Chapter Overview
The Birthright Wealth
The Actual Statistics
How Did We Get It?
How great, how powerful, and how wealthy did British and
American people become? And what is suddenly happening to us now?
Why has Britain already lost most of her colonies - her possessions - her
resources, wealth, power and influence in the world? Why is Britain
no longer considered Great Britain - a GREAT world power?
Why is the United States now discredited, despised,
hated throughout so much of the world? Why could we not win the Korean
War? Why couldn't the United States whip little North Vietnam?
First, realize just how great - how rich and powerful
- the American and British people did become.
People are prone to take their status - and that
of their country - for granted. Few realize what unprecedented affluence
our countries enjoyed. We judge all things by comparison. The
average Briton, Australian or Canadian has never traveled through the illiterate,
poverty-stricken, disease-infested backward areas of China, India, the
Middle East or black Africa. He has not observed the squalor, the
stench, the poverty and wretchedness in which the largest part of mankind
lives.
Nor has the average American visited those vast
underprivileged areas, no even the countries of Europe - prosperous compared
to the teeming illiterate masses, yet poor by comparison to American standards.
No, our people generally have not realized. Nor have they been grateful.
Nor have they given God thanks, nor accepted the responsibility that accompanies
their lavish blessings.
Few realize that every desired, prized possession
imposes with it the obligation of responsibility for its use. Does
the eight-year-old boy who is given a shiny new bicycle by his parents
feel a consciousness for the responsibility imposed on him - unless the
fact is impressed on him by his parents - for the care of it, and the carefulness
with which he must ride it to avoid injuring himself or others?
When God lavished on our peoples such wealth and
power and economic possession as no peoples have ever before enjoyed, did
we appreciate what we had or feel the commensurate sense of RESPONSIBILITY
for its wise and proper use?
WE DID NOT! We didn't even recognize HOW
GREAT was our blessing, let alone feel a sense of obligation for our custodian
ship before our Maker! Just HOW GREAT, then, was this birthright
blessing?
Read again the prophetic promises of Genesis 22:17.
To Abraham God said: "That in blessing I will bless
thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven,
and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess
the gate of his enemies."
And again, the inspired prophetic parting blessing
upon Rebekah, leaving her family to become the wife of Isaac: "And they
blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother
of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which
hate them" (Gen. 24:60).
Earlier we quoted the correct Fenton translation:
". . .and your race shall possess the gates [ plural] of its enemies."
As explained there, the "gates" of enemy nations are the strategic SEA
GATES of entrance to or exit from these nations. Although all wealth
comes from the ground, prosperity and affluence on a national scale always
have come also by industry and COMMERCE. And commerce between nations
has been transacted almost altogether by the SEA-LANES of the world - by
SHIPS, and, within a continent, by railroads.
How significant, then, that Robert Fulton operated
the first steamboat in 1803 - precisely when Britain and America suddenly
began to MULTIPLY in national wealth! And also that it was the nineteenth
century that saw the development of the railroads!
As explained before, since the birthright pertains
to NATIONS, the "GATE" of our enemies would be such passes as Gibraltar,
Suez, Singapore, the Panama Canal, etc.
Britain and America came into possession of every
such major "gate" in this world! So we MUST be modern Israel.
World War II hinged on these "gates." They had become not only strategic
passes, but the world's greatest fortifications. But today, we have
lost most of them, most recently, the Panama Canal - and it appears that
soon Gibraltar, too, will be lost. Why?
Notice Genesis 39:2, 23: "The Eternal was with
Joseph, and he was a PROSPEROUS man. . . the Eternal was with him, and
that which he did, the Eternal made it to PROSPER." And God did prosper
Joseph's descendants, Britain and America, with the fabulous birthright
promised Joseph's sons!
Consider Moses' dying prophetic blessing, foretelling
what would happen to each of the tribes in these latter days.
"And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be
his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep
that coucheth beneath, and for the precious fruits brought forth by the
sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, and for the chief
things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting
hills, and for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof. .
.let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph [Ephraim and Manasseh both].
. .His glory is like the firstling [firstborn - birthright holder] of his
bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns [Great Britain's
national seal today]: with them he shall push the people together to the
ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they
are the thousands of Manasseh" (Deut. 33:13-17).
Whoever is Ephraim and Manasseh today must have
been in possession of the earth's choicest agricultural, mineral, and
other wealth - the great gold and silver mines; iron,
oil, and coal; timber and other resources.
What nations fulfill these prophecies? Why,
only Great Britain and America!
More than half of all tillable, cultivatable, temperate-zone
lands of this earth came after A.D. 1800 into the possession of our two
great powers alone! The rich agricultural lands of the Mississippi
Valley; the vast wheat and grain fields of the Midwest, of Canada and Australia;
the great forest lands of the Pacific Northwest and many other parts of
the world; the gold fields of South Africa, Australia, Alaska and the United
States; the great coal mines of the Unites States and British Isles; the
natural waterfalls and means of power and consequent prosperous industrial
and manufacturing districts of England and the eastern United States; the
choicest fruit lands of our Pacific Coast and Florida. What other
nations combined ever possessed such material wealth?
And nearly all this wealth came to us after A.D.
1800!
Just to what extent has Almighty God fulfilled His promises
in us to the descendants of Joseph in these latter years since A.D. 1800
- promises of "the precious fruits brought forth by the sun. . .the chief
things of the ancient mountains. . .and the precious things of the earth"?
Said Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate, before the
Massachusetts Bankers Association, January 5, 1921: "Our Unites States
has been endowed by God with everything to make it and keep it the foremost
industrial and commercial nation of the world."
World petroleum output in 1950 was almost 3,800
million barrels. Of this total the United States alone produced more
than one-half - nearly 52%. Together, the British Commonwealth and
the United States produced 60% of the crude petroleum, not including our
vast foreign investments. But by 1966 - the fateful year in which
the British Colonial Office in London closed its doors, marking the official
death of the British Empire - that 60% of all the world's crude petroleum
output had been reduced to 32%.
Britain and America mined 1 1/2 times as much coal
as all other nations combined. But by 1966 our portion had shrunk
to less than one-third of the world production - 30.9%!
Together, the British Commonwealth and America
produced, in 1950, three-fourths of the world's steel - the United States
alone producing almost 60% or 105,200,000 short tons in 1951. We
produced 1 1/3 times as much pig iron as all other nations combined.
By 1966, this basic index of wealth had skidded
down to one-third (33.6%) of steel production and only 17l8% (one-sixth)
of the pig iron.
We possessed nearly 95% of the world's nickel (chiefly
from Canada); 80% of the world's aluminum; 75% of the zinc. But where
did we rate in 1966? Only 3.6% of the world's nickel; 40.2% of its
aluminum (aluminium); 12.4% of its zinc.
In 1950, the British Commonwealth completely dominated
the production of Chromite (from South Africa). Together Britain
and America produced two-thirds of the world's rubber, and dominated the
world's copper, lead, tin, bauxite and other precious metal outputs.
But by 1966, we produced only 2.3% of the world's chromite, 23.4% of its
copper, 9.9% of its lead, no tin, and 6.3% of its bauxite.
The British Commonwealth produced two-thirds of
the world's gold - about U.K.266,000,000 ($642 million) in 1950 - while
the United States lad three times as much gold reserve as the total for
the rest of the world. But by 1966 the U.S. gold supply had been
drained so much that the dollar was in serious jeopardy.
We produced and utilized two-thirds of the world's
output of electricity - the United States producing 283 thousand million
kilowatt-hours in 1948, and the United Kingdom and Canada outstripping
Russia, Germany and France combined. But by 1966 we produced only
20.1%!
Great Britain and the United States did possess
well over half of the world's merchant fleet tonnage. But by 1966
the figure was only 32.5%. The British Isles constructed more vessels
than any other place on earth. But less than two decades later two
or three Gentile nations had already outstripped Britain and America.
In 1950, we also possessed about one-half of the world's railroad mileage.
By 1966 our combined railway freight shipping was only 26% of the world
total.
Whereas the United states alone once produced 73%
of the automobiles, by 1966 the U.S. combined with the U.K. produced 55%
- 44% from the U.S. alone. Japan, Germany, France, and Italy are
making huge gains.
How did we come into possession of all this vast wealth
of the earth? Did we acquire it through our own human wisdom, foresight,
energy, ability and power?
Let Abraham Lincoln answer: "We find ourselves
in the peaceful possession of the fairest portion of the earth, as regards
fertility of soil, extent of territory, and salubrity of climate. . .We.
. .find ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings.
We toiled not in the acquirement or the establishment of them."
Again, in his proclamation of April 30, 1863, for
a nationwide day of fasting and prayer, this great president said: "It
is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon
the overruling power of God. . .and to recognize the sublime truth, announced
in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only
are blessed whose God is the Lord. . . We have been the recipients of the
choicest blessings of heaven. We have been preserved, these many
years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth
and power as no other nation ever has grown; BUT WE HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD!
We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied
and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness
of our hearts, that these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom
and virtue of our own."
And because Lincoln saw a nation who had forgotten
God - a nation drunk with a success not due to its own efforts - a nation
taking all the credit and glory to itself, this great president called
upon the nation for a day of fasting and prayer to confess this national
sin before God. The fate of the nation hung in the balance when he
issued that proclamation. But God heard and answered that great national
prayer offensive - and the nation was then preserved!
But today the threat to our fate is a thousand
times more seriously hanging in the balance. And today we do not
have a president or a prime minister with the vision, understanding and
courage to bring our nations to their knees!
Abraham Lincoln knew these great material blessings
had not been earned, but had been given to our people by the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and of Israel.
And we should face the facts today and know that
we were given all this vast unprecedented material wealth because God promised
it, unconditionally, to Abraham. And He promised it to Abraham because
Abraham obeyed God, kept God's laws and commandments.
The birthright blessing was denied our forefathers
after Moses' day because they REFUSED to live by God's laws.
And today God warns us, through many prophecies
in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Micah, and many others, that unless we of
this generation REPENT of our sins, and turn to Him with fasting, and with
weeping, and earnest PRAYER, He will destroy our cities, all our fortresses,
with the foreign sword; that He will punish us at the hand of a CRUEL ONE;
that we shall be invaded, defeated, reduced to SLAVES! GOD HELP US
TO HEED THAT WARNING!
In conclusion, we ask: If we are not national Israel
- the so-called "lost" Ten Tribes - prosperous Joseph-Israel - birthright
Israel - actual inheritors of the birthright blessings which were to be
bestowed beginning A.D. 1803, then who else can be? No other nation
or combination of nations possessed these blessings of the birthright -
for we held more than two-thirds - nearly three-fourths - of all the raw
materials, resources, and wealth of this entire round earth, and all other
nations combined shared among them only a small part.
Do you know of stronger proof of the divine inspiration
of the Holy Bible as the revealed Word of the living God? Could mortal
men have written, without divine inspiration, those prophecies we have
considered in this book; made those PROMISES to Joseph-Israel; and, after
a lapse of 2520 years, beginning the exact years of 1800-1803, have had
power to bring them about in fulfillment? These are no small or trifling
promises. They involve possession of the great wealth and vast natural
resources of the whole earth.
Present these facts as a challenge to your atheistic
and agnostic friends. Ask them to answer, if they can, whether any
but the power of the Eternal Creator Himself could have made and had committed
to writing such promises thousands of years ago, and, at precisely the
promised time thousands of years later, brought about their fulfillment!
How any American - any English-speaking inheritor
of God's choicest material blessings - can, in the face of such stupendous,
overwhelming fulfillment of prophecy - such awe-inspiring demonstration
of the power and might and faithfulness of Almighty God - accept and partake
of these blessings, and then carelessly ignore God's WARNING that our sins
today are INCREASING, or fail to get to his knees before the great Almighty,
repent, and INTERCEDE in every way he can to warn our people now of their
impending PERIL, seems impossible to conceive.