THE WARNING A Novel of America in the Last Days (The End of America Series Book 2) (34 page)

TWO MAJOR GLOBAL CHANGES

        
Two major world
events have occurred in the last 60 years that should give any person cause to
seriously ponder Biblical end times prophecies. The first, which we have
already examined, is the re-birth of the nation of Israel in 1948 back in its
original land. In spite of the good intentions of a lot of good
 
people, to find the end times in
their
times,
 
it was just not going to happen until the Fig
Tree of Israel re-budded, which it miraculously did in the middle of the last century.
The second event arises from Daniel’s prophecy (Daniel 2) that the fourth great
world empire would spring from the third, the Roman Empire. Virtually all Bible
scholars are in agreement that, when Daniel saw legs of iron, with feet mixed
with clay, he was foreseeing a revived Roman Empire, again uniting the majority
of the land mass of Europe, as it had been united under the rule of Rome from
2,000 to 1,600 years ago. Until the uniting of Europe in 1993 with the Treaty
of Maastricht, a revived Roman Empire fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy didn’t
appear it would ever happen.

        
Are these two
events, Israel’s re-budding and Europe’s uniting, important matters, apart from
prophecy? Even if we had no Biblical indication that they would take place, their
occurrence would constitute two of the more critical geopolitical events in our
lifetimes. Israel is in almost every daily newspaper, and very few days pass
without articles about the European Union. The EU represents 30% of the entire
world’s gross domestic product. Israel and the EU are on the world’s center
stage.
        

        
Angel Second Class
Clarence Odbody, in Frank Capra’s
“It’s a
Wonderful Life,”
tried to convince George Bailey that suicide wasn’t the
answer to his problems:
“You see, George,
you really had a wonderful life. Don’t you see what a mistake it would be to
throw it away?”
How does Angel Clarence Odbody relate to a reborn Israel
and a united Europe? For those of us who are alive in the world as God has
restored Israel and united the continent of the former Roman Empire, we also
have had a wonderful life of
observing
God at work
without parallel in human history, thus far. It would also be a
mistake for us to figuratively throw it away by ignoring God’s mighty hand at
work.

        
He said over 2,000
years ago He would bring Israel back–after its forced dispersion around the
world. He said a little over 2,600 years ago that He would create the Fourth
World Empire, and then much later, in the end times, reform that Empire. Both
of these prophesied events have happened
before
our very eyes
. We are eyewitnesses to God fulfilling these two major
prophecies. Both had to occur
before
the Day of the Lord. We’ve been privileged to be alive to see both–but if we
overlook their significance we will have thrown away the great privilege God
has given us
 
to be witnesses of the
mystery and miracle of prophetic fulfillment.

        
As the days after
the rebirth of Israel (1948) and the unification of Europe (1993) continue to
mount, we are increasingly seeing the curtain pulled further back, revealing to
us more of the details of the last days. Since 9/11 what we have seen, and now
increasingly understand in more depth than Christians in past generations, is
that the final enemies of Jesus and of His people are not who we thought they
would be.
 
It may be
surprising to learn that the future prophesied destroyers of the United States,
and the purported conquerors of the world, pray regularly each day, prohibit
abortion, denounce homosexuality, and forbid alcohol. Who are these people?
Christian fundamentalists? Well, not quite.
 

        
As indicated by the book’s sub-title, it is now increasingly
obvious that those who would seek to be conquerors of the world in the end
times, are radical Islamic Jihadists, who will do exactly what they have been
doing in the world for the last 1,400 years (kill for Allah). They are today
telling us they will in the future: a.) destroy America, b.) destroy Israel,
and c.) conquer the world for Allah. It will, undoubtedly, be a shocking
realization to read how familiar end times prophecies will be fulfilled in a
very unfamiliar and surprising way by people whom, a few years ago, were
dismissed as mere nomads, living as if they were in the middle ages, with many
still dwelling in tents. It is only as radical Islamic Jihadist teachings are
understood that we can answer questions many of us have pondered about end
times prophecies. To understand the threat to America, we
need to know more about the agenda of Jihadists who
regularly fill Muslim city streets chanting,
“Death to America, Death to America”.

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