This is the Truth Network. Welcome to If Not Forgot. Stories of Hopelessness That Turn to Hope. Here is your host, Mike Zwick. Is America in the Bible?
Is America in the Bible? You know, and I've got my friend Rick Pearson here from Prophecy USA. And there's a lot of people who say that America is not in the Bible. And so since America is not in the Bible, it's just going to be destroyed. There's some people who say America is in the Bible, so we just don't know.
But Rick Pearson, many years ago, the Lord actually revealed something to you about America and its place in the Bible. Is that right, sir? Yes, in 1986. Um I gave up 10% of my net worth. Two submissions.
Felt led to give my A large Chunk of money to medical missions, and when I did that, I had an experience like in Acts chapter 10 when Cornelius. Gave alms and an angel came and said, Because you've given the Lord has seen your alms and offerings, go to Paul or go to Peter and he will show you the way to salvation. And I had exactly the same kind of experience for a period of seven days. And then the seventh day, an audible voice woke me up, spoke to me audibly, called me by name. And I had a visitation, just like Cornelius did.
Except I was told about things that were coming to America. And it blew my mind. It absolutely blew my mind. And we're here now. That was 39 years ago.
And today, We're seeing everything happen that I was told was coming 39 years ago.
Now, was this 1986 or 87? It was December of 1986.
So it'll be 40 years this December. And since this happened, Rick, at the time, I believe you told some people because you were a part of the ministry with Oral Roberts. I think, were you actually on the board at one time? I was a graduate of Oral Roberts, and the money that I gave was actually to the medical missions at ORU. And after I had this revelation, I was so shook up, I went.
and asked the Forrell Roberts for counsel. and Oral Roberts laid his hands on me. And he, and I started to shake and cry. I was very, very upset, Mike. with what I was shown.
I wasn't afraid of the Lord. I wasn't afraid of the angelic visitation. I wasn't afraid of the audible voice. I was afraid of the message. It was overwhelming.
So Oral laid his hands on me and I started crying and started shaking. And He actually started laughing and he said, Rick, God has definitely spoken to your son. Don't be afraid. God has spoken to you. And he put me on his board.
immediately after, and I sat on his board for 21 years. And right now, Mike. Brother Roberts passed away in 2009. That is 16 years ago. And I now am on around 250 plus T V stations in the last five years.
We're on Roughly 55, over 55 nations and 12 satellites. And we broadcast weekly on Daystar, Saturday nights at 10. Sunday nights in Canada, but we're on multiple smaller TV stations. across America. With the message of America's role in Bible prophecy, unveiling the hidden mystery.
We believe that the United States of America based on the research that I've done. Fifty three Biblical Descriptions At all points that the United States of America is Mystery Babylon the Great. She's the seventh. Of eight providential nations in scripture. And of course, Mike.
You have to realize I'm giving you front page news here. You'd have to go to my website and dig deep. But I'm just giving you the highlights, but people people confront me and say, Oh, Babylon is a Roman Catholic church. Everybody knows that.
Well, no, you don't know that because you don't have the scriptures to back it. When you look at all the scriptures. It totally debunks Rome. It debunks Mecca. It debunks that they're going to rebuild Babylon again.
The United States of America has met every biblical criteria from five different prophets who described. A nation that would rise up in the end times. and would be deposed by the New World Order.
So everybody knows who the New World Order is, but there's Eight providential nations in scripture. Rome was the sixth one. And it says that the beast in Revelation 17:14, the beast is the eighth.
So there has to be a seventh. And it says that the seventh is still yet to come at the time of the prophecy. When John received that prophecy, In 90 AD, it said the seventh is yet to come.
So America hadn't been hadn't been even they didn't even know the world was round When they were given the prophecy of America. And that's why it was a mystery. Mystery, Babylon the Great, mystery means a secret revealed to a select group of people. But it also states that the vision waits for its appointed time in history. Daniel was said in Daniel chapter 2 and Daniel 4.
No, it was Daniel 12:9, I think. He said, Daniel, seal the book and close it. It's not for you to know. But for those in the end times, they will know.
So here we are. And the Bible Is being fulfilled daily in America. Um And we've met all 53 biblical descriptions.
So that's where we're at on God's prophetic time clock. We're getting very close to the second coming and the rapture of the church. Yeah, well, the Bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter 14, and I think most of us know the love chapter. And by the way, Valentine's Day is coming up soon.
So I think everybody talks about the love chapter, especially at weddings and during the Valentine's Day season. But what it says in the following chapter, it says, pursue love and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts. He says, but especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God, for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.
And so.
Sometimes prophecy can be used for their uplifting and encouragement. But also there's times in the Bible, Rick, where prophecy is seen as a warning, is that right? Absolutely. Absolutely. Isaiah.
Warned. Twelve nations. of their coming destruction. Roughly a dozen. Every nation was destroyed that he prophesied about, except one Latter-day Babylon the Great, that he prophesied in the future would come.
So they put Isaiah in a log and they sawn him asunder. That was his nephew, King Manasseh. 100 years later, Jeremiah came along. He prophesied the destruction of Judah. Babylon came and destroyed Judah.
Um Jeremiah went to Egypt, and according to the rabbinical teaching, they stoned him to death in Egypt.
So you look at the different prophets. When prophets tell you something you don't want to hear, people usually react violently.
Well, they do. And there was a prophet. There was a prophet in the Old Testament. And my kids and I were just watching a video about this. But there's a king, and I'm trying to remember.
I don't know if it was Ahab or somebody, but they said, he said, is there not a prophet in this country who can tell me what's coming or what's happening? And somebody comes to him and said, yeah, there's this one prophet. And he says, I don't want to hear from him. He said, he always prophesies something negative over me. And sure enough, they go ahead, Rick.
That was Miciah. Uh-huh. Ahab is going to go to war with Syria. And there were four hundred prophets, and they said, go to battle, Ahab. Because you're going to win.
We're a covenant nation. And they called one prophet Miciah. Yeah. And Miciah said: if you go to battle, you're going to die.
Okay. And so they threw him in they they threw him in in in uh in jail. And he said to the king, He said, King Ahab, If you come back alive. That means I have prophesied falsely.
Okay. then I have prophesied correctly to you. They brought King Ahab back in a box.
Okay. Four hundred, four hundred. Government sponsored. Paid profits. Got it wrong.
One prophet got it right. Four hundred prophets told Ahab what he wanted to hear, and one prophet had the guts to repeat. What God wanted to say. He got thrown in jail for doing that. but he was vindicated.
afterwards. And you'll find all through Scripture A lot of the profits. Prophesy what you want to hear instead of what the Lord wants to say. And Old Testament prophets. You couldn't hear from God unless you went to a prophet in the New Testament.
You can hear directly from God because he said, Behold, I stand at the door and knock if any man hear my voice. and open his heart, I'll come into him and sup with him and he with me. and my sheep hear my voice.
Now we still have profits today. who prophesied But they don't prophesy for our direction. They prophesy for confirmation.
Okay. If you wonder what in the world? is happening in America. Why don't we just open up the Bible and find out what in the Word? Is happening in America.
Well, and I've got a Bible verse for what you just said, Rick. In Hebrews chapter 1, verse 1, it says, Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days, he has spoken to us. By his son, whom he appointed, the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature. And he upholds the universe by the word of his power.
Praise God. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. And I bring that up for this, Rick. Is that yes, God spoke in the Old Testament by the prophets, and I believe that there's still prophets today. We talked about a guy that we both watched last days, Brandon, Brandon Biggs, and how he has actually prophesied that Mystery Babylon is not what a lot of people think it is.
I assume that the Lord has spoken to him in the same way that he spoke to you about how America is actually Mystery Babylon. But that being said, when Jesus was here, His followers, his disciples said, the apostles, they said, Hey, we don't want you to go, Jesus. He said, The reason we don't want you to go is because we want you to stay here so you can continue to do these miracles. But Jesus said, He said, It's better for you that I leave so that the Holy Spirit or that the helper will come to help you out. And I think even sometimes today, I don't have anything against prophecy.
I watch some of this stuff and you do too. But I think what a lot of people don't realize and what's sad in a lot of these Christian lives is that people don't realize that the Lord can speak directly to you. The Lord can speak directly to you. Yes, through his word. What a great way to hear from the Lord is through his word.
Because I heard there's a pastor over in Raleigh who said this. He said, He said, sometimes he said, if people get filled with the Holy Spirit, but they stop reading the Word of God. Or they're stopped reading and listening to the word of God, he said it can get really weird really quickly. He said, But if you just read the word of God without being filled with the Holy Spirit, and we're talking about prophecy, tongues, all of that, all the gifts of the spirit. And by the way, it's in the New Testament, and there's nothing in the New Testament that says it's not going to happen anymore.
He said, If you do that, you can dry up really quickly.
So, yes, I want to be a spirit-filled believer, Rick, but I also want to have the Word of God. But I praise God in a sense that, like what Jesus said, that He's not here because the Holy Spirit is living inside of me, and the Holy Spirit speaks to me. I'm gonna give you an example: the other day, I got stuck. I was with my son. I got stuck in my mom's yard.
We had no kidding. We had about a foot of snow in Winston-Salem, Rick. And that may not seem like a lot to you guys up in Canada, but for us. I'm in Florida. You're in Florida now, okay?
That may, but it, but you're from Canada, so it may not seem like a lot to those up there, but to us, it was a lot. And I literally could not get my car out of the yard, it was stuck. And I just started speaking to the Lord, and I was with my mom. My mom says, You're gonna have to do this, you're gonna have to do that. And I said, I want to hear from the Lord.
And I started walking down the street, and I saw that there was a guy right up the street from my mom who had literally cleared out his whole yard. He had cleared out his whole yard. And when he did that, I looked at him and I said, I need to talk to this guy. And I told him, I said, I'll give you $50 if you can get my car, get it up, get it out so I can take my son back home. And his wife said, Well, we don't speak English.
And I walked up to him. It was like, I'm not going to give up. I walked up to him, and I was explaining the best Spanish I could speak. And he said, Yeah, we'll help you. And his wife looked at me and go, Right now, come on, let's go.
And within about two minutes, This guy came over, and him and his wife, and I helped a little bit, and they got my car out, and I was able to drive away and leave without calling AAA, without calling the police, without calling anybody else, because the Bible says, Rick, my sheep hear my voice. And if you're not listening to the voice of the Lord, yes, and we have the Word of God, we have the Bible. But see, there's nothing in the Bible, Rick, that says that on January the 31st, Mike was going to be stuck in a ditch and he needed to get somebody up the street to help him out. No, there's times where I have to listen to the Lord's voice, but then not only listen, Rick. I have to obey the voice of the Lord as well.
Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Absolutely. Obedience is the key, is the key to following God. Yeah, I mean, because it's one thing when many years ago, and I believe you said, was it an open, it was a theophany?
Is that what you call it? I call it a theophany. It wasn't a vision, it was a visitation. I was wide awake.
Well um when the angel came in the room. I didn't see him. I closed my eyes. I could feel his presence. And uh He touched me six times, but the voice was audible.
And I said Why are you calling me? And the voice said audibly, Because I love you, Reck. And then it entered my chest and spoke on the inside of my chest audibly. I want you to have fruit that remaineth.
Well, I I knew That in John, I think it's John 16, it says You've not chosen me, but I've chosen you that you should go forth and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain.
So God gave me this word. To release it to the body of Christ so they would have an understanding Of where we are on God's prophetic time clock.
Well, and I want to say something right there as well, Rick, because here's the issue. Yes, the Lord will speak to you. But Rick, when the Lord spoke to you, and I'm sure you were excited and you wanted to share it with all these people, not everybody that you shared that word with was excited about that word as you were. Is that right?
Well, I didn't share it with too many people because it was so intense about America. And judgment that's coming. I kept my mouth shut and I went to Brother Roberts.
Okay. And I didn't tell him everything that he said, but I wasn't sure if I hadn't had, you know, the Bible warns us that you have. Spirits of angels, deceiving angels that appear as angels of light. And based on what I was told about America, you got to remember in 1986. Um It was a time of great prosperity.
Now, within that time period, David Wilkerson. came out with a book. set the trumpet to thy mouth And he said that New York was Babylon and she was going to be destroyed.
Well, I went and listened to him speak, and I thought, wow, that's exactly what I was told. And as he was speaking, He said there's going to be other young men. Who God is going to show this to. Yeah. I sat there and I shook.
I thought, wow, I'm one of them. And now. I didn't know what to do with my revelation. But I've been studying and teaching in small groups, and now all of a sudden I'm on television. And I have a much, much broader platform.
And of course, you do get resistance because everyone interprets a little different. The traditional interpretation is that the Catholic Church and Rome is Babylon. And that's been here for 500 years because back then it looked like Rome was Babylon. They were persecuting the Christians. She's a city on seven hills, but Rome does not meet any of the criteria today.
because the vision has waited for its appointed time. And At its appointed time, you'll be able to read scripture. And look and go, aha, for example. Babylon is a port city, a port nation. Jeremiah 50:12 says she's a nation, she's just not a city.
Says that she's the merchants of the earth and the sailors of the earth will trade with her, and she'll become rich in abundance. Um, the kings shall rule over the kings of the world.
Well, we're doing that now with a hundred and I think it's a 142. military state uh facilities outside of America. America's all over the world with their military. And so the wealth The military, the fact that she's not just a city, she's a nation. And Jeremiah 50, 32 says she has multiple cities.
Yes.
So so so So, how could it be Rome or how could it be the Vatican when you're talking about the ports, when you're talking about multiple cities? It doesn't seem to add up, does it, Rick? It doesn't add up anywhere. But, but see, but you can have what happens, Rick, and I think you may know who said this. He says, if you tell a lie enough times, and a number, and if enough people tell that lie a number of times, eventually people are going to believe it.
Yes, and when Jesus stood before the Sadducees and Pharisees. They were steeped in their religious religiosity. And he said, your traditions have made the word of God of none effect. Their religious spirits that were on them, that they'd been taught, they'd been taught that the Messiah was coming as king of kings and lord of lords.
Well, he is. But they missed the part that he was coming as a suffering servant first. And they missed it. They miss the very word of God standing right in front of them. And they were.
They were steeped in tradition. And this is what you'll find right now among the churches, the seminaries, and the Bible schools. Um There's as soon as you say Babylon, they go, Oh, it's Rome, it's Rome, it's a Catholic Church. No. But they they You have to read the word.
And then you discern the appointed time of the word, and we're at the appointed time where Babylon has manifested. Greatly in front of us. In fact, It says that she'll be a golden cup in the hand of the Lord. And when Donald Trump said, I want the golden age of America. He's literally fulfilling Babylon because when she's judged, she'll be the richest, most powerful nation.
in the history of the world.
Now here's something for your viewers, Mike. When in June of 19 of 2025, When they went in and bombed Iran. The um They called it Operation Midnight Hammer. Yes.
No nation in the history of the world could have pulled that off except the United States of America. Yes.
Well, Jeremiah in Jeremiah 50, 23 says he calls her the hammer of the whole earth. That's right.
So they literally named the Operation Midnight Hammer From a prophetic word that Jeremiah gave us as a clue, yes, in 620 BC, 2600 years ago, the hammer of the whole earth.
So it's exciting. That the Bible is alive. It's being fulfilled. But people need to know that there's a 54th description, and that's the judgment of Babylon. Yeah, go ahead.
Yeah, it's quite. It's quite obvious how Babylon's going to go down if you read the Bible. Yeah, and so I also want to tell the listeners this, and I want to encourage the listeners to think about this. There are some people who have said, well, it's all going to hell in a handbasket. Jesus is coming back soon.
America's, you know, it's going to end up not doing really well and it's mystery Babylon.
So, and there may be some people who say, why polish bronze on a sinking ship? And I want people to know that is not what we are saying. The Lord spoke to me a few years ago when I was on a show with my friend Dr. Michael Brown. And one of the things that he said was he told me, he said, Mike, he said, it's going to be the best of times and it's going to be the worst of times.
And Dr. Brown, without me prompting him or saying anything, said the same thing on that show. And I said, on that show, I said, that is what the Lord revealed to me. And Dr. Brown said, well, you know what's funny?
He said, up until this very moment. He said, I don't think I've ever said that or even thought that. He said, so we've just had a moment there. I want to tell somebody who's listening right now this. The Lord has not returned yet.
America has not burned yet. This thing is not over yet, and that the Bible says that God is not willing that any should perish, but that all come to repentance. And the Bible says that the reason Jesus has not come back yet. If you're wondering why he has not come back yet, is because he wants to see that last Gentile saved. He wants to see that last person saved.
He doesn't want to see, he has no pleasure. It says Rick in the death of the wicked, as it says in Ezekiel 18. He wants to see people turn and repent. And yes, we are in the middle of what people are saying is a revival right now in the United States. The Lord has given us a reprieve.
I mean, we have laws that are being passed right now that three, four years ago, I mean, a lot of people were saying it was over for America.
So I want to encourage somebody who is listening right now. There is nothing that says in the Bible in 2026, it's all going to hell in a handbasket. There's nothing that's saying that at all. And so there is nothing that's saying that the Lord cannot use you right now. And, Rick, the Lord is using you right now to warn people.
Well, that's that's my calling. And you know, it says One of the things about the rapture, everybody knows that the Marriage supper of the Lamb occurs during the tribulation period. And in Revelation 19, 1 through 7, it says there's a great voice up in heaven of many people cheering and worshiping. And they're rejoicing, for God has judged Babylon the Great. And then it says, and the marriage of the lamb has come, and the bride hath made herself ready.
Well, it doesn't say that God made her ready, it says the bride made herself ready.
So you need to get into the word. and say, Lord, what am I supposed to do today? What, what, how can I live? How can I be kind? How can I help others?
The bride of Christ has to make herself ready.
Now, we might have another 30 or 40 years of America's golden age, or we could have. Maybe a couple years, but nobody knows the day or the hour. But I do know this: the rise. Of America is one of the greatest signs. The rise of Israel.
Now, the geographical center of the earth, according to God, is definitely Jerusalem. Mm-hmm. But the rise of America is the seventh. nation before the new world order comes into power. You cannot have the rapture in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb until...
The seventh nation. Babylon the Great is deposed by fire in one hour. that appointed time is something That nobody knows, not even Jesus. And Rick, we're running out of time. Before we go, People need to pick up your latest book.
What's the name of the book? America's Josiah Moment: An End Time Reprieve of Things to Come. And it's by Richard Pearson or Rick Pearson. 30 seconds, Rick. Why do people need to pick up that book right now?
Because we are on, we are at one minute to 12 on the prophetic time clock, and you can get everything at rickpearson.com. All the videos, all the TV shows. And everything is there, and it's all for free. Praise God, Rick. Guys, check it out.
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