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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 75
God Establishes America
The Discovery of America
It is popularly believed that Christopher Columbus discovered America while searching
for gold but the hand of God was guiding him. Columbus believed he was commissioned by God
to carry the gospel into heathen lands. His name actually means light bearer. Through the
guidance of the Holy Spirit, Columbus chose the only route by which it was possible to achieve
success. If he had sailed further North, the prevailing winds would have forced him to turn back;
if he had sailed any further South, he would have become ship wrecked on coral reefs. In his own
words he writes:
It was the Lord who put it into my mind (I could feel his hand upon me)
the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies [the Americas].
All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no
question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted
me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures....
I am a most unworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and
mercy, and they have covered completely. I have found the sweetest consolation
since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvelous presence. For the
execution of the journey to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence,
mathematics or maps. It is simply the fulfillment of what Isaiah prophesied...
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it
is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. The working out of all
things has been assigned to each person by our Lord, but it all happens according
to His sovereign will, even though He give advice. He lacks lacks nothing that it
is in the power of men to give Him. Oh, what a gracious Lord, who desires that
people should perform for Him those things for which He holds Himself
responsible! Day and night, moment by moment, everyone should express their
most devoted gratitude to Him.
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(Emphasis added)
Above, Columbus states that his voyage was the fulfillment of what Isaiah prophesied.
He quoted Isaiah's prophecy found in Isaiah 49 in his journal on his first voyage to the Americas
in 1492, he writes:
Listen, to me O Coastlands, and hearken you peoples from afar. The Lord
called me from my mother’s womb, from the body of my mother he named my
name.... I will give you as a light to the nations that my salvation may reach to the
end of the earth.
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Sadly, as a result of Columbus's discovery of the Americas, the Spaniards slaughtered
hundreds of thousands for their gold. Columbus himself developed gold fever and lost site of the
purpose for which God had sent him to the Americas.
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