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April 18, 2008 | From theTrumpet.com
Prophecies recorded a lifetime ago are now making today=92s headlines.
Stephen Flurry
Stephen Flurry
Over 40 million copies of Herbert W. Armstrong=92s books and booklets
were distributed worldwide during the 20th century. His most popular
title was The United States and Britain in Prophecy. Six million
people requested the book from the mid-1930s to the late-1980s. Mr.
Armstrong=92s last version of the book was printed in 1980. Here is what
he wrote nearly three decades ago about our once-mighty nations:
Between them the British and the American peoples had acquired more
than two thirds=97almost three fourths=97of all the cultivated physical
resources and wealth of the world. All other nations combined
possessed barely more than a fourth. Britannia ruled the waves=97and the
world=92s commerce was carried on by water. The sun never set on British
possessions.
Now think!
Could the British and American peoples be ignored in prophecies of
world conditions that fill a third of the entire Bible=97when some 90
percent of all those prophecies pertain to national and international
world happenings of our time, now?
Staggering?
Indeed it is. And yet, precisely as prophesied, Britain=92s sun has now
set. As these same prophecies that foretold Britain=92s greatness
revealed far in advance, Britain has already been reduced to a second-
rate or third-rate power in the world.
And the United States? Today America finds herself heir to just about
all the international problems and headaches in this post-World War
ii, chaotic, violent world. And the United States has won her last war=97
even little North Vietnam held her at bay. Many other nations sap
America=92s national strength, =93and he knoweth it not,=94 as God long
ago
foretold!
At the outset of the Reagan-Thatcher era, those comments might have
seemed like a stretch to some. But no one would call them an
exaggeration today! As Anthony Browne wrote last weekend in the Daily
Mail, =93The global power ****ft from the West to the East is no longer
just a matter of debate confined to learned journals and newspaper
columns=97it is a reality that is beginning to have a huge impact on our
daily lives=94 (emphasis mine throughout).
In fact, Herbert Armstrong wrote about this massive ****ft in global
power decades before the =93debate=94 even made it into leading journals!
=93The handwriting is on the wall!=94 he cried in the 1967 version of The
United States and Britain in Prophecy.
Forty years on, front-page headlines of major newspapers attest to the
pinpoint accuracy of Mr. Armstrong=92s decades-old prophetic warnings.
The American Century Has Ended
In his column, Anthony Browne said the West is now facing =93the largest
financial shock since the Great Depression, while the Asian economies
are still powering ahead.=94 Yet, because we have drifted so far from
God and are so obsessed with materialism, most=97even today=97seem unfazed
by this dangerous transformation in global affairs.
We need to wake up to the fact that these now-regular re****ts of our
demise are no longer prophecies for the future. They are happening
now! =93The desperately weakened American dollar,=94 Browne continued,
=93appears to be on the verge of losing its global dominance, in the
same way as sterling lost it a lifetime ago.=94
Mr. Armstrong, we should note, told us this would happen a lifetime
ago. =93You have seen that the U.S. dollar=97long thought of as the
stablest currency in the world=97is in immediate jeopardy of being
devalued!=94 He wrote that in a letter 40 years ago.
The UK possessed two thirds of the world=92s gold supply in 1950 =93while
the United States had three times as much gold reserve as the total
for the rest of the world,=94 Mr. Armstrong wrote in The United States
and Britain in Prophecy. =93But by 1966 the U.S. gold supply had been
drained so much that the dollar was in serious jeopardy.=94 And if the
dollar collapsed, he wrote in the above-mentioned letter, =93it could
well mean a repetition of the disastrous depression that strangled the
economic world in 1929!=94
As with Britain a lifetime before us, the sun is now setting on
America=92s reign as global economic superpower. Mr. Armstrong wrote in
the 1980 version of The United States and Britain in Prophecy,
How great, how powerful, and how wealthy did the British and American
people become? And what is suddenly happening to us now? Why has
Britain already lost most of her colonies=97her possessions=97her
resources, wealth, power and influence in the world? Why is Britain no
longer considered Great Britain=97a great world power?
Why is the United States now discredited, despised, hated throughout
so much of the world?
Way ahead of his time, Mr. Armstrong said in 1972 that the 1800s
belonged to Britain while the 1900s belonged to America=97but that its
power, after reaching its zenith around 1950, had been in steady
decline ever since.
Now compare that with what Anthony Browne wrote last weekend: =93Just as
the 19th century was the British century, and the 20th century was the
American century, the 21st century is the Asian century,=94 he wrote.
=93But the handover of global power from the UK to the U.S. was trivial
compared to what is happening now.=94
Browne continued,
The U.S. was Britain=92s offspring, based on the same values and the
same language. It, too, was an Anglo-Saxon country, and passing the
baton across the Atlantic ensured the continuation of the Anglo-Saxon
world order, based on democracy, free trade and a belief in human
rights, upheld through international institutions that both powers
sup****ted.
But the world order we have grown used to=97and comfortable with=97over
the last century is coming to an end.
Yes indeed! We are witnessing a staggering turn in world events. This
new world order features a developing Asian superpower that, only 40
years ago, was an isolated, poverty-stricken nation, barely hovering
above Third World status. Today, that same nation is a force to be
reckoned with. Browne wrote, =93Western governments have been in such
awe of China=92s looming power that their response has not been to
challenge its abuses=94=97like its brutal suppression of Tibet or its
cozying up to nations that sponsor terrorism.
We must know where this is leading because the stakes are much higher
than simply losing some of the comforts and conveniences we grew
accustomed to during the 20th century. The same prophecies that point
to the demise of the Anglo-Saxon nations also warn that this world is
about to explode! Bible prophecy says a massive Asian power bloc, led
by a modernized Russia and China, will dramatically alter the course
of human history. This conglomerate of peoples, comprising more than
one fourth of the world=92s population, will play a lead role in the
climactic struggle for world dominance right at the end of mankind=92s
6,000 years of self-rule!
Day of Reckoning
Today=92s headlines confirm that the day of reckoning is here, to use a
phrase Patrick Buchanan chose as the title for his most recent book.
=93It is the belief of the author and premise of this book,=94 Buchanan
wrote last year, =93that America is indeed coming apart, decomposing,
and that the likelihood of her survival as one nation through mid-
century is improbable=97and impossible if America continues on her
current course. For we are on a path to national suicide.=94
Herbert W. Armstrong, however, wrote about our =93day of reckoning=94 in
all his editions of The United States and Britain in Prophecy. In
1980, he wrote, =93God warns us through prophecy that our sins are fast
increasing. And now the day of reckoning is here! The foreign sword
always has attacked us.=94
Sobering words indeed=97and proclaimed for more than 50 years by Herbert
W. Armstrong in The United States and Britain in Prophecy. You owe it
to yourself to join 6 million others who read the 20th century=92s most
im****tant book on Bible prophecy.
If you=92ve ever wanted to truly understand why world events continue to
worsen=97and where these events are ultimately leading=97this is your
op****tunity! =95
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