America's Prophetic Future

According to biblical prophecy, after America destroys Iran's nuclear facilities, the U.S.A. will soon fade from prominence as a world superpower. According to the ancient Hebrew prophet Daniel, who lived about 2,600 years ago, a prominent western power he described allegorically as large horn on the head of a shaggy goat (Daniel 8:21) will be "broken off" and replaced by "four kingdoms that will emerge from his nation but will not have the same power." (Daniel 8:22)

If Daniel indeed described the United States in his ancient prophecy, then why will America be broken off and who will be the nations that will replace her as world powers? America will be removed by God from the world scene as a superpower because of her betrayal of Israel, her closest and most trusted ally in the Middle East. Though America has become a wicked and immoral nation that has exported that wickedness (abortion, sexual perversion, nihilism, immorality etc.) throughout the world, her betrayal of the tiny Jewish nation has brought God's judgment upon her. The Obama Administration (as well as the previous Bush Administration) has continually warned Israel to either stop building settlements for Jews in Jerusalem or face economic and political repercussions. Recently, when the Israelis had a secret military plan they were about to execute to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, the Obama Administration leaked that plan to the world media which not only betrayed Israel but endangered that nation as well.

As any biblical scholar who knows and understands the true God of the universe and his eternal love for the nation of Israel despite her chronic rebellion against Him, those who mess with Israel have written their own epitaphs. In August 2005, God issued a stern warning to America just days after the Bush Administration coerced Israel into surrendering the Gaza Strip to her sworn enemies, the Palestinians. That land was given to Israel by God and to no one else. When the U.S. forced the Jewish nation into giving away her own land to an archenemy, Hurricane Katrina rolled into New Orleans and nearly destroyed the entire city. What judgment will come against America now that she has put Israel in danger by leaking a top secret military plan?

Who will be the four nations that succeed the U.S. after she falls from power? Most likely they will be Russia, China, India and perhaps Brazil or South Korea. They are all on the rise economically and militarily and even more importantly, they all abhor Islam and will not tolerate Islamic expansionism within their borders. Truly, the end is close at hand.