Is there anything in
the Scriptures about the greatest and most powerful
nation the world has ever known? Well, I have studied
the Scriptures for several years and to my delight I
have found many scriptures that can have no other
meaning than referring to the United States of
America. This is a subject that many books have
written about, of which I have many - and they are
historical and interesting. But we will keep our
remarks to, IT IS WRITTEN.
In Genesis 48 and
49, Jacob (Israel) bestows a blessing on his sons,
and in so doing this, brings into existence the
thirteen tribes. Genesis, Chapter 28, verse 5 says,
"And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh,
who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I
came to you in Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon,
they shall be mine." Genesis 48, verses 16-20:
"The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil,
Bless the lads; Let my name be named upon them, And
the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; And let
them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
(17) Now when Joseph saw his father laid his right
hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; so he
took hold of his father's hand to remove it from
Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. (18) And Joseph
said to his father, "Not so, my father, for this
one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his
head." (19) But the father refused and said,
"I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a
people, and he also shall be great; but truly his
younger brother shall be greater than he, and his
decedents shall become a multitude of nations."
(20) So he blessed them that day, saying "By you
Israel will be blessed saying, 'May God make you as
Ephraim and as Manasseh!'" And thus he set
Ephraim before Manasseh." Jacob gave them a full
inheritance with Joseph's brothers. And in verse 22
it says, "Moreover I have given to you one
portion above your brothers, which I took from the
hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow."
Jacob gives Joseph the double portion blessing, which
makes Joseph the head of all his brothers, and this
blessing becomes Ephraim's and it has never been
revoked. In chapter 49, verse 26, it tells us,
"The blessings of your father have excelled the
blessings of my ancestors. Up to the utmost bound of
the everlasting hills. They shall be on the head of
Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him who was
separate from his brothers."
Nathan, the prophet,
came into David and gave him a very strange prophecy
in 2 Samuel, chapter 7 and verse 10, where Samuel
says to David, "Moreover I will appoint a place
for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they
may dwell in a place of their own and move no more;
nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them
anymore, as previously," Now, they are already
in the promised land. David has established the
kingdom and had rest from all his enemies, verse 1:
"Now it came to pass when the king was dwelling
in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from
all his enemies around" The prophecy says, they
will be planted in another place and will move no
more. In 2 Kings 17, verse 23 it says, "until
the LORD removed Israel out of His sight, as He said
by all His servants the prophets. So Israel was
carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is
to this day." The ten tribes were carried away,
captured by the Assyrians and seem to disappear from
Scripture. One hundred and forty years later,
Jeremiah records in chapter 39, verses 1 and 2,
"In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in
the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and
all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it.
(2) In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth
month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was
penetrated." The capture of Jerusalem and the
carrying away of the remnant that consisted of the
other three tribes of Israel; Judah, Benjamin, and
Levi, though some of them did return to Israel under
Ezra and Nehemiah, but they are never established as
a nation again. Verse 9: "Then Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard carried away the captive to
Babylon the remnant of the people who remained in the
city and those defected with him, with the rest of
the people who remained."
In Matthew chapter
10 and verses 5 and 6, Jesus says, "These twelve
Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: "Do
not go into the way of the heathen, and do not enter
a city of the Samaritans. (6) But go rather to the
lost sheep of the house of Israel." Again in
Matthew chapter 15, verse 24 Jesus said, "But He
answered and said, "I was not sent except to the
lost sheep of the house of Israel." Now Jesus
did not say to the house of Judah or to the Jews -
but to the House of Israel. Now He had to know where
they were or He could not have made that statement.
James, the half
brother of Jesus, in chapter 1 verse 1 made the
following statement, "To the twelve tribes which
are scattered abroad, greetings." How could
James make this statement if he did not know where
they were? Also he expected them to get his letter.
There is a prophecy
through Moses in chapter 15 of Deuteronomy and verse
6 that reads, "For the LORD your God will bless
you just as He promised you; you shall lend to many
nations, but you shall not borrow; you shall reign
over many nations, but they shall not reign over
you.." This prophecy was never fulfilled by
Israel and the people that call themselves Jews today
cannot fulfill it, so who are these people in
Scripture today? There is a little chapter that is
seven verses long in the middle of Isaiah that has no
relation to any of the chapters around it. So, let us
study the eighteenth chapter of Isaiah.
(1) "Woe to the
land shadowing with wings, Which is beyond the rivers
of Ethiopia:"
'Woe' - this same word appears in verse 12 of chapter
17, and it means listen up - pay attention, such as a
military commandment, 'attention', so let us pay
attention to what Isaiah tells us in these seven
verses.
(2) "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."
(3) "All ye
inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth,
see ye, when he lifts up an ensign on the mountains;
and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye."
(4) "For so the
LORD said unto me, "I will take My rest, and I
will consider in My dwelling place like a clear heat
upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of
harvest."
(5) "For afore
the harvest, when the bud is perfect and the sour
grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut
off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and
cut down the branches."
(6) "They shall
be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and
to the beasts of the earth: and the fowl shall summer
upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall
winter on them."
(7) "In that
time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of
hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a
people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a
nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land
the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of
the LORD of hosts, the Mount Zion."
Now let us explain
these seven verses. We have looked at the word 'Woe',
which means, listen up or pay attention. The land
shadowed with wings is where? Beyond the rivers of
Ethiopia, or the Nile river. Beyond the Nile river
across Northern Africa, we find only desert and waste
land, the great Sahara desert. The verse says,
"land shadowing with wings, beyond the Nile
river". So where is this land? If you look at a
world map, you will find that the 30th parallel is
just south of Jerusalem. If you draw a line from
Jerusalem to the west you cross the worthless desert
of Northern Africa and will come ashore in northern
Florida and southern Georgia, the first land of any
value west of the Nile. The verse says, "to the
land shadowing with wings". No other nation has
for its national emblem an eagle with outreached
wings, except the United States of America.
Here are some
different translations of these verses:
Verse one - The New King James says, "Land
shadowed with buzzing wings" - The New American
Standard translates this as, "land of whirring
wings". - The American Standard translation
says, "land of rustling wings". - In the
Revised Standard translation, it says, "land of
whirring wings". - The Young's translation says,
"land of shadowed wings". - The Webster's
translation says, "the land shadowing with
wings".
Verse two -
"That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in
vessels of bulrushes upon the water, 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." Let us dissect this verse.
First it says, "that sendeth ambassadors by the
sea". No African country west of the Nile has
ever sent ambassadors by sea, but America has sent
ambassadors to all the nations by boat. The verse
says, "even in vessels of bulrushes upon the
waters, go ye swift messengers,". Now when the
Scriptures were translated into English in the 1611,
the only boats known on the Nile river were made of
bulrushes, so that was the word that was used. But
the original Hebrew word implied a 'water drinking
vessel', that meant nothing to the translators back
then. What is a water-drinking vessel? It is a steam
ship, invented by Fulton and had its trial run on the
Hudson River. Today, we have the atomic
water-drinking vessel. Soon, our ambassadors were
swift messengers to all the nations by steam ship.
Verse two goes on to say, "a nation scattered
and peeled to a people terrible from their beginning
hitherto;". The New King James translation says,
"To a nation tall and smooth of skin". The
New American Standard, American Standard, and Revised
Standard all say, "To a nation tall and
smooth". The Young's translation says, "a
nation drawn out and peeled". The Webster's
translation is the same as the King James. Four
translations say, "a nation tall and
smooth". The American soldiers are the tallest
in the world, and basically, Americans are
clean-shaven, smooth-faced men. "Terrible from
their beginning" - America was the most feared
and revered nation on the earth until the Korean War.
Verse two continues on to say, "a nation meted
and trodden down, whose land the rivers have
spoiled." The New King James, the New American
Standard, and the American Standard all translates
this as, "Whose land the rivers divide". It
said, "a nation meted and trodden down".
Did you ever read in history of the Meets and Bonds
Act of 1800? It was a law that required every section
(640 acres) to be surveyed and a brass marker put at
each corner of the sections. The United States was
meted out, measured, trodden down by the surveyors as
they walked every section of the nation. Abraham
Lincoln worked as a surveyor for a while on this
project, which was not finished until the 1890's. No
other nation has been meted out (measured) trodden
down (walked from shore to shore and boundary to
boundary) but the United States of America. Finally,
verse two says, "whose land the rivers have
spoiled", but three translations say, "the
rivers divide". The Amazon River runs through
Brazil, but no other nation on the earth but America
is divided by first the mighty Mississippi, which
starts in Canada, then quartered by the Ohio River
that reaches from the Atlantic to the Mississippi,
and by the mighty Missouri, that begins at the
continental divide in the great Rocky Mountains of
the Northwest.
On to verse three:
"All the inhabitants of the world, dwellers on
the earth, pay attention when his ensign is lifted
up." The Star Spangled Banner is that ensign -
and almost all the inhabitants of the world want to
come to America.
Verses four, five
and six, I believe, are an account of the Civil War.
Verse seven says, "In the time shall present be
brought unto the LORD of hosts by the people that are
tall and clean-shaven." The American Standard
and the Revised Standard say, "Gifts or presents
will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people
tall and smooth." The rest of the verse we have
already discussed and it concludes by saying that
these people bring their gift to the place of the
name of the LORD of hosts, Mount Zion, the place of
praise.
Read the vision of
Columbus. He said God told him to find the new world.
The Pilgrims said they were coming to the great
wilderness and called it the Promised Land. Every
American, and especially every Christian should read
the Mayflower Compact and the Virginia Charter,
"For the Glory of God". They said they came
to the new world, the Promised Land.
The original
thirteen colonies represent the thirteen tribes, and
no other nation on the earth can or has fulfilled
verses 8 through 12 of Deuteronomy chapter 28, but
America. Those verses are as follows; "And it
shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently
unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to
do all his commandments which I command thee this
day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high
above all nations of the earth: (2) And all these
blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if
thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy
God. (3) Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and
blessed shalt thou be in the field. (4) Blessed shalt
be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy
ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of
thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. (5) Blessed
shalt be thy basket and thy store. (6) Blessed shalt
thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou
be when thou goest out. (7) The LORD shall cause
thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten
before thy face: they shall come out against thee one
way, and flee before thee seven ways. (8)The LORD
shall command the blessing upon thee in thy
storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand
unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee.
America has made
financial loans to every nation, and borrowed from
none, and the only nation that has ever repaid us is
little Finland. If another nation is God's chosen
nation, and can fulfill these verses, then they
should be loaning money to America. What other nation
on earth's national anthems are about the LORD?
Remember Jacob,
(Israel's) prophesying the future to Joseph in
Genesis, chapter 48 about his two sons Ephraim and
Manasseh? Jacob has laid his right hand on the head
of the younger and his left on the older, and Joseph
has asked him to change, and verse 19 says, "And
his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I
know it: he also shall become a people, and he also
shall be great: (the United States of America) but
truly his younger brother shall be greater than he,
and his seed shall become a multitude of
nations." (The Commonwealth of Great Britain).
God has blessed America! I highly recommend the books
featured at "Do You Know
Your American Heritage" for further study on this
subject.
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