Pandora’s Box:

How to kill the Superpower

In light of today’s awe-inspiring wartime killing technologies, it only seems logical and reasonable to interpret the one-hour time frame within which the greatest man-made political, economic, and military force man has ever known is projected to collapse, as a literal possibility. One said, it seems rational enough, but is it? If indeed the U.S. is in God’s economy the only possible shoe that fits the foot of Babylon the Great, as it most assuredly appears to be, is it really sensible to believe that even God can bring down so great, so awesome a world force and military power, so widely dispersed a people as we, in only one hour? I mean, us—the United States of America(!)? How utterly absurd, right (After all, are we not a Christian nation and people, in God’s eyes—to say nothing of our own?)? Granted, many awesome weapons of mass destruction have surfaced since the turn of the 20th century—the most horrifying, for even an industrious power like the U.S., being the hydrogen atomic/nuclear bombs, and nuclear-tipped ICBMs (more horrific than this weapon itself is the fact that they are becoming ever more accessible to unstable, hostile, concerns with their ‘eye on America’, and that, not for good. And yet, there is a greater, more alarming evil than either of these lurking in the wings, as we shall see!). One or several nuclear bursts within the shores of the contiguous states can do a lot of damage, but, would that be enough to bring down such an institution (as will be shown by the section on Operation Able Archer (p. 170) in light of their understanding of how the U.S. would most likely launch a pre-emptive first strike against them, the Russians have no intention of ever attempting such a feat with only a handful of their 6000 or so nuke warheads)? How many would it take, and is a conventional nuclear offensive even likely, given the high probability of “mutually assured destruction,” in retaliation? (Again, for a chilling perspective of what will likely transpire in the future, based upon what almost happened in the past, fast-forward to the ‘Able Archer’ article; also, remember that by God’s design, Babylon is to be sacked while relatively strong, and the going for her and the world around her is reasonably good; not while she is weak and vulnerable to the point of being powerless.) But, one may well be wondering, is it not always possible, that an enemy force from offshore could, at some point, invade the land to take it by force? And, of course, one cannot but respond with a resounding, yes!—highly unlikely though that may be; after all, whatever its faults and weakness, it is still no less the most powerful nation on the planet (so, if a nuke attack within the confines of its normal usage is unseemly, so is this.). Without doubt, God Himself could do the unthinkable, directly and virtually without effort. But, is that His preferred method? Although He places Himself squarely at the helm, the unseen Hand guiding and delivering the judgment which will eventually grip her loins, dragging her, without a fight—pearls, pedestal; prowess and power—down into the dusts, sands and ashes of an everlasting destruction, the evidence suggests otherwise. The ultimate cause will be God; the immediate cause will be the nations.