Where Is America in Bible Prophecy?

As a teacher and author on Bible prophecy, the No. 1 question I get asked is: “Where is America in Bible prophecy?”

The general consensus from a significant number of teachers in Bible prophecy is that America is in a state of irreversible decline and may no longer exist in the near future as a separate and independent sovereign nation.

One of the primary arguments for that is that America is not named specifically by name in the prophetic Scriptures. In addition, America is in the greatest crisis it has ever been in.

The majority of believers in our nation fall into three basic categories. First, the largest percentage are ignorant of the depth and danger of the crisis. They are, as it has been said, in “la-la land.” The second group of Christians believe America is in a free fall due to the long list of sins committed by the church and nation. 

The third group of believers are those who truly recognize the great peril we are in, but believe if a “remnant” of believers will “stand in the gap,” engage in true intercessory prayer and cry out to God, that the Lord is willing to send to whatever degree He chooses, revival, mercy and a temporal restoration to our nation. I use the word temporal because at some point on the prophetic timeline the coming global economic, political and religious system that will be headed up the Antichrist and the False Prophet will emerge.

On July 4, 2012, I was praying and interceding for America with my wife in our home in Southern California when I experienced what can only be described as a supernatural vision from God that began immediately after I began to repent for my sins and repent for the sins of the church as an intercessor.

I want to be very precise about what I am about to share in terms of the use of my terminology. First, even though I was saved during the Jesus movement of the 1970s and took part in the charismatic renewal movement, I have what I would call “inspired imaginations or pictures from the Holy Spirit,” but rarely if ever what I would technically classify as a vision.

Therefore, I do not use the term glibly. Secondly, even though I have experienced being “set on fire by the Holy Spirit,” the burning fire of the Spirit that came upon me immediately after repenting was of an entirely different dimension than anything I had ever experienced before.

Immediately after repenting, my body and hands began to burn with a heat so intense that I could not understand why my flesh was not burning.

The next thing I knew I was looking down upon the North American continent from a satellite point of view and I saw the fires of a genuine revival break out in California. Then, as these fires spread, a supernatural and other-worldly golden glow began to move slowly from the West Coast to the East Coast.

I could see millions of people’s faces being illuminated by this heavenly light and I heard the Lord say, “My people are rising in prayer.” This divine light represented some kind of biblical revival and Great Awakening. The Lord spoke to my heart and said that it was not His will for America to be destroyed, but His righteous conditions must be met. The Lord impressed upon me that if the “remnant” truly repented and cried out that He would send revival.

However, the promise of revival was contingent on this act of obedience to the call for genuine repentance by at least some percentage of His church. The Lord spoke to my heart one day and said to me, “The cities of America will either burn with the fires of revival or the fires of race wars and destruction.”  

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Paul McGuire is a prophecy expert, Fox News and History Channel commentator, host of GOD TV’s Apocalypse and the End Times and the author of two dozen books, including The Babylon Code, Mass Awakening and A Prophecy of the Future of America. For a decade, McGuire was the host of the nationally-syndicated radio talk show, The Paul McGuire Show.  You can visit his website at www.paulmcguire.us.