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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Regardless of whether we have expressed ourselves in our vote as leaning toward “red” or “blue,” as a corporate body of people America fits into the biblical prophecy of the second “beast” of Revelation 13.

 

It “came up” in the vast expanses of North America as a nation with the character of a lamb proclaiming to the world twin principles of civil and religious liberty (vs. 11). It was a wonder to the masses of Europe who had sustained the persecuting power of the first “beast” who had ruled for those 1260 years from 538 to 1798 A. D.

 

Now when judgment had finally fallen in 1798 (vs. 10), the lamb-like character of the young United States of America just “coming up” shone brightly around the world. My wife and I remember the “yo-para-America!” spirit that pervaded Europe when we spent six weeks there in 1945 on our way to East Africa as missionaries. There was hope that Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death!” spirit might pervade the world; and in that spirit of love of liberty the world’s masses might come to understand and appreciate God’s “law of liberty” as “the everlasting gospel” “by which Christ has made us free” (Rev. 14:6-12; Gal. 5:1).

 

God’s foreknowledge of our national character (expressed in Revelation 13) has not been predestination; the American populace has indeed been “free” politically and religiously to enjoy the greatest economic and military power of any nation in history.

 

But Revelation 13 also chronicles in advance the apostasy of that national character to one that is willing to enforce the denial of those great principles (vss. 12-17). Often as we have proclaimed this prophetic picture, loyal citizens have protested saying that “we” could never as a nation do such things in national apostasy. But the raw fear of terror combined with a prevalent “post-Christian” mindset undermines Patrick Henry’s love of liberty; and whether we are “red” or “blue” in our political persuasion, our new national spirit seems ready to exchange liberty for economic and military security.

 

Or is it? Thank God for a minority still willing to sacrifice self for the upholding of God’s principles of truth. That minority will fearlessly proclaim the message of Revelation 18! No need for anyone’s heart to “fail [him] for fear” (Luke 21:26).

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