@Soverign Grace You asked me to comment on your quote from Brian Wilson's article and relationship between America and the book of Revelation. Very few people believe America is even mentioned in prophecy. Despite its world-wide influence, its religious underpinnings, and her clear involvement in world politics for over 200 years, it is believed by most Christians that there is no mention or suggestion or reference to your nation in scripture. I view this blindness similar to the dystopia mentioned by Wilson in the article. It is a blindness , a wilful blindness of a culture and people who would rather not admit that their beloved country could possibly be as the Bible describes.
Since the 1840s my church has consistently taught that indeed the US is mentioned in prophecy, and is about to play a hugely significant role in end-time global politics, fulfilling several chapters in Revelation. Of course, such an understanding of prophecy comes from an historicist hermeneutic and not futurist, which puts our perspective immediately in contrast with the current popular teachings on prophecy.
What I am surprised at, or maybe not surprised considering the depth of humility one must attain to face up to what the article itself describes and suggests, is the lack of comment since you posted it. One from Willie that simply referenced in an off-hand way the length, and a thinly veiled rebuke to you personally. But as Wilson said, this isn't just an American issue. I'm from New Zealand, and we have our own history of British colonialism that warred with the Maori for similar reasons to the war in your own nation against the American indigenous. I am now living in Australia and am acutely aware of this nation's own abysmal history in it's treatment of the Aborigines here. Wilson could have mentioned the US takeover of Hawaii...surprised he left that out.
But as for prophecy. I could go into much detail, but will for the sake of this thread and not wanting to veer away too much from the Freemason OP, offer a simple general outline. In Revelation 13 are mentioned two beasts. The first we recognise as Catholicism. A union of church and state, and a composite of empires from which the RCC inherited many of their characteristics, having grown out of pagan Rome. There is also an intimate connection here to the 7th chapter of Daniel and the 4th beast...the first beast of Revelation 13 is a mature grown up version of the little horn which grew among the ten others of the 4th beast. Those 7 surviving horns formed the foundation of modern Europe...the church/state entity of Catholicism growing up among them.
The second beast in Revelation 13 is described as rising at the time of the decline of the first beast. The Catholic church lost its civil power in 1798 when France took the pope captive and disbanded the college of cardinals declaring the papal states a republic. The Catholic church from that time was just that...a church. Not a state. This was the beast's 'mortal wound', from which she recovered when in 1929 Mussolini restored the civil power granting the church the Vatican city and independent civil power. The wound was healed. But at this same time, the second beast rose. It was at thios same time the Constitution was signed...the bill of rights established...the declaration of independence made, and the United States formerly became an independent nation...ironically, France was the first nation to recognise the US...in 1778. Revelation describes this beast as having two horns as a lamb. Just like the Bison. Horns are symbols of power...small innocent horns such a lambs we believe represent the founding father's intent to create a nation distinct from its European roots...a nation with no king and no pope. As Wilsom suggests however, this idea was short lived, and was used as a pretence for enrichment of a select few in marked contradiction to the intent of the constitution and bill of rights. Revelation also says that while this beast displays and claims innocence, she in fact speaks as dragon. Si in appearance she is innocent and lamb-like, even professing to be Christian (Lamb-like) she acts in ways that totally denies that profession...as Wilson's article profoundly reveals.
That beast/nation/US would then recommend to its people (thus a democratic system) that
they, the people, should make an image of the first beast, the church/state union of the Papacy. This of course would be a Protestant union of church and state. Despite it being a direct denial of the constitution. Which of course by then is not an uncommon theme in American political maneuverings. As a church/state union in its own right, she will then enact oppressive religious laws that become global in their scope and power...and lets face it, the US with its now global military impact is the only nation capable of pulling this off.