America in the Bible by Chapter & Verse (Answers)
United States by symbols, events, interactions with countries and/or major historic events on Jewish major or minor holy days.
Multiple Choice Answers: Genesis 7, Exodus 32, 34, Numbers 13, Leviticus 23, Deuteronomy 29, Esther 7, 9, Ezekiel 38, Daniel 2, 7, 9, Joel 3, Zechariah 8, Matthew 24-25, Revelation 3, 6, 8-11, 16
() Each statement has number of answers. Many events are on Jewish holy days.
History
· US Independence Day and Constitution Day are on Jewish Holy Days (3).
Exodus 32, 34, Zechariah 8: Dates
On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress votes for independence but on July 4, 1776 (17th of Tammuz), they adopt the Declaration of Independence. The United States was born on the day of the Golden Calf.
It came to pass, as soon as [Moses] came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount (Exodus 32:19).
The Constitution was adopted on Monday, September 17, 1787 (5th of Tishri, Teshuvah/Days of Awe). On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire was ninth to approve, which is the minimum to ratify the Constitution. Rhode Island was the last state to approve on May 29, 1790. Teshuvah is forty days of repentance (1st of Elul-10th of Tishri). As Moses is on Mt. Sinai, so each year the people repent to prepare for the high holy days of Trumpets and Atonement.
The Lord said unto Moses, Hew two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you broke. And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments (Exodus 34:1, 28).
Thus says the Lord of hosts; The fast of the fourth month [Golden Calf], the fast of the fifth [Kadesh Barnea], the fast of the seventh [Atonement], and the fast of the tenth [Babylon siege of Jerusalem], shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace (Zechariah 8:19).
· The United States is an eagle born from a lion (3).
Exodus 32, Daniel 7, Revelation 13: Symbol, Event, Date
The national symbol of the United States is an eagle. The eagle was born and torn from a lion on July 4, 1776 (17th of Tammuz). The mouth of the lion is English. The lion (United Kingdom), bear (Russia), leopard (Germany) merge to form the 10 horned Tribulation Beast.
It came to pass, as soon as [Moses] came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount (Exodus 32:19).
The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it (Daniel 7:4).
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 (Revelation 13:2).
· Mark Twain travels to Jerusalem and writes that the Holy Land is desolate (3).
Exodus 34, Leviticus 23, Deuteronomy 29: Event, Dates
In 1867, American author, Mark Twain, takes a trip to Europe and the Middle East and writes a daily travel letters for two newspapers compiled in The Innocents Abroad. He arrives in Jerusalem in the Ottoman Empire on September 23 (23rd of Elul/9/11/Teshuvah) and leaves on September 30 (Trumpets, 1st of Tishri). He says the holy land is desolate. Then God brings His people back to the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 30:1-3).
[Moses] was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments (Exodus 34:28).
The Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall you have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. You shall do no servile work: but you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord (Leviticus 23:23-25).
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it; And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: Even all nations shall say, Wherefore has the Lord done this unto this land? what means the heat of this great anger? Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: (Deuteronomy 29:22, 23, 24-25).
Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies. Where Sodom and Gomorrah [raised] their domes and towers, ... in whose bitter waters no living thing exists ... about whose borders nothing grows but weeds....
Palestine is desolate and unlovely. And why should it be otherwise? Can the curse of the Deity beautify a land?
----Mark Twain, Chapter 56, The Innocents Abroad, 1867