America was in the Garden of God with every precious jewel. 

Ezekiel 28:13a.

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“You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering: the sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.” Ezekiel 28:13a.

This chapter of Ezekiel is specifically referring to Tyre, an economic powerhouse relating to world trade of that day. In this verse, Tyre is likened to being placed in Eden, the Garden of God, with every precious resource to make her beautiful, desirable, and admirable.

Today, Tyre represents America and perfectly describes America’s global economic power and America’s beautiful land. Like Tyre, America could definitely be likened to being in Eden, the Garden of God. The Holy Spirit would say that about America because of being founded on God, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and embracing the Holy Spirit. America was a beautiful, desirable, and admirable nation in the world.

In 1893, a schoolteacher named Katherine Lee Bates wrote “America the Beautiful”. The song is quoted below. How many schoolteachers today would have this type of Holiness in their inspiration towards America? This song speaks of God’s grace on America, relying on God for healing and self-control, to be sanctified in the use of money and prosperity, and the appearance of the alabaster cities (bright white).

Katherine Bates mentions America’s spacious skies, waves of grain, majestic mountains, and the fruited plains. America was a beautiful land for immigration as a thoroughfare for freedom. America was known for actually being able to liberate from strife and that loved mercy more than life. America was a land in pursuit of happiness, liberty, and life. Brotherhood from sea to shining sea was what America was all about within the will of God, Jesus Christ, and the Hoy Spirit.

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.

America! America!
God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.

America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev’ry gain divine.

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.

America! America!
God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

This was all true until sin was found in America. “By the abundance of your trading you became filled with violence within, and you sinned; Therefore I cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God.” Ezekiel 28:16

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11