Last week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made history by becoming the first modern day leader of Israel to claim Ezekiel 37’s promise of Israel’s return to the land. Netanyahu thus used words that no former Israeli PM had ever uttered -- that God Himself had brought Israel back to their ancient land. In claiming Ezekiel 37 Netanyahu put his official stamp of approval on God’s future promise through Ezekiel that He would “bring you back to the Land of Israel” (Ezekiel 37:12) and “I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel.” (Ezekiel 37:21-22).

What is most fascinating about Netanyahu’s acknowledgment of the truth of God’s Word, confirmed by His actions, is that the events foreseen in Chapters 38 and 39 follow 37 in Ezekiel’s prophecies. The Prophet tells us that once Israel is returned to the land that it will come to a period of time in which it will “live in safety” (Ezekiel 38:9) as a “peaceful and unsuspecting people (Ezekiel 38:11).

PM Netanyahu is being pressured by the United States, Europe, the Vatican, the United Nations and his neighboring nations to agree to give up portions of the land of Israel. He has confirmed in public statements that he will do exactly that, in a “two state solution”, within the next two years. Israel will then be “at peace”, ‘living“ in safety”. It will then be attacked from the North as Ezekiel prophesied by nations which are today known as Russia (Gog) and Iran (Persia). Israel’s cry out to the Daughter of Babylon/America to keep its promise and defend it militarily will be ignored, leading to the destruction of the Daughter of Babylon/America.

In the meantime, as the arrangements are being made for Israel to give up its land (which God told Israel not to do), the United States is standing back and waiting while Iran continues to develop its nuclear capability. The US will not attack Iran, nor will it allow Israel to do so. Iran will therefore continue to build weapons of mass destruction, unlike Iraq, which only pretended to do so. How will those WMDs be used? Not on Jerusalem, due to its holy sites. Its possession, and ability to launch its nukes with ballistic missiles in the future, will be a major inducement for Israel to split up the land and sign a peace agreement. How Iran will eventually use its nuclear weapons is detailed more fully in “The End of America”. God is bringing together the precise fulfillment of His prophetic Word.  

After the third person told me that in their opinion what happened in Haiti was a “preview” of America’s future, I started to pay attention. Each had read “The End of America” and discerned similarities between recent events in Haiti and prophesied future events for the Daughter of Babylon. Let’s analyze the similarities.

Earthquakes and nuclear disasters both are unexpected, instantaneous and wholly catastrophic. Hundreds of thousands can die within seconds. More then die as a result of injuries suffered in the initial disaster. Electricity, water and sanitary systems cease to function after both events. Many lose their shelter. Most lose their food supplies within hours/days. Looting and widespread violence follow as hungry people do what hungry, desperate people do. One study cited in the book estimated that up to 90% of the population of a nation hit with nuclear strikes die within one year of the attack, mainly due to the lack of food. New estimates are that over 200,000 have and will die in Haiti.

In Haiti, there was no warning in advance, of course, to flee the coming earthquake. In the Daughter of Babylon/America, though, we have been given advance prophetic warnings, nine times, by four Bible writers (Jeremiah, Isaiah, Zechariah and John). What do they say?  “Flee from Babylon! Run for your lives! Do not be destroyed because of her sins.” (Jeremiah 51:6). In the Old Testament God warned His people in Jerusalem to flee and live in Babylon. Those who failed to obey His instructions died in Jerusalem (Jeremiah 42). As events continue to unfold, as Israel moves closer to a Peace Treaty, we need to understand and heed God’s warnings to flee. “A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.” (Proverbs 22:3)