The Bible predicts the ruin of America. Wait! What! No, America is not predicted in the Bible anywhere. Any one who says so is reading America into the Scriptures; it's not there. What I mean by the Bible's predicting is that it America and every other country, although not metioned by name, is predicted in regard to being under certain principles given in I Samuel 8 by none other than the prophet Samuel. Let's look at this.
The people of Israel have had enough; they are sick and tired of being under the judges. The judges were men called by God at various times to deliver Israel from enemies who were attemptking to destroy her. Israel came to see this as a problem; they had to wait for God to raise up a deliverer to lead them. In other words, they were to live by faith that God was going to do this. Waiting on the Lord isn't easy, we all know that.
So,they make a request of Samuel: "All the other nations have kings. We demand one." Their reasoning was that a king would always be there one after the other, always visible and at the ready to enforce the Law and lead them into battle.
This was a rebellious demand which Samuel took as insulting to his ministy but God pointed outthat their demand was a rejection of Him, not the prophet. The people have free will, so they were told that if they want to be like other nations in rebellion of God's call to be diffent, then, go head but I will, through Samuel, tell you what's going to happen. What will happen is recorded in I Samuel 8:7ff.
What's going to happen to Israel is what will happen to all governments of all time in a fallen world because this is the way goverments are in such a world. And what's going to happen will bring ruin upon any nation.
What Samuel reveals to them is a progression which leads to ruin and it doesn't take long to bring any and all nations down. The progression goes like this:
1.The govenment will bring the people into its service in all areas of life such as agricuture. The American government's control of agricuture can be seen in the 1930s,
At that time, American farmers were paid by the government not to produce. by paying farmers. This meant that the government was controling farm production.
What happened when we paid farmers not to produce? First, Americans had to pay more for bread, corn and cotton shirts. The higher prices for farmers meant price increases for customers buying farm products.
Second, because farmers were growing smaller crops, we used up more quickly the food being grown, and soon had to import the very crops we were paying farmers not to produce. In 1935, the U.S. imported 36 million pounds of cotton, 13 million bushels of wheat, and 34 million bushels of corn. This govdfnment contol was a disaster. (From "The NewYork Times")
This would include manufacturing control as well as food processing. A bureaucracy has begun. FDR had begun to put water in the American gas tank. The progression to ruin had begun.
[The progression is detailed in "The Greatness of the Kingdom" by Alva J. McClain.]
TO BE CONTINUED
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