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Our peoples have not known that they are Israelites, thinking themselves Gentiles and that the Jews constitute all of modern Israel. How tragically wrong we have been. Yet, we have acted in the same stubborn, rebellious and stiff-necked fashion as ancient Israel. We have been unthankful for what we have received, though it came to us when we had done absolutely nothing to merit it. Instead of ingratitude, we should have sought God and yielded to Him so that such unrivaled blessings could have continued.
But we did not do this, and will not—though we still could!
Since God, after building to it for thousands of years, has now kept His promise, He has no further obligation to continue His birthright blessings—and this He will not do! Leviticus 26:1-18 is explicit regarding how God said that if ancient Israel would not yield to Him after numerous punishments, He would punish them for a full 2,520 years. (America and Britain in Prophecy explains this in detail.)
After this long withholding of the birthright, it would come time to be fulfilled—and it was—and then would come the following, first, if there were no repentance. Recall: “And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass” (Lev. 26:19).
Our national pride is being broken. The decline of Britain is nearly complete, with America following on her heels. Both these countries have lost their sense of national honour and pride in the extraordinary political, economic and military might they once enjoyed in such splendid grandeur. Now, we are hated, vilified, held in contempt by even the nations we once helped so generously. No matter our true intent or purpose, our motives are constantly impugned. The tiniest of nations no longer fear to spit on or burn the American flag. Insignificant nations now freely ridicule us.
When we are castigated and excoriated abroad, or when our ambassadors and citizens are assassinated, or our embassies bombed, we merely issue anemic protests, crying “foul.” Why? Because God has also kept His promise to “break the pride of [our] power” in front of the nations who once trembled before our mighty greatness.
Already mentioned, when the heavens turn to iron (no rain), the earth turns as hard as brass. No rain means few crops and little food. Thus, God foretold that unprecedented famine and disease will soon follow with such intensity that countless millions will die.
What will happen next? Notice: “And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits” (Lev 26:20). But this will no more cause national repentance within America and Britain than have any of God’s previous punishments of His people, anciently. We will see that only one kind of national calamity will bring repentance to Israel.
Next will come this: “And if you walk contrary unto Me, and will not hearken unto Me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins” (Lev 26:21). The Revised Standard Version better renders this verse, “I will bring more plagues upon you, sevenfold as many as your sins.”
As Never Before
Modern Ephraim and Manasseh are rushing headlong into a punishment so awful, so staggering—sointense—as to nearly defy description. What lies ahead for our peoples is truly as terrible as the birthright blessings were wonderful. The cesspool of rottenness and perversity—of every heinous sin—of every evil imaginable, has risen as a stench to God’s throne. Degeneration, followed by rampant immorality, and now amorality, has become the social norm. The scourge of pornography is literally everywhere. Same-sex marriage is here. And routine mass murder, politely called “abortion” and “a woman’s right,” is an abomination for the ages.
Truly, a punishment sevenfold as severe as the level of national sins, now routinely committed by countless millions of our people, is a chastisement poured out—unleashed by God—beyond belief!
All the punishments of the 2,520-year “times” of Leviticus 26:1-18 also reapply. For instance, recall God said He would “appoint terror” over His people if they did not obey Him. Who can doubt this is now happening in a way never seen in our nation’s history?—just think of “9/11”—and no man or government can stop what God has appointed!
Again, be careful you do not say, “But this could never happen to America and Britain.” Do not assume we earned such marvelous blessings by our own ingenuity, forgetting that they were simply the fulfillment of a unique promise made 4,000 years ago. This assumption stands on the supposition that we will always be able to rescue ourselves from any national dilemma because we were able to bring these blessings on ourselves. We were not—they were given to us!
The same God who once sent Israel and Judah into captivity can do it again. The facts are in! The handwriting is on the wall—and you need to wake up to the reality of what has already happened to Britain’s greatness, with America now following her decline headlong! And yet, the steepest decline—and complete crash—has yet to occur even to Britain. What lies ahead is so horrible, so awful—so truly terrible!—that you must shake yourself to understand!
Punishment Certain
God’s warnings through His prophets are still recorded in His Word for us today. They show the absolute certainty of God’s purpose to punish His chosen people. He called and chose them for a wonderful purpose (Ex. 19:5; Deut. 4:5-8; Isa. 43:21) more glorious than they were willing to understand, and they rejected Him—and still do today!
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Joel, Hosea and others prophesied great punishments to come upon our peoples. What Moses foretold, Christ also foretold. But all of this has remained locked up from all who do not understand or will not accept the identity of our peoples throughout these awesome, apocalyptic prophecies.
But within this understanding, it must be recognized that God is chastening people He loves. He has always wanted human beings to enjoy spiritual values and principles, having His Holy Spirit guiding and directing their lives, after having come to deep repentance—both as individuals and nations.
Again, some few individuals will yet repent, and will be spared the horrible prophecies we are examining.
Already Worsening Conditions
The pride of American and British power continues to be broken, with our leaders in fear of what our critics and enemies—and the ever-relentless press—will say. Authoritative leadership and decision making is now systematically undercut and checkmated by this endless chorus of professional naysayers. Also, any leader daring to even hint that God might be involved in the affairs of men is virtually lampooned—and accused of crossing boundaries between church and state. God never intended such an unnatural division.
As both manmade and natural disasters increase in number and intensity, it is evident God’s protection around His people is even now being withdrawn. Headlines daily blare warnings of budget shortfalls, job losses, lack of growth, rising fuel and food prices, economic problems, growing social problems, war, difficulties and uncertainties, divided government, enormous problems in our schools and families, and so much more!
All of this will soon grow infinitely worse as God also turns our foreign political “lovers” against us (Ezek. 23:22; Jer. 4:30).
Astonishing, Specific Prophecy
What we have read above is only the beginning of what God says is yet to happen. The book of Micah, carrying special insight into our pride being broken, our loss of possessions and sea gates around the world, and worsening weather conditions, serves as its own tremendous proof of whoand where are the peoples of Israel today. Simply reading this prophecy identifies America and Britain as the only nations that have fulfilled what is described in Micah 5:1-15.
Notice the enormous wealth, and ensuing downfall, of the people described, beginning in Mic 5:7, as the “remnant of Jacob.” Note that references to “dew” and “showers” have a direct bearing on agricultural productivity and reflect the direct blessings of God: “And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people [nations] as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarried not for man, nor waited for the sons of men.”
Recall that, anciently, Joseph himself stored food in Egypt and helped other peoples and nations as a result. When God’s blessings were still being poured out upon our peoples without measure, over and over, our blessings became blessings to other nations of the world. This same spirit in modern Joseph—Ephraim and Manasseh—gave birth to the Alliance for Progress, Marshall Plan, Hoover Program, Four Point Program and so many others that saved millions from starvation after World War I and World War II. No other nations ever did any of these things, let alone all of them.
The next verse in Micah depicts Israel as a lion among all other nations on Earth. It was as a lion that America entered these two terrible wars and pulled the world back to temporary peace—until God’s final time had come. Notice: “And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treads down, and tears in pieces, and none can deliver” (Mic 5:8).
Who can doubt that this describes what have been the roles of America and Britain?
The next scripture pictures what these two countries did throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, until they could no longer win wars in countries as small as Korea and Vietnam: “Your hand shall be lifted up upon your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off” (Mic 5:9).
Invariably, in wars and skirmishes, this is exactly what America and Britain did to their adversaries and enemies. Our enemies were always cut off!