The game....the animals in the forests....were dwindling. The Indians were going to have to go into farming and weaving to continue to exist in the Southeastern United States. Jefferson wanted them to assimilate....and to be friends to the white man....and for there to be perpetual peace....but the prospect didn't look good.
By the time Jackson became president....the Indians were just going to have to move west of the Mississippi. All of this....and Texas coming into the Union....as a slave state....was deemed manifest destiny. It was so very clear. We were a special people....and God was behind all of this! Well God was indeed behind all of this....but maybe not in ways that we thought.
Some of the five nations of Indians knew that there was little choice but to pack up and leave....others fought for a while. We simply forced a people to move from one area of the nation....at a great loss of life....to another area of the nation. President Grant later said that the great conflict of the 1860s was punishment for all of this. He was right in that the Civil War was indeed punishment on us for many things that we had done....including both....displacing the red man.....and enslaving the black man!
We have recently moved back into the manifest destiny mode. We think that we are doing all that we are doing with God's blessing. Personally....I believe that all of our God talk is a stench in God's nostrils.
It's not deemed to be a manifest destiny with Israel today....the moving the people from one place to another....for it is deemed to be covenantal destiny....that this is their God given land. We evangelicals seem to be on board....and there is big money involved in that the strip of land that can be turned into valuable real estate....but our....the Christian's defense of Israel....should not be in returning the land that God originally gave to the Israelites....for God Himself will do that in due time.
Israel has for over seventy years consistently endured threats and attacks and terrorism....and outright lies on a national podium. Our defensive support of them should be based on their right to exist....and to defend themselves. Ultimately we are two distinct nations...one almost 250 years old...the other almost eighty years old....both giving God lip service but far from honoring Him in who we have become.
We know Israel's future...this from God's Word....in that they will severely be put to the test....and only when they see that they have no hope....will they for the first time see their only hope....in their Messiah whom they had rejected. As for us....we do not know what our future is....other than that the whole world will follow a man who seems to have all the answers....and later be forced to follow him....who displays false miracles and wonders to prove that he has all the answers....whose deception will be so great that if it were possible....(for it is not possible)....even the elect....the redeemed of God....would fall for the lies.
There is a remnant today....there has always been a remnant....even in the worst of times....even in Noah's day....and with Lot....and there will aways be a remnant....until the Lord of Glory returns....with His mighty angels....in judgment on a world that as Babel...and Sodom and Gomorrah and in Noah's day....(for that is where we are today)....rejected God....or conformed God to our image....or replace God with other gods.
