While Jeremiah the prophet saw the disasters caused by the sins of Judah and the kings of Judah when they did all sorts of abominations like passing babies through the fire to molech and murdering God's prophets and even defiling God's temple with baal idols in the temple, God gave a prophesy in Jeremiah 30 about a future restoration of a new Israel. In Jeremiah's day, Babylon was fighting to put Judah and everyone that didn't obey God into captivity. Jeremiah saw it and wept: he was considered the weeping prophet. But, God saw the future of Israel to be a blessing and a glory. God referred to Israel as a chaste virgin: a bride. I am not talking about Israel today in the middle east, but all the nations today that are Israel by birthright: the British Commonwealth, America, and the state of Israel. But, for this blog, o reader, I will show you what I learned about America.
Jeremiah said in the prophesy that Israel would be an outcast, The pilgrims of America's founding were outcasts: they were separatists from the Church of England, The pilgrims wanted to follow the bible, imperfectly, but that was their desire. America was a nation of outcasts, and still is. The pilgrims and all immigrants came to America for religious freedom: Jamestown, Plymouth plantation, Quakers led by William Penn, John Winthrop, and other Separatists. America became Zion, the Christian nation, that gave freedom of religion to all. God brought Zion back home with fear and trampling as Jeremiah said. Jeremiah said that Israel going through travail like a woman giving birth is mentioned in revelation about a woman giving birth to a male child when the dragon tried to kill him but failed. This child was Jesus Christ, and the woman was the church: Zion. The church went into the wilderness to go to a nation that's symbolic of the moon, sun, and 12 stars. This nation was mentioned to Joseph in a dream that he told his father and brothers. That dream was fulfilled in Joseph's firstborn son, Manasseh, whom Jacob blessed to be a great nation: America.
Jeremiah prophesied about a future return of Israel from his time period in 586 B.C. That happened with the founding of America through Jamestown in 1607 and Plymouth plantation in 1620, but America wasn't a nation until July 4th, 1776. God said that this new nation will be filled with Thanksgiving, and that was started with the first thanksgiving in Plymouth Plantation with the Indians. After a good, fall harvest, Thanksgiving became an American tradition ever since. Presidents like George Washington and Abe Lincoln proclaimed thanksgiving proclamations, and President Franklin Roosevelt officially signed into law the thanksgiving tradition we know today. Governors like John Hancock did thanksgiving proclamations in their states, and the Continental congress during the American Revolution made many pray and fasting proclamations as well as thanksgiving proclamations. American leaders were fulfilling bible prophesy without even knowing it.
America had a history of merriment throughout her history with her music like hymns from Longfellow and Emerson and Whitman to songs like Yankee doodle, Battle Hymn of the Republic, O Susanna, my old Kentucky home, and others. America had best remembered the history of her heritage through song. The pioneers like Daniel Boone, Johnny Appleseed, and Davey Crockett would sing merrily as they traveled west. Songs like Star Spangle Banner by the Poet Francis Scott Keys or the song America the Beautiful filled America and the world with merriment. President Ronald Reagon knew the author of the American heritage song being God, which fulfilled Jeremiah's prophesy in chapter 30.
Jeremiah said that this new Israel would increase and not be small. America from her founding had abundance of children: Men would have many children through one wife. When she died, the men would have many more through another wife. Women would teach the children about God through the bible or other American literature. Books like uncle tom's cabin, the scarlet letter, or the last of the Mohicans, and the adventures of huck finn had biblical themes in their books, and the women taught them. Women would teach virtue and morality as well as reading and writing and math. If you look to the original sources, America had the best education system in the world since Plymouth plantation. When America stopped teaching religion and morality and virtue, we endure the consequences.
But, since our founding, God fulfilled Jeremiah's prophesy by making America the third most populous nation on earth.
Another thing that America does is that we have a constitutional republic that chooses our leaders from the midst of us in the nation--which fulfills Jeremiah's prophesy written in Jeremiah 30:21. The framers of America at the convention of 1787 argued about making America a Monarchy under George Washington, a democracy like Greece before Alexander the great, or a republic like Rome before Julius Caesar. America has a unique republic of balance between all branches of government as well as between the people and the states, but we still get our governors and nobles from our midst. A lot of the founding fathers like Roger Sherman and George Washington were self-taught, and Abraham Lincoln was a self-taught circuit riding lawyer. The uniqueness of America is that our noblemen and women as well as governors could come from rags to riches. It's part of our American Spirit, and it fulfills Jeremiah's prophesy. Anyone can be great in America, which is a freedom no other nation has.
I don't know about you, o reader, but God made this nation into who we are as a people. But, we have forgotten our heritage and who we are as a people. We have forgotten the American Spirit of the pioneer. We have lost the song from neglect and walking away from religion and morality. Who are we, America? Do we still have the Spirit of adventure singing the song of merriment with thanksgiving to God? Or, are we miserable, divided strangers in a land of immigrants? Who are we, o America?
