That is why there was a book left. The dividing line for a child of light and a child in darkness is found in the prophecies about the last tribulation that men ever face. The threat of death ceases to hold any power when immortality of body and soul is the norm

Nasty as in 'top'?
Think of this as His version of a double tap. The flood took 99,999% of the Giants and the exodus wars finished the job.

If North America was ever offered an opportunity to back away from the world stage and tend to it's own 'wounded place' the EU and Mid-East will still have to settle the issue of 'reality' meets 'myth' as God's possession om this earth is Jerusalem rather than anything NA can offer. I would think a naval blockade would be all that is needed as full occupation would not be able to follow any certain timeline. The Media can broadcast anything they want as to what horrible fate we are facing when adapting to a continent that is fire and ice means grow food in a different area and only for NA and plan on snow skiing to become popular in the east and a trip to the beach in the west means you take your own water maker

Jer:25:15-18:
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me;
Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand,
and cause all the nat
ions,
to whom I send thee,
to drink it.
And they shall drink,
and be moved,
and be mad,
because of the sword that I will send among them.
Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand,
and made all the nations to drink,
unto whom the LORD had sent me:
To wit,
Jerusalem,
and the cities of Judah,
and the kings thereof,
and the princes thereof,
to make them a desolation,
an astonishment,
an hissing,
and a curse;
as it is this day;

Jer:25:26-29:
And all the kings of the north,
far and near,
one with another,
and all the kingdoms of the world,
which are upon the face of the earth:
and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Therefore thou shalt say unto them,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel;
Drink ye, and be drunken,
and spue,
and fall,
and rise no more,
because of the sword which I will send among you.
And it shall be,
if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink,
then shalt thou say unto them,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Ye shall certainly drink.
For,
lo,
I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name,
and should ye be utterly unpunished?
Ye shall not be unpunished:
for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth,
saith the LORD of hosts.