Will God Bless America--Even in the End Times? Every day brings more news of a world that seems to teeter on a disastrous precipice: . Wars of genocide . Massive earthquakes and typhoons . The rising cost of foreign oil . Terrorist bombings . Economic disasters and lost security . Crushing federal debt . Famine and worldwide hunger . a tidal wave of illegal immigrants How many of these events and crises are signs of the "end times"? And what will become of the United States? Will America continue to slip as today's lone world superpower, and will it even exist when the sounds of warfare rumble at the Battle of Armageddon? Clearly explaining the end time prophecies of Scripture, Mark Hitchcock shows that today's geopolitical situation corresponds remarkably to what the Bible predicted thousands of years ago. Prophecies previously dismissed as unbelievable now read like news headlines. Learn of America's final fate and the outcome of dire events at the end of the age as Mark Hitchcock teaches how to find the only lasting hope in a God who will not forsake us--no matter what cataclysms we experience on earth.

Mark Hitchcock, Ph.D., an authority on Bible prophecy, has written fifteen books on the topic, including Iran: The Coming Crisis. A law school graduate, Mark was called to the ministry in the 1980s. After graduation from seminary, he became pastor of Faith Bible church in Edmond, Oklahoma, where he still serves. Mark lectures frequently on prophecy themes and has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN. Mark and his wife, Cheryl, have two sons, Justin and Samuel.


From the Hardcover edition.

I turn back to your prophets in the Old Testament and the signs foretelling Armageddon, and I find myself wondering if we are the generation that is going to see that come about. I don’t know if you have noted any of those prophecies lately, but, believe me, they describe the times we are going through.
—President Ronald Reagan, 1983

Suppose someone wrote and published the ultimate compendium of music history…but left out any mention of Beethoven, the Beatles, or Garth Brooks.

Or the French produced a video tour of Paris…with nary a glimpse of Notre Dame, the Louvre, or the Eiffel Tower.

Imagine a math textbook containing an entire year’s curriculum…never once using or discussing the number one.

When an authoritative resource claims expertise in a particular field of knowledge, we usually expect it to touch on the most prominent subjects within its purview.That’s why somany Christians read their Bibles—and biblical prophetic passages in particular—fully confident that it must somehow reveal something about the role of America in the end times. After all, God, who exists in all times, who sees the end of history from the beginning, who indeed sovereignly governs every moment of history—God, who reveals key end-time events in the prophecies of Scripture, can’t possibly have omitted from His opus the most powerful, most influential, and by many counts most God-blessed of all nations that have ever risen.

Can He?

By any standard of measurement, America occupies center stage in the world arena. No one disputes the fact that America has a distinctive history, during which it has risen to dominate global affairs. In a quarter of a millennium it has become a nation unlike any other in the history of the world. It has superseded nations with much longer histories. No nation in the history of civilization has exercised greater influence than the United States of America— politically, militarily, economically, culturally, linguistically, and possibly even religiously. As the old saying goes, “When America sneezes, the world catches a cold.”

Most of America’s ascent has happened in less than one hundred years. America’s awe-inspiring rise to superpower status in the twentieth century accelerated to maximum upward velocity in the aftermath of WWII. In an ironic twist, the war’s tragic losses delivered America from the poverty of the Great Depression. The United States emerged fromWWII better off militarily, politically, and economically than any other nation. Even during the dark days of the cold war, America had the upper hand on the Soviet Union, as was finally proven in the early 1990s when the Soviet Empire unraveled at the seams and America found herself alone at the top.

The Last Superpower

Today, America prevails as the world’s lone superpower. The last contender standing. But the “champ’s” reign hasn’t been the smooth ride that many optimistically envisioned. From the 1950s through the 1980s, many believed that the demise of the Soviet Union would ensure greater global security.
Americans envisioned a brave new world free from the tyranny of Soviet communism. Like many dreams, top-dog status hasn’t been what most people expected.

We inaugurated the single-superpower era with the first Gulf War in theearly 1990s. Operation Desert Storm was a glowing success. The future looked bright. But then the real trouble started. The under- ground garage bombing of the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993, was the first assault of Islamic terror on American soil—a dark omen of things to come. Gathering stormclouds loomed closer with the suicide bombing attack on the USSColein 2000.

Then dawned the darkest day in American history—the devastating attack of 9/11—plunging America hea

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