Modern Conditions Were
Foretold in Scripture Many Centuries Ago
The ability to kill so many—all
humanity
even—did not exist until the
proliferation of
nuclear weapons in the later 20th
century.
A Jewish state in the
Holy Land
controlling Jerusalem.
In the late first
and early second centuries,
the Romans ex-
pelled the Jews
from their homeland. Yet the
book of Daniel
had foretold an
end-time Jewish
sanctuary defilement and interruption
of sacrifices in Jerusalem —meaning there must first be a sanctuary and
sacrifices in place (Daniel 12:10-11;
compare
8:13; 9:27; 11:31).
There was a prototype fulfillment of
these
events in the second century B.C., but
Jesus
made it clear that Daniel’s prophecy
about the
defilement of the holy place pointed
mainly to a
yet future event that would precede the
end-time
Great Tribulation (Matthew
24:15-22)—saying,
“Then let those who are in Judea flee
to the
mountains” (verse 16).
For nearly 2,000 years, a Jewish state
controlling Jerusalem seemed impossible,
with the Jews scattered and the Holy
Land in
Muslim hands. Yet the Jews remarkably
were
never assimilated into the peoples
among
whom they were scattered. And, at long
last, against seemingly overwhelming
odds,
they were able to return to their
homeland
and then to set up and maintain a
Jewish
state—an amazing fulfillment of
prophecy.
(For more information, see our free
booklets
Are We Living in the Time of the End?
and
The Middle East in Bible Prophecy.)
The rise of Britain and
the United
States as world powers.
To the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob God promised great national blessings.
Genesis 35:11 says that the national
birthright
blessings would be realized through “a
nation
and a company of nations.”
Genesis 48-49 shows that this
birthright
was passed on to Jacob’s son Joseph and
his
sons Ephraim and Manasseh—with Ephraim
destined to become the company of
nations
and Manasseh destined to become a great
single nation. Further, these blessings
would
be fulfilled “in the last days”—near
the end of
this age of man.
The magnitude of the blessings
described
in these and other passages were never
realized by Israel in the Holy Land. Instead, the
northern tribes of Israel—including
Ephraim
and Manasseh—were eventually deported
by the invading Assyrians. Clues in
secular
history and various prophecies reveal
that the
so-called lost tribes migrated to
northwestern
Europe. The British Empire and
Commonwealth
is evidently representative of modern
Ephraim,
while Manasseh is today the United
States of
America—these nations’ wealth and
geopolitical standing matching the Bible’s promises
that they would rise to be the dominant
nations
of the world. As Britain dominated the
globe in
the 19th century, so did America in the
20th.
(To learn more about this, be sure to
read our
free booklet
The United States and Britain in
Bible Prophecy.)
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