AMERICA and ISRAEL in BIBLE Prophecy The Christian Heritage of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Part 7 AMERICA IS EPHRAIM AMERICA: The Western State of Israel By: Tommie Spurgeon Verse 8. I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased. God was saying that he would get their attention and gather them to place them because he had redeemed them. There are no Christians that could express their love for God any greater than our founders who had been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. He said that they would increase. This again is Ephraim’s promise of being doubly fruitful and it has been fulfilled in the founding of America. ZECHARIAH 10:9-12 9. And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. 10. I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them. 11. And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away. 12. And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD. Verse 9 and 10 of these scriptures explains that God will bring them out of the places that they were living such as Egypt and Assyria and scatter them among the nations. This would be mainly Europe as they crossed the Caucasus Mountains they became mingled with the peoples of Europe. He said that they would remember him and return to him. This is not the way we would expect. Many of them returned to God when they heard the Gospel of Jesus and were born again. It says that they would try to return to Palestine the land of Gilead and Lebanon describes the borders of the Holy Land. The way this happened was when many of the nations of Europe tried to rebuild the Kingdom of God in the Holy Land through the crusades that ended in failure. It wasn’t in God’s plan to happen that way so no place was found for them there. Not everyone in Europe was part of Ephraim but many were through mixed marriages and such. Verses 11 and 12 go on to explain what happened. In order for them to find the place that God had for them they would have to cross the sea and it would be persecution that would drive them to do so. They were afflicted in the land that they were living and would be forced to do something. This is the very reason our founders came to this nation. God said that he would strengthen them in the Lord and this is exactly the reason the founders had the guts and courage to start this new land with a vision of the expansion of the Kingdom of God in mind. I cannot prove that our founders were from the ten tribes of Israel or Ephraim's bloodline I can only go by what the scriptures said would happen to Ephraim. Bear in mind that Ephraim would not have Jewish DNA. They are and were not Jewish they were Israelites. But dna is not required to believe that they are Ephraim. The only thing that is important is the promise that Jacob made to Ephraim when he blessed and said that he would become a multitude of Gentiles. They did not want to remember their past by recalling how they had been kicked out of the Holy Land and taken prisoner and then suffering hardship to survive. They blotted it from their memory and are simply like you and I today, simply viewing themselves as Gentiles. The other great proof of who we are is found in our common enemies. Israel and America are very close allies. In fact so much that the Muslim world hates both of us in the same breath. To them we are big Satan and little Satan, America and Israel. America feels a very strong commitment to Israel and visa versa. God has done this. ISAIAH 11:13, The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. Verse 11 explains that there would be no envy between Ephraim and Judah that they would not vex each other but would stand together. Let me ask you this question. What other nation in the world will stand to defend Israel any greater than America? Why is their alliance so strong? It is because God has put it in our hearts to do so. Verse 14 explains that these two nations would fight side by side to defend Israel against their enemies and would be victorious in doing so. Now this brings us to the rest of vision I had back in 1991.