We’ve often said how the United States parallels Israel. Now we’re aware of still another way in which we parallel. This is in comparing the division of Israel into two kingdoms, paralleling the Civil War. Most scholars estimate the total Hebrew population at the time of the exodus as being about 3,000,000. When the Constitution was signed, the American population was about 3,000,000. When king Solomon’s son Rehoboam was king, he put people under a grievous yoke of heavy labor. The people began to get very weary, so they rebelled.

Rehoboam took 180,000 men from Judah and Benjamin to fight against the house of Israel. Brother was fighting against brother. Then two kings were appointed in Israel, one over the northern kingdom and one over the southern. On Feb. 8, 1861, seven states formed the Confederate States of America. The next day Jefferson Davis became their President, while Lincoln remained the Union President. Israel had two separate capitals, one in Jerusalem and one in Dan. As with Israel, America was divided between the North and the South. America also had two separate capitals and two separate Presidents. The capital of the North was Washington D.C., and the capital of the South was Montgomery, Alabama (later Richmond, Virginia). Both nations were divided over a yoke of bondage.

Israel with it’s harsh rule and tax burden, and America with slavery . During most of Lincoln’s adminstration, there was fighting between the North and the South. In 2nd Chronicles chapter 12, it tells us there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. The scriptures say that when YHVH saw the king and princes humbling themselves, He witheld his wrath. It is known that Lincoln publicly stated that the nation had grievously sinned and needed to ask YHVH’S forgiveness. What would Lincoln say of today? I recently heard a satistic that was pretty dreadful. If you took all the “known” abortions in America in a year, and divided them by 365 days in a year, there would be more lives lost in a day than was lost in the World Trade Center attack. Tell me America, can we say there’s not plenty of blood on our hands to ask forgiveness for?