Following World War II in the late 1960’s it was generally accepted among the prophetically alert that the group known as the Ten Kings would comprise primarily, if not entirely, the European nations.

Even though World War I and World War II proved it was impossible for a powerful nation like the USA to stay neutral in a world war; America’s Christians generally believed (because they want to believe it) that the U.S.A. would somehow manage to stay aloof from all world-wide Antichrist activities and dominance. The Antichrist was conveniently tagged as the Communistic atheists, led by the Great Bear of the north, the Russian Soviet Union. We were led to believe that it could not be the United States leading the Antichrist revival because we believe in God. It had to be a communistic atheistic regime like Russia.

The only problem with this thinking is that the Antichrist will not be atheistic. He will believe in a god, it just so happens that the god he believes in is himself and his father Satan; they both will be posing as true lovers of humanity.

More often than not it was figured by Christians that America’s place in prophecy would be a glorious one of righteousness, providing a sanctuary for Christians fleeing Antichrist persecution and martyrdom. If the United States is, in fact, the Raiser of Taxes, and by all reasonable supposition there can be no other candidate, then it is incredulous to assume that the last scepter holder of the Antichrist Empire would be converted rather than just handing over the scepter like all other empires have done down through thousands of years of history on earth.

That we would go from empire to benevolent supporter of Christ made sense to only the blind who care for their own home cooking more than eating what is good and nutritious to the soul.

Since we were the only obstacle to Russian dominance in the world and the sole supporter of the birth of the nation of Israel, the Church was able to tell itself that the US of A was on God’s side. The rise of Antichrist seemed all but in place. The prophecy about the budding of the Fig Tree and all the trees (meaning the ancient powers of Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, due to the riches of oil especially) gave further credence to prophecies concerning the alliance of Russia with these partners in a sneak attack upon Israel.

USA is Raiser of Taxes

Suspicious and half-baked interpretations of these prophecies were muddled and incongruent, but that did not seem to bother the establishment of biased Fundamentalist and Evangelical preachers and teachers. It was simply un-American to suggest anything else, even for the bible believing Christians, such as Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell, not to mention us lowly Joe Schmoe Christian.

The Communists were atheists and we were – well, a god-fearing nation of lovers of the sacred hope, not of the theocracy of Christ, but of the communion of mankind which we worshipped as democracy. The lines were drawn from our myopic view. We meant only good for the rest of the world while Russian thoughts and deeds were nothing but evil. For the more direct minded however this did not exactly wash.

To stand in this erroneous opinion it was required that wishful thinking Christians be obliged to ignore the possibility that the U.S. of A. was the mysterious  ‘Raiser of Taxes’ spoken of in Daniel chapter 11:20. That the United States was nothing short of the salt of the earth, more godly than mammon, was impossible for any American calling themselves Christian not to wholeheartedly embrace and defend with a tenacious nationalistic hypocritical zeal. Anyone who believed otherwise was branded a Communist, an atheist, a preacher of sedition, even traitor. Preachers preached everywhere with the mandatory cross on one side of the podium and an American flag standing tall on the other.

Nevertheless, reasonable deduction about this mysterious ‘Raiser of Taxes’ demanded that the United States of America be considered the most likely suspect. How could it not be considered when it became the last of the Superpowers standing. The one that stood at the frontier of the West itself. The power that had accomplished its Manifest Destiny and completed the ring of Western Civilization around the entire globe with its defeat of Japan and its territorial conquest of the Pacific ring. The only frustration came in China and Vietnam, for they should not come into the fold until the new dawn of the Ten Kings that would only come after the curious fade from the brief height of power of The Raiser of Taxes which began to swiftly transpire as the new
Millennium dawned.  

Whereas the world power that had spawned the birth of the United States four hundred years earlier, Great Britain, which had ruled the world and the seas, had lost out to its offspring which had risen in meteoric fashion to the world’s eminent power through wars of conquest in the span of a mere half a century. Great Britain’s offspring, the US of A now ruled not only the seas, but the air and the land, and above all the economy, with its super might and power and its control by the almighty dollar.

How could the stars and stripes, ruler of the world not now be the prime suspect as the Raiser of Taxes of Daniel 11, and the superpower destined to pave the way for that man who is prophesied to rule the world?

Is it not she the only candidate left standing to be the antichrist empire? Is not this, in fact, the empire that directly precedes the 10 Kings? The one that will effectively fulfill the prophecy of fading off to the sideline and by its fall making way for the Antichrist? Is it not likely that one of the prime movers in creating the Ten Kings world confederacy will come out of the descending state of the Raiser of Taxes? Come in part at least, by way of a genius of politics who will be trying to shore up the Raiser’s waning economic stranglehold and power which has been decreasing and has fallen “neither in anger or battle” as Daniel 11:20 says, but by the counter-economic enterprise of its former ‘economic-colonies’? Would this not be typical of God’s ironic use of righteous judgment? Ultimately it all serves as the foundational realm for the infamous and ultimate evil one, that son of perdition, whose number is 666 – the Antichrist himself?

Those empires which preceded the Raiser of Taxes were hybrid empires in the line of Imperial Rome, empires that created aspects of Antichrist politics by which to rule the nations. They led to the Raiser of Taxes and its establishment of economics by which Rome could rule the world. The revival of Rome in its fullest, sketched out and fully depicted in chapter Daniel 11. The scope of economics has become instant and worldwide since the turn of the Millennium. It is a new world in which man lives. The migration of the spirit of Rome and the new world imperial spirit was sailed about the globe by Great Britain. It was said of her that “the sun never set’ on her empire. The United States turned the world into a corporation of international banking and institutions of commerce that fed the peoples everywhere with Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and the American dream of supersonic travel, lightning gratification, satellites for instant communication, nuclear subs to rule the deep blue sea, money for nothin’ and your chicks for free.

It is Babylon’s tower, its majestic man-made garden of Eden. It is the great communication networking of Persia built to its greatest extent, to the closest man can get to its form of perfection. It is the Ecumenism of Alexander’s Greece, people are together, no longer separated by time and space, sitting arm and arm together under a cell tower and a satellite. It is Rome whose legs has walked it throughout the whole earth, walked around the globe from setting sun to setting sun. The spirit of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome, all with the purchasing power of the Raiser of Taxes to buy the souls of men. The true embodiment of the Antichrist spirit; undeniably went into the New World through its migrant immigrations and founded colonies of Roman culture in North and South America and on to the Far reaches of the East.

HERE The Jesuits of Rome molded the South American soul. The politics of capitalism, the rights of man and the leavening of Montesquieu, slavery and property and revenue were planted and found new imperial expression with fervor in the Englishman’s North American vision of
the world.

It seems most likely in today’s troubled financial world that the U.S. has paved the way for the global union of the “ten kings” and will most assuredly take its place at the head of the table of the Ten Kings. It was at Bretton Woods where the Raiser of Taxes made the dollar the international currency. It was at Hiroshima that The Raiser of Taxes showed the world they had better watch out. It was the USA who put the United Nations on our land. It was Uncle Sam who planned and financed the rebuilding of Europe and brought it from rubble to a mighty industrial continent once again after WW II. It was we who broke the back of the Soviet Union.

But the Raiser of Taxes has been unable to do it alone. It has not been able to dictate its terms throughout the entire earth. China has not acquiesced. The Far East and the Pacific Ring and Japan have become economic powers on their own. The USA has not been able to impose its rule. It finally lost its first war in Southeast Asia. It is the last Empire before the world dictator gets here. He, the Antichrist and his ten kings are the final hybrid of the Roman Empire of the Ages. The last king, the Raiser of Taxes, will have a part, a role in the Ten Kings, probably a major part, just as the others who preceded them, Germany and Great Britain will have a major part in the world confederacy of the end.

In the end, the final empire will be an empire of Satan and a single man, an absolute dictator, a tyrant, a beast as the scriptures call him.