Has America Abandoned Israel?

The American Prophecies : Ancient Scriptures Reveal Our Nation's Future
by Michael D. Evans

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At the beginning of this chapter I placed a quote from Rev. W. O. Vaught, who was Bill Clinton's pastor while he was governor of Arkansas. Reverend Vaught, who made more than forty trips to Israel during his lifetime, told Clinton that God would forgive him for mistakes he made while in office. "But if you abandon Israel," Vaught said, "God will never forgive you."

That quote turned out to be as prophetic as Galatians 6:8 for the Clinton presidency. Barely a month into his first term, President Clinton received a wake-up call from bin Laden's organization: the February 26, 1993, truck bombing of the World Trade Center. While this first WTC attack went relatively unnoticed, in it were seeds of the eventual September 11 attacks, and not only in the fact of its New York City location. The actual aim of the bombing was to topple the towers and kill as many as 250,000 people. If they had succeeded in even 1 percent of this instead of killing only seven people, we would be remembering February 26, 1993, not September 11, 2001. Instead, because our president at the time was more occupied in implementing his economic program than keeping America safe, no one else paid much attention to the bombing either. In his regular radio address the day after the bombing, President Clinton mentioned the "tragedy" (he never once used the word "bomb" or "terrorist" in the address) and never brought up the incident in public again. Nor did he ever visit the site of the blast. As the author of Losing bin Laden, Richard Miniter, said about Clinton's inability to deal with bin Laden throughout his presidency:

In 1993, bin Laden was a small-time funder of militant Muslim terrorists in Sudan, Yemen, and Afghanistan. By the end of 2000, Clinton's last year in office, bin Laden's network was operating in more than fifty-five countries and already responsible for the deaths of thousands [including fifty-five Americans].

Clinton was tested by historic, global conflict, the first phase of America's war on terror. He was president when bin Laden declared war on America. He had many chances to defeat bin Laden; he simply did not take them. If, in the wake of the 1998 embassy bombings, Clinton had rallied the public and the Congress to fight bin Laden and smash terrorism, he might have been the Winston Churchill of his generation. But, instead, he chose the role of Neville Chamberlain (whose appeasements of Hitler in Munich in 1938 are credited with paving the way to the Nazi invasion of Poland that began World War II the next year).

In October 1993, the same year as the first World Trade Center attack, U.S. troops were sent on a humanitarian mission to Mogadishu, Somalia. I was there shortly after two Blackhawk helicopters were shot down and a roughly twenty-hour firefight ensued, in which nineteen American soldiers and more than a thousand Somalis were killed. Shortly after this, President Clinton made the decision to pull out of Somalia. Evidence was later found that the Somalis who shot down the helicopters had received training from bin Laden's forces, which had become adept at bringing down advanced Soviet helicopters in their fighting in Afghanistan with rocket-propelled grenades. Bin Laden eventually admitted his involvement in Somalia in an interview on CNN. The terrorists considered it a glorious victory.

In September of that same year, I sat in the audience as President Clinton held a celebration on the White House lawn for what he called "a brave gamble for peace." I watched as he forced—standing with his thumb in the Israeli prime minister's back—Yitzhak Rabin to shake hands with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. They shook hands over a sheet of paper that represented the Declaration of Principles—or Oslo Accords—which led to Israeli concessions to the Palestinian Authority (the PLO, a terrorist organization), which would only be answered with more terrorist bombs in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The paper lay on the same table over which President Jimmy Carter had presided as Menachim Begin and Anwar Sadat had signed the Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1979. President Clinton later described it as one of "the highest moments" of his presidency as the two "shook hands for the first time in front of a billion people on television. It was an unbelievable day."

It was indeed an "unbelievable day" and a defining moment for the forty-second president of the United States, but hardly in the terms that he described. The much vaunted "peace process," the foreign policy focus of Bill Clinton's presidency and the issue that was supposed to secure his historic legacy, has brought anything but peace to the Middle East. I believe that is because America has abandoned Israel at key moments. As Reverend Vaught said, God will not forgive that.

America is the mightiest nation on earth and has long been a partaker of God's blessings. It's time to ask ourselves, "Why?" America comprises only 7 percent of the world's population and is in possession of more than half the world's wealth. America has 63 percent of the world's manufacturing goods, 74 percent of the world's automobiles, 52 percent of the world's trucks, 56 percent of the world's telephones, 47 percent of the world's radios, 46 percent of the world's electrical output, 52 percent of the world's steel, 35 percent of the world's petroleum, and consumes 35 percent of the world's energy.

Yet, during the past few decades, America has seen her "culture polluted, God dethroned, and her heroes defiled." Bible-believing Americans have been demonized as bigots and extremists. God has been taken out of schools, courts, and town squares, and even our Pledge of Allegiance—"one nation, under God"—has been challenged. The same moral compromise that has infected our domestic policy has also infected our foreign policy. In the 1990s, terrorists could clear customs and set up shop inside our borders.

There is absolutely no question that God's hedge of protection was lifted from America. September 11 was a curse on our beloved nation, but worse is the fact that most Americans don't understand why it happened. I believe it will happen again, and again and again, and much worse, if Americans do not wake up to the truth.

I am on a quest for the truth, and I trust you will join me as I attempt to stare into the depths of God's eternal Word and search for His purpose and plan in the midst of all the chaos on the planet.

America Needs Marriage Counseling

Today, America's secular political engine is on a collision course with prophecy. Many believe that there is nothing we can do about it. If it is foretold, then it must just come to pass. However, if that is our attitude, then we are missing the true point of prophecy. The Bible doesn't tell us what the future holds so that we can sit back and let disaster strike; but rather so that we can prepare, and take any necessary actions to make sure we are on the prophetic side of blessing, and not cursing. It is up to God-fearing Americans who are willing to step out and make a difference to keep our country headed in the right direction, whether that be in our domestic policy or our foreign policy. This is why I have always done whatever I could to see that our government acts with moral clarity, whatever the issue.

This is also why, in 1981, I was willing to use what I knew about the Middle East to help President Reagan's staff act with moral clarity concerning the issue of that region. In that role, I was asked to attend a high-level briefing with U.S. generals and admirals over the sale of AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia. I challenged the White House staff over the decision, stating that those planes could eventually end up in the hands of Islamic fundamentalists and pose a major threat to America's and Israel's security. My arguments were mostly pragmatic, but I had so much intelligence information that they let me speak. When I inserted a Scripture into my short speech, I was flagged with this question: "What does God know about foreign policy?"

I replied to the question, "He is foreign policy!"

Do we truly think we can push our government forward without His guidance? Our forefathers certainly didn't! I don't think we should either!

Several months later, a small U.S. delegation and I were invited to have lunch with the president and his cabinet. Chuck Colson sat next to me. It was his first time back in the White House since the Nixon days. I said to Mr. Colson, "I imagine you're thinking all about the White House strategy that's going on in this room." He smiled and said, "Not at all, Mike. I'm thinking about one thing . . . eternity!"

His statement really struck me. Sooner or later everyone on the planet—rich and poor; skeptic and religious; presidents and paupers—will all be thinking about only one thing . . . eternity. Can we really think that we can plan the future of our nation—of our world—without considering it as well? While democracy may have been invented in Greece, it was not until Bible-quoting, God-fearing people joined together to form a United States of America that it rose to the ideal we know today. Our system may not be perfect, but it is the best our world has seen yet, and that is because it was a system defined by moral clarity and based on the principles of the Bible.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." America stepped into the twenty-first century with a terminal case of both.

America is in this position primarily because we are the only nation today in alliance with both the historical brothers of prophecy— Ishmael and Isaac. The Bible begins and ends with the struggle between these two sons of Abraham. Today, their descendants are still in a Cain-and-Abel struggle for dominion, and America has stepped right into the middle of it.

The ancient Scriptures of the Bible have a great deal to say about the two spirits behind these brothers who are fighting it out through the nations of the earth. Ishmael was not the son of promise, but the son of a man trying to work the will of God in his own way. God had promised Abraham a son, but his wife, Sarah, was barren. At her request, Abraham took Hagar, her maidservant, and impregnated her. The result was the son Ishmael. Though a man of faith, Abraham acted in his own wisdom and lust, not God's direction—he justified a foolish action through moral relativism, tradition, and human reasoning, trying to get God's blessing on his own terms. It was not until some years later when the son of promise, Isaac, was born that Abraham fully realized the gravity of his mistake. Rejecting the "son of human reasoning," God blessed and cut covenant with the "son of faith." Ishmael went on to be the father of the Arab race, and Isaac a patriarch of the Hebrews. However, the battle continues, for the Qur'an teaches that Ishmael, not Isaac, was Abraham's son of promise, and that he inherited the land and the title deed to Jerusalem.

Today, America is caught in the same battle. Some want to try to "do good" without God, making our halls of government secular, amoral, and irreligious. Instead, we are making them immoral and blind. Instead of looking to God for blessings and prosperity, we are looking to our own reasoning and logic. For this reason, we are willing to trade almost anything to get the black gold—oil—that keeps our economy lubricated and running smoothly. Moral Americans are called bigots; yet, on the other hand, real bigotry is overlooked in other areas to keep America's economy "flowing with blessings."

America knows that Ishmael, the older brother in this struggle, believes the lies Hitler used to twist the minds of the Germans: that the Jews are the reason for the ills of the world and of the Arabs in particular, and if they are simply gotten rid of, the whole world will sleep easier. Yet, America does nothing to counteract this vile doctrine. Instead, we reward those who preach the same things by calling them "diplomats"—terrorist organizations such as the PLO and terrorist states such as Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia—and through "negotiations" force the other brother, Isaac, to make more concessions to an implacably angry Ishmael. However, Ishmael will never be appeased with a Palestinian state; that is only a hoped-for first step. While al Qaeda may wave the Palestinian flag as they cry, "Death to Americans," we cannot believe that they will suddenly start to love us if Palestine becomes a state, any more than Hitler allied with the rest of Europe when Chamberlain and others allowed him to annex the Sudetenland.

Dr. Yossef Bodansky and I spent considerable time in Jerusalem discussing this matter. In his book The High Cost of Peace, he states that the Palestinians' "step-by-step" plans to retake Palestine actually came from the experience of the Vietnamese in dealing with the U.S.:

Abu-Iyad detailed how he brought up the question of why the Palestinian armed struggle was considered terrorism whereas the Vietnamese struggle was lauded and supported throughout the West. His host attributed this phenomenon to the different ways the two liberation movements had packaged their goals. The Vietnamese team agreed to sit with the PLO delegation and help them develop a program that would appear flexible and moderate, especially in dealing with the United States, the Vietnamese explained, one must "sacrifice the unimportant if only in order to preserve the essential."

They emphasized that the PLO must remain committed to its ultimate objective—namely, "the establishment of a unified democratic state in the entire Palestine"—in the near term, it would be politically advantageous to accept transient phases and even interim solutions. The Vietnamese suggested accepting "the division of the land between two independent states," without making it clear that this was only an interim phase.

The Hanoi team also introduced the Palestinians to such issues as dealing with the U.S. media and with liberal political circles and institutions, and they provided insight on the power of the Jewish community. Disinformation and psychological warfare experts assisted the Palestinians in formulating a "moderate political program accepting the establishment of a small Palestine" in the territories. The result was the "Phase Plan" adopted as the resolution of the twelfth Palestinian National Council in Cairo on June 19, 1974.

We can never win the war on terrorism by appeasing terrorists on one hand and trying to root them out with the other. This is a sure guarantee for another September 11—or worse. We will never be able to turn this tide without getting to the root of the terrorists' hatred for Israel and for us, and exposing it at its source.

Why must the teaching of jihad be outlawed in America? Islamic fundamentalists use religion to recruit shahids—martyrs who are willing to kill themselves for the "cause." When Yasser Arafat delivers his speeches calling for one million shahids to liberate Jerusalem, he is not simply humoring the crowds. Jerusalem has experienced more terrorist attacks than any city in the world. When Islamic fundamentalist clerics call for shahids in the mosques, it is not just religious jargon. Islamic fundamentalism is a religion that kills.

It's not only critical that we understand why these people hate us, it is absolutely vital that we understand why they act on that hatred. The shahids believe they are performing a holy ritual for Allah. From childhood, Muslims are taught that to be a shahid, one must be chosen by Allah. It is the greatest honor in life. Shahids are taught that a martyr does not have a funeral, but rather a wedding. This is the reason families do not hold funerals when a child commits an act of martyrdom. Instead, a wedding celebration is held.

The prospective shahid is told that when the holy and religious act is performed:

• He will feel no pain or fear. In essence, the sting of death is removed.

• He will not die. All souls go into the ground awaiting resurrection except the souls of the shahid. They go directly to paradise; his own personal and immediate resurrection.

• He will be honored when he arrives in paradise with a crown of glory that has a jewel of the wealth of the world set in the center of it. (In Christianity, the crown is placed on the head of Jesus, and the saints lay their crowns at His feet.)

• He will attend his own wedding with seventy-two black-eyed virgins. The word "black-eyed" does not denote eye color; it denotes that they are incorruptible—an interesting word. (It is the same word in the Scripture used by Bill Clinton when he was sworn into office.) This belief is so strong that before the act of martyrdom, the shahid shaves all pubic hair and tapes his private parts. This is symbolic of what is to come.

• He will pave the way for seventy relatives to go to paradise and be exempt from the horrors of hell. In essence, the blood of the shahid atones for sin. It certainly would make for a horrible childhood to have all of your relatives lobbying for a spot on your "paradise list."

The insane aspect of this is that this diabolical battle for the minds of the children begins in kindergarten. Cartoon characters similar to our Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck are used with a message incorporated to seduce and recruit these small children as shahids. Kindergarten camps are used to teach the principles of jihad. Bridges, roads, parks, and buildings are named after the martyrs, and posters of their photos are everywhere. (Thousands upon thousands of children were used to clear the minefields during the Iran-Iraq war. "Keys to heaven" were placed around their necks and a martyr's badge was pinned to their clothing.)

The war on terrorism that we have today is fueled by Stone Age hatred—the same hatred Cain had for Abel, Ishmael had for Isaac, and Satan had for Jesus. Terrorists wage a spiritual war of fear and bigotry beyond what we understand—such a war cannot be won with tactical weaponry alone.

The holy grail of understanding is this: Islamic fundamentalists are the reason for September 11 and the terrorism war that America is fighting. Their ideology is as lethal as fascism or Nazism. As long as godless liberals attempt to dumb-down God-fearing Americans with a "don't ask, don't tell" policy on bigotry, the war on terrorism will not only survive, but thrive. In order to win this war, America must speak out on bigotry the same way Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. did.

I've already stated my thesis that America has married these two brothers; Ishmael (the Arab nations) out of convenience and Isaac (Israel) out of guilt. America knows that the older brother, Ishmael, believes the lies Hitler used to twist the Germans' minds against the Jews. Yet America does nothing to counteract this vile doctrine. Instead, in order to appease one ally, our other ally—the only true pro-Western democracy in the Middle East—was denied a place in the coalition forces during two wars in Iraq. Instead, America aligned itself with Islamic terrorist-funding regimes. And America is arming Islamic terrorist- harboring states whose citizens have been baptized in bigotry. This is a sure guarantee for another September 11—or worse. Bigotry is an equal opportunity employer; bigots will kill Christians with the same justifications they use to kill Jews. Someone needs to scream out, "It's about racism, stupid."

The war on terrorism we are waging today is part of the struggle between these two brothers. Terrorists wage a spiritual war of fear and hatred—such a war cannot be won with tactical weaponry alone. There has never been a more urgent time for Americans to act with moral clarity than today, yet there has also never been a time in which we have seemed more duplicitous. The future of our nation, as well as our world, hangs in the balance between our action and our apathy.

The Final Battle

Though William Butler Yeats was not a Christian prophet, his poem, which I placed at the front of this book, expresses the tensions of our times. We have rejected the foundation of our culture that has traditionally held us together—God and the Holy Scriptures—and as our culture drifts away from that center, we—the falcon—no longer hear His voice. As a nation our innocence is being drowned. Things are falling apart. In our halls of justice, in our pulpits, and in the political arenas, those who would speak for God not only lack the conviction to be effective, they are being systematically silenced because of a perverted interpretation of "separation of church and state." First Amendment rights are denied to those who would speak for God, while those who fight for self, special interest, and immorality are passionately intense as the Spiritus Mundi—the "spirit of the world"—takes over. Since Yeats wrote this poem, in fact, we have witnessed this spirit's being more active in our world than ever before through the "isms" of fascism, Nazism, communism, and terrorism—the greatest threats to human liberty we have ever faced.

The final battle in prophecy will take place in Israel. It is a battle line drawn through the heart of the city of Jerusalem, whose disposition has repeatedly thwarted peace efforts in the Middle East. Palestinians have been offered their own state time and again—first in 1947 by the United Nations, then in 1991 at the Madrid Conference after the Gulf War, then at the Wye River talks, and then again in a desperate President Bill Clinton's final days in office. But the major stumbling block on the way to peace has always been the control of East Jerusalem, the historic City of David where the Temple Mount rests—the very spot where heaven and earth met, and will meet again, and where the most dangerous prophecies concerning the nations of the world are written in the stones. It all begins with, "But now I have chosen Jerusalem for my Name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel."

As the twenty-first century has dawned, no nation stands as prominently between these two brothers, Isaac and Ishmael, as the United States of America. Since Israel's declaration of statehood on May 14, 1948, when the U.S. was the first nation to recognize its existence, to Israel's defense in the Yom Kippur War of 1973, and the defense aid we have given ever since, no nation has stood by Israel as we have. On the other hand, since 1945, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt met with Hitler-supporting King ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and promised that no U.S. decision regarding the Middle East would be made without first consulting the Arabs, neither has any nation been more closely linked to the Muslim nations in that region. I wonder if his death within weeks of making this decision was simply a coincidence.

Our influence on both sides goes much farther back. What these relationships have done is to make the United States the only nation that is the honest/dishonest broker trusted by both Ishmael and Isaac to barter peace between them. And this has placed America squarely in the eye of the storm of biblical prophecy.

America is thus caught in a tug-of-war between these two brothers—between oil, political expedience, and conscience in many ways—and it is our decisions and policies concerning these two brothers that will determine whether the United States will survive or go the way of the Roman Empire. Only the "People of the Book"—and I mean the Bible, not the Qur'an—can tip the scales in the right direction.

However, America remains complacent about such issues, even though we have already had many warnings. In the last century, we have seen three dress rehearsals for Armageddon: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. For several decades we fought the "isms" of fascism, Nazism, and communism, and now we are the fighting the "ism" of terrorism. The issues surrounding it are rapidly delineating the sides in this battle, just as these earlier "isms" delineated the sides of World War II and the Cold War. Yet we have totally missed the fact that the spirit that drove Hitler and Stalin is the same spirit that is driving terrorism today—although you won't hear anyone else talking about it. It is the spirit of hatred, which always begins in the same way: It first starts by hating Jews (anti-Semitism) and then moves on to hating Christians.

Today, we see the same hatred in the extreme Islamic fundamentalists who carry out horrific acts of terror. In fact, if you read some of the Islamic papers today, they are eerily reminiscent of newspapers from the early years of Nazi Germany. Hitler's gospel is back. It started with killing Jews, and spread to the killing of Christians (between the Nazis and the Soviets, roughly six million Christians were martyred during World War II, though not in death camps as the Jews were murdered).

America can ill afford to continue to ignore the first sign that another world war could soon be upon us: the increase of rabid anti- Semitism in the Arab world that is now returning to Europe. Do you believe there is no way America can be destroyed by terrorists because it is too mighty a nation? Then let me ask you a simple question: If America were to experience the equivalent number of suicide attacks in our malls, movie theaters, restaurants, and even churches and synagogues that Israel experiences per capita—and that would mean hundreds of attacks a week in our nation—would it not be better to declare all-out war on bigotry now, before bigotry declares all-out war on our cities?

The Arab leaders are at the tip of a pyramid whose base rests on the bloodlust of millions of fanatics, sympathizers, and potential terrorists who lionize the bin Ladens of the world. As Yale professor David Gelernter wrote in the Wall Street Journal:

Terrorists evidently control large segments of Arab opinion the way the Nazis once controlled Germany—by swagger and lies, by dispensing a dangerous hallucinogenic ideology for the masses, and by murdering opponents.

Why is the U.S. turning a blind eye to, and even funding, anti- Semitic, terrorist-harboring regimes? Have we learned nothing from September 11? Have we forgotten the mobs screaming "Death to Israel" and "Death to America"? The goal of an Arab conquest of Israel is another Holocaust. As for America, Islamic extremists hate everything about us; but their greatest hatred is our Christian majority and biblical principles by which we live our lives—our emancipation of women, our freedom, our wealth, our power, and our culture. They want to kill Americans because of all we represent in their oppressed and twisted minds.

Questions for America

While researching this book in both America and the Middle East, I experienced some eye-opening revelations about America's role in prophecy—past, present, and future. Below are some of the questions I have had answered while researching and writing this book:

• Why does America continue to feed and fuel Islamic regimes that are more racist than the KKK and whose population is taught terrorist-breeding ideologies?

• Why is America afraid to arrest a terrorist-murderer who has killed dozens of Americans, including American diplomats, a terrorist who keeps on his desk one of Hitler's best-loved books, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and quotes from it with pride?

• Why has America not allowed Israel to fight a real war against terrorism, such as we have done in Afghanistan and Iraq?

• Why did the State Department keep FBI agents from arresting three terrorists who were part of a Saudi entourage on its way to meet with President Bush in Crawford, Texas, seven and a half months after the attacks of September 11?

• Why did both President Clinton and President Bush disregard a report from the United States Commission on National Security that stated: "Americans will likely die on American soil, possibly in large numbers," which they both received well in advance of the September 11 attacks?

• Why is no one talking about the missing suitcase nuclear bombs from the former U.S.S.R., or the weapons of mass destruction Saddam moved out of Iraq through Syria before Operation Iraqi Freedom? Who has them, and what are they planning to do with them?

• Why did the nations of the world call for a 2001 conference on racism and work themselves into a rage against the Jews? Why was America attacked just seven days after the United States and Israel walked out of this conference in protest?

• Why is Hitler's Mein Kampf a best-selling book throughout the Muslim world more than fifty years after Hitler's death? And why is it used as a textbook in Muslim schools in the Middle East?

• Why did Hitler want the Jews out of Germany, and why did America do everything in its power to keep them there until six million perished?

• Why did the rest of the world also close their doors to the Jews when they most needed help on the eve of the Holocaust?

• Why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt refuse to recognize what was happening in the death camps until it was too late? Why, even after he had publicly condemned these mass executions, did Roosevelt refuse to bomb the gas chambers in Auschwitz, when Allied planes were flying routine missions near them nearly every day in the last months of the war?

• Why did a pair of brothers who aided the Nazis through the end of World War II later become secretary of state and director of the CIA under President Eisenhower?

• Why did a terrorist kill a presidential candidate two weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., on the anniversary of the Six-Day War? Why did another terrorist take two American diplomats hostage, and eventually kill them, because a U.S. president would not release that assassin? Why, instead of being arrested, was that second terrorist later elevated to diplomatic status, invited repeatedly to the White House, and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?

• Why did we fund, arm, and train terrorists who shot down our own helicopters in Mogadishu?

• Why is America promising a terrorist regime half of Jerusalem, when prophecy pronounces a curse on those who divide this city?

• Why is America spending billions of dollars to rebuild ancient Babylon, when 62 percent of the population are Shi'ites who would guarantee another Iran in time? The scriptures pronounce an end-time curse upon ancient Babylon more than upon any country in the world. Is America blessing what God has cursed?

Our nation's fate will be determined in a final test. Will America's first war of the twenty-first century, the conflict in Iraq, continue until it terminates in the most climactic prophetic event in history? This brings to mind an unnerving question: Will America choose God's side of the prophetic battle, or will it fight God? If America chooses the latter, it will end up on the ash heap of history.

I believe that we can never win against such apocalyptic hatred without first dealing with, and changing for the better, four key issues:

1. America is willfully ignoring the virus that is the growing plague of the Middle East—Jew-hatred (anti-Semitism such as the world saw in the 1930s)—coupled with Adolf Hitler's teaching that the Jews rule the world (as evidenced by such things as the World Muslim Conference in Malaysia during October 2003). Because of this, America is pouring billions of dollars worth of war weaponry into Jew-hating Arab regimes that are using these Hitlerian myths about the Jews to recruit a new generation of suicide terrorists to strike their greatest enemies—Israel and the United States.

2. September 11 would never have happened if America had fought the same bigotry in the 1990s rather than trying to appease it. Millions of Jews would be living today if anti-Semitism had not been ignored in the 1920s and 1930s. The Great Depression, as well as other American tragedies, happened because of America's pride and challenge to God Almighty's plan.

3. The war on terrorism has been fueled by America's support for Islamic terrorists in Israel. The Arab world also feeds it to save their "thug-ocracies." They never wanted to take care of their own as the rest of the world has done concerning refugees. It has infected Osama and in fact the entire world (as evidenced by the 2001 Durban Anti-Racism Conference, which blamed all the world's problems on Israel and no other nation). If that support continues, the war on terror cannot be won.

4. America is under a biblical curse that can be reversed. Jerusalem is the final compromise. If America divides Jerusalem, there will be no forgiveness. America will tragically end up on the ash heap of history.

America has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. The graveyard of history testifies that God rejects nations that reject Him and His Word. Is God getting ready to reject us once and for all? Or, will God-fearing Americans stand in the gap and turn America around by standing for, and speaking, the truth? The following words are etched into the wall in the main lobby of the original CIA headquarters building to characterize the intelligence mission of a free society: "And ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free" (see John 8:32).

I now believe that we are very close to the coming of Christ, and that not only is America in prophecy, but the tragic events of September 11 are, as well. I believe that America was attacked because of its unholy covenant with the descendants of the oldest son of Abraham, Ishmael—the Arab nations, specifically the nations led by or heavily influenced by Islamic fundamentalist populations. These regimes are, in great numbers, intolerant, barbaric bigots still living in the Dark Ages, and they are completely dedicated to the destruction of Israel, America's other covenant partner.

America's fate will be determined in a final test. It is time to REPENT!

Everyone speaking on the subject of what we face today gives us the sense that events are accelerating toward some unknown outcome. "September 11 was a wake-up call from hell that has opened our eyes to the horrors that await us tomorrow if we fail to act today," said Binyamin Netanyahu, then prime minister of Israel, speaking before the U.S. House of Representatives Government Reform Committee on September 20, 2001.

Copyright © 2004 by Michael D. Evans

About the Author

Michael 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, which organizes thousands to seek peace in the Middle East.