Quotes About Nations

What did John have in mind in referring to that "great city"? Tonight's broadcast news will use phrases like this: "Washington strongly reacted today to Moscow's invasion of Georgia…," or "London today took sharp exception to the bombing in Jerusalem…" Nations are frequently referred to, particularly by other countries, by the name of their capital city or a leading prominent city.

Likewise, most of the Middle Eastern, many African nations and many Asian nations, would be poor relocation choices due to current significant Muslim domination of the government and population of those nations.

As for changing the laws, Muslims, even moderates, are today pushing for Sharia law in nations where they are a growing portion of the population. A poll, by the Guardian newspaper in London, found that about two-thirds of British Muslims want to be governed by Sharia law, which has been implemented in Muslim-dominated areas of Great Britain.

So where does one move? This clearly is a matter for much prayer and seeking God's face. In doing so, two factors should be taken into account: a.) does the potential location for immigration allow abortion; and b.) what is the level of Muslim population? The remaining nations of the world that today prohibit or severely restrict abortion and that have low levels of Muslim population are mostly in Central and South American, nations that, therefore, may offer an appropriate refuge.

Then, when the rapture does come, His people, by then relocated in other nations than their native America, will be alive to be raptured, along with the other believers in the world. Immediately before Jesus returns His people will be on the brink of being slain by those committed to their beheading and death.

But, at the end, Israel will sign a "peace agreement". God told Israel in His word not to lean on other nations and not to give up its land, but none of this will stop Israel, as it once again turns to man and away from its Creator. Watch the news for the big announcement.

It is no coincidence that Ezekiel, writing centuries before Muhammad was even born, listed as the future invading nations, only nations that today are Muslim, or have large numbers of Muslim residents, such as Russia. There are no Western European nations included in Ezekiel's list of invaders.

However, times change, people change, and nations change. America, the formerly great missionary nation, is no longer viewed as holding a golden cup used of the Lord, but by the time of its fall, instead, will be seen in this manner: "For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her." (Revelation 18:3

In the balance of verse 51:7, though, Jeremiah gives us a further insight into the influence of the Daughter of Babylon on the people of the world: "Intoxicating all the earth, the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are going mad.

Name the nations of the world that have military defense agreements with Israel, under which the nation promises to come to Israel's assistance, "on an urgent basis," if Israel is attacked militarily. That's right, just one nation. The United States of America. Neither ancient Babylon, nor today's Iraq, in which ancient Babylon is located, did or would come to Israel's defense if attacked.

Though many other nations, but not all, also allow abortion, it has been America which has led in the abortion movement. Once Roe v. Wade was handed down by the Supreme Court of the world's leading nation, the number of abortions took off in nations across the globe. Prior

China is shown as an invading army of two hundred million (Rev. 9:16 and 16:12–"the Kings of the east"). When Revelation was written, the total population of the world was only a fraction then, of the number of soldiers in this prophesied future mega-army. No other nation in the world then, or for that matter now, could mount such an army, except China's reserve armies today.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

Given the tendency of nations, particularly great powers, to engage in war unjustifiably and to set in motion the apparatus of the state to suppress dissent, the respect accorded to pacifism serves the purpose of alerting citizens to the wrongs that governments are prone to commit in their name.

For years, Sri Lanka was viewed as a model developing nations. It gained independence peacefully and sustained one of the feew authentically competitive democratic systems in the Global south.

You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition.

I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.

So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

In God we may "rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory" (1 Peter 1:8). "Men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed" (Psalm 72:17). Let

To grant life more importance than it has is the mistake committed in sagging systems; as a consequence, no one is ready to sacrifice himself to defend them, and they collapse under the first blows perpetrated upon them. This is even more true of nations in general. Once they begin to hold life sacred, it abandons them, it ceases to be on their side.

No one should be surprised at the prominence given to war. We are dealing with early ages: nation-making is the occupation of man in these ages, and it is war that makes nations.

Nations are never destroyed due to casual accidents. They are destroyed when their congregation perception ends.

And the Temple again shall be built, And filled as it was of yore; And the burden be lift from the heart of the world, And the nations all adore; Prayers to the throne of Heaven Morning and eve shall rise, And unto and not of the Lamb Shall be the sacrifice.