THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN IN PROPHECY
Introduction
By Herbert W. Armstrong
1954, 1967, 1972, 1975, 1980 edition
Introduction
Chapter One - The Lost Master Key Has Been Found!
Chapter Two - Prophecies Closed Until Now
Chapter Three - National Greatness Promised Israel
Chapter Four - The Separation of the Birthright and the Septre
Chapter Five - The Davidic Covenant
Chapter Six - Children of Israel Become Two Nations
Chapter Seven - Jeremiah's Mysterious Comission
Chapter Eight - The Mysterious Breach
Chapter Nine - Israel's New Land
Chapter Ten - Birthright Withheld 2520 Years!
Chapter Eleven - Why Israel Lost Identity
Chapter Twelve - The Birthright - At it's Zenith - And Now
Chapter Thirteen - And Now What - The Prophecies for the Immediate Future
Chapter Fourteen - What's Prophesied to happen Now - To America and Britain?
People of the Western world would be stunned -- dumbfounded --
if they knew! The governments of the United States, Britain, Canada,
Australasia, South Africa would set in motion gigantic crash
programs -- if they knew!
They could know! But they don't! Why?
INTRODUCTION
A STAGGERING TURN IN WORLD events is due to erupt in the next
few years. It will involve violently the United States, Britain,
Western Europe, the Middle East. It's already rather late for the
free world to come awake to the real meaning behind current world
events! Why do not the world's leaders see what is coming? Why are
the world's best minds unseeing -- the heads of state, scientists,
educators, editors, news analysts, bankers, industrialists, leaders
in business and commerce? They are totally unaware! Why?
Because they have been falsely educated and deceived into
closing their minds to the great causes behind world events and
trends. This world has been falsely educated to ignore causes and
deal with effects! Yet all the world's problems and ills are simply
a matter of cause and effect. There is a cause that has produced
strife and war; poverty, wretchedness, inequality; crime, disease,
mental ills. But the leaders do not know!
World Explosion to Erupt
The world's leaders are the educated of the world. But they were
not educated in BASIC TRUTHS -- the foundations of right knowledge.
The most necessary knowledge is not being taught! They do not know
WHAT man is -- or WHY! They know nothing of the purpose or meaning of
life! They were not taught to distinguish the true values from the
false. They did not learn the real causes -- the way to peace, to
happiness, to universal abundance; nor the causes of war,
unhappiness, inequality, world chaos.
They know nothing of the purpose being worked out here below.
Consequently, they guide humanity on a course in conflict with that
purpose, wreaking havoc upon a distressed, suffering, unhappy
mankind. Lacking knowledge of the way to peace, the world does not
have peace. Leaders talk of peace; they profess to work for peace;
they cry out for peace -- while they give approval and blind
acceptance to the way that produces war!
This world has simply been going the wrong way!
This world is giving assent to, and conferring civilization's
acceptance on, THE WAYS that are the CAUSES of all the world's
ills.
And now we are fast approaching the final grand smash
explosion that is going to stagger the mind of man beyond the
bounds of sanity. Forces are at work today on plans, programs,
conspiracies, movements that soon will erupt into a world explosion
of violence and chaos such as never happened before, and never will
again. Men today are tampering with forces of nature they lack the
prudence, knowledge, ability and wisdom to control.
In this folly of educated ignorance, it has become fashionable
today and intellectually titillating to ignore the great basic
cause of all things; the fact of the purpose being worked out here
below, and the master plan for its working out; the invisible but
Supreme Power now soon to intervene and drastically alter the
course of history -- before mankind blasts itself out of existence.
Unreal though it may seem to those steeped in modern
educational deceptions, some 2,500 years ago the Supreme Power of
the universe inspired a man named Isaiah to quote Him, saying: "I
am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the
beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done,
saying, My counsel shall stand" (Isa. 46:9-10). The great world
powers are formulating their policies -- laying their plans. But the
next few years will see astounding events explode in a manner very
different than the nations plan! Why?
Never a Miss
Because there is the great God who says: "The Eternal wrecks the
purposes of pagans, he brings to nothing what the nations plan; but
the Eternal's purpose stands for ever, and what he plans will last
from age to age .... The Eternal looks from heaven, beholding all
mankind; from where he sits, he scans all who inhabit the world; he
who alone made their minds, he notes all they do" (Ps. 33:10-15,
Moffatt translation).
This same Eternal God said: "To whom then will ye liken me, or
shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high,
and behold who hath created these things ...." And again: "Behold,
the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small
dust of the balance .... All nations before him are as nothing ..."
(Isa. 40:25-26, 15, 17).
Through His inspired prophets, the great God caused to be
written, some 2,500 years ago, and preserved in writing to our time
prophecies filling approximately a third of the whole Bible. In
them, He named every city of consequence of that time on earth -- and
also every nation! And He foretold precisely what would, through
the years, happen to every city and every nation! In every instance
the prophecies came to pass!
What was prophesied HAPPENED to Babylon, to Tyre, Sidon,
Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron; to Egypt, Assyria, Chaldea, Persia, Greece
and Rome. There has not been a miss! Those prophecies were
accurate.
And now, in other prophecies, the same supreme God has
foretold precisely what is going to happen to the United States,
the British nations, Western Europe, the Middle East, Russia!
Best Minds -- Total Ignorance
Yet the best minds in the world are in total ignorance of the
unprecedented cataclysm that is about to strike. And why have these
prophecies not been understood or believed? Because the vital KEY
that unlocks prophecy to our understanding had been lost. That key
is the identity of the United States and the British peoples in
biblical prophecy.
That key has been found! We present it to those whose
unprejudiced eyes are willing to see.
The events prophesied to strike the American and British
peoples in the next few years are SURE!
God says: "Surely the Lord Eternal will do nothing, but he
revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets" (Amos 3:7).
These colossal world events, shrinking the first two World Wars
into insignificance, WILL COME, but not until the warning has been
made available for those whose eyes are willing to see.
Chapter 1
THE LOST MASTER KEY HAS BEEN FOUND
THIS MAY SOUND INCREDIBLE, BUT it's true. Editors,
newscasters, foreign correspondents do not understand the real
meaning of the world news they report, analyze and discuss. Heads
of government are utterly unaware of the true significance of the
very world-shaking events with which they deal. They have no
conception of where these events are leading. Incredible? Perhaps --
but true!
Winston Churchill declared before the United States Congress:
"He must indeed have a blind soul who cannot see that some great
purpose and design is being worked out here below of which we have
the honor to be the faithful servants." But he did not understand
that purpose! That great purpose long ago was master -- planned by
the Master Mind of the universe.
There Is Purpose
It is true, though almost totally unrealized: Mankind was put
on this earth for a PURPOSE! And the Maker of mankind sent along
with the human product of His making an Instruction Book to reveal
that purpose and to guide man in happily, enjoyably fulfilling it.
But the human race has rejected the revelation and the guidance and
has preferred to stumble on in the darkness of its own futile
reasonings.
About one-third of that INSTRUCTION BOOK is devoted to basic
education -- revealing to man the necessary foundational knowledge
otherwise undiscoverable and unknowable: knowledge of what man is,
why he is, where his destiny may lead, how to reach it and live
happily along the way; revealing knowledge of the true values as
distinguished from the false; knowledge of the way to peace,
happiness, abundant well-being. In other words, the most necessary
of all knowledge -- the foundation on which to build discoverable
knowledge.
Another approximate third of that Book is devoted to history --
to those events and experiences fulfilling the master plan during
the first four millennia on man's mortal sojourn, as examples for
our admonition and guidance today.
And then approximately a third -- grasp this! -- an entire third
of our Maker's revelation to mankind is devoted to prophecy --
writing the history of future events before they occur. These
foretold future events reveal the great purpose being finally
worked out -- being brought to its completion.
Why This Ignorance
Now see why heads of state, news analysts, and the great minds of
our time do not comprehend the real meaning of world events as they
are shaping up right now.
A rational and right knowledge of this great purpose, of the
Creator's master plan, of where in the progression of those
foreordained events we stand today, and of major happenings
prophesied yet to occur -- this knowledge is the essential basis for
understanding the significance and true meaning of today's dynamic
world news. Without this vital knowledge, none dealing in news
gathering and news reporting, none responsible for government
policies can understand current world happenings or where they are
leading. And not one saddled with such responsibilities does know!
Why?
Two reasons, primarily: 1) They have been deceived by false
education appealing to the vanity of intellect into prejudicial and
disdainful rejection of the divine revelation which alone can
impart this understanding; and 2) the vital key necessary to unlock
closed doors of biblical prophecy had been lost.
The great world powers of our time have been, and are, the
United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Germany, France,
and other Western European nations. The missing vital KEY is simply
the identity of these great world powers in biblical prophecy! The
staggering and cataclysmic world-shaking events soon to erupt upon
a shocked, stunned, bewildered world relate directly and
specifically to the United States, Britain, Germany, Western
Europe, and Russia.
Not knowing how and where these nations are specifically
mentioned in basic and major prophecies, the educated of the world
have been utterly blinded to the plain and simple meaning of
prophecy. Due to this lost key more than anything else, the Bible
has come to be discredited and rejected in this world's educational
system. The unproved and unprovable theory of evolution has been
substituted as the foundational concept which became the supposed
rational approach to knowledge.
The colossal tragedy of it! Our peoples, being thus falsely
and deceptively educated from little children, have, in a supposed
era of advanced rationalism and enlightenment, actually been
groping around in the darkness of ignorance, misunderstanding and
confusion, fatally unaware of the earthshaking catastrophe into
which they are being directly plunged.
Thus our peoples have forgotten and departed far from their
Maker. They have shut their eyes and closed their ears to His
dynamic revelation to mankind, which, to ears that can hear,
thunders out the life-and-death warning to those in the responsible
positions of power!
Is it too late? Have our leaders become so steeped in a
deceptive false education, so stultified that they cannot be
aroused from slumber? God help us now! Time is fast closing in on
us!
But the all-important master key has been found!
That key is knowledge of the astonishing identity of the
American and British peoples -- as well as the German -- in biblical
prophecies. This very eye-opening, astounding identity is the
strongest proof of the inspiration and authority of the Holy Bible!
It is, at the same time, the strongest proof of the very active
existence of the living God!
An exciting, pulsating, vital third of all the Bible is
devoted to prophecy. And approximately 90 percent of all prophecy
pertains to OUR TIME, now, in this latter half of the twentieth
century! It is a warning to us -- to our English-speaking peoples -- of
immediate life-and-death import. The prophecies come alive once
their doors are opened by this now discovered master key! This book
will open, to open minds, this hitherto closed vital third of all
the Bible. No story of fiction ever was so strange, so fascinating,
so absorbing, so packed with interest and suspense, as this
gripping story of our identity -- and our ancestry.
Through it Almighty God gives momentous warning! Those who
read, and heed, may be spared unprecedented cataclysmic tragedy
soon to strike. If our peoples and their governments will awaken,
heed, and return to their living God, then our nations may be
spared. God help us to UNDERSTAND.