GOVERNMENT AND PRESS/MEDIA COVER-UPS

GOVERNMENT AND PRESS/MEDIA COVER-UPS

By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
June 16, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

[Note: People are wondering why oil prices continue to rise, not appreciating how the global economy works. As Gary Dorsch (editor of GLOBAL MONEY TRENDS) explains, the Federal Reserve would like to inflate the money supply further and lower interest rates to cushion the U.S. housing market and help relieve pressure on the subprime credit crisis. However, if the Fed cuts interest rates, it risks sending the value of the dollar lower which leads to higher oil prices, which in turn lead to higher food, etc. prices (inflation). The situation has been exacerbated by Kuwait and Iran (and others to follow) breaking their peg to the U.S. dollar in terms of oil payments. And if Hugo Chavez in Venezuela does likewise, the dollar will become even weaker. With a weaker dollar, more and more foreign firms will be buying American companies. For example, on June 12, 2008 a Belgian firm made a takeover bid for American beer company Anheuser-Busch which began about 150 years ago in St. Louis.]

It’s critical to the power elite’s plans for global control that the public be kept ignorant about important information. For example, some years ago I filed a Freedom of Information request with the Department of Defense (DOD) regarding Pakistani intelligence chief General Mahmud Ahmed’s visit here just before 9/11. General Ahmed had $100,000 wired to 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta, and just before 9/11 several high-level Pentagon officials suddenly cancelled their travel plans for the morning of 9/11. Finally, I received a partial DOD response dated May 20, 2008 which indicated Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz had an office call with General Ahmed and others on September 10, 2001. Blacked out was “U.S.-Pakistani Military and Intelligence Relations” and most other sections. Although the DOD response indicated General Ahmed met with National Security Council members September 5 and 6, 2001, blacked out is where General Ahmed was on September 4. The DOD response also indicated there was an office call between Assistant Secretary of Defense Peter Rodman and General Ahmed in which Rodman “recalled past personal experience working with Pakistan while on former Secretary of State Kissinger’s staff.”

Another example involves Iraq. The Bush administration keeps telling us about the success of the military surge. However, it fails to inform the public that after five years in Iraq, there are still water shortages and electricity only 2-5 hours a day. Garbage isn’t collected for days or weeks, and many Iraqi government employees want bribes to provide services.

The press/media are also important elements of the power elite’s control over the people, especially in choosing what not to report. For example, they report about Communist Chinese oppression in Tibet, but most don’t report about the persecution of Christians in China. Rutherford Institute president John Whitehead informs us that preparations for the 2008 Olympics in China have included “religious repression, torture, sexual abuse and arbitrary detention.” There’s a photo of house church member Sister Aizhen Miao being shocked by a policeman with an electric cattle prod. Other photos smuggled out of China include a pastor subjected to water torture, another Christian placed in a “tiger cage,” another policeman standing on a woman’s ankles and “rolling” them. Whitehead further commented, “Persecution of religious individuals has been common in China for more than half a century. The major corporate sponsors (of the Olympics) have been silent. The worst of all, though, has been the deafening silence from the evangelical church in America. Shame on American Christians….“

Why have American Christians, the U.S. government and the press/media been largely silent about the persecution of Christians in China? For one thing, they crave the cheap products they can buy made in China. Also, as Ian Williams wrote in the January 23, 2004 ASIA TIMES: “All Beijing has to do is to mention the possibility of a sell order going down the wires. It would devastate the U.S. economy more than any nuclear strike the Chinese could manage at the moment.”

Within the U.S., there’s little reporting by major news outlets about the Security and Prosperity Partnership and how it’s a prelude to a North American Union. While some people have expressed concern about the TransTexas Corridor being the first step of a TransAmerican Superhighway, how much has been reported about the CANAMEX Corridor? Practically nothing nationally? It begins in Nogales, Arizona, goes north to Las Vegas, then north to Salt Lake City, continuing to Idaho Falls and then Helena, Montana and northward. The corridor involves tourists, small freight, telecommunications, etc. all of which could simply and innocuously follow highway systems. However, what makes this more than simply a highway system is that the corridor includes “Smart Process Partnerships. Interstate cooperation is a key element of the CANAMEX vision. The plan calls for integration of e-government services such as license renewal and business registration between states, creation of an e-signature program and other innovations to create a ‘borderless economy’. CANAMEX is another provide NAFTA corridor that would facilitate easy access for trade across the borders of Mexico and Canada.”

Another government cover-up with little press/media attention has been that vaccines trigger autism. For decades, the government has denied any linkage between vaccines and autism. The press/media have occasionally reported various parents’ complaints about a linkage but this is almost always followed by a reporter interviewing some government official denying the linkage. Recently, however, Centers for Disease Control head Julie Gerberding on the CNN show “House Call” explained that vaccines can trigger autism in a vulnerable subset of children.

There has also been a government cover-up about why government has been funding the drugging of foster care children in the U.S. In this regard, I’ll quote at length from a letter sent by Gloria Wright, a vice-president of Ablechild, to the Chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee: “My grandson, Noah, was a ward of the State of North Carolina for 8 years – during that time he was put on 18 psychiatric drugs and was ‘fostered’ by 5 families. During his foster care time he was on Zoloft, Taxil, Celexia, Effexor, Lithium, Ritalin, Thorazine, buspar, Adderall, Welbutrin, Melatonin, Risperdahl, Zyprexia, Lexepro, Depakote, Seroquel, Zyrtec, and Prozac. When we gained his custody in 2003, I took him to a doctor and also a psychiatrist. It did not take long for the psychiatrist to note the child was having severe allergic reactions and side effects to some of the drugs. No medical doctor had noted that for they kept prescribing the drugs – after all, they get paid by the State! Prior to him going off the drugs, he had experienced suicidal ideation, attempted murder, had developed diabetes, hearth arrhythmia, extreme rages, hearing voices, etc. He was confined 7 times to psychiatric hospitals because of the use of these drugs. As long as states receive federal monies for making children wards of foster care, this will always be possible. Too many states are turning their backs on the federal law known as ‘The Adoption and Safe Families Act,’ whereby a child taken from his parents must be placed in the care of a relative for safekeeping. Why is this so? The states get paid for foster homes and not for relative care. The states also put the child on psychiatric drugs because they get paid extra money for having a sick child to the detriment of the child as proven by our Noah!

Why are these drugs used on children who are taken away from their families? It makes $$$$ for the states, and the child be damned! Why is it all right to put these children in clinical trials or do off label prescribing without adequate care? My grandson is damaged and I know it because I raised him the first 5 years of his life. He could read before 5 years of age, loved to play with numbers, could count to 100 without error. When we gained custody of this boy, Noah, he could not read, did not know his times tables and could not write. Where do we go to get his childhood back? By the way, MEDICAID was used when our daughter and son-in-law had good insurance with Buncombe County, but the State of North Carolina Child Protective Services didn’t care. Instead, MEDICAID was charged and against the taxpayer and this seems to be fraud! Why is no one interested in this fact?” Similar letters could be written by people across this nation. Who has been advocating the unapproved use of powerful anti-psychotic medications for children? According to Gardiner Harris and Benedict Carey in “Child Experts Fail to Reveal Full Drug Pay” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 8, 2008), Dr. Joseph Biederman and Dr. Timothy Wilens of Harvard University have “helped fuel an explosion” of these medicines’ use but only “belatedly reported” receiving millions of dollars in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000-2007.

Government cover-ups are nothing new. If you asked most people about the recent monument built to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, they would react approvingly of the monument and him. Why? It’s because his misdeeds have been covered up. For example, most Americans are unaware that on December 1, 1943, FDR. at a summit conference in Tehran, Iran, made a secret deal with Stalin to give Poland (and later Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) to the Soviet dictator. FDR wanted the deal kept secret so Polish-Americans would not vote against him for re-election. Just think of the suffering Poles and others endured under the Soviet dictatorship as a result of FDR.’s actions.

Even today, the press/media are accomplices in covering up the ignorance of American presidential candidates. You have heard a lot about Senator Obama and Reverend Wright, Senator Clinton and Bosnian sniper fire, and Senator McCain and the female lobbyist. However, has the press/media given you any in-depth knowledge of the candidates’ understanding of important issues like education? No! That’s because the power elite wants the people to be kept ignorant of their leaders’ ignorance, because this makes it easier for the power elite to achieve its goal of creating a World Socialist Government.

This will be done by diminishing national sovereignty, and the controlled press/media play an important part in this effort. For example, on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition News (May 10-22, 2008), reporter Daniel Schorr exclaimed: “I have followed for many, many years the development of the United Nations and the League of Nations and what they were based on. And always you could not get a treaty to create the United Nations unless you gave absolute sovereignty to every country. I think the time has come for the United Nations to now pass a resolution saying these people (in Myanmar) will be fed and will be saved. And if that means imposing force by the United Nations in a sovereign country, so be it!” Think of the precedent this would set for U.N. intervention in any country!

© 2008 Dennis Cuddy - All Rights Reserved

Officials Say "Sleeper Cells" Activated in Canada

EXCLUSIVE: Hezbollah Poised to Strike?
Officials Say "Sleeper Cells" Activated in Canada
By RICHARD ESPOSITO and BRIAN ROSS
June 19, 2008—


Intelligence agencies in the United States and Canada are warning of mounting signs that Hezbollah, backed by Iran, is poised to mount a terror attack against "Jewish targets" somewhere outside the Middle East.

Intelligence officials tell ABC News the group has activated suspected "sleeper cells" in Canada and key operatives have been tracked moving outside the group's Lebanon base to Canada, Europe and Africa.

Officials say Hezbollah is seeking revenge for the February assassination of Hezbollah's military commander, Imad Mugniyah, killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria.

The group's leaders blamed Israel, an allegation denied by Israeli officials.

There is no credible information on a specific target, according to the officials.

Suspected Hezbollah operatives have conducted recent surveillance on the Israeli embassy in Ottawa, Canada and on several synagogues in Toronto, according to the officials.

Latin American is also considered a possible target by officials following Hezbollah's planning.

A senior US counter-terrorism official told ABC News, "There are concerns Hezbollah might be ready to do something along those lines."

Three US law enforcement agencies say they have been briefed on the developments by intelligence agencies.

A spokesperson for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says the agency does not comment on the existence of ongoing intelligence operations.

Officials say the CIA, the NSA, and British and Canadian intelligence agencies began to pick up a steady stream of information - from electronic intercepts, human sources and surveillance - about a possible Hezbollah attack on Feb. 17, just days after the Beirut funeral of Mugniyah where Hezbollah leaders publicly declared they would seek revenge.

"They want to kill as many people as they can, they want it to be a big splash," said former CIA intelligence officer Bob Baer, who says he met with Hezbollah leaders in Beirut last month.

"They cannot have an operation fail," said Baer, "and I don't think they will. They're the A-team of terrorism."

Alarms were first raised in Canada, where as many as 20 suspected Hezbollah members have been under surveillance after as many as four suspected "sleeper cells" were activated, including one known as "Rashedan," intelligence officials tell ABC News. The members also received instruction to send their family members home to Lebanon, according to officials.

Officials have also reported that a known Hezbollah weapons expert was followed to Canada, where he was seen at a firing range south of Toronto, near the US border.

Intelligence officials said the recent Hezbollah activities were being coordinated with the help of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.

"Hezbollah would not carry out an attack in the west, or wherever this attack is going to occur, without approval from Tehran," said Baer, the former CIA intelligence officer.

Baer says his Hezbollah contacts told him an attack against the US was unlikely because Iran and Hezbollah did not want to give the Bush administration an excuse to attack.

While US officials say there is no credible information of a Hezbollah attack on American soil, the Homeland Security Secretary, Michael Chertoff, told Fox News two weeks ago, that "they make al Qaeda look like a minor league team."

"Hezbollah remains a threat to security in different parts of the world," said FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko, section chief for the national Press Office.

"The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces conduct investigations into different groups that potentially pose a threat to the US or our interests overseas; however, the FBI and DHS have no specific intelligence about any group or so called sleeper cells planning an attack. Our job is to gather intelligence, work with our domestic and international partners to identify and disrupt any terrorism event," said Kolko.

Toronto has long been considered an important city for Hezbollah fund-raising and organizing, according to officials.

Pro-Hezbollah rallies and billboards depicting Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, have outraged Jewish groups.

"Because of lax immigration policies, it became a center for Hezbollah operations outside the Middle East," said Malcolm Hoenlein, of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations.

Hezbollah was declared a terror group by the government of Canada in December, 2002, leading to an increased surveillance of suspected members.

The last major attack by the terror group outside of the Middle East occurred in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1994.

Argentinean authorities formally blamed Hezbollah and Iran for attacks on a Jewish community center that killed 85 people. Twenty-nine people died in an attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992 that was also blamed on Hezbollah and Iran.

As a political organization, Hezbollah, which means "Party of God," plays a significant role in Lebanese politics as the leading opposition force.

Founded in 1982, following Israel's invasion of Lebanon, the group came to represent Lebanon's Shiite population and has increased its power and influence in recent months.

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THE ENERGY DEPRESSION

June 15, 2008

THE ENERGY DEPRESSION

From: The Daily Reckoning (June, 2008)

…….The crisis that began last year seems far from over.

But the big losses, yesterday, were in gold. The yellow metal was down $27 yesterday – to $871. Investors must have figured that gold was doomed – now that the Fed has turned its big guns to an inflation-fighting position.

Now, the dollar will strengthen...(it went up to $1.54 per euro yesterday)...inflation rates will go down...oil will go down – everything will be okay. Really. Honest. No kidding.

But the big question is: how can the Fed really fight inflation, after the biggest jump in unemployment in 22 years? How strongly can the Fed really resist inflation?

We don’t know, but it might not have to. American consumers are buying less from the rest of the world. This leaves less U.S. money in the hands of foreign central banks...and less reason for them to inflate their own currencies. Less demand = less inflation = lower prices. But the price of lower prices is high. It means a worldwide slump...which brings down oil, commodities, gold, employment – and equities. This is not the sort of world in which the Fed raises rates. The Fed’s “fight” against inflation is likely to succeed, in other words, only if it doesn’t need to fight at all.

*** “What’s your solution?” asked a reader in response to Friday’s Daily Reckoning. “Or isn’t there one? If the world’s population is going to implode will that be through mass starvation/dehydration? Or will we run out of beer and all end up killing each other? Or will a terrorist bomb wipe us all out first? Will technology save the day? Isn’t the whole thing survival of the fittest? Is survival of the fittest really the best way of describing it for the human race? Or is it more ‘luck’... Is there a solution, or do we just sit back and watch the world fall apart?”

*** Comes no answer, but more thoughts, from our Pittsburg correspondent, Byron King:

“‘Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor,’ go the words to a sturdy old Anglican hymn.

“Well, at $138 per barrel of oil, I think we are about to find out how dear those prayers really are. This, plus the impending agricultural disaster due to low planting levels and other bad weather, will spell impoverishment for large swaths of the American middle class.

“In the United States, the poor and working poor are already marginalized. Now, with the ongoing melt-up in oil prices the middle class is being financially suffocated.

“Just on Thursday and Friday of last week, wholesale gasoline prices went up 33-cents. No typo. That’s 33 cents, in two days. So let’s round it out and add another $500 to the annual gasoline bill to operate one average automobile in the US of A. If you are a two-car household, make that number $1,000. Just from a two-day spike. And that does not count the impact on diesel (killing trucking & agriculture) and jet fuel (killing airlines).

“We are seeing the rapid evisceration of the guts of the U.S. economy. We are seeing the beginnings of an Energy Recession, if not an Energy Depression.

“Back in the Great Depression of the 1930s, it was different. There were ample natural and energy resources, but the factories were closed. There were factories, of course, but the workers were laid off. There were workers, but no one could afford to hire them. The banks had failed due to lack of funds. Overall there was just not enough money priming the pump to get things moving.

“Problem now? The resources are depleted. Many of the factories are gone and not replaced. Indeed, we have a manufacturing-averse culture in many respects. (The faux-environment movement has not helped.) Our educational system has produced a lop-sided labor force, such that there are critical skills shortages all through key parts of the economy (like energy...).

“And there’s too damn much ‘money’ floating around. Actually, it’s just excess U.S. currency in the form of credit instruments. Much of it has floated into the hands of people who are not ‘us.’ A few key resource-producing areas, along with overseas governments and sovereign wealth funds, have control over immense levels of global cash flow. With the rapid run-up in energy prices they are draining the daily capital out of the United States.

“So the overall view is.... not enough resources, not enough productive capacity (especially, with energy), not enough skilled labor, and a decapitalized-indebted-illiquid-insolvent financial system that cannot get traction to move ahead.

“And when you don’t move ahead, you fall behind.

“Start praying...”

In Wake Of USA Flooding Whispers of Food Rationing!

World Food Prices To Skyrocket

In Wake Of USA Flooding Whispers of Food Rationing!

Consumers were warned to expect even sharper increases in global food prices after US officials said that some of the country’s best farmland was facing its worst flooding for 15 years. Agriculture officials and traders said the damage could push up worldwide corn and soyabean prices, which have spiralled in recent days as floods have swamped crops in parts of Iowa, the US’s biggest corn-producing state.

The warning comes at a time when high food prices are already sparking protests across the developing world. Corn futures in Chicago this week rose to record highs of more than $8 a bushel on fears that up to 5m acres of the crop could be lost, while soyabean prices hit a record of $15.93 a bushel.

Tom Jennings, acting director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture, said: “The price of corn and the price of beans could rise more. If we lose a lot of corn the prices will continue to go up.”

The worst of the flooding may be yet to come. Those flooding waters in Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Missouri as well as Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana have yet to make their way to the Mississippi River. There is a growing sense of concern that the Mississippi might experience the worst flooding ever, even worse than the historic record floods of 1993 and 1995 which devastated much of the Mississippi River Valley region. There is reason for optimism, however. Since those historic floods, The US Army Corps of Engineers has engaged in new flood control projects which may help to minimize damage with this year's flooding prospects.

What is perhaps more ominous - is talk of the need to ration food. Yes, food rationing talk is beginning to make its way into the mainstream news media. The Financial Times of London stated:

Lewis Hagedorn, of JPMorgan in Chicago, said that the losses were significant. “The risk of still-higher agricultural prices remains decisively distributed to the upside amid the fundamental need to ration demand in light of smaller supply,” he said."

Penalties created for those criticizing homosexuality outside church walls

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YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Biblical message now criminalized
Penalties created for those criticizing homosexuality outside church walls

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Posted: June 12, 2008
12:45 am Eastern

By Bob Unruh

WorldNetDaily

A new Colorado law is helping homosexual activists achieve their goal of forcing Christians to teach biblical condemnation of homosexuality only behind the closed doors of their sanctuaries.

The as-yet untested state law promotes sexual identity "perception" to the level of skin color under state discrimination laws.

Some opponents are calling it a "bona fide censorship law," and top analysts for Focus on the Family, the Christian publishing and broadcast powerhouse, are expressing concern over the "mischief" they expect to follow the signing by Gov. Bill Ritter.

As WND reported, Ritter, a Democrat, struck gender-specific restrooms and locker rooms statewide when he signed the plan into law in May.

The law makes it illegal to deny a person access to public accommodations, including restrooms and locker rooms, based on gender identity or the "perception" of gender identity.

"Who would have believed that the Colorado state legislature and its governor would have made it fully legal for men to enter and use women's restrooms and locker-room facilities without notice or explanation?" said James Dobson, founder of Focus.

"Henceforth, every woman and little girl will have to fear that a predator, bisexual, cross-dresser or even a homosexual or heterosexual male might walk in and relieve himself in their presence," Dobson said.

But now an analyst for Focus, Bruce Hausknecht, has told WND there are other, significant, potential ramifications hidden in the fine print of the new law.

The law provides an exemption allowing religious groups to continue teaching, inside their doors, the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality. But the exemption itself is ultimately harmful to the church, Hausknecht contends.

"It tends to marginalize the church," he said. "They'll say, 'It's just a church.' It will allow gay activists to continue to marginalize Christians. They'll say, 'Keep it within your four walls. That's all.'"

But there's further possible mischief that can result from a ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation or "perception" when deciding "full and equal enjoyment of facilities, accommodations" and other factors, he said.

Religious publishers, he acknowledged, could be accused under the law for publishing biblical condemnation of homosexuality. Colorado Springs, where Focus in located, also is home to the huge Christian publishing operations of NavPress and the International Bible Society.

"There are those who simply by publishing Christian materials could find themselves charged with a violation of this statute," he said.

A spokesman for Ritter did not respond to a WND request for comment.

The actual impact of the new ban on people responsible for "public accommodations" expressing beliefs that do not support homosexuality is unclear at this point, largely because charges haven't been brought and challenges weighed regarding the law and its potential impact on First Amendment guarantees of freedom exercise of religion.

However, Hausknecht warned there is "danger" in those waters for any church that provides any service to its community.

It is possible the law's anti-"discrimination" demands could be triggered when outside groups come in to use a church meeting room, auditorium or recreation facility. For the safety of the churches, perhaps outsiders will have to sign a document stating agreement with the church's religious beliefs before being allowed in, he said.

The targets of complaints likely won't be churches themselves, but more likely church schools, programs that offer services to communities and the like, critics of the law said.

"The intent of the homosexual activists who put this law in [was to] marginalize the church, keep it inside the sanctuary," Hausknecht said.

Worse yet is that many small or medium-size churches will have to go out of their way, including halting programs, to avoid a potential conflict, because they don't have the resources to wage a war over their beliefs, he added.

"It's a lot easier to avoid the conflict than incur the costs of fighting," he said.

Dobson earlier had nothing but criticism for Colorado's elected officials.

"This is your government in action. It represents a payback to Tim Gill and two other billionaires who have essentially 'bought' state legislators with enormous campaign contributions. Coloradans deserve better!" Dobson said.

"And by the way, because of the way this bill is written, it is not subject to the initiative process. There is no recourse," Dobson said.

Pastor Bob Enyart, a Denver-area activist on Christian issues, agreed with Focus's concerns over what appears to be a newly minted state discrimination against Christian beliefs. But he went further.

"WND reported on Canada banning opposition to homosexuality; likewise, Colorado's SB200 has 'forbidden' much publishing of Christian teaching on homosexuality, cohabitation, etc.," he said.

"This censorship aspect of the law has been utterly ignored," he said.

"The law exempts churches, but that's not good, that's an insult. I.E., bigotry is allowed only in churches. Whereas every other place of public accommodation including bookstores, retail & wholesale businesses, etc. cannot sell or even 'give away' anything that would advocate discrimination [against] gay adoption, homosexual marriage, etc.," Enyart said.

He cited one part of the new law:

Section 8. 24-34-701. Publishing of discriminative matter forbidden. No person, being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent, or employee of any place of public accommodation... shall publish, issue, circulate, send, distribute, give away, or display in any way, manner, or shape or by any means or method, except as provided in this section, any communication, paper, poster, folder, manuscript, book, pamphlet, writing, print, letter, notice, or advertisement of any kind, nature, or description THAT is intended or calculated to discriminate or actually discriminates against... SEXUAL ORIENTATION, marital status... in the matter of furnishing or neglecting or refusing to furnish to them or any one of them any lodging, housing, schooling, or tuition or any accommodation, right [marriage], privilege [adoption], advantage, or convenience... on account of... SEXUAL ORIENTATION, marital status... [which] is unwelcome or objectionable or not acceptable, desired, or solicited."
The Old Testament condemns homosexuality as an "abomination," Enyart told WND. The New Testament includes a reference in 1st Timothy calling for the use of laws against crimes such as murder and homosexuality.

"There are free speech rights to condemn cohabitation, homosexuality, state that homosexuals should not marry, should not adopt children," Enyart said. "It's now illegal in Colorado for anyone involved in a facility or business of public accommodation to give any communication that would advocate discrimination based on marital status or sexual orientation."

He said many people simply choose not to believe what's happening.

"I have a hard time believing [it myself]," said Enyart.

He said he expects the law to be only "lightly" enforced until "it just becomes an entrenched part of our legal framework. They're not going to go out and arrest somebody for selling a Bible at Barnes and Noble."

But then in a few years, watch out, he said.

Enyart has printed a document he hands out that says, "This Anti-homosexual Flyer is Illegal in Colorado." It condemns the promotion of homosexuality in no uncertain terms.

"Homosexuality should be re-criminalized in Colorado," it states.

John Quincy Adams Used Genesis 16 To Prophesy Islam’s War Against America

John Quincy Adams Used Genesis 16 To Prophesy Islam’s War Against America

By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst

WASH—Jun 5—KIN-- Iran is threatening to sue the United States for damaging Iran's international reputation by accusing it of trying to make a nuclear bomb. Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on the Danish Embassy in Pakistan over cartoons published by a Danish newspaper that made fun of the "prophet" Mohammed. And the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center in Israel recently issued a report that Islamic attacks against Christians in Gaza were noticeably increasing. But an American president predicted Islam’s radical behavior against the West in 1827.

The Barbary pirates were Islamic terrorists from modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. They were attacking American ships and holding Christian Americans as slaves. In 1786, future presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, ambassadors France and Britain, respectively, met with the Libyan ambassador to Britain Sidi Adja to discuss peace. Adja told them, "that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Muslim who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise."

Adam's son, President John Quincy Adams wrote of Mohammed in the 1827 American Annual Register: "...combining the powers of transcendent genius with the preternatural energy of a fanatic and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth...He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war as part of his religion against all the rest of mankind. The essence of his doctrine was violence and lust; to exalt the brutal over the spiritual part of human nature."

Adams spoke of the 1,200-year war between Christianity and Islam: "That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extincture of that impostor, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute are encouraged to furnish motives to human action, there never can be peace on earth and good will toward men." Then Adams waxed prophetic by quoting from Genesis 16:11, 12, "Behold, thou art with child, and shall bear a son, and shall call his name Ishmael; and he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him." This is a far cry from today's presidents and presidential wannabes, who claim Islam, is peaceful.

Saudi King Abdullah’s Oil Meeting Signals Prophetic Crossroad For Islam

Saudi King Abdullah’s Oil Meeting Signals Prophetic Crossroad For Islam

By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst

WASH—Jun 16—KIN-- The Islamic nations represented in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, are at a prophetic crossroads. The powerful Saudi Arabian King has said his country will increase oil production and has called an emergency meeting of OPEC nations to discuss oil prices. King Abdullah is about to play a very strategic card in claiming the world for Islam. Islamic nations have run up oil prices to the point of causing food riots across the world. Now Islam is at the brink of whether it throws the world into complete anarchy without the military forces to subdue it, or whether it exercises patience for a more appropriate time to launch a takeover.

Abdullah claims that market factors other than speculation are not the cause of the oil price run up. He says that there is enough supply in the market. But oil prices have brought the entire world to the breaking point. People are facing famine and starvation, runaway inflation, and economic recession because of oil prices. The Islamists have reaped huge windfall profits that have enabled them to buy heavily into the financial trade, securing large stakes in global banking and credit institutions. Islam has caused the world's breadbasket, America, to divert its reliable production of foodstuffs into products that feed petroleum demand rather than people.

Islam's artificial price run up in oil has outpaced its strategic ability to quickly colonize, radicalize, and subdue with force the nations of the world. Now Islam is faced with dramatic choices. If it continues to press oil prices higher, the world comes closer to anarchy, economies will substantially weaken, and Islam risks losing its own investments. If Islam backs off and reduces oil prices, it stages a public relations coup, essentially buying good will among the nations, and can accelerate its colonization of the developed nations. At the appropriate time, Islam will have the forces in place to subdue the nations as the price of oil is then allowed to rise unimpeded.

The world is now at the place where it is submitting to Islam. King Abdullah knows it. The Islamic world knows it. And unless the West understands these implications of Biblical proportions, the world will soon find itself in the crucible of prophecy. An angel of the Lord prophesied of Ishmael in Genesis 16:12, saying "And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren." Ezekiel 38 prophesies of a colossal end time battle where the Islamic world with Russia leads an attack on Israel. And Revelation 13:7 speaks of the antichrist making war with the saints and overcoming them and taking control of the world. Islam may well be laying that groundwork.

A World at the Outer Limits of Hope!

A World at the Outer Limits of Hope!

"Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? Ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment."

Isaiah 1:4-6
"The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young: and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee."

Deuteronomy 28:49-51
"That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ."

Ephesians 2:12-13
In this issue of the Last Trumpet Newsletter, we will examine and behold a world that is in so many kinds of trouble that it would take the gift of discernment from the Almighty to begin to understand it. It is a world full of events and catastrophes of such a great magnitude that we are made to fully realize that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled every day. In fact, these signs are overlapping each other. As we listen to the news, it is like reading Matthew, chapter 24; Luke, chapters 17 and 21; and Mark, chapter 13. In addition to that, the book of Revelation is coming alive before our very eyes.

The people of this world, and especially those of the United States, are confused whether they admit it or not. The bank failures, rapidly rising prices of fuel and food, continual disasters, looming wars, and so on demand at least some notice and recognition by even the most apathetic of people. But with unbelief comes disbelief, and the only response of the majority of the people is to somehow lose any reference point with reality. The demand is high for the distractions of entertainment, drugs, gambling, alcohol, and anything else that will keep their eyes off from the truth. Reality may be painful, but final judgment and eternal damnation are far worse and without remedy.

It is true that the great day of the Lord is at hand! As you read this issue of the Last Trumpet, you will realize this truth all the more. If you do not know the Lord Jesus personally or if you are fearful and uncertain, I urge you to take time right now and pray to the Saviour. He will hear you and change your life as you cry out in repentence. Do not put your trust in church membership, because no one has ever been saved by a church. You need a life changing, personal experience with the Lord Jesus, and you need it now, before it is too late.

Days of Trouble and Uncertainty!

Many things are happening behind the scenes as the intrigues of these last days unfold. In the May issue of the Last Trumpet Newsletter, I mentioned the "closed-door session" and debate by our U.S. House of Representatives. I also mentioned that word had leaked out about discussion concerning the collapse of the U.S. economy by September of this year. Because it was a closed-door session, (1) there is obviously no documentary proof of what was discussed, which is why I stated that only God knows, and time will tell. The point I was trying to stress is that secret sessions are reprehensible, and that there is no purpose for secrecy other than to hide evil. I did not say that the economy would fail in September, but current conditions certainly do raise that possibility. One thing is certain, and that is the fact that our country has been taken over by many and varied sinister forces that all have the same purpose. That purpose is to weaken the United States to the point of complete helplessness and interdependency with the other nations of the world. This will force the issue of a one-world government under the one that the Illuminati conspirators call Lucifer, and who is, in reality, Satan.

In a recent issue of the Washington Times, a large advertisement campaign in Mexico by the Swedish Vodka maker Absolut was reported on. The advertisement prepared for Mexican readers showed a large map of North America with Mexico engulfing over half of the United States. The caption under the ad said, "Drink our product when you invade." (2)

On May 6th, the London Daily Telegraph reported that (Red) China has secretly developed a massive new nuclear submarine base. The article also stated that tensions have now reached a level of cold war status. The submarine base, which is southwest of Hong Kong, houses twenty 094 Jin-class submarines with nuclear weapons. (3) Red China is also planning to put on the largest show of force the world has ever seen at the Olympic games, which are now being referred to as the Paramilitary Olympics. The Red Chinese security staff will consist of 94,000 soldiers to watch over 10,500 athletes. (4) At present Red China seems to have plenty of money, much of which came from the United States. While the bridges and overpasses in the United States are crumbling and collapsing, Red China has just opened one of the world's largest bridges, which is twenty-two miles long. (5) The cost was 1.7 billion dollars. The United States doesn't have money for improvements because we are spending 5,000 dollars per second on our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This extrapolates out to 18 million dollars per hour on foreign wars.

Things do need to change in the United States, and it is an election year. Can any thinking person truly believe that things will get better considering the current candidates for the high office of President of the United States? We have Hillary Clinton, who may soon drop out. The name Hillary means laughable, but she is no joke. This occultic woman is continually giving the satanic salute with her left hand. And now leading the democratic race is Barack Hussein Obama. He also is seen giving the satanic salute with his left hand quite often. (6) (In the occult world, the left, or sinister, hand is the sign of life force and malediction.) The name Barack is sometimes spelled Baraq, and Baraq is the name of the winged horse of Mohammed by which Islam is to fill the world and overcome it. Hussein means handsome one, and when you put those two names together they mean "the handsome one by whom Islam will fill the earth."

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been running a heated race for the highest office in the land, and something most unusual happened during the recent Kentucky Derby that is most curious. Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama visited the stables before the famous and traditional horse race. Barack Obama picked a horse named Big Brown to show, and that is the horse that won the race. Hillary Clinton put her arm around a filly named Eight Belles and picked her as the winner. As both horses approached the finish line, Eight Belles went down and broke two ankles after finishing in second place. This horse, the only female in the race, had to be euthanized right on the track. (7) We must also note that before the race, when Hillary Clinton put her arm around the horse, she said she felt a "sisterhood with Eight Belles." I found this story amazing because I remembered studying maritime law and what is meant by eight bells. According to maritime rules, watches are set up on board a ship that are of four hours duration. A bell is rung every one-half hour starting with one and working up to eight. Before every sounding of eight bells, the captain of the ship must give permission. That law dates back to when eight bells was the signal for mutiny, which is the hostile takeover of the ship. Thus, eight bells mean one of two things: either the end of a watch or a hostile takeover. That is what the name of Hillary's horse meant. Is this some kind of sign? Is our country at the end of a watch? Will there be a hostile takeover? Will there be death at the finish line? Certainly, there are strange spiritual forces at work in this occult-charged year of 2008.

There is much that could be said about John McCain, the Republican candidate for President of the United States. As I write this, I am looking at a picture of John McCain standing at the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem. He is placing a prayer in the cracks of the wall. (8) Indeed, there are strange forces of antichrist at work, and looking at this picture caused me to remember that in the Gaelic language, McCain means the son of Cain. Genesis, chapter four, tells us that Cain was the first murderer, and two things were given to him. He was given a curse of the ground not producing for him, and he had a mark put on his body. Thus, Cain became the son of the mark, and the son of the curse. It is John McCain who publicly and brazenly stated that we could be in Iraq for another one hundred years!

Truly, this war has proved to be a curse upon our own nation and the rest of the world as well! Since the initial invasion of Iraq, there have been 1.6 million people killed. Many areas of that country have been poisoned by depleted uranium from our weapons. Three trillion dollars have been wasted, and great strain has been put on our military. In addition to all of that, we brought the American way of life to that troubled nation when shortly after we occupied it, alcohol and prostitution were legalized.

Recent reports also revealed that there has been a twenty percent rise in suicides in the U.S. Army because of the pressures of failed relationships and mental stress. (9) In addition to that, the Associated Press reported on March 15th, 2008, that a full one-third of women in the military reported that they have been sexually harassed, and there were 2,688 direct sexual assaults during 2007. (10)

On April 18th, Washington announced the forthcoming opening of the most elaborate and impressive embassy in the world. It has been constructed in Baghdad and is built on 104 acres with 27 buildings, 619 apartments, and numerous restaurants, including a food court. It also has indoor and outdoor basketball courts, volley ball courts, and an indoor Olympic-size swimming pool. The cost thus far has been $474 million. (11)

We have also learned that California investor Llewellyn Werner is investing millions of dollars to construct a Disneyland on a 50-acre tract of land on the outskirts of Baghdad. The Disney Park will also contain a massive zoo, which will replace the zoo that existed before the American invasion. The former zoo was emptied by starving Iraqis, who ate the animals because invading forces had cut off their food supply. (12) There are so many things that have happened in that land that have not been reported by the American press.

In America, the last remaining vestiges of our erstwhile great nation are rapidly disappearing. During the time of the Pope's recent visit to America, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was also in our country, and he gave a speech at Harvard University's Kennedy Center. In his speech, he called for the repeal of America's Declaration of Independence and demanded that we issue a declaration of interdependence! Brown's aides called it his signature speech. In his speech, he used the word global 69 times, globalization 7 times, and interdependence 13 times. (13) Brown also slammed the concept of national sovereignty continually. Where is the outrage? The Declaration of Independence represents the very roots of our country. It is one of the greatest and most masterful documents ever written. Are we to insult and condemn the fifty-six men who signed it and laid their lives on the line to establish our nation? Are we to forget all of those who gave their lives in true defense of our country? To the best of my knowledge, not one American statesman condemned Brown's speech! Where was President Bush in this matter? He was as quiet as a Texas oyster. Where are Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys now that we really need them? Benedict Arnold was a petty traitor compared to those who are now in charge of our nation! Truly, our nation is on the outer limits of hope! Remember George Orwell's book Animal Farm?

Warning Cries From the Creation!

Since May 1st, 2008, we have been seeing continual catastrophes of such magnitude that it is obvious that the very voice of the creation is crying out that the great day of the Almighty draweth nigh! The earthquakes started thirteen days before May 1st and are happening in various areas that usually do not have them. On April 18th, 2008, the Midwestern United States was shaken by a magnitude 5.2 earthquake, which was felt in several states and rattled the skyscrapers in Chicago. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake started at the Wabash Fault, which is the northern extension of the New Madrid Fault, located six miles north of Mt. Carmel, Illinois. (14) When I saw that, I immediately thought of Elijah the prophet standing on Mount Carmel in I Kings, chapter 18, and rebuking Israel for their Baal worship and other gross idolatry. The Lord is giving us many signs, and we are to watch for them.

On April 26th, 2008, Reno, Nevada, experienced a magnitude 4.7 earthquake with one hundred aftershocks. The quakes knocked everything off from store shelves and dislodged boulders on hillsides. Many buildings were also damaged. More quakes are expected in that area, and people are being told to prepare for them. (15)

Scientists are now puzzled because of the more than six hundred quakes that happened underwater, just off the coast of Grant's Pass, Oregon. The six hundred quakes happened over a period of ten days, ending on April 13th, 2008. Scientists cannot explain the quakes because they happened in the absence of volcanic activity. (16)

The amazing fact is that the earthquakes have been happening with increased intensity and with greater frequency. At the time of this writing, there have been 384 significant earthquakes of magnitude 4 or above in the past 30 days. (17) It is like a woman's labor pains, which reminds me of I Thessalonians 5:2-3, which reads as follows: "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape."

In Red China, a country preparing for the occult Olympic Games, a horrifying earthquake occurred on May 12th, 2008. It was a magnitude 7.9 earth-shattering event that devastated an area the size of the state of Maryland. As of the day of this writing, there are 15,000 people confirmed dead, 25,788 buried in collapsed buildings, and 14,051 are missing. (18) As the Kings of the East rise up, there is much trouble with it.

The earth is doing other strange things. In the state of Texas near Daisetta, a giant sink hole has formed. In just two days, the ground opened up, and there is now a hole that is 260 feet deep and the size of three football fields. Geologists are curiously watching the area for further expansion of the massive hole. (19)

Another sign of the Lord's imminent return is the dramatic increase in volcanic activity. The Bible also tells us the very purpose of the many volcanoes that happen just before the Lord's return to judge the world. We read of this in perfect clarity and detail in Isaiah 64:1-3 as follows: "Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence."

On May 6th, 2008, an enormously powerful volcano erupted in Chile, South America, near the provincial capital of Chaiten. This volcano was an awesome sight, for as it erupted, a massive cloud in the shape of a demon's head emerged with continuous sharp bolts of lighting both in and around the cloud. This is one of the most awesome pictures I have ever seen, and I would be happy to send you one upon request, but please help us with postage if you can. This volcano was so powerful that it shot a powerful stream of volcanic ash twenty miles into the upper stratosphere, and ashes fell over an area from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. Chile and Argentina were kept busy shoveling ashes that were waist-deep! (20) Other volcanoes are waking up all over the world, and on May 13th, 2008, Mount Etna in Sicily roared back to life and is shaking the area around it. (21)

In the United States, the tornadoes continue to rip though various large areas of the country in record numbers. These tornadoes are far too numerous to list in this newsletter, but one recent example is the round of tornadoes that flattened areas of Missouri and Oklahoma on May 11th, 2008. Eighteen people were killed and many were injured. The devastation was so severe that some small towns are completely gone. (22)

On May 2nd, 2008, an enormous cyclone roared through a portion of Burma, also known as Myanmar. The entire region was all but obliterated, and the aftermath of the storm revealed the extent of the vast destruction. There are now over 100,000 people dead, and many more are missing. Filth and disease are everywhere. It is estimated that the death toll will soon reach 150,000. (23) The Payapon River is being called the River of Death as countless numbers of human and animal bodies float sullenly down the morbid stream. (24)

The name of the giant cyclone was Nargis, which is the Urdu word for daffodil. (25) The ancient Greek mythology, upon which is based traditionalist witchcraft, teaches that the daffodil is the flower of death. According to the legend, daffodils grow in the meadows of the underworld and are the sacred flowers of Hades, the ruling god of hell. Daffodil sap contains sharp crystals that prevent animals from eating them. Daffodils are never present at a wedding, because they are said to bring a curse upon the bride. (26) None of this has any effect on the true Christian, but the witches and the masses of people who think like witches do believe it.

We have just now received a report that another powerful storm is headed for that same region of Myanmar. (27) This area of the world is Buddhist, and like other areas in that region of the world, it is grossly immoral beyond description. The Scripture tells us that it is God who sends the whirlwinds, and one of the reasons He sends them is for correction. In Job 37:9, 12-13 we read as follows: "Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north…….And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy." As long as people refuse to repent, there will be much more of this, and other judgments will follow, too.

The Rising of Hell's Society!

On April 22nd, 2008, the New York Times featured a story that revealed the deplorable condition of our social and educational environment in the United States. One American child drops out of school every 26 seconds, which is a total of over one million every year. A recent survey among teenagers, which was done by the organization Common Core, revealed that 25% did not know who Adolph Hitler was; 34% did not know that the Bill of Rights guaranteed freedom of speech and freedom of religion; and 50% did not know that the American Civil War took place between 1850 and 1900. In addition to that, 12th grade students in America scored near the bottom of all industrialized nations. (28)

What happens when our government kicks God out of the schools and opens the doors to every kind of demon? On May 10th, a school in South Los Angeles had to be locked down when a violent fight broke out, involving 600 students. (29) In Waycross, Georgia, nine students, all approximately nine years of age, plotted to injure their female teacher and brought a broken steak knife, handcuffs, and duct tape to school to do the job. The plot was discovered in time to stop it. These young children planned to handcuff their teacher, put tape over her mouth, hit her over the head with a paperweight, and cut her with the knife. (30)

In South Carolina, a teenage boy was caught plotting to blow up his school with high-powered explosives. The 18-year-old Ryan Schallenberger, a straight "A" student, wanted to die in the explosion himself because he said he wanted to go to heaven and kill Jesus. He had planned this for that infamous day of April 19th, a day when so many other murderous events took place in recent years. (31)

These are strange times when anything can happen. Role models are all but gone, and young people are floundering in a nation that has become Satan's amusement park. It is a lot more serious than Hillary belting down a shot glass of whiskey in public while campaigning, or Barack Obama rolling one gutter ball after another during a publicity bowling game. Our nation is in serious trouble because it has turned its back on God. Homosexuals are in high places, and the sodomites are running almost everything. Major corporations are sponsoring this abominable wickedness. Recently, World Net Daily featured a story about the giant McDonalds restaurant chain being listed on the website of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. The McDonalds Corporation also placed one of their executives on the board of directors of that queer organization known as NGLCC. In addition to that, McDonalds also gave an undisclosed contribution to that Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. The McDonalds executive, Richard Ellis, who joined that sodomite Chamber of Commerce said, "I am thrilled to join the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce team and ready to get to work. I share the NGLCC's passion for business growth and development within the LGBT community and I look forward to playing a role in moving these important initiatives forward." (32)

On April 19th, another shocking story regarding a new program being offered at the Boston Children's Hospital made the news. The program is called the Gender Management Service Clinic, and it is managed by pediatric endocrinologist, Dr. Norman Spack. In this program, parents bring in their children to receive injections that delay puberty until they are old enough to decide if they want to have a male or female body. Dr. Spack feels that this program makes sex change much easier than if the children wait until they are twenty years old. (33) These certainly are days like unto Sodom and Gomorrah, and the words of Jesus in Luke 17:28-30 have come to pass.

Electronics and the Antichrist!

In another story, released on April 12th, 2008, we learn that the Bush Administration is set to launch a new ultrasophisticated spy program to be used on the American people. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said, "Sophisticated overhead sensor data will be used for law enforcement once privacy and civil rights concerns are resolved." (34) Chertoff is referring to satellite technology that is interfaced with numerous other electronic systems that will become an all-seeing eye that is able to microscrutinize every American.

There is a sinister and clandestine reason why the invisible government has been pushing the use of cell phones, which have reached the stage of almost universal usage in only a short period of time. Cell towers are almost everywhere, and many are hidden in high buildings and especially in church steeples. In our country there are now 210,000 cell towers, which serve also as a vast spy system that interfaces with satellites. The Federal Communications Commission is now calling for a backup power system of at least eight hours for every cell tower in the event of a power outage. (35) This initiative lines up perfectly with a Wall Street Journal article dated March 28th, 2008, which featured the headline Phones will soon tell where you are. The article goes on to explain that cell phones will tell exactly where you are, right down to the street corner or restaurant or anywhere else you might be! (36) People have become so dependent on cell phones that psychologists have now added a new mental disease to their list of phobias. The new mental disease is called nomophobia, and it is explained as the fear of being out of range of a cell phone tower. Psychologists are saying that having a cell phone and being out of range sends stress levels soaring. (37)

Illuministic electronics are also becoming very personal. Communications devices are being implanted in the human body. When this happens, privacy ceases to exist. We have now learned that Bluetooth wireless technology and the "wi-fi" systems allow for devices, which will immediately alert medical facilities of a heart attack, diabetic shock, or other health problems, to be implanted in people. (38)

In Britain, the 31,000 officers of the Metropolitan Police are to be microchipped, and thus they will have electronic devices implanted in their bodies to pinpoint their exact location at all times. (39)

I must say that I am shocked at how quickly Satan's agenda is moving forward. In a recent article that appeared in the RFID Journal, we find that as of April 28th, 2008, the VeriChip company has gone retail with the implantable microchip. The chip is first being marketed through Hearx Hearing Care Stores. The market of the elderly are being targeted first, but anyone can go into one of these stores and have a passive 134 kHz RFID chip implanted in their body for $149. The inducement is that the chip will be linked to a database with all of the individual's medical records. (40)

There are also strange things going on regarding things in space. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has networked 780 computers together inside room 223 in the physics building. They have named the super-computer Nemo, and they are using it to search for invisible waves that emanate from black holes in space. (41) In room 223 there is said to be a deafening roar, and cooling systems have trouble controlling the heat.

We know that long ago, mankind tried to build a great tower whose top would reach unto heaven. The Tower of Babel was a giant ziggurat for looking into the heavens, and God confounded the language and put a stop to it. This tower symbolizes all idolatry. At the White House on April 16th, 2008, the Pope was presented with a birthday cake, which was in the exact shape of a Babylonian tower, with one candle on the top. (42) Candles on birthday cakes are used in the occult to represent the position of the sun-god in the zodiac on the day of one's birth. It was a symbol of a person's connection with the heavens. Strangely enough, on the 13th day of May, the Vatican announced that it is all right to believe in aliens, according to the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, the "Rev." Jose Gabriel Funes. (43) The very next day, NASA announced the discovery of an object in our galaxy for which they had been hunting for years. They would not say what they had found, but they said the finding was made by using combined data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations. (44) Quite obviously, strange and clandestine things are going on regarding our government and the Vatican. Soon we will know what all of this means.

In closing, I urge everyone to watch and pray. Time is extremely short. I also sincerely thank all of you who support this end time, prophetic ministry. God bless you! Remember that your prayer requests are always welcomed. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

David J. Meyer

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Then Comes the Fire

Then Comes the Fire
2008-04-01

Greetings my friends,

Before the people of California ran from the raging wildfires last October, my son-in-law's sister being one of them, their Governor and President were observed fleeing from the truth of our Lord Jesus Christ and his teachings. How? President Bush, a professing Christian, announced again to the entire world audience two of his long held beliefs. He believes that some of the land the God of Israel gave to the Jewish people should be handed over to their Islamic enemies who earnestly desire to finish what Hitler started in the 1930's, the fiery death of all Jews. Second is his firm conviction that all religions are on different roads leading to Heaven. These kinds of grievous errors cannot come from the heart and mouth of one who truly knows, loves, and is devoted to the Lord Jesus Christ and his teachings. Not to be outdone last October in the race to make everyone "feel" accepted, tolerated, and not offended, Governor Schwarzenegger signed a new law ultimately making it a crime to publicly expose or preach against the perverse sin of homosexuality. Then came the fires! Perhaps the Governor should ask whether he offended God? Will the next President stop the betrayal of Israel and call the nation to repentance for effectively "Sodomizing" an entire generation of young people?

Despising God

One of the most important questions you need to ask and have answered is...why did the President and Governor say and do such things? The answer is rather simple, yet extremely sad and very hard for any of us to believe. Both of these men hate and despise the God of Israel, the Lord Jesus Christ, and his teachings. They are not alone my friends, for we are all born with a sin nature that surrounds and saturates our hearts, a nature which hates and despises the God of Israel and his teachings. We are all the children of wrath and disobedience towards God, and walk according to the seducing spirit of fallen angels who created and rule over every political-religious institution in every nation on this planet.

Of course, there are different levels or degrees of intensity in everyone's heart when it comes to this hatred and despising of the teachings of Jesus. As Jesus taught, some hearts are harder than others, which explains why it was easier for some Jews in Israel to follow Jesus, while others wanted him dead and out of their way. Though we have no power in ourselves to wash away our sin nature, we can harden or soften our hearts by hearing and understanding the word of God sown in them. As we grow up and lose the ignorance and innocence of being a child, we are confronted in our hearts with our own sin nature that instinctively despises the true God and is always eager to love and be devoted to a false one among the religions of man, even one claiming to follow Jesus, but void of his foundational teachings. The bloody cross of Jesus Christ proves all this to be true, does it not?

If we open and soften our hearts we can see on the cross at least two things. First and foremost we see the incredible love of God towards all people trapped in their sins, including homosexuals and their supporters like the President and Governor, and his offer of mercy and forgiveness through the shed blood of his Son. We also see on the bloody cross man's intense rejection and hatred of God and his teachings. If you want to see how much Satan, who Paul refers to as the prince of the power of the air, hates the God of Israel then look at the cross. No matter how hard our hearts are because of sin, we were all guilty of killing the Lord Jesus Christ and walking in the same spirit of antichrist that is in Satan. Listen in your heart to the words of Jesus himself and as he spoke by the Holy Spirit through his servant Paul:

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Matthew 6:24...No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Romans 3:9-19...What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Galatians 1:6-10...Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Ephesians 2:1-7...And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the "course of this world", according to the "prince" of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we "all" had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by "nature" the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the "ages to come" he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

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The Days of Noah and Lot

Is it just a coincidence that with each new proclamation of an Islamic Palestinian state on Israel's land, and each new law passed in California and Washington making the sin of homosexuality more acceptable, some kind of destruction seems to follow in its path? Some in Christendom are making a direct connection between the policies of the Governor and President with the California fires. Who did set the fires? Was it God? Has he ever done so in the past? Was it the evil doing of arsonists or terrorists? Were they directed by Satan and his fallen angels or God himself?

I wonder what the stunned people from the surrounding area said when they watched Sodom and Gomorrah go up in flames? Did you know that the citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah lived in affluence, were filled with the pride of this life, and like San Diego, Los Angeles, and especially San Francisco, welcomed the homosexual community to sit at the "gate" of the city, Genesis 13:10, 19:1-29? This meant the homosexual lifestyle was widely tolerated by the people, with homosexuals and/or their supporters holding seats of power in the cities. Is that what has taken place in America/Babylon/Sodom over the course of this last generation? Will America experience the fires from Heaven which destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah that we know for certain were started by God through his holy angels? Please read Revelation 18 if you want to know the answer. Is there a point of no return with the God of Israel, the Lord Jesus Christ, when it comes to the fiery judgments from his hand, which include the unleashing of major earthquakes and volcanoes, Revelation 16?

Jesus taught his followers about the complete destruction of the evil generation of Noah, and of the wicked cities which were the home of Lot, Luke 17:26-37. Paul expanded on the Lord's teaching about Noah and Lot as he warned the believers in Rome there came a time when God "gave them up" to their pride and vile affections, women lying with women and men lying with men, Romans 1:24-26. It was clear to the faithful Noah and Lot that God was going to send his wrath and judgment upon his rebellious creation.

Noah and Lot were grieved with their friends and some family members, including Lot's wife, who had closed their eyes, hardened their hearts, and refused to speak out and call sinners to repentance and faith in the one true God. They were ashamed of the truth, wanting to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, while Noah and Lot were ashamed of sin and knew that judgment was coming when the fleshly pleasures of their friends would quickly turn to unbearable pain. Is that the condition of Christians in America today? Is our Lord Jesus Christ now separating or making a clear distinction between professing Christians who are ashamed of the teachings of Jesus, and those like Noah and Lot who are not ashamed of standing up for the Lord and his teachings, who also diligently seek the truth and remain in a spirit of Godly sorrow and repentance when confronted with the truth of their own sin? Yes! Listen to Jesus for yourself:

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Mark 8:34-38...And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
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Evangelical Separation

There seems to be a widening chasm in the God-ordained spiritual separation taking place among Evangelicals in Christendom. I have written repeatedly from 1 John 2:16 about the three doctrinal pillars of pollution that have saturated most of Christendom in America, especially among Evangelicals. The first pillar is the pride of life that inflames a militant "patriotism" as demonstrated and taught by men like John Hagee. The second is lust of the eyes or the love of money found in the "prosperity" gospel of Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn. And the third pillar is the lust of the flesh that flows from the Christianized self-exalting "psychology" of James Dobson and Robert Schuller, who inspired the "emergent and mystical" nonsense now taught by Rick Warren and Bill Hybels. These three P's are manifestations of our inherent sin nature and have shipwrecked the faith of many in what Paul and Peter call the House of God, 2 Timothy 2:20, 1 Peter 4:17. But, as in Noah and Lot's day, there remains a faithful remnant in the visible House of God who love the truth more than the favor of politicians, or of false brethren who control Christian television and other Evangelical institutions.

Even though a dwindling few of those Evangelicals seduced by any one of the three P's are still opposed to the homosexual and abortion agenda in American political and religious circles, and rightly warn the nation that judgment is coming from Heaven upon those who practice these abominations, they are blind to their own spiritual condition. For they look in the mirror to compare their righteousness with that of the homosexuals, abortionists, and their supporters like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama who also claim to be Christians, and like what they see. These Evangelicals have forgotten the wisdom of Jeremiah, and also Solomon who said that "a proud look" is one of the seven things the Lord hates, Proverbs 6:17, Jeremiah 50:31-32. So from their lofty and luxurious perches and pulpits they proudly look down upon and blame the homosexuals, abortionists, feminists, atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, evolutionists, radical liberals, secular and religious pacifists, and insane Islamic bombers for destroying their conservative Christian nation, while refusing to see the logs in their own eyes, the three polluted pillars on which America was founded.

These stubborn Evangelicals don't want to deal with the truth that all nation-state powers with their various forms of government walk according to the "course" of this "world order" that is held in the tight grip of Satan; and that all people are born and raised with the "pride of this life" which comes out of us naturally in our words and deeds, as John described it. This includes people from democracies, republics, theocracies, monarchies, communists, or any others that come into your mind. To deny this is to reject the overwhelming evidence found in the scriptures. If you cannot get past this hurdle the rest of this article will be hard for you understand, let alone tolerate. You may not make it past the next paragraph.

Jeremiah 50:31-32 declares America or Babylon to be the "most" proud and self-justified among the warring systems of government. The national anthem tells the story of it all..."what so proudly we hailed...through the perilous fight...and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air." That sentence was not easy for me to write knowing that most of you are now beyond angry with me. But it is a true statement about the pride that easily and naturally flows from our hearts, especially during times of great peril, like 9/11.

For me, during the Vietnam War era, hearing the anthem and watching the flag wave in the breeze was like an adrenalin rush. I remember vividly the day I graduated from Officer Candidate School in 1967 when the anthem was played bringing tears to my eyes as we all stood at attention. Becoming an Army Lieutenant with a commission signed by the President of the United States was the proudest and most exhilarating day of my life. But the brutal reality and cost of war brings other memories which are horrible, that carry no spine-tingling rush of pride throughout my body. I remember the letter I wrote to the family of a young soldier under my command who took a sniper's fatal bullet to the head during the 1968 Tet offensive in Saigon. Within days another sniper took aim at my head, but he missed and the bullets just tore up the ground by my side. The young corporal from Alabama died, and I lived. My life would never be the same.

I plead with you to read again Paul's teaching in Ephesians 2:1-7 quoted above, in which he said that all unsaved men walk according to the disobedient and wrathful "course" of this world that is plotted by the proud "prince" of this world system who we know is Satan and his fallen angels. Now read the words in the Declaration of Independence below which completely ignores this fundamental biblical truth by invoking some God of nature who encourages men to focus on this life and this world's political systems or forms, even making war against those who would oppress them. As you read this document, compare the words with Paul's teaching to the Ephesians he received from the true God of Israel, the Lord Jesus Christ. Which document are you going to cherish and obey...the Declaration of Independence or the Holy Scriptures, inspired by the true God of Israel?

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Declaration of Independence (first part)

"When in the "Course" of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the "political" bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the "powers" of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness........."

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Nero, Constantine, Augustine, and the Just War

Be honest with yourselves. Is the "life" referred to by America's Founding Fathers eternal life found only in the Lord Jesus, or the life of the flesh or natural man who is born in sin? Is the "liberty" or freedom they exalt as a right for all men referring to freedom from our sin nature or political freedom from an oppressive form of government? Did the founders compare their suffering and reaction to it with that of our Lord Jesus Christ and our brothers from the first century who lived in the Roman Empire? When Paul wrote to the Ephesians during the first century, Nero was the Emperor of the Roman Empire and a despiser of Christians. History records this deceived man to be one of the most oppressive and murderous tyrants of all ages.

We know how Jesus, and later Paul, taught believers to react to this oppression and persecution from this ungodly Emperor don't we? The New Testament is filled with such instruction. Compare that with how American Christians reacted to their power hungry, yet professing Christian brothers who were their civil authorities in England. And both sides were English and Christians! The sad and simple truth is that two men named George and their followers didn't want to know that the Christ they were both professing was not the Biblical Jesus. Both of them had forgotten or could care less about tyrants like Nero and how true followers of Jesus reacted to his abuse. Please read that again and think about it for a moment while you ask God in your prayer whether this next sentence is a true statement:

"George Washington and King George were seduced into following the same false Jesus and false gospel that "took over" the Roman Empire through Emperor Constantine and Augustine fourteen centuries earlier."

All church historians consider Augustine to be the "father" of the "just war" doctrine or tradition that Christian men were taught to embrace as though it was coming from God himself. How did this happen? Augustine and his friends were faced with a Roman Empire which had now made Christianity its official religion because of Constantine's outward and formal acceptance of Christianity. Christians were now offered and assuming political offices of power. What a profound change from the Emperor Nero, who in Paul's day set Rome ablaze and blamed the Christians who walked in the literal teachings of Jesus and the Apostles to be nonviolent and loving of their worst enemies, including Nero and his gang of thugs. This Christ-like behavior had been the practice of true Christians for over two hundred years, actually from the Feast of Pentecost, when one-hundred and twenty Jews were born again by the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem, Acts 2.

Not surprisingly, Augustine's Empire was now under threat from barbarians (much like Islam today), so how were Christians to respond now that they were so influential in the Empire? Would they fight, kill, and die for Rome now that Christianity was the chosen religion? Greek and Roman scholars before Christ, like Plato and Cicero, had written about "just" wars. Augustine was trapped between two Kingdoms, one from Heaven, and one of this world system which Daniel described as a brute beast, Daniel 7. Augustine decided to expand upon the writings of Cicero and Plato, mixing the world's teachings on making war a moral cause with his revision or "re-thinking" of the New Testament, thereby giving birth to a harlotrous religious woman riding and steering a powerful beast that would tread upon the whole Earth, according to Daniel 7:23. This is when the pride of this life, one of the core elements of our sin nature, became Christianized and known today as militant Christian Patriotism. History books are filled with examples of how this deadly heresy moved from fighting Christless barbarians to the different sects within Christendom turning their guns on one another. This evil course of the Roman Empire saw the greatest shedding of blood when deluded German Christians took up arms in two world wars against their Christian brothers in other nations.

Rather than realizing that Satan had changed his tactics from persecution and violence towards believers, to warmly welcoming them into his Roman Kingdom, Augustine, and leaders like him, were deceived into creating a false gospel which no longer looked for the bodily return of Jesus Christ to destroy the very beast of Daniel that Augustine was now married to and advising. This was all prophesied by Jesus through John in the Revelation, when he addressed the compromises the Churches at Pergamos and Thyatira were then already committing at the end of the first century, Revelation 2:12-29. Augustine took it upon himself to deny and then re-interpret the pre-millennial return of Jesus which had always meant among early Christians that the Roman Empire would be destroyed by the fire of the holy angels when Jesus descended from Heaven, bringing divine judgment upon the nations led by Rome. John calls this false Roman religious-political system, Babylon, comprised of a great religious harlot who, in the name of Christ, rides upon the politically powerful and militant beast that will take dominion over all nations, who Jesus Christ is coming to destroy at Armageddon, Revelation 16-19.

Isn't it now clear to you that Satan is the power behind the false Christ or Nature's God, who cleverly deceived both the King of England and the Founding Fathers by appealing to their carnal sin nature with its pride of life, love of money, and love of self and national preservation? Isn't it true that Satan has deceived every American President to follow in the religious and militant footsteps of Washington and Constantine, including Ronald Reagan and George Bush? What about the upcoming Presidential election? Will Bill Clinton serve his third term if Hillary is elected? Aren't Obama and McCain, to one degree or another, walking down this same path? It doesn't matter who is elected, for they all profess to follow the same false Christ that produced Washington and Constantine. We cannot undo what happened to America's founders, for it was as Paul said...the course of this world system directed by the fallen angels. But as Christians we should sidestep the alluring trap these fallen beings set for us by glorifying and Christianizing the War of Independence in 1776.

The Mind of Christ

Even today, after thirty years of following Jesus Christ and his teachings, everything in my old natural mind tells me that I am wrong about Satan, the prince of the fallen angels and his world system, the pride of patriotism, and especially America being the Babylon of Revelation 18. Like all of you I don't want to believe any of this. I have the same thoughts and feelings as all of you. And, like you, these thoughts seem like they are the right way, even from God himself, Proverbs 14:12, 16:25, Jeremiah 17:9. Here are some of them:

"America cannot be as guilty before God as the madmen who rule over the death cult of Islam, or the communists of Vietnam and Russia who killed and wounded some of my friends. They are antichrist, we are for Christ, and we have supported the nation of Israel. The American political system is the best mankind has ever produced and must at times be defended in just wars like God himself directed in the Old Testament. If it was alright for Israel to make war before their Messiah, Jesus Christ, came to this Earth, it just had to be more righteous for those who believe in him to militarily defend his honor and name among the nations who despise him. We are the last hope of all the Earth, and enjoy freedom and prosperity that has to be the blessing of God. We are God's redeemer nation, a city on a hill that all freedom-loving men can look to for support in times of need."

I love America, its people, and its leaders like John McCain, therefore my natural mind cannot accept these judgments of America being Babylon. It all seems so foreign and unnatural, and even whispering such things causes my family and friends to feel like I stabbed them in the heart. Admittedly, I still choke up and weep openly when remembering my life as a soldier, and when I listen to the story of McCain's captivity during the Vietnam war and how his faith in God and country was awakened by the suffering he experienced. Being a fellow Vietnam veteran who loves, honors, and respects all veterans, made it extremely difficult to admit and confess before God that I was ignorant and deceived into thinking Christian men can pick up arms to kill their nation's enemies.

But soon "after" becoming a born again follower of Jesus and his teachings in 1978, I was confronted with the truth I have written in this article. All of these great emotional thoughts about America I have just written were now contrary to what I heard Jesus speaking in my new heart by the Holy Spirit. The powerful rush of adrenalin and pride I experienced as a patriotic soldier could not be compared to the power and presence of the resurrected Jesus Christ who now lived in my heart. Those of you who have experienced his resurrection power know what I am saying and feeling. Instead of standing at attention filled with pride, I wanted to fall on my face in awe of the power and greatness of the living Savior and Lord.

I had to make a decision about the truth that confronted me, which also exposed the old pride of my carnal mind, but I just couldn't do it. For a time I rationalized and justified everything as many of you are now doing. I did not want to admit that God had given me revelation and the witness of the indwelling Holy Spirit. But the day came when it became clear in my heart that my love for Jesus and his love for me was greater than my natural mind's desire for acceptance from people whom I loved, but who vehemently disagreed with what I was seeing in the scriptures. I repented. As much as I wanted to, I couldn't blame the hireling Augustine-like preachers and Constantine-like politicians for causing my delayed repentance. My deception came because I did not trust the scriptures for myself which allowed me to continue following the traditions of religious men. For a while, as a born again Christian, I went with the flow, what Paul told the Ephesians was the "course" of the nations. How many of you can now say the same thing?

I know that as a follower of the Lord Jesus I have another mind, the mind of Christ, who keeps telling my heart and mind that what I have been writing here is the truth, even though I have enraged and disgusted most of you, Philippians 2:5-11. Once we know the truth and then truly trust the scriptures, silently going with the flow to remain united with friends and family members is no longer an option, for we have received the love of the truth by the indwelling Holy Spirit. Because I love them deeply and know how hard it is to admit we are deceived about America, I will stand by my dear friends and family discussing with them these teachings of Jesus until the day they say "goodbye" or they begin mocking the wholesome doctrines of Christ Jesus. I know how unsettling it is for some of my family, friends, and enemies to hear the truth about themselves and the nation we were taught to love and proclaim as the "greatest" nation on Earth. It is indeed a bitter pill for us to swallow, but unless we individually confess our pride, love of self and money before the God of Israel, our bodies will perish and our souls and spirits will enter Hell with the homosexuals, baby killers, and Islamic terrorists in the coming fires of the holy angels.

Please don't continue to accept what our Lord Jesus rejected when Satan offered to him all of the world's Kingdoms "and" their glory, Luke 4:1-8. This offer was repackaged and given to the Founding Fathers of America, of course all dressed up in religiously acceptable language like..."the new Canaan...a new Promised Land...a chosen people whose manifest destiny is to complete the Reformation and establish the Millennium, the Kingdom for God on the Earth". This attitude and teaching that America was created and called by God to break away from the "Old World" that was decaying in Europe was used to justify the Declaration of Independence and certain war against their equally deceived Christian brothers in England. Babylon the Great of Revelation 18 is the ultimate result of their delusional decision. This was all done in the name of Jesus by the post-millennial preachers and politicians of their day, but as Paul said, it was "another" Jesus, another spirit, and another gospel.

The truth is that the abortionists, homosexuals, their liberal supporters, militant patriots, "self" exalting psychologists, contemplative prayer warriors, and money lovers who call themselves Christians, all share the blame for the coming divine destruction of America. They know not the mind of Christ. This includes Ted Kennedy, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mit Romney, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Ron Paul, Rick Warren, Bill Hybells, Joel Osteen, John Hagee, James Dobson, Robert Schuller, Pat Robertson, Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, Rush Limbaugh, Shawn Hannity, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Chris Mathews, and Bill O'Reilly. They all profess to be Christians but, like Augustine, have mixed the pure name of Jesus Christ with Christianized false doctrines rooted in the impure elements of man's sin nature.

I have before and will continue to beg and plead with these people and their followers, for whom Jesus loves and shed his blood, to awaken from their sleep and slumber before it is too late. Paul warned the first century Ephesians that the "prince of the air" and his fallen angels were working in the people of disobedience to carry out his "course" or plan among the nations (please read my article "From Democracy to Theocracy" posted on our web site). Paul also assured them that God, who is rich in mercy, would bring to an end this evil prince and his course, that in the ages or generations to come everyone would know and understand the love and grace of our heavenly Father.

Jesus and Israel

Trust me, the Lord Jesus Christ is going to clear and cleanse his name among the nations, including Israel. For even Jerusalem, the great city of King David, has become "Sodomized" by homosexual parades, with many of her leaders wanting to mimic the politics and morality of America, Revelation 11:8, Isaiah 1:7-18. Moreover, Israel's leaders reject the prophecies of Daniel 9:26-27, Luke 21:20-24, Revelation 11:1-7, that God has in these last days brought them back into their God-given land while in unbelief, in order to give them another opportunity to believe in the bloody cross, glorious resurrection, and return of their Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ.

This opportunity has been going on now for nearly a generation, with Israel's leaders and most of the people trusting in America and its power, instead of their Messiah and his teachings. Will a rebellious Israel once more be defeated and scattered among the nation? Yes. I weep often for Israel, especially the soldiers, knowing what is about to fall upon them once again. World War III is coming to Jerusalem. Israel will first suffer military defeat by the double-crossing Russians, then occupied by the American military after God's angels incinerate the Russian and Islamic armies as they celebrate their military victory over Israel, giving thanks to their false God, Allah. Then begins the preparation for the War of the Worlds, the Kingdom's of men led by America's last President against the King of kings who is coming again to set up on Earth the Kingdom of Heaven, Revelation 19.

The people of Israel and the nations have chosen to be "under" the Law or a Gentile version thereof, rather than to become "in" Christ Jesus and under the power of his grace, the indwelling Holy Spirit. This decision comes naturally to men who reject their own need for salvation from the sin nature. To be "under" the law of any kind is to think we have the power within ourselves to overcome evil. This is another manifestation of the pride of this life which John wrote about and is closely connected to the "overcoming" pride found in militant patriotism. All of this can only end in divine judgment for rejecting the offer of God's grace and power at the bloody cross of Calvary. This is why men look to like-minded men whom they love, trust, and adore, to lead them in this life.

Because of this self-righteous sin nature in all men there is coming from the God of Israel a time, seven years to be exact, when he will no longer restrain the rise of their beloved leader, the Antichrist, Daniel 9:27, Revelation 13. And because of wars and fears of nuclear war stirred up by fallen angels, the peacemaking Antichrist will coerce and compel all men and women to follow him, the Russian President, and the Pope as together they seek to save the planet from a nuclear nightmare now developing in Pakistan, Iran, Syria, North Korea, even Venezuela. This fear trumps all other matters and will unite the homosexuals and baby killers with everyone else, and for a time the world's people will revel in the Peace Covenant established in the Holy Land that many will say has at least postponed a nuclear World War III. Others who are looking for the New Age of Aquarius or the Kingdom of Heaven established by men will begin the worship of these world leaders who signed this historic and prophetic document which calls for the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. But as I said above, the sin nature in man, manipulated and stirred by fallen angels, will have its way when the Islamic armies, led by a two-timing Russian President, break the Covenant and invade Israel like a storm covering the land of the Jews, Isaiah 28:14-18, Ezekiel 38:16 (Please read "The Judgment Chronicles" posted on our web site for details).

As I previously stated, there is a separation taking place in Christendom. Don't confuse this with the political separation between liberal Christians like Obama, Kennedy, and Clinton, and Evangelical conservative Christians like Huckabee and Hagee. Both of these groups have closed their eyes to the wholesome teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ and seem to be racing toward greater doctrinal delusion which will bring about their perilous end, beginning with the Peace Covenant signed by the last President. When it is done, this prophetic delusion will ultimately unite liberals, conservatives, and all the nations against a common foe they think is coming from another world or planet, Revelation 16:13-16, 17:14, 19:19.

To be clear, the separation I am talking about is a faithful remnant among all Fundamentalists and Evangelicals who hear the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount and his closing "prophecy" sermon on the Mount of Olives, who desire to be doers of his literal teachings through the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit, rather than "rethink or redefine" the teachings and prophecies of Jesus, Matthew 5-7, 24. These doers are the ones being spiritually separated from Evangelical conservatives who profess to be Christians but dishonor his name and his words. The differences between the vessels of dishonor and the vessels of honor, as Paul taught Timothy, are becoming more clear, 2 Timothy 2:19-21. And as Jesus said of the last generation that leads to the beginning of Daniel's 70th Week of seven years, only a few have found the narrow way in his bloody cross, while the broad road of false Christendom is jammed with liberal and conservative traffic headed on a collision course with the righteous God of Israel.

The Only Solution

As we look into our mirrors and remove our own sins that easily beset us through repentance and faith, and humble ourselves before a holy and mighty God who has "given the nations up" to their vile affections, let us in love and mercy call all we can to exit the road that leads to an eternal Hell. The fiery inferno in California is but a sign of what is to come upon this nation (please read my article "Babylon's Final Fall). And know this, when the God of Israel, the Lord Jesus Christ, begins his judgment he does not need the assistance of arsonists or terrorists, for his holy angels are fully capable of burning to the ground the idols we have made unto ourselves.

Remember, the combined power of the precious blood and second coming of Jesus Christ is the "only" permanent solution to the death and destruction that men inflict upon one another to the hideous delight of Satan and his fallen angels, who are the masters of human manipulation. The God who created and loves you wants you to experience sorrow of a Godly kind that works repentance unto the salvation of your heart, mind, and body, 2 Corinthians 7:10. He will replace your genuine sorrow with his joy through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in your new heart! Then you will desire to obey the God of Israel because you love him, knowing that he first loved you and sent his Son to save you from your sin nature and the bondage of the fallen angel masters.

All of us are faced with one simple choice...we can be ashamed of our sin and receive eternal life and power in the Holy Spirit, or we can be ashamed of the Son of God and his teachings and have him say to us at his second coming..."depart from me, you worker of iniquity", and then have your body executed by the fire of the holy angels, and your soul and spirit sentenced and sent to Hell for one-thousand years. The consuming fire from God and his angels is coming my friends. What is your decision? What about your friends and family? Will you witness the truth to them? As you are considering your decision please read these words from the Lord Jesus Christ, the God of Israel:

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Hebrews 1:7...And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

2 Thessalonians 1:3-12...We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth; So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in "flaming fire" taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Sincerely,
Jack D. Hook