Plucking the Eagle's Wings

Cursed in the Midst of Prosperity

visitor, who in the same voice I heard say before, 'Son of the Republic, what you have seen is thus interpreted. Three great perils shall come upon the Republic. The most fearful is the third, passing which the whole world united against her shall not prevail against her. Let every child of the Republic learn to live for God, his land, and his Union.' With these words the vision vanished, and I stared from my seat and felt I had seen a vision wherein was shown me the birth, progress, and the destiny of the United States"' (Source: True Visions of the Unseen World , Gordon Lindsey). The first part of the vision may have dealt with the War of 1812 that came 35 years after Washington's vision at Valley Forge. The second warning seems to refer to the Civil War and expresses how America would be divided and again reunited. The third part of the vision, pertaining to the dark red light, may suggest a future invasion by a Communist nation. In 1973, a former CIA agent who was a member of my father's church in Arlington, Virginia warned that, in the future, a major terrorist group could obtain nuclear weapons and America may be attacked from within. Today, nuclear weapons, which can now be carried in a suitcase, are only one threat to us. Biological attacks are easier and more likely. Whatever Washington saw, the third revelation has not transpired. Some military experts foresee a time when China will move against the United States. Only time will tell. There is Time to Repent and Turn Away from Sin During the dark days of the Civil War, on July 2, 1864, Congress adopted a resolution that sounded like an Old Testament prophet's lamentation. The resolution requested citizens to "confess and repent of their manifold sins, implore the compassion and forgiveness of the Almighty, and beseech him as Supreme Ruler of the world not to destroy us as a people" (Source: Lincoln the Unknown , Dale Carnegie). Prior to his death, Lincoln met a Catholic priest named Charles Chiniquy. The Priest started a Canadian movement to outlaw liquor. Finally, after a severe battle that he won in June of 1850, liquor was outlawed in Canada. He became known as the "Apostle of Temperance" in Canada. Chiniquy knew Abraham Lincoln when he was a lawyer. Lincoln had tried a case that began on May 19, 1856 in which the priest

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