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Does the United States of America play a role in the drama of Bible
prophecy? A recent issue of NEWSWEEK tells the story of George
Washington, authored by Pulitzer-winning David McCulough. He calls
“1776” and the Revolutionary War a “miracle.” The Christmas Battle of
Trenton is an example; the rag-tag army Washington commanded (he too
was virtually an amateur) could never have won “our” independence
without some blessings of “Providence.”
The 1260 years “given” to papal oppression are detailed in Daniel and
Revelation and also in Christ’s Mt. Olivet discourse (Matt. 24; Mark
13; Luke 21). Mark says Christ pinpointed a special time “in those
days, after that tribulation” when “the sun shall be darkened” (vs.
24). The worst of the persecutions tapered off after the Lisbon
earthquake of 1755; the great Dark Day came in 1780; and in that
period Washington comes on stage determined to help found a republic
governed without a king and securing freedom for a church without a
pope, separate from state control.
As surely as the Papacy is identified in those 1260 years which were
“given” to the “beast,” so this nation is then portrayed. It was 13
helpless colonies in a wilderness continent, rising to become the
dominant world power. It first exhibits its mild character of a “lamb”
(Rev. 13:11). “Our fathers brought forth on this continent a new
nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that
all men are created equal.” This is how the world saw this nation up
through World War II. But eventually it is depicted in Revelation
13:11 as shedding that “lamb-like” character and speaking “as a
dragon.” This “national apostasy” is consequent on the “fall of
Babylon” (14:8) for that “fall” is responsible for the moral breakdown
that plagues society today. (Time’s up; dial tomorrow).
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