THE DAY: A Novel of America in the Last Days (The End of America Series) (26 page)

BBC
Studios – Broadcasting House

Central
London, England

              
Following
the evening presentation of WORLD IN REVIEW, the BBC studio director pointed to
the BBC employee who was tasked with switching from a live studio feed to a pre-recorded
segment. Under applicable Sharia Law requirements instituted of late, the
pre-recorded segment was required to be aired nightly, in prime time. The
mandatory segment began with an Islamic call to prayer, the
Adhan
.
While the call was being recited the screen carried these words:

              
"Islam
is not a normal religion like the other religions in the world, and Muslim
nations are not like normal nations. Muslim nations are very special because
they have a command from Allah to rule the entire world and to be over every
nation in the world….Islam is a revolutionary faith that comes to destroy
any government made by man….The goal of Islam is to rule the entire world
and submit all of mankind to the faith of Islam. Any nation or power in this
world that tries to get in the way of that goal, Islam will fight and
destroy."
(
Mawlana
Abul
Ala
Mawdudi
- Founder of Pakistan’s fundamentalist Muslim movement)

              
The
screen then cut to a color picture of the Kaaba in Mecca, Islam’s holiest
site. Superimposed on the still picture on the screen were these words:

TRANSCRIPT OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION

BETWEEN PRIME MINISTER ROBERT RUSSELL

AND THE MAHDI ON SEPTEMBER 15th

(Approved for Broadcast by
Imam
Mahdula
Bazardi
)

RUSSELL:
  
"Is he….is he….on the line? You
said
 
that
he would be…."

MAHDI:
              
"Prime
Minister Russell? Are you there?"

RUSSELL:
            
"Why,
yes it is I. May I know your name, I’ve only been told your
title….that is…..if you don’t mind."

MAHDI:
              
(NO
RESPONSE)

RUSSELL:
            
"Hello?
Are you there
?…
.Would someone please see if
I’ve been dis-conn…."

MAHDI:
              
"Mister
Russell, I am here. My name is not relevant to this conversation. You say you
know my title….that is….
more
 
than
sufficient for your
purposes….I am calling you as the Mahdi.
The Guided
One.
The successor to the Prophet Mohammad, blessed
be
he. I have come to rule before the Day of Judgment and to rid the world of
evil."

RUSSELL:
            
"Alright….well….so….you
have called me….what can I do for you?"

MAHDI:
              
"We
have graced you with this call in order to inform you that the United Kingdom
of Great
   
Britain and
Northern Ireland will be honored to be the first nation in the newly created
European Islamic Union. Your country will…."

RUSSELL:
            
"Wait….Wait….The
European Islamic what? What do…
.
"

MAHDI:
              
"Listen
carefully, Mister Russell. We
        
will…."

RUSSELL:
            
"If
you don’t mind, my title is Prime
         
Minister,
and I deserve to be addressed as…."

MAHDI:
      
"Mister Russell,
you’re
not
listening. Now listen to my words. I won’t repeat
them. We will allow you to formally change the name of your country to the
United Islamic Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Within thirty-six
hours. No extensions. Then you will…."

RUSSELL:
            
"Impossible.
Who do you think you are? We have been a united kingdom since 1707. We are a
sovereign nation of over sixty million citizens, only a few of whom are Muslim.
We won’t…."

MAHDI:
              
"I
promised I would not repeat myself. After you change the nation’s name,
formally, by act of Parliament, then you will join me
           
at
Number Ten Downing on
        
Wednesday
to sign over to me your title and duties, also as approved formally by
Parliament and your Queen. I will expect you and your family to be gone
 
from Number Ten Downing by Wednesday, no
later than five PM."

RUSSELL: (NO RESPONSE)

MAHDI:
    
(NO RESPONSE)

RUSSELL:
  
"Well, do you have any other
demands? I can safely say that this bizarre conversation is
over
,
so if you don’t…."

MAHDI:
      
"Anything else, you ask?
Yes, Mister Russell.
There is one other thing. We have two nuclear
weapons in Central London, one from our friends in Iran, the other from
Pakistan.
Ten megatons
each.
That is the only thing I will repeat. Two nukes in London
.
Not far from you, actually."

RUSSELL:
            
"You
wouldn’t….you…."

MAHDI:
      
"Really? You doubt our
ability? You
question our resolve? Did
you not see what we did to the Great Satan, to
  
America?
A much more important country than your little island?
Test me, Mister Russell. Try us. If our demands are not met in the times that I
just outlined,
then
London will be no more, Great
Britain will be no
more. You,
sir
, will definitely be no more.

RUSSELL:
           
(NO
RESPONSE)

MAHDI:
      
"I will be at Number Ten
Downing at noon on Wednesday. If our demands are not met, in detail, by and at
that time, then London will be history by close of business, Wednesday evening.
Allahu
Akbar
."

              
The
BBC broadcast segment ended with these words on screen:

ON SEPTEMBER 17
^TH
PRIME MINISTER RUSSELL

HANDED OVER HIS OFFICE TO THE MAHDI,

WITH APPROVAL BY PARLIAMENT AND THE QUEEN, WHO ALSO FORMALLY CHANGED
THE NATIONAL NAME TO THE UNITED ISLAMIC KINGDOM

OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

AND AUTHORIZED ITS MEMBERSHIP IN THE EUROPEAN ISLAMIC UNION

ALLAHU AKBAR

THE
END

       
I wrote the Second Term Trilogy
(SECOND TERM, THE WARNING and THE DAY) for a singular purpose – not to
entertain, but instead to share with readers the truth of Biblical prophecies
describing the future fate of America. The three novels are based on the 223
verses written by OT and NT prophets describing what will ultimately happen to
a rich, powerful and influential nation in the last days. The books, though
fiction, have as their foundation the truths contained in the Bible as analyzed
in the non-fiction book, THE END OF AMERICA.

         
 
Of the three novels, this book proved to
the most difficult to write.
It’s
one thing to
write about events happening in the future of a nation, but quite another to
write about the termination, the destruction, the annihilation of that nation.
THE DAY is replete with tears, from those who face death and who die during the
Ezekiel 38/39 invasion of Israel, from those who don’t flee from America
before it’s destruction (and who knew better) and from those men, women and
children whose lives end with the fall of a nation which not only turned its
back on Israel, but also on God Almighty. Also included are tears from
Christians who moved offshore and who watched God working in miraculous ways
through them in their new ministries. I wept more than once during the writing
of THE DAY at the enormity of what is soon to happen, in Israel, in America and
the world.

         
Post-apocalyptic
literature varies greatly as to what authors speculate will happen. One such
book popular in the 1960’s was based on a family after a nuclear attack
living comfortably on a river, raising fruits and harvesting pecan trees.
Needless to say, as long as there are large numbers of hungry people, those
with food will not be living comfortably. In THE DAY I attempted to describe
what life will really be like once Russia and Iran (Gog and the Medes) are
allowed by God to attack America, after it betrays Israel. It’s not a
pretty picture. A Congressional study cited in the book postulated that 90% of
Americans would die within one year of a major nuclear/EMP attack. That figure
long-term might actually be too low when one considers the impact of the
meltdown of the nation’s many nuclear power plants, once they have
neither electricity, nor diesel fuel for generators, to cool reactor rods. The
scenario discussed on the fictional BBC newscast is all too real in light of
the deficiencies in planning for long-term electric grid outages and petroleum
product unavailability.

         
I
know and respect many who are "
preppers
".
Though they have seen the danger and are trying to prepare for it, I fear
they’ve missed part of the following verse regarding what to do, i.e.,
seek a safe place.
"Wise people see danger and go
to a safe place. But childish people keep on going and suffer for it." (Proverbs
27:12, NIRV).
America will not be a safe
place. THE DAY describes what life would be like in a nation in which food is
not available. Once any other person knows that a
prepper
has food, the
prepper
and his/her family will be in
grave danger. No one can lay aside enough
prepper
food to last forever,
nor
enough ammunition to defend
it indefinitely.

         
Let’s
face it, when God warned ten times that Christians and Jewish residents of the
Daughter of Babylon should "flee", He had good reasons. He
didn’t say "hide in Babylon" or "lay up stores of food
and ammo in Babylon". "Flee" can only have one meaning.
Flee.
He said to flee Babylon
"so that
you will not share in her sins"
(Revelation 18:14). He also said to flee so you will
"not be
destroyed".
(Jeremiah 51:6).
Jeremiah warns (51:29) "
no one will live there" (in destroyed
Babylon).
If you are a
prepper
, pray and ask God for wisdom in regard to this
critical decision.

         
Readers who are interested in a non-fiction
study of Biblical prophecies regarding the Daughter of Babylon/ Babylon the
Great may be interested in reading THE END OF AMERICA. The book is available on
Amazon and also on Kindle (for 99 cents so that all may have access). A Study
Guide is also available. Only America fulfills the thirty clues written by Old
and New Testament Prophets as to the identity of "Mystery Babylon".
Study the thirty Biblical clues for yourself and decide which nation is Mystery
Babylon. If you conclude that Mystery Babylon is America, then pray about
heeding God’s warnings to flee. The author prays that readers of THE END
OF AMERICA will study, research, pray and obey the Bible’s warnings to
flee from The Daughter of Babylon. The ten warnings to Christians and Jewish
residents of the Daughter of Babylon to flee are set forth below in an edited
version of Chapter Thirteen from THE END OF AMERICA. Articles on the subject
may be found at
www.endofamericabook.com
. Communication with the author
is available through the website.

God
bless,

John Price

April 1, 2014

Central
America

Chapter
Thirteen

GOD’S
WARNINGS TO LEAVE

THE
DAUGHTER OF BABYLON

         
If
God states once in his Word to take an action the command obviously has great importance.
How much more so if He says two or three times to do the same thing? Because
God loves His people He has graciously provided through several different
writers of the Bible the same identical message, stating it ten times.

TEN
SEPARATE WARNINGS TO FLEE

         
The
prophet Jeremiah, along with Zechariah, Isaiah, and the apostle John gave these
ten specific warnings to God’s people to flee the Daughter of Babylon.
The first seven of the ten warnings are:

         
"Flee out of Babylon; leave the land
of the Babylonians, and be like the goats that lead the flock."
 
(Jeremiah 50:8)

         
"Let everyone flee to his own
land." (Jeremiah 50: 16)

         
"Flee
from Babylon!
 
Run for your
lives!
 
Do not be destroyed because
of her sins. It is time for the Lord’s vengeance; he will pay her what
she deserves." (Jeremiah 51:6)

         
"We would have healed Babylon, but she
cannot be healed; let us leave her and each go to his own land, for her
judgment reaches to the skies, it rises as high as the clouds." (Jeremiah
51:9)

         
"Come out of her, my people!
 
Run for your lives!
 
Run from the fierce anger of the
Lord." (Jeremiah 51:45)

         
"
You
who have escaped the sword, leave and do not
linger!
 
Remember the Lord in a
distant land, and think on Jerusalem." (Jeremiah 51:50)

         
"Then I heard another voice from
heaven say: "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in
her sins, so you will not receive any of her plagues." (Revelation 18:14)

         
These
seven specific warnings all appear to be addressed to God’s people - the
Church, made up of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. God also warns His
Jewish people through these three prophets:

         
"Oh Zion!
Escape, you who live in
the Daughter of Babylon."
(Zechariah 2:7)

         
"Leave Babylon, flee from the
Babylonians! Announce this with shouts of joy and proclaim it. Send it out to
the ends of the earth; say, ‘The Lord has redeemed his servant
Jacob.’" (Isaiah 48:20)

         
"They
will ask the way to Jerusalem and will start back home again. They will bind
themselves to the LORD with an eternal covenant that will never be
forgotten." (Jeremiah 50:5)

         
Most
Jewish people know they are Jewish, some are Orthodox and some adhere to more
liberal branches of Judaism. But they know who they are. In these verses they
are warned not to continue residing in the Daughter of Babylon. Moving to
Israel is, of course, an option, but one to be seriously studied before such a
move, in light of the coming Russian-Muslim invasion, and accompanying blood to
be shed in Israel.

         
 
Thus, the Lord warns believers in the Lord
Jesus Christ seven times, and three times He warns Jewish residents of the
Daughter of Babylon, to FLEE from this great end
times
nation. No other warning in scripture is recorded ten separate times. These
multiple warnings to Christians and to Jewish residents of the Daughter of
Babylon dramatically confirm that He has emphatically warned His people to flee
the coming disaster that He knew from the beginning of time would occur.

         
God
doesn’t waste His words. We’ve just read that Christians are warned
seven times to flee. God evidently wants to be sure that His people get the
message, which leads to an obvious question:
Are you one of God’s people?
How can you know, for sure? For
the first few years of my life I thought I was a Christian. I was active in our
church’s youth group–I bought the cider and donuts every other
Saturday night. If someone had asked me in high school if I was a Christian
(which no one ever did) I would have said, ‘sure, I’m not a
Buddhist or a Hindu.’ Then in college, I married a girl, my dear wife now
of 53 years, who knew exactly what she believed – she was an avowed
agnostic. We had some interesting discussions in those early married years. I
remember driving back to college late one evening. I was listening to Billy
Graham on the car radio. My wife soon tired of the message and told me to
"turn that stuff off." I said, "Hey, do you want lightning to
strike this car?" So you can see we had an elevated theological tone to
our discussions.

         
After
law school, we moved to a traditional suburb of Indianapolis to raise our
children. After we were in our neighborhood for a short time I came home one
night and my wife asked me "guess what I did today?" I didn’t
have a clue, but she soon told me that she had been invited to attend a neighborhood
women’s Bible study. I admitted that I was surprised, but after I thought
about it I thought it was a good idea, so she could "meet our
neighbors." I didn’t hear any more about the Bible Study for a few
weeks, then one night she asked the same question again, "guess what I
did today?" Before I could guess, she told me that she heard a speaker at
the Bible Study that she had been attending every week (I didn’t know she
had become a regular). She said the speaker, the wife of a dentist, "told
us that to know God personally we need to accept His Son, Jesus Christ, as our
own personal Lord and Savior. So, I did it."

         
My reply?
"You did what?" She said, "I
accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior."
My response?
Not so good – particularly since before this time I was the
‘religious one’ in the family. I said, "
that
sounds like something you hear on your car radio driving through the Bible
Belt."

         
Needless
to say, that comment, and my increasing resistance to my wife’s continued
use of her growing knowledge of scripture, led to a running, and not always
harmonious debate. Even though I had been on my college debate team, I was soon
losing the debate, because my wife was acquiring her debate points from
scripture and the Christian books that soon began to fill our house. After
several months of ongoing debate, I was leaving for a business trip to
California. On the way out the door, not having a book to read on the long
flights, I picked up a book my wife had (conveniently) left lying around for me
to notice. It was Hal Lindsey’s
"The
Late Great Planet Earth",
which eventually became the 1970’s
biggest seller.

         
On
the red eye coming back from California I couldn’t sleep, so I decided to
see what my wife had been reading. Lindsey focused on Israel, in which I had
some interest as a political science major. Lindsey wrote that God had written
in the Bible, through the prophets, that the people of Israel would go into
dispersion around the world, for centuries, but would in some future day be
re-gathered back in the nation of Israel, in the same location of its original
home. I knew that no nation in the history of the world had gone out of
existence, been scattered widely into other nations and then 2,000 or so years
later, been re-gathered into the same location. I can take a Jewish person to
lunch, but I can’t take a Chaldean or an Assyrian to lunch, as
they’ve been dispersed and disappeared over time.

         
Lindsey
then said that the Bible contains hundreds of prophecies about a coming
Messiah, all of which were fulfilled in the life of one man, Jesus of Nazareth.
He said that the mathematical chances of that just happening were so high that
it would be the equivalent of tossing a marked silver dollar into the State of
Texas, filled with four feet of silver dollars, stirring them up, and then
finding the marked silver dollar on the first try. I was convinced. Lindsey
also said what my wife’s Bible Study speaker had said – that I
needed to know Jesus personally as my own Lord and Savior. Because Jesus was
resurrected after His death on the cross, if I know Him, I could be sure of
life after the death of my earthly body. He gave a simple prayer to start the
process of knowing Jesus.

         
 
When I came to the prayer I thought,
briefly, ‘hum, my wife’s going to win our argument,’ but I
went ahead anyway, bowed my head on the airplane, and prayed a prayer like
this: "Jesus, I don’t really know you. But I want to, so I’m
asking you to come into my heart as my Lord and Savior. Help me in the days
ahead to understand what this is all about and what you want me to learn from
the Bible. Amen." I didn’t see any fireworks, but within a
relatively short time I knew things had changed. I had changed. Over time, I
lost interest in things I used to pursue, and I developed an interest in things
I didn’t previously care about. I soon developed a peace about why I was
on the earth and what God expected me to do while I was here. And, by the way,
losing that debate to my wife was the best thing I ever did.

         
If
you are pondering the content of this admittedly frightening book, you may
wonder if you are a Christian or not. If you can’t say that a point in
your life came, in which you placed your faith and trust in Jesus and came to
know that He is the Lord of your
life,
you may wish to
pray a similar prayer. If you seek Him, you will find Him. Once that issue is
settled, you can move on to other warnings God has given to His people in His
Word.

THOSE
WHO FLED THEIR HOMELAND BEFORE US

         
The
thought of leaving America to live in a foreign land, at first, naturally,
seems unthinkable. But, it should be seen in an historical context, a Christian
and a Biblical historical context. The history of Christians and Jews fleeing
from persecution is well documented. The Bible contains many instances of God
taking an action in the Old Testament that He mirrors in the New Testament. For
example, the sacrifice of a spotless innocent lamb was a picture or foreshadow
of the physical sacrificial death of Christ. Similarly, we find in this section
of Jeremiah God’s warnings to His people at the time of Jeremiah to leave
their home city of Jerusalem in the nation of Judah. When they obeyed His
warnings to leave, given through Jeremiah, they lived, they
"
escape(
d)
with (their) life, (they) will live"
(Jeremiah 42). The warnings also
given to Jeremiah (chapters 50 and 51) and to the Apostle John (Revelation 18)
to flee from the Daughter of Babylon have the same result–if we flee-we
live, if we don’t-we die. It’s a simple concept. It’s doing
it that’s tough.

         
The
Lord warned the Jewish inhabitants of Jerusalem and the cities of Judah well
before Nebuchadnezzar’s invasion that they should flee from Jerusalem and
not try to remain as residents. Jeremiah warned Jewish residents that the Lord
had told him Jerusalem and the cities of Judah would
become a
"
desolation without an inhabitant."
(Jeremiah 34:22) Those who
heeded His words were safely secured in Babylonian captivity for seventy years.
"This is what the LORD says:
‘Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague, but
whoever goes over to the Babylonians will live. He will escape with his life;
he will live.’"
(Jeremiah 38:2)
"Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear. Do
not be afraid of him, declares the Lord, for I am with you and will save you and
deliver you from his hands. I will show you compassion so that he will have
compassion on you and restore you to your land."
(Jeremiah 42:11-12)

         
Our
nation was settled and populated by Christians who could not abide persecution.
Shipload after shipload of our Christian ancestors, for decade after decade,
chose to move from their homeland in Europe immigrating to a land known for its
religious freedom. Their decision to leave their own nation, leaving most of
their family members and lifelong friends, in almost all cases to never see
them in this world again, had to be gut-wrenching and tearful. They left their
nation because the level of religious persecution they were experiencing was
not tolerable.

         
In
the last century, in the 1930’s and 1940’s, Jewish residents of
central and
eastern
Europe were increasingly alarmed
that they were being targeted for extinction by the growing Fascist movement.
Russia’s Czar instituted pogroms to exterminate Jews in Russia. As a
consequence, many Russian Jews moved to Germany, only to be confronted not long
after with Adolph Hitler’s "Final Solution." Those who moved
to Poland and Austria had similar problems, as Hitler expanded the reach of the
Third Reich.

         
 
As more Jews were taken into captivity
and their assets seized, increasing numbers began to realize that fleeing
Europe was a rational, life-saving option. France rounded up and deported
76,000 Jews (including 11,000 children) to concentration camps. Only 3,000
returned alive. Prior to deportation, across Europe, tens of thousands fled to
freedom, most with only the clothes on their back and a suitcase. Millions who
chose not to flee were killed in Hitler’s Holocaust,
"Hitler’s Final Solution." Nazi Germany purposefully and
deliberately slaughtered millions of men, women, and children, with bullets and
nerve gas, solely because they were of Jewish descent.
(A&E
series – The World at War).
By the time they had been rounded up
and detained, it was too late to flee. 25% died within ten days of being taken
captive. Six million who didn’t flee eventually died. Confirming
God’s demand for an accounting of shed blood, Germany, which led the
slaughter throughout conquered Europe, suffered over seven million deaths. One
million Jewish residents of the Soviet Union died, but over time one million
Jewish residents of Russia immigrated to Israel. Those who saw the danger and
fled from it lived; with many still alive even today. It is estimated that
about 500,000 Jewish émigrés left Germany fleeing to freedom,
before Hitler closed the borders to Jewish emigration.
Most
left with nothing.
No future job.
Little assets.
But they lived.