I agree with one and two, but not number three. The Bible is pretty clear that will not happen, although it does say that if God had not shortened the days then something similar would have happened.
Meanwhile, my message is not “I told you so”. Rather it is to point out that, in the current world, the “babylon” discussed in Revelation 17 and 18 looks an awfully lot like the current US. And a very interesting line within that text is Revelation 18:4,5:
“Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues, because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.”
It reminds me of the 1930’s where many Jews left Germany while others thought they were overreacting. Later, millions learned otherwise - the hard way.
As Claire Wolfe said, albeit tongue in cheek, “it is too late to work within the system”. Our irrepairably broken “system” is the current two party democrat/republican paradigm. Neither side has anything in common with the vision of our founding fathers. This goes all the way down to city politics in most of the country. It is utterly corrupt.
Basing political and survival strategeries on biblical verses is not a plan. We are not here to interpret, promote, expand on or second guess the writings in a book. We are here to survive and promote the spirit of Christ. The bible is not like the Koran. It is not the only source of spiritual authority on earth. To believe that is to be reduced to a talmudic or koranic scholar who goes blind reading others writings about the past....