Israel of Old and America: a Parallel History
At this point I would like to spend some time looking at the similarities between the nation of Israel in antiquity, its rise and fall, and the United States of America. The Bible clearly indicates that
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.[1]
Has America as a nation forgotten God? The Bible also says,
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| Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.[2] |
In righteousness, God exalts a nation, but in the nation’s rebellion to Him, He brings it down. In Hosea, which we have quoted earlier, we read,
For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.[3]
In other words, neither Israel’s temples of supposed worship nor Judah’s military defenses would protect her in the day of God’s judgments against her. And they did not. Hosea goes on to explain,
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.[4]
In other words, their prosperity caused them to forget their Maker. Has America’s prosperity caused her to forget God like the empires before her did? Will her supposed religiosity and military defense system prove as useless as Judah’s and Israel’s of old did? Obadiah says something similar,
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high (like the skyscrapers in New York City); that say in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? Though you exalt thyself as the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, thence will I bring you down, says the Lord.[5]
On America’s first lunar landing the landing ship was called the Eagle. NASA announced, “The Eagle has landed,” when the first landing occurred on the moon. America has surely put her nest among the stars.
As you have done, it shall be done unto you: your reward shall return upon your own head.[6]
The picture above is of the My Lai massacre during Vietnam War, where American soldiers killed unarmed civilians, almost entirely woman and children.[7]
But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the Lord.[10]
[1] Psalm 9:17
[2] Proverbs 14:34
[3] Hosea 8:14
[4] Hosea 13:6
[5] Obadiah 1:3-4
[6] Obadiah 1:15
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre
As America has caused war and destruction upon the nations of Vietnam,[8] Iraq,[9] Libya, and Afghanistan, among others, will she experience the same destruction upon her own land? Finally Jeremiah gives a similar warning.
Are we as a nation being obedient to the voice of the Lord? Or have we hardened our hearts to accept the politically correct and legally right doctrines of men to our own destruction? Let us remember the words of Daniel Webster, Secretary of State for three American Presidents, who said,
If we and our posterity shall be true to the Christian religion, if we and they shall live always in the fear of God and shall respect His commandments, if we and they shall maintain just moral sentiments and such conscientious convictions of duty as shall control the heart and life, we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our country. Our country will go on prospering.
He went on further to say and to warn,
If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our prosterity neglect its instructio and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.[11]
Have we reached the moment where we too shall fall into profound obscurity?
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Notes:
[1] Psalm 9:17
[2] Proverbs 14:34
[3] Hosea 8:14
[4] Hosea 13:6
[5] Obadiah 1:3-4
[6] Obadiah 1:15
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre
[11] azquotes.com
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