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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 52
The Results Of Sin Are Evident In America
In general Americans view themselves to be superior to the rest of the world and don’t
believe God would judge America. As was stated above, we are not superior. We are at or near
the top in rates of abortions, divorces, and unwed births. We lead the industrialized world in
murder, rape, and violent crime. “[C]ompared to Japan, a person in the U.S. is six times more
likely to be burglarized, 10 times more likely to be murdered and 208 times more likely to be
robbed.”
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And in elementary and secondary education, we are at or near the bottom in
achievement scores.”
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As a Christian nation that was founded on the principles from God’s Holy Word,
judgment should start in America according to God’s word. God's Holy word declares: “For the
time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall
the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?” (1 Peter 4:17.)
America In Prophecy
Are there any scriptures that specifically mention America and her future? Yes, there are
many. Some Christian leaders also recognize that Isaiah 18 is speaking about America. Isaiah
18:1-3 says:
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of
Ethiopia: That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon
the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a
people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden
down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Rick Coombes is one who believes this passage is speaking about America. He explains
why in his book America, The Babylon. Rick explains that by looking at the original Greek you
can more accurately get a picture of the vision that Isaiah is trying to describe. He believes that
the wings that shadow this land (verse one) are planes. The Hebrew word from which shadowing
comes from more accurately represents a sound. This sound is replicated by the word itself such
as the English word buzz. So it appears, from the original Hebrew, that Isaiah is describing a
winged object flying through the air making a loud noise. He further states that the phrase
“sendeth ambassadors by the sea” is a Hebrew idiom that was used to describe “when a nation
sent war ships to intimidate another nation or to reassure an ally.” Rick believes that these two
phrases together represent Isaiah’s description of an aircraft carrier.
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When the United States wants to flex its muscle to intimidate another nation or when it
wants to support a nation it sends aircraft carriers. Of course as Isaiah wrote, the vocabulary of
his day had no words to describe jet planes and aircraft carriers. Today only twelve nations in the
world have aircraft carriers. There is only one nation other than the U.S. that has more than one;
Great Britain has 3 aircraft carriers and the U.S. has 12.
Rick says that the phrase beyond the rivers of Ethiopia is written from the prospective of
Isaiah as he was writing in Jerusalem. The Greek word for “Ethiopia” literally means “Cush.”
Cush was the father of Nimrod and he was responsible for establishing the original boundaries
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