[the second trumpet]
Read now of that which takes
place under the second trumpet and I will
show you
what it portrays. Is it not written that a
great mountain burning with fire was cast
into the sea? (8:8). What does this
mountain represent? A mountain in the
scripture is a type of a nation or kingdom
(Isa. 2:2-3). Thus a great mountain would
be a great or leading nation in the earth.
Where do you find in the earth a nation
which is great enough to fulfill this
description? Think not that greatness is
to be equated with size or land mass;
neither with numbers of people. There is
only one nation which can adequately
fulfill the designation given and that is
the United States of America.
Now why, says
the Lord, will this nation, so great in
its Christian tradition to be able to give
direction and example to the entire world,
be cast into the sea? And how will this
take place? Is it not written that to whom
much is given much is required? (Luke
12:48). What nation on the earth has
received more in material wealth than America?
What nation has been blessed with such an
abundance that most other nations are
paupers in comparison? What other nation
has been so blessed in scientific
achievement and accomplishment in the
undoing of the burdensome toil that man
has known for millenniums of time? What
nation besides America
has received as great an understanding
and enlightenment from the Word of God
through many movings of the Spirit of God
unto the blessings of untold thousands?
But what has America
done? She has failed miserably in her
stewardship. Therefore she shall be judged
severely. And what shall this judgment be?
It shall be that which shall arise from
within her own borders. Think not that America
will escape destruction from without; for
many bombs and missiles shall fall upon
this land. But the primary judgment upon America
will be the turmoil and unrest that will
arise from within, plunging that nation
into a 'sea' of confusion and strife. For
the 'sea' is a type of masses of people
in agitation and revolution. Already there
are signs of this turmoil and unrest
evident in many places and segments of
society, for I say to
you that the trumpet of judgment has
already been blown, and the inevitable
falling of this great nation into a sea of
revolution is now in its initial stages.
Does it not also say that as a
result of the mountain's fall a third part
of the sea became blood, and a third part
of the creatures in the sea died, and a
third part of the ships were destroyed?
(8:8-9). Hear now my word. The sea is a
type of peoples, and ships are a type of
local governments which are in the midst
of the sea of peoples. Even so does this
portray the fact that one-third of the
people in this nation shall be embroiled
in such serious conflict that they will
become a menace to the very life of the
nation, and the governing bodies
represented by the ships will be so
completely overwhelmed that law and order
will be completely disrupted in many
states and areas, causing a chaotic
condition unprecedented in the history of
the nation. Violence shall erupt in many
places as strife and unrest increases
among the masses of the peoples. One out
of every three persons shall be involved
in one way or another in such violent
disruption that the very existence of the
nation will be threatened. Then shall
come the necessity of clamping an
all-powerful dictatorship upon the
inhabitants of this land with absolute
controls in every facet of life. This will
continue as the nation is involved, not
only in unprecedented civil strife, but
also in increasing peril from without.
Only a great awakening and spiritual
revival among certain segments of the
nation will keep the nation from being
completely inundated by the waters of
internal turmoil. For truly a once great
nation shall fall into the 'sea' of
conflict which will mean the end of an
era, says
the Lord.
You will note that it is a great
mountain 'burning with fire' that is cast
into the sea (8:8). The fire is a type of
the inflamed passions with which the
people will become engulfed, and the
burning desires which will become an
obsession to multitudes. It will be these
insatiable and unrequited 'burnings' of
lust, greed, avarice, jealousy and hatred
which will pit class against class, race
against race, employee against employer,
people against government and people
against religion, and people in general
against one another in one mad orgy of
lawlessness and violence. This will be the
direct result of the moral and spiritual
decay which has been eating away at the
vitals of the nation for many years. The
'flames' will be continually fanned by
subversive elements which have become
entrenched in the nation in almost every
segment of society.