THE END OF AMERICA is now available on Kindle for a minimum price of 99 cents so that EVERY Christian and Jew can know what Biblical prophecy reveals will happen to America. The book details 30 prophetic "mystery" clues identifying a rich, powerful and influential end times nation that will betray Israel and is therefore destroyed in one day/hour/moment. Radical Jihadists' plans to conquer the world for Allah by bringing "Death to America" are analyzed, comparing Muslim prophecies to Biblical last days verses.
Prophecies warning God's people to flee from this "mystery" nation are studied in depth. WHEN should one flee? WHERE should God's people flee? THE END OF AMERICA lists nations that will be safe in the latter days, as Jihadists exert political and religious control across the globe. Also studied are the major world events that God's people should watch for, as Jesus advised.
If you know in your spirit that America is in trouble, that national trends are just not right and that we are headed for a devastating future, this book may provide the answers from Biblical prophecy to confirm those leadings.
I have not yet finished this book and am inclined to not finish it except for the fact that my ministry work is to come against those who would misinterpret the Word of God. John Price does a lot of this. He makes many correlations to America being the Daughter of Babylon with some pretty amazing reaches, such as relating the verse where the "Mother will mourn the daughter of..." and associate Great Britain as the mother of America because we won our independence in the 1700s. Granted there are at least one compelling argument in favor of this overall thesis, but one does not a victory make for Mr. Price.
Mr. Price seems to rely very heavily on what words mean in today's vernacular, placing literal translations on figurative language from Daniel onward. My caution to readers is to search the scripture through the Timothy and Peter books where Paul is teaching about false profits and teachers, and how "They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between people of corrupt mind..." (1 Tim 6:4-5).
If you read this book, be sure to follow the Bereans as written about in Acts 17:11. Stay in scripture yourself and make sure everything you are taught is true and in line with the Word of God.
I am glad I only paid 99 cents for the Kindle edition.
I almost didn't even bother to put a review of this book up here. But then I considered that you never know what books are bound to catch on and gain steam in this wild and wooly American evangelical culture we have. So here you are (and I'll make it brief).
Books don't get much worse than this. The front shouldn't be a yellow diamond, it should be a red octagon. Unless you have a good theological head on your shoulders and you just want to bemuse yourself, the book won't serve you well at all.
The book's thesis is simple: America = Babylon in scripture. And Babylon is out for some serious eschatologial punishment from God... and SOON. So get out of Dodge before it's too late.
It is impossible for me to tackle the layers and layers of problematic interpreation and presuppositions that bring Mr. Price to arrive at such a conclusion, but let it suffice to say that in Mr. Price's bibliography there is one single commentary listed: Matthew Henry's commentary on the Bible. One. For a 300 page book on the interpretation of biblical prophecy. The book doesn't even have an elementary understanding of basic hermeneutics in interpreting apocalyptic literature and it certainly has zero awareness that anything outside of a premillennial/pretribulation/Hal Lindsey-Left Behind understanding of eschaton even exists.
I'm just grateful this book doesn't seem to have caught much of a tailwind in evangelical circles. For now.
One thing I most looked forward to after seminary was the freedom to read what I wanted. That freedom has proven elusive, as circumstances have been such that I had to solidify my eschatology, or the study of end times. One book I read to that end on a recent cruise vacation in the Caribbean is The End of America: The Role of Islam in the End Times and Biblical Warnings to Flee America by John Price. In it, Price concludes 1) America is the prophetic “daughter of Babylon” (sometimes also referred to as “Babylon the Great”) in Scripture, 2) Israel will soon come to peace with its neighbors, 3) Israel will then be invaded by Russia and a coalition of Islamic forces, 4) as the “daughter of Babylon” the United States will fail to come to Israel’s defense, 5) God will destroy or allow to be destroyed the United States by Islamic nuclear attack, and 6) that Christians and Jews living within the United States should make preparations to obey God’s call to flee the “daughter of Babylon” and emigrate to a foreign nation to be chosen based on moral factors such as the legality of abortion and same-sex marriage. While Price’s conclusions are admittedly intriguing and presented in a very convincing fashion, due to his arguments’ foundation of questionable exegesis, source materials without citation, failure to address other possibilities, speculation, oversimplifications and logical contradiction, I can only give this book two out of five stars.
Summary
Price begins by addressing why he did not raise these concerns in his first book, America at the Crossroads, in short holding that the world has changed drastically since the 1970s when he published that work and that such changes reveal a high likelihood that America is the daughter of Babylon. He then briefly reviews Islamic history and Koranic verses, arguing that Islam is not a religion of peace, but a religion of violent jihad determined to rule the world. He then draws parallels between biblical end-times prophecies and Muslim end-times prophecies and practices.
Price next attempts to demonstrate how clues as to the identity of the daughter of Babylon describe the United States. He then uses contemporary morals in the United States to further his argument that the United States is Babylon the Great. He continues by discussing the persecution that Christians will face in America, and are facing today to a certain extent. He discusses several passages regarding the daughter of Babylon as to how God views this nation. All of these chapters are designed to illustrate how the United States is the prophetic daughter of Babylon and describe what is going to happen to the United States.
Price then returns to the topic of Islam, noting that Muslims have the desire and patience to destroy the United States. He argues that the fall of the United States at Muslim hands will come by nuclear attack on the governmental, financial, cultural, and energy headquarters of the United States – Washington, New York, Los Angeles, and Houston – plus several other cities. He describes his belief as to what the world will look like after the United States has been completely destroyed.
He then proceeds to argue that God will demand an accounting from America for the deaths of billions of unborn children across the world as a result of not only the legalization of abortion in America, but America’s influence overseas toward a global legalization of abortion. He then goes into further detail of what the world will be like politically and financially as a result of America’s fall. As a result of these changes, Price argues that it will be necessary for Christians and Jews to flee America to safer locales mainly in Central and South America.
Price proceeds to outline several natural disasters that have occurred on or around days in which the United States has taken an official position to force Israel to give up land for peace with Palestine and why God is upset and punishing America for that position. He outlines several more pragmatic reasons to emigrate separate from the prophecies upon which his arguments are based and concludes with a brief analysis of when Christians and Jews should leave the United States.
Critique
Price’s conclusions are unreliable for several reasons that crumble the foundation of his polemic. One fatal problem with his position is its foundation on poor exegesis of Scripture. For example, one passage he claims discusses the United States is Jeremiah 50 and 51. The first rule of Bible interpretation is to place the passage in its literary and historical-cultural context. The historical-cultural context of Jeremiah 50 and 51 (a prophecy against Babylon) is leading up to the Babylonian captivity. The literary context while prophetic is the concluding prophecy against several specific peoples: the Egyptians (specifically Pharaoh in Jeremiah 46), the Philistines (chapter 47), the Moabites (chapter 48), the Ammonites (chapter 49), Edomites (chapter 49), Asyrians (chapter 49), Kedar and Hazor (chapter 49), and the Elamites (chapter 49). Each of these nations and peoples had a specific geographic location and role in ancient Jewish history. If the prophecy against Babylon in chapters 50 and 51 are actually allegorical in that they speak of the United States and not Babylon, then the prophecies against these peoples must also be allegorical. Who do they represent in end times prophecies? Price does not address this question.
Price also fails to adequately explain why Jeremiah 50 must apply to the United States when the passage begins with, “The word which the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet.” (Jer. 50:1). The land of the Chaldeans was located near modern day Kuwait and Iraq just south of where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers converge and run into the Persian Gulf. Abram hailed from Chaldea where Ur was located. With such specific geographic information, it is hard to believe that this passage refers to the United States.
In his efforts to convince the reader that Jeremiah 50 describes the United States, he argues – almost deceptively – that Jeremiah 50:12 refers to Babylon the Great as a young nation in end times by arguing that the Hebrew word akharit should be translated as hindermost although the NASB and several other translations translate the word as least. He makes this claim as a trained lawyer, not a Hebrew scholar. In fact, this is a very difficult verse to interpret because it lacks a verb in the second half of the verse. A very literal translation of the verse reads, “Your mother will have been greatly ashamed, she who gave you birth will have been humiliated, behold, the least of the nations, a wilderness, a parched land and desert.” The parsing of previous verbs in the sentence (qal, perfect, 3rd person, feminine, singular) indicates that the action is complete, at least in the mind of Jeremiah. As such, the proper translation is probably 1) “she was the least of nations”, 2) “she has been the least of nations”, 3) “she had been the least of nations”, or 4) “she will have been the least of nations”. Remembering the prophetic genre of this passage, the fourth seems the best translation. Hebrew scholars working towards the English Standard Version and New Revised Standard Version have translated the word as “last” while scholars working toward the New American Standard Bible and New Living Translation have translated it as “least.” In the context of the verse itself – “Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a parched land and a desert” (NASB), either seems to fit with the sense being that when this destruction befalls Babylon, it will be in the future the least or last of all nations. In any case, the argument that this passage refers to the United States is untenable as this is but one of many examples of poor exegesis.
From poor exegesis, Price draws several assumptions to support his conclusions. For example, with no real exegetical reason to do so, Price concludes that God destroyed Sodom with forces similar to a nuclear attack. From this exegetical conclusion, he assumes that there were radiation effects from the force used to destroy Sodom to draw a parallel with the effects of nuclear weapons observed after Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a point of comparison of what will happen when the United States falls by nuclear attack. Thus, his conclusion that Americans will have blackened skin as a result of an Islamic nuclear attack rests on a pillar of assumption that rises from a foundation of poor exegesis. The frailty of these conclusions thus becomes even more evident.
Adding to the frailty of Price’s conclusions are the natural contradictions that begin to arise on such thinly supported arguments. Continuing his argument for an Islamic nuclear attack on the United States, he cites Genesis 19:27-28, which indicates that Abraham returned to the area of Sodom and Gomorrah and saw the destruction. If God used nuclear forces to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah similar to what the world observed in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Chernobyl, the area would have still been of sufficient radioactivity to cause Abraham serious problems. Several similar contradictions arise in Price’s book.
When Price lacked information on a particular topic, he began to speculate. For example, in an effort to show that God punished America every time it took a position to induce Israel to trade land for peace with the Palestinians, he admits that he has no idea what Secretary of State Warren Christopher said to Israeli officials in private talks. So Price speculates that Christopher told them to give up land for peace, which led to the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 as punishment for America’s position.
There are several external criticisms that can be levied against the book as well. Price seems intent on playing off people’s fears to motivate them to leave the United States instead of motivating the country towards righteousness and repentance, or Christians to evangelism and grace. Furthermore, he addresses several issues of key eschatological interest without addressing what is arguably the most important eschatological verse in all of Scripture, Matthew 24:14, which says, “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.” Price asks Christians to base their preparations for the return of Christ on political events between Israel and Palestine. Scripture clearly tells Christians to base their preparations for the return of Christ on the spread of the gospel of Christ to all the world. This oversight or omission cannot be ignored.
Several other stylistic problems raise concerns as well. There are typographical and grammatical errors throughout the book. At times, he states a statistic or seemingly outrageous fact without any citation to source material. Such things detract from the credibility of any book, removing it from the category of a research-based book and placing it solely in the opinion category.
Conclusion
I do not recommend any reader of The End of America to take action based on the book. Test his ideas, conclusions, and arguments against Scripture and any merit they appear to have quickly dissolves. While we must prepare and be ready for the end of time and the return of Christ (1 Thess. 5:1-10), moving out of America to avoid judgment is at least less biblical than being sober and alert by being a servant of all, pursuing righteousness, and sharing the gospel with this admittedly lost and dying world.
I have read some of the reviews on this book and agree that the hermeneutic used for interpreting the prophetic books of the Bible in this book is not always the best, and is even terrible in some locations, So I most definitely do not agree with everything said in it. But... the concept that America is Babylon the great in this time frame is one that I think too many American Christians cast aside too quickly, for the concept is a captivating one that I think the author argues for quite well on one level, even if not biblically well. I think that it is something to seriously pray about and to research and seriously examine beyond this book. Really, I would like to know what the rest of the Church outside of America sees and what prophetic utterances have been made about it. Additionally, I want someone to write a book to counter this one and give a fully balanced argument against him and about prophecy in general, for I have found that not every "Christian" theologian is trustworthy or balanced in their argument. I want to know why some theologians say it is wrong while others don't say anything at all. Show me and the whole Christian world proof beyond personal doubts that America isn't Babylon the great. Show me where this authors hermeneutic fails and where it succeeds. Why? Because I think it is important that we really bleed this out if this is not the truth and remove the festering wound from our side if it is truly false.
This Book is very Frightening, because iT IS Truly Believable.
when l began too read this book i had my doubts about it being another scare mongering propaganda books, for terrifying the ,not well educated of this immoral, earth i find myself wondering , when did it get so bad. The point is, it has become a place o don't feel safe in anymore , i used to. As a child playing in the great green meadows , woods, river and streams near my house in England.. I walked to church with my little sister, my older brother ( younger of three ) by 6 yrs used to go off with his friends, i was scared God would be angry with him. He went off to the Royal Navy.. Anyway the world has changed drastically, since i was a child n teenager. It started as far as i could see, believe, when they stopped the prayers in school. if you do nothing else. read this book, for the sake of your soul. God Bless you all..Patricia welsh
Although I agree that Biblical prophecy has laid out the eventual destruction of the U.S. (Babylon), this book wasn't for me because it was probably written by a white Christian, and I am a Black Hebrew Israelite.
A most troubling book. I found myself jumping ahead several chapters to get to the heart of Price's justification in naming the U.S. The "Daughter of Babylon." While his many points of evidence are compelling, when I read through the actual scriptural references listed, I found myself not quite so sure the association was accurate. This book did include new information to me regarding the apparent linkage of natural disasters withU.S. efforts to force Israel to hand over territory to Palestinians. At this moment, Sec of State Kerry is close to concluding an agreement with Israel to give up even more territory. Time will tell whether another disaster follows, or if the current misery from record low temps and heavy snowfalls will intensify. The West is in a drought and fire-season will begin very early this year. Will there be a connection once again?
A fascinating book! A lot of what is written makes perfect sense and acts as a wake-up call. The author sets out a strong argument in favour of the USA being the 'Daughter of Babylon' in the bible. He also makes the case for the Jihadist movement trying to take over the world for Allah and the desire of the Islamist extremists to bring "death to America' . Will the USA foresake Israel in its hour of need? Will God come to Israel's aid? Will this enable the militants to bomb the USA? There are certainly many nuclear suitcase bombs missing from Russia. Who has these? Whether the end times will come about as Mr John Price has foretold well... we will just have to wait and see!! A thought-provoking book and a fantastic read. I could not put it down. Highy recommended.
This book was in the suggestions at the end of "Four Blood Moons". When you read these books with "The Harbinger", it's hard not to think that we are in the end times.
"The End of America - The Role of Islam in the End Times and Biblical Warnings to Flee America" interprets Biblical prophecies describing a rich, powerful and influential end times nation, destroyed in one day/hour/moment. Twenty-one scriptural clues unlock the "mystery" of the identity of the nation. Muslim prophecies and speeches are linked to Bible warnings of destruction. Verses are analyzed advising American Christians and Jews to flee the nation. When and where to flee and world events to watch for are detailed.
Compelling argument for religious; interesting perspective for nonreligious
I do not agree with many of the arguments in this book linking natural disasters to American foreign policy; it is a bridge too far for me. I did, however, find the facts credible and in agreement with news reporting around the world but found the reasoning for the author's conclusions had no cause and effect. It is an interesting biblical Christian/Jewish perspective but I would not recommend it to nonreligious persons.
Updated review: I reread this book and found it more relevant today than five years ago. We are witnessing drastic and quickly evolving changes to this world and this nation that didn’t seem possible even five years ago. I agree with most aspects of this book. Sadly, the America we used to know is gone, getting worse, and consequences are coming.
Original review Dec 29, 2016: I have long believed that Revelation 18 is about America. I've done much reading of the prophetic scriptures over many years after Hal Lindsey first drew my interest. Much of this book makes terrifying sense.
The author uses some pretty convincing evidence to persuade readers into believing that the USA is on the verge of collapse, like many previous empires. Price's approach, however, points mostly to the Islamic Jihad as the underlying political and social pressures that will eventually unleash the financial and social ruin of America. He fails to address many of the additional forces at work behind the seemingly inevitable demise of the USA.
Well worth a conscientious read given the amount of turmoil and threats aimed our way. This book does not even discuss our wide open southern border, which is a newer disturbing development. Many have asked where America is in Bible prophecy. The author makes some startling claims for double, multiple fulfillment towards the end of Jeremiah, and I have long felt that Revelation 17 & 18 had a lot to say about the U.S.A.
O' God, have mercy on America....everything he wrote in this book is coming to past. I'm only half way through but know I am reading the truth. America is the Daughter of Babylon and will be destroyed from within. Christians repent and pray that God will heal our Land.
I give five stars to this book for its author's enormous scripture study and interpretations. This book is not a light-weight analysis of end times. Without giving my personal feelings on the contents, I will say I do not think a reader can be indifferent to the ideas expressed.
This is a very thought provoking book and I pretty much agree with it for the most part. John Price also gives Christians a way to surviving the end of America. He also makes a great primus of the end of America and the start of the seven years of tribulations that will shortly ensue.
Very interesting book. Will take me some time to think on this and look into the claims made in it. If those claims are true, all believers should be planning to leave America soon. Read this book and make your own conclusions.
Excellent book. The author has an excellent understand of Biblical end time prophecies and makes a very compelling case for the United State's place in them.