THE WARNING A Novel of America in the Last Days (The End of America Series Book 2) (24 page)

        
“
What
?
Null and void
? America promised Israel
in writing in that document that you would come to our military assistance
if
we are attacked. I thought this issue
might come up, so I brought along a copy of the Memorandum of Agreement. In
paragraph 3 your country guaranteed Israel that if there is
‘an armed attack against Israel, the United
States will be prepared to consider, on an urgent basis, such measures as the
strengthening of the United States presence in the area, the providing of
emergency supplies to Israel, and the exercise of maritime rights in order to
put an end to the violation’.
 
So,
how does the United States just walk away from this guarantee to protect what
the document calls the security interests
of Israel? Are America’s promises, in writing, worth
nothing
?”

        
“Mr. Prime Minister, please….please….
please
. We’re neither one virgins in these international treaty
matters. If America decides it won’t support what a prior President put in
writing, then we can come up with dozens of reasons why it’s no longer
operative
, as they say in diplomatic
language. I’m simply saying that if you
don’t
sign this Path to Peace agreement, this week, then there’ll be a
new
UN created nation on your doorsteps,
you’ll be
cut off
from US foreign
assistance and we will
specifically
disavow
the Carter Agreed Memorandum.”

        
“You realize, of course, Mr. President, that should
you….what was your word….
disavow
….the
US commitment to militarily defend Israel, that….that would be equivalent to an
invitation
to the Palestinians and
the jihadists of the region to invade us, to try and push us into the sea, as
they have promised to do. We’d be under attack within hours of such an
announcement, undoubtedly nuked by Iran.
Unbelievable
.”

        
“It’s
very
believable, Mr. Prime Minister. I don’t want to have to revoke the
Memorandum….but….I’ve
got to do
what
I’ve
got to do
. My advisers, my State
Department, are all in agreement, having studied you for years, that if I don’t
make it clear, shall we say, what we will do if you don’t sign, that you will
never
sign. It’s
time to sign
, Mr. Prime Minister
,
it’s time to sign
.”

        
The Williamsburg peace negotiations went on for most of the
week, but by noon on Friday, the media were alerted to breaking news. A peace
agreement had been reached with details to be announced shortly by the
President. The history-making agreement was to be signed the following week on
the lawn of the White House, the same site as the Camp David Peace Accords in
1979. A Middle East Peace Agreement had been agreed to by ancient enemies.
Peace
.
Peace
in our times
.

Small
Group Bible Study, Home of Hannah & Gary

Birmingham,
Alabama

        
The small group had returned to Hannah and Gary’s house. The
couple was still dealing though with the loss of Hannah’s favorite uncle, what
Hannah called a ‘government assassination’. Tonight all members were present.
Tom knew Hannah was feeling better as she had baked his favorite toffee bars.
Everyone was on edge after hearing for weeks the mainstream media regularly
calling Christians “car bombers” and “gun fighters”. Tonight’s lesson would
prove to be timed well in light of these recent events.

        
Scott started the night’s discussion, “Alright, guys, you
know that tonight’s subject is as
serious
as what happened to Hannah’s uncle. The prophecies we’ve been studying tell us
that a rich, powerful and influential end times nation will betray Israel,
leading to the shedding of blood in Israel and inviting destruction of the
betrayer. Tonight we’re going to look at the verses that give us clues as to
how the Daughter of Babylon is
destroyed
and
by
whom
. First, though, how long will
the actual destruction of this nation take, according to the Word?”

        
Marty, known in the group as the feisty member, had been
unusually calm and collected to this point in the book study of The End of
America. She answered Scott’s question. “Scott. Of all of the prophecies that
we’ve studied on this America is Babylon thing, this timing prophecy
really grabbed me
.”

        
“How so, Marty?”

        
“Well, when you read the two hundred thirty verses, or
whatever the number is, you have to be struck by how the clues to the identity
of Mystery Babylon fit America like a
hand
in a glove
….which I am very sorry to say, by the way. I
love
my country as much as anyone, but
I’ve had my eyes opened to look at America from
God’s viewpoint
. We used to be a golden cup in His hand, but in the
last few decades we’ve gone sour. Mother of abominations? Great prostitute? How
can we in good conscience
deny
that
these titles fit?”

        
“Marty….I agree. You started by saying that the
timing
prophecy grabbed you?”

        
“OK, yeah. Back on track. These prophecies say that once
Babylon betrays Israel that it’s destroyed in one day. That’s at
Revelation….let’s see….18:8. Also, in one hour….that’s at….Revelation 18:10.
And in one moment….Isaiah….it’s at chapter 47….verse 9. We all know that
there’s
no possible way
to destroy an
entire country in one day, let alone one hour or in one moment.
Wow!
So, Scott, what got me was that
there’s
only one
possible way to do
that and it’s to use nuclear weapons. Before the 1940’s there were no such
weapons, so these verses prophesying such swift destruction could not have been
fulfilled
before
that time.”

        
Max followed Marty’s comments, “Marty, I’m glad you brought
the timing up because when I was studying our lesson the timing prophecies
caused me to research two verses. Isaiah in 13:19 prophesies that ‘Babylon, the
jewel of kingdoms, the glory of the Babylonian’s pride, will be overthrown by
God
like Sodom and Gomorrah’
.
Jeremiah, in a similar disclosure, says, ‘As God overthrew
Sodom and Gomorrah
along with their neighboring towns, declares the
Lord, so no one will live there; no man will dwell in it’. That’s in 50:40. For
those who think these prophecies were already fulfilled in ancient Babylon,
history records that Babylon had no sudden fall, it’s mentioned even in the New
Testament and was around as a city until a thousand years AD.”

        
Beau asked, “Are you saying, Max, that since ancient Babylon
didn’t fall in one day, one hour, one moment, but instead over many centuries,
that these prophecies clearly apply to the future end times Daughter of Babylon?”

        
“Obviously, Beau,” Max answered. “But, besides the timing,
look at what God tells us through the two Prophets, about
the means
of the destruction. ‘Like Sodom and Gomorrah’ and. ‘as
God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah’. Which of course leads us to ask ‘
how
did
God overthrow and destroy those two towns? Genesis chapter 19 gives us most
of the details, though not all. In 19:24 it says that the Lord ‘rained upon
Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire’.

        
Marty asked, ‘
What’s
fire and brimstone? Like some of those TV preachers?”

        
“No, actually,” Max responded, “I wish we had more of that
kind of preaching instead of so much feel good about yourself sermons, but
I digress
. My research of these
scriptures tells me that what happened at Sodom and Gomorrah is the
same
thing that happened at Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.”

        
Gary, thinking about a problem at work, only heard the end
of what Max claimed. He blurted out, “
Whoa,
Max
. I didn’t get to study the lesson this week….it was a hard week. But,
how can you say that the Bible says that atomic bombs would be used in the end
times. I didn’t catch
everything
you
said, can you
expand some
on it?”

        
“Sure, Gary,” Max relied, “There are several tip-offs as to
why what happened at Sodom and Gomorrah was actually the Creator of the atom
splitting
His created atom. I found four
clues. First, we just read that not only these two towns were wiped out, but
also neighboring towns, which is
exactly
what happens with
nuclear fallout
.
God even tells us in Genesis 19:25 that the ‘vegetation in the land’ was also
destroyed and in Deuteronomy 29:23 that no vegetation will grow on it. Does
Chernobyl come to mind? Secondly, in 19:17 God warns Lot’s family fleeing the
area ‘don’t look back’, which is the same warning to avoid looking at a
nuclear flash
. Thirdly, in Lamentations
4 we learn that the skin of the people killed at Sodom clung to their bones,
withered, like sticks. That’s what history tells us the Japanese looked like
when we nuked them. Fourthly, an impressive clue. The smoke that came up from
the destroyed area looked ‘
like smoke
from a furnace’
. A burning city fills the whole sky with smoke, but a nuked
city has a mushroom cloud, which is a column of smoke, like from a chimney on a
furnace.”

        
Gary pondered what he had just heard from Max, then said,
“That’s pretty clear, Max, thanks for researching it. When you put what you
researched with the one day, one hour, one moment prophecies that Marty
mentioned, it’s
hard to avoid
the
conclusion that the Daughter of Babylon will suffer
nuclear
destruction. That raises the question, though,
who
would do it?
Who
would nuke America?”

        
Scott weighed Gary’s question, looking around the family
room, waiting for a response. Hearing none, he said, “I know it’s
not very PC
to talk about, but the
Bible, again, gives us clues. Jeremiah in 51:11 tells us that God will stir up
the Kings of the Medes to destroy Babylon, to take vengeance for what it did to
Israel. The Medes lived in the area that is today Iran, formerly known as
Persia. Then in verse 27 of the same chapter Jeremiah says that God will summon
against Babylon nations that are in the area we know today as Russia and the
former Soviet Union.”

        
Max asked, “Scott, what is the relevance of these prophecies
when we compare them with the prophecies in Ezekiel 38 and 39, which say that
Persia and Gog of Magog, Russia today, will engage in a land invasion of
Israel, when it’s
at peace
. And, as
we’ve studied, the Daughter of Babylon will betray Israel, not come to its aid,
and will be
destroyed
because of it.
So, Scott, again….my question is what do you see as the relevance of the fact
that Russia and Iran are part of the invading army attacking Israel, and
also
called up by God to destroy the
Daughter of Babylon? There’s got to be something there,
right?”

        
“Max, you have nailed what I also saw when I was prepping
this part of the lesson. I’m only guessing, because I didn’t find any verses
that tell us specifically, but here’s what I think. Iran and also Libya and the
other nations Ezekiel listed and which are now all Muslim, invade Israel.
Russia, which has a large number of Muslim residents, joins in the invasion.
Israel
cries out
for military help.
Israel asks America, its Camp David Treaty partner, to stand beside it to
resist the invading forces. The Daughter of Babylon
looks the other way.
Some Deputy Secretary of State or Defense, or
such, tells the DC assembled media that the United States just will
not get involved
in the war in the Middle
East, giving weak excuses for inaction. What happens next? God says that
He
will have to come to Israel’s
defense, which He will do by wiping out most of the invading armed forces. So
many invading soldiers die that the cemetery built in Northern Israel will be
called the cemetery of many dead Russians, the Valley of Hamon-gog. It will
take seven months just to bury all the dead.”

        
“Scott, I follow all that, but how do Russia and Iran nuke
the US at the same time that all of these events are occurring in Israel?”

        
“Again, Max, that’s not clear, but what is clear is that the
betrayal of Israel by America leads directly, and apparently immediately, to
Russia and Iran using nuclear weapons to destroy America. When we see the Arab
Street full of radical Jihadists screaming ‘Death to America, Death to Israel’,
what they mean is ‘
Death to America,
Death to Israel’.
I could imagine a scenario of Russia and Iran putting
nukes in place in the US in advance,
only
to be used, of course,
when God allows it
,
as He controls what happens in the world and in the wars of this world. They
could be detonated at the same time, the same moment, same hour, same day that
Marty’s verses talked about.”

        
Marty asked, “
I get it
….I
do get the timing clues….I get that Russia and Iran and the Jihadists want to
take us out. What
I don’t get
is
where would those nuclear devices come from? I don’t think Iran has developed
their nukes, yet. Have they?”

        
Beau, who had until recently been in the U S Army Reserves,
answered, “There are almost ninety missing suitcase nukes that used to be in
the USSR, but are now not under the control or possession of Russia. Plus,
Pakistan and North Korea have nuclear weapons. Many think these can be
purchased for the right price. It’s
a
dangerous world
, folks. We
are hated
by Jihadists who want to conquer the world for Allah and that includes
doing
what they say – taking out what
they call ‘the great Satan’,
that’s us
,
and also destroying ‘the little Satan’,
that’s
Israel
. Most Christians are blissfully unaware of the dangers we face.”

        
Scott recognized that they had gone past their normal time
for the study. “Folks, we’re late tonight, sorry, my fault, but this topic
needed to be talked through. Next week we’ll look at what God tells His people
to do
in the face of a future
destruction of their country. It’s a message for both Christian and Jews. I
wouldn’t miss it. Let’s hustle into our prayer groups. Hannah and Gary,
bless you
for hosting us again.”