It is, if you consider Acts 2:17, “It shall come to pass in the last days, I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh.” There have been many Outpourings of the Spirit in the history of America. They are commonly called Awakenings or Revivals, but they were Outpourings of the Spirit. Our first settlers were part of the Reformation happening in Europe. Multiplied thousands, seeking religious liberty, flooded the shores of North America. They were known as Pilgrims and Puritans. They set up the governments and laid the foundation for a Christian nation. In many colonial and state governments you could not even hold public office if you were not a Christian. The American Revolution was the aftermath of the First Great Awakening which united the previously conflicted colonies into “one nation under God.” There was a Second Great Awakening and many other Revivals down through the years. These Revivals turned a wayward nation back to God and kept the flames of freedom high. One example is the Azusa Street Revival. There are over a billion Christians who can trace their beginnings to that event. Azusa was the root of a world-wide awakening that has been going on ever since.
Here’s another way to phrase the title of this chapter: why is the most powerful and prosperous nation in the history of the world never mentioned in the Bible? Russia and China are, along with Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, and others. But not America. “Those other nations are in the Bible because of their relationship to Israel.” True, but what nation has ever been a better and truer friend to Israel than the United States? If we had not entered WWII Hitler would have exterminated every Jew from the face of the earth. Our nation moved their capital back to Jerusalem after 2,000 years of there being no capital. Israel exists today because of the U.S.A. No nation has ever been closer to Israel than the U.S. Doesn’t it seem odd that America is not mentioned in the Bible? I shall attempt to answer that question.
It’s because so much of latter-day prophecy concerns itself with after the Rapture (Rev.6-19). Between the time of the church (Revv.2-3) and the Great Tribulation (Rev.6-19) we have one event – the Rapture (Rev.4-5). Look at the Rapture of the church as it is taught in the Bible. Noah was the only righteous man of faith on the earth and so God destroyed the “only evil continually world” with a flood and saved only eight souls with a big boat. The earth had become so corrupt morally and spiritually that after God got His people out, He sent a flood that killed everybody else on the planet. Lot was the only righteous man in wicked Sodom and God got him out of that valley of cities before He rained fire down and destroyed every living soul. God had said, “If I can find ten righteous men I will not send judgment.” He couldn’t and so He did. The point is, God sent judgment on Sodom after He got Lot and his family out.
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