US Has Invaded The Whole Planet

As TomDispatch’s Nick Turse has so vividly reported over the last decade, America’s previously “elite” Special Operations forces -- once small, specially trained units in a large military -- have now essentially become a military in their own right, all 70,000 of them (larger, in fact, than many national armed forces). And they are more or less everywhere, more or less all the time. They aren’t just “elite” forces anymore; they’re America’s secret military, which, as Turse has shown, is increasingly deployed to something startlingly close to all the countries on the planet (aside from a few obvious ones like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea).

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According to the Book of Revelation, a "beast" will rise up to become the dominant economic and military force on our planet:

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

Revelation 13:1-4 KJV

One of the things which puzzles me is how interpreters of this prophecy can claim the beast will somehow come out of the European Union, when clearly it's coming directly out of the United States. We have driven G-d out of our government, our schools, and our homes, and now the dragon has given power to the beast which our economic system and these "special forces" are spreading throughout the world.

Wake up, America. When the time comes, you're not going to be "raptured" anywhere. You're going to reap what you have sown while enduring the Tribulation.