Every Thanksgiving Day, Christians cannot celebrate the
arrival of the first English ship to the American Continent, without wondering
in their minds why God allowed Europeans to come to this new world, to settle
and take over the control of the land from their natural inhabitants, to the
point of total transculturation, so much in the Nordic North America, to the
Latin Central and South American areas of the continent.
Most leftist and liberals will tell of how unjust this
invasion was, and how advanced native Americans were, specially the Aztecs and
the Incas in the northern and southern areas of the continent; and how cruel
and bloody the annihilation they were subjected to, to almost extinction.
However, historical evidence and biblical study, shows
that this is not quite the case.
The Bible tells us that God has decreed the existence of
nations and empires, and nothing escapes his mighty control over them (Proverbs
21:1; Ezra 1:1-2; Daniel 2:3-7; 4:17; John 19:10-11; Romans 13:1).
It was God in his infinite wisdom, who established the
Aztecs and Incas as rulers of the continent, until their time was due to see
the “light that enlightens all men” (John 1:9). Power corrupted them,
and they failed to worship God as it was due, and instead of bringing civilization
to a group of primitive tribes, they became abusive, giving themselves to the
practice of incest, stealing, lying, sexual promiscuity, witchcraft, murder,
genocide, homosexuality, anthropophagy and satanism. The controlling powers
would devour human flesh like if it was any animal’s flesh, after they
dedicated it as sacrifice to their idols and demons.
For this reason, as it happened before in other parts of
the world, God send Christian Europeans to dismantle these two powers, and to
stop them from devouring their land. So God allowed a violent invasion, of
different European powers almost at the same time, at different parts of the
continent, and destroyed these Indian empires with lesser violence than the one
they had exercised over their neighbours prior to the discovery of the
continent by Columbus.
The proof of that, is the small number of Europeans that
destroyed entire empires of millions of inhabitants, like when Hernan Cortez
with no more than 500 soldiers, destroyed the Aztec Empire of 5 million
inhabitants; and Francisco
Pizarro took over the Inca Empire of 12 million with
180 combatants. God sent terror to
confound the enemy, and punished them for their satanism, by using their own
rivalries against each other.
The Europeans brought Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant
Christianity to the new continent, called since then America; converting their
inhabitants to the Gospel of Salvation, and bringing also civilization, and
inserting the new continent to the Western world for ever.
When the time was due again, God decided to grant freedom
to this newly Christianised land of America; and the independent movements gave
back the control of the land to their nationals.
From these episodes, we must learn how important is to
remain faithful to God. Because as he took the land away from their primitive
owners due to their evil actions, the same he can also take it away from us
now, for the same reasons.
But if we keep God present in our everyday lives, then,
the blessings of God will be over us, confirming the leading role he wanted our
beautiful continent to have, in the affairs of the world.
“This decision is by the decree of the
watchers, and the sentence by the word of the holy ones, in order that the
living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, gives it to
whomever He will, and sets over it the lowest of men."
Daniel 4:17
Omar Flores.
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