In 1776 USA declared its independence from Great Britain. As it happens, in that same year an historian in Europe named Alexander Fraser Tyler offered a warning that has become highly relevant to America’s future.
In researching his book The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Empire, Tyler discovered a pattern or cycle in the rise and fall of societies and nations.
The cycle is as follows: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from great courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; and from dependency back again to bondage. This was actually taken from Arabic philosopher bin al katheer who discovered this theory but in a different time sets that can expand to 120 years.
Tyler discovered from his study of history that the average length of time for this cycle to unfold was approximately 200 years.
America has so far exceeded this time frame by almost four decades—but, as should be obvious to any knowledgeable observer, the United States is nearing the end of this cycle. Examples of the steadily growing numbers of Americans dependent on government subsidies and handouts, and of the increasing threats to our political and religious freedoms, are too numerous to mention here; suffice it to say that the Founding Fathers would be appalled at many of the conditions in today’s society that we’ve come to take for granted. For most of her history, America was indeed a “shining light on a hill,” inspiring millions of poor and oppressed persons throughout the world to leave their homelands and come here to hope and work for a better life for themselves and their families.
Historical Dates and Coincidences
There are many interesting “coincidences” in history; these involve significant dates and patterns which become apparent only in retrospect. For instance, in 1689 Jesus instructed St. Margaret Mary in a dream to ask King Louis XIV of France to dedicate his kingdom His Sacred Heart. He promised that this act would ensure peace and prosperity for the kingdom, but warned that a failure to obey would lead to calamity. The king ignored this message, and exactly one century later the violent and disastrous French Revolution broke out, resulting in the overthrow of the monarchy, the persecution of the Church in France, and great hardships for most of the French people. (Continuing this 100 year cycle, 1889 saw the birth of Adolf Hitler, one of history’s most mad man and destructive tyrants; 1989, however, marked the peaceful disintegration of Soviet rule in Eastern Europe and the liberation of millions of persons—a demonstration of God’s power to intervene decisively in human history on behalf of His people.)
Further examples of historical coincidences can be found in the many important dates in World War II that occurred on Marian feast days: for instance, the British defeated the German aerial assault known as the Battle of Britain on September 15, 1940—the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows; the United States declared on Japan on December 8, 1941 (one day after the Pearl Harbor attack)—the Feast of the Immaculate Conception; the atomic bomb was tested in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945—the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel; and after their cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by atomic bombs, the Japanese agreed to surrender on August 15, 1945—the feast of Our Lady’s Assumption.
1917, of course, was the year of horrific Russian Revolution, which overthrew the tsarist government and imposed the world’s first communist regime upon the long-suffering Russian people. Shortly before this event, Our Lady warned at Fatima that Russia would “spread her errors” throughout the world—a prophecy that was tragically fulfilled. The rise of communism, and the spread of abortion (first legalized on a widespread scale in the former Soviet Union) helped make the 20th century the bloodiest in world history; religious believers in particular were imprisoned, tortured, and murdered by the millions—and even after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, communism continues to enslave and oppress untold numbers throughout the world.
we see that the number forty can represent not only a time of grace and divine favor, but also a period of testing and preparation; this biblical number can also stand for both an opportunity for repentance, and—if necessary—a time of punishment, chastisement, and cleansing.
Coming Chastisements
Scripture tells us that “The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked, but the dwelling of the just He blesses; when He is dealing with the arrogant, He is stern, but to the humble He shows kindness” (Prv. 3:34).
On this basis, many of the world government’s are certainly at risk of imminent divine judgment
In Usa now the Social Security and Medicare programs, out-of-control government spending resulting in annual deficits of more than $1 trillion, increasing difficulty in finding purchasers for government debt instruments (needed for the 40 cents of every dollar of government spending provided by borrowing), and the likely imminent loss of the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency (causing a major rise in prices for all foreign-made products purchased by American consumers), this trend of an ever-weakening dollar can only continue—and will likely accelerate. 70% f the products in usa are made in China.
Furthermore, in 1971—a bit over 40 years ago—the United States went off the gold standard, making the dollar a fiat (paper) currency with no intrinsic value. This fact is highly ominous and significant because there is no case in history of an unbaked, or paper, currency retaining its value over the long run.
Today an increasing number of financial commentators and experts are warning of the very real danger of hyperinflation—a sudden and unstoppable downward spiral in the value of the dollar, in which the savings of a lifetime can be rendered worthless literally overnight.
This phenomenon occurred in post-World War I Germany (where a wheelbarrow-full of money was eventually needed just to purchase a loaf of bread), and led to vast social disruption and widespread economic impoverishment (while helping set the stage for the rise of Hitler’s Nazi party). If and when hyperinflation comes to the United States, all dollar-denominated financial instruments (including bank accounts, pensions, annuities, IRAs, insurance policies, stock market portfolios and similar investments, and other paper assets) will rapidly lose their value, leaving the majority of Americans who lack hard assets (gold, silver, stockpiles of food and water, and various other items or skills suitable for bartering) in an untenable economic condition.
In such a crisis, the government will likely continue issuing Social Security checks and other welfare payments, technically fulfilling its obligations—but these will lose all monetary value.
With roughly half our nation’s citizens currently receiving or dependent on some form of government assistance, and many other Americans living paycheck to paycheck, state and local social agencies and private or religious charitable organizations will quickly be overwhelmed.
As the economy collapses, widespread rioting, looting, and other forms of crime and violence can be expected.
This will be even worse when we will have major natural disasters that will happen for sure from September 2017 and on word to may 2018, and getting worse in October 4 to October 20 2017.
Martial law may be imposed—but it’s also possible that a federal government unable to pay its debts will no longer be able to maintain a large and effective military force, leaving us vulnerable to our enemies.
While one hundred is not necessarily a biblical number to the same degree that forty is, this number nevertheless has certain significance. Civilizations and historians often measure the passage of time in terms of centuries, and a one hundred-year period can represent an important stage in the unfolding of God’s plan (as in the example mentioned above, in which Louis XVI of France was overthrown and later executed exactly one century after his great-grandfather Louis XIV ignored a message from Heaven).
When Gorbachev took over the Soviet Union and he announced Troika (sharing the power) and Glasnost (openness). This was followed by the breakup of the USSR, freedom for the stated of Eastern Europe and south central Asia that had been oppressed by the Soviet Union (although these latter states still have brutal dictatorships), the denunciation of communisms and the painful changeover period to capitalism, and democracy in Russia and the eastern European states, following an awkward period of leadership by Boris the Drunk. The next few years will be more unstable in USA and the world in term of economy, trades, wars, natural disasters and lost of lives.