The Role of the Kittim

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The name Kittim is used nine times in the scroll. We can obtain an understanding of the characteristics of this nation by listing the descriptions given by the translators.

Note that this is one nation, not a multiple of nations in alliance. I offer alternative phrases to show how the translators differed on the proper description to assign to this nation. I do this in order to better obtain an idea of the features of this nation.

God reserved the New World for himself. For a million years it sat here, untouched. When stone age people came they lived off the natural bounty of the land, and left it in nearly the same pristine condition as they found it. The Maya, the Inca, and the Aztec, of more recent times, built great civilizations but did little to disturb the natural functioning of the land. They knew the wheel but refused to use it. Meanwhile North America remained primitive.

But then came White Man. With his technology. And his dream of God that evolved into materialism.

We were God's country. We had opened to us the opportunity to use this blessing from Him. We had excellent minds applied to the organization of a new social order. We declared liberty, one nation under God.

How well we were described:

Isaiah 48
17 "I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit,
who leads you in the way you should go.
18 O that you had hearkened to my commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
19 your offspring would have been like the sand,
and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
or destroyed from before me."

This is what we could have been. But now an exhortation is given.

20 Go forth from Babylon, flee from Chaldea,
declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it,
send it forth to the end of the earth;
say, "Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!"
21 They thirsted not when he led them through the deserts;
he made water flow for them from the rock;
he cleft the rock and the water gushed out.
22 "There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked."  

Greed, social power, and material gratification began to dominate our lives.

This process was carried out in the context of western white man — the countries of Europe, and the New World, especially the United States — taking their technology, social power, and culture to the rest of the world. The Colonial Empires opened the door for western white man to spread his influence everywhere.

Coming out of the 19th century into the 20th the United States began to feel its economic and social power.

The difficulty is that greed and economic power soon were exercised in the name of democracy and freedom. Eventually the United States began to impose its will upon the entire world. We did so in reaction to an alternate economic system: Communism. But we fought a losing war in Korea. We fought another losing war in Viet Nam.

Behind all of this was the perceived right to develop capitalism, the use of natural resources to satisfy greed. To sustain such system we committed to a technology and material power that was founded on God's natural gift of coal and oil. Without that energy to power our automobiles, our trucks, our aircraft, and our electric generators we could not have developed the Great Enterprise that became a monstrous enslaving economic engine. Managed by a social elite the common citizens of the United States could not perceive the difference between social freedom and economic bondage. We enjoyed unprecedented personal freedom but became enslaved through credit cards and banking techniques. The souls of America were bought through material pleasures.

We then attempted to force the nations militarily who we perceived as a threat to that economic regime. We tread upon the nations.

The rise of terrorism was the result of common people who had no military strength to oppose that capitalist system. They saw a means to destroy an economic regime that was becoming increasingly dangerous to their belief system. The rise of terrorism was due to a religious philosophy that had its origins in the spiritual machinations of the Devil, Islam.

In this complex boiling pot the United States, with its godlessness, tried to salvage an ever-increasingly threat to its economic system.

When the United States invaded Iraq, without provocation, it showed how swift and mighty in war it truly was. It used tactics it called "shock and awe." Within a few short days it had conquered that nation.

As the United States swept over the land it encountered resistance. In an effort to gain control of the country it slew many, not only men who banded together to fight but also women and children. It was bent on prosecuting its designs.

The United States set up puppet governments in Afghanistan and Iraq, governments inclined to obey the will of this cruel and determined nation. The stated policy of  the United States government was to establish "democracies" in those countries in order that they would have the same political and economic philosophies. This was extended by proxy to Lebanon. In Korea, Viet Nam, and now other nations we attempted to take possession, subduing them to our own dominion.

The United States has long since forgotten God. We forsook the precepts and ordinances of God.

The United States charges across the earth, over low land and plain, to take possession of dwellings not our own. We smite and pillage the land to prosecute our designs.

The United States has brought fear and dread upon many people. Where will we invade next? Upon whom will we next impose our will?

When those who govern in the United States gather together in their council chambers they plot to exercise control over their perceived enemies.

We do not now behave with truthfulness and honesty. With cunning and treachery we conduct ourselves toward the nations of the world.

How often have we watched as the United States sent her machinery of war into foreign countries? Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, and now where else? We trampled the land with our war horses and our military beasts.

Where did we come from? We came from the isle of the sea, from distant sea-coasts, to devour all the nations.

Like insatiable vultures we spoke in burning anger. With arrogance and livid faces we pounced upon all the nations. All of this they did in reaction to an act of terror, but without logical provocation. This was the first time in history that the United States acted peremptorily. We gathered captives like the sand of the sea. I remember watching the war of early 1990 on Television when the United States went into Iraq the first time. I was amazed how we gathered captives from the Iraqi army in battalions arrayed, thousands upon thousands of men displayed in front of my eyes.

I will not continue to draw out the similarities between the Qumran Habakkuk document and the United States. You can apply these as you see fit. l would suggest you consider how the United States invaded Iraq because of the iniquity that existed there.

Does the United States have guilt-ridden Council Houses? Consider all the secret assemblies that go on in order to not let us citizens know. Our rulers do not want to inform us of earth shattering planning in order that they can operate without restraint. Their might is truly their God.