Tim LaHayes Perspective August, 1999

THE ROLE OF THE U.S.A. IN END TIMES PROPHECY As I sat on an American Airlines flight, I heard the attendant welcome us to the Global Alliance Airlines, a consortium of AA and several other foreign carriers. Again I was reminded that this world is rapidly moving to globalism on many fronts. We hear about the global internet, global banking, global economy, a global monetary system, a global defense system, and the list goes on. One frightening thing the educators are advancing is global education, which is part of what Education 2000 is about. After successfully ruining the best educational system in the world now one third of our students cannot read, another third are not reading well, and the majority cannot discern between right and wrong they want to make their amoral socialistic form of education global. These liberal educrats with dictator-type control over our nations schools have successfully revised American history until it has become not the facts as they really occurred but its their interpretation of world history. Now they would like to do the same for the world. In the meantime the global government (or One World Government obsession enthusiasts of the UN-controlled world) is working tirelessly to usher in the next World Empire. That is not surprising to Christians, for we who read the

prophetic Scriptures know from our studies of Daniel and Revelation that there is going to be one world empire in the last days and it will be headed by the Antichrist. Any thinking person can see it could happen within a short time. The big question often is Where does the United States fit in these end time events? Or, Does the United States have a place in end time prophecy? My first response is no, there is nothing about the U.S. in prophecy! At least nothing that is specific. There is an allusion to a group of nations in Ezekiel 38:13 that could apply, but even that is not specific. The question is why? Why would the God of prophecy not refer to the supreme super power nation in the end times in preparation for the One world government of the Antichrist? One very easy answer is that the United States may soon surrender her national sovereignty in the name of world peace to the United Nations, or she may implode by corruption and betrayal. (All it would take is another eight years of liberalism in the White House and a liberal majority in the Congress, Senate, and Supreme Court; the election of 2000 will determine that!) This country cannot survive another unaccountable administration that betrays our national security by giving our missile secrets to communist China and our other mortal enemies, so that when Russia goes down against Israel just before the Tribulation, the U.S. is no longer equipped to make more than a diplomatic objection. One thing is clear when

taking all of Bible prophecy together, the United States does not seem to be an end times player. Russia, Israel, the former Roman Empire nations, China, Germany, Turkey, and the Arab alliance are all referred to; but there is no mention of the United States. All of which leads me to conclude that something dreadful is going to happen to either render the worlds only super power impotent in the last days or at best nullify her influence. Actually, there are several rather dreadful possibilities: 1. Americas foreign policy of protection for Israel could change. That would remove Gods hand of blessing on this country for being good to the Jews and result in the judgment of God on our nation as never before. Lets hope that the Bible believing Christians of this nation will prevent that scenario by refusing to vote for politicians who will not continue our policy of protecting and providing for Israel in these last days. 2. The liberal mindset of the media could continue to attack Christian values and beliefs to so effectively destroy our youth with the help of the awesomely influential entertainment and education industries that our entire culture would collapse from within in less than a decade, creating the kind of anarchy in the streets foretold about the tribulation period. 3. The majority of church members could continue to practice their pacifist ways of refusing to vote in general elections and allow liberal secular humanists (who

are socialists at heart) to be elected to increase the size and scope of government until big brother dominates the religious, economic, and personal lives of our children. And that possibility is not remote. Just suppose that only 48 percent of the Christian community goes to the polls in 2000 the way they did in 1996. It wont make any difference who the Republicans nominate. Al Gore amassed a voting record of 4 percent while a Senator (on a scale: liberal = 0, conservative = 100). This man has admitted in his book that he worships Gia, the mother earth goddess, and loves big government and high taxes. But he can be elected easily if Christians dont get involved. Too many pastors pull their sanctimonious clerical robes around them claiming I never get involved in politics, or I believe in separation of church and state just the way the ACLU wants me to, or I dont believe in becoming controversial, or I dont want to offend anyone, after all I might drive them away from the church, as they did in 92 and 96. It is these pastor shepherds who will bear the responsibility of refusing to come to the aid of their country at a time of moral crisis and of losing our religious freedoms. If they again stand idle at election time and permit these intolerant socialists who today masquerade as liberals or moderates (like Bill Clinton who talks moderate and acts liberal) to gain control of both the congress and the White House because of evangelicals apathy, our children and grandchildren will suffer the needless loss of freedom.

In addition, those non-participating pastor shepherds will bear the responsibility for the loss of the freedom for American Christians to preach the gospel around the world during the third millennium. The reason I say it is the pastors responsibility is because we evangelical Christians are so numerous in this country that if only 20 percent more of us (from 48% to 68%) were taught and practiced our Christian civic responsibilities of voting for those candidates who best represent our moral values (something that would take .0005% of our time) we could elect enough pro-moral, pro-family, and pro-life candidates to return this country to the values it was originally founded on. Just as much of the responsibility of the holocaust can be laid at the feet of the German clergy of the 30s because they refused to speak out against moral injustice, so will the silent evangelical clergy in American bear the responsibility for the coming loss of freedom to America. 4. Liberal Socialist politicians in leadership will turn the control of the United States over to the United Nations, using the vast resources of this country to implement the One World Government that they envision as the only hope for peace in this world.. That cannot happen without the aid and support of the United States. Already the minipotentates at the UN look on the vast resources of the USA as their resources needed to implement their agenda

of world dominance. It is frightening that a large number of liberal socialists in both congress and the vast government bureaucracy agree with them. We have no way of knowing for sure if this or the next decade is indeed the one that sees the rapture of the church and the ushering in of end time events. Many fulfilled signs would indicate we are getting close, which suggests we had better occupy till He comes. That should, of course, include intensifying our evangelistic outreach, for the Savior could shout from Heaven at any time. But it should also inspire us to accept our civic citizenship responsibilities of voting and getting every member of our churches to do the same. I am convinced that the church is the only body in America that will determine if we will go into a socialist dominated government before or after the Rapture. We know it will be after the Rapture. Whether we become just another socialist state before the Rapture depends on our nations pastor-shepherds.