Not Justice, Not Sovereignty But Prosperity

We live in interesting times.

This morning I came across three articles that caught my attention.

The first one was this one about a US Army soldier, currently serving in Iraq, announcing his intention to defy President Obama’s orders and to join a lawsuit demanding that Obama produce documents to prove his eligibility to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution’s “natural born citizen” requirement.

The second one referred to the growing “Tea Party” movement of angry Americans scheduling Boston Tea Party styled protests to condemn Obama’s lets-borrow-obscene-amounts-of-money-in-order-to-get-out-of-debt economic stimulus “plan”. I didn’t know what the Tea Party movement was so I found the video clip that started it all.

The third one was this article in which Dan Gainor vehemently criticized Obama’s destructive policies and revived the old movie quote, “I’m mad as **** and I’m not going to take it anymore!” He called the Tea Party groundswell a “populist rebellion”. But the thing that really caught my attention here wasn’t what the columnist wrote, it was the nearly 6,000 reader comments (at that time) venting anger, frustration, desperation and mabye even sedition.

If one was prone to worry it might appear as if the USA is coming apart at the seams–or at least like that possibility is less unlikely than ever before. And that led me to wonder.

In Ezekiel 38:13, we read this:

Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders will say to you, “Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?

This unified voice appears to be trans-regional, economy-driven, and more concerned with a threat to prosperity than with basic issues of justice or a nation’s sovereignty. The event this unified voice is protesting is the invasion of the land of Israel by “Gog” and its allies, whom many scholars believe to be some alliance of nations under the leadership of Russia.

Two conditions seem to be necessary in order for this prophecy to come to pass: 1) The USA must become weakened in some way so that fear of US retaliation is not sufficient to deter Russia from invading Israel. 2) International political bodies must come to a point when they are much more concerned with the right to prosperity than with “human rights” like justice or the sovereignty of the State of Israel. This group of diplomatic/economist leaders that raises a mild protest in Ezekiel 38:13 does not exist to promote justice or national sovereignty but prosperity.

When we come to a time when the world political climate reflects these two conditions, perhaps the time will be ripe for a Russian invasion of the Middle East?