Apocalyptic times by whatever name
For
the world, the BP oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, on the 21st of
April, was an unfortunate preventable catastrophe; for those in the know, it was
the fulfillment of a long standing prophecy about the devastation of the fallen
angel, of the bottomless pit.
Rev 9:1 Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from
heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit.
Rev
9:2 And he
opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a
great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the
pit.
Rev
9:3 Then out of
the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the
scorpions of the earth have power.
Rev
9:4 They were
commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree,
but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
Rev
9:5 And they
were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for
five months.
You
can read the rest of this prophecy in your Bible; we have spoken at large about
it in previous editions. Sufficient to say here that the bottomless pit out of
which arose smoke and ‘locusts’ which tormented humans but not green things
refers to the oil pits and coal mines that fueled the industrial revolution
beginning in mid nineteen century. Carbon
monoxide emissions from internal combustion engines and coal burning factories
affect humans but not green things, which thrive on it.
The
first oil pit was dug in Texas in 1859, which means that we have just passed
the one hundred and fifty years mark – the five biblical months – based on the
principle of a day for a year (Ez. 4:6). It is not a mere coincidence that this
catastrophic blowout occurred near the territorial waters of the State that began
this unmistakable end of the age sign.
Add
to this the myriad of “natural” signs that continue to strike the world with
undiminished frequency: unprecedented floods, cyclones, tornadoes, earthquakes,
volcanoes, droughts, famines, etc., and we truly have the beginning of
apocalyptic times.
What
does this portend for the future?
Nothing, but more of the same; and this for a very good reason: ever since he came to power in the leading
nation of the world, we warned Barack Obama not to pursue his homosexual and
abortionist agenda, for he would brink catastrophe upon his people and the
world. Now America and the world are reaping
the fruits of his and his Administration’s defiance of God’s will and laws.
Nothing
happens in this world without our heavenly Father’s knowledge and approval,
especially when such grievous sins are concerned.
Amo 3:6 If a trumpet is
blown in a city, will not the people be afraid? If there is calamity in a
city, will not the LORD have done it?
Amo 3:7 Surely the Lord
GOD does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.
Amo 3:8 A lion has
roared! Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken! Who can but prophesy?
The
problem with America is not that it has no prophets, but that it has too many –
of the wrong type – false prophets. They
spew their venom and spread their wings worldwide. I am sure you have them in
your country, as we have them in Australia. Fortunately, more and more they are
been relegated to the wee hours of the night, when only insomniacs can watch
them. People are beginning to wake up to
what is really happening around them – the fact that rather than being a source
of spiritual enlightenment and salvation, churches have become milking cows for
a handful of “prophets” and “apostles”.
I
used to try my hardest to keep myself informed of what is happening in the
religious world for the sake of my readers, but not anymore. Now I only watch them whenever I stumble over
their programs and that only for short time.
I find it impossible to watch them for much longer for the following
reasons: one, because their messages tend to be the same, regardless of their
denomination, and two, because they come across as exasperatedly bombastic,
obnoxious, and poorly biblically informed.
It
is no wonder that their nation finds itself in such dire financial, economic,
ecological and military straights. America
thinks of itself as a great superpower, and yet it cannot, or does not know how
to, win a war with a poorly equipped, scattered, ragtag army, that threatens to
bring it to its knees, as it did with the mighty Soviet Empire.
Only
a blind person could not see that God has turned history on its end. America gloated that it has brought the
mighty Soviet Empire to a crushing end without firing a single bullet. Now, out of the ashes of that Empire, a
mighty power arises that is returning America’s favor. Russia is well on its way to fulfilling the
end time prophecy about a ten nation colossus that will trigger the Great
Tribulation.
Our
nemesis continue to preach that that power will rise in central Europe around
Germany, even though we have amply proven almost two decades ago that Russia
will be the centre of that power, not Germany.
And who might the other nations be?
Well, not surprisingly, yet little noticed before, Ezekiel gives us the
answer. Let us look at his
prophecy.
Eze 38:1 Now the word of
the LORD came to me, saying,
Eze 38:2 "Son of
man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog,
the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
Eze 38:3 and say, 'Thus
says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of
Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
Eze 38:4 I will turn you
around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses,
and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and
shields, all of them handling swords.
Eze 38:5 Persia,
Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
Eze 38:6 Gomer
and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from
the far north and all its troops—many people are with you.
Eze 38:7 "Prepare
yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gathered about you;
and be a guard for them.
Eze 38:8 After many days
you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those
brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the
mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the
nations, and now all of them dwell safely.
Eze 38:9 You will ascend,
coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops
and many peoples with you."
Eze 38:10
'Thus says the Lord
GOD: "On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in
your mind, and you will make an evil plan:
Eze 38:11 You will say,
'I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I
will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without
walls, and having neither bars nor gates'—
Eze
38:12 to take plunder and to take booty,
to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again
inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired
livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.
Eze 38:13 Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish,
and all their young lions will say to you, 'Have you come to take plunder? Have
you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take
away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?' " '
Eze 38:14 "Therefore,
son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "On that day
when My people Israel dwell safely, will you not know it?
Eze
38:15 Then you will come from your place
out of the far north, you and many peoples with you,
all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.
Eze 38:16 You will come
up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the
latter days that I will bring you against My land, so
that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their
eyes."
Eze 38:17 Thus says the
Lord GOD: "Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days by My
servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I
would bring you against them?
Eze 38:18 "And it will
come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,"
says the Lord GOD, "that My fury will show in My face.
Eze 38:19 For in My
jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: 'Surely in that day
there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel,
Eze
38:20 so that the fish of the sea, the
birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep
on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake
at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall
fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.'
Eze 38:21 I will call for
a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains," says the Lord GOD.
"Every man's sword will be against his brother.
Eze 38:22 And I will
bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him,
on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain,
great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
Eze 38:23 Thus I will
magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many
nations. Then they shall know that I am the LORD." '
What
nations are mentioned here? First of all
we have Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of
Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, “in the far north”. He is the centre of this
alliance. This could be none other than Russia.
Then we have Persia, Ethiopia and Libya. Persia (Iran) and Libya are well known for
their anti-West pro Russian attitude. As
far as Ethiopia is concerned, although nominally a democracy, in reality it is
still very much a nation with a communist dictatorship. Its “democratic”
elections were nothing but a sham, designed to perpetuate the rule of the
former communist masters. Like many former clients of the USSR, Ethiopia is
very much sympathetic to Russia, and Vladimir Putin has done nothing to
discourage that.
Gomer and
Togarmah are mentioned next, which are also said to
be “in the far north”. Now what nations are in the far north that could be
allies of Russia? Obviously, China and North Korea! Mongolia is too weak, too
few, too poor, and too scattered to count much for military purposes. That makes six nations so far.
Now
who might the other four nations be in the context of the Middle Eastern
politics? We must look at that context because Israel will be the first target
of that power, and from them the war will quickly spread to the West and the
whole world.
Recent
events have placed Turkey firmly in that camp (the flotilla of ships that tried
to break Israel’s naval blockade against Hamas rulers of Gaza originated in
Turkey. Long thought to be an ally of the West, Turkey is quickly finding a
place among its Islamist brothers. As of
late, Turkey has unreservedly allied itself with Iran, Syria, Egypt, and the
Palestinians.
Get
the picture? Russia already has its
alliance of ten nations, and all are enemies of Israel.
Is
this the coalition that is prophesied to come against Israel in the end time?
Most likely! The conjecture of time and
events would indicate so, however, only God would know that for sure. What we do
know is that world events follow the pattern we have predicted for two decades.
And we have spoken about it when no one
in the world would even have dreamed about it; Russia was in shambles when its
leader Boris Yeltsin held the hand of President George Bush (snr) of America and said that the two countries were no
longer enemies but allies. It was also a
time when Germany was surging ahead in leaps and bounds, and our nemeses were crying
aloud that Germany and its allies in the Common Market represented a “mortal
danger” for the Anglo-Saxon people of this world.
Some
of those prophets have changed their tune, leaving behind Germany and its European
allies and pushing instead the idea of an Islamic alliance led by an Islamic
antichrist. All we can say about this
idea is that it is as trashy as the previous one. For although the Arabs feature prominently in
the alliance that comes against Israel, Islamic terrorism by itself is hardly
more than a pinprick compared with the nuclear devastation that eventuates with
the powers from “the far north”. It is
interesting to note that Jeremiah, another major prophet, also had a prophecy
that parallels that of Ezekiel.
Jer 25:21 Edom, Moab, and
the people of Ammon;
Jer 25:22 all the kings
of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the
coastlands which are across the sea;
Jer 25:23 Dedan,
Tema, Buz, and all who
are in the farthest corners;
Jer 25:24 all the kings
of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed multitude who dwell in the desert;
Jer 25:25 all the kings
of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of
the Medes;
Jer 25:26 all the kings
of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world
which are on the face of the earth. Also the king of Sheshach
shall drink after them.
Jer 25:27 "Therefore
you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
"Drink, be drunk, and vomit! Fall and rise no more, because of the sword
which I will send among you." '
Jer 25:28 And it shall
be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say
to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: "You shall certainly drink!
Jer 25:29 For behold, I
begin to bring calamity on the city which is called by My name, and should you
be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for I will call for a sword
on all the inhabitants of the earth," says the LORD of hosts.'
Jer 25:30 "Therefore
prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: 'The LORD will roar
from on high, And utter His voice from His holy habitation; He will roar
mightily against His fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread the
grapes, Against all the inhabitants of the earth.
Jer 25:31 A noise will
come to the ends of the earth— For the LORD has a controversy with the nations;
He will plead His case with all flesh. He will give those who are wicked
to the sword,' says the LORD."
Jer 25:32
Thus says the LORD
of hosts: "Behold, disaster shall go forth From nation to nation, And a
great whirlwind shall be raised up From the farthest parts of the earth.
Jer 25:33 "And at
that day the slain of the LORD shall be from one end of the earth even
to the other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or gathered,
or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground.
Jer 25:34 "Wail,
shepherds, and cry! Roll about in the ashes, You
leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are
fulfilled; You shall fall like a precious vessel.
Jer 25:35 And the
shepherds will have no way to flee, Nor the leaders of the flock to escape.
Jer 25:36 A voice of the
cry of the shepherds, And a wailing of the leaders to the flock will be
heard. For the LORD has plundered their pasture,
Jer 25:37 And the
peaceful dwellings are cut down Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Jer 25:38 He has left His
lair like the lion; For their land is desolate Because of the fierceness of the
Oppressor, And because of His fierce anger."
In
this prophecy, virtually all of the Arab nations are mentioned. Dedan, Tema, Buz
are, in most likelihood, the smaller sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf. Edom is Turkey; Moab and Ammon
are Jordan; Tyre and Sidon being Lebanon; Medes are
the Ukrainians; Zimri and Elam, with the Medes, are
said to be among the kings of the north.
Once again, the Arabs are associated with the powers “of the north, far
and near”.
After
mentioning the Arabs and the powers north of them, Jeremiah extends his
prophecy to “all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the
earth”. This clearly tells us that this
end time conflict which begins in the Middle East quickly spreads out to the
rest of the world.
Jer 25:32
Thus says the LORD
of hosts: "Behold, disaster shall go forth From nation to nation, And a
great whirlwind shall be raised up From the farthest parts of the earth.
Jer 25:33 "And at
that day the slain of the LORD shall be from one end of the earth even
to the other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or gathered,
or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground.
Jeremiah
confirms, once again, that disaster comes from the north, from the furthest
parts of the earth, and extends to the whole world. Yet most of our nemeses still preach that
that danger comes from Germany and its European allies.
The
question is, why does God “roar mightily . . . against all the inhabitants of
the earth?” Because in the end time all
of them would have departed from Him!
Even the Christians will be against God and Jesus Christ.
Jer 25:34 "Wail,
shepherds, and cry! Roll about in the ashes, You
leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are
fulfilled; You shall fall like a precious vessel.
Jer 25:35 And the
shepherds will have no way to flee, Nor the leaders of the flock to escape.
Jer 25:36 A voice of the
cry of the shepherds, And a wailing of the leaders to the flock will be
heard. For the LORD has plundered their pasture,
Not
convinced about it? Maybe this prophecy
from the book of Revelation will convince you. It speaks about the same time.
Rev
19:11 Now I saw
heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was
called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He
judges and makes war.
Rev
19:12 His eyes were
like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name
written that no one knew except Himself.
Rev
19:13 He was
clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
Rev
19:14 And the
armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white
horses.
Rev
19:15 Now out
of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And
He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress
of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Rev
19:16 And He
has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD
OF LORDS.
Rev
19:17 Then I
saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all
the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, "Come and gather together for
the supper of the great God,
Rev
19:18 that you may eat the flesh of
kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and
of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, free and slave,
both small and great."
Rev
19:19 And I saw
the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make
war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.
Rev
19:20 Then the
beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his
presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and
those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire
burning with brimstone.
Rev
19:21 And the
rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat
on the horse. And all the birds were filled with their flesh.
“All
people, free and slave, both small and great" rise up against the
KING OF KINGS when He returns to save the world from itself before all flesh is
wiped out in the Great Tribulation. Not
a single person in the world will rejoice at the return of Jesus Christ. The only two people who would have rejoiced –
God’s last two witnesses (Rev. 11) – are killed just prior to that event.
Now
hard as this may be for some people to accept it, the rebellion against God has
already occurred. It is not so much a
physical rebellion, as a spiritual one (not that this would prevent puny human
beings from taking up arms against the “alien invader”). Not a church, not a priest, not a single
individual in the world, accepts or recognizes the true Gospel of Jesus Christ
anymore. We are witnesses to this fact.
For two decades, we have preached a Gospel that is thoroughly based on
the Scriptures, yet no one has accepted and embraced it, exactly what the Scriptures
say it would happen at this time. Not
only that, but we have had to contend with strong opposition from the Catholic,
the Orthodox, and many fundamentalist Churches.
People
come to our web site in droves, yet not one has found the courage to take the
final step and request baptism in order to receive the Holy Spirit and become
one of God’s elect. Now for those who
wish to have a more in depth look at the prophecies about those apocalyptic
times, we offer them also the prophecies of Zechariah.
Zec 12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD against Israel. Thus
says the LORD, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth,
and forms the spirit of man within him:
Zec 12:2 "Behold, I
will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when
they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem.
Zec
12:3 And it shall happen in that day
that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations
of the earth are gathered against it.
Zec 12:4 In that
day," says the LORD, "I will strike every horse with confusion, and
its rider with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will
strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
Zec 12:5 And the
governors of Judah shall say in their heart, 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are
my strength in the LORD of hosts, their God.'
Zec
12:6 In that day I will make the
governors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile,
and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding
peoples on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited
again in her own place—Jerusalem.
Zec 12:7 "The LORD
will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and
the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not become greater than that of
Judah.
Zec 12:8 In that day the
LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them
in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like
God, like the Angel of the LORD before them.
Zec 12:9 It shall be in
that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against
Jerusalem.
Zec 12:10 "And I
will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit
of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes,
they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and
grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
Zec 12:11 In that day
there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning
at Hadad Rimmon in the
plain of Megiddo.
Zec 12:12 And the land
shall mourn, every family by itself: the family of the house of David by
itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by
itself, and their wives by themselves;
Zec 12:13 the family of
the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves;
Zec 12:14 all the
families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves.
Zec 13:1
"In that day a
fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
Zec 13:2 "It shall
be in that day," says the LORD of hosts, "that I will cut off
the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no longer be remembered. I
will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart from the land.
Zec
13:3 It shall come to pass that
if anyone still prophesies, then his father and mother who begot him will say
to him, 'You shall not live, because you have spoken lies in the name of the
LORD.' And his father and mother who begot him shall thrust him through when he
prophesies.
Zec 13:4 "And it
shall be in that day that every prophet will be ashamed of his vision
when he prophesies; they will not wear a robe of coarse hair to deceive.
Zec 13:5 But he will say,
'I am no prophet, I am a farmer; for a man taught me to keep
cattle from my youth.'
Zec 13:6 And one
will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?' Then he will
answer, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'
Zec 13:7 "Awake, O
sword, against My Shepherd, Against the Man who is My Companion," Says the
LORD of hosts. "Strike the Shepherd, And the
sheep will be scattered; Then I will turn My hand against the little ones.
Zec 13:8 And it shall
come to pass in all the land," Says the LORD, "That two-thirds
in it shall be cut off and die, But one-third shall be left in
it:
Zec 13:9 I will bring the
one-third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And
test them as gold is tested. They will call on My
name, And I will answer them. I will say, 'This is My
people'; And each one will say, 'The LORD is my God.' "
Zec 14:1 Behold, the day
of the LORD is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
Zec 14:2 For I will
gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken,
The houses rifled, And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into
captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be
cut off from the city.
Zec 14:3 Then the LORD
will go forth And fight against those nations, As He fights in the day of
battle.
Zec 14:4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of
Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be
split in two, From east to west, Making a very
large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it
toward the south.
Zec 14:5 Then you shall
flee through My mountain valley, For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal. Yes, you shall flee As you
fled from the earthquake In the days of Uzziah king
of Judah. Thus the LORD my God will come, And
all the saints with You.
Zec 14:6 It shall come to
pass in that day That there will be no light; The lights will diminish.
Zec 14:7 It shall be one
day Which is known to the LORD Neither day nor night. But at evening time it
shall happen That it will be light.
Zec 14:8 And in that day
it shall be— That living waters shall flow from Jerusalem, Half of them
toward the eastern sea And half of them toward the western sea; In both summer
and winter it shall occur.
Zec 14:9 And the LORD
shall be King over all the earth. In that day it shall be "The LORD is
one," And His name one.
Zec 14:10 All the land shall
be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised
up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin's Gate to the place of the First
Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel
to the king's winepresses.
Zec 14:11 The
people shall dwell in it; And no longer shall there be utter destruction,
But Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
Zec 14:12 And this shall
be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the people who fought against
Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their
eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their
mouths.
Zec 14:13 It shall come
to pass in that day That a great panic from the LORD will be among them.
Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor, And
raise his hand against his neighbor's hand;
Zec 14:14 Judah also will
fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations Shall be gathered together: Gold, silver, and apparel in
great abundance.
Zec 14:15 Such also shall
be the plague On the horse and the mule, On the camel and the donkey,
And on all the cattle that will be in those camps. So shall this plague be.
Zec
14:16 And it shall come to pass that
everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go
up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the
Feast of Tabernacles.
Zec
14:17 And it shall be that
whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship
the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no rain.
Zec 14:18 If the family
of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain;
they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do
not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
Zec 14:19 This shall be
the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come
up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
Zec 14:20 In that day
"HOLINESS TO THE LORD" shall be engraved on the bells of the
horses. The pots in the LORD's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
Zec 14:21 Yes, every pot
in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts. Everyone who
sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall
no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
And
here are some more of Ezekiel’s prophecies.
Eze 38:14 "Therefore,
son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "On that day
when My people Israel dwell safely, will you not know it?
Eze 38:15 Then you will come from your place out of the
far north, you and many peoples with you, all of them
riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.
Eze 38:16 You will come
up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the
latter days that I will bring you against My land, so
that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their
eyes."
Eze 38:17 Thus says the
Lord GOD: "Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days by My
servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I
would bring you against them?
Eze 38:18 "And it
will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of
Israel," says the Lord GOD, "that My fury will show in My
face.
Eze 38:19 For in My
jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: 'Surely in that day
there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel,
Eze
38:20 so that the fish of the sea, the
birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep
on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake
at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall
fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.'
Eze 38:21 I will call for
a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains," says the Lord GOD.
"Every man's sword will be against his brother.
Eze 38:22 And I will
bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him,
on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain,
great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
Eze 38:23 Thus I will
magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many
nations. Then they shall know that I am the LORD." '
Eze 39:1 "And you,
son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD:
"Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and
Tubal;
Eze 39:2 and I will turn
you around and lead you on, bringing you up from the far north, and bring you
against the mountains of Israel.
Eze 39:3 Then I will
knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your
right hand.
Eze 39:4 You shall fall
upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are
with you; I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the
beasts of the field to be devoured.
Eze 39:5 You shall fall
on the open field; for I have spoken," says the Lord GOD.
Eze 39:6 "And I will
send fire on Magog and on those who live in security
in the coastlands. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.
Eze
39:7 So I will make My holy name known
in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them profane My
holy name anymore. Then the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the
Holy One in Israel.
Eze 39:8 Surely it is
coming, and it shall be done," says the Lord GOD. "This is the
day of which I have spoken.
Eze
39:9 "Then those who dwell in the
cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the
shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the javelins and spears; and they
will make fires with them for seven years.
Eze
39:10 They will not take wood from the
field nor cut down any from the forests, because they will make fires
with the weapons; and they will plunder those who plundered them, and pillage
those who pillaged them," says the Lord GOD.
Eze
39:11 "It will come to pass in that
day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of
those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because
there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it
the Valley of Hamon Gog.
Eze 39:12 For seven
months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land.
Eze 39:13 Indeed all the
people of the land will be burying, and they will gain renown for it on the day
that I am glorified," says the Lord GOD.
Eze
39:14 "They will set apart men
regularly employed, with the help of a search party, to pass through the land
and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the
end of seven months they will make a search.
Eze 39:15 The search party will pass through the land; and when
anyone sees a man's bone, he shall set up a marker by it, till the buriers
have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.
Eze 39:16 The name of the
city will also be Hamonah. Thus they
shall cleanse the land." '
Eze 39:17 "And as
for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Speak to every sort of bird and
to every beast of the field: "Assemble yourselves and come; Gather
together from all sides to My sacrificial meal Which I am sacrificing for you,
A great sacrificial meal on the mountains of Israel, That you may eat flesh and
drink blood.
Eze 39:18 You shall eat
the flesh of the mighty, Drink the blood of the princes of the earth, Of rams and
lambs, Of goats and bulls, All of them fatlings of Bashan.
Eze 39:19 You shall eat
fat till you are full, And drink blood till you are drunk, At My sacrificial
meal Which I am sacrificing for you.
Eze 39:20 You shall be
filled at My table With horses and riders, With mighty men And with all the men
of war," says the Lord GOD.
Eze 39:21 "I will
set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I
have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them.
Eze 39:22 So the house of
Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day forward.
Eze 39:23 The Gentiles
shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity;
because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid My face from them. I gave
them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.
Eze 39:24 According to
their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them,
and hidden My face from them." '
Eze 39:25 "Therefore
thus says the Lord GOD: 'Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have
mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name—
Eze 39:26 after they have
borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful
to Me, when they dwelt safely in their own land and no one made them
afraid.
Eze 39:27 When I have
brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies'
lands, and I am hallowed in them in the sight of many nations,
Eze 39:28 then they shall
know that I am the LORD their God, who sent them into captivity among
the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them
captive any longer.
Eze 39:29 And I will not
hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house
of Israel,' says the Lord GOD."
Long
prophecies, but this is not the time to skimp on the Scriptures. The world
needs to know where it stands and where it is going, and secular media would
not know it. They cannot know, because
for them the Word of God means nothing. This is why God will fall upon them
with a vengeance. It is not for nothing
that the end time Great Tribulation is also called the Day of God’s
vengeance.
Ezekiel,
Jeremiah, Zechariah, the Revelation, many of the Minor Prophets, Jesus Christ
Himself, have had much to say about this impending awesome event, and yet,
although the signs are overwhelming that the Great Tribulation is upon us, there
is not a single word about it in the contemporary media. Even preachers and religious media are not
very hot on this idea anymore. Although
some accept that Jesus Christ will return one day, they just don’t want it to
happen in their life time. They are not
quite ready for Him. They do not want us to be proven right as we have exposed
the falsity of their preaching. They know that if we are right, it would be a
greater catastrophe for them than for the world; for while some people will
survive, none of them will.
They
just do not want to take the words of Jesus Christ to their face value.
Mat 7:22
Many will say to Me
in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons
in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'
Mat 7:23 And then I will declare to them, 'I
never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'
How
could they not practice lawlessness when their followers will turn against
Jesus Christ when His returns to this world, as will the rest of the world.
The
truth is that if they are not ready for Jesus Christ now, after all that has
happened in the world in the last half a dozen years or so, they never will
be. This is what Jesus Christ said about
these people.
Luk 19:27 Bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to
reign over them, and slay them before me.' "
We
will conclude on a positive note for those who turn to God while He may be
found.
1Ch 16:8 Oh, give thanks to the LORD! Call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples!
1Ch 16:9 Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; Talk of all His wondrous works!
1Ch 16:10 Glory in His holy name; Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the LORD!
1Ch 16:11 Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face evermore!
1Ch 16:12 Remember His marvelous works which He has done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth,
1Ch 16:13 O seed of Israel His servant, You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!
1Ch 16:14 He is the LORD our God; His judgments are in all the earth.
1Ch 16:15 Remember His covenant forever, The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,
1Ch 16:16 The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac,
1Ch 16:17 And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
1Ch 16:18 Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan As the allotment of your inheritance,"
1Ch 16:19 When you were few in number, Indeed very few, and strangers in it.
1Ch 16:20 When they went from one nation to another, And from one kingdom to another people,
1Ch 16:21 He permitted no man to do them wrong; Yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes,
1Ch 16:22 Saying, "Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm."
1Ch 16:23 Sing to the LORD, all the earth; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day.
1Ch 16:24 Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.
1Ch 16:25 For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; He is also to be feared above all gods.
1Ch 16:26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the LORD made the heavens.
1Ch 16:27 Honor and majesty are before Him; Strength and gladness are in His place.
1Ch 16:28 Give to the LORD, O families of the peoples, Give to the LORD glory and strength.
1Ch 16:29 Give to the LORD the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come before Him. Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness!
1Ch 16:30 Tremble before Him, all the earth. The world also is firmly established, It shall not be moved.
1Ch 16:31 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; And let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns."
1Ch 16:32 Let the sea roar, and all its fullness; Let the field rejoice, and all that is in it.
1Ch 16:33 Then the trees of the woods shall rejoice before the LORD, For He is coming to judge the earth.
1Ch 16:34 Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.
1Ch 16:35 And say, "Save us, O God of our salvation; Gather us together, and deliver us from the Gentiles, To give thanks to Your holy name, To triumph in Your praise."
1Ch 16:36 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel From everlasting to everlasting! And all the people said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD.
Moscow’s
Unsavory Lesson to the World
As we are
writing, Russia is sweltering under the worst heat wave in its history. The country has been caught unprepared by a
“once in a thousand years disaster”.
Temperatures have been hovering around the 40 degree mark for
weeks. Much of its agriculture has
wilted, its forests on fire on a scale that defies imagination, many country
towns and villages have been wiped off the map, and people are crying out for
help that never comes. Authorities are
powerless to do much about it due to its sheer size, lack of qualified
personnel and inadequate firefighting equipment.
In the midst of
all this, a white knight arose and set out to do something about it and
alleviate people’s misery. Vladimir
Putin jumped into a fire fighting plane, took brazenly to the skies, and went
out ‘conquering to conquer’, determined to snuff out those fires. Russian people could only marvel at the
enterprising spirit of their Prime Minister.
Where in the world could one find a leader that cares so much for his
people?!
A few years
ago, when global warming caught the world’s consciousness, scientists warned
that unless the trend is reversed global temperature could rise by up to two
degrees over the next two or three centuries.
President Putin was shown saying, tongue and cheek, that Russia could do
with a couple of degrees warmer. I do not think he would say that now. And global temperatures have risen by a mere
0.7C degree so far.
Things have
changed enormously in the last decade or so.
Scientists are no longer talking of a rise in temperature of two degree
over a few centuries, but of up to six degrees over one century. Every one of their estimates has proven to be
far too conservative. Global warming is
advancing at a much faster pace than anyone could have imagined only a few
short years ago. The fires in Russia and
the floods in Pakistan, to mention but the most obvious weather extremes, are a
vivid example of what global warming means for this world.
The speed by
which these climate extremes have descended upon the world tells us that things
are not developing gradually, but in leaps and at an accelerated pace.
This did not
come as a surprise to us, as we have been crying out for years that this would
happen. How did we know it? We read it
in the Bible, believed it, and told the world about it. When God says that “men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed
the name of God who has power over these plagues, and they did not repent and
give Him glory” (Rev 16:9), we knew
that this would not be a gradual development.
And who are the men who
received the worst scorching? Those who
live in the land in which atheism ruled for seven
decades, are led by people who do not believe in God, or believe in a false
god! This is the time of God’s vengeance
upon a wayward world. And what will be
the outcome of all this? Here is the answer from the LORD Himself.
Mal 4:1 "For behold, the day is coming,
Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be
stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up," Says the LORD of
hosts, "That will leave them neither root nor branch.
Mal 4:2 But to you who fear My name The Sun of
Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out And
grow fat like stall-fed calves.
Mal 4:3 You shall trample the wicked, For they
shall be ashes under the soles of your feet On the day that I do this,"
Says the LORD of hosts.
Mal 4:4 "Remember the Law of Moses, My
servant, Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, With the
statutes and judgments.
Mal 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the
prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
Mal 4:6 And he will turn The hearts of the fathers to the
children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and
strike the earth with a curse [utter destruction, Jewish Tanach].
The world is
caught up in the throes of a dying age and the dawn of another.
There is a
great expectation out in the world that the end of the world is supposedly
coming on December 21, 2012. Hollywood
itself got caught up in this frenzy with a movie called 2012. I wish I had seen that movie, so that I could
speak from direct experience, but unfortunately I could not find the time when
the movie was showing at our local cinema, and now it is gone. However, I do not think I have missed much,
for the title, its blurb, and its reviews, tell me enough to know that it is
all bunkum.
Let me say it
here loud and clear: the end of the world WILL NOT occur on December 21,
2012. If anything, more important
prophetic developments are to occur in 2011 than in 2012. The transition to the new age, a new world
order under Jesus Christ, is not a sudden event, but one which extends over a
few years, and not before the world explodes into a
nuclear nightmare. This is what is
stalking the world at present – not the end of the world, but the end of this
age. Unfortunately this is a messy
affair. Here is another biblical quote that says a lot about these
developments.
Zec 14:1
Behold, the day of
the LORD is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst.
Zec 14:2 For I will gather all the nations to
battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses rifled, And the
women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, But
the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zec 14:3 Then the LORD will go forth And fight
against those nations, As He fights in the day of battle.
Zec 14:4 And in that day His feet will stand on
the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives
shall be split in two, From east to west, Making
a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half
of it toward the south.
Zec 14:5 Then you shall flee through My
mountain valley, For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.
Yes, you shall flee As you fled from the earthquake In
the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Thus the LORD my
God will come, And all the saints with You.
Zec 14:6 It shall come to pass in that day That
there will be no light; The lights will diminish.
Zec 14:7 It shall be one day Which is known to
the LORD Neither day nor night. But at evening time it shall happen That it will be light.
Zec 14:8 And in that day it shall be— That
living waters shall flow from Jerusalem, Half of them toward the eastern sea
And half of them toward the western sea; In both summer and winter it shall
occur.
Zec 14:9 And the LORD shall be King over all
the earth. In that day it shall be "The LORD is one," And His
name one.
Zec 14:10 All the land shall be turned into a
plain from Geba to Rimmon
south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her
place from Benjamin's Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate,
and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's
winepresses.
Zec 14:11 The people shall dwell
in it; And no longer shall there be utter destruction, But Jerusalem shall be
safely inhabited.
Zec 14:12 And this shall be the plague with
which the LORD will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their
flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve
in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.
Zec 14:13 It shall come to pass in that day That
a great panic from the LORD will be among them. Everyone will seize the hand of
his neighbor, And raise his hand against his
neighbor's hand;
Zec 14:14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem.
And the wealth of all the surrounding nations Shall be
gathered together: Gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.
Zec 14:15 Such also shall be the plague On the
horse and the mule, On the camel and the donkey, And on all the cattle
that will be in those camps. So shall this plague be.
Zec 14:16 And it
shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which
came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the
LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
Zec 14:17 And it
shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to
Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no
rain.
Zec 14:18 If the family of Egypt will not come
up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the
plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the
Feast of Tabernacles.
Zec 14:19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt
and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of
Tabernacles.
Zec 14:20 In that day "HOLINESS TO THE
LORD" shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the
LORD's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
Zec 14:21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah
shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts. Everyone who sacrifices shall come and
take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite in
the house of the LORD of hosts.
And here is
another one that tells us what follows immediately afterwards.
Eze 39:12 For seven months the house of Israel will be burying
them, in order to cleanse the land.
After
suffering great devastation at first, Israel will burry
its enemy invaders over a period of no less than seven months! And who are the people that come against
Israel in such great numbers? Here is
that verse in its context.
Eze 39:1 "And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal;
Eze 39:2 and I will turn you around and lead you on, bringing you up from the far north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel.
Eze 39:3 Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand.
Eze 39:4 You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
Eze 39:5 You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken," says the Lord GOD.
Eze 39:6 "And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in security in the coastlands. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.
Eze 39:7 So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them profane My holy name anymore. Then the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Eze 39:8 Surely it is coming, and it shall be done," says the Lord GOD. "This is the day of which I have spoken.
Eze 39:9 "Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for seven years.
Eze 39:10 They will not take wood from the field nor cut down any from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; and they will plunder those who plundered them, and pillage those who pillaged them," says the Lord GOD.
Eze 39:11 "It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley of Hamon Gog.
Eze 39:12 For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land.
Eze 39:13 Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain renown for it on the day that I am glorified," says the Lord GOD.
Eze 39:14 "They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.
Eze 39:15 The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man's bone, he shall set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.
Eze 39:16 The name of the city will also be Hamonah. Thus they shall cleanse the land." '
Eze 39:17 "And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field: "Assemble yourselves and come; Gather together from all sides to My sacrificial meal Which I am sacrificing for you, A great sacrificial meal on the mountains of Israel, That you may eat flesh and drink blood.
Eze 39:18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, Drink the blood of the princes of the earth, Of rams and lambs, Of goats and bulls, All of them fatlings of Bashan.
Eze 39:19 You shall eat fat till you are full, And drink blood till you are drunk, At My sacrificial meal Which I am sacrificing for you.
Eze 39:20 You shall be filled at My table With horses and riders, With mighty men And with all the men of war," says the Lord GOD.
Eze 39:21 "I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them.
Eze 39:22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day forward.
Eze 39:23 The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid My face from them. I gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.
Eze 39:24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them." '
Eze 39:25 "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name—
Eze 39:26 after they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, when they dwelt safely in their own land and no one made them afraid.
Eze 39:27 When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and I am hallowed in them in the sight of many nations,
Eze 39:28 then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them captive any longer.
Eze 39:29 And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,' says the Lord GOD."
Two decades
ago, we began this work because we saw the need for it and because no one in
the world was doing anything similar.
The Scriptures make it clear that God will not allow another work like
this because He does not want His people to duplicate each other’s work. What you hear from other churches and religions
is nothing but a self-serving exercise in order to justify themselves to their
followers. We have no such obligation,
nor do we draw any advantage from what we do.
Anyone who does
the work of God for self-interest will never understand the mysteries of the
Bible. The Holy Spirit does not work
that way. I wish I had the time to show you the clap-trap revelations that our
nemesis confront us with, but the job is too great and demanding for our small
outfit; sufficient to say here that because our predictions are coming true as
expected, our nemeses are showing signs of panic. But then, this too is in the Scriptures.
Mat 24:24 For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
Mat 24:25 See, I have told you beforehand.
Mat 24:26 "Therefore if they say to you, 'Look, He is in the desert!' do not go out; or 'Look, He is in the inner rooms!' do not believe it.
Mat 24:27 For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Mat 24:28 For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together.
Mat 24:29 "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Mat 24:30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mat 24:31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mat 24:32 "Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near.
Mat 24:33 So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors!
Mat 24:34 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place.
Mat 24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
Heaven and
earth will pass away, but the words of Jesus Christ will not pass away. How many people believe that? And how many people do anything about it,
seeing that His prophecies are coming true before our very eyes?
Over the years,
we have pointed out more than once that it is not a mere coincidence that the
world has reached an existential crisis at this exact point in time. It has been planned that way from above and
foretold in biblical prophecies thousands of years in advance. It is just a matter of reading and
understanding the time of their fulfillment.
However, God’s prophecies cannot be understood except in the context of
their own time, and only by people who have the Holy Spirit and a clear
conscience before God. We know of no one
alive today, or in history, who has unveiled more mysteries and biblical prophecies
than we have. This is why it would a
foolish person who reads our revelations and does not turn to God in heartfelt
repentance and worship.
The reason so
many end time prophecies have been unveiled in our days is because we live in
those times. The Christian Herald took
a while to be noticed, but now it soars. People are beginning to take note of
the fact that no other publication has placed current world developments,
natural and geopolitical, in their proper prophetic timeline the way The Christian Herald has done.
At present, the
world is mesmerized by unprecedented natural disasters, paying little attention
to more ominous geopolitical developments.
American leaders never tire appeasing Russia and telling their people
how friendly they are with the Russian leaders. Interestingly enough, the
Russian leaders never tell that to their people. Most Russians still look upon
America as a competitor if not an enemy, blaming it for the calamitous failure
and fall of the Soviet Empire.
Whenever they
talk of new treaties it is almost always the Americans who go to Russia, and
seldom if ever the other way around.
Moreover, since Putin came to power, he has resurrected Russia’s
mothballed long range bombers and sent them in surveillance missions over
America’s military bases in the Pacific, and post its nuclear armed submarines
on missions 300 km off America’s eastern coast.
And still the Americans think that these are gestures of a friendly
nature.
In the
Mediterranean Sea, Russia is building its largest overseas deep water port on
Syria’s coast; one capable of harboring Russia’s awesome Mediterranean fleet of
surface vessels and nuclear submarines.
Much as Israel
likes to be on good terms with Russia, it too would do well to keep a close eye
on developments in its northern neighborhood.
Better yet, it should familiarize itself with its Scriptures, such as
Ezekiel 38 and 39 in order to know what is coming its way. It should also familiarize itself with The Christian Herald because its priests and prophets are not up to
their task anymore.
Hos 4:1 Hear the word of the LORD, You children of Israel, For the LORD brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "There is no truth or mercy Or knowledge of God in the land.
Hos 4:2 By swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed.
Hos 4:3 Therefore the land will mourn; And everyone who dwells there will waste away With the beasts of the field And the birds of the air; Even the fish of the sea will be taken away.
Hos 4:4 "Now let no man contend, or rebuke another; For your people are like those who contend with the priest.
Hos 4:5 Therefore you shall stumble in the day; The prophet also shall stumble with you in the night; And I will destroy your mother.
Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
Hos 4:7 "The more they increased, The more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame.
Hos 4:8 They eat up the sin of My people; They set their heart on their iniquity.
Hos 4:9 And it shall be: like people, like priest. So I will punish them for their ways, And reward them for their deeds.
Hos 4:10 For they shall eat, but not have enough; They shall commit harlotry, but not increase; Because they have ceased obeying the LORD.
Three years
ago, before the world entered a disastrous financial crisis, we sent out a
newsletter to the world in which we said, among other things, the following:
“LEADERS OF
THE WORLD, YOU ARE
HEADING TOWARDS CATASTROPHE!”
“ RETURN TO YOUR CREATOR GOD, OR YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE WILL PERISH!”
“The time of
reckoning is at hand. Turn around from the path of self-destruction and bring
your people back to God, or no one will survive the catastrophe into which
powerful dark forces are leading the world into. The planet is being scorched, climate change
is causing turmoil around the world, widespread famine is looming, oil supply
is running dry, and international relations are on a knife edge. These, and more, are in biblical prophecy, as
is the fact that unless people turn to God now, the world is heading towards
annihilation.
This is the time
Jesus Christ spoke about when He said that unless God intervenes to cut those
days short, no flesh will be saved alive (Mat. 24). He
also gave us this prophecy, which is being fulfilled before our very eyes.
Rev 16:9 And
men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has
power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.
Human beings
cannot resolve these problems on their own anymore, yet they would not repent
of their sins and turn to God who has power over these plagues, but continue to
blaspheme by denying Him and His creation.
God is never
mentioned in the forums that claim to deal with these problems; the result
being that humanity is getting ever closer to the edge of the abyss. You need
to address your people and let them know about their dire situation and the
fact that only God Almighty can save them now, or you and your people have no
future”.
Then, in May this
year, we sent out another newsletter in which we said this:
“Our record over the two
decades since we commenced this work provides ample proof of where the Holy
Spirit could be found these days. Even
the most hardened cynics, if they are honest with themselves, could see that we
have God’s support and inspiration in what we do.
For much of that time, we
could only gauge our success by the number of letters we received from our
correspondents. We do not speak of converts, but of correspondents, because
from the beginning we knew that we would have no converts to our cause. Our work is not one of conversion (not that
we would turn anyone away), but one of restoring and witnessing the true Gospel
to a wayward world, a fact prophesied to occur at this particular junction in
world history. God says that when this work is completed the world will enter a
new age. It is in your interest to
familiarize yourselves with our writings if you want to know where the world is
heading. All our publications are freely available on this web site: www.thechristianherald.info.
We do not know who visits
our site, and do not wish to know. We
only know the countries from which they come. However, we are happy to hear
from our readers and gladly reply to their enquiries.
The English speaking world
has been our main theatre of activity, but we have sent our newsletters to
other world leaders as well. Not surprisingly, until a few years ago, we got
very little correspondence from the non-English speaking world. The advent of the World Wide Web, however,
has produced some extraordinary developments.
The United States of America, which provided the bulk of our readership
for a long time, has now been overtaken by . . . the Russian Federation. At the current rate, Russia will soon provide
more readers than the rest of the world combined. We can only say, good on you
friends; keep up the good work, you are on the right track. You know that your nation has a mighty job to
fulfill in these end times. You need to
stay close to God in order to survive those times. When you get on your knees, pray to the God
of Alpha and Omega Christian Foundation, for Alpha and Omega is none other than
Jesus Christ Himself. We are merely the
venue by which He is addressing the world.”
What followed this
Newsletter was another extraordinary development. Rather than heading towards providing us with
more readers than the rest of the world combined, one month later the number of
Russian readers halved, and in another month they came to zero.
Now does anyone imagine that
this was a natural development? Clearly, the Russian leaders – President
Medvedev, Prime Minister Putin, and more likely Orthodox Patriarch Kirill – panicked and went after our readers. Within two months they silenced them
all. And what happened to Russia after
that? It exploded in a frenzy of fires
that devastated its crops, its forests, and many of its people. A painful but
powerful lesson for the world!
Pakistan which
is currently also in great distress due to widespread flooding, is one of the
countries that provide zero readerships for our magazines and newsletters too,
even though English is their second language.
Another powerful lesson for itself and for the world!
We have reached
the point in which we could foresee the countries that are about to endure
great hardship by the way they respond to God’s messages.
So what are the meaning, the
message, and the moral in all this?
DO NOT CHALLENGE
GOD OR IGNORE HIS MESSAGES, OR YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE WILL PERISH!
State of the World – 2010
INTERNATIONAL
“Agreement on establishment of
Collective Rapid Reaction Forces”
Agreement
on establishment of the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) has been signed
in Moscow at the summit of the CSTO Collective Security Council.
“The
main event of this summit is the signing of the Agreement on establishment of
the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces that regulates the most important issues
of work of the corresponding Forces”, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said at
a press conference upon the results of the summit.
The
regulatory framework was adopted as well. “It will allow our countries to
respond to new threats, international terrorism, local and cross-border crime,
including drug trafficking and local conflicts, more effcetively”,
D.Medvedev noted.
The
Russian President noted that some CSTO member countries do not participate in
the formation of the CRRF, including Uzbekistan and Belarus. The Action Plan of
the CSTO member states on formation of the collective system of countermeasures
to illegal migration was adopted as well. (International
Herald Tribune, June 15, 2009)
“US and Russia in arms accord”
“US
President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have agreed on a
landmark arms treaty that will cut the nuclear arsenals of the one-time rivals
to the lowest levels since 1960s.
The
leaders settled on the final detail of an eight-month negotiation yesterday
with a morning telephone call. They also
agreed to meet in Prague on April 8 to sign the new pact, which will replace
the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty of 1991.
Mr Obama announced the new agreement in an
appearance at the White House with Secretary Robert M. Gates and Joint Chiefs
of Staff Chairman Michael Mullen.
Mr
Obama acknowledged that the talks, which were slowed by differences over
sensitive issues of missile defence and verification, were long and
difficult.
“It
took patience, it took perseverance,” Mr Obama said. “But we never give up.”
The
treaty represents a step forward in the US effort to improve relations with
Russia.
The
White House hopes the US-Russia treaty will open the way to a series of other
arms-control agreements.” (Paul Richter, The Sunday Telegraph,
March 28, 2010).
[This agreement will prove out to be as
effective as the one signed in 1938 between Chamberlain and Hitler. Ed.]
“How not to fight a war”
“Riding shotgun
in an armored vehicle as it passed through the heat and confusion of southern Afghanistan this month, an Army sergeant spoke into his headset,
summarizing a sentiment often heard in the field this year. “I wish we had generals who remembered what
it was like when they were down in a platoon,” he said to a reporter in the
back. “Either they never have been in real fighting, or they forgot what it’s
like.” The sergeant was speaking of Gen.
Stanley A. McChrystal and
the circle of counterinsurgents who since last year have been running the
Afghan war, and who have, as a matter of both policy and practice, made it much
more difficult for troops to use airstrikes and artillery in the fight against
the Taliban.
No
matter the outcome of his meeting on Wednesday in Washington over caustic
comments he and his staff made about President Obama and his national security team, the general, or his
successor, faces problems from a constituency as important as his bosses and
that no commander wants to lose: his own troops. As levels of violence in Afghanistan climb,
there is a palpable and building sense of unease among troops surrounding one
of the most confounding questions about how to wage the war: when and how
lethal force should be used. Since last
year, the counterinsurgency doctrine championed by those now leading the
campaign has assumed an almost unchallenged supremacy in the ranks of the
American military’s career officers. The doctrine, which has been supported by
both the Bush and Obama administrations, rests on core assumptions, including that
using lethal force against an insurgency intermingled with a civilian
population is often counterproductive.
Since
General McChrystal assumed command, he has been a
central face and salesman of this idea, and he has applied it to warfare in a
tangible way: by further tightening rules guiding the use of Western firepower
— airstrikes and guided rocket attacks, artillery barrages and even mortar fire
— to support troops on the ground. “Winning hearts and minds in COIN is a
coldblooded thing,” General McChrystal was quoted as
telling an upset American soldier in the Rolling Stone profile
that has landed him in trouble. “The Russians killed 1 million Afghans, and that
didn’t work.” COIN is the often used abbreviation for counterinsurgency.
The
rules have shifted risks from Afghan civilians to Western combatants. They have
earned praise in many circles, hailed as a much needed corrective to looser
practices that since 2001 killed or maimed many Afghan civilians and undermined
support for the American-led war. But the new rules have also come with costs,
including a perception now frequently heard among troops that the effort to
limit risks to civilians has swung too far, and endangers the lives of Afghan
and Western soldiers caught in firefights with insurgents who need not observe
any rules at all. Young officers and enlisted soldiers and Marines, typically speaking on the condition of anonymity to
protect their jobs, speak of “being handcuffed,” of not being trusted by their
bosses and of being asked to battle a canny and vicious insurgency “in a fair
fight.” Some rules meant to enshrine
counterinsurgency principles into daily practices, they say, do not merely
transfer risks away from civilians. They transfer risks away from the
Taliban. Before the rules were
tightened, one Army major who had commanded an infantry company said, “firefights in Afghanistan had a half-life.” By this he meant
that skirmishes often were brief, lasting roughly a half-hour. The Taliban
would ambush patrols and typically break contact and slip away as patrol
leaders organized and escalated Western firepower in response.
Now,
with fire support often restricted, or even idled, Taliban fighters seem
noticeably less worried about an American response, many soldiers and Marines
say. Firefights often drag on, sometimes lasting hours, and costing lives. The
United States’ material advantages are not robustly applied; troops are engaged
in rifle-on-rifle fights on their enemy’s turf.
One Marine infantry lieutenant, during fighting in Marja
this year, said he had all but stopped seeking air support while engaged in
firefights. He spent too much time on the radio trying to justify its need, he
said, and the aircraft never arrived or they arrived too late or the pilots
were reluctant to drop their ordnance.
“I’m better off just trying to fight my fight, and maneuver the squads,
and not waste the time or focus trying to get air,” he said. Several infantrymen have also said that the
rules are so restrictive that pilots are often not allowed to attack fixed
targets — say, a building or tree line from which troops are taking fire —
unless they can personally see the insurgents doing the firing. This has lead to situations many soldiers
describe as absurd, including decisions by patrol leaders to have fellow
soldiers move briefly out into the open to draw fire once aircraft arrive, so
the pilots might be cleared to participate in the fight. (. . .)
An American counterinsurgency campaign seeks
support from at least two publics — the Afghan and the American. Efforts to
satisfy one can undermine support in the other. The restrictions on using fire
support are part of a larger bundle of instructions, known as rules of
engagement that guide decisions on how troops can interact with Afghans, and
how they can fight. The rules have shifted frequently over the years, becoming
tighter and tighter. Each change, often at the urging of the government of
President Hamid Karzai, has shown the delicacy of the balance.
NATO needs the Afghan government’s support. But
restrictions that are popular in Kabul have often alienated soldiers and Marines whose lives are at stake, including rules that limit
when Western troops can enter Afghan homes. Such rules, soldiers and Marines
say, concede advantages to insurgents, making it easier for them to hide, to
fight, to meet and to store their weapons or assemble their makeshift bombs.
It
is an axiom of military service that troops gripe; venting is part of barracks
and battlefield life. Troops complain about food, equipment, lack of sleep,
delays in their transportation and the weather where they work. Complaints about how they are allowed to
fight are another matter and can be read as a sign of deeper disaffection and
strains within the military over policy choices. One Army colonel, in a
conversation this month, said the discomfort and anger about the rules had
reached a high pitch.
“The
troops hate it,” he said. “Right now we’re losing the tactical-level fight in
the chase for a strategic victory. How long can that be
sustained?” (C. J. Chivers, International Herald Tribune, June 22, 2010)
“The collapse of the West, with Islam at the
gate”
“Internecine
civil wars are underway almost everywhere within the West, and most virulently
in the United States of America. They are not yet kinetic wars, but wars of
grinding prepositioning, the kind which lead to foregone conclusions without a
shot being fired. They are wars of survival, nonetheless, because the basic
architecture for national strength is being altered incrementally or
dramatically. And in many cases consciously.
Almost
all of the strategic restructuring of states is occurring in large part as a
result of an accumulation of wealth; an accumulation and value of which is seen
as permanent. This has resulted in the hubris — expressed by those who did not
earn it — of triumph in the Cold War. This is a Western phenomenon because the
widespread growth of wealth, the creation of freedoms classically associated
with democracy, resulted — as it must inevitably result — in complacencies
which in turn led to a "vote too far": the extension of the
democratic franchise to those who do not help in the creation of wealth. Once
the voting franchise of the West reached the point where those who sought
benefits outweighed those who created benefits, the tipping point was reached.
The situation of de facto "class warfare" thus emerges automatically
under such circumstances, and the envy of those who take against those who
provide erupts into "rights" and "entitlement". By deifying
"democracy" above justice, the enfranchised non-producers could
always outvote the producers. We are at this point. The result can only be
collapse, or restructuring around a Cæsar or a
Bonaparte until, eventually, a productive hierarchy reappears, usually after
considerable pain. Virtually every conscious step of the Administration of
President Barack Obama and the overwhelming Democratic Party majority in
Congress has been to increase the size and role of government in the economy
and society, and to decrease, limit, and control the position of private
enterprise and capital formation. Given that this progressively contracts and
ultimately eliminates production, and reduces the inherent asset base of the
country — its raw materials and productive intellect — to a null value, the
tradable value of the U.S. currency will inevitably decline. We cannot be
swayed by the enormous wealth of the North American continent. Almost all areas
have an inherent wealth of some kind, but assets left idle in the ground or
infertile in the brain define countries which fail, or are not victorious in
their quest for unbridled sovereignty.
Thus, a decline in currency value is exacerbated, or accelerated, by the
increasing supply of money, inextricably
depreciating its value, particularly at a time of decreasing productivity in
vital perishable and nonperishable output.
The
U.S. Obama Administration has focused entirely on an agenda of expanding
government — the seizure of the envied (and often ephemeral) "wealth"
of the producers — without addressing the process of facilitating the
production of essential commodities and goods. Even the USSR and the People's
Republic of China, during their communist periods, focused — albeit badly — on
the production of goods and services, when they realized that the
"wealth" to be "redistributed" existed only as the result
of production and innovation. The U.S., meanwhile, heavily as a result of
policies of the former Clinton Administration, has "outsourced"
production, and the State — that is, the Government — cannot easily, in the
U.S., become the producer.
President Obama has addressed the U.S.' economic
crisis by expanding government, and government-related, employment in
nonproductive sectors, while at the same time blaming and punishing the private
sector for all of the U.S. ills. Empowered by the extended franchise, this was
the politics of envy now becoming enabled. Moreover, the populist, short-term
response to the major oil-spill in the Gulf of Mexico
was clearly geared toward (a) transforming a crisis into an opportunity to
pursue a green energy agenda by highlighting the evils of the fossil fuels on
which the U.S. remains dependent; (b) ensuring that the President was not
blamed for the poor crisis response; and (c) ensuring that the Democratic Party
did not suffer from the crisis in the November 2010 mid-term Congressional
elections.
The
result of all the Obama initiatives has been to expand government and reduce or
absolutely control and tax the private sector, even though, without the private
sector, the U.S. has no viable export or self-sustaining capability. The net
effect has been to mirror — and overtake — the situation in which, for example,
Germany found itself a decade ago: without the ability to retain capital investment or attract new capital
investment. And in order to restrain capital flight from the U.S., the Obama
Administration seeks to further control worldwide earnings of U.S. corporations
and citizens. For other reasons, the U.S., believing that it still dominates
the technology arena, has imposed greater and greater restrictions on
international exports of technology through its ITAR (International Traffic in
Arms Regulations) and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. All of this conspires to limit investment in
U.S. manufacturing and restrict foreign interest in U.S. exports because the
regulations are being enforced merely for political punitive reasons. The U.S.
is making itself increasingly unappealing to foreign investors and has, as this
writer has noted, made the appeal of the U.S. dollar as the global reserve
currency evaporate, saved, for the moment, only by the lack of a ready
alternative. That situation will change within a very few years.
Thus,
the U.S. has, in the space of a couple of years: (i)
so dramatically inflated money supply that the value of the dollar is only
shored up by the lack of international alternative currencies to act as reserve
trading currencies; (ii) so dramatically
inflated public debt, without stimulating economic growth, that U.S. economic
performance will continue to decline on a national and a per capita basis while
competitive economies, such as the PRC and Russia, will grow, reducing
strategic differentials; (iii) severely punished the private sector, thereby
reducing the opportunities and incentives for strategic capital formation, and
in particular punishing the industrial production and energy sectors, almost
ensuring major dislocation to the delivery of U.S. basic needs in the
near-term; and (iv) so blatantly reduced its strategic capabilities through all
of these actions and in its diplomatic and military posture as to guarantee a
reduction in U.S. strategic credibility. Concurrent with all of this is an
increasingly punitive taxation framework.
The
near-term impact will include rising domestic energy prices, possibly even
before the November 2010 mid-term Congressional elections, which could result
in the Democratic Party losing its substantial majority in both Houses. Even on
this matter, Democratic Party ideologues have attempted to suggest that this is
exactly what the country needs: expensive energy in order to facilitate change
to "green" solutions. This defies the historical reality that
preeminent powers must always have vast energy surpluses and use.
So
much damage has been done to the U.S. strategic posture in just two years
(although building on a base of inefficiencies which have been growing since
the end of the Cold War), in many respects equal to the 1917 Russian Revolution
(but without the bloodshed), that it is difficult to forecast whether — because
of a changing global environment — the U.S. can, within a decade or two,
recover its strategic authority and leadership. Domestically, the massively
statist and interventionist approaches of the Obama Administration have
polarized the country, and the response will be reactive rather than
innovative, inducing a period of isolation and nationalism, but with grave
difficulty in rebuilding confidence from the international
investment
community.
Europe:
Artificial,
wealth-induced complacency following the end of the Cold War led to fury when
economic collapse inevitably occurred in 2010, leading to draconian restraint
in public spending in many societies, but particularly Greece and Spain. It is
said that tourists are warned not to feed bears in Yellowstone National Park,
in the U.S., because the bears do not understand when the tourists have run out
of food. State-fed populations in Europe, the U.S., and Australia (see below)
equally do not understand when the free ride is over, and work must recommence.
Germany,
France, and the United Kingdom have begun the arduous path back to recovery,
but the euro may, as a currency, have been irrevocably damaged, and the
European Union itself may have spent the term of its virility. Clearly, the
wealth-induced complacency, which had the compounding effect of allowing a
decline in a sense of national survival and national identity among the
European Union (EU) component states, has led now to a revived — but as yet
unrealized — sense of nationalism. This is beginning to lead to the recognition
of the cohesive national efficiency required for survival and competitiveness.
It can be said that the EU destroyed nationalism, without replacing it with any
mechanism to create a new sense of social cohesion, thus removing Europe's
capability for economic competitiveness, self defense, or ability to define a
new culture (and identity) to replace the national identities. Had the British
Labour Party Government of outgoing Prime Minister Gordon Brown persisted in
office with his slavishly doctrinaire governance — and demonstrably unworkable
socialism, led by a privileged élite of Labour mandarins wallowing at the
trough — it is possible that an economic recovery in the UK would have been
problematic. It may still be problematic. And in this, Brown was a prototype
Obama, with his rank sense of entitlement. Even now, the British political
psyche is fractured along geographic lines, and, wealth-induced, considers
itself effectively "post-industrial", and therefore beyond the need
for a manufacturing (or even agricultural base). Thus, even though the UK is
now far more dependent on a maritime trade base than at any time in its
history, it is incapable of defending or projecting that maritime base; neither
does it have the wherewithal to trade.
.
. . A pseudo-post-industrial society is
one which believes that it can live solely on the intrinsic value of its
currency, without the necessity to sustain a balanced agricultural and
industrial base to preserve sovereign independence. A true post-industrial
society — something thus far a utopian dream — can produce all of its food and
goods with a minute fraction of its population, which would largely be left to
address intellectual pursuits. . . We
see, then, in the very deliberate acts of envy and entitlement politics, the
seeds of national collapse in Australia, the U.S., and Western Europe.
Conclusions:
Some
of the Western powers have slumped before, and recovered. The United States has
yet to demonstrate this resilience. Other Western societies have slumped, and
have yet been protected by a strong regional system so that their societies
could prosper under foreign protection. The Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal,
for example, retained stable and individual prosperous societies and yet never
recovered their strategic leadership, relying, instead, on the power of their
region for economic and security protection. States which remain dependent on
others for their protection never fully regain their wealth and freedom.
States
such as New Zealand depend on their greater neighbors for protection. But
wither New Zealand if Australia fails? Wither the Netherlands today if the
European Union fails? And wither the United States if its fortunes erode?
Re-birth is, as Britain has found through history, as did Rome, more arduous
than that first, pure flush of strategic victory. The West is at its watershed, not because of a
threat from a less-productive society. The collapse of the West is not because
Islam is at the gates. Islam is at the gates because of the collapse of the
West. (Gregory R. Copley, Global Information System, World Tribune, June 10, 2010)
“BILLIONAIRE investor George Soros
believes we have just entered the second act of the global financial crisis as
Europe's fiscal woes worsen and governments are pressed to curb budget deficits
that may push the global economy back into recession.
''The collapse of the financial
system as we know it is real, and the crisis is far from over,'' he told the
Institute of International Finance conference in Vienna. ''Indeed, we have just
entered act two of the drama.'' Mr
Soros, 79, said the current situation in the world economy was reminiscent of
the 1930s, with governments under pressure to narrow budget deficits at a time
when the economic recovery was weak. Concern
that Europe's sovereign debt crisis may spread sent the euro to a four-year low
against the US dollar this week and has wiped out more than $US4 trillion ($4.7
trillion) from global stock markets this year.
Europe's debt-ridden nations have to raise almost €2 trillion ($2.85
trillion) within the next three years to refinance, according to Bank of
America. ''[As]
the financial markets started losing confidence in the credibility of sovereign
debt, Greece and the euro have taken centre stage, but the effects are liable
to be felt worldwide,'' Mr Soros said. Mr
Soros gained fame in the 1990s when he reportedly made $US1 billion correctly
betting against the pound. He also wagered that Germany's mark would appreciate
after the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and that Japanese stocks would
start to fall in the same year.
Credit default swaps, which aim to
protect bondholders against the risk of a default, were dangerous and a ''licence to kill'', Mr Soros said. They should only be
allowed if there was an insurable interest, he said. He also said regulators were ''more imperfect
than markets'' as they were ''always behind the curve'' and subject to political
influences. Mr Soros told delegates that regulation should be kept to a
minimum. (Zoe Schneeweiss
and Andrew Macaskill, Bloomberg, Sydney Morning Herald, June 12, 2010)
“Is the next financial bubble beginning to burst? With all the focus on Greece and the European Union debt crisis, little attention has been given to what is most likely an even bigger time bomb – the emerging $600 trillion bubble in derivatives that will mostly likely burst as the debt crisis deepens, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports
. "Nor is it clear that President Obama, who took huge campaign contributions in 2008 from Wall Street, will be able to bring derivatives under federal regulations this year, even if the White House manages to get financial industry reform measures through Congress," Corsi wrote. As interest rates begin to rise worldwide, Red Alert predicts losses in derivatives may end up bankrupting a wide range of institutions, including but not limited to municipalities and state governments around the globe, major insurance companies, top investment houses and commercial banks, as well as universities of all types, even those with the largest endowments.A quadrillion is the number 1
followed by 15 zeroes, as in: 1,000,000,000,000,000.
To visualize
a quadrillion, multiply 1 trillion by 1,000.
“FAITH UNDER
FIRE - America, 2010: Christians jailed for
preaching Jesus”
All the
Christian missionaries are from a Christian group called Acts 17 Apologetics.
“What violent
lyrics do to our children”
“It doesn’t
matter what sort of person you are—it has the same effect.
“Gay couple
freed after global pressure”
“Land where
the criminals roam free”
. About 95 per cent of people tried for
crimes are guilty.
. Despite this, in Australia about half are
found not guilty. In Europe, almost all
are convicted.
. Our trials are between two and 10 times
longer than in Europe.
“Natural births better for babies”
“Apples: a brain food that may keep
more than the doctor away”