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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 37
and in accordance with the words He had spoken, God carried out his judgment. This judgment
included the destruction of his own temple which Israel had defiled and the caring away of the
treasures from his temple. Daniel records: “In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of
Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. And the Lord
gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which
he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the
treasure house of his god.” (Daniel 1:1-2; see also 2 Chronicles 36:7) Ezra further records: “All
the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar
bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem. (Ezr
1:11)
The treasures in the temple were all carefully crafted according to God's design. They
each represented certain truths from God's word and from his plan of salvation. When these
treasures were taken away and the ceremonies came to a halt, Gods truths were carried away
with them. This is symbolic of the carrying away of the truth from God's Church in America.
There have been several attacks on Christianity in public schools in America. First evolution
began to be taught; then prayer was removed in 1962; the following year the Bible was removed;
in 1968 a law requiring creationism as an alternate theory to evolution was declared
unconstitutional and in 1980 the Supreme Court said the Ten Commandments had to be removed
from the classroom. When these truths were carried away from our schools, they were carried
away from our society and in turn they no longer exist in a great many of our Churches in
America.
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God wants to restore his truths to the Church in America. This can be seen in the
restoration of the gold and silver vessels to the Temple in Israel. After 70 years, a decree was
made to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem and to restore the treasure that was hauled away from
the temple. This was symbolic of restoring God's truth.
In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree
concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place
where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid...
And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which
Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought
unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at
Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God. (Ezra 6:3,
5)
Babylon and New World Order
Ancient Babylon, as we already established, was the greatest military power on earth and
was the master (Lady) of the kingdoms (Is 47:5). Habakkuk further reveals that Babylon would
“gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people.” He writes:
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall
march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not
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