How the World Really Looks at U.S.

The Prince of America

One of the telltale signs of a republic's sclerosis is its penchant for having an inflated view of itself, its leaders and its moral purpose in the world. 

Certainly, that's a characteristic that describes many nations throughout world history. And that's a characteristic that defines the United States in the early 21st century.

However, when a nation chooses to purposely deny the reality that it's fallen into a steady and steep decline, then it definitely sees itself quite differently than the rest of the world sees it.

The United States didn't begin its descent toward the moral and spiritual abyss with the election of Barack Obama to its presidency in 2008. That descent actually began many decades earlier when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to the presidency in 1933. 

What was so bad about Roosevelt? He was a closet socialist who believed that Big Government had a solution for every social, economic and political problem from poverty to unemployment to crime to border disputes and wars between nations. 

Roosevelt is popularly viewed as the president who pulled America out of the Great Depression with his public works projects that put Americans back to work. But many of FDR's policies slowed economic recovery and prolonged the suffering for millions of Americans. 

And Roosevelt was a peacenik who despised war and only reluctantly entered the United States into World War II after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. 

Roosevelt's socialist worldview became the influence for John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Though Johnson (Vietnam) and Bush (Afghanistan, Iraq) were considered war presidents, they embraced Roosevelt's philosophy that massive social welfare programs and big government bailouts were effective tools in eradicating poverty.

The Roosevelt doctrine paved the way for the Big Nanny State that confiscates wealth via oppressive taxes and then redistributes that wealth to the poor and to identity groups through a myriad of social programs. That's Marxism, although those who promote that economic system prefer to call it social and economic justice for political reasons.

That system ruins idealism at the top of the economic spectrum and destroys individual incentive at the bottom of the spectrum. What's the sense in working hard and creating wealth if the government is just going to confiscate it? And why even work at all when welfare is readily available? 

Ironically, those in the middle--the middle class--that the champions of social and economic justice claim to defend and protect, end up paying the lion's share of taxes to support the Big Leviathan Nanny State.

America's descent from superpower status in the world toward an insignificant nation state is prophetic. But how do we know that? Because biblical prophecy reveals that two nations are going to become superpowers in the last days preceding the return of Jesus Christ.

Who are these nations? They are Russia and China. How can we be sure of that? Because the ancient prophet Daniel, who lived approximately 2,600 years ago, revealed that two nations he referred to as northern and southern kingdoms would rise rapidly in the end times. (Daniel 11)

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It's important to understand that the Bible always places Israel at the center of its geographical map. Therefore, a northern kingdom would be located directly north of the Jewish nation, and Russia is located directly to the north of Israel. 

But what about the southern kingdom? Logically, that kingdom would be located south of Israel. However, Daniel's description of the southern kingdom is referenced in proximity to the northern kingdom. China sits on Russia's southern border at two different points, separated by Mongolia. 

Is this a coincidence? Hardly. We are seeing the fulfillment of biblical prophecy that was revealed nearly 26 centuries ago.

And we're seeing the world look at America much differently than it did in the past. To much of the world, America has become a laughingstock ruled by an extremely weak president. 

That's why Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping have such little respect these days for Barack Obama. And for good reasons.