Biblical Predictions That Will Soon Come True
What Has God Said About America’s Future?
by Minister Paul J. Bern
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Like any other person of faith, I read my Bible as often as I can. The Word says we’re supposed to read it every day, but even I can’t always do that. It’s like we all get so caught up in all the stuff that’s going on around us that we find ourselves laying down to sleep nearly before we know it. This past week a colleague of mine showed me a passage out of Isaiah chapter 24 that directly applies to modern-day America and other nuclear-powered countries like her. The clarity and brutally frank language that’s used here by Isaiah, as he was prompted himself by the Holy Spirit, is startling and an ominous vision of the fairly near future.
The Sins of the United States Against the Innocents of the World
All this uncertainty and its accompanying turmoil are the products of the sins of America. The US has waged wars, some clandestine, some overt, with all of them causing unknown numbers of casualties. Namely, civilian casualties. What causes these wars to occur? All kinds of natural resources ranging from oil or natural gas to gold, silver, copper or aluminum suitable for mining, to diamonds or rare earth minerals and so on. The US has the CIA in charge and in place to protect those American assets. The problem is, none of those resources were ours. Those natural resources were the property of the country the US took up occupancy in. America is stealing all of it. Then we get away with it by threatening dire consequences to what ever country those resources are located in, such as a bombardment by the US military.
The US Faces an Uncertain Future
This has been going on behind the scenes globally speaking since World War 2. For the last couple of decades, other countries have begun to grow tired of the American military encroachments everywhere. All the world’s population wants is some peace and quiet, but the US military-industrial complex continues to rage onward. Because of the probability of this eventuality, I am deeply concerned for America’s future. The country of my birth is in danger of going down in flames. It is for this reason — and the others too — that the country of my birth, the USA, faces an uncertain future. All these things I have mentioned are the by-products of America’s sins past and present.
Quoting a Prophet of Old
If America does not repent (turn away from) of its warlike ways, a great calamity will befall her, and that without remedy. Allow me to quote the first 6 verses of Isaiah 24 for this week’s Bible verses: “See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants — it will be the same for priest as for people, for master as for servant, for mistress as for maid, for seller as for buyer, for borrower as for lender, for debtor as for creditor. The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The Lord has spoken his word. The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the exalted of the earth languish. The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.”
The Earth Will Be Destroyed in the Fairly Near Future
The earth as we know it, it says in the very first verse, is going to be destroyed. “… he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants.” The words ‘scattered inhabitants’ suggest that population centers — cities — will be destroyed, and that casualties will be high in number. “It will be the same for priest as for people, for master as for servant, for mistress as for maid, for seller as for buyer, for borrower as for lender, for debtor as for creditor. The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The Lord has spoken his word.” The same fate will befall everybody, and there will be only a lucky few who escape. Moreover, the complete destruction of the cities of the earth is the only thing that will destroy economic inequality. To put that another way, the only way to destroy inequality will be to destroy the financial centers of the world, beginning with the US. Although I can’t say exactly how this will happen, it definitely will. “The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the exalted of the earth languish.” There will be hard times for the majority of people.
Like It or Not, We Have Defiled the Earth
“The earth is defiled by its people.” What does this mean to our modern world? Do these words still have any meaning after all these centuries? The answer to this question is an emphatic ‘yes’. When did I ever defile the earth, you ask? Every time anyone throws a piece of trash on the ground, or throw a wrapper or cigarette butt out of our car or truck window while driving, every time we throw anything in a landfill, pour our old engine oil down a drain or elsewhere — need I go on? — we defile the earth. There is a gigantic flotilla of plastic bottles and other similar scrap items greater than the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific ocean as I write this. Need still more proof we are in grievous sin? The permanently damaged nuclear reactors at Fukishima, Japan are leaking radioactive water into the north Pacific ocean at a rate of 400 million gallons per day! At this rate, the entire northern Pacific ocean from Japan to the west coast of North America will be devoid of life in no more than 10 years.
This Is How God Feels About Our Treatment of His Planet
Suppose you built a huge house and inhabited it with 10 “friends” rent free, and they turned around and destroyed it just because they could. How would you react? Now you know how God feels about our treatment of the earth. “They have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse consumes the earth.” What laws? We could start with the 10 commandments. When you break one, you break them all, that’s what the Bible says. Or how about the two greatest commandments: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself’? As before; if we break one even once, we have broken them all as far as God is concerned. “Therefore a curse consumes the earth”. Does this mean God will curse the planet and everything on it? Of course not, don’t be so fearful! Is God going to personally intervene and cause all this to occur? No, it does not appear so, as we further examine this quote from Scripture. “Its people must bear their guilt.”
Any Nuclear War Would Be America’s Fault
Guilt for what? For all the things I mentioned above, from ruining the Pacific ocean to the 10 commandments and so on, but that’s not all. Nope, sorry, there’s one more major thing — waging war. Although some people might accuse me of being unpatriotic, and I do not wish to be offensive to anyone, the USA is addicted to war, and has been for most of its history. Our national economy depends on war and has been ever since I’ve been alive, and I’m in my 60s. Moreover, we remain the only country in the world to have used nuclear weapons. America has let the nuclear genie out of the bottle, and it cannot be put back. Meaning, we are indirectly responsible at best and guilty by association at worst for the Fukishima disaster, as well as for any future nuclear conflicts regardless of who starts it. So in the end, the nuclear threat that we face globally is America’s fault, and we’re going to end up paying the ultimate price.
How? “Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.” Nuclear war would be the correct answer. What else could this be describing, just read it and let it sink in. This is what the Bible says will happen to us if we don’t change our ways. The heat generated by a thermonuclear explosion is 10 times that of the surface of the sun. Those who are caught up in what I suspect will be the coming nuclear conflagration — again, unless America changes its ways — will be instantly vaporized. Not a pleasant thought, to say the least. How do we stop this? By protesting in the streets and getting involved in our country’s political process. I see no other way. Besides, in the process of protesting, we’ll be siding with God, and that suits me just fine.
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