Many Christians in the United States embrace the notion of American Exceptionalism - the notion that the nation due to its unique historical position and role is above common judgments. As it is the representative of liberal democracy and freedom and the focus of good in the world, it cannot be judged by the same standards as other nations. At times it must tackle tough and nigh on impossible tasks resulting in situations that would cause other nations to fall under severe judgment. The US must be exempt from such charges and condemnations. It cannot be held to the same standard.
Christians give this self-serving and morally bankrupt teaching an additional shot in the arm by couching the argument in Christian terms and giving it a theological veneer. For many, America has a not just a special place in the world in terms of Enlightenment Liberalism but God has chosen America as His instrument and has set it aside for special blessings. It is a 'chosen' nation - not on the order of Israel but second only to it. And for the Dispensationalists who embrace these myths and errors, the protection and support of Zionist Israel is one America's primary tasks.
Needless to say, such thinking which has appeared before under different guises among the European nations and polities of so-called Christendom, results in the justification of all manner of evil and ethical casuistry. American atrocities are explained away or worse, even sanctified. It's evils are whitewashed and resistance to this syncretist ideology from within the Church is usually viewed as heretical.
As I have long argued, the United States is yet another Beast power, cut from the same cloth as Assyria, Persia, Rome - and Babylon. The American Empire in fact behaves very much in keeping with their precedents.
Babylon also viewed itself as exceptional. We see this on full display in Isaiah 47 when the prophet exposes how the Babylonians live carelessly (without fear or reflection) and are given to pleasure. Like the Americans, the Babylonians saw themselves as exceptional too, saying 'I am and none else beside me' - a statement which takes on an Antichrist character in its blasphemy and presumption. This too characterizes the Beast powers and America is no less guilty. I'm sorry to report that the American Church is almost wholly given over to this idolatry and at this point in time it is clearly under judgment, to the point of seared consciences and Satan's agents in prominent leadership roles.
Babylon boasts of its endurance and everlasting qualities and yet is condemned for its sorceries - an image and narrative that reappears in Revelation. The draconic Beast appears once again in the visions of the apostle John, but this time the Beast has a rider (or collaborator) - a harlot or whore, which is often the choice depiction for the covenant people in a state of apostasy, an unfaithful bride given over to adultery and sin. In Zechariah 5 the doom pronounced on the apostates that swear falsely by God's name is tied in with a parallel vision of the woman wickedness who is likewise cast out or cut off and removed to Shinar (or Babylon) where her basket or vessel is set on base - a kind of enthronement. This imagery finds its fruition in Revelation 17ff.
The doom of Babylon comes to all beast powers - the US will find it is no exception and the apostate Christians who have given themselves to it stand condemned. The nation that call itself exceptional apart from a covenant declaration of God is one given over to idolatry on the order of Nebuchadnezzar, Antiochus Epiphanes and harks back to the ancients boasts of Lamech and Nimrod. The result is judgment, madness, and self-destruction. We are witnessing this right before our eyes as the Church is sold out to its idols.
Under the Old Covenant, Israel was the holy nation set apart by God, the vehicle to bring His people to the coming of Christ. After Christ, the Israel of the Old order is fulfilled and re-cast as the eschatological Last Days people of the New Israel - the Church. This is the only holy or set apart nation on the Earth, not Britain, America, or any other nation. When they make such claims, they are directly assaulting the place of the Church and the Kingdom of Zion. When Christians embrace this error and promote it as Christian - it is a sure sign of apostasy. We are exhorted by Scripture to break with such.
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