2 Chron. 21: 11-15:
Moreover he [King Jehoram of Judah] made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
- next to Israel during the Jewish Age, America has been the object of Jehovah's favor more than any other nation.
- the Bible in one of its prophecies addresses America in a language that indicates its being a special object of Divine care and blessing (Is. 18: 1 - we quote the Improved Version's rendering of the verse: "Ho [not "woe" as the A. V. renders it], land of shadowing wings [land of God's special providential protection], which is beyond [west of] the rivers of Ethiopia [the then most westerly known country]").
- America's history demonstrates that of all modern nations, it has been the one most favored by God in material, social, international, civil, political and religious respects.
- the special favor of God upon America has been due to the fact that America's principles of human liberty in harmony with the law and of human equality before the law, believed in and acted out by Americans generally as the fundamental principles of Democracy, more nearly than the principles underlying any other form of government express God's highest ideal of the principles that should underlie government, as can be clearly seen in God's making these principles the expression of Israel's government between man and man under the Mosaic law; and as was exemplified in Israel's history until, rejecting God's highest ideal of government for them, they insistently demanded from, and were reluctantly given by, God a monarchical form of government.
- God has, not only in the Biblical prophecies, but also in the Biblical types, described various qualities, acts and policies of the European nations and of America.
- in these types He has more especially represented the European nations as such by certain features of the kingdom of Israel, and America as such by certain features of the kingdom of Judah, when representing them as separate and distant from one another.
- in these particular types, He represented the European nations, in general, from the standpoints of three special forms of policy, by the House of Ahab – i.e., Ahab and his two sons, Ahaziah and Jehoram, whose histories are given with those of Elijah and Elisha in 1 Kings 16: 29—2 Kings 10: 28.
- Ahab represents Europe collectively acting out for many centuries the principles of Autocracy in co-operation with Aristocracy and Priestcraft.
- this is apparent, among other things, from the fact that Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, and the persecutor of Elijah and the Lord's other prophets, and the seducer of Israel to idolatry and other sins, is expressly named as a type of the Catholic Church, in union with the Autocratic States of Europe, persecuting the antitypical Elijah, the faithful servants and people of God, during the Gospel Age and misleading Christendom into various gross evils. (Rev. 2: 20-23; 17: 1-6; 18: 3, 9, 23; 19: 2, 3; Matt. 11: 14. See the English and the American Revised Versions).
- antitypical Ahab is now dead, European Autocracy is a thing of the past, dying through revolutions in Europe from 1789-1918, and by Autocrats being compelled to give the European peoples constitutions, the franchise, legislative assemblies, etc., in every European country. (1 Kings 22: 29-40).
- Ahaziah, Ahab's son and successor, types the European nations individually acting in independence of one another, and consequently in national rivalries, envies, grudges, hatreds, suspicions, imperialisms, etc., etc., and that the conditions created by the World War have put an end to the separate independent action of European nations in international European affairs – antitypical Ahaziah is also now dead. (2 Kings 1: 1-18).
- Jehoram, Ahab's son and Ahaziah's successor, types Europe acting as a concert of nations apart from Autocracy, and thus represents the European Concert, which has intermittently for more than a century been existing in many forms, among others, the Entente. (2 Kings 3: 1-27; 8: 25—9: 24).
- the fact that Elijah's activities affected almost the whole of Ahab's reign, covered the whole of the short reign of Ahaziah and reached at least into a part of Jehoram's reign, proves that antitypical Ahaziah's and Jehoram's activities were to occur toward the later part of antitypical Elijah's – the Church's – stay on earth, i.e., toward the end of the Gospel Age, in which the sign and time prophecies of the Bible prove we now are. (1 Kings 17: 1—2 Kings 2: 11).
- Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram (sometimes called Joram) and Ahaziah, four of the kings of Judah, were successively on Judah's throne during the Ahab dynasty, in the ten-tribe Kingdom of Israel, and as such, from certain standpoints, they typed the fact that four distinct lines of policy would be active in America toward Europe while the three lines of policy typed by Ahab, Ahaziah and Jehoram would be active in Europe. (1 Kings 16: 29; 22: 41; 2 Kings 8: 16, 25).
- the righteous Asa types America as a Democracy, acting free from all foreign, especially European, entanglements, while Autocracy was yet generally active in Europe, hence from about the beginning of America's independence until the Civil War.
- the righteous Jehoshaphat, as active in 1 Kings 22: 41-53; 2 Kings 3: 7-27 types America as a Democracy benevolently intervening in European affairs in the World War, to make the World safe for Democracy and the Monroe Doctrine.
- in 2 Kings 3 Edom's king represents Conservative Labor; Moab's king, the Central Powers; his firstborn, Germany; Elisha, a secondary class of God's people; and his prophesying Israel's victory over Moab, their predicting under governmental inspection in 1918 the Allied victory.
- Jehoram of Judah types America as reactionary, measurably going back on the policies and activities typed by the righteous Asa and Jehoshaphat and taking up more or less of the ways of Europe as typed by the house of Ahab. (2 Kings 8: 18).
- we are Scripturally warranted in viewing Jehoram of Judah as typical, because his activities are connected with certain acts of Elijah, a Scripturally mentioned type of the Church – God's faithful people. (Rev. 2: 20; Matt. 11: 14; 2 Chro. 21: 12-15).
- partisan Democrats and treacherous Republicans (the so-called Progressives) in Congress, backed by capitalists, like the Duponts, Rascob, etc., the Romanist clergy, and organized laborers, opposed Reactionism, regnant from 1918 to 1933, especially as it acted in Hooverism, and devastated it in all its policies, except autocracy, which survived as the regnant American policy (antitypical Ahaziah). This combination of partisan Democrats and treacherous Republicans (Progressives), backed by capitalists, clergy and organized laborers, frustrated and defeated almost every policy that Reactionism, acting through Mr. Hoover, offered for healing the Great Depression (Wall Street Crash of 1929). (2 Chro. 21: 14-20)
- in March 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt became President of the
USA. Beginning about the middle of March, 1933, and ending June 14,
1933, Congress voted President Roosevelt dictatorial powers in many varied respects, to enable him to put through the New Deal. These policies have turned our form of government into a
churchianityized Fascism, because the papacy originated the New Deal and the Federation of Churches has advocated it theoretically and
practically. This churchianityized Fascism is typed by King Ahaziah of Juda, whose mother Athaliah was the sister of King Ahab, hence the
sister-in-law of Jezebel. (2 Kings 8: 25-27; 2 Chro. 22: 1-5).
- Ahaziah of Juda types, therefore, the more or less autocratic and dominant American policies since 1933, supported by the Churches and powerful nominal Christians, until its overthrow by antitypical Jehu. (2 Kings 9: 27)
- America, as represented by Asa, types, apart from the government in Israel before the Israelitish monarchy, the noblest, most righteous, most beneficent, and most glorious government ever instituted among men – a government of the people, for the people and by the people.
- the principles of human liberty in harmony with the law and of human equality before the law, cherished, defended and practiced in America, made America, as antitypical Asa, the nearest approach to God's ideal of human government ever reached among men, apart from the Divinely-given ideal of Mosaic government in Israel.
- it was because America lived truer to these ideals than any other modern nation, that God made her His special ward among the modern nations, even as He did Judah under Asa, and that this accounts for His giving her independence from Britain, His freeing her from the destruction of the Napoleonic wars and from Europe's racial and national envies, rivalries, grudges, hatreds, revenges, suspicions, self-aggrandizements, imperialisms, etc. His bringing her safely as a nation, made wholly free, out of the trying experiences of the Civil War, His making her a beacon light to the nations, a refuge of the oppressed, a helper of the helpless, and a cornucopia to the industrious, and His favoring her with the headquarters and as the main field of activity for the greatest religious work ever carried on in this earth since the days of Christ. (Is. 18: 1-7).
- America, as a real Democracy, true to its principles – antitypical Jehosaphat – went into the World War to help the Allies, not as an ally, but as an associate, and to make the World safe for Democracy, humanly speaking, with clean hands and unselfish motives, which she maintained until about the end of the War; and it was due to these facts that victory – snatched out of defeat – came to the Allies, who for their wickedness, would certainly have been defeated, and who would have been entirely disregarded by God and His Messenger, antitypical Elisha, except for God's favor upon America – antitypical Jehoshaphat. (2 Kings 3: 10-27).
- America, in some of her policies has of late years measurably and increasingly abandoned the practice of some of those principles of human liberty in harmony with, and of human equality before the law, with her consequent policy of isolation from Europe's peculiar affairs, policies and spirit – principles and practices that characterized the first hundred years of America's policies following the promulgation of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of America – two documents that easily rank first among all statements of human wisdom on governmental affairs for political welfare.
- additionally America has measurably and increasingly abandoned the practice, especially toward Europe, of those principles that moved her to enter the World War, i.e., to make the World safe for Democracy and to deal with Europe from a helpful and unselfish standpoint.
- it is evident that some present American policies – contrary to historic Americanism – have become Europeanized, from the fact that American governmental mouthpieces and representatives officially claim that as a result of the War, America has gained certain "rights and interests in certain European questions," and that therefore she must and does intervene in certain European affairs whenever these "rights and interests" are affected by Europe's policies, acts, conferences, treaties, commissions, etc., etc..
- this measurably selfish, wrong and un-American course of intervening in European affairs was given a strong impetus when President Wilson formulated and advocated his fourteen points, helped formulate and advocated the League of Nations, participated in and sanctioned the "deals" written into the peace treaties, and in some ways involved America into participation in certain European affairs, which participation our changed administration, in spite of America's repudiation of what may be specifically called "Wilsonism," has not only not set aside, but insists both covertly and overtly America's interest require.
- such acts and claims were enough to make Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln turn in their graves, if this were possible.
- such a course means the abandonment of certain Divinely pleasing American principles, for the advocacy and practice of which America has in multitudes of ways received as Divine rewards marvelous blessings from God.
- such a course implies America's measurable endorsement and acceptance of certain evil European policies, for the practice of which Europe's wickedness has been typed by the wicked practices of the house of Ahab.
- it would have been Divinely pleasing, had America at the end of the War abandoned all claims of "special interests and rights in certain European affairs," even including Europe's debt to us, rather than lose her standing of favor with God and go back on her honorable history and principles by compromising her Divinely approved principles and imbibing and practicing more or less of Europe's Divinely cursed policies, acts, and spirit – those of the antitypical House of Ahab – as a Divinely sent partial punishment, for which Europe is in her present plight, and as a Divinely sent full punishment, for which complete destruction shortly will overtake her, as she is now constituted, in the fast approaching European Revolution of prophecy. (1 Kings 21: 17-29; 2 Kings 9: 22—10: 11; Rev. 16: 18-19).
- the chief sins of Europe as the antitypical House of Ahab, center in and result from her Autocracy, in co-operation with Aristocracy and Priestcraft, her consequent persecution of God's Saints and exploitation and oppression of the Common People, her Imperialism and rivalrous Nationalism and Allianceism.
- most unfortunately, and inconsistently with the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and the honorable and Divinely pleasing policy of our national Isolation, America has in certain acts followed the course of Europe in these respects.
- Jehu was a captain of Jehoram’s army. His slaying Jehoram (a son of Jezebel) represents conservative labor (democrats, in contrast to extremists) overthrowing the European governments, as typed by Jehoram, which received new power with the Babylonian system, especially the Vatican, since February 1929 (2 Kings 9: 14-26; Rev. 17: 12). The overthrow set in with the European Protests of 1968.
- Ahaziah's long-drawn-out flights (about 35 miles in all), hiding in Samaria, capture, escape, wounding and death in Megiddo (2 Kings 9: 27; 2 Chro. 22: 9), represent the destruction of Autocratic America by conservative labor, but it shows that American resistance will be much more prolonged, which will be due to the more patriotic support that the American people give to their government than that which the Europeans gave to their governments.