Why Now?

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What makes me so sure that America has reached the time of her end?
After all Glenn Beck has shown us a very similar time of the Progressive success under the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson, But we seemed to pull through that one.

My answer again lies in the prophecy regarding the fall of America.

Of course secular history will show us the intricacies of events that lead up to the fall of Babylon were based in temporal reasoning, and so it is true. But no different than the forensic cause of death on an individual may prove to be lung cancer, but that does not change or conflict with the actual reason being that the person smoked.
Cause and effect. Both answers are fully correct, but viewed from different focuses.
The temporal view is the Mode Of Injury, to use a medical term,
While the spiritual view is to understand the preventable cause.
You cannot stop the Mode of Injury until you prevent the cause.

The tree branch through the guy's chest is surely the Mode of Injury, but drunk driving was the cause.

What was the reason the Bible gives for the fall of Babylon under Belshazzar?
The story is found in Daniel Chapter 5:1-4

“Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein… They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.”

This passage tells us the clues to his fall, which are really only made clear to us when we can see the clues as they apply to America as well.

The leader of Babylon committed his error in the full light of the largest audience he could muster, shown by the wording of this passage; “and drank wine before the thousand.” It was in this very public attention that he committed the act which God says is what brought down the entire kingdom.
But what is the big deal about drinking from the holy vessels and praising other gods?
We need to back up into the story of Nebuchadnezzar to understand the significance.
I will spare you the much needed details to really bring this home, providing here only the bare essentials;

Daniel 2:31-35 describes Daniel telling king Nebuchadnezzar what he dreamed, which Nebuchadnezzar had not told anyone;
The dream was a giant statue with a head of gold, chest and arms of silver, belly and thighs of brass, legs of iron, and feet of iron and clay. Then a stone fell onto the feet and “break in pieces and consume all these others.”

Daniel 2:36-45 is Daniel’s interpretation of that dream;
The dream was God’s prophecy regarding all the world-ruling kingdoms in history from Nebuchadnezzar to the end of the world. They are as follows;
Head of Gold - Babylon
Chest and arms of silver - Persia/Media
Belly and thighs of brass - Greece
Legs of Iron- - Rome
Feet of Iron and clay - Has not appeared in history yet.
Stone - The kingdom of the Messiah which shall last forever.

What comes clear to us as we read of the gods praised by Belshazzar at his party, is that the elements are the same, with one addition;
“And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven;…And thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:” Daniel 5:22-23
Then follows the interpretation of the writing on the wall, revealing his judgment and the fall of the kingdom.

It needs to be noted that he praised the gods of the elements and not the elements themselves. Now we can see that the elements represent kingdoms.
Therefore Belshazzar was prophetically praising the gods of Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, as well as whatever kingdom was yet to come, and included any unknown kingdom with an unknown god, and added the Messianic kingdom God in to boot.
In other words he made sure to cover every god of every nation and kingdom, and a few extra just in case.
But adding further insult to injury he blasphemed the Holy God of the Jews which is the only God that actually proved himself many times to his father Nebuchadnezzar.

This is what God said through Daniel’s interpretation was the cause of his fall, which brought down an entire empire.
The Mode of Injury of course was the Persians banging on the gate, as well as diverting the Euphrates River, and Belshazzar’s confidence in the strength of the city walls.

Now to translate this to America today:

Obama is our Belshazzar *1
Transcript:
“Where we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation, at least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation and a nation of none believers.”

Am I really making a stretch to see this parallel?
1. Obama is the leader of America - Belshazzar was the leader of Babylon
2. Obama is not eligible for the office - Belshazzar was actually only regent for his father *4
3. Obama gathered a large number to him for his mocking speach - Belshazzar gathered a large number to him for his mock of God.
4. Obama lumped all nation's gods with ours - Belshazzar lumped all nation's gods with the Jew's.
5. America’s God is the same God of the Jews.
6. Then Obama goes further to mock the book of the God that has proven himself to the Jews through history *2, just as Belshazzar did by violating the sacred vessels of the God that proved himself to Nebuchadnezzar.

Obama mocks the Bible *3
Transcript: “Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is ok? And that eating shellfish is an abomination?
Or we could go with Deuteronomy which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the sermon on the mount? A passage that is so radical that its doubtful that our own defense department would survive its application.”

If I were grabbing stuff from all over to reach this conclusion there would be room for argument, but this historical event, given to us as a prophecy is playing out in a very amazing and unexpected way with great accuracy of parallel.

The bible shows that God has a great longsuffering for sin from his people. But one conduct he simply will not tolerate is to be relegated to an equal with other gods.
Scripture is full of examples showing the many falls of the Jew's because they did this.

No American president until now has been so arrogant as to publicly and officially “lift himself up against the Lord of heaven”. Nor to intentionally toss the Declaration’s recognized Creator, into the realm of all other gods… even if they did not believe in Him themselves.

It is because America did not show any signs of standing up against Obama when he made such blasphemous and public statements against our Creator, that America must fall.
Sure the Mode Of Injury is being shown to us by Glenn Beck, but the actual preventable cause should now be clear.

In spite of all the warnings America now sees, if you ask even the average Tea Party enthusiast or the average American Christian; What is the greatest danger to America right now?
The answer will always describe the Mode Of Injury and not the cause; "The economy" or "Jobs" are the two most common answers.
We want to try real hard and not get skewered by the tree branch, but nobody wants to consider abstaining from drunk driving!

THIS is “why now”.
I have previously posted the "How".

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*1 Obama is our Belshazzar - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC3IevZiik
*2 Not least is the 6 day war, or the creation and continuance of the nation Israel.
*3 Obama mocks the Bible - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn-P3yAaAqI&NR=1
*4 Nebuchadnezzar was not actually Belshazzar's father, but the ancient Chaldean language had no word to distinguish ancestors or predecessors, they were all just "fathers"
History shows that Nabonidus was the king of Babylon at the time of its fall, and skeptics had long used this to prove the scriptures were in error.
Clay cylinders were since found positively identifying Belshazzar as his son, who assumed the regency in place of the true king, his father, because Nabonidus had no interest in Babylon but instead preferred conquest.
Nabonidus cylinder http://chriswatsonlee.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/nabonidus-cylinder-and-nabonidus-chronicle/
I see this easily representing America's lack of interest in our Nation's well being and thereby placing an ineligible man into that office. (US Constitution Article 1 Section 1; "No person except a natural born Citizen... shall be eligible to the Office of President;") So although Obama is sitting in that seat, he is not actually the real President by Law.
"there is no sign of the civil unrest that would have been indicative of trouble, not even during his absence: Nabonidus could return to his throne without a problem." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabonidus
This too fits America's current scenario as our congress could easily remove Obama the proxy president and place a True president of the People with virtually no problem. Congress still retains the lawful authority in this matter.

This Typological Conjecture can be chased to some very interesting detail;
Could Nabonidus' absence from Babylon for 10-15 years due to a suggested interest in conquest and adventure, represent America's similar duration of involvement overseas to the neglection of problems at home? Possible. But I do not wish to muddy the water with arguments that are unclear in history. The verifiable similarities are enough.