The American Prophecies: Ancient Scriptures Reveal Our Nation's Future - Hardcover

Evans, Michael D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 044652252X ISBN 13: 9780446522526

Publisher: FaithWords, 2004

Synopsis

Discusses ancient biblical prophecies that have significance in modern politics and argues that the U.S. must protect itself by remaining steadfast to harmonious Judeo-Christian principles, democratic foundations, and moral conduct.

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Michael Evans, bestselling author of Beyond Iraq, has published articles in periodicals throughout the world, including the Wall Street Journal and the Jerusalem Post. He has been a confidant to leaders in Israel for more than two decades. He is the founder of the Jerusalem Prayer Team that organizes tens of thousands to seek peace for the Middle East. He and his wife, Carolyn, have four children.

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These words, spoken by his pastor to a future president of the United States, set the tone for author Michael D. Evans impassioned and wide-ranging exploration of current events in the light of ancient Scriptures and America s place in biblical prophecy. From the time George Washington placed his hand upon a Bible and swore the oath to become the first president of the United States, the Jews and more importantly, a Jewish homeland have occupied a crucial place in America s history. The second president of the United States, John Adams declared toward the end of his life, "For I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation." Now, internationally renowned Mid-East expert and biblical scholar Mike Evans traces the efforts of American Christians to help establish a Jewish State through a "prophetic memorial," a declaration presented to five successive American presidents outlining the biblical mandate for a Jewish homeland. Evans describes in fascinating detail the events that led in 1948 to the birth of the nation of Israel.

The hatred of the Arab world for the West and toward America in particular can be traced entirely to this nation s identification with Israel. America flirts with danger, Evans says, when it accommodates the Arab world merely for the sake of oil. As God said to Abraham, "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse." America s prophetic future hangs on the nation s moral vision and clarity.

The hostility of Islamic fundamentalists towards America can be explained succinctly, Evans asserts: it is rooted in bigotry, the ancient prejudice against Jews. Yet, says Evans, "America is cursing what God has blessed (Israel) and blessing what God has cursed (rebuilding Babylon [Iraq]). Does the Bible reveal what will happen to a nation that does this? A thousand percent yes!"

Mike Evans is the bestselling author of Beyond Iraq and has published articles in periodicals throughout the world, including The Wall Street Journal and the Jerusalem Post. He has been a confidant to leaders in Israel for more than two decades. He is the founder of the Jerusalem Prayer Team that organizes thousands to seek peace in the Middle East.

Reviews

Does America have an explicit role in biblical prophecy? Absolutely, says Evans, a journalist and popular Christian speaker who has come to believe that America is at a crossroads predicted in the Bible. Speaking from a deeply conservative perspective that lauds unqualified support of Israel and decries the "myth that Islam is a peaceful religion," Evans explains that the only reason why Islamic terrorists hate Americans is "simply because they hate us"-an unconvincing tautological argument that ignores the history of several ill-advised U.S. interventions in the Middle East. In 17 chapters, Evans employs a rather tortured biblical hermeneutic to persuade readers of the need for war in Iraq-and a future war with Syria-as well as for stepped-up support for Israel to conform with biblical prophecy. He often ties Muslims with Nazis, arguing that Muslims have adopted Hitler’s campaign to exterminate Jews. This book may resonate with ultra-conservative readers who already believe that America is the center of the cosmos. Other Christians will be alarmed by the way it promotes hate-filled stereotypes of Muslims even while it argues that Muslims are dangerous precisely because they promote hate-filled stereotypes of Jews.
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Evans, whose last book, Beyond Iraq (2003), tied biblical prophecies to the current war, here ascribes the hostilities between Arabs and Jews to the ancient sibling rivalry of Abraham's sons: Ishmael, from whom the Arab world descends, and Isaac, a patriarch of the Jews. Evans believes that the U.S., if it expects to receive God's blessing, should side unequivocally with Israel and shun Arab countries despite the lure of oil. Readers will react to the author's theologically driven politics according to their own beliefs, but Evans does offer an interesting history of the relationship between Jews and the U.S. from the earliest days of this country (Haym Salomon was one of the chief financiers of the revolution). In a chapter entitled "Treason," Evans flays Bill Clinton for pressing for a deal between Israel and the PLO. Yet on the topic of the Bush family's well-documented relationship with the Saudi royal family, he is conspicuously reticent. Fans of LaHaye and Jenkins' Left Behind series will be clamoring for this incendiary but sure-to-be-popular work. Ilene Cooper
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Edition details

• Publisher: FaithWords
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 044652252X
• ISBN 13: 9780446522526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320