JUDGMENT ON AMERICA
First, if we believe the Word of God, then we should also know that God ALWAYS gives warnings before he judges a nation. Probably the most famous warning God gave was when He told the Prophet Jonah to warn the Assyrians in their capital city of Nineveh that it was about to be judged by God. The Assyrians were a terribly wicked people and were continually waging war against Israel and Judah, they even publically defied Jehovah, but God still wanted Jonah to warn them…against Jonah’s better judgment. Most Bible readers know the outcome, God FORCED Jonah to warn Nineveh, and surprisingly the whole city actually repented, and God stopped His judgment of the city.
What is so unusual about the story in the Book of Jonah is the fact that the Assyrians were one of the few nations that actually repented after a prophet of God warned them of their impending judgment. Unfortunately, most of the Bible is filled with God sending prophets to warn people of His impending judgment, the people usually ignore God’s prophets, and eventually God finally judges the unrepentant nation.
I know a lot of Americans are going to say, “We are the good guys, we are not like the wicked Assyrians in the Bible!” Let me say right off that I love America and Americans. Most Americans are usually polite and respectful, and many Americans will go out of their way to help people, America is packed full of Born again, spirit filled Christians. However, if you are honest with yourself, you will have to admit that the United States of America (U.S.A) is on the wrong trajectory. The U.S.A. is not getting better and better, it is getting worse and worse. It is estimated that the U.S.A. has killed more than 20,000,000 people around the world since the ending of World War 2.
Over 50,000,000 LEGAL abortions have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 1970 in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_statistics_in_the_United_States
According to “recoverybrands”, Americans lead in nearly all categories of legal and illegal drug abuse when we are compared to European countries.
http://recoverybrands.com/drugs-in-america-vs-europe/
According to the New Testament, drug use is practicing “sorcery”!
Rev 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their SORCERIES (G5331), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
SORCERIES: G5331, pharmakeia
Thayer Definition:
1) the use or the administering of DRUGS
2) poisoning
3) sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it
4) metaphorically the deceptions and seductions of idolatry
When people talk about the United States being judged by God, I have often heard the following quote from the Bible:
1Th 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
If you read the context of this quote, you will realize that the Apostle Paul is specifically speaking about the coming of the LORD Jesus Christ. When Jesus comes the second time, He will pour out His wrath on the wicked world, while at the same time He saves the righteous.
Unfortunately, when God removes His hedge of protection from around a nation and it is racked by war, pestilence, famine, and destruction, often times the righteous are effected just as much as the wicked. When the city of Sodom was invaded by the army of the four kings, righteous Lot and his family were carried off captive just like all the wicked people of Sodom. However, when God poured out His wrath directly upon Sodom, He delivered Lot and his two daughters.
Gen 14:11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
Gen 14:12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
Do you see the difference? Jesus told us specifically to REMEMBER Lot’s wife!
Luk 17:31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
Luk 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.
Luk 17:33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
If God sends His prophets to warn us, and we willfully ignore His warnings, can we really expect to escape His judgments? Lot’s wife was pulled out of Sodom by two angels and she still turned back. Can anybody actually condemn God for including her in His wrath when she defied His warning? God specifically condemns people because they do not listen to His prophets!
Jer 29:18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
Jer 29:19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.
Even President George Washington and many other people gave prophetic warnings to the United States, but our defiance of God seems to grow daily.
http://americaslastdays.blogspot.com/
If we can agree that the United States is racing recklessly towards judgment, perhaps we should attempt to find out the timing of this “surprise nuclear attack”. Fortunately, several of these prophetic warnings of a surprise nuclear attack upon the United States also have some definite clues that we can watch out for.
First, all three visions say that the surprise nuclear attack will be mainly against the East Coast and the West Coast of the United States. The angel in Dumitru Duduman’s vision specifically names California, Las Vegas, Florida, and New York as targets of the attack. Henry Gruver’s vision mentions the major cities on the East and West Coasts of the United States. David Wilkerson specifically mentions New York City. Frankly, if you are living in a large city on either the East or the West coast, you are ignoring prophetic warnings at your own peril. If you are living in New York City, you are living in the heart of Mystery Babylon … God help you!
Second, Dumitru Duduman mentions missiles coming from Cuba, Central America and Mexico. Missiles coming from our friendly neighbor to the south seemed unthinkable in the 1980’s? Now that Donald Trump is President, it does not appear as “unthinkable” as it once was. Dumitru Duduman mentions an attack from the oceans, and Henry Gruver specifically says that the Russians will attack from submarines off the coast. Recently, Russian submarines have been detected closer to the United States than they have ever been before.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dem-says-russian-subs-dangerously-close-to-u.s./article/2586428
Third, David Wilkerson said that the attack would occur during an economic collapse.
We had a minor economic collapse in 2008, but I suspect we will have a much larger economic collapse in the near future. When the next economic collapse occurs, I believe you should prepare to escape the cities along the coast and find a retreat to “ride out” the tribulation that is coming upon the whole earth.
I suspect that this surprise nuclear attack will be the catalyst for the beginning of the “great tribulation” and the rise of the antichrist and his beast system to rule the earth for three and one-half years. Since I believe the rapture will occur on September 24, 2029 and Jesus will return to the Mount of Olives on June 7, 2030, I estimate that this nuclear war will occur three to four years prior, or sometime between the Fall of 2025 and the Spring of 2026. However, this is just an educated guess. It could happen before this timeframe, I would pay special attention to the warning signs and take appropriate action as they become more and more obvious.
Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Heb 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.