Archive for June, 2010

IRAN REPORTS ISRAELIS IN SAUDI ARABIA AND AZERI PRESS REPORTS AMERICANS IN AZERBAIJAN

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

There have been a series of reports that the Israelis are working closely with the Saudis to prepare for a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities which both the Israelis and Saudis quite properly see as existential threats to both their nations. There have been “official denials” about this, but one would expect to hear such denials even if the reports were true. Iran’s press is now affirming that the reports of Israeli activities in Saudi Arabia are true, and it names the Saudi airbase at Tabuk as the main staging area for Israeli preparations to strike Iran. Interestingly, Tabuk is just east of Jabal Al Lawz, identified in my books as the real Mt. Sinai on which God appeared to Moses and gave the ten commandments to him while the ancient Israelites were encamped at its base.

Also, the press in Azerbaijan is reporting that American troops are now present in that nation. Azerbaijan is just north of Iran and it could also be used as a staging area for strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities if there is a coordinated America-Israeli-Sunni Arab attack upon the Iranian nuclear facilities. My thanks to reader, Pat, for sending me this link, which was worth passing on to all readers.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138231

WILL THERE BE AN ISRAELI-IRANIAN CONFRONTATION OVER GAZA?

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Events are taking shape that indicate that it is only a matter of time until another confrontation develops between Iran and its allies on one side and the Israelis on the other side re: the Gaza blockade (see third link) or some other issue. Iran and its allies have been trying to paint the Israelis as “oppressors,” but their real motive is to lift the maritime blockade of Gaza so they can smuggle heavy weapons into Gaza to kill many Israelis when and if a war breaks out in the future.

The first link warns that a new convoy of “aid ships” may soon be sailing toward Gaza from Lebanon, and the report adds that this “aid convoy” may even use explosives to damage their own ships in order to pretend the Israelis fired upon them. The Israelis are in a particularly difficult position, caught between the imperative need to secure their own safety and the need to somehow appease world opinion against the Israelis. The second link adds further details about how this maritime confrontation might develop. It also notes the growing reality that the “axis of state-sponsored terrorism” which now includes Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza has been increasingly joined by Turkey, which is in the process of betraying its NATO partners, its Ataturk heritage and the western alliance. I would also put North Korea in that axis as it has been repeatedly linked to the nuclear weapons programs in Iran and the embryonic one in Syria which was apparently wiped out by an Israeli raid.

The “axis of state-sponsored terrorism” directly threatens the survival of the current Sunni Islamic governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, and other Gulf Sheikdoms. The stronger the Iranian-backed alliance gets, the more severe becomes the threat to the survival of the Sunni Arabs and Egyptian Islamic bloc. I still think that the Sunni Arab governments will choose to cooperate with the Israelis against Iran instead of allowing themselves to be overthrown by Iranian-sponsored insurrections within their borders or via a war of conquest started by Iran. The wisdom of the old adage, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” is still pushing the Sunni Arab nations and Egypt into, if not an alliance, at least a cooperative arrangement with the Israelis. Many previous blogs at this website have confirmed this trend is an on-going one.

There have been many indications that Iran is spoiling to pick a fight with the Israelis. It is always possible that a maritime battle off the coast of Gaza in the future could become the excuse for the Iranians to launch a Mideast War on their own terms and at a time of their choosing instead of waiting for a possible future Israeli and/or American attack upon Iranian nuclear facilities. Few pundits even consider this possibility, but if it is not the Gaza blockade, Iran could “arrange” some other crisis to start a war if it wishes to do so. The Israelis know it is a real possibility. To try to deter Iran from taking such a dangerous step, the Israelis have apparently made the decision to keep at least one the several Israeli submarines widely-believed to have nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on station regularly off Iranian waters (see fourth link below). One wonders how rational the Iranian leaders really are though. They may want a conflagration so their expected Shiite Mahdi or “hidden imam” figure can appear on the scene. Radical Shiite religious beliefs (not shared by Sunnis) could eventually start a Mideast War regardless of the circumstances on the ground. However, the Israelis still have God’s Promise of Divine protection in Zechariah 12:3 on which to rely. The Israeli nation will not disappear during our latter days period of time, much to the chagrin of Iran’s mullahs and leaders.

The final link below has a report that the Iranian plans to create an incident off the coast of Gaza have at least been temporarily delayed. That is good news. However, knowing the desire of the Iranians to “wipe Israel off the map,” it is only a matter of time till another crisis occurs. I thank readers of this blog for two of the links below.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/concoughlin/100044705/hizbollah-is-playing-a-dirty-game-with-israel-over-the-gaza-blockade/

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/israels_crisis_at_sea_another.html

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/20106158204150619.html

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=128324&sectionid=351020101

http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/iranian-aid-flotilla-cancelled-won-t-sail-to-gaza-1.298165

WAS A HAARP WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION TESTED LAST DECEMBER?

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Those who donated to this website a few months ago have already seen these links, but I am posting these links on the website for all to now evaluate. There appears to be good evidence that a new type of Weapon of Mass Destruction was tested last December in the Arctic sky over northern Norway. It is called a HAARP weapon which is described in the first link as a type of focused electromagnetic energy weapon or a “scaler wave interferometric” weapon. This HAARP weapon is also sometimes called a “Project Blue Beam” weapon which is an exceptionally cutting-edge weapons technology.

Just after this HAARP beam was tested or used last December, the Northern Hemisphere experienced an unprecedented cold wave. Every winter sees pockets of Arctic cold air masses head southward across the continents, but last winter Arctic cold waves spread southward simultaneously across all northern continents. The “global warming” conference in Copenhagen was almost frozen out as Europe experienced record cold and snow. In China they were digging trains out of snowdrifts. North American had one of its coldest winters in recent history (our winter was brutal where I live in South Dakota). With some reluctance, I am including the third link which was sent to me by a European reader of this website. It is a website article by a Russian mystic who claims insider information inside the Russian government. If you scroll past the rather bizarre opening story-links, you will find the article about the HAARP weapon used over Norway. I include it because it cites a Russian report that indicates the HAARP test resulted in a “catastrophic puncturing” of the upper levels of earth’s atmosphere, allowing tremendous cold from the upper reaches of the atmosphere to penetrate downward into the lower atmosphere. If this report is true, it would explain the origin of so much cold weather suddenly spreading out all over the Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic region where the HAARP weapon was tested (or used).

The official reports from various establishment media sites was that these bizarre lights over Northern Norway were caused by a out-of-control Russian rocket. I think that possibility is sheer nonsense. An out-of-control rocket does not produce precise geometric “spiral galaxy” shapes which transition into a mini “Black Hole” image. It also does not create a linear blue beam with a geometric pattern imbedded inside the beam. The second link below includes a variety of You Tube videos which were recorded “live” by observers during the event itself. These video links were sent to me by a Norwegian reader of this website. Some of these video clips are of excellent quality and some are rather fuzzy.

It is clear to me that mankind’s cutting-edge scientists are dabbling in elemental forces of the Universe that they little understand or appreciate.  Hebrews 11:3 states that “things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” This scripture confirms that our Universe of matter was made by elements or forces which are not visible to the human eye. This scripture reveals scientific knowledge millennia ahead of its time. It confirms that the writer of Hebrews knew that our physical world of matter was composed of things so small that they are invisible to our eyes when God first created it (Genesis 1). Our Universe of physical matter is basically nothing more than compressed energy. Scientists and weapons experts are trying to probe the quantum forces out of which our Newtonian universe was assembled by our Creator Elohim. In doing do, they risk unleashing forces and energies they do not comprehend. I recall reading many years ago that when the Manhattan Project scientists were assembling the world’s first nuclear weapons, they were concerned about whether the chain reaction would be self-limiting or whether it would feed on itself and consume all matter. They concluded, correctly, that the chain reaction would be self-limiting. However, it does not necessarily follow that once quantum reactions are released that they will also be self-limiting. We simply don’t understand the dangers of tampering with the invisible elemental forces of Creation that God assembled together when he “made the heaven and the earth”  (Genesis 1:1).

This has a possible prophetic connection. Maybe a very important one! Matthew 24: 21-22 prophesies that a time of global extinction will suddenly face the earth at the very end of our age, and the Bible promises us that Jesus Christ/Yahshua will return to prevent an outcome where “no flesh [would] be saved.” Verse 22 prophesies that Jesus Christ’s return to prevent global extinction will require that prophetic “days be shortened.” It does not tell us how many “days” (plural) will have to lopped off the prophesied biblical timetables when Jesus Christ has to come sooner than prophetic timetables would indicate is likely. There are a number of biblical timetables that apply to latter-day fulfillments. Daniel 12:11-12 mention cryptic 1290 and 1335 day time periods in the latter days. Revelation 11:3 prophesies a 1260 day time period for the ministry of the Two Witnesses (see article by that name at my Articles link at this website for an in-depth examination of their ministry). Revelation 13:5 prophesies a 42 month reign for the Beast system before it is overthrown by Jesus Christ’s return (Revelation 19:11-21). Since Matthew 24:22 already prophecies that latter-day prophetic periods of “days” will be shortened and will not run their full course, how many “days” might these prophetic timetables have to be shortened? We are not told, and I think God has left himself much leeway in this scripture. He can cause Jesus Christ’s return to occur seven days or a hundred days or a thousand days earlier than planned by the timetables. The key threat that will trigger Jesus Christ’s return prior to the intended time is the imminent extinction of all flesh. We have long thought that nuclear war or some other global catastrophe could trigger Jesus’ premature intervention to fulfill Matthew 24:22′s prophecy that he will do so. However, the HAARP weapons and experiments offer one more possibility for triggering Christ’s return. If mankind’s HAARP experiments unknowingly stumble into elemental forces of quantum-matter boundaries which could unleash a cascading reaction that would threaten all life on earth, Jesus Christ may have to return a lot earlier than any of his followers think possible. Maybe Christ will return a lot sooner than we think…and that is a comforting thought. After all, Matthew 25:1-13′s parable predicts this very outcome. In that parable of the ten virgins (depicting believers in the latter days), Jesus Christ warns his latter-day followers that his return would occur so much earlier than expected that all believers will be surprised. Maybe the mad scientists behind the HAARP and/or other quantum experiments will trigger a global catastrophe which will fulfill both Matthew 24:22 and Matthew 25:1-13. If so, more power to them! Their bungling and reckless lack of respect for the elemental forces holding together God’s physical creation might trigger a very early return of our Lord. That would be a welcome outcome indeed!

We are entering a time when the latter days will offer a variety of surprises to a world not ready for them. If you wish to read about biblical prophecies about the latter days, I refer you to my article, Are We Living in the Biblical Latter Days?, also available at my website. That article also includes a discussion of the role that might be played by mankind dabbling with barely-understood quantum energies in a a way which could be very harmful for mankind.

http://www.examiner.com/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m12d12-Two-researchers-attribute-Norway-light-to-HAARP-antiET-spacebased-weapon-of-mass-destruction?cid=email-this-article

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMUhS-S0rGk

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1319.htm

THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN IS LOST

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

I hate to entitle this blog so bluntly, but the war in Afghanistan is lost. The huge cost in lives, blood and money that has been expended by the USA is all going down the tubes. I do not always agree with Pat Buchanan, but his column (see first link below) states the case for this conclusion both succinctly and convincingly. Even Sen. John McCain is quoted as saying the war is headed toward “crisis.” You can read the column below, but the basic facts are clear.

The Afghan government does not trust the Obama administration and Obama’s setting a deadline for withdrawal guarantees all Afghans will move to the Taliban’s side. They know that the Taliban will always be with them; whereas, America’s time in Afghanistan is drawing to a close. Afghans want to live, and that means they need to side with the Taliban now or be executed later. The Taliban is now stronger than ever as the people and even the Afghan government try to ensure their future survival when the USA leaves. Buchanan’s column states Pakistani intelligence is now “collaborating fully with the Taliban.” Other Taliban allies are killing aid workers from India, Pakistan’s perennial enemy. The voters of the USA and European nations barely support this war now, and in the next economic crisis, they will demand that remaining resources be spent at home, not fighting the Taliban for control of rocks in a medieval nation. The question is not whether the USA and NATO will leave Afghanistan, the question is when they will leave. Both the British Empire and the USSR faced this question in previous years in Afghanistan. Both cut their losses and got out. America must decide how much blood and money it will waste in this war which lacks any strategic goal or meaningful definition of victory.

America must also make a full and final decision re: whether it will be Pakistan’s or India’s ally. It cannot be an ally to both of them. The USA must choose India. Strategic interests demand it. While President Bush’s administration had many faults, it did realize that the USA needed a strategic alliance with India and pursued it. Obama must face reality and realize that Pakistan has already chosen to be allied to Russia, China and the “Gog Magog” alliance prophesied in Ezekiel 38-39. It is America’s “ally” only as long as the USA is dumb enough to print more money from the Federal Reserve’s fantasyland printing press to support the Afghan War and buy off the Pakistanis with billions of aid “money.” Buchanan’s observation that Pakistan’s intelligence agency is now working directly with the Taliban confirms Pakistan has already made a choice to abandon any allied relationship with the USA.

There is another side to this tragedy that is extremely harmful to the USA’s security interests. All governments of all nations have a central core duty to be sure that they maintain armies that can defend its nation. America’s long and costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have weakened the US ground forces to the breaking point. Not only has the military equipment worn out prematurely, it has caused the military to buy the wrong kinds of weapons for the future all-out war that it will have to fight simultaneously against Russia, China, Iran and all their allies, as prophesied in Ezekiel 38-39. Because of the IED explosives that blew up US Humvees and  armored vehicles from buried charges, the US army has expended billions of dollars to buy armored vehicles that are unusually tall, and very heavy. These vehicles resist IEDs, but they are sitting ducks in combat against Russian or Chinese tanks due to their high profiles. They make easy targets for any kind of anti-armor weapon, in other words. These IED-resistant armored vehicles will be coffins in the future Ezekiel 38-39 war.

Even worse, these wars have worn out America’s armed forces with endless redeployments (as many news articles have documented). America’s overdeployed soldiers are committing suicide in rising numbers as their lives, families and health fall apart. Massive numbers of Vets will need PTSD counseling for many years, as more articles have reported. The second and third links reveal just how bad the stresses are getting in the US Army. One reports that General McChrystal, the top US general in Afghanistan, poured his heart out to Rolling Stone magazine about the situation. In his mandated “apology,” notice the photo of the sideways glances by the Obama administration officials which speak volumes about what was said behind closed doors. The other reports that General Petreus fainted during his congressional testimony about the war. That also speaks volumes about the stresses this brave warrior is under as he tries to be a “good soldier” and serve a civilian commander-in-chief who came into office knowing next to nothing about military matters and who makes foolish decisions that a plebe at a US military academy wouldn’t make. It is utter foolishness to send a large portion of your army into Central Asia to expend your soldiers and equipment with no strategic goal. It is foolish to send that army into Central Asia where it has no secure lines of supply, no secure flanks and no safe routes of retreat. The Iraq war had all these positive requirements for waging war. Afghanistan offers none of them.

Let’s talk about the worse case scenario, which is not admitting defeat in Afghanistan and bringing the troops home for a desperately needed rest. The worst case is that the US Army will mutiny in its ranks. The soldiers could finally reach the breaking point where some of them simply refuse to obey orders because they know the war is lost and that they daily are risking their lives and futures for nothing. That sentiment could spread throughout the ranks like wildfire if it ever starts. Ancient empires fell when they became overextended and their militaries collapsed or rebelled. The Roman Empire had cases where armies revolted and displaced emperors. That is how Julius Caesar became emperor. He was a Roman general who “crossed the Rubicon” and got rid of his superiors. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t think such a risk is imminent in the USA, but the risk is growing that entire units could mutiny in the ranks and stop fighting a lost war. I think the army realizes that the Commander-in-Chief is a “community organizer” who is way over his head in the White House. You may have noticed that Obama’s lack of military skills is so profound he called a Navy Corpsman (a medic) a “corpseman” (mispronouncing the word). Everyone in the military noticed Obama’s ”newbie” mistake, and, doubtless, rolled their eyes and groaned inwardly. How long will soldiers fight for a leader who knows nothing about their profession and their sacrifices?

The military has to be careful about openly criticizing their civilian leaders even if what they would say is the truth. I am a civilian and I have Constitutional First Amendment rights of freedom of speech to speak for them. I think I just did.

http://townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2010/06/18/what_price_afghanistan

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/21/mcchrystal-says-ambassador-betrayed-criticism-afghan-war-strategy/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/jun/15/david-petraeus-faints-hearing

AMERICAN AND ISRAELI WARSHIPS TRANSIT SUEZ CANAL

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Recently, a large number of American and some Israeli warships transited Egypt’s Suez Canal presumably on the way to the Indian Ocean/Persian Gulf region. The American ships apparently belonged to the USS Harry Truman’s carrier task force. An Israeli surface ship also transited the Suez Canal and an Israeli submarine may have done so as well.

Is this a harbinger of war or just a routine redeployment of vessels who are being sent to the region to allow other American warships a chance to return to their home ports? We do not yet know, but an optimum time to schedule an attack is when one carrier task force is arriving in a region to relieve another task force. That permits a temporary major increase in naval power in a region if an attack is to occur. I’m sure America’s enemies are well-aware of this fact, and they track all US aircraft carrier movements very carefully.

Whatever the purpose of this carrier task force’s redeployment, it is noteworthy that the links below report that “thousands” of Egyptian troops were deployed along the canal to protect the American and Israeli warships from attack during their transit of the Suez Canal. Those who oppose the Egyptian government were upset at this action, but readers need to realize that the opposition forces in Egypt are loyal to the Muslim Brotherhood which is allied to Hamas which is allied to Iran. The Egyptian government is simply acting in its own interests. It quite logically sees that Iran wants to dominate the entire Islamic world, and Sunni Egypt does not wish to be dominated by Shiite Iran. That means that in order to survive, the Egyptian government must ally itself with those who oppose Iran. [You will also notice that some of the translations from original Arabic documents are somewhat jumbled in their English versions.] This could have major implications, as readers of this website know.

President Obama’s anti-Israeli stance is widely-recognized in the world, and Obama has long evidenced a pro-Islamic attitude. However, as the Sunni Moslem nations (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, etc.) who are increasingly threatened by Shiite Iran press the Obama administration to “do something” about Iran, the Obama administration is going to realize an important fact. There are far more Sunni Moslems in the world than there are Shiite Moslems, so the Obama administration will be acting as an ally to the interests of the Sunni Islamic nations if it “does something” about Iran. If the Obama administration ever does decide to “do something” about Iran, it will have to ally itself to the Israelis as well in order to have a coordinated American-Sunni-Israeli solution to the growing threats from Iran. Eventually, this fact will likely be grasped somewhere in the Obama administration. Perhaps it already has. Future events will reveal whether the Obama administration has realized just how big a threat Iran really is.

In conclusion, is the massing of American naval assets in the region facing Iran an indication of an impending military strike or just a routine redeployment? We’ll soon find out. Jesus Christ prophesied in Matthew 24:6 that the days before his return will be marked by “wars and rumors of wars.” There have been many, many rumors of wars in the Mideast in recent years. As Iran’s military threat to other nations grows, it does seem logical that one of these “rumors of wars” will develop into a real war.

I wish to thank a reader of this website who brought these links to my attention.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/12-american-warships-including-one-aircraft-carrier-and-one-israeli-corvette-cross-suez-cana

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-u-s-israeli-warships-cross-suez-canal-toward-red-sea-1.297068

AS USA NEGLECTS ITS MEXICAN BORDER—HEZBOLLAH MOVES IN

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

As I’m sure readers realize, the US government and a long series of US Congresses have long ignored the security risks posed by the lax (or nonexistent) enforcement of immigration laws along the US-Mexican border. The dangers are apparently much worse than most Americans realize.

The first two links document the massive neglect by the federal government of its duty to protect US borders. One link reports that 3,500 acres along the Arizona-Mexican border are now off limits to Americans due to the severe dangers posed by human traffickers and armed drug smugglers. As one official puts it, the situation is “out of control.” The other link documents the same danger, but also notes how environmental regulations are hampering the ability of US enforcement agencies to do their job of securing the border.

I think many Americans realize the federal government is not securing the border because it does not want to obey its own laws or protect American citizens. Why is this the case? It is my view that this situation is indicative of how completely the US government has been taken over by those who real loyalty is to the corporate-governmental oligarchy called “Babylon the Great” in Revelation 17-18. Revelation 18:3 very accurately describes our national situation when it prophesies that in the end-times, an alliance of the “merchants of the earth” and the “kings of the earth” will be in an incestuous relationship to mutually enrich themselves at the expense of others. The term “merchants of the earth” is a precise prophetic term for the modern globalist, multinational corporations and “kings of the earth” is a fitting reference to the politicians and office-holders who are “in bed” with those corporate interests. We have all seen that the US government bailed out the reckless, greedy Wall Street banks and corporations while sacrificing the long-term interests of American citizens and nation to do so. President Bush’s administration was as guilty of these policies as President Obama’s administration. Both acted (or are acting) as puppets of the globalist Wall Street interests. How does this pertain to border security?

The US government’s refusal to enforce border security laws is, I believe, a result of their assisting the globalist agenda of Babylon the Great’s multinational corporations who want a steady supply of cheap, illegal labor so that they do not have to pay Americans living wages. The greater the supply of illegal aliens, the more downward pressure there is on wages for all American workers. For this reason, all ethnic American groups (including Hispanic American citizens) are being financially damaged by lax border security. There are only two ways to make the US government serve the nation and people again instead of Babylon the Great’s interests. The first way is for American voters to so massively “throw the bums out” in the November elections that we finally have a pro-American Congress again. Primary elections so far have indicated that an anti-incumbent mood is wide and spreading throughout the nation. The second alternative is far more dangerous.

The third link reports that Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed, Islamic terrorist entity which has taken over large swaths of southern Lebanon, has now taken advantage of the US government’s chronic refusal to secure the border. It reports that “Hezbollah is continuing to build up its terrorist infrastructure within the United States through infiltration operations across the Mexican border and through other US entry points.” It also voices the fear that if a war erupts involving the USA and/or Israel vs. Iran, that Hezbollah operatives will unleash  terrorist attacks throughout the USA. If such a war erupts and Hezbollah agents attack civilians and key infrastructure targets across the USA, the wrath of American voters against the lax federal border policies will cause an immense backlash against President Obama and Congress as the damage caused by such Hezbollah terrorist strikes will very logically be blamed on the federal government’s longstanding refusal to secure the US-Mexican border. Once Hezbollah agents infiltrate themselves across the US border, they can fan out and locate themselves anywhere in the USA.

This is all so frustrating because it would be incredibly easy to secure the border even without a massive wall or fence. The US military uses RPVs (remotely-piloted vehicles) in Iran and Afghanistan to look for Taliban personnel and other enemy actors. The same aerial RPVs could be given to the US agencies responsible for border security and to the National Guards of each border state and the RPVs could provide 24/7 surveillance of the entire border. Whenever bands of people were seen heading for areas of the US border, US enforcement agents or heavily-armed National Guardsmen could be quickly vectored to intercept all intruders. This could be implemented within weeks if there was the will to do it. Who knows, perhaps the State Governments will start buying RPVs for their own police and National Guards and start doing this on their own since the federal government seems determined to go on supporting the lawbreakers with its willful refusal to enforce border security.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/16/closes-park-land-mexico-border-americans/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/17/lawmaker-warns-drug-cartel-danger-public-parks-intensifying/

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/ss_terror0516_06_11.asp

A NEWLY-FOUND, ANCIENT “MARTIAN OCEAN” DOES NOT NULLIFY THE BIBLE

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

The link below from a scientific journal discusses evidence that perhaps 1/3rd of the planet Mars may have been covered by oceans in the very ancient past. If this is proven to be true (and it may be true), there are many Christians who will think that this discovery somehow nullifies the Bible and it could damage their faith. Those most susceptible to a loss of faith would be the adherents of the “young earth” viewpoint which tries to cram the entire history of the planet earth into the approximately 6,000 years since Creation Week. The truth is that the discovery of a prehistoric ocean on Mars does not contradict the Bible’s accounts regarding the prehistory of our planet and solar system. The crux of the problem is that the “young earth” adherents are wrong. Mankind may have coexisted with large reptiles that have since gone extinct, but the ancestors of mankind were not present when the dinosaur age occurred.

Before a single creative word of God takes place in the Creation Week account beginning in Genesis 1:3, Genesis 1:2 records that the earth was already in existence! That verse mentions the earth was preesent, but in a darkened state, covered with oceans, and in a destroyed condition. The Creation Week account describes God’s work to restore the earth to a condition where it could support the new forms of life that he was creating upon it. The capstone of his physical creation was mankind, created in the image of the Creator Himself (Genesis 1:26). Although Genesis 1:2 records very clearly the earth was in a desolate, darkened condition just before Creation Week, Job 38:4-11 includes God’s own discussion of how he originally created the earth and verse 7 states that the earth was originally so beautiful that heavenly beings “sang” and “shouted for joy” to see God bring it into being. Isaiah 45:18 adds that when God originally made the earth, “he created it not in vain [Hebrew word "tohu"], he formed it to be inhabited (emphasis added).” Genesis 1:2 states the earth was in a “tohu” condition (i.e. “without form”) just before Creation Week began, but Isaiah 45:18 records that when it was first created, the earth was not in a “tohu” condition. What happened to change the earth from its original beautiful and inhabited condition into a desolate “tohu” condition? The Bible gives us the answer.

The Bible indicates that the earth was formally inhabited by a vast number of angels, who were led by a very superior angelic being named Lucifer. Lucifer was created in a “perfect” condition (Ezekiel 38:15 allegorically refers to him as a “king of Tyre” who was in “Eden the garden of God”—verse 13). What God creates “perfect” will take a very, very long time to go bad, but that is what eventually happened with Lucifer. At some point, iniquity was found in him (Ezekiel 28:15), but it may have taken eons of human time for this degeneration to occur. Isaiah 14:12-15 describes the day when Lucifer decided to lead a rebellion against his Creator. Verse 14 states he ascended “above the clouds” when he left the earth and led an angelic invasion of God’s heavenly throne. Jude 1:6 and 13 describes the condition of Lucifer and his angels when they were cast back down to the earth (Luke 10:18), and the earth became a darkened, oceanic wasteland (exactly the condition we find it in Genesis 1:2 before Creation Week). That Lucifer launched his rebellion from an earth that had “clouds” reveals that the earth had a water vapor cycle and an atmosphere prior to his rebellion. In other words, it was the beautiful, inhabited earth that Job 38 and Isaiah 45:18 says it was. If the Luciferina earth had clouds, it surely had oceans to support water vapor condensation.

The Bible says nothing about the prehistoric condition of Mars prior to Lucifer’s rebellion, so nothing found on Mars by science will conflict any account in the Bible. However, scientific discoveries could give us previously-unknown insights into the condition of the solar system prior to Lucifer’s rebellion. If Mars was also a planet inhabited by angels with oceans and clouds in prehistoric times, it strongly indicates that Lucifer’s original, pre-Fall domain included perhaps not just earth, but the entire solar system. The discovery of prehistoric oceans on Mars most definitely does not conflict with any biblical account. Indeed, it would shed more light on what the Bible tells us about the prehistory of our earth and solar system. The link below cites one scientist as wondering “where all of the water on Mars went.” If Mars, like earth, also experienced a planetary catastrophe in the prehistoric heavenly war, that is when it lost its atmosphere due to the planetary effects of an angelic war in the spirit world. God chose to recreate life only on earth after the heavenly war in the distant prehistoric past in our solar system.

If you would like a thorough examination of the scientific record of the earth’s prehistoric condition combined with biblical narratives to reveal the truth about the earth’s entire history, the dinosaur era, planetary extinctions and the rise of the age of mammals and mankind, you are invited to read my free article, Is the Earth 6000 Years Old?, available at the articles link of this website. That article will give you a comprehensive (and exciting) insight into what happened in the earth’s prehistory long before mankind was created. You will also see the Bible is a very scientific book, and that there is no conflict between the discoveries of science and the narratives of the Bible. Indeed, scientific discoveries actually confirm the Bible’s accounts!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100613181245.htm

“THE ALIEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE”

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

The title of this blog is the title of an insightful column posted at the website of the Wall Street Journal (see link below). This column addresses the “deepening notes of disenchantment with Barack Obama now issuing from commentators across the political spectrum,” and makes the rather damning observation that “this president…was wanting in certain qualities citizens have taken for granted in their presidents.” She adds that Obama does not have an “identification with the nation” in him, but that he has a “sense of identification that lies elsewhere.”  The author, Dorothy Rabinowitz, calls Obama an “alien in the White House” because he is loyal to a “world community” instead of the people of the United States of America.

She cites one of Obama’s first acts, the exiling of a bust of Winston Churchill (given as a gift to the USA by a Prime Minister of the UK) back to the UK from whence it came. The fact that Obama couldn’t tolerate the presence of the image of a British Prime Minister who was one of America’s staunchest allies in all of our national history reveals that Obama rejects (loathes?) the very heritage and core reality of our nation. Hers is a strong column, but it voices the discomfort growing all across the nation that Obama is “not one of us.”

Her column cites a litany of actions and statements by Obama appointees which reveal an appalling inability to deal with (or even recognize) the realities of the world in which America now finds itself. One of the most egregious examples of this disconnection from reality is the statement by one Obama appointee that “compared the treatment of Muslim-Americans in the United States after 9/11 with the plight of Japanese-Americans interned in camps after Pearl Harbor.” This is a factual error so breathtaking that one wonders how anyone could make such a bizarre comparison. Instead of cramming American Moslems in detainment camps after 9/11, the USA has bent over backwards to be tolerant of Moslems in the USA and has made no blanket condemnation of all Moslems because of the heinous sins of certain Moslems on 9/11.

Obama has made a bizarre policy shift since taking office wherein he alienates allies and cozies up to enemies, apologizes to the world for sins America has not committed, etc. The article below states: “Americans were shocked by this behavior in their newly-elected president, and it concludes by saying the Obama administration needs “every infusion of reality it can get.”

Two biblical prophecies came to my mind when I read this important link (which everyone should read). The first is in Isaiah 3:1-5. Isaiah 1-4 is a prophecy about the time of the “day of the Lord” in which the tribes of Israel are very sinful. This is a prophecy for our modern times as we are living with the “day of the Lord” looming ahead of us at the end of this age. Judah and Jerusalem are mostly mentioned in this prophecy, but Isaiah 2:1-5 mention that this prophecy also applies to “the house of Jacob” (which means all the tribes of Israel) in “the last days.” Isaiah 3:1-5 foretells that when the tribes of Israel give themselves over to sin (as our modern nations have done), that God will remove mature, capable civilian and military leaders, judges, etc. leaders from their nations and give them “children to be their princes and babes shall rule over them.” I’m sure many readers have seen internet links of commentators and analysts who have described Obama as a narcissistic child in his temperament. The second and third links below are video clips of Rush Limbaugh and Charles Krauthammer commenting on Obama’s narcissism, and there are a vast number of other such links available on this subject via a websearch. Just today, I heard Rush Limbaugh refer to Obama as a “child” in the White House during his radio program. Isaiah 3:1-5 is now being fulfilled in modern America.

Those who have read my books realize that the modern nations of the USA, the UK, many European nations, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Israelis, etc. are the modern tribes of Israel.  Those who have not done so are urged to read the article at my homepage entitled The USA in Prophecy which offers a summary of the evidence presented in my books that the USA is primarily the modern Israelite nation descended from the tribe of Manasseh. The evidence supporting this conclusion is clear from both a biblical and secular/historical viewpoint, confirming that the God of the Bible is the Creator of the Universe and that he is sovereign over all the nations—able to make sure his prophecies are implemented over the subsequent millennia after they were first inspired (Isaiah 41:21-26).

The second prophecy is found in Deuteronomy 28, a chapter which contains God’s prophecies about the blessings and curses which will befall the Israelite nations in the future when they either obey or disobey God. One of the curses pronounced on Israelite nations who disobey God is found in verse 43, which states: “the stranger (“alien”) that is within you shall get up above you very high, and you shall come down very low.” The Wall Street Journal link below is entitled “The alien (stranger) in the White House.”  In modern America, we now have in our White House a president who is an “alien” (stranger) to our national heritage, religion and even our national interests. Even columnists can see it… from a secular perspective. Deuteronomy 28:43 has been fulfilled in the modern United States of America.

Let’s hope that enough Americans will repent of our national sins so that II Chronicles 7:14 can next be fullilled in our immediate national future. If such a repentance does not occur, we are destined as a nation to fall even lower.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703302604575294231631318728.html

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200911160065

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMbPGKHmSgU

REALISTIC AMERICAN-BRITISH-FRENCH WAR DRILL

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

The link below details a very realistic military exercise conducted by the American, British and French navies. The drill was to test how the three navies could coordinate together to provide close air support during an attack on ground targets.

The drill was quite realistic and it also revealed that the American and French navies have taken steps to work closely together in a wartime situation. The drill included having French and American warplanes landing and taking off from each other’s carriers and even had an American support crew practice performing emergency engine repairs to a French warplane which landed on an American carrier. US and French warplanes in the exercise operated from an American and a French aircraft carrier while the British warplanes operated from bases in the UK. French warplanes which are nuclear-capable practiced operating from the USS Harry Truman while American warplanes practiced operating from the French carrier, the Charles De Gaulle.

This exercise indicates that these three NATO nations envision a possible need to operate together under wartime conditions. Practicing the operation of each other’s warplanes from the other nation’s carrier is a logical exercise if one anticipates heavy combat where an aircraft carrier could be sunk. This exercise pioneered the ability of American and French warplanes to be hosted by the carrier of a different NATO nation if one carrier in a joint task force were to be lost in warfare. The article below also discusses the weak UN sanctions effort against Iran which Iran has brushed off and which is almost surely a useless diplomatic effort to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Could these NATO navies be practicing for a possible future joint-operation vs. Iran in a Mideast war or was this a routine NATO exercise? Both options could be true. War tensions are rising in the Mideast so this kind of naval wartime exercise by major NATO nations appears to be timely.

http://www.debka.com/article/8844/

AN ISLAMIC ANTICHRIST?

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

I have received a number of emails from readers forwarding links about Joel Richardson’s views about an Islamic figure emerging to fulfill biblical prophecies about an antichrist figure in the latter days (see link below for a sampling of his views). There have been a sufficient number of such inquiries that I think it is time to blog on this subject. Mr. Richardson expounds a view that an Islamic figure will emerge to be the “antichrist” of biblical prophecies and asserts that Islamic prophecies about a messiah-like figure called the “Mahdi” mimic those of the Bible. While I respect his right to propose whatever prophetic viewpoint he has, I disagree with his conclusions. Indeed, I think that the chances of an Islamic “Mahdi” becoming the antichrist of the Bible’s prophecies are almost zero, for the following reasons.

Revelation 12:9 warns that Satan will have deceived the entire world at the end time. Revelation 13:13-14 warn that an antichrist figure will “deceive” those who dwell on the earth with real or contrived miracles. Matthew 24:5 cites Jesus/Yahshuah himself warning that “many will come in my name, saying I am Christ, and deceive many (emphasis added).” He again warns his followers about false prophets in the latter days in Matthew 24:11, and further warns that the antichrist deceptions will be so great in the end time that even “the very elect” would be deceived by the counterfeit Christs and prophets “if it were possible.” These biblical warnings indicate that deception will be the greatest danger to upend believers into following a false prophet/antichrist type of figure in the latter days. Indeed, even the strongest and most biblically-grounded Christian believers (the “very elect”) would be deceived by the counterfeit Christs “if it were possible” (which apparently it is not).

Ask yourself some pertinent questions. How likely do you think an Islamic mahdi would deceive even nominal Christians, much less the very elect? Any Islamic “antichrist” would come in the name and doctrines of Islam and the Koran. Do you think the very elect would be almost deceived by any Islamic figure telling them Muhammad is the true Savior? I think the answer is obviously “no.” Do you think any Christian churches would experience a groundswell of fervor to adopt Koranic lifestyles? Do you think any Lutheran Ladies Aid societies or the women of any western Christian churches are going to experience a mass desire to wear burkhas? Will western women be attracted by a Koranic “antichrist” who tells them to give up attractive swimsuits, the right to drive cars, drink alcohol, go to school and walk a certain number of paces behind their husbands (as some Islamic nations teach)? I think the answer is a vigorous “no.” Will westerners be attracted to a Koranic antichrist to give up their pet dogs and kill them or turn them loose to die (dogs are anathema to many Islamic believers)? As a dog-owner myself, I can assure you that the answer is a vigorous “no.”

The great weakness of the “Islamic antichrist” teaching is that any such “Islamic antichrist” will be coming with doctrines and lifestyles taught by the Koran and will openly reject Jesus Christ as the Savior (and not fulfill Matthew 24:5′s warning). Islamic Koranic doctrines and lifestyles will have almost zero appeal to any westerner or any Christian. Indeed, even the least-grounded Christian is highly unlikely to be attracted to any Islamic antichrist even if he does miracles due to the radical cultural practices that would be required of westerners and Christians to follow any Koran-teaching “antichrist.” Any Islamic Mahdi figure will categorically deny that Jesus Christ/Yahshua is the Savior of all mankind and the Son of God. That alone means that Christian believers will be inoculated against being deceived by any such figure. The “very elect” could be knee-walking drunk and see through that deception with ease.

The real antichrist figure that will emerge in the latter days is one who will be a counterfeit Jesus Christ who counterfeits the prophetic prophecies about Jesus Christ. These false prophets will come in the name of Jesus Christ, claiming to be Jesus Christ’s teachers and prophets (Matthew 24:5); they will not come in the name of Muhammad. In order to be able to have a deceptive appeal to even the very elect followers of God, the antichrist will have to very deceptively appear to be fulfilling the roles and prophecies about Jesus Christ and biblical teachings in the latter days (not Koranic teachings).

I assume that readers of this website are biblically-grounded believers found in many different denominations and religious affiliations. Would you be strongly attracted by and eager to follow an Islamic antichrist who told all of you to reject Jesus Christ, avoid alcohol, told all women to wear burkhas, told all dog-owners to kill or abandon their pet dogs, adopt Sharia laws, etc. I think the answer is obviously “no.” Do you think any Catholic or Lutheran or Anglican church would be eager to add minarets to their church buildings and adopt a Muslim call to prayer many times a day from those minarets?  I think the obvious answer to these questions is “no”.

I simply do not see any Islamic, Koranic “antichrist” having any deceptive appeal to Christian believers whether they are nominal or biblically-well grounded. Prophecies about the antichrist figure in the latter days indicate that he will have to have a strong appeal to Christians, deceiving nominal Christians to himself and appealing even to the most biblically-solid believers. To do this, the antichrist must have some very strong Christian characteristics, not Islamic ones. At least, that is my opinion on this subject.

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