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America and Britain in Prophecy Editor in Chief Roderick C. Meredith Executive Editor Raymond F. McNair Project Editor Thomas E. Robinson Associate Editor Gary Foster Assistant Editor Bradley J. Mitchell Contributing Editor Ronald B. Nelson Art Director by Raymond F. McNair Karen Myers Art Assistant Donna Prejean Contributing Artist Page Sandy Davis Business Manager J. Edwin Pope 1 Foreword Circulation Bryan D. Weeks Technical Advisor 2 The Identity Question Eric T. Myers Information Systems Sanford Beattie Robert Carrico Introduction—Chapters— 5 The Rise and Fall of Ancient Israel American office: P.O. Box 501111 San Diego, California 17 A Great Mystery of History 92150-1111, USA or toll free: 1-800-959-1641 28 Anglo-American Ethnic Roots Australian regional office: P.O. Box 772, Canberra 45 The Birthright Finally Realized! ACT 2601, AUSTRALIA or call: (06) 242-7266 56 What Is Now Prophesied? or freecall: 1800-816-543 Canadian regional office: P.O. Box 2400, Edmonton Alberta T5J 2R4, CANADA Introduction—Conclusion— or call: (403) 489-9901 or toll free: 1-800-932-4264 European regional office: 65 Epilogue LE SIECLE A VENIR Allée Grand Chéniat 30, B-6280 Loverval, BELGIUM Photo Credits or call: (32) 71-218-190 Global Church of God: all maps, front cover & pages 5, 8, 10, 19 (bottom) & 50. GCG; Corel: pages 23, 28, 45, 46 & 64. Guyana regional office: GCG; Digital Stock: pages 58-59 & 61(bottom). P.O. Box 10271 GCG; Digital Stock/NASA: page 55 & back cover. Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY; Biblical Archaeology Society: pages 14 (top & right), Georgetown, GUYANA 17 (top), 61 (top) & 62. Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY: page 29 (top right). New Zealand regional office: Mjeda/Art Resource, NY: pages 32-33 (center). P.O. Box 2767 Scala/Art Resource, NY: page 29 (“Dying Gaul”). Werner Forman/Art Resource, NY: pages 32 (left top & bottom) & 33 (right top & bottom). Auckland, NEW ZEALAND Bettmann Archives: pages 2, 3, 26, 56 & 57. or freephone 0800-380-584 The British Museum; Biblical Archaeology Society: pages 14 (bottom) & 17 (bottom). The British Museum: pages 29 (Battersea Shield) & 30. Deutches Archaologisches Institut, Abteilung, Teheran: page 36. South African regional office: Guildhall Art Gallery, Corporation of London/Bridgeman Art Library, London, P.O. Box 1154, Ferndale 2160 GHA6173-“The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee,” 1897, by Gow, A.C. (1848-1920): page 52. REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA Marie-Henriette Gates; Biblical Archaeology Society: page 19 (top). Carolanne Patton: page 48. or call: (27) 11-664-6036 THIS BROCHURE IS NOT TO BE SOLD! IT HAS BEEN PROVIDED AS A FREE PUBLIC United Kingdom regional office: EDUCATIONAL SERVICE BY THE GLOBAL CHURCH OF GOD. P.O. Box 111, Airdrie, All scriptural references are from the New King James Version Lanarkshire ML6 9BS, SCOTLAND (© 1982, Thomas Nelson Inc., Publisher) unless otherwise noted. or freephone: 0800-136-362 Copyright © 1996 Global Church of God. Printed in the U.S.A. All rights reserved. Foreword—Foreward— The Vital Key to End-Time Prophecy erhaps most of us remember reading the biblical story We all need to wake up, look at what is happening all around us of Joseph. It is one of the most touching and mean- and realize that we are truly living in the prophesied “last days.” Pingful stories in all the Bible. Joseph’s jealous broth- Things are not going to continue as they have been. Many of the ers had sold him into slavery. For more than 20 long years, major countries we live in or are familiar with will literally it had been assumed by his father Jacob and the rest of his cease to exist within the lifetimes of many of you reading this! family that Joseph was dead or lost for good. But the God of Knowing this, and knowing that God’s true servants have Abraham had orchestrated a series of remarkable events to always spoken out to warn His people about major future cat- make Joseph the ruler, under Pharaoh, over all of Egypt. In astrophes, we who publish this material do not want to let you this capacity, he had stored up grain during seven plentiful down. We feel inspired and impelled by the Spirit of God to years. And, while he was sharing that grain with starving let you know the real meaning of today’s news and what multitudes during the seven years of famine which followed, prophecy indicates is soon to occur. As the Prophet Amos Joseph’s brothers came to Egypt to buy some. wrote, “If a trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be Finally, Joseph revealed himself to them and a joyous afraid? If there is calamity in a city, will not the LORD have reunion followed! When his brothers went back and told done it? Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, unless He their father, the old patriarch just couldn’t believe it. But, reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. A lion has after they recounted the details of how Joseph revealed him- roared! Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken! Who self to them—and he saw the wagons Joseph had sent him— can but prophesy?” (Amos 3:6-8). Jacob said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is alive. I will go So as you read this brochure about what is prophesied and see him before I die” (Gen. 45:28). to happen to America, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Where is Joseph today? While it is true that the Jewish Zealand—and, to a lesser extent, all the other peoples people were given the “scepter” promise of kingship and the descended from the nations of Northwest Europe—recog- lineage of the Messiah, the Bible makes it very plain that the nize that this is exactly what the true servants of God ought tribe of Joseph was to inherit the promised blessings of nation- to be talking about at such a time as this. al greatness and power—“the BIRTHRIGHT was Joseph’s” There have been times in the past when centuries went (1 Chron. 5:2). Where are these people who were to become a by with very little in the way of prophesied events taking great “nation AND a company of nations” (Gen. 35:11), who place. Perhaps even God’s true ministers need not have spent were to inherit the “gates” of their enemies (Gen. 24:60), and too much time on prophecy back then. But not now! For now which were to be physically BLESSED above all nations? Did it is all beginning to come together—and you need to be they end up among the so-called “Ten Lost Tribes” of Israel informed. You need to understand. God warns us, “Scoffers who seemingly disappeared from the world scene after being will come in the last days, walking according to their own taken into captivity by Assyria around 734-721 B.C.? lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For The story of the discovery of modern-day “Joseph” is since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were moving and powerful in its implications. It presents to us the from the beginning of creation’” (2 Pet. 3:3-4). vital KEY that unlocks the real understanding of scores of Let’s be sure that we are not found among those who scoff end-time Bible prophecies! But is it really important that we at or belittle prophecy. Let us rather be alert to prophecy and to understand such prophecies? the meaning of present world events. Let us obey Jesus’ Jesus Himself prophesied of the last days of this world’s inspired command, “WATCH therefore, and pray always that present civilization, “For in those days there will be tribulation, you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will such as has not been since the beginning of creation which God come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man” (Luke created until this time, nor ever shall be” (Mark 13:19). These 21:36). And let’s also be sure that we fully grasp the importance are powerful words coming directly from the Son of God. After of understanding who the American and British-descended describing a number of specific events to occur at the end of this peoples of the earth are in Bible prophecy—as most end-time age, Jesus stated in this same prophecy, “Heaven and earth will prophecies directly concern US (and our Jewish brothers). For, pass away, but My words will by no means pass away” (v. 31). truly—as this brochure proves—Joseph has been found! Roderick C. Meredith ChapterIntroduction— 1— The Identity Question hat, or WHO, was really it. I have the feeling that God has creat- Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome—and behind the rise of Britain and ed us and brought us to our present even smaller nations like Arabia, WAmerica to the very pinnacle position of power and strength for some Cyprus, Ethiopia, Iran, Lebanon, of national wealth and power? Many great purpose!” Libya, Malta and Spain. Would the world leaders have stood in awe of the Other national leaders have been Word of God utterly neglect to men- economic and military power which recognized America’s special role. tion the greatest empire in human his- the Anglo-Americans have wielded Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of tory—the mighty British Empire of during the 19th and 20th centuries. India said, “Today the U.S. is the top modern times which dominated the How did U.S. President Ronald country, with a high opinion of its glob- world for over two centuries? Reagan view America? He said, “I have al responsibilities.
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