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*DOES AMERICA HAVE A ROLE IN PROPHESY?*

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EVERYDAY WHEN THE SUN RISES OVER WASHINGTON DC,

THE FIRST INCOMING RAYS;   

SHINE ON THE TOP OF THE 555 FOOT TALL WASHINGTON MONUMENT,

WHERE THESE WORDS ARE INSCRIBED;  "/LAUS DEO"/

THEY ARE LATIN FOR "PRAISE BE TO GOD"

 

IN THE INTRODUCTION TO THEIR BOOK:

"THE LIGHT AND THE GLORY"

By Peter Marshall and David Manuel

 

THEY ASK A VERY PROFOUND QUESTION.

/"WHAT IF COLUMBUS' DISCOVERY OF AMERICA WASN'T AN ACCIDENT.

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/WHAT IF IT WERE MERELY THE OPENING CURTAIN OF AN EXTRAORDINARY DRAMA?"/

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WHAT IF GOD HAD A PLAN FOR THE PEOPLE HE WAS BRINGING TO AMERICA?

 

WHAT IF GOD SAW THIS CONTINENT AS A STAGE FOR A NEW ERA IN THE DRAMA OF MANKIND'S REDEMPTION?

 

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN

BELIEVED THAT GOD HAD A PLAN FOR AMERICA.

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HE WROTE:

*/"I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT THIS ANOINTED LAND WAS SET APART IN AN UNCOMMON WAY, THAT A DIVINE PLAN PLACED THIS GREAT CONTINENT HERE BETWEEN THE OCEANS TO BE FOUND BY PEOPLE FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE EARTH WHO HAD A SPECIAL LOVE OF FAITH AND FREEDOM."/*

COLUMBUS' JOURNAL TELLS US THAT

HIS PRIMARY PURPOSE WAS TO TAKE THE MESSAGE OF SALVATION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST,

TO THE PEOPLE IN THIS UNKNOWN LAND.

THROUGHOUT OUR NATION'S HISTORY WE'VE SEEN OUR LEADERS GO TO GOD FOR GUIDANCE.

1.

GENERAL WASHINGTON KNEELING IN THE SNOW OF VALLEY FORGE.

2. OUR FOUNDING FATHERS ON THEIR KNEES AT THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.

3. ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRAYING IN THE HOUR OF NATIONAL CRISIS.

4. WOODROW WILSON READING HIS BIBLE LATE AT NIGHT BY THE WHITE HOUSE LIGHTS.

5. GEORGE WASHINGTON SUMMARIZED OUR NATIONAL DEPENDENCE ON GOD WHEN HE SAID;

*/"NO PEOPLE CAN BE BOUND TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND ADORE THE INVISIBLE HAND WHICH CONDUCTS THE AFFAIRS OF MAN /*

*/MORE THAN THOSE OF THE UNITED STATES."/*

IT'S OBVIOUS THAT AMERICA DIDN'T BECOME THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE

BY BLIND FATE OR SOME HAPPY SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES.

A BENEVOLENT GOD WAS HOVERING OVER THIS NATION FROM HER VERY BEGINNING.

THAT'S WHY AMERICA WITH ONLY 5% OF THE WORLDS POPULATION HAS MORE THAN 50% OF THE MODERN LUXURIES THAT CHARACTERIZE CIVILIZATION.

LET'S TRY TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS;

 

WHY HAS GOD BLESSED THIS NATION ABOVE ALL OTHER NATIONS?

 

WHY HAS AMERICA, IN HER SHORT HISTORY OUTSTRIPPED THE WEALTH, POWER, AND INFLUENCE OF ALL OTHER ANCIENT AND MODERN LANDS?

WHY WOULD GOD BLESS A NATION SO RICHLY

WITHOUT HAVING A SPECIAL PURPOSE IN MIND FOR HER?

 

WHAT IS    GOD'S PLAN FOR AMERICA?

 

WHAT IS OUR PLACE     IN END-TIME PROPHECY?

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*THOUGHT 1;**  LETS EXPLORE THE REASONS WHY GOD HAS BLESSED AMERICA SO ABUNDANTLY.*

REASON NUMBER 1: 

*AMERICA HAS BEEN THE FORCE BEHIND WORLD MISSIONS.*

3~/4 OF ALL THE MISSIONARYS SENT IN THE LAST CENTURY HAVE COME FROM AMERICA.

ALSO ABOUT 3~/4 OF ALL THE MONEY GIVEN TO SUPPORT MISSIONS OVER THE LAST CENTURY HAS COME FROM AMERICA.

THIS MEANS THAT 75% OF ALL MISSIONARIES

HAVE COME FROM A COUNTRY THAT ONLY HAS 5%

OF THE WORLDS POPULATION.

GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO MAKE THEIR PRIORITIES,

HIS PRIORITIES.

SINCE WWII AMERICA HAS STARTED 1800 MISSIONS AGENCIES,

AMERICA HAS SENT OVER 350,000 MISSIONARIES AROUND THE WORLD.

AND AS A RESULT OF THIS,  95 % OF THE WORLDS POPULATION HAVE ACCESS TO SOME PORTION OF SCRIPTURE IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE, AS WELL AS, RADIO BROADCASTS, AUDIO RECORDINGS, AND THE JESUS FILM.

ALL THIS ACHIEVEMENT IS LARGELY DUE TO THE MISSIONARY ZEAL OF CHURCHES IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

REASON NUMBER 2:

*JEWS HAVE BEEN PROTECTED FROM HARASSMENT AND ANTI-SEMITISM IN AMERICA.*

THE JEWISH NATION HAS BEEN SUPPORTED BY AMERICA.

AND THIS IS PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN HERITAGE OF OUR NATION.

WHEN ISRAEL WAS FIRST DECLARED TO BE A SOVERIGN STATE, THE ARAB NATIONS IMMEDIATELY DECLARED WAR ON HER.

ABBA EBAN, A SPOKESMAN FOR ISRAEL WENT TO PARIS TO MEET WITH AN AMERICAN DELEGATION REGARDING THE RECOGNITION OF THE ISRAELI STATE.

THE MAN IN CHARGE OF THE AMERICAN DELEGATION WASN'T VERY FAVORABLE TOWARD ISRAEL AND AT THE LAST MINUTE HE SUDDENLY HAD TO RETURN HOME,

 

LEAVING THE AMERICAN DELEGATION UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF JOHN FOSTER DULLES.

ABBA EBAN LATER SAID THAT THERE WAS /A CURIOUS STRAIN OF PROTESTANT MYSTICISM/ AT THE TALKS.

WHAT EBAN CALLED PROTESTANT MYSTICISM IS ACTUALLY

THE HISTORIC LOVE THAT CHRISTIANS HAVE FOR

*THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE* OF ISRAEL.

BASED ON OUR SHARED RELIGIOUS HEERITAGE AND SCRIPTURES *WE HAVE A HEART FOR ISRAEL*.

THIS HAS CEMENTED AMERICAN AND ISRAELI FRIENDSHIP FOR MORE THAN SIXTY YEARS.

REASON NUMBER 3:

*AMERICA HAS BEEN A FREE NATION.*

THE PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM ARE TIED UP IN THE TENETS OF CHRISTIANITY.

AMERICA HAS BEEN THE LABORATORY WHERE THOSE PRINCIPLES CAN GROW AND DEVELOP.

WITHOUT THE CHRISTIAN ELEMENT PRESENT IN A SOCIETY, IT WILL ALWAYS TEND TO FALL AWAY FROM FREEDOM AND TOWARD DESPOTISM.

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PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN SAID IN HIS 1981 INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

*/"ÁBOVE ALL, WE MUST REALIZE THAT NO ARSENAL OR NO WEAPON IN THE ARSENALS OF THE WORLD IS SO FORMIDABLE AS THE WILL AND MORAL COURAGE OF FREE M EN AND WOMEN.

IT IS A WEAPON OUR ADVERSARIES IN TODAY'S WORLD DO NOT HAVE.

IT IS A WEAPON WE AMERICANS     DO HAVE."/*

AMERICA HAS TRIED TO SHARE WHAT WE’VE LEARNED BY EXPORTING FREEDOM WHEREVER WE’VE GONE.

WE’VE TRIED TO HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT FREEDOM IS WHAT CREATES THE LIFE GOD ENTENDED FOR US TO HAVE.

AMERICA HAS BECOME A PARADISE OF HUMAN LIBERTY; 

A GREAT OASIS IN A GLOBAL DESERT OF TROUBLE, SUFFERING AND TRYANNY.

*THE BIGGEST THREAT TO AMERICAN FREEDOM TODAY *

*IS THE INTERNAL EROSION OF OUR CULTURE.*

IF OUR CULTURE CONTINUES TO JETTISON THE PRINCIPLES THAT HAS MADE OUR NATION GREAT,

THEN WE CAN HARDLY EXPECT THE BLESSINGS OF GOD

TO CONTINUE.

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REASON NUMBER 4;

*AMERICA WAS FOUNDED ON GOD AND ON HIS WORD.*

IT’S NO MYSTERY THAT AMERICA’S FOUNDERS INSISTED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF FREEDOM.

THEIR DEPENDENCE ON THE GOD OF THE BIBLE LED THEM TO SUBJECT THEMSELVES TO HIS ULTIMATE AUTHORITY FOR LAW,

RATHER THAN SET THEMSELVES UP AS AUTOCRATS.

BECAUSE THEY SUBMITTED TO GOD’S AUTHORITY, HE HAS BLESSED US AND NO OTHER NATION HAS BEEN BLESSED.

*PSALMS 33:12* *SAYS “BLESSED IS THE NATION WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD, *

*THE PEOPLE HE HAS CHOSEN AS HIS OWN INHERITANCE.*

GEORGE WASHINGTON SAID;

*/“IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO RIGHTLY GOVERN THE WORLD WITHOUT GOD AND THE BIBLE.”/*

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN, SAID;

*/GOD IS MY WITNESS THAT IT IS MY CONSTANT ANXIETY AND PRAYER THAT BOTH MYSELF AND THIS NATION SHOULD BE ON THE LORD’S SIDE.”/*

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SAID;

*/“THE LONGER I LIVE, THE MORE CONVINCING PROOFS I SEE /*