Posted by
CKHustler on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:32:34 PM
Every so often I ponder how Revelations fits into the current situation and guage if I believe it is possible we are living in the end times. I got on a track backwards and found myself pondering how divine intervention has affected the United States in particular. I got as far back as George Washington and worked my way up to the foundation of Israel.
To start it off, the foundation of our country was nothing short of a miracle. We were battling the premier army of the world with only 1/3 of our population supporting the cause. Another 1/3 of our population was backing England and the last 1/3 rounded off as independents looking out for their own skin. So with 1/3 of our population we eventually won out, granted we did get some help from French to finish off the war. Moving on to Washington, he is possibly the greatest man to ever live, in my opinion. He had the army behind him, he had the politicians behind him, he had the people behind him; he could have been king, but he gave power back. Not only that, but he died fairly soon after he left office and had he died in office, it could have started a precedence for the President to stay in office until death. He also had no child to take over after him and as such that precendent never came to pass either. It was the perfect man, surround by the perfect scenario, at the perfect time. Had it happened any other way, our country could have turned out very different.
War of 1812 rolls around and it takes a storm unlike any seen previous to wipe out a good portion of the invading army of England. The tales of people witnessing and experiencing the storm said it could be called a hurricane as it was large and powerful enough. Some say it was a tornado because of how powerful the winds were in Washington. Whichever it was, a British Admiral asked a local woman if that storm was normal in that area and the woman replied it was a storm specially sent by God "to drive our enemies from the city." That it did and killed many of their soldiers to boot. I would add in Andrew Jackson's adventures, but the war truce was already signed before the major last battle of his where we killed many times the soldiers we had in total to defend New Orleans.
Moving forward to the civil war the South had just crushed the Union at Fredericksburg and were looking to finish off the Union army and take Washington DC. Gettysburg put a stop to that as the Union took the high ground and defeated the south. The whole reason it took place like that is an advance of the Union troops found and engaged the Confederates to defend the high ground. Lee was supposed to have cavalry which would have helped him find the Union army, but his scouts had not returned and so he was blind. He thought the entire Union army was up fighting his advance portion of his army. A turn of luck and had the scouts been with Lee and he may have swooped in to take the high ground at Gettysburg and the war could have ended right then and there. Instead it turned around and the country was kept as one.
World War 1 comes along and though we didn't really do all that much fighting(comparatively), Wilson had his fingerprints all over the treaty. Now if our country had split into two in the civil war, I doubt that would have happened. Of course if the British won either of the previous two wars, we wouldn't have been in that position either. As it happened the horrendous treaty Wilson pushed on the world and Germany brought about World War 2.
World War 2 ends with Israel being reinstated as a country, which is one of the tellings of the end times. Without the United States, Israel likely does not exist at this point in time.
So reaching back through our history, our miraculous victory over the British in 1781, the perfect man to lead our country, an incredible storm to kill off the British during the war of 1812, a stroke of luck to turn the tide of the Civil War, Wilson pushing the Treaty of Versailles on the Germans, which causes World War 2 and ends in the foundation of the new Israeli state. Reeks of divine intervention does it not?
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke