Is this the United States being destroyed? REVELATIONS 17:18?

>> According to the 17th chapter ten non-christian nations are going to destroy

>> this nation ...

        In the first place, a "woman" in prophecy represents a church -- not a nation. Also, if it is an unfaithful woman (such as a whore), then it is also an unfaithful church. The United States is the lamb-like beast of Revelation 13:11-18. Otherwise, it is not the non-Christians which will destroy that church. It is those whom have been following the leader of that church -- the leader being the anti-christ, posing as Christ. Thus, it will be the deceived Christians whom will destroy that church. Finally, since it is the anti-christ whom is leading that church and he will be leading from Jerusalem, it is the nation of Israel which will be destroyed but it is the Roman Catholic church which will be leading as the anti-christ.

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I don't think its talking about the United States. She has not had the 'super power' for a long time now, eight years actually.

America is not the Babylon... nor the woman who rides the beast.

At this time there will be 10 kingdoms (nations) and America will not be one of them.

The Roman Empire has come back together; back in 1992 they reunited.

I personally believe 18:4 is talking about the Christians coming out of the false denominations before they fill the wrath of God pouring out.

Many believe this is a reference to the Roman Catholic Church.

Could be ....the US seems to be absent in Biblical prophecy of end-time events. Some believe it could be the result of internal chaos or possibly an EMP attack from Iran which has been threatening and posturing lately in their nuclear ambitions along with conducting tests on sea-launched ballistic missiles from ocean freighters. A single nuclear warhead detonated high over the central US would cripple it for decades from EMP effects.....rendering us a 19th century country again. There is also a movement quietly underway to absorb the US into Canada and Mexico as a similiar union to the European model with a currency called the Amero.

Why is there no mention of America in prophecy?

The United States is mentioned nowhere in Bible prophecy by name. However, as the greatest nation ever to exist --technologically and scientificallyspeaking-- and as a nation that seems to have been designed by God to act as midwife and protector of Israel in its rebirth in 1948, one has to wonder if America is referred to somewhere in God's Word.

Some people believe it's mentioned in passages of Jeremiah, but I don't see it, personally. The Babylon spoken of is for a literally reborn Babylon, in my studied view.

The only reference we find, even obliquely, is in the Gog-Magog account of Ezekiel 38.

The "merchants of Tarshish" is reference to traders that came from the area of "Tarshish" or "land of tin." This is most often said to be the area of present-day England. The Scripture where this is mentioned is as follows:

"Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?" (Ezek. 38:13).

The "young lions" that follow "merchants of Tarshish" could include America, the offspring of Tarshish, as well as Australia, Canada, and a number of others that England spawned.

My own view is that when the rapture occurs, the US, which contains the largest numbers of true believers in Christ, will be in considerable disarray and chaos. Out of that might come a determination to join with the European Union in an effort to bring some semblance of order to the world.

Thus the US could be absorbed by that growing beast-state, out of which the beast, Antichrist, will come. This last world government is seen in Daniel 7 and more details are given in Daniel 9. More on Antichrist is found in Daniel 8 and in Revelation 13, which also speaks of this beast-state in the first few verses

Yes it is happening right now to AMERICA. and foilks are blind to it all. wonder why>??

that's just silly talk