Is America in Bible Prophecy?

Evil and unspoken sins. They're so evil, and they've been so protected by the devil. They've been in human trafficking. Adults, powerful adults, have had sex with children. And what the Holy Spirit said to me yesterday was, it's going to be revealed. God said, all of it is going to be revealed. Preachers that were part of these parties, it's going to be found out. There's going to be people arrested. There's going to be people humiliated.

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So the first thing I want to ask the question this morning is, is America in Bible prophecy? Does it seem odd to you that the richest and the most powerful country today in the world is just exactly that? There's never been a nation like America. It is the most wealthiest nation, and it has become that way because we have been such a friend to Israel. And America has been the greatest nation in the world, a nation that has evangelized, sent out missionaries to the nations of the earth. And do you think it's odd that America wouldn't be mentioned in the Bible?

So the Bible is so precise in prophesying so many things. Like the Bible prophesies wars and rumors of wars, world wars. It prophesies pestilences. It prophesies earthquakes and famines, and the return of the Jews to their homeland. And even America played a great role in helping Israel get back to their homeland after being scattered to the nations of the earth. I'd like to ask this question: What are the three major powers today as far as nations? What are the three in the world? Help me. China, Russia, United States. United States. Okay, you said it out of your own mouth. That's evident.

So I can prove that Russia is in the Bible because in Ezekiel 38 and 39, we have the war, the Gog-Magog war. That is definitely Russia. And they come down to destroy Israel. But God destroyed Russia. He destroys five-sixths of Russia and only leaves a sixth. And they are bearing the dead for seven months. So they're defeated by God himself. I can prove to you that China is in the Bible because I just covered it with you a couple of weeks ago, how that the Euphrates River will be dried up in the Book of Revelation, that the kings of the East may prepare their way and make their way into the valley of Megiddo, which is located in Israel. And they will be defeated. All of them will be defeated. All the kings of the East will be defeated along with all other nations in the Battle of Armageddon. And the Battle of Armageddon is not a week, it's not a month, it's not a year. It's one day. And the Lord will fight it himself. We will have no weapons, but we'll be on white horses with him. We will see it up close and personal and we'll never be in danger. But he will take on the nations of the world on that white horse, his vest dipped in blood, his eyes are like flames of fire, and there's a short sword that goes out of his mouth, and he destroys the nations by himself.

So I've dealt with Russia, and I've dealt with China. But where is America? Where does that leave America? Is America mentioned in the scriptures since China and Russia are? And America's greater than China, and America's greater than Russia?

So today I want to delicately cover some material that I think is worthy for you to hear and for you to make up your own mind. I'm just going to give you the scriptures. I'm not going to try to get you to believe it, or I'm not going to try to convince you. I just want you to see it and let you make up your own mind. So I'm not dogmatic on this, but I am very suspicious. And I want to tell everybody here, no matter what we may talk about today, I love America. I'm proud to be an American citizen. Amen. I love our flag. I love our leadership, most of it. And I'm worried about America because America has, in the last number of years, become an apostate nation. And the same thing is, I'm trusting and believing God for revival to break out in America. Amen.

So I covered last week spiritual Babylon. That's a religious system. It's found in chapter 17 of the Book of Revelation. But Revelation also reveals to us not just the religious, um, whore of Babylon, the spiritual Babylon, but now today we're looking at the city of Babylon, which is a populace, a metropolitan populace of a lot of people, that is an economic and commercial system that's found in Revelation chapter 18. And there's varying opinions about this economic, uh, Babylon. The first is, there are some preachers that believe that Babylon will literally be rebuilt. And I believe, I don't believe that because we're so close to the coming of Christ. The old Babylon lies in ruins just outside of Baghdad. And Saddam Hussein himself tried to revive Babylon, but he failed. And it's nothing there now today, but just relics of the past. It's all been destroyed. In order to build a city that will be the vibrant city that is going to accomplish what this is going to accomplish in the Book of Revelation, it would take decades and decades and decades to get a city up and going that would have the kind of appeal and influence and prestige, financial prestige, that Babylon will have. So I don't believe that literal Babylon is going to be rebuilt. I don't believe that.

There's another way that many people look at it is that they say that Revelation 18 is an allegory or an illustrious mindset concerning Babylon. But the third is the way that I believe it. It is an economic picture painted by John as he sees this very prosperous and very wealthy metropolis decimated. And since the Bible calls it mystery Babylon, it doesn't call it Babylon, it calls it mystery Babylon, which means mystery means I don't know what it is. And since it's a mystery, it could really be anywhere. When we look at the details that Jeremiah reveals about Babylon and Isaiah and the Book of Revelation, you come to see earmarks in scripture that points toward it possibly being America. I'm not going to try to twist anything to make you think that. I'm just going to present it and lay it out. I'm going to lay the case out for you, just let you see. We're all going to look at it together. I'm not going to twist or emphasize. We'll all look at it and see what we all think about it when I'm through laying it out.

So let's look at comparisons of America possibly being sort of hidden in scriptures. So I'm going first to Isaiah. The Bible says, "Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, 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, mighty." Means terrible from their beginning, mighty. A nation measured out, a nation trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled.

So number one, I want to bring to your attention the word "woe." It says "woe." That's a judgment. Woe. It's a judgment word. Anytime in the Bible that God spoke "woe" to a place, it did not survive over the long haul. So Isaiah's prophesying, "Woe to the inhabitants of the land shadowing with wings."

Number two, "Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia." In the Bible, many times nations are represented by animals. You'll see that Russia is known as a Russian bear. Other nations are represented by lions, others are represented by leopards. All different nations have something that synonymously identifies them as that nation by an animal that is assigned to them so that you can understand that. But this is unusual because this is not an animal. This is an eagle. The national symbol of America is the bald eagle. And it said it's beyond the sea, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, that sendest ambassadors in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Israel is always the focal point. Beyond the sea that eliminates Europe, that eliminates Asia, that eliminates Africa. All three of those continents are eliminated by this one verse. And it said they're scattered and peeled.

In verse two, it said, "Go ye swift messengers to a nation." It's talking about a nation now, not just a city. But to a nation scattered and peeled. America is a wide nation. A number of time zones in America, from the East Coast to the Pacific, there's about four different time zones in America. It's scattered. It's widespread from Miami to Seattle, and from Maine to California. It's a wide, scattered nation. The Bible said, "A nation measured out," that means and trodden down, "whose land the rivers have spoiled." We are a nation divided up into states, counties, parishes, cities, and townships. And the Bible said about this nation, it says, "the rivers have spoiled this nation, whose land the rivers have spoiled." Rivers can be spoiled by pollution. And everyone knows that. Not many people would go fishing and eat fish out of any river in America because they've been polluted by industry dumping into rivers, for sure. Without getting into ecological language this morning, we all know that the rivers have been spoiled in America.

And now let's look at Jeremiah. Jeremiah said in chapter 50:9, "I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country." In other words, this country, this Babylon that's mentioned by Jeremiah, is going to have a coalition of nations that's going to come from the north country. And they will set themselves an array against her. And the Bible calls it a "her." And she will be taken. "Their arrow," that means their missiles, "shall be as of a mighty expert man, and none shall return in vain." Nations will come upon this Babylon from the north. The scripture has never been fulfilled. Even when the Medes and Persians came upon Babylon in Daniel's time, it has not been fulfilled to this day. But to this day, there is no Babylon in Iraq. So this is talking about a mystery Babylon.

What nation fits the description of mystery Babylon? The Bible said that this Babylon has a mother. In the days of Nimrod, Nimrod was the father of Babylon. It all started with Babel, the Tower of Babel. God confused the languages. Nimrod was a great hunter. He was a rebel in the face of God. The Bible says, but he was a builder. He was a city builder. He built the first city. God's concept has always been a garden, but Nimrod built a city. And all the things that goes along with city building, it came to pass because of Nimrod. And in Jeremiah 50:12, it says, "Your mother, this nation, this Babylon, not your father Nimrod, but your mother shall be sore confounded." Now, it couldn't be Samaris, because Samaris declared herself to be the Queen of Heaven. Nobody else declared her to be the Queen of Heaven. She declared herself to be the Queen of Heaven. So it's not talking about Samaris. But it said, "Your mother will be sore confounded, that bare you, she shall be ashamed. And behold, the hindermost of nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert."

So when it says the hindermost of nations, that means the youngest nation. If you look at Great Britain, it's hundreds and hundreds of years old. If you look at Russia, it goes back centuries. You look at China, it goes back centuries. The Orient goes back centuries, centuries. So the Bible calls this Babylon, the hindermost of nations, which means the youngest of nations, shall become a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. America's only 248 years old. But it's just a child when you're talking about the age of nations. So in comparison to other nations of the world, Russia and China and many other nations, America is really young. And the Bible said it will be in existence whenever God brings his children back from the four corners of the earth. Jeremiah said, "I will bring Israel again to his habitation." In other words, this nation will be in existence when God brings Israel again to its habitation. And shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon Mount Ephraim and Gilead.

But I want you to look at chapter 20, or chapter 50 and verse 29. This is an interesting scripture here. "Call together the archers against Babylon, all ye that bend the bow. Camp against it roundabout. Let none thereof escape. Recompense her according to her work, according to all that she has done, for she has been proud against the Lord." So Babylon is no longer in existence. It's nothing but a heap of artifacts. So this Babylon is a mystery Babylon. But the Bible said that this Babylon has been proud against the Lord. Everybody remembers the Mayflower Compact. Everybody remembers the Bill of Rights. Everybody remembers the Constitution. Everybody remembers our early forefathers standing and praying and dedicating this land to God. And there's always been Christians here. And I feel like there'll always be Christians here. But America has been proud against the Lord. Our Supreme Court has ruled against what God stands for and what he has pleaded with all nations to believe and to stand for. America, through the Supreme Court rulings, has ruled against God time and time again. Courts have legislated against prayer in schools. They have legislated for homosexuality and the abominable sins of the world that God calls an abomination: homosexuality, lesbianism, transgenderism, pornography. This nation has ruled that children can have sex change operations without the parents' authority. Abortion. Abortion rulings have become a major pride issue. And women voting in, or women marching in the streets, "It's our body and we'll do with it what we want. Don't care what God says. We're not interested in that. It's our body." And women see that their bodies as their own and not the temple of the Holy Spirit as the Bible says. And they don't care for innocent human life in the womb. And 50 million children, their lives have been taken while inside the womb of their mothers. And I'll read it to you again. It says, Jeremiah 50:29, "For she has been proud against the Lord." This nation has been proud against the Lord. Started out humble, started out wonderful, started out serving God, praying, bending the knee to God, writing the documents that we're going to be a God-fearing nation, and we will serve the Lord. But things begin to become apostate. And the Bible said this nation has been proud against the Lord.

And the Bible says in Jeremiah 50 and verse 37, "A sword is upon the horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her." The Bible talks about America, America having a mingled people. And it says, "and they shall become as women." A sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed. Mingled people means a melting pot of all nationalities. It means nationalities are all mixed in this melting pot of a nation. It's not all like Japanese. It's not all like Chinese. It's not all like Mexicans. These nations are made up of Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese. But it said that this nation is a people that's a mingled people. And so the languages spoken in America has always been numerous: German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, you name it. And the Bible, it says this is a mingled people. In the midst of this nation, there's no other nation on the earth like America that is a nation made up of mingled people.

And the Bible says, number seven, that this land is a land of great wealth. It said, "Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord." In other words, God's blessed America. And it said, "that made the earth drunk." We've taken our blessings, we've taken our prosperity, and we have used it as a prostitute to lure leaders and many other nations in the world. We blessed them, of course we did. City building, nation building, sending missionaries. But we've also taken the blessings that God gave us, and we made the earth drunk with our prosperity. And the nations have drunk of her wine, and therefore the Bible says the nations have become mad because of what America has exported. God has blessed America and has been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord. But America, many times, has abused that blessing. And they've abused the wealth that God has given. And the Bible says it dwells on many waters. Chapter in, verse 13, it says, "Oh, thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness." It says, "Oh, thou that dwells in many waters." It couldn't be Babylon south of Baghdad because it's a desert. Ancient Babylon was a desert. You'll see a picture of it right there. That's where Babylon was. That was where Nimrod built the Tower of Babylon, right near Jerusalem. That area, even Jerusalem didn't have rivers and didn't have a lot of water. You have the Salt Sea, you have the Dead Sea, you have the Red Sea. But America dwells upon many waters. Look at this. America dwells on many waters. You have on the right, the Atlantic Ocean. On the left, the Pacific Ocean. On the south, you have the Gulf of Mexico. On the north, you have the Great Lakes. And then the Bible says, chapter 51:13, "Oh, thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, and the measure of your covetousness." In other words, America has been abundant treasures. We've had natural resources. When Columbus discovered America, great land, a land flowing with milk and honey. Everything America needs. And whatever need could be found in the confines of its own territory, America exported tremendously, but did not need to import much in its early days. And the Bible says 51 and 53, "Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come upon her, says the Lord." It says, "they'll mount up to heaven." We were the first nation to put a man on the moon. We were the first nation that put the flag planted on the surface of the moon. And when Neil Armstrong, and when all the other astronauts went there, and they came, packed up their stuff, and came back to America, we left our insignia, which is the flag, we left it in the soil, the lunar soil of the moon. And the Bible said, "though Babylon should mount up to heaven," that's a definite indicator, our space program. We even claim that we're going to Mars, and we're now preparing people and preparing astronauts for that eventuality.

Now let's look at some comparisons found in the Book of Revelation. The Bible says in verse 1 and 2 of chapter 18, "I looked and I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power, and the earth was lighted with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit." It says, "Babylon has become." It wasn't always like that, but it's become the habitation of devils. If you're going to have a good nation, a strong nation, a God-fearing nation, you have to keep it that way, or it will deteriorate before your very eyes. It will backslide, just as a person can backslide. And America has backslid. And America has become apostate. And the Bible says in verse three, "All nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her." And it says, "the merchants, the business people of the earth, wax rich through the abundance of her delicacies, through the wealth and the riches of America." We've sent foreign aid. Through our vast wealth, we have built nations. We have reconstituted nations that's been destroyed, destroyed by war, by great earthquakes. We have sent foreign aid far and wide. This nation was able to be involved in nation building, and we were involved in exporting things to nations that the merchants of the earth waxed rich through our richness. And it said, "it's a home to God's people, the Jews." In Revelation 18:4, "I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, he's talking about the Jews, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues." Come out of her, my people. My people. Outside of Israel, in the Bible, when Israel was taken captive, Babylon was where the most Jews have ever been concentrated other than Israel. Ever. Babylon. Isn't it amazing today that New York is the largest concentration of Jews of anywhere else in the world besides Israel?

So the Bible says, "her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities." Everybody listen to me carefully. I told you last week that all the judgments now have been poured out, all 21 of them, the sealed judgments, the trumpet judgments, and the vial judgments. They've all been poured out. Even right here, they've all been poured out. And you might think that Jesus would come as soon as the last judgment was poured out. But he said, "No, hold, hold everything. I've got to deal with this ungodly religious system that has deceived people, the nations. I'm going to deal with that. I'm going to deal with this harlot Babylon." And the Bible says, "her sins have reached to heaven." In other words, God said, "Before I come back and I deal with Armageddon, I'm going to deal with this Babylonian system, this economic Babylonian system that has now risen up and become a stench in my nostrils." It says, "her sins have reached unto heaven."

Number five, it says, "there are proud people." Says in chapter 18:7, "How she has glorified herself and lived deliciously. So much torment and sorrow give her, for she is said in her heart, I sit as a queen and I'm no widow, and I'll see no sorrow." In other words, she said, "I sit as a queen, exceptionalism. I'm not like others." America's never been invaded by another nation. What other nation on the earth could say that? Jerusalem, the holy city, was invaded, burned, destroyed several times. Most nations have been invaded. But she said, "I am a queen. I'm exceptional. I'm no widow, and I'll see no sorrow." Exempt in their minds that nobody can touch us. We are so great, nobody can touch us.

And number six, it says that "she is admired by the world in one hour." And you're going to hear me say this a lot of times while I'm preaching today, "one hour." "So great riches is come to naught." "Every shipmaster, and all the company of ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood far off, and they cried when they saw the smoke of her burning." Because on the ocean, when you're on the ocean and you're sailing in ships, you can see something as big as a nation or a major city like New York City, if it's destroyed, you can see the black smoke coming up from miles and miles and miles, hundreds of miles. And they cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, and said, "What city is like this great city?" And they cast dust on their heads, they cried weeping and wailing, and said, "Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness, for one hour." It keeps saying it, "one hour." "She has become desolate." So I have a question: What present city is like this great city anywhere in the world? There's no other city that meets all the qualifications that I've read to you out of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and now the Book of Revelation.

So you might say, "Well, how could this earthquake?" I mean, how could this happen? The Bible said there's going to be an earthquake. In chapter 16, it says in verse 18 and 19, "And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath." And Jeremiah mentions a tidal wave. Jeremiah in 51:42, "The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves." Look at this. In Jeremiah 50:32, "And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour round about him." This is Jeremiah 50. "I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all around about him." And Revelation 18 bears witness with what Jeremiah said about Babylon. "The kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning." Jeremiah said, God showed him, there's going to be a major fire kindled in this city of Babylon that Jeremiah is speaking extensively about in his book. Now John sees it as the smoke of her burning. Is it possible that there may be an EMP? Just one nuclear warhead exploding about 20 miles above the earth would create an EMP, electromagnetic pulse. The power grid would go down. Gadgets would go down. No telecommunications, no transportation. There would be sudden calamity, unaware of what happened, and not able to communicate. Jeremiah said this in chapter 50:22 and 23, "A sound of battle is in the land, and great destruction. How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!" And look at Isaiah, what he said in chapter 47 and verse 5, "Sit silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called The Lady of Kingdoms." It said, "get into darkness." There's a major power source failure. Isaiah 47, verse 7, "You said, I shall be a lady forever: you did not lay these things to your heart, you did not take these warnings seriously. You will not remember the latter end of it. Now therefore hear this, you that are given to pleasures, you that dwell carelessly, and you say in your heart, I am, and there's none beside me." Which is narcissism. Look at that. "I shall not sit as a widow." In other words, I will not have my companions taken. Neither shall I know the loss of children. I'm going to be okay. The things I'm interested in are going to be okay. But that narcissistic spirit is just concerned about self. As we look at the end of the age. But these two things shall come up upon thee in one day. The Bible says, look at it, these two things shall come upon you in a moment, in a moment, in one day. The loss of children and widowhood. And they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of your sorceries, your witchcraft, and your great abundance of your enchantments. You have trusted in your wickedness, and you have said, "None sees me." Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it has perverted you. And you said in your heart, "I am, and there's none else beside me." Therefore shall this evil come upon you. You shall not know from whence it rises. Mischief shall fall upon you, and you'll not be able to put it off. Desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know. And it says, "Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, which wherewith you have labored from your youth. If so be you should be able to profit, if so be you'll be able to prevail. But you are wearied in the multitude of your counsels." Now let your astrologers, your stargazers, your monthly prognosticators, let them stand up and save you from these things that are about to come upon you. You've turned your back on me as the God of heaven. Call your your astrologers, and call your prognosticators, call your horoscopes, and see if they can stand up for you and save you from these things that shall come upon you. They won't be able to. Behold, there'll be a stubble. The fire shall burn them. They shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before. Thus shall be unto thee with whom thou hast labored, even thy merchants from thy youth. They shall wander everyone to his quarter, and none shall save you.

Now I'm closing, but I have some points, very interesting points I want to close with. And this is all in the Book of Revelation. So I want to talk about the lament that you read about as the people of the earth sees what happens to this city, this great prosperous, mighty city. It said, "The kings of the earth," in chapter 18:9, "who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with this prostitute spirit of materialism, they will bewail her and they'll lament for her when they see the smoke of her burning." This is economic fornication, not sexual. They committed economic fornication and lived deliciously because of her wealth. In verse 9, it said, "they committed fornication." It's a metaphor showing how intimately the leaders of the world are connected to our economy and commercial Babylon. These rulers and their nations reaped luxuriously, luxuriously because of our luxury. Now they weep and wail because they realized they were totally dependent upon this great nation, this great city. 18:10 says, "They stand afar off for the fear of her torment." They're shocked. This great city, this great nation, this great, "I can't believe it," saying, "Alas, alas, that great city, that mighty city." "In one hour." It keeps saying that refrain over and over. "One hour judgment has come." World leaders acknowledge how great and mighty this city is, but it does not surpass the greatness of our God. The more mighty the sin, the more mighty the judgment. You'll be recompensed accordingly. World leaders will be in fear, and they will tremble when they see what happens to this Babylon. Revelation 18:10 says, "Standing afar off, they see the torment. They say, that great city. They can't believe something that great." And they said, "One hour, one hour, one hour it was totally destroyed." So economic Babylon is going to fall quickly. It's not going to be a gradual thing. It will be quickly. It will happen in the course of a day, one hour. No time to warn the other nations to buy stocks, to purchase bonds, to borrow money, lower interest rates. No time to make any kind of economic adjustments, no time to prepare. In one hour, swift and complete judgment comes. And the Bible says that the merchants will weep and mourn. No man will be able to buy from this wealthy, luxurious nation again.

So now the merchants. We talked about the leaders of the nations of the world. But I want to talk about the merchants. The merchants are the business owners, the importers, the exporters, not the religious leaders, not the government leaders, but the merchants. Governments and businesses are intertwined. One affects the other. But this is where they're not going to be able to buy or sell without the mark of the beast. But now, since this evil Antichrist system is coming down, that had its hold on the populations of the world, now this great city has come up in God's memory, and the stench of it. And God said, "I'm going to bring that down before I come back." In Revelation 18 and 12 and 13, it says, "list an itemization of things." It says, "the merchandise of number one, gold." And it says, "silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple silk, scarlet, thine wood, manner vessels, ivory vessels, of precious wood, brass, iron, marble, cinnamon, odors, ointments, frankincense, wine, oil, flour, wheat, beasts, sheep, horses, and chariots, and souls of men, slaves." So it started out with wealth, gold. Go back and look at it. It started out with merchandise of gold. And it lists this whole itemization of things that people bartered and traded on the New York Stock Exchange. But look what it ends up saying. This is shocking. "And slaves, and souls of men, human trafficking." Right here in your Bible. Human trafficking. They have people in prison, in jail right now in New York, that offered $50 million of his own money for bail. And the judge says, "No." But could I make a prophetic statement here? That many people have done evil and unspoken sins. They're so evil, and they've been so protected by the devil, and they've had sex with children. They've trafficked. They have been in human trafficking. Adults, powerful adults, have had sex with children. And what the Holy Spirit said to me yesterday was, the lid is about to blow off. And preachers that were part of that, preachers that were part of these parties, it's going to be revealed. God said, "All of it is going to be revealed." What the Holy Spirit said to me, and he told me today to come before you and tell you this, because he knew my message. And the Holy Spirit said to tell you that what's going on right now is not happenstance. It's not orchestrated by man. It's orchestrated by God Almighty, by God. And what's happening is, it's going to be found out. It's going to be found out. There's going to be people arrested. There's going to be people humiliated. And the Jeffrey Epsteins and those things that happened, that they thought they covered over so well, is going to pop up overnight. And the Bible lists 28 articles of merchandise. And it starts out with gold. Look back at it one more time. It starts out with gold. And it lists all these things, merchandise of gold. It starts out good. Silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple silk, ivory. But look how it ends up. This nation started out with goods and services being imported, exported, good. That's a, you build a nation. But how does it end up? Slaves and trafficking in the souls of men, human trafficking. For the average church person sitting in the pew, they don't understand human trafficking. They don't have any concept of what I'm talking about. Or when they hear that term, they don't have any idea of what we're talking about. But human trafficking is a horrible thing. What does that mean? It means that in the mind of this society, people have now been reduced down to slaves, and they have no worth or no value whatsoever.

But I want to show you a scripture. I want to show you how Jesus sees things. Look at this passage. Jesus said in Matthew 18, "Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones." One of these human beings, one of these children. "I say unto you that in heaven their angels, there's none of them poor. There's none of them that I look down on. I have given my angels charge over them." And he said, "In heaven, there are angels always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven." He said, "The Son of Man has come to seek and save that which was lost." In other words, this society, this society that's deteriorated so badly, don't see the value of people anymore. But what Jesus is saying here is, "I see the value of everybody." "The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." He said, "If you have a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, don't you leave the ninety and nine and go into the mountains and seek that one which was gone astray?" When he finds it, he rejoices more over that sheep than the ninety and nine which didn't go astray. What the Lord's saying here is, "I love even the ones that go astray. I'm not mad at them. I love even the rebels, and I go seeking them." I sought him, and I ran after him until I cried, "I thirst." I ran after them until my feet split open and bled. I have value on souls. And I want to tell you this, don't you let a spirit of narcissism grab a hold of you in these last days. It's not about you. It's about the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Amen. Come on. And don't you let this spirit of exceptionalism grab a hold of you where you feel like, "No, none of this is going to happen, and I'm different, and it's all about me, and it's all about what I..." No, it's not. We are built and made and put on the earth to serve the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. He said, "It is not the will of the Father in heaven that even one of these little ones should perish." "Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it would be better if somebody put a millstone around their neck and threw them in the depths of the sea, than if you offend one of my people." People, I love them all. He said, "God don't look at any one of us like you deserve this. I can't stand you. I want you out of my sight." No, the Lord goes seeking you. Thank God somebody loves you. If it wasn't your dad, if it wasn't your mom, if it's not your relatives, Jesus loves you.

Chapter 18:14, "And the fruits that you're so lusted after, they are departed from you, and they are departed from you, and you shall find them no more at all." In other words, the things you've been used to, not you, but the things that the world's been used to, these dainties. Going to be a great loss of possessions. To find clothing that was produced and exported in America all over the world. The styles and the fashions that was established on Avenue and exported to the world, and the world began to dress like Americans. It's coming to a close. The Bible said that these merchants are tormented. They're actually tormented. The merchants which were made rich by her, they'll stand afar off for fear of the torment, weeping and wailing. They're being tormented when they see. They can't believe their eyes. They are emotional and mental about it. They can't believe that such a quick catastrophe has happened. And the economic system of Babylon is like the religious system of Babylon. The Bible said in chapter 17, it was rich and royal, dressed in scarlet and purple, beautiful gold jewelry, embellishments, precious gems and pearls. Commercial Babylon is described the very same way. It still has roots in Babel. And the Bible says in chapters 18:16, "Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in finally, that city." That city, not the religious system, that city that was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls. An economic prostitute that seduced the peoples of the world. And the Bible says it's going to be swift and sudden devastation. I keep reading this. I have to read it. I got to get it in your hearing. "In one hour." Here it is again. "Great riches has come to naught in one hour." Sudden devastation, catastrophic, thorough, permanent damage, devastation to the world economy, worse than a stock market collapse. The Bible says shipmasters, ship owners, sailors, who trade by the sea, even fishermen, they all mourn when they see on the horizon such pillars of black smoke, massive pillars of black smoke. And the Bible says in chapter 18:18 and 19, "They cast dust on their heads, and they cried weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness, for in one hour." They keep saying over and over in the Book of Revelation, "in one hour." This is something that the Holy Spirit through John is trying to get to us and help us to understand. It's sudden. It happens in one hour. And these leaders, political and merchants, cast dust on their heads. And casting dust on their heads in the Bible, you find it in the Book of Job, where they cast dust on their heads, and it means unbearable grief. Heaven's perspective is different. The merchants of the earth are paranoid. They're grieving. They're crying. But in Revelation 18, verse 20, John said to the people, "Rejoice." In other words, this is the end of everything. Everything that's been an offense to God, everything that has risen up against him, every leader, every government, every economic system, every religion. The hour has come. And before he has the marriage supper of the Lamb, and before he comes back at the second coming, and I'm going to be dealing with that next week, and it's glorious. I want you to be here and hear it. The Bible said when God brings all this down, people in the natural go berserk. But the Bible says John made the statement, "Rejoice over this, thou heaven, and you holy apostles and the prophets, for God has avenged you." She's now been overthrown. The unjust, the corrupt, self-serving Antichrist system has now been destroyed. Righteousness and justice will now prevail from here on out. And it said in 11:11:15, "The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."

So let me close today by saying this. I have such, such a strong burden for America. You say, "Brother Kilpatrick, do you believe it's America?" I'm not going to say that, but I'm suspect because nobody else fits the qualifications and the criteria as America. Japan doesn't. Europe doesn't. Canada doesn't. Africa doesn't. Only America. It sets the standard. Businessmen in the world fly to New York City. They go to Wall Street. The nations of the world gather at the United Nations. What a city! And the nations of the world owe their democratic processes to America. It demonstrated it, modeled it to the world. We demonstrated democracy to the world. And they realize that they can't make it because they say that as America goes, so goes the world. I've heard President Trump say it. I've had others say it. As America goes, so goes the world. I heard Reagan say it. As America goes, so goes the world. So these nations of the world, when they see America, if this is America, if it is, and they see it go up with great smoke, they realize, "What are we going to do?" Babylon was once the greatest city in the world. Today, America is the greatest nation in the world. And New York City, the city that never sleeps, is greater than Tokyo. It's greater than Hong Kong. It's greater than Beijing. It is the seat of mercantile, it is the seat of monetary exchange. It is the standard. And so the United States is the most powerful militarily. It's the most powerful economically. And we are the genesis of worldwide import-export. We've been the envy of the world. But that is one thing I want to leave with you today. I can't tell you what I feel in my heart. But here's one thing I want everybody to understand: with America or without America, we serve a King, and He has a kingdom that's not of this world. And we have to realize we're sojourners and we're pilgrims, just passing through. And you don't need to get so worked up about things like that, but you need to be circumspect, and you need to pray, and you need to make decisions that's going to have good results in the near future. We need to pray. Somebody in agreement with that.

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