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America In Prophecy - Jack Van-Impe

CHAPTER 2

Is America in prophecy?  If so, what prophetical predictions allude to
the United States of America?  Is the destruction of the USA portrayed
in Holy Writ?  These and other vital questions are discussed in this
chapter.

America's Deception

The present discussion among the superpowers concerning harmony and
peace is but superficial window dressing.  Communism still plans the
eventual overthrow of America and its Western allies.  The plans
perpetrated over sixty years ago are still moving according to
schedule.  At that time Lenin, who imported Communism into Russia by
murder, said:  "First, we will take eastern Europe, then the masses of
Asia, then we will encircle the United States, the last bastion of
capitalism.  We will not have to attack.  She will fall into our hands
like overripe fruit." The plan is presently in its final stages.  In
spite of it, Americans are so duped and deceived that tomorrow's
concentration camps are never discussed.  The information could ruin
one's pleasurable pursuits!  It could affect one's golf score, batting
average or amusement schedule!  The rotted, overripe fruit--a symbol
of leisure-mad Americans--is beginning to fall and the end may be
imminent.

The British historian, Arnold Toynbee, stated that of the 21
civilizations throughout world history, nineteen fell through atheism,
alcoholism, materialism, and socialism.  The handwriting is on the
wall, America.  Our decline along these same lines may bring sudden
destruction if there is not a movement toward God within our nation -
soon!

America's Decline

Is decline already visible in America?  Definitely!  We, like other
civilizations, have allowed atheists, agnostics, skeptics and weirdos
to set our standards.  PhD's told our college students that there was
no creation by an Almighty God.  Instead, a lot of "monkey business"
took place.  These irresponsible, irreligious, God-deniers never found
the "missing link" of their evolutionary hypothesis and never
scientifically proved their allegations--nevertheless, an entire
generation of "brainwashed" graduates listened, and accepted their
unverified theories.  From this beginning the schools eventually
banned the "creation story," the Bible and then God Himself.  What
nonsensical pagans some mortals be.  This degenerative process led to
immorality, impropriety and immobility as they experimented and died
from drinks and drugs.  Today every conceivable act of vice and
violence is the practice of the hour--the result of atheistic, yea
communistic, influence through the educational system and
entertainment media.

America's Defilement

The result?  Our nation has been defiled morally.  Today Americans
spend approximately 31 billion dollars per year for alcoholic
beverages.  This amounts to 3-1/2 million dollars per hour!  The
disease has reached epidemic proportions, and child alcoholism is part
of the menace.  The Federal Government's National Institute on
Alcoholic Abuse and Alcoholism states:  "By the time students reach
the twelfth grade, 50% drink regularly and 25% have been drunk."
Millions more are drug addicts.  Both sins destroy a nation and send
unrepentant addicts and drunkards to Hell.  I Corinthians 6:9-10
state:  "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the
kingdom of God?  Be not deceived:  neither fornicators, nor idolaters,
nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with
mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor DRUNKARDS, nor revilers, nor
extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God" (emphasis mine).
Galatians 5:19-21 list seventeen sins.  Number sixteen is DRUNKENNESS.
After naming these practiced abominations including drunkenness, the
Bible says, ".  .  .they which do such things shall not inherit the
kingdom of God." Concerning drugs the Bible declares in Revelation
21:8 that ".  .  .the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and
murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all
liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and
brimstone:  which is the second death." The term "sorcerer" is the
English transliteration from the Greek "Pharmakeia" and means
"pharmacy" or "drug store." The original idea is to use drugs for a
"high", a "lift", or a "kick"--not a medication!  God plainly states
that those who use drugs promiscuously are in the "lake of fire".

The defilement extends into the sexual area as well.  Dr.  Murray
Kappleman states:  "The sex revolution is over and sex has won."
Sexual experimentation is now occurring at 13 and 14 years of age.
"The pressure from the peer group and the media to be sexually active
is enormous.  Today if a girl is a virgin at 17 she is made to feel
she is in need of therapy--just the opposite of 20 years ago." Dr.
Kappleman indicts the media for much of this immorality.  Is there any
validity to his claim?  Let's see.

Television "specials" such as "Rich Man, Poor Man," "Best Sellers" and
"Captains and the Kings" are loaded with sex, violence, cursing,
situation ethics and anti-Christian morality.  Adultery, fornication,
homosexuality, orgies, incest and nudity are all a major part of these
shows.  Even the so-called "situation comedies" are tragically filthy.
"Rhoda" is divorced.  "Maude" had illicit affairs and an abortion.  In
"One Day At a Time" both mother and daughter ran off with boyfriends.
In "Welcome Back, Kotter" Barbarino claims to get saved and then
chucks it all overboard for sex.  This filthy "brainwashing" is having
its effect.  It contributes to sexual intercourse on the part of 35
percent of the girls in the nation who are 15-19 years of age,
according to Patricia McCormack in a United Press International
release.  Surely this makes 1,300,000 sinners who shack up without a
marriage license in our nation feel comfortable in their adulterous
condition.  After all, if the heroes of the silver screen can do it
and make it look decent--why not try it!  The problem is that God, yea
the God of holiness, is still against any act of sex that takes place
outside the bonds of holy matrimony.  If one does not have a marriage
license and plays sex games, he will end up in a Devil's Hell.  God's
Holy Commandment in Exodus 20:14 is:  "Thou shalt not commit
adultery." What makes one think he can flaunt God's rules and end up
in eternal bliss?  Just who do we think we are?  God is no respecter
of persons (Romans 2:11) and one day ".  .  .God shall judge the
secrets of men by Jesus Christ .  .  ." (Romans 2:16).  Then our
brazen disregard of God's Laws will be judged.  God's Law declares:
"Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled {in marriage}:
but whoremongers and adulterers {the swingers and the one-night
flingers}, God will judge" (Hebrews 13:4).  Revelation 22:15 declares:
"For without {of heaven} are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers
{women-chasers and men-seducers}, and murderers, and idolaters, and
whosoever loveth and maketh a lie."

Can America sink any lower in the mud of depravity?  The defilement of
our nation has reached such lascivious stages that 30,000 Los Angeles
children have been used for "Kiddie Pornography" according to The
Associated Press.  Wicked, satanically controlled purveyors of smut--
the publishers, printers and sellers of pornography--are the guilty
culprits behind this filth.  However, the educational system of the
United States also shares some of the blame for the deteriorated
debacle in which the nation finds itself.  Recently, a 13-year-old
girl in Austin, Texas came home in a distraught condition because a
sex education film entitled, "All About Sex," had been shown in her
Home Economics class.  It showed a nude couple in the actual act!
America needs an investigation into the morals of its teaching staff!
Many of them bring their barnyard manners into the classroom and
present them as rationally acceptable.  Now, since the "intellectually
elite" accept such depravity, no questions should therefore be asked.
The problem is that a corrupt mind, educated or uneducated, is still
rotten to the core.  God says:  ".  .  .  their mind and conscience is
defiled" (Titus 1:15).  This deterioration of standards has led to one
million abortions within the last year.  Think of it!  The
"brainwashed" victims--monkey see, monkey do--whom instructors with
evolutionary "monkey" tendencies indoctrinated, now do what monkeys
would never do--kill their babies!  Where will it all end?  The next
step, undoubtedly, is related to Nazism and Communism.  Why?  Because
both maniacal organizations murdered millions.  Hitler believed in
genocide and practiced it.  Babies and adults with physical blemishes
were liquidated.  The Communists murdered millions more than the Nazis
for political reasons.  Likewise, our educated "morons" are now
advocating "mercy killing" as the next step in America's defiling
decline.  Dr.  Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winner, advocates that
newborn babies should not be considered legally alive until they are
two days old and have been certified as healthy by medical examiners.
He also advocates compulsory death for all at age eighty.  Dr.  Gallop
said:  "If a doctor takes money for killing an innocent babe in the
womb, he will kill you with a needle, when paid by your children."
"This," he said, "is the terrible nightmare we are creating for the
future."



Murderers

It is plain to see that callousness is sweeping the nation.  Kill the
unborn, kill the aged, kill anyone who stands in the way of one's
selfish aspirations.  This callousness produces sadistic and violent
murderers.  In past history rare instances of torture and mutilation
occurred.  Today, it is the rage of the hour.  Recently, in Detroit, a
young man killed his father, stuffed him into the refrigerator and ate
dad piece by piece.  What savagery!  Sam, the 44-caliber killer of New
York City, blew holes through his victims' heads to satisfy his quest
for blood.

Again in Detroit, Michelle Mudie is to be married, but may not be able
to walk down the aisle.  Why?  Some maniacs robbed the shop where she
worked, tied up three victims and hacked them with hatchets.  In
Chatham.  Ontario Monica Johnson was found.  The Detroit woman's body
had been dismembered into ten pieces and thrown into a marshy area.  I
don't know about you, but God and the Bible are for capital punishment
and vicious killers such as these should pay with their lives!  Exodus
21:12 says:  "He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely
put to death." Again:  ".  .  .he that killeth any man shall surely be
put to death" (Leviticus 24:17).  Many of today's criminals escape
earthly judgment because of lenient judges.  Still, eternal judgment
will come because ".  .  .murderers .  .  .shall have their part in
the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.  .  ." (Revelation
21:8).

This same callousness also produces merciless robbers, looters and
plunderers.  A few lights go out in New York City and the "animals"
stalk their victims.  They cry:  "We are hungry" and most of them look
like stuffed sausages.  Their obesity speaks louder than their lament.
Many of these thieves had previously robbed, raped and plundered when
the lights were on and scores more had top-paying jobs.  Their "Uncle
Sam owed it to me" attitude prevailed and crime reigned.  Our
dependency from cradle to grave on governmental funds will undoubtedly
produce a socialistically controlled nation.  This same situation
destroyed civilization after civilization as creeping socialism
grasped power.  How different from God's instructions!  He states
through Paul in II Thessalonians 3:10-12:  ".  .  .if any would not
work, neither should he eat.  For we hear that there are some which
walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies {or
troublemakers}.  Now them that are such we command and exhort by our
Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they WORK, and eat their own
bread" (emphasis mine).  Laziness and idleness produce robbers,
rapers, looters, troublemakers, and murderers who have nothing to do
but daydream and carry out their "fairy tale" hallucinations.  God
help us!

America's Ministerial Defilement

To further aggravate the situation, we have doctrinally defiled
clergymen who mock everything that is right.  They know more than God.
He wrote the Bible and they knock its precepts, standards and
teachings.  For instance, a recent London (AP) release stated:  "The
divinity of Jesus is being challenged by a panel of British Protestant
theologians who say He should be regarded as a great teacher, not a
supernatural miracle worker." In a new book entitled.  "The Myth of
God Incarnate," the seven theologians argue that Jesus was not God in
human form but "a man approved by God" for a special role.  The
authors state that Jesus did not claim to be divine but was promoted
to divinity by early Christians who were still under pagan influences.
What blasphemy!  This kind of dedication to the destruction of God and
His Word is common.  Our pulpits are full of ordained hypocrites who
spouted fundamental Bible principles at their ministerial induction
services and then slid back into religious anarchy as the years
progressed.  God, speaking about this crop of apostates, says in Jude
verse 8:  ".  .  .these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise
dominion, and speak evil of dignities" (including the God-man, the
Lord Jesus Christ).  The apostle Peter states, ".  .  .there shall be
false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable
heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them.  (II Peter 2:1
emphasis mine).  No doubt about the teachings of the Bible--Jesus is
God:  ".  .  .God was manifest in the flesh.  .  ." (I Timothy 3:16).

Every precious doctrine held by Christians throughout the centuries is
being attacked by ministerial antichrists.  Pollution and defilement
permeate every area of America's populace, including the ministry.
Judgment is on the way:  "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and
all the nations that forget God" (Psalm 9:17).  Though it may be too
late to save America nationally, we can individually prepare to meet
the Lord.  How?  Christ shed His precious blood for the remission of
mankind's sin.  He died for you, for your sin, for your defilement.
If you call on His name now, He will save you.