Manifest Destiny in the Bible? America Is
Modern Babylon, Said David Wilkerson
Julio Severo comments on David Wilkerson’s
prophetic revelations about America’s “destiny” in his book “Set the Trumpet to
Thy Mouth.”
By Julio
Severo
A
solid majority of Americans would now be comfortable with a president who is
gay or lesbian, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
A
full 61 percent of respondents reported being “enthusiastic” or “comfortable”
with a gay or lesbian president. Meanwhile, Americans comfortable or
enthusiastic about an evangelical Christian president received a more tepid 52
percent approval.
This
study comes on the heels of a March survey, also conducted by Wall Street
Journal/NBC News, in which a record 59 percent of American respondents said
they were in favor of same-sex “marriage.”
What
is happening to America, the largest Protestant nation in the world, that she
is ready to welcome a homosexual president, but not an evangelical president?
Is she racing for her punishment and judgment?
Thirty
years ago, World Challenge, a David Wilkerson ministry, sent me his book “Set
the Trumpet to Thy Mouth.” The introduction was by Leonard Ravenhill. It is a
fiery message, with a vision, about the destruction of America. When I read it
for the first time, I was shocked, especially because the 1980s were the Reagan
years. How could Wilkerson have had such vision when a conservative, pro-family
Reagan was facing the Evil Empire? His prophecy should have been directed to
the Soviet Union, not America! This revelation was indeed shocking. Yet, more
shocking is what America has been doing in the last decades. I have come to
learn that even American
conservatism is now becoming a Babylon.
The
Soviet Union no longer exists. What exists now is a U.S. government obsessed
about sodomy-based “marriage” and behaving imperialistically to impose homosexual
sin on the whole world. Was Wilkerson’s prophecy, after all, correct?
Some
time after Wilkerson, John
Mulinde, a preacher of Uganda, received a revelation about God’s
judgment on America. His message is a fulfilment of Wilkerson’s prophecy, who
told that God would send to America third-world prophets to warn about the
coming judgment.
David
Wilkerson became famous by the book and movie “The Cross and the Switchblade,”
showing his life and ministry helping addicted young people, by focusing especially
on delivering experiences by the Holy Spirit.
One
of the distinctions of Babylon in Revelation 18 is its intensely commercial
nature. By its commercial power and seduction, it is envied by the whole world.
It is extremely capitalist — but without God. In communism, you see intense and
destructive economic control without God. In Babylon, you see the opposed:
intense and destructive commercial and economic freedom without God.
The
best products and services (entertainment, medical, religious, military, etc.)
in the world are available in Babylon.
In
communism, there is extreme limitation or lack of products and services. In
fact, communism offers the worst products and services. In contrast, in Babylon,
there is the biggest abundance of the best products and services the world has
ever seen. So it is evident that Babylon is not Marxist, communist or
socialist. It is a commercial paradise on the Earth. It is the “New Jerusalem”
of the carnal wishes and greed of the human heart. No wonder that when Babylon
will be destroyed, the whole world will cry.
By
its commercial ambitions, products and services, Babylon is described in the
Bible as having prostituted herself with all nations on the earth. And God said
about Babylon, “Your
merchants were the great men of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations
were deceived.” (Revelation 18:23-24 NKJV) If America does not fit it, who does
it? Are not the U.S. powerful
businessmen, trade and currency ruling the world?
In
addition, there is a fatal distinction in America that Wilkerson saw as
“Babylon.”
In
these last days, America has embraced a passionate and leading role in the
promotion of the gay agenda — not to mention abortion — around the world, leading
Billy Graham to say, “America is just as wicked as Sodom and Gomorrah.” And
often he mentions, “If God doesn’t punish America, He’ll have to apologize to
Sodom and Gomorrah.” Is this a manifest destiny?
This
kind of destiny is accompanied by a terrible fate. What happened to Sodom and
Gomorrah, which were involved in rampant homosexuality, is what will happen to
cities and nations involved in the same sins:
“What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah and
the cities near them is an example for us of the punishment of eternal fire.
The people of these cities suffered the same fate that God’s people and the
angels did, because they committed sexual sins and engaged in homosexual
activities.” (Jude 1:7 GWV)
How
would not such punishment reach the most powerful nation in the world that,
even though flooded with the Gospel, is obsessed about extending the sin of
Sodom and Gomorrah to whole world? If God did not spare Sodom and Gomorrah and their homosexual sins, how
will he spare the largest Protestant nation in the world that wants to whole
world involved in the same sins?
According
to “The Pink Swastika” author Scott Lively, “Ancient Rabbinical tradition holds
that homosexuality, more specifically homosexual marriage, was the ‘final
insult’ to God which caused Him to bring that Great Flood.”
America
has spread homosexual ideology by every way (religious, legal, cultural,
commercial, etc.) and she has used her imperial force to promote and impose it
and its fake “marriage” around the world with brutish immorality. Is there a
manifest destiny in sodomy for America?
Some
Christians argue that because America, after Israel, has the largest Jewish
population in the world, this is a sure sign that she has God’s approval and
protection against destruction. Yet, when the first Babylon, which was located
in modern Iraq, was destroyed, its Jewish population was the largest in the
world after Israel. In fact, one of the political leaders in Babylon was the Jew
Daniel, historically prominent for his prophetic book “Daniel” in the Old
Testament. A large Jewish population and a Jewish prophet in the Babylonian government
did not save the first Babylon from destruction.
Even
though you may doubt that America will be destroyed for being Babylon, her role
today as the leading propagandist, promoter and enforcer of sodomy seems an
enough warrant that she looking after the same punishment and destruction of
Sodom and Gomorrah.
Global
sodomy militancy would seem an enough reason for punishment and destruction. For
a lot less Sodom was destroyed. If America will be not destroyed for being
Babylon, she will be destroyed for being, as Billy Graham said, “just as wicked
as Sodom and Gomorrah.”
Yet,
if David Wilkerson is correct in his vision, America will be judged and
destroyed as Babylon. Wilkerson said in Set the Trumpet to Thy Mouth:
I believe modern Babylon is present-day
America, including its corrupt society and its whorish church system. No other
nation on earth fits the description in Revelation 18 but America, the world’s
biggest fornicator with the merchants of all nations.
America is going to be destroyed by fire!
Sudden destruction is coming and few will escape. Unexpectedly, and in one
hour, a hydrogen holocaust will engulf America—and this nation will be no more.
It is because America has sinned against the greatest light. Other nations are
just as sinful, but none are as flooded with gospel light as ours. God is going
to judge America for its violence, its crimes, its backslidings, its murdering
of millions of babies, its flaunting of homosexuality and sadomasochism, its
corruption, its drunkenness and drug abuse, its form of godliness without
power, its lukewarmness toward Christ, its rampant divorce and adultery, its
lewd pornography, its child molestations, its cheatings, its robbings, its
dirty movies, and its occult practices. In one hour it will all be over.
Think of the “lady in the harbor”—the
Statue of Liberty. Isaiah warned of sudden destruction upon a proud lady. “And
thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these
things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. Therefore
hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that
sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a
widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: but these two things shall
come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they
shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries,
and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. For thou hast trusted in thy
wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it
hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else
beside me. Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence
it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it
off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know”
(Isaiah 47:7-11).
They were warned God would make useless
their weapons of war, that all their armaments could not save them from God’s
wrath (Jeremiah 21:4). God said to them, “I myself will fight against you!”
(Jeremiah 21:5).
That is an outright warning to America. Our
huge stockpiles of weapons are but so many sticks and stones—useless against
what God has planned against us. What was said of ancient Babylon will be said
of modern Babylon, “The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have
remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they
have burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken” (Jeremiah 51:30). This is
why there will be no retaliatory strikes from this nation or its allies;
because of the suddenness and finality of it all, we will “forebare to fight,”
and our missiles will remain in their hold. Our might will fail us in the hour
of judgment. Our allies will “become as women” and surrender immediately.
What America could not do with all of its
millions, all of its electronic gimmicks, all of its expensive media methods,
the Holy Spirit will accomplish in a short time with a Gideon's army of poor
and simple evangelists from Third World countries; and the rest of the world
will hear the gospel. A remnant of overcomers from all nations will be raised
up in righteousness. In spite of full gospel light shining forth, the majority
will turn to Satan and be given over to lust. The Bible does not say that
judgment on America awaits world evangelism.
God does not need America to evangelize the
world. We have failed in this mission. Our nation still spends more money each
year for dog food than for missions. There will be one last great ingathering,
and it is even now happening. The gospel will be published to all the world by
a great army of witnesses indigenous to every nation on earth. It is the Lord's
last harvest. Even now the Spirit of God is raising up a thriving body of
witnesses in China. South America and Africa will be covered with powerful
witnesses from their own lands. Mexico and South America are open to the gospel
and young evangelists are being raised up. They will not need missions boards,
ordinations, large amounts of money, and fancy equipment. They will live on
pennies, as the early disciples did; and in a short time they will cover the
earth with the gospel. And they will point to God's fiery judgment on this careless,
rich, modern Babylon as a sign the end is near.
With information from Charisma
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