America in Prophecy by Ellen White [Modern Version]
America’s peculiar origins and hegemonic impact in world affairs stand undisputed. As a superpower birthed from Europe, her eminent history has been celebrated. Foretold since antiquity, a myriad of repressions, revolutions and reforms inspired the first band of pilgrims to settle on a new promised land of liberty. This book enables the reader to understand America’s unique destiny and commanding role while besieged by gross spiritual and political machinations. Clearly, this reading lifts the veil from past events molding America and presaging her cooperation to undermine the very values once cherished. America’s peculiar origins and hegemonic impact in world affairs stand undisputed. As a superpower birthed from Europe, her eminent history has been celebrated. Foretold since antiquity, a myriad of repressions, revolutions and reforms inspired the first band of pilgrims to settle on a new promised land of liberty. This book enables the reader to understand America’s unique destiny and commanding role while besieged by gross spiritual and political machinations. Clearly, this reading lifts the veil from past events molding America and presaging her cooperation to undermine the very values once cherished.
hearts." I Corinthians 4:5. "Behold, it is written before Me, . . . your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord." Isaiah 65:6, 7. Every man's work passes in review before God and is registered for faithfulness or unfaithfulness. Opposite each name in the books of heaven is entered with terrible exactness every wrong word, every selfish act, every unfulfilled duty, and every secret sin, with every artful dissembling. Heaven-sent warnings or reproofs neglected, wasted moments, unimproved opportunities, the influence exerted for good or for evil, with its far-reaching results, all are chronicled by the recording angel. The law of God is the standard by which the characters and the lives of men will be tested in the judgment. Says the wise man: "Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment." Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14. The apostle James admonishes his brethren: "So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty." James 2:12 Those who in the judgment are "accounted worthy" will have a part in the resurrection of the just. Jesus said: "They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, . . . are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection." Luke 20:35, 36. And again He declares that "they that have done good" shall come forth "unto the resurrection of life." John 5:29. The righteous dead will not be raised until after the judgment at which they are accounted worthy of "the resurrection of life." Hence they will not be present in person at the tribunal when their records are examined and their cases decided. Jesus will appear as their advocate, to plead in their behalf before God. "If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." I John 2:1. "For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us." "Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them." Hebrews 9:24; 7:25. As the books of record are opened in the judgment, the lives of all who have believed on Jesus come in review before God. Beginning with those who first lived upon the earth, our Advocate presents the cases of each successive generation, and closes with the living. Every name is mentioned, every case closely investigated. Names are accepted, names rejected. When any have sins remaining 367
upon the books of record, unrepented of and unforgiven, their names will be blotted out of the book of life, and the record of their good deeds will be erased from the book of God's remembrance. The Lord declared to Moses: "Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book." Exodus 32:33. And says the prophet Ezekiel: "When the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, . . . all his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned." Ezekiel 18:24. All who have truly repented of sin, and by faith claimed the blood of Christ as their atoning sacrifice, have had pardon entered against their names in the books of heaven; as they have become partakers of the righteousness of Christ, and their characters are found to be in harmony with the law of God, their sins will be blotted out, and they themselves will be accounted worthy of eternal life. The Lord declares, by the prophet Isaiah: "I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins." Isaiah 43:25. Said Jesus: "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels." "Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven." Revelation 3:5; Matthew 10:32, 33. The deepest interest manifested among men in the decisions of earthly tribunals but faintly represents the interest evinced in the heavenly courts when the names entered in the book of life come up in review before the Judge of all the earth. The divine Intercessor presents the plea that all who have overcome through faith in His blood be forgiven their transgressions, that they be restored to their Eden home, and crowned as joint heirs with Himself to "the first dominion." Micah 4:8. Satan in his efforts to deceive and tempt our race had thought to frustrate the divine plan in man's creation; but Christ now asks that this plan be carried into effect as if man had never fallen. He asks for His people not only pardon and justification, full and complete, but a share in His glory and a seat upon His throne. While Jesus is pleading for the subjects of His grace, Satan accuses them before God as transgressors. The great deceiver has sought to lead them into skepticism, to cause them to lose confidence in God, to separate themselves from His love, and to break His law. Now he points to the record of their lives, to the defects of character, the unlikeness to Christ, which 368
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upon the books of record, unrepented of and unforgiven, their names will be blotted out of<br />
the book of life, and the record of their good deeds will be erased from the book of God's<br />
remembrance. The Lord declared to Moses: "Whosoever hath s<strong>in</strong>ned aga<strong>in</strong>st Me, him will I<br />
blot out of My book." Exodus 32:33. And says the prophet Ezekiel: "When the righteous<br />
turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth <strong>in</strong>iquity, . . . all his righteousness that<br />
he hath done shall not be mentioned." Ezekiel 18:24.<br />
All who have truly repented of s<strong>in</strong>, and <strong>by</strong> faith claimed the blood of Christ as their<br />
aton<strong>in</strong>g sacrifice, have had pardon entered aga<strong>in</strong>st their names <strong>in</strong> the books of heaven; as<br />
they have become partakers of the righteousness of Christ, and their characters are found to<br />
be <strong>in</strong> harmony with the law of God, their s<strong>in</strong>s will be blotted out, and they themselves will be<br />
accounted worthy of eternal life. The Lord declares, <strong>by</strong> the prophet Isaiah: "I, even I, am He<br />
that blotteth out thy transgressions for M<strong>in</strong>e own sake, and will not remember thy s<strong>in</strong>s."<br />
Isaiah 43:25. Said Jesus: "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed <strong>in</strong> white raiment;<br />
and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before My<br />
Father, and before His angels." "Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will<br />
I confess also before My Father which is <strong>in</strong> heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men,<br />
him will I also deny before My Father which is <strong>in</strong> heaven." Revelation 3:5; Matthew 10:32, 33.<br />
The deepest <strong>in</strong>terest manifested among men <strong>in</strong> the decisions of earthly tribunals but<br />
fa<strong>in</strong>tly represents the <strong>in</strong>terest ev<strong>in</strong>ced <strong>in</strong> the heavenly courts when the names entered <strong>in</strong> the<br />
book of life come up <strong>in</strong> review before the Judge of all the earth. The div<strong>in</strong>e Intercessor<br />
presents the plea that all who have overcome through faith <strong>in</strong> His blood be forgiven their<br />
transgressions, that they be restored to their Eden home, and crowned as jo<strong>in</strong>t heirs with<br />
Himself to "the first dom<strong>in</strong>ion." Micah 4:8. Satan <strong>in</strong> his efforts to deceive and tempt our race<br />
had thought to frustrate the div<strong>in</strong>e plan <strong>in</strong> man's creation; but Christ now asks that this plan<br />
be carried <strong>in</strong>to effect as if man had never fallen. He asks for His people not only pardon and<br />
justification, full and complete, but a share <strong>in</strong> His glory and a seat upon His throne.<br />
While Jesus is plead<strong>in</strong>g for the subjects of His grace, Satan accuses them before God as<br />
transgressors. The great deceiver has sought to lead them <strong>in</strong>to skepticism, to cause them to<br />
lose confidence <strong>in</strong> God, to separate themselves from His love, and to break His law. Now he<br />
po<strong>in</strong>ts to the record of their lives, to the defects of character, the unlikeness to Christ, which<br />
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