DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA AND SEPARATE AMERICAN RAPTURE By George Lujack This article will affirm that America is Babylon the great of Revelation 18, a great superpower nation that is destined to lead the end time nations, but based on the Revelation 14 prophesy timeline, will refute the widely held belief of many Scripture prophecy watchers that America is destined to be destroyed at the end of the end times, and will argue that the destruction of Babylon the great (America the great) will begin the great tribulation. This article will also proclaim that American saints will be raptured in a special American rapture that is a separate event from the worldwide rapture. Revelation 9:1-11 has been fulfilled. The American-led international coalition against ISIS, during a five-month bombing campaign (Sept. 2014-April 2015) against Islamic military equipment and supplies, tormented the lives of Muslim men, but did not kill these men who did not have the seal of God (Messiah / Christ) on their foreheads. Revelation 9:15 is the next event to occur on the Revelation timeline. REVELATION 9:15: So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind. As of January 2017, the world s population was estimated to be at 7.5 billion people and rising. If Revelation 9:15 were to be fulfilled beginning in January 2017, a third of 7.5 billion people killed would equate to 2.5 billion deaths. Many Scripture prophecy watchers believe that America will be an end time nation, and Americans will witness the rise of the Antichrist. Many believe that the United States runaway deficit will bring about a worldwide economic crash, and in the aftermath of the economic crash, the Antichrist will rise and offer the 666 mark of the beast economic solution (Revelation 13:16-18). 573
The Revelation Scripture prophecy timeline that many have accepted is that the Antichrist is revealed in Revelation 13, and the destruction of Babylon the great (America) does not occur until much later on in Revelation 18. That timeline of America s destruction is about to be hereby disputed. THE SIXTH TRUMPET (WHERE HUMANITY IS TODAY): REVELATION 9:13-17: Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates. So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released TO KILL A THIRD OF MANKIND. Now the number of the army of the horsemen was TWO HUNDRED MILLION; I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of FIERY RED, HYACINTH BLUE, AND SULFUR YELLOW; and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone. A third of mankind today is currently 2.5 billion people. In 2017, the U.S. population is slightly over 320 million people. If the United States were to be wiped out by a massive nuclear attack, and the deaths of 300 million were to occur, that would roughly equal 12.5% of the required deaths necessary to fulfill the Scripture prophecy of Revelation 9:15. In order for the world s armies to wipe out over 2.5-billion people, the world s peacekeeper and policeman, America, must first be destroyed. Russia is the great power from the north (Jeremiah 50:3,9,41,51:48) that is prophesied to lead a great assembly of nations (from China and North Korea) to destroy America. Revelation 9:17 reveals that these nations breastplate colors are fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow. These are the national colors of the Russian, Chinese, and North Korean countries. REVELATION 14: A TIMELINE SEQUENCE SYNOPSIS OF EVENTS REVELATION 14:8 (THE FALL OF BABYLON - AMERICA): And another angel followed, saying, Babylon [AMERICA] is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath [MADNESS] of her fornication [SEXUAL IMMORALITY]. Then AFTER the fall of Babylon (America) (Revelation 14:8) the mark of the beast is implemented in the next verses 574
REVELATION 14:9-12 (THE MARK OF THE BEAST): Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb [YESHUA (JESUS)]. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name. Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Yeshua (Jesus). Then AFTER the fall of Babylon (America) (Revelation 14:8) and AFTER the revealing of the Antimessiah (Antichrist) and introduction of his mark (Revelation 14:9-12), the worldwide rapture will occur in the next verses REVELATION 14:14-16 (THE WORLDWIDE RAPTURE): Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud sat One like the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, Thrust in Your sickle and reap [RAPTURE], for the time has come for You to reap [RAPTURE], for the harvest [SAINTS] of the earth is ripe. So He who sat on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped [RAPTURED]. The worldwide rapture, according to Revelation 14:14-16, occurs after the destruction of Babylon (America) the great (Revelation 14:8).What happens to the saints living in Babylon (America)? Will they be destroyed along with America? Scripture declares that God will provide a separate rapture for the American saints, a rapture that will precede the worldwide rapture. There will be two harvests (raptures), one for Americans and another for the rest of the world. Isaiah 18:5-7 are the key verses which reveal that BEFORE the worldwide rapture occurs, there will be an American rapture of American saints, who will be brought before the YHWH (the Lord). ISAIAH 18:5-7: For before the harvest [BEFORE THE WORLDWIDE HARVEST (RAPTURE) OF THE SAINTS], when the bud [TIMING] is perfect and the sour grape [THE SIN OF HOMOSEXUALITY] is ripening in the flower [AMERICA], then He will both cut off the twigs [THE UNRIGHTEOUS] with pruning hooks and cut down and take away [RAPTURE] the branches [THE RIGHTEOUS]. They [THE UNRIGHTEOUS] will be left [BEHIND] together for the mountain birds of prey [REVELATION 18:2] and for the beasts of the earth. The birds of prey [REVELATION 18:2] will summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter on them [EAT THEM]. In that time [OF THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (AMERICA)] a present [THE RAPTURED AMERICAN SAINTS] will be brought to YHWH (the Lord) of hosts from a people tall and smooth-skinned [AMERICA], and from a people awesome from their beginning onward [AMERICA] - a nation powerful and trampling [AMERICA], whose land [AMERICA] the rivers divide - to the place of the name of YHWH (the Lord) of hosts, to Mount Zion [NEW JERUSALEM]. 575
JEREMIAH 50:8: Flee [IN THE AMERICAN RAPTURE] from the midst of Babylon [AMERICA], go [BE RAPTURED] out of the land of the Chaldeans [AMERICAS]... JEREMIAH 51:5-6: For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah [SPIRITUAL ISRAEL AND JUDAH - THE SAINTS], by his God, YHWH (the Lord) of hosts, though their [AMERICA'S] land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. Flee [IN THE AMERICAN RAPTURE] from the midst of Babylon [AMERICA], and every one save his life! Do not be cut off [LEFT BEHIND] in her [AMERICA'S] wickedness, for this is the time of YHWH s (the Lord s) vengeance, the recompense He is paying her [AMERICA]. JEREMIAH 51:33: For thus says YHWH (the Lord) of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon [AMERICA] is like a threshing floor when it is time to thresh her; Yet a little while and the time of her harvest [RAPTURE] will come. JEREMIAH 51:45: "Come out of her [AMERICA'S] midst, My people! And let everyone deliver himself [THROUGH THE AMERICAN RAPTURE] from the fierce anger of YHWH (the Lord). REVELATION 18:4: And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out [BE RAPTURED] of her [AMERICA], My people, lest you share in her [AMERICA'S] sins, and lest you receive of her [AMERICA'S] plagues..." The sour grape, (the sin of homosexuality), is ripening in the flower (America) and proliferating like never before in America (Isaiah 18:5). America will be destroyed first, the first people of the one third of mankind to be killed worldwide (Revelation 9:15). After America falls, there will be no superpower peacekeeping police force nation able to prevent the other nations from making war, and they will make war and kill one third of the world s population (Revelation 9:15). After America falls, the worldwide banking systems and the international worldwide reserve currency holdings of American dollars will become worthless (Ezekiel 7:19; Revelation 13:16-18,14:9-12). After America falls (Revelation 14:8, 18), and after the deaths of one third of the world s population (Revelation 9:15), and after the worldwide economic collapse (Ezekiel 7:19), this will be a perfect opportunity and time for the Antichrist to appear on the world stage to offer peace to the nations and introduce the economic mark of the beast (Revelation 13:16-18,14:9-12). America is not prophesied to survive through the great tribulation of the end times (Jeremiah 48:18, 50:3,39-40). The destruction of America will bring about the beginning of the great tribulation and will give rise to and provide an opportunity for the Antichrist to appear on the world stage. 576
THE THREE WOES OF REVELATION 9 REVELATION 9:12: One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things. The fifth trumpet has been fulfilled (Revelation 9:1-11). The fifth trumpet was the first woe of Revelation 9 that has passed, and two more woes are coming after the fifth trumpet (Revelation 9:12). Revelation 9:12 speaks of two more woes before the sixth trumpet blasts, signaling the beginning of the great tribulation. The two woes are the destruction of Damascus, Syria (Isaiah 17:1), and then sometime afterward the destruction of America (Babylon the great) (Jeremiah 50:18; Revelation 14:8, 18). The sixth trumpet signals the start the great tribulation, which follows the destruction of America, and it will lead to the death of one third of mankind (Revelation 9:12-19). America will be destroyed by fire in one hour (Revelation 18:10,17,19), in the same manner and for the same national sins of Sodom (Jeremiah 49:18,50:40). On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court legalized homosexual marriage, legitimizing sodomy as the law of the land in America. Thus, the Scripture requirement for America to be destroyed has been fulfilled, and it is a matter of time before it is. The saints of America have been promised a special American rapture, separate from the worldwide rapture, to escape the plagues that are soon coming upon America (Babylon the great) (Isaiah 18:5-7; Jeremiah 50:8, 51:5-6,33,45; Revelation 18:4). 577
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