Sometimes God gives me something specific to write about, and other times posts are just a matter of passing along the latest news. When I woke up this morning there were several things on my mind. One thought had to do with the number of dead bankers. As of yesterday it was six. I wondered, if it stops there, what the numerical significance might be. I know six is the number of man, and that prophetically six is associated with preparation. It is associated with the coming judgment the Lord’s vengeance. Another thing on my mind this morning was the J.D. Farag Prophecy Update I posted yesterday, and the question of whether it is too late for America. Closer to home, my thoughts were also on the question of what the Lord would have me to do these days, with my time.
By the way, the number of banker deaths is not six anymore. Now it is seven. This one in Hong Kong, another J.P. Morgan exec. Seven is the number of completion! It is a holy number and used quite extensively in God’s patterns through out scripture. God’s designated number of days in a week, Daniel’s seventy weeks “determined upon thy people” to complete seven specific tasks, Jacob’s 7 years working for Rachael, his first love, Joseph’s 7 years of plenty and 7 years of famine, the sin offering sprinkling of blood 7 times on the altar and the Ark of the Covenant, seventy times seven forgiveness required, and the seven-sealed book to name a few.
I won’t be surprised to see it stop at seven.
Some sort of ritual sacrifice? What is the occult significance of 7?
Doesn’t matter. Anything “occult” that is being conveyed by this is meant to deceive anyway. At other times I might have gone into that, but to be frank, the time is past for anything other than the cold hard facts and brutal honesty.
Bankers are dying. Whether it is suicide or whether it has been a systematic elimination of potential whistleblowers as some have speculated, I think it is safe, at seven deaths, for us to rest assured that something significant is going on in the financial realm, on a global scale.
I do not expect a revival in America. If I am wrong, praise the Lord, but I don’t see it. That doesn’t mean I don’t think God can do it. I just don’t think He will.
I think that the Framework Agreement presented by Kerry, and agreed-to last week, officially, by Benjamin Netanyahu, is the preliminary step of fruition of the “confirming of a covenant with many”. That is no statement as to whom the antichrist is, because until it is fleshed out and made “binding”, then it hasn’t happened yet. But it is closer than we have ever been to that moment before in all the history of Israel since she became a nation once again.
She is that cup of trembling, that burdensome stone to the entire world at this point. She is the holdout to the aspirations of every Muslim in every Muslim nation, and with Obama (building upon the framework laid by several presidents of both parties) has removing America as an obstacle to the “new order”, there is really no further “stage setting” to take place.
I think that the brutal snow in the U.S., the floods in Britain, the farce of “peace negotiations” with Syria and “nuclear negotiations” with Iran, and the absolute lack of effort by congress to restrain the Imperial actions of our president, are all just a foretaste of God’s dialing back His grace. He hasn’t even begun to release the wrath. But it is coming, and soon.
America has gone the way Argentina went in the last century. Those who still believe America will rise again, are as delusional as the proud rebels who lost the Civil War, and woefully over-estimated their advantage based in “king cotton”. Just because we always have, does NOT MEAN WE ALWAYS WILL!
Just because America has bounced back, doesn’t mean we always will rebound, and just because others have thought we were on the precipice of the tribulation, but were wrong, doesn’t mean everyone who ever comes to that conclusion always will be wrong. At some point, it is going to happen. Have you studied prophecy and paid enough attention to what is happening in all of the rest of the world, especially Israel, to conclude with certainty that we are just experiencing another bump in the road?
I got an email in my inbox today from a frequent contributor. You know, when you live in a neighborhood for several decades, it is easy not to notice the changes, even decline, that slowly take place in the familiar surroundings. You got used to each little change, one by one, as they came along. Someone who moved away, and returned after thirty years, will look around and exclaim over just how different it is from “back in the day” because the old ‘hood they have held in their mind just as it was, and the one before them today, are nothing alike.
If we could physically lay today’s America beside the America our founding fathers, by the grace of God, set up, I wonder just how stark the differences would be. Well, that e-mail sort of had that effect. I’ll share it in a minute, but listen, I don’t base my conclusions about America upon what has happened in America.
Let me say that again: I do not base my conclusions about America’s future prospects upon what has happened to America and where we find ourselves right now.
I base my conclusions on what is going on in the rest of the world, and what I know the Bible says.
The tribulation is so very near, and the time it would take for a turn-around of such magnitude to restore what we have lost, just could not take place in a matter of a handful of years. Jesus said that we (the church, Christians, believers) are not ignorant that “that day” should catch us unawares. The warning signs are not new in the sense that, yes, there have always been earthquakes, freaky weather, corrupt bankers, vicious murders, terrorism, etc. But the frequency, and the presence of numerous catastrophic events simultaneously, this is new. It is the increase in frequency, coupled with the building intensity, that signifies the time. Labor pangs.
I only briefly succumbed to the panicked “will we have to be here for the financial collapse?” and “Will we go through some horrific nuclear strike?” I am not saying that another 9-11 or worse can’t or won’t happen, since anything that major certainly could. But when I remembered that the same passage that talks about it being “as in the days of Noah” (in regards to the level of evil), also plainly states that people will be carrying out life “business as usual” just like it was right up until the time Noah went into the ark, and God closed the door. I saw that 2 years or so ago, and it settled that fear for me. Every difficulty and trial I have ever lived through, God has seen me through it. I’ve been panicked and I’ve been scared, and I’ve felt desperate and felt hopeless. Emphasis is on “felt”, because the fact was, I lived to tell about it. God got me through those times. Ever one of them. I lived to smile again, hope again, have peace again.
Here is the content of that email I mentioned. I have a hard time believing anyone who has studied the Word and prophecy, can hold out any expectation of the return of the America we once were. Depressing? Nothing to look forward to now? No, not if you don’t have Jesus as savior. Nothing good to look forward to at all. On the other hand, if you have been redeemed by Him, you have your whole life ahead of you. You are a mere baby. You will learn and experience so much. You just don’t know it yet!
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OUR FORSAKEN ROOTSDid you know that 52 of the 55 signers of The Declaration of Independence were orthodox, deeply committed Christians? The other three all believed in the Bible as the divine truth, the God of scripture, and His personal intervention.It is the same congress that formed the American Bible Society. Immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress voted to purchase and import 20,000 copies of scripture for the people of this nation.It is the same congress that formed the American Bible Society. Immediately after creating the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress voted to purchase and import 20,000 copies of scripture for the people of this nation.Patrick Henry, who is called the firebrand of the American Revolution, is
still remembered for his words, ‘Give me liberty or give me death.’ But in
current textbooks the context of these words is deleted. Here is what he
said:
“An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we
shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the
destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not of the strong alone. Is life so
dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me,
give me liberty, or give me death.”
These sentences have been erased from our textbooks.Was Patrick Henry a Christian? The following year, 1776, he wrote this ‘It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here.’Consider these words from George Washington, the Father of our Nation, in his farewell speech on September 19, 1796:‘It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable supporters. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.’Was George Washington a Christian? Consider these words from his personal prayer book: ‘Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the lamb and purge my heart by the Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in thy fear, and dying in thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of thy son, Jesus Christ.’Consider these words by John Adams, our second president, who also served as chairman of the American Bible Society.In an address to military leaders he said, ‘We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.’
How about our first Court Justice, John Jay?He stated that when we select our national leaders, if we are to preserve our Nation, we must select Christians. ‘Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian Nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.’ John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, was the sixth U.S. President.He was also the chairman of the American Bible Society, which he considered his highest and most important role. On July 4, 1821, President Adams said, ‘The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.’Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President of the United States reaffirmed this truth when he wrote, ‘The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.’In 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution: ‘The congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.’William Holmes McGuffey is the author of the McGuffey Reader, which was used for over 100 years in our public schools with over 125 million copies sold until it was stopped in 1963. President Lincoln called him the ‘Schoolmaster of the Nation.’Listen to these words of Mr. McGuffey: ‘The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our notions on character of God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free institutions. From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.’Of the first 108 universities founded in America , 106 were distinctly Christian, including the first.Harvard University, chartered in 1636. In the original Harvard Student Handbook rule number 1 was that students seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they could study the scriptures: ‘Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, John 17:3; and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom let everyone seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of him (Proverbs 2:3).’ For over 100 years, more than 50% of all Harvard graduates were pastors!It is clear from history that the Bible and the Christian faith, were foundational in our educational and judicial system. However in 1947, there was a radical change of direction in the Supreme Court.Here is the prayer that was banished: ‘Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee. We beg Thy blessings upon us and our parents and our teachers and our country. Amen.’ In 1963, the Supreme Court ruled that Bible reading was outlawed as unconstitutional in the public school system. The court offered this justification: ‘If portions of the New Testament were read without explanation, they could and have been psychologically harmful to children.’Bible reading was now unconstitutional , though the Bible was quoted 94 percent of the time by those who wrote our constitution and shaped our Nation and its system of education and justice and government.In 1965, the Courts denied as unconstitutional the rights of a student in the public school cafeteria to bow his head and pray audibly for his food. In 1980, Stone vs. Graham outlawed the Ten Commandments in our public schools.The Supreme Court said this: ‘If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments were to have any effect at all, it would be to induce school children to read them. And if they read them, meditated upon them, and perhaps venerated and observed them, this is not a permissible objective.’ Is it not a permissible objective to allow our children to follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments?James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: ‘We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.’ Today we are asking God to bless America. But how can He bless a Nation that has departed so far from Him?Most of what you read in this article has been erased from our textbooks. Revisionists have rewritten history to remove the truth about our country’s Christian roots.
Credited to author Mary Jones in email, contributed to ServeHimintheWaiting by B.Bliss
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How does “your America” (of present day), compare to what is in the above essay?
I was a hospice nurse. There are clear and documentable signs of imminent death. They are undeniable, and though a nation’s “physiological indicators” might be a little different, I think they are just as undeniable.
Serve Him in the Waiting 
Reblogged this on A Mom Looking Up and commented:
It is heartbreaking, really; how far we have fallen. How far Christians have allowed this country to fall. Yet, I suppose it was inevitable. I used to think America would not be significant in the end times because so much of her population would have disappeared in the rapture. It is obvious, now, that will not be the case. The demise of America is by her own hand. It is as Edmund Burke reportedly said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing”. That is what has happened to America.
Praise God, on the grand scale evil’s triumph is superficial and short-lived. Come Lord Jesus!
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