed and we are taken by subversion until our own people become America’s enemies by a change of heart and mind, and then we ourselves fling open our gates to the new king of a different empire, we are conquered without a battle by our own acts.

I hope to show in the next few posts what the subversion looks like; the short period of time before we open our gates of law. Belshazzar is dead, but Persia has not yet come in officially as the new empire ruler.

The time between the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of hell on earth is now.

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