> There is reason why the US is not in biblical prophecy The operation of prophecy isn't what you may at first think. The romans for example banned prophesying, do you want to know why? Because prophecies are a mechanism by which a group collectively announces it's **will**, it's collective *wishes* as a culture or nation. In that regard, prophecies with hard dates are for example, rarely correct. But prophecies without specific dates are rarely ever *invalidated*. Rather they describe scenarios and situations that *can* or *may* occur. For example, in the more esoteric realm, nostradamus is commonly believed to have predicted the great fire of london. This would not have been a hard fire to predict knowing the power struggle that was going on at the time, and how congested london was combine with it's fire hazard. A smart man with insight could 'see it coming', hence prophecy. In other cultures, such as judaism, people attempt, actively, to *fulfill* prophecy. They even go so far as to use it as a sort of 'veiled' system of thesis for analyzing political, military, and other geopolitical matters, conveying insights through farsighted predictions rather than mechanistic explanation--hence the idea of 'gnosis', knowing without knowing *how* you know something, by 'revelation' as it were. And in time, this 'intuitive' system will undoubtedly be better explained by experiment, but for now it is well enough to know that it is real. I don't know why there was no u.s. in biblical prophecy, but neither was there a russia, or china. The surface reason is that these nations did not exist as they do today (literally in the case of the u.s., in form and function in the case of russia and china).