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Now something revealed in the Bible about the economic condition of the
world.
The great nations are in ECONOMIC TROUBLE. That's why they held this
economic summit in London.
My meetings with officials of UNESCO in Paris a few days ago made plain
that the Third World of economically poor nations is, with Soviet influence,
gaining control of UNESCO as well as the United Nations system in Geneva,
against the United States and Britain. The United States has already given
notice
of its intentions to withdraw from UNESCO at the end of this year. WHY do many
economically poor nations look with jealousy and hatred against America and
Britain? That, too, is explained in the Bible.
When the first human, Adam, disobeyed God and took of the forbidden
fruit, God not only closed off the tree of LIFE (salvation and eternal life)
from
mankind, but he also said to Adam and his human family: "... Cursed is the
ground for thy sake...thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee...in
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground..."
(Gen. 3:17-19).
Then, just a few generations after the Flood, God chose a man of great
ability, Abram, and called him out from his area of the world, into the land of
Canaan. God gave Abram great promises, conditioned on obedience. After he
obeyed, God made the promises UNconditional, "BECAUSE that Abraham obeyed
my voice, and kept...my commandments" (Gen. 26:5). Among those promises
was a very great nation, and another company, or commonwealth, of nations, to
become the wealthiest and most powerful nations on earth--from Abraham's
descendants. These promises were repromised to Isaac and to Jacob, whose name
was changed to Israel. The dying Israel passed on these material birthright
promises to the descendants of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, who, today, are
the British Commonwealth and the United States (see our free book, The United
States and Britain in Prophecy).
In Leviticus 26, these national and material promises were made to
ancient
Israel in their time IF they would keep God's Sabbath and his Commandments.
But if the ancient Israelites disobeyed they would be withheld 2,520 years. They
disobeyed. After several generations of pleading with them by his prophets, God
finally drove out the House of Israel, headed by Ephraim and Manasseh, into
Assyrian slavery (721-718 B.C.). The 2,520 years of withholding the national
promises of wealth and power ended about A.D. 1800-1803. At that time the
descendants of Ephraim had become the British Empire, and Manasseh's
descendants had become the American states. Until 1800 these nations had been
small and unimportant in the world. But suddenly, in A.D. 1800, London became
the financial capital of the world. The United States had been 13 original
colonies
with a few territories added. In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was acquired from
France, and the United States almost suddenly sprouted up into--by 1918--the
greatest, wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth.
The United States printed "IN GOD WE TRUST" on its money--but it never
did really trust in God.
Between World War I and World War II the United States and Britain,