America's Man on Horseback -- A Fable?
Guy Odom, Beaufort Books Publishers, New York, 1998.
This author, using a historical paradigm, predicted that social conditions (of his day) would worsen 10-fold by 2013 and that that situation (ours?) would make the potential for the rise of a strongman or "man on horseback" a plausible and attractive reality for America. He shows that all the great civiizations break down at or by the 10th "accomplishing" generation. He lists all our presidents as an example by placing them all according to their births cross-linked with their accomplishing generation. The chart reveals a decline in numbers of "A.G." presidents. Only two, Bill Clinton and G. W. Bush, are in the 9th "A.G." and none are in the 10th "A.G." which is listed as 1952 to 1976 (I am leaving out Obama since, though born in 1961, he is not our current president and this is another sign of decline). Also discussed are overlapping ages that are typical for great countries (empires? civilizations?). These are: Age of Outburst, Age of Conquest, Age of Commerce, Age of Affluence, Age of Intellect, and Age of Decadence. This is not a conspiracy book. Rather, it parallels a theme that I have been thinking about for a couple of years. The title of my article is "Why We Need and Will Have Another Franco". It's not something that I am brave enough to post right now, but if we get another four years of Barack Obama in The White House, a military coup would not be outside the realm of possibility. The real conclusion of my article is that, even if WE don't have a Franco from within ourselves, then Jesus/Yeshua Himself will be our "Franco" at His Second Coming. I don't mean that He is the same as Franco. Rather, He will bring salvation from islam, socialism, economic disaster, moral rot, disease, government breakdown, and satanic deception/delusion. Franco (unknowingly) provided us a shallow foretaste or model for how to save and rebuild a nation or a world. It's a shame it has to be this way, but republics and democracies do not work well with man's sin nature and do not last very long.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
--RPC, Houston,