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>>Ankerberg: Everybody wants to know what happened to the greatest country in world
history, the one that is the most powerful, the wealthiest country in the world: America.
If America is all of that and we’re going toward end time events, where do you find
America, the United States of America, in Bible prophecy?
>>DeYoung: John, that is the most asked question in Bible prophecy Q&A. The other day I was
getting ready to respond and a man in the back of the auditorium said, “Hey, I know.”
I kind of chuckled myself. But, he was basically right. The United States is not mentioned
anywhere in prophecy. There’s a reference in Zechariah 14:2, where it says all nations
of the world will gather at Jerusalem at the end of the tribulation period before Christ
comes back. If indeed, America, after the rapture, is still on this earth and in operation,
they will gather with all the nations. Now, listen, here’s some sanctified speculation,
I believe at the rapture of the church, the backbone of this nation disappears. And a
nation on the slippery slope to moral decay, educational decay, military decay, economic
decay; a nation that kills babies and lets sodomites play in the street, God will have
to judge. I believe America will fall from its pedestal of power down to a third, fourth,
eighth, ninth, twelfth rate nation. They’ll be a nothing, a non-entity, by the end of
the tribulation period.