No it doesn't. That's just YOUR assumption. :laugh: The promise made to Israel was with Israel. But you guys act as if there is no precedent for the PRINCIPLES of God's word to be transferable to all.
The Ten Commandments were also given to Israel. Do we ignore that we, like Israel, are called to keep those commandments?
The word of God is ALIVE. It did not die after the events took place. As NONE of the stuff in the Bible happened to us, we MUST look at the principles of what took place and the application to our everyday existence or otherwise, it serves no purpose to even have the word.
Are you a sabbatarian? Who we used to have a lot of here years ago). The fourth commandment is the sabbath, from sundown Fri to sundown Sat, not Sunday. Yet most do not believe that applies to Christians. Yet some do, and insist we're all in disobedience, because whatever God said to Israel He says to us, and "He changes not". There are people who have all sorts of restrictions on music in Church based on different "principles". That's a word tossed around a lot by those who like to rise up, and mine scripture for some arguing point to render everyone else as out of god's will, or whatever.
What it suggests is that George Washington and those who founded the country profoundly understood Scripture and what the possibilities were for the nation that dedicated itself to keeping GOD first in the manner in which God had intended for Israel to do.
And on April 30, 1789 after his inauguration in New York City, the nation's THEN capital , George Washington addressed the first joint session of Congress and committed in prayer the United States of America's future to GOD.
The nation's leader consecrated the US unto the Lord just as King Solomon had done with Israel.
And where did this take place? In ST. Paul's Chapel right across from what is Ground Zero. And the actual land of Ground Zero is part of a field that used to belong to St. Paul's.
Yes, the modern day Assyrians attacked the United States in the same place in which George Washington consecrated her unto God. Coincidence? Nope.
The Assyrians struck the Temple Mount of Israel in King Solomon's day the exact same way. The Temple and the nation of Israel were dedicated to God by King Solomon. It was the place of Israel's national consecration just as ST. Paul's Chapel/Ground Zero was the place of the United States national consecration.
And as with Israel, the striking of the place in which the nation was consecrated is a sign that God has removed His hand of protection and allowed judgment to begin.
And one by one, and using the exact same words that the Israelites did after the Temple Mount was destroyed, America and her leaders are doing and saying THE EXACT SAME THINGS in defiance to God.
Why unless you question the precedence of God's word of what He does when a nation is consecrated unto Him.
Wasn't Washington ultimately a Mason? (Even though he may have been affiliated with various churches)> There were many people who were "culturally" Christian, but believed all sorts of unorthodox things. But it seems that goes right out the window when trying to prove America was "chosen", and was so much better back then. Yeah; I wonder how he and others like Jefferson would have fared under the divinely enforced Law if America was really the new Israel!
You're talking apples and oranges now as NONE of that brought about modern day Assyrians destroying the spot of the nation's consecration.
And where does the notion of the attackers being "Assyrians" come from? They were Arabs, who in scripture were Ishmael, not Asshur.
This is precisely why I question these methods of interpretations. You have to bend and stretch things and people to get them to fit. Like I used to think America's real position in prophecy was the "second beast" of Rev. 13 (the lamb-like dragon), and that our right/left wing system were the two horns. This I got from the SDA's, and they had a lot of such prophecies that were being "fulfilled". You can plug in anything anywhere and tweak it all to fit. It's been done countless times, and Camping kept saying the same things; that all these clues added up, and everyone was just being stubborn ignoring God's message. The Maya prediction for this year was similar (only not using scripture), as was Nostradamus' stuff.
Again, apples and oranges. The nation has never so fully turned away from God. And the nations place of consecration has never before been struck by "outsiders".
Looking at the principles of Scripture being transferable and applicable to ALL, the United States is doing EXACTLY what Israel did when the Temple Mount was destroyed. And unless we turn back to God, the end result will be the same.
There are many people who will mimic something like that, or it was just a natural reaction that they did in Israel, and other nations in the same situation would do the same thing, but in Israel's case, it had apocalyptic significance.
Also, about the "blessings", this is a purely materialistic viewpoint, as much as "materialism" is supposed to be one of the sins these prophets are pronouncing judgment at. The proof the nation was blessed was all our material wealth, and technology, etc. Whatever happened to the godly "suffering" while the wicked prosper? Talk about "letting Hollywood teach us", aren't they the ones who believe wealth is everything; one's entire worth? We seem to think just like them!
That was one promise given as part of the covenant with Israel. It was contingent on Israel keeping its end of the covenant. When the nation didn't, all of those promises were spiritualized, including the very nation itself (Matt. 21:43, 1 Pet. 2:9). It was made clear that "by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified" (Gal 2:16), and then the godly (following Christ) were often persecuted. All of this has been turned on its ear now. Yet again, it goes to show that a lot of the prosperity was more in line with Rome (and the relative prosperity apostate Israel had under Rome in Christ's time) than with Old Covenant Israel. A gentile nation which had the most power in the world, just like all the others. The only difference was that it was culturally Christian instead of officially pagan (and even Rome became "Christian" later on, and similarly thought itself the new Kingdom).
