Watchman Willie Martin Archive



To illustrate some of the major reasons I believe the USA is predominantly Ephraim,

I am putting an article at the end of this e‑mail.� But in brief, consider:

��������������������������������� 1.� As you pointed out, Ephraim was to vastly out‑number Manasseh

����������������������������� (Deut.33:17), ten to one.� The population of the USA is 280 million, compared

����������������������������������������� to England's 60 million and Canada's 28 million.

������������������������������ 2.� The USA is the "YOUNGER" nation to rise; England is like an OLDER

���������������������������� brother, though both dwelled together for many centuries. Of course, Ephraim

����������������������������� was the younger brother.� It only makes sense that the younger would rise up

����������������������������� later than the older brother.� Of course, when Ephraim was "fully grown," he

������������������������������ excelled his older brother, even as the USA has excelled England, and has

��������������������������� �������������������������grown much greater.

������������������������������ 3.� Many nobility also came to the USA.� Our presidents have virtually ALL

������������������������������ had links with English royalty; and our leading entrepreneurs, the Abbots,

������������������������������ Astors, Carnegies, Rockefellers, Mellons, etc., have family lies that go way

��������������������������������������������������������� back.

��������������������������� 4.� Ephraim was to become a people who drank too much WINE (Isa.28:1).� Wine

����������������������������� is produced in abundance in the US, California, Oregon, etc. The British are

����������������������������� not known as wine‑bibbers, but their drink of choice is BEER ‑‑ a completely

��������� �����������������������different beverage.� This again points to the US being Ephraim, in the

�������������������������������������������������������� majority.

�������������������������������� 5.� Ephraim was to posses the greatest natural resources and beauty ‑‑

������������������������������ including "verdant valleys" (Isa.28:1). The US is the most fertile nation in

�������������������������������� the world, called he "breadbasket" of the world. Our valleys like the

��������������������������� ���Shenandoah, the Piedmont, the Central Valley of California, the Willamette

������������������������������ Vallley of Oregon, are world famous ‑‑ we are a nation of awesome valleys,

������������������������������������ agricultural fruitfulness, and abundance (Deut.33:13‑16).

��������������������������� 6.� Ephraim and Manasseh together have "pushed th4 peoples to the ends of the

������������������������������ earth" (Deut.33:17).� Manasseh is like a firstborn (which he was literaaly)

������������� ������������������bull, and the bull is a symbol of England.� Ephraim is more like the "wild

�������������������������������� ox" of this verse‑‑ younger, wilder, less settled ‑‑ you've heard of the

���������������������������� "Wild West," and the "wild American," like many younger brothers, we tend to

����������������������������� be a little on the "wild side," and therefore many Europeans look on us with

�������������������������������������� a little distrust, consternation, and even bewilderment.

������������������������������ 7.� Ephraim's very name literally means "doubly fruitful."� Well, look at the

�������������������������������� evidence!� The US has been VERY fruitful during the 20th century ‑‑

������������������������������� abundantly so.� DOUGLY so.� Joseph is a fruitful bough (Gen.49:22), so

������������������������������ Manasseh is also fruitful ‑‑ but Ephraim (USA) doubly so!�� So it should be:

���������������������������� Ephraim was given the BLESSING of the firstborn (Gen.48:13‑14), even though

������������������������������ Manasseh was the actual firstborn.� The firstborn historically was to inherit

���������������������������� a DOUBLE PORTION.� So it falls to reason that Ephraim ‑‑ the USA ‑‑ should

������������������� �����������have a double portion of blessings, which we certainly to ‑‑ geographically,

������������������������������� agriculturally, economically, militarily, population‑wise, etc.� It is said

�������������������������������������� that if America catches cold, the whole world sneezes.

����������������������������� 8.� Jacob said Manasseh also would be great ‑‑ England and Canada, etc.� But

������������������������������ he said "truly his YOUNGER brother shall be GREATER than he, and his

�������� ���������������������descendants shall become a MULTITUDE OF NATIONS [I.E., "STATES"]"

������������������������������� (Gen.48:19).� Many have misunderstood this.� In Hebrew, the word for

������������������������������ "nations" here is goyim, and means "peoples, nations, states, a troop, a

������������������������������ flight," a word that has the sense of "massing." Thus Jacob really said the

������������������������� descendants of Ephraim would become a TROOP of people, a MASS of people, MANY

������������������������������ states, families, or groupings.� Thus we have in fulfillment of this prophecy

������������������������������ THE FIFTY STATES of the United States ‑‑ we became 50 different states,

��������������������������� UNITED, but ONE PEOPLE.� Each state has its own constitution and government.

����������������������������� At its greatest, the British Empire or Commonwealth did control vast parts of

������������������������������ the earth, when you include India, but these were GENTILE nations under

������������������������������ British rule ‑‑ they were not Josephite people at all. The blessing of Jacob

������������������������������� was not that Ephraim would rule over many nations, per se ‑‑ it was that

������������������� �������Ephraim would reproduce and BECOME a multitude or troop or massing of people

����������������������������� ‑‑ by having a greater multitude of descendants, becoming many groupings ‑‑

������������������������������������������������� i.e., fifty United STATES!

������������������������������� 9.� Ephraim always was distrustful of royalty, particularly of the house of

������������������������������� David.� Jereboam, an Ephraimite, led the rebellion against the house of

�������������������������� ��David. On the oher hand, many Manassites were among the first men to join up

���������������������������� with David, when he was estranged from king Saul.� These same characteristics

������������������������������� are seen in the two brothers today.� English royalty can be traced back to

�������������������������������� the line of David, thus David still has descendants sitting on a throne,

������������������������������� fulfilling in part God's promise to him (Psalm 89:20, 29‑37).� So it is that

����������������������������� England/Manasseh still has an affinity for David and his throne dwells among

������������������������������� them; USA/Ephraim, however, still has a distrust of all things royal, and

������������������������������� George Washington refused to be made a "king."� Thus we have elected

���������������������������������� "presidents" as apposed to a Davidic "king" reigning over us.

������������������������������ 10.� Geographically, in ancient Israel, the house of Manasseh was divided,

����������������������������� separated into East Manasseh and West Manasseh, with the Jordan River the

����������������������������� dividing line.� West Manasseh stretched to the Mediterranean Sea.� Ephraim

������������������������������ was south of Manasseh, stretching from the Jordan to the Mediterranean.

������������������������������ Today, we have the same juxtaposition of the two tribes. Manasseh is once

����������������������������� again in the north ‑‑ West Manasseh is Canada, north of the US, with both of

���������������������������� them stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans; and East Manasseh is

������������������������������ England, lying EAST of the Atlantic Ocean.� The Atlantic, like the ancient

�������� ���������������������������������Jordan River, divides East and West Manasseh.

������������������������������ 11.� Ephraim was prophesied to become "joined to idols" (Hos.4:17).� Idols

������������������������������ abound in modern USA ‑‑ Hollywood stars, rock music stars, sports stars,

������������������������������ automobiiles, and physical things of every description. We are a nation of

����������������������������� idolaters, as Ephraim was prophesied to become. "Harlotry" is so rampant it

�� ���������������������������is another sign of Ephraim ‑‑ we qare the pornography capital of the world ‑‑

����������������������������� the San Fernando Vallley in California, just west of "Hollyweird" (verse 18).

��������������������������������� Bribery of government officials is rampant ‑‑ only they call it 'pollitical

������������������������������� contributions" (verse 18). Ephraim was to be "broken in judgment"

������������������������������ (Hos.5:11).� American courts of justice are a travesty:� witness the O.J.

��������������������������������� Simpson trial, the trial of the police who arrrested Rodney King, the

������������������������������� ridiculous sham of the Florida Supreme Court wanting to count "chads,"

������������������������ ����"dimpled chads," "hanging chads," "pregnant chads," etc., etc.� America truly

������������������������������������������� fits the end‑time description of Ephraim.

��������������������������� 12.� Ephraim was to be a "mixed" people.� God said "Ephraim has MIXED himself

����������������������������� among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake unturned [burnt on one side, white on

������������������������������� the other].� Aliens have devoured his strength, but he does not know it"

��������������������� ��������(Hos.7:8‑9).� America, the USA, is the "melting pot of the world."� We have

����������������������������� mixed ourselves weith Gentiles more than any other nation. Eluropeans tend

������������������������������� to be xenophobic, like Japan; racial mixing is frowned upon, and foreign

������������������������������ laborers are distrusted and persecuted.� Whereas in America, we welcome

������������������������������ foreigners of every description ‑‑ blacks from Africa, Europeans, Chinese

� ���������������������������immigrants who helped build our intercontinental railroads, and Vietnamese,

������������������������������� Cuban refugees, and of course many people from Central America, not to

������������������������������� mention millions of Mexicans, both legal and illegal, without our borders.

������������������������������� Truly we fulfill this prophecy of being "mixed" ‑‑ moreso than any other

������������������������������ nation!� Plus the fact that "aliens" in our midst are devouring our strength,

������������������������������� getting free education, medical benefits, and bringing their own polluting

�������������������������������������������������� customs and practices.

����������������������������� I could go on and on. �But just two more "proofs" that the US is predominatly

������������������������������������������������������ EPHRAIM:

������������������������������ 13.� Ephraim was the 13th tribe.� He was born last, of the tribe heads, born

����������������������� ��������to Joseph in Egypt, after Manasseh, the 12th tribe.� The US flag has 13

������������������������������� stripes, the US originally had 13 colonies, in the US seal we find 13 stars

����������������������������� above an eagle [symbol of the "king of the air," or airpower], also 13 arrows

�������������������������������� clutched in his left claw, and an olive branch with 13 leaves in its right

����������������������������� claw, with a shield of 13 red and white stripes.� The number 13 is associated

���������������������������������������������� with Ephraim AND with America!

������������������������������� 14.� The northern tribes of Israel were taken into captivity by Assyria in

������������������������������� 718‑721 B.C.� God foretold Israel would be punished for "seven times"

������������������������������� (Lev.26:18, etc.; see also Dan.4:23).� Prophetically, a "time" can equal a

����������������������������� "year" in fulfillment (Num.14:34; Ezek.6:4‑5). A perfect "prophetic year" is

������������������������������ 360 days; each day is a year in fulfillment.� This apparently is based on the

������������������������������� original year, as it was in the days of Noah.� Noah was in the ark from the

������������������������������� 17th day of the second month till the 17th day of the seventh month ‑‑ a

������������������������������ total of 150 days (see Gen.7:11‑13; 7:24l 8:3‑4).� Thus five months equalled

����������������������������� 150 days ‑‑ or 30 days per month.� Obviously, Noah was not using the modern

������������������������������ Jewish calendar!� If we extrapolate, then a year of 12 30 day months would

����������������������������� equal 360 days.� Therefore, Israel's punishment was 360 X 7 = 2520 years in

����������� ������������������fulfillment.� If we count 2520 years from 718‑721, we come to A.D. 1800‑1803.

�������������������������������� At that time the punishment would be terminated, and God would begin to

����������������������������� BLESS the tribes with their intended blessings ‑‑ the blessings He gave to>

�������������������������������� Abraham, Isaac, and Israel ‑‑ and the tribal fathers, including Joseph.

What happened in 1803 in the world that was of any prophetic significance?

What great blessing occurred in that year?� Who received it?

In 1803 Thomas Jefferson, the third US president, purchased the Louisana

Purchase from Napoleon of France ‑‑ all the land stretching from the

Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.� This vast tract was bought for

pennies to the acre.� The Lewis and Clark Expedition traversed this huge

tract, finally arriving on the Pacific Coast, at the mouth of the Columbia

River. Never in history has a nation expanded so quickly, so vastly, and for

so little.� The birthright promises were to accrue to Ephraim ‑‑ and this was

a mighty geographical extension of the United States of Ephraim!

So, Yair, perhaps you see more clearly now why I truly believe the U.S. of A.

is and must be, by all rights, and prophetic understanding, the nation that

best represents the younger son of Joseph ‑‑ Ephraim ‑‑ with a mixture of all

the tribes dwelling in her, including of course many of Manasseh!

Sincerely,

William F. Dankenbring



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