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IRAN WANTS WAR

2012-01-04T07:45:00.000-08:00

THE COMING WAR IN "IRAN"

Iran Wants War. It Is About to Get One.

January 4, 2012 | From theTrumpet.com

Flush from victories in the ‘Arab Spring,’ Iran is getting pushier and pushier.

Could Iran get any bolder? It seems absolutely bent on starting a war.

On Monday Iran finished off 10 days of naval exercises in international waters near the Strait of Hormuz. In the midst of those war games, Iran’s political and military leaders threatened to retaliate against sanctions by shutting down the strait. It also came to light that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards plan to sow Hormuz with mines.

Hormuz ships over a third of the globe’s seaborne oil. It’s the world’s most crucial oil transit channel. In a world that needs oil to survive, this is no small provocation.

“If the world wants to make the region insecure, we will make the world insecure,” one Iranian lawmaker said. Another followed up, “America should know that the world’s energy gullet, that is to say, the Strait of Hormuz, is in our hands.”

Map of the Middle East and the area of Iran’s naval exercises in late December 2011.The U.S. responded gamely: by sending an aircraft carrier and its strike group from the Persian Gulf, through the strait and into the Gulf of Oman, the area of Iran’s maneuvers. It said, though, that the movement was pre-planned.

Iran struck back by actually closing Hormuz—for five hours.

This past Saturday morning, Iran’s state agencies “reported” that the naval drills would include some long-range missile tests, and Iran closed its territorial waters. “For five hours Saturday, not a single warship, merchant vessel or oil tanker ventured into the 30-mile-wide Hormuz Strait, waiting to hear from Tehran that the test was over,” debkafile wrote. Later that morning Iran’s navy said it hadn’t fired any missiles after all. “Tehran had demonstrated by this ruse that it could close the vital waterway for hours or days at any moment” (ibid).

If that wasn’t confrontational enough, yesterday Iran upped the ante. The head of the armed forces said Iran would take action if America’s aircraft carrier returned back to its Persian Gulf base. “I advise, recommend and warn them (the Americans) over the return of this carrier to the Persian Gulf because we are not in the habit of warning more than once,” Maj. Gen. Ataollah Salehi said.

The U.S. said it would ignore the threat and intends to stay in the Gulf. It essentially brushed aside Iran’s action, as if they are of no consequence. When asked if it would send more ships to reinforce the area, the Pentagon said, “No one in this government seeks confrontation over the Strait of Hormuz. It’s important to lower the temperature.”

Iran clearly disagrees. It seeks confrontation, and it keeps raising the temperature.

But “lower the temperature” has long been America’s approach to Iran’s pushiness. Downplay the danger. Let Iran sow mines in Hormuz—we can clean them out within 48 hours, Washington says. This threat against our aircraft carrier proves that our economic pressure is working. That’s how the White House sees it. The Iranians “are feeling increasingly isolated and they are trying to divert the attention of their own public from the difficulties inside Iran, including the economic difficulties as a result of sanctions,” the State Department said yesterday.

No matter the provocation, essentially this is America’s response. It shrugs its shoulders when a drone crashes in Iran and the mullahs keep it. It ignores Iran’s presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, killing American soldiers. It disregards Iran’s terrorist ties to al Qaeda, and even its complicity behind 9/11. It pretends the nuclear threat is years off. Iran is all talk. All rhetoric. All bluster.

Granted, there is some truth in that. Iran is a classic study in what Hans Morgenthau called the policy of bluff, trumpeting and exaggerating what power it has in order to punch above its weight.

However, to simply dismiss Iran is a gross error. Three points must be mentioned.

One: Exaggerated though its own claims may be, Iran’s power is real, substantial, and growing. It continues to make strides in its armaments, including nuclear technology. Its web of terrorist activities throughout the region and beyond is strong and getting stronger. America’s withdrawal gives it freer course in Iraq. The rise of radical Islamist forces throughout the Middle East bolsters its position.

It’s not without reason that Iran is tightening its grip on Hormuz right now. With Islamist governments gaining control of Egypt and Libya, not to mention Eritrea and Yemen, Iran’s influence over the north and south entrances of the Red Sea is increasing. Its emerging ability to control oil flow through these choke points could cripple the economically fragile West.

Two: Iran’s bravado has exposed America’s broken will. Iran’s provocations have been far more than rhetoric. It has been at war with America, actively, for over a decade. In dramatic fashion before the whole world, it has defied the U.S. and flaunted America’s weakness.

Three, and most important: This pushiness is leading to war. The weakness in the West’s response has given Iran room to push harder and harder. Sanctions will not do the job. Nothing will stop Iran short of war!

As longtime Trumpet readers are well aware, the pushiness in Iran’s foreign policy was specifically prophesied in Scripture.

One end-time biblical prophecy the Trumpet has pointed to consistently over the past two decades speaks of an Iranian-led radical Islamic power, “the king of the south.” What will it do? “And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him ….”

Way back in one of the earliest Trumpet editions—September/October 1990—editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote about this verse: “The Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament says the word push means ‘to strike—used of horned animals,’ or, ‘to push with the horn.’ It is ‘used figuratively of a victor who prostrates the nations before him.’ It also means, ‘to wage war with anyone.’ Push is a violent word!”

That is the verb prophecy uses to define the power we currently see threatening oil routes, openly confronting the world’s most powerful navy, launching missiles and building nukes.

Iran’s prophesied push has already started. America isn’t going to stop it. Just watch. It’s going to keep getting more provocative, more aggressive, more volatile and violent.

Until it ends in war. •

PERSONAL COMMENTARY 12-5-11

2011-12-05T06:14:00.000-08:00

PERSONAL COMMENTARY

I have thought about writing some commentaries for a very long time. Some people like my thoughts and others are skeptical, but time has proven me correct so far.
It has not played out enough so far to see the entire scenario. I am not a writer, I have no major education like many of you but I often sense and see things that others do not.

I do not have to tell you at this point in time that we are in a great deal of trouble. This country has turned away from G-d and basically threw him under the BUS. Now there will be a terrible price to pay, there is no turning back. I personally have not ever been one of those people. These people that have done this to their creator have no idea the price they are about to pay both in this physical world and in the next world for their sins against G-d. The hypocrites that lie to themselves and pretend they are people of HONOR are fooling no one but themselves, because when you die a recording of your life is played back for you to answer for "ALL" your lies and cheating and indiscretion's.

G-d has now intentionally set the world wide stage for total language confusion among its world leaders but also among its people. It is my belief only loyal and gifted people can and will be able to see the truth. He has basically re invoked the TOWER OF BABEL SCENARIO. This has now brought total chaos to this entire world. All I can comment about is what I see in this country. At this point in time I am not convinced there will be another Presidential election. There are too many variables I continue to see. One EMP attack over KANSAS we go back living in the 1850's. It could even be a false flag attack like the GULF OF TONKIN.

We have some decent people representing us in DC but they get corrupted not only by the old timers who should have retired 20 years ago but also by the pressure of the lobbyists. Its all about money and power, they can't seem to remember G-d always wins and they get a Coffin in the end or their family gets an URN. G-d is infinite and if you bothered to read the first sentence in the book of GENESIS, that alone says it all. We are not living on G-d's time, his world is beyond what we know. In our physical world most pre ordained scenarios happen in increments of 12 physical years. A few examples, it took Hitler 12 years to become Chancellor of Germany from when he started giving speeches in the Beer halls. Hitler was in Power for 12 years. The Chinese calendar is in 12. Our calendar is 12 months. We were in Vietnam for about 12 years when you include the advisers first sent in. How many years from the first Gulf War to the Second Gulf war ? We have been in Afghanistan for over 10 years to protect the POPPY FIELDS and try and get an overland pipeline from the CASPIAN SEA. ITS ALL ABOUT MONEY AND POWER AND OIL.

You say Russia was defeated in Afghanistan. Was it because of US stinger missiles. Now our top of the line young BRAVE American soldiers are coming home without arms and legs to protect who ? You can not negotiate a peace with 28 different tribes, they all have their own leader. In the end we get a Coffin and G-d is still our creator and master of the universe. Read Leviticus 26, verse 19, 20 that says it all. We have been deceived since President Reagan was in office. When that great man died, America died. Then greed became the normal for the people in charge. Had they been limited to no more than two terms things may have been different. I personally believe all that is now happening is BIBLICAL and PRE ORDAINED. The final battle of the GOGUMAGOG war will soon take place in the VALLEY OF JEZREEL, 55 miles North of Jerusalem.

How many times now do you hear an ad to buy GOLD. Its all BS. You can NOT eat GOLD. In hard times who will accept GOLD for food, gas, or water ? NO ONE. IN 1933 FDR SIGNED THE GOLD CONFISCATION ACT. No AMERICAN was allowed to own over $100.00 worth of GOLD. It was confiscated by the US GOVERNMENT. THIS WAS DONE BY EXECUTIVE ORDER. This could be re enacted by the signature of the current President by another Executive order at any time day or night, even at 3am in the morning.

I suggest you never use an "ELECTRONIC" lock or safe. If you keep valuables in a Bank safety deposit vault, remember it we get hit by an EMP device they will not be able to open that Bank, safe, or vault. You will lose everything in there you thought was so valuable. Buy a small home fire proof safe with a key and if necessary bury it.

If you decide this commentary is helpful in your life let me know and I will write another one. I made 23 videos that are gun related that I turned over to my son CHARLES. He makes the copies, light scribes them and I have no part of any sales but it helps him.

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WAR IN EUROPE

2011-11-29T07:39:00.000-08:00

Europe—Hidden Paths to Chaos

November 29, 2011 | From theTrumpet.com

One has to understand national character to figure what is going on in Europe. By Ron Fraser

“Germany, once again … holds the weapons for the entire continent’s suicide in its hands”—if it doesn’t change its position, “there will be a catastrophe.”

That is the view of Jacques Attali, former adviser to ex-French President François Mitterrand and reputed to be “one of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals” (Foreign Policy Magazine, May/June 2008).

Attali’s view of Germany instigating a situation that has brought Europe yet once again, for the third time within less than a century, to the brink of catastrophe, is in direct accordance with the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s view of the German national character.

In Beyond Good and Evil (first published in 1886, during the period of the second German Reich), Nietzsche described that character thus: “As a people of the most monstrous mixture and medley of races, … as ‘people of the middle’ in every sense, the Germans are more incomprehensible, comprehensive, contradictory, unknown, incalculable, surprising, even frightening than other people are to themselves: They elude definition ….”

Nietzsche spoke of the “German soul …; its disorder has a good deal of the attraction of the mysterious; the German is an expert on secret paths to chaos.”

In a classic summation of a national character that has played out constantly in German politics since the time of the archetypal Prussian politician Bismarck, Nietzsche declared, “It is not for nothing that one is called the ‘tiusche’ Volk, the Tausche-Volk, deceiver people.”

The problem with most analysts who attempt to daily make sense of what German elites are truly up to amid Europe’s greatest crisis in almost 70 years is that they fail to take note of the fundamental national character of the German volk!

Philospher George Santanyana famously mused that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Any observation of current events in Europe today that is not cognizant of its history and especially the national character of its peoples will fail abysmally to predict a reliable outcome of those events.

Yet, even with a good understanding of Europe’s tumultuous history and of the innate individual national character of its peoples, without inerrant, divinely revealed Bible prophecy, no estimation of any final outcome of events in Europe—or any other region of the world for that matter—can be reliable.

If you have not yet studied our book The United States and Britain in Prophecy, then you need to do so without delay. Well over 5 million copies have been distributed to date. That book renders in simple language the provable facts about the origin, national characteristics, history and the future of the Anglo-Saxon peoples.

Not only that, it also exposes another piece of provable history that has vital significance in adding to our understanding of the identity and the national character of the very peoples which dominate Europe today! This is knowledge that is so crucial to understanding why Europe is “condemned to repeat,” just one more time, the horrors of the worst parts of its history, its Holy Roman history—only more so!

But that book also reveals that the peace Europe has sought, and been largely denied, especially under repeated resurrections of the Holy Roman Empire, is soon to break out not only across that continent, but across the entire globe!

Get your own copy of that book today. It will help you really understand why today’s chaos in Europe, and just where it is ultimately leading! •

THE FORTIES ARE NOW

2011-11-15T07:54:00.000-08:00

THE FORTIES ARE NOW
October 14, 2011

by Barry Chamish

We begin with a wedding in 1948. In the photo above are my grandparents, parents, brother, two aunts and one uncle. In the center is the bride, Freda, standing beside her mother Manya Frankel. I don't know if you can see it, but there are real unwanted emotions staring at you. Not four years earlier, many of my grandmothers' family, the Resniks, were slaughtered like animals, mostly in a Polish town called Miedzyrzec. I now know how it happened because Aunt Frida asked her mother where her family were from and she traced the records of the dead.

My last visit to Aunt Freda was when I was in New York a few years ago. I used the time to let her tell me about my maternal family roots. Manya arrived with her parents in Brooklyn around the time of the First World War, married Sam Frankel and had four children. When her parents decided to move to a Midwestern city with her sisters, she joined them.

Frida told me the married names of her sisters, Kosatzky, Marmel, Fireman and that they initially moved to nearby farm towns. Only Freda disliked prairie life so much that she moved back to Brooklyn.

If you look hard, there are two other emotions in the photo, joy and fear. Israel had declared its nationhood, a small reward in an awful decade.The Jews there faced the real possibility of being defeated and turning into the second Holocaust. My family put all their spare time and thoughts into working locally to save Israel. As happy a bride as was Freda, even her wedding day was haunted by recent massacres and the threat of another one any day.

When Freda died recently, she left this photo and a searing document telling how her mother's family met their heartless demise. As I read it, me, being who I am, saw awful parallels with Israel today. See if you agree.

Miedzyrzec prided itself on its religious life:
Unlike the general area, where most of the Jews tended to be part of various Hassidic sects, the majority of the community in Miedryrzec were Mitnagdim (those who opposed the Hassidim). The relationship between the Hassidim and the Mitnagdim was amicable. At one point the Hassidic Rabbi Yechiel Michael Halperin of Kuzmier served as the Rabbi of Miedzyrzec. Only during the 19th century, when Rabbi Yom Tov Raphael Lippman, an extreme Mitnagid, served as Rabbi, did an intense argument occur which culminated in Rabbi Lippman placing the Hassidim in cherem (excommunication). As a consequence of his action Rabbi Lippman was forced to leave the community and things reverted to normal.

Among the other important Rabbis were Rabbi Zvi Hirsch who served during the end of the 16th century, Rabbi Natan Netta Katzenelbogen who came to live inEretz Yisrael and died there in 1689, Rabbi Yehoshua Lieb Diskin who came to live in Eretz Yisrael and established the Diskin Orphanage, and Rabbi Issa Shapira who came in 1930. Rabbi Yitzhak Yakov Wachtfogel was a rabbi in Meah Shearim in Jerusalem, and Rabbi Shimon Yakov Halevi who was a rabbi in Tel Aviv, were both born in Miedryrzec.

Miedryrzec was a town that opposed Hasidim but the villages around it were mostly Hasidic. During the Holocaust, Miedryrzec was a holding center for the district's doomed Jews, and the Hasidim were crowded into the new ghetto along with the Mitnagdim. Ignoring obvious distinctions, to me this is the equivalent of the Hasidim and religious Zionists huddled together in the dying gasps of Judea and Samaria. The difference between the two groups in the forties is that some Mitnagdim survived, while the Hasidim were all but wiped out completely.

The Germans entered the city on the 13th of September 1939, and they were replaced twelve days later, by the Russians on September 25. The Red Army was only there for two weeks and with their retreat some 2000 young Jews managed to join them. The Wehrmacht reconquered the city on October 9, and on the 20th of October, the city was transferred into the hands of the Gestapo.

Why didn't the Hasidim youth retreat with the Russians? Everyone knows the answer because the exact same delusions are alive today in Israel. Their rabbis undoubtedly told them that God wouldn't abandon them and would soon send his Messiah. In actuality, it appears that God did abandon them and that no Messiah showed up. And no matter how many justifications have been fabricated to make Israel different, that the slaughter can never return, the Hasidim are in the exact same boat. And the rest of us could share the fate of the Jews who stayed in Miedryrzec.

Among the Nazi groups that were stationed in the city there were the Gendarmerie and the Schupo, (German police) who would later be responsible for murdering the Jews of Miedryrzec. Among the gendarmes was Sergeant Franz Bauer, who personally killed 1000 of the Jewish residents. In the summer of 1940 six separate work camps were set up where some 2000 Jews worked in terrible conditions. Many of the workers died of hunger and cold. The Jews no longer had any rights. Jewish factories were expropriated, among them the brush factory. Other factories were transferred to polish ownership. Jewish refugees continually came from Krakow and the surrounding area. In December 1941 Jews were ordered to hand over all of their fur coats to the Nazi's. Some 20 Jews were murdered on the city streets and another 75 died during the searches that were carried out by Jewish prisoners of War from the Polish army that were specially brought to the city...

On August 25 and 26 the first action occurred. 10,000 Jews were brutally assembled in the town square. They were forcibly marched to the train station where they were put on 52 cattle cars (shipment 566 according to the German inventory) and sent to Treblinka...The Second action took place between October 6 and 9. Some 7000 Jews were forcibly assembled in the town square. At this stage everyone knew what their fate was. The Czienki brothers, who managed to escape from Treblinka, informed the Judenrat of Miedzyrzec and other Jewish ghettos about the extermination that was taking place. The head of the Judenrat told the Gestapo about the brothers and they were shot on one of the small streets of the city.

Between October 27 and 29 and November 7 and 8 two actions took place without respite. The Germans, assisted by the Jewish police conducted searches in the Ghetto. Many Jews were captured and shot on sight. Others were sent to camps. At this time many lost their will to live and simply turned themselves over to the Germans.

We must face the fact: the Nazis organized Jews to run the local government, the Judenrat, and its Jewish police. Without their help, the Holocaust would have gone far slower and perhaps millions would have survived. Many studies have shown that these men were selected from amongst the Jews with low standing in the community and who relished the sudden rise in their social status. The lesson learned was that certain Jews were happy to do the dirty work of outsiders determined to destroy Judaism. These are the leaders of Israel! Israelis don't understand that their leaders, long before, had sold their souls to today's Nazis and were manipulated into power. I could but won't repeat my solid proofs at this time but just know, the Oslo "peace" Accord was the mayor of Miedryrzec inviting the Gestapo to come in and take care of Jewish security.

On May 2 and 3, 1943, after a long hiatus, a fifth action took place. Some 3000 Jews were captured and sent to different camps. Approximately 200 caught trying to hide, were marched to the cemetery, forced to undress, and were then shot. A Jewish youth named Chaim Foga attacked a German officer and threw acid in his face. On that day the entire Judenrat and Jewish police were shot to death.

In this horrific report, I personally relate to Chaim Foga. He knew every Jew was a walking corpse and he fought the executioner. As a result, he ended the delusions of the Jews
working for the Nazis. The leaders of Israel should know, there is no escape for you either.

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THE BEGINNING OF THE END

2011-10-21T08:18:00.000-07:00

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

A Quick Four Part Scenario for Economic Collapse

There really is no way of knowing how precisely HaShem is going to bring about the economic collapse of Western Civilization in 5772. It can either happen abruptly in 12 month segments, or it might be catastrophic and take place during the course of the25 to 30 day period from today, Hoshana Rabbah, until the middle of Cheshvan. I am leaning toward the catastrophic collapse for two reasons.

1. There is much that should take place this year besides the economic collapse of Western Civilization to make the world a spiritually healthier place to live. So a quick collapse will allow time for these other things to happen.

2. Yosef when he was thrown into a pit by his brothers was in a pit with snakes and scorpions, but he miraculously survived the dangers. The snake as was presented in the previous post about Greece being the face of Rome corresponds to the Primordial snake of Rosh HaShana and therefore the month of Tishrei. The Scorpion is the Mazal for the month of Cheshvan. This seems to be an ancient hint that in the year that Mashiach ben Yosef shows up, the months of collapse are Tishrei and Cheshvan.

So here is a quick scenario for a catastrophic collapse which might possibly occur in this fashion:

Europe is now spinning out of control. PM Merkel of Germany and the banks are rebelling against excusing more debt losses. Things are looking quite probable for chaos when the European Union meets on Sunday, October 23rd. Their self-imposed deadline is Oct. 23rd which is strange because that is a Sunday. But that is their deadline. This should worsen in stages over the next four weeks.

1. This week because the last 3 days of Sukkot only Edom is judged and Hoshana Rabba which seals the judgment for the nations of the world. According to the Vilna Gaon, the 1st, 2nd, and 4th days of Sukkot are reserved for the children of Ketura (Hinduism and Buddhism) and the children of Yishmael (Islam). The 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 7th days of Sukkot are reserved for Edom. So on the third day of Sukkot, the day of tiffereth (charisma), it was Shabbat, and there was large scale rioting in the streets of Rome. Italy of the G-8 economic powers is the nation most tied to Edom's version of tiffereth. On the 5th day of Sukkot, this past Monday, Merkel announced that there is no agreement in sight for unity within the EU to somehow raise over 2 trillion Euro to prevent the collapse of the Eurozone at the October 23rd meeting. Germany is most associated with Edom's version of hod (glory) since hod as discussed before is most associated with this worldly prosperity. As we see with modern day athletes, whoever gets the glory also gets the money. Then there is Malkhut (kingship) the 7th sefirah associated with the United States and Canada who are a combination of France (chessed) and Great Britain (Din or Gevurah) in their makeups. Think of France being the right shoulder and Great Britain the left shoulder of an upside down triangle, and the US and Canada being the point. So who knows what will occur later today if anything associated with the US and Canada on Hoshana Rabbah or on Shmini Atzereth. It could be nothing specifically since the collapse will probably be triggered by nations in the Eurozone. So if anything happens on Hoshana Rabba itself, it may revolve around coincident problems in France and Great Britain at the same time. The 6th sefirah yesod (foundation) in Edom is most associated with Russia. Since Russia has no real clout in the EU, the 6th day of Sukkot passed without incident.

2. (Stage 2) next week actually starting on Shmini Atzereth itself because after Hoshana Rabba, HaShem wants to start blessing Klal Yisrael on the judgment for the New Year. So all the good from the new judgement starts to flow on Shmini Atzereth. This Shabbat is Shabbat Bereishit when we bless the New Moon for Cheshvan. So the flow for Cheshvan actually begins this weekend before Cheshvan is actualized with the New Moon on the following Friday and Shabbat, October 28 and 29.

3. After Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan because Edom has run out of bracha from the Tal Min HaShamayim (Dew from Heaven) for the New Year and for all time, Western Civilization will simply run out of spiritual gas. The month of Tishrei 5772 is actually judged on the previous year's judgment. So the loss of bracha for Edom only becomes evident after Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan. In short all the blessing on Edom for all of human history might simply come to an end at the end of this Tishrei. At this point all Edom will have left is the shmanei ha'aretz (the oil of the earth) which they have as long as the US keeps troops in Iraq and at the pivotal port facility of Batzrah at the confluence of 2 or the 4 rivers that come out of the Garden of Eden. All the talk about the US actually leaving Iraq will necessarily have to come to an end when it becomes clear that the US will have no physical gas for its civilization if Persia gains hegemony over the Shiite areas of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. This will become more obvious when Western Civilization runs out of the spiritual gas (the dew from the mouth of G-d) at the end of the month of Tishrei 5772.

4. In some cases the Din for the New month is held in abeyance until the tenth of each month when it is finally sealed. This is especially true for bainoni nations such as the United States who have tremendous merits for all the good that they have done in history as a force for good in the world along with all of negative things that they did when goodness came into conflict with making money. Under such circumstances where there has been a direct conflict between this worldly prosperity and the will of G-d, America has always chosen prosperity over goodness. So it is a 2/3rds nation. 2/3 of the time when America could be good without sacrificing its prosperity, America chose to be good. Yet, the 1/3 of the time when there was a direct conflict between the two, America chose the evil path. This makes the US a bainoni nation (a nation where the scales of justice are weighted towards its goodness and its wickedness. This would seem to indicate that Europe will collapse first, and America might be dragged down a couple of weeks later.

Again this is a possible scenario for a quick collapse. I am not saying that this is precisely how it will occur. Just prepare yourself for this type of catastrophe.

So those are the four stages. We are already seeing stage one.

END OF DAYS 10-11-10

2011-10-14T07:08:00.000-07:00

Monday, October 11, 2010

Zecharia 14 and the Trail to Hope

This article is appearing both on Mystical Paths and the End of Days blog in two parts or more.

I have not written for a while because my writing was dependent on the fact that former President George W. Bush would turn out to be Gog, and when this did not occur, I withdrew from writing. But now signs of hope have begun to reappear that the end of days is near and the final redemption is at our doorstep. During Nisan of 5770, the drive by President Obama to divide Jerusalem hit us like a breath of fresh air. As horrible and ominous as this sounds, the fact that the prophet Zechariah in chapters 12 and 14 predicts this 2400 years ago as the clanging of a redemption in its time is enough to calm the nerves as the nations of the world gather against Jerusalem. No more years and years of death and maiming. How many hundreds have died in the Al Aqsa Intafada? How many thousands have been maimed for life? Sanhedrin 98b , Tosafot on Avodah Zarah 2b, and Rav Eibeschutz say that the dislocations will last no longer than nine months once and if they occur that is, until Persia falls into the hands of Edom (the West) or until Edom rules the world for nine months. It may be painful once these dislocations occur if they have to occur. But which is worse: another ten years of a third intifada where thousands more would die, G-d forbid, or something quick where HaShem could fight the nations that come against Yerushalayim. The Oslo War will quickly end as HaShem performs his miracles to redeem his chosen nation. Let's look at the facts that are inherent in the prophetic scenario.

Fact #1: Zecharia 14:1-2 Behold a day is coming for HaShem, when your spoils will be divided up in your midst. I will gather all the nations (of the world) to Yerushalayim for the war; the city will be captured, the houses will be pillaged and the women will be violated; HALF of the city will go out into exile, but the rest of the people will not be eliminated from the city. How could he, the prophet, have known that this is precisely what the nations of the world would want 2,400 years later? This is precisely Obama's, the EU's, Russia's, and the UN's goal. In their minds East Yerushalayim is an illegal Israeli settlement. They accept West Yerushalayim as being part of Israel. So they have no intention of sending those residents into exile. Again how could he have known?

Fact #2: Zecharia 14:10 The entire land will change to a plain, from GEVA to RIMMON, south of Yerushalayim.... These are precisely the geographic limits of modern Yerushalayim. The northern most border of Jewish Yerushalayim is just outside the separation fence between Yerushalayim and the Shomron. It is the community of Geva Binyamin known to the locals as Geva for short (a.k.a. Adam). The southern most community inside the separation fence south of Yerushalayim is Efrat. It is a city built on seven hills. The southern most hill in Efrat is Givat Rimmon (Pomegranate Hill). In short Jewish Yerushalayim stretches from Geva in the north to Givat Rimmon in the south. Again 2,400 years ago how could the prophet have known? How could he have known?

Fact #3: Zecharia 12:2 ...Also Yehudah will take part in the siege of Yerushalayim. Also Zecharia 14:14 Also Yehudah will wage war against Yerushalayim... From J Street in America to Peace Now, from former PM Olmert to the present PM Netanyahu there is a turning against Jewish sovereignty over 270,000 Arabs in East Yerushalayim. There is an acceptance of the fact that a Palestinian State will have its capital there. Yet, the logistics are a nightmare. There are over 200,000 Jews living beyond the 67 border in Yerushalayim in twelve Jewish neighborhoods. How can the Eastern, Northern, and Southern parts of the Capital city be divided up by establishing different water mains, sewage tunnels, and electrical grids one for Israel and another for Palestine? How would international borders between intertwined neighborhoods be set up? The traffic and road blocks in the "eastern" half of the city would be a nightmare making commerce and moving around impossible. Would Jews living in majority Arab neighborhoods have to leave their properties behind a second time, once in 1948 and once again now? Of course they would simply because it would be unsafe for them to remain. I am sure there would be international condemnation for the reverse situation. Arabs living in majority Jewish neighborhoods would surely be allowed to keep their properties in both eastern and western parts of the city. Then of course there is the Temple Mount where the Muslim Wakf has systematically gone about destroying every piece of evidence that two Jewish Temples once stood up there. Under UN auspices how much worse would the situation be? Yet Jews want to divide the City. Do you think that the NATO and Russian troops that come to "protect" the new State of Palestine will allow the Jews to remain beyond the 1967 borders in Yerushalayim? What will these naive Jews do then? Will they wring their hands, or will they say that Jews should never have been there to begin with?

Again how did Zecharia know this 2400 years ago? How did he know that Jews would turn on Jews who live in Yerushalayim?

Fact #4: Zecharia 12:3 It shall be on that day that I will make Yerushalayim for all the peoples a burdensome stone, all whose bearers become lacerated; and all the nations of the world will gather against it. On March 9th, 2010 Israel's Interior Ministry announced the approval of building 1600 housing units in Ramat Shlomo, a neighborhood beyond the 1967 border in Northern Yerushalayim. American Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton roundly condemned "the expansion of Jewish settlements in occupied territory" on the day that Biden was visiting Israel. Prior to this Netanyahu had specifically mentioned to the world that the ongoing building freeze in Judea and Samaria did not include the annexed parts of Yerushalayim, that building in "East" Jerusalem would continue unabated. Yerushalayim is at the heart of the Jewish people, and nobody was going to tell us whether or not we could or could not build there. Yet on March 31st, 2010 Obama demanded a four month "East Jerusalem" building freeze in exchange for pressuring PA President Mahmoud Abbas to talk directly with Israel. On April 26th, 2010 it was reported by the Associated Press that sometime after Obama's March 31st demand that Jews stop building in Yerushalayim beyond the 1967 border, Netanyahu quietly stopped the advancement of all building projects in that part of Yerushalayim. This was meant to mend fences with the Obama Administration and to stop all of the public condemnations of Israel for expanding neighborhoods in "East Jerusalem". In the midst of all this brouhaha tragedy strikes the American Gulf Coast. On April 20th, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon oil platform blew up causing the worst underwater oil spill in world history. It lasted until July 15th, 2010 with repeated attempts to cap the underwater gusher ending in abject failure time and time again. Each time a promise was made by British Petroleum that the underwater gusher could be stopped, the attempts would fail for one reason or another. Until on July 15th it was finally capped. Not so coincidently on July 12th, 2010, Netanyahu ended the freeze in East Jerusalem with the approval of 32 new housing units in Pisgat Ze'ev. This came on the heels of a July 6th meeting where Obama actually treated Netanyahu like a mentsch after a disgraceful rebuke at their previous meeting on March 23rd when Netanyahu was not even invited to have dinner. So here we have it. Obama and Company freeze Jewish growth in Yerushalayim in early April 2010. The worst underwater oil spill in world history commences on April 20th. Obama for now in order to raise Jewish money for Democratic candidates reverses his earlier disrespectful behavior on July 6th. Building in all of Yerushalayim recommences on July 12th. BP caps the underwater gusher on July 15th after a series of repeated failures to do so. America was truly lacerated by its attempt to decide who has the right to live in all parts of Yerushalayim. If this is what happens with a building freeze, what will happen when NATO and Russian troops start removing Jews from their homes. One can only begin to imagine. The final outcome is known though. Zecharia 14:12-13 This will be the plague with which HaShem will strike all the peoples that have organized against Yerushalayim: Each one's flesh will melt away while he is standing on his feet; each one's eyes will melt away in their sockets; and each one's tongue will melt away in their mouths. It shall be on that day that there will be a great panic of HaShem among them; each one will grab the hand of his fellow, and his hand will be raised up against the hand of his fellow. Again how did the prophet know, how did he know?

Fact #5: Ezekiel 38:3-6 Say: Thus said the L-rd Elokim: Behold I am against you Gog, the prince, leader of Meshech and Tubal. I will lead you astray, and I will place hooks into your cheeks and bring you out wit your entire army, horses and riders, all of them clothed in splendor, a vast assembly, with buckler and shield, all of them wielding swords. Persia, Cush, and Put will be with them, all of them with shield and helmet; Gomer and all her cohorts, the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all its cohorts - many peoples will be with you.
More on this later.

RIOTING IN AMERICA

2011-10-05T06:25:00.000-07:00

The Riots Are Getting Closer

October 4, 2011 | From theTrumpet.com

Something big is about to happen, says an Obama activist. Expect a revolution—expect an “Arab Spring” in America.

October could be a wild and dangerous month. Stock markets are acting like there is another hidden Lehman Brothers ready to explode. The euro is plummeting. The S&P is hitting new lows. Greece is desperately trying to pay impossible bills. Europe’s biggest banks are flirting with bankruptcy. The eurozone appears to be disintegrating.

Back in America, things are getting more friable too.

“October is going to be the turning point,” said Van Jones, the disgraced former Obama administration “green jobs czar.” America is about to experience “an American fall, an American autumn, just like we saw the Arab Spring,” he said on Thursday.

“You can see it right now with these young people on Wall Street. … We’re going to have an October offensive to take back the American Dream and to rescue America’s middle class.”

On Saturday, 700 “Occupy Wall Street” activists were arrested for jamming up the Brooklyn Bridge in order to gain media attention. The protesters chanted slogans like “Jobs Not Cuts” and carried signs such as “Eat the Rich.”

The protests may be spreading now, too. Smaller demonstrations in Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles were also reported over the weekend, with people protesting everything from higher gas prices to lack of medical insurance.

So far, no one organization seems to be driving it. But that may be about to change.

If Van Jones has his way, these relatively peaceful protests will be only the beginning. Van Jones is in the midst of a dramatic push to establish an alliance of labor unions, environmentalists, minority groups, globalists and angry youth protesters to “counterbalance” the growing strength of the Tea Party movement.

Yesterday, today and tomorrow, Van Jones is taking part in a huge summit to create an alliance of “progressive” forces to push the nation’s agenda further left. It’s called the “American Dream Movement,” says Jones. Some unions have already begun providing support for the protesters.

But where would Jones’s “American Dream” really take America?

Van Jones, a reportedly reformed communist, is the founder of the radical black empowerment group Color of Change. According to this group’s website, not only does the U.S. government not represent black Americans, it purposefully left hundreds of thousands of black and minority people “behind to die” in New Orleans because they were not white.

He also has strong views about the war in Iraq, which he says was just a pretext to get the oil.

According to Van Jones, America has a huge debt it needs to repay its minority groups. He said Native Americans, for example, had been pushed down and locked out of the pollution-based economy and needed to be lifted up in his new green economy. America needs to give them back their stolen land, wealth, dignity and respect they deserve, he said. The government needs to make sure women get paid more. And it needs to stop purposefully spraying chemicals on and poisoning “our immigrant brothers and sisters to get the food we want to eat.”

It is about “social justice,” says Jones. And that means monetary payments and legislated advantages for repressed racial and sexual minorities.

Jones also gained notoriety for being associated with the “9/11 Truther” organization that claims the U.S. government was involved with causing the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has since said his name was appropriated by the group without his consent.

But perhaps most notably, Jones was also a founding member of storm (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement), a radical Marxist organization committed to creating revolution in America. One publication produced by the now disbanded storm claimed the organization looked “towards the revolutionary traditions of Third World communism and found valuable and inspiring models for revolutionary change.”

Is today Van Jones’s moment? Will he be able to help found another organization that will finally accomplish his goals? In a 2008 Uprising Radio interview, he said America needed a “complete revolution” to “transform the whole society” away from capitalism. Will he be able to channel the outrage manifest in the Wall Street riots, and the bad economy, toward his goal?

Mr. Jones certainly seems to think so. In a February article he said the nation needed to look to the union heroes in Madison, Wisconsin, for inspiration. The “spirit of Madison” needs to spread to all 50 states, he said.

He said a “rainbow force” of unions, veterans, students, faith leaders, civil rights fighters, women’s rights champions, immigrant rights promoters, lesbians, homosexuals, bisexuals, transgenders, those questioning their sexual orientation, environmentalists, academics, artists, celebrities, community activists, elected officials and more were joining forces to stand up “for what’s right.”

And what exactly is right? Jones elucidated in his Huffington Post article “Introducing the ‘American Dream’ Movement.” It includes:

Reducing government spending by cutting “corporate welfare” for oil, agriculture and military companies—but not for heavily subsidized green energy companies.

Protecting the “heart and soul of America” by empowering teachers, nurses and first responder unions.

Guaranteeing “the health, safety and success of our children and communities by leaving the muscle and bone of America’s communities intact”—whatever that means. It is possibly a reference to giving illegal immigrants immunity from deportation.

Opposing any changes to union “collective bargaining” laws, which are really “taxpayer extortion” laws.

These are not extreme ideas—they are “commonsense ideas” that can rally Americans to once again stand up and dream, he says. People can take comfort knowing that this great nation “will ultimately pull its answers—not from its ideological extremes—but from its deep, moral center,” just like the Wisconsin union workers did.

“Make no mistake about it: This is our ‘Tea Party’ moment,” says Jones.

America is indeed verging on a pivotal moment in history. The nation is divided, it is financially broke, radicals are reaching for power, disgruntled masses are ready to be manipulated—and most important of all, despite what Van Jones claims, there is no “deep, moral center” in America that will magically save it.

America’s “deep, moral center” may have existed in the past, but it is long gone.

The good news is there are answers to America’s economic, social, political, and moral problems—but they will not come from within itself. The answers are there if anyone is willing to really look for them. You just have to go to the Source of morals.

America needs a real moral revolution—that is true. But if we are not careful, the American Dream Movement could quickly become an American autumn nightmare. •

THE COMING RIOTS

2011-09-26T07:47:00.000-07:00

Blood in the Streets

From the October 2011 Trumpet Print Edition »

Understand the significance of the shocking violence hitting Britain and America.By Philip Nice

“America, Britain and Israel have a terrible problem on their hands: violence. Violence from domestic troubles like race riots—violence from terrorist attacks. Many people have been affected by this scourge in these countries. I believe they are much more likely to recognize the seriousness of this issue. If you have not been personally affected, it is easy to want to pass such problems off as isolated incidents. In this chapter, I will show you that this violence is a much more serious danger than most people would ever imagine!”

Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote those timely words—in 2002. That was years before London burned and sporadic mobs pillaged American cities in the summer of 2011. And even years before race became a more openly divisive issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections.

His first edition of the same booklet strongly emphasized the racial riots in Los Angeles with a bold “L.A. Riots—Only the Beginning!” chapter that proclaimed, “As the economy grows worse, or is under siege, the rioters are going to burn more and more ….” That was written in 1992. Mr. Flurry understood then that this seemingly isolated problem was widespread and bound to grow.

When you measure foresight like that in terms of decades, not 24-hour news cycles, it is worthwhile to ask, how did he know?

Back then, such violence seemed limited, isolated—a 100-year storm, if you will. Nations like the United States and Britain were civilized and wealthy and largely seen as post-racial.

But there was something ugly under the surface. Something less isolated and more dangerous than most of us thought. And someday it could erupt.

That Day Is Here

Racial tension is ingrained in American history, and it is part of a bigger unsolved problem that is getting very ugly, very fast. We do not know how to rule ourselves—or even preserve a stable society. The past year has introduced us to some brazen examples of this: Flash-mob robberies, anarchist-style beatings and vandalism have broken out in cities across the country.

In December, dozens of African-American teens at a Florida movie theater were thrown out by management after another moviegoer told them to stop making noise and talking on their phones during the show. But the throng waited until the man and his wife came out to the parking lot, then battered both of them and even hit police officers who arrived on the scene. Frederico Freire, a marine, had just arrived back in town from a tour in Iraq; the couple were on their first date together since he left.

In February, as many as 50 young people in St. Paul, Minnesota, swarmed into a convenience store, assaulted a clerk, and then looted the store. It was the second time in four months that this had happened in the city.

In April, another mob of about 20 descended on a clothing store in Washington, d.c., and quickly grabbed about $20,000 worth of merchandise before fleeing in every direction.

In May, a group of New York teenagers used social media to coordinate an attack on a restaurant, showing up in broad daylight and just ransacking the place unprovoked, kicking over tables, flinging chairs at employees and destroying equipment. Then they grabbed some food and drink and left as abruptly as they had arrived.

Chicago has also had several recent incidents of hoodlums attacking people unprovoked. The mayhem has been so bad that tourists have been told to avoid the Magnificent Mile, Michigan Avenue’s premiere shopping and dining district. In spite of budgets and forces being stretched thin, additional police have been called in to Chicago, and some lawmakers have considered deploying the Illinois National Guard.

During a Fourth of July celebration in Milwaukee’s Kilbourn Reservoir Park, some 60 young African-Americans beat and robbed a smaller group who had been watching fireworks. One of the victims remembers being punched in the face before having her debit card and cell phone stolen. “They just said ‘Oh, white girl bleeds a lot,’” she recalled. There is evidence that the same mob had just come from rushing into one or possibly two nearby convenience stores and gleefully stealing everything they could carry as security cameras and shocked paying customers looked on.

In August, Kansas City finally responded to its own ongoing plague: huge crowds of unsupervised teens and children as young as 7 roaming the streets until long after midnight and intimidating visitors in its upscale plaza district. City government finally slapped a 9 p.m. curfew on the kids after the mayor toured the area to see if it was as bad as people said, and shots were fired about 50 yards away, wounding a 16-year-old, a 15-year-old and a 13-year-old.

The worst race riot in Wisconsin history occurred on August 4 during the opening night of the Wisconsin State Fair. As darkness fell over the fairgrounds, hundreds of black youths swarmed into the parking lot, seeking out Caucasian fairgoers and assaulting them, smashing car windows, throwing rocks and beating passersby with whatever blunt instruments were available. An Iraq war veteran compared the scene to a combat zone. The teens even attacked the few police officers who were on site.

This trend was also encapsulated in “the city of brotherly love,” which has been plagued by mobs of lower-income teens meeting at predetermined locations to rampage through the streets and cause mayhem. In late July, 20 to 30 youths descended on Philadelphia’s Center City after dark to beat and rob bystanders. One man was knocked to the ground and savagely kicked, his skull fractured. In August, after two years of the barbarity, Mayor Michael A. Nutter imposed a curfew on all minors and delivered a blunt message to fellow African-American parents and a stinging rebuke to their out-of-control children, saying they had damaged the reputation of their own race (article, page 33).

Many of these chaotic attacks occurred in the most upscale parts of America’s greatest cities. Some occurred in broad daylight, most were perpetrated by youths who were not so poor that they couldn’t afford smart phones to coordinate the mayhem, and almost all were shockingly senseless.

The Burning of London

Across the Atlantic lies a world city among world cities, once capital of a great empire, center of finance and culture, and a model for civility. It also happens to be scheduled to host the 2012 Summer Olympics in less than a year. But right now, London is synonymous with something else altogether.

On August 4, police officers in the Tottenham neighborhood shot and killed a known suspect who was apparently armed. A group subsequently responded to the death of Mark Duggan, who was black, with a peaceful march to the police station to protest the shooting. But this soon gave way to vicious mobs of young people “demanding justice” L.A. 1992-style, by smashing windows, torching businesses and homes, fighting police, stealing merchandise, assaulting citizens and even murdering people.

Soon looters and their victims included all different ethnicities. It was no longer about anger or justice—it was about getting in and out through a smashed window with a tv. An entire class of people had figured out that if they went wild, only a few of them could be stopped. And if they could coordinate using smart phones and social media, they could really do some damage before calling it a night.

Police were hesitant to respond. Commentator David Green pointed out, “[T]he police have been hyper-sensitive about race. This attitude has now become so paradoxical that they find themselves standing aside when members of ethnic minorities are being harmed. The people who ran shops, or who lived in the flats above, were not given the protection they deserved.”

After quoting some of the awkward guidelines given to police, he wrote, “In this kind of atmosphere, it’s not surprising that officers in charge of a riot think it safer to wait for orders from the top rather than use their discretion to protect the public without fear or favor.”

Authorities feared that a strong response would ignite more riots. Yet more riots ignited. Britain’s cities were officially out of control: Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and about 10 other urban centers. By the end of it, 16 people had been injured and five people had been murdered, including a 68-year-old man whose only offense was trying to stamp out an arsonist’s fire that had been set in a trash bin. The outburst of senselessness also cost hundreds of millions of pounds’ worth of damage to a national economy already over the edge.

And the chaos came while times are still good, meals are still easy to come by, and store shelves are still full (of things to loot, apparently). Rampaging British and American youths live in the largest welfare states in the history of the world. So what horror will we see when our economies totter over?

The Minds of Rioters

What goes through the minds of people who self-destruct their own cities? The answer to that question begins to reveal how, two decades ago, our editor in chief so accurately forecast what was to come.

Images of boys as young as 8 smashing windows and stealing trainers and televisions illustrated where this problem is rooted: at home. Why does a young person roam the streets and beat people and take their things and throw a firebomb through someone’s front door just because it happens to be on the way to an electronics store they want to rob? Why do kids do horrendous things for “fun”?

Rioters are not born. Like everyone else, they begin as precious children, not knowing anything unless they are taught it. But what happens when those wonderful minds are wounded by neglect and hatred, dysfunction and lawlessness year after year after year? What happens when they receive little education about life or anything else inside or outside the home? Our divisive, chaotic lives at home eventually spill into the streets.

Britain and America’s violent vandals have simply not been taught how to live.

This is a major key Mr. Flurry used to forecast events like those we are seeing today. And it is written in one the oldest books in print. Isaiah 3 specifically says that our families would be turned upside down and fall apart because we would ignore how family is designed to work. In turn, disintegrating families would lead to a disintegrating nation. As Herbert W. Armstrong wrote, “a solid family structure is the foundational bulwark of any stable and permanent society ….”

Mr. Armstrong taught, and Mr. Flurry teaches, that dismantling our families eventually leads to national destruction. More than one Londoner would tend to agree. Mr. Flurry has also written, based on clear biblical doctrine, that human nature is not naturally good but evil: selfish, prejudiced, jealous, envious, competitive, vain, lustful, greedy, resentful and violent.

Haven’t we seen this insight proved right in 2011? This senseless destruction has revealed that our notionally civilized societies are much, much closer to primitive madness than we like to think. We have not advanced so far as we thought. Our human nature is not as “basically good” as we thought. We are capable of horrendous things so long as a police officer is not standing nearby—and sometimes, even if he is.

We actually have to start asking ourselves whether we can even maintain cooperative, self-governed societies. As one horrified onlooker said, “[T]he main reason you are not attacked on the street, shops are not constantly looted and burnt down, and we all don’t take things that don’t belong to us is because someone, when we were little, taught us the difference between right and wrong.”

But that has changed in Britain and America, hasn’t it?

Our leaders of government, education and culture have consistently, systematically torn down those former absolutes. Husband and wife are bound together for life, fathers should lead their families, laws must be obeyed no matter what, you should work hard in school, criminals should be punished—these are the virtues we thought we were too smart, too advanced for. And now, parts of England look like Libyan war zones.

Isaiah 3 also predicted this. God said there that mighty, judicious, prudent, wise leaders would be removed. “And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable” (verses 4-5). Doesn’t this sound familiar?

We have deliberately chosen to be godless, deceitful, sinful and covetous, and to reject any thought of God and any inkling of God’s law. And how is that turning out? Would you rather live in a place where those virtues, based on God’s spiritual law, the Ten Commandments, are kept, or would you rather live in Tottenham?

It is a hard truth, but what American and British youths are doing is exactly what they have been taught: There is no such thing as good or evil, no sin or righteousness, God is a myth, resent authority, do what you feel is right, there are no real consequences. Like coddling parents, our governments have torn down virtues and even absolutes rather than upholding them. Britain’s limp response to the people burning its capital city is an iconic example.

We are stuck with the society our leaders have created, but can we still hope that our politicians and educators will learn the lesson and sort this all out? Committees are looking into it. More unaffordable, ineffective government social programs are on the way. You know that will be the answer. Addressing human nature? Defining good and evil? Turning to God? Out of the question.

It Is in the Bible

But there is an even more specific reason why Mr. Flurry so accurately forecast such violence in our cities. It goes beyond the tendencies of human nature. Believe it or not, the violence of 2011 Tottenham was written about by Ezekiel in the fifth century b.c. Here is what he wrote about the cities of America, Britain and Israel:

“A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them” (Ezekiel 5:12).

The booklet in which Mr. Flurry discussed these matters as far back as 1992 is called Ezekiel: The End-Time Prophet. In it he wrote, “Notice that pestilence is mentioned first. In the past, we thought the pestilence would be disease resulting from the famine. In this case, the pestilence is actually the leading cause of the famine!

“The word pestilence just means destruction or death. … So this pestilence could be a plague of violence or burning ….” Mr. Flurry defines this burning and violence in our nations as similar to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, as well as the impact of even worse mayhem: terrorism.

“The Los Angeles rioting is just a type of what is going to happen to major cities in the whole nation!” Mr. Flurry wrote in 1992. “It is a stark prophecy of our future!” How much more accurate could you get?

“Terrorist attacks, rioting and burning are the main thrust of the pestilence mentioned in Ezekiel 5,” he continued. “And this rioting will spread to other Israelite nations—unless people repent! God will get our attention one way or another. The worse the violence and burning becomes, the worse the famine will get. The worse the famine becomes, the more intensive the violence will get. It becomes a vicious cycle.”

Does not this perfectly describe what we are witnessing in Britain and America’s major cities? “[A]s the U.S. and Britain become less and less competitive worldwide, unemployment will steadily increase. As that happens, domestic rioting and violence will become much more prevalent ….

“The seeds of this future calamity have already been sown. The government has lost control. There is a breakdown of law and order. … We are getting dangerously close to social anarchy and chaos!”

We have just witnessed an advancement in this society-wide plague of violence and burning that is to strike our major cities.

The Bible even describes our leaders’ feckless reaction to this implosion of order. But the Bible prophesied these problems, and it didn’t say they were for want of another social spending initiative.

In Isaiah 1:5, speaking primarily about the leaders of America, Britain and Judah, God says the “whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.” Those responsible for leading our peoples simply do not have the heart or strength to confront evil, even when it threatens to destroy our cities.

Therefore, the whole body is sick—head to toe (verse 6). And it’s leading to our cities being burned with fire by “strangers.”

“The Bible also reveals the cause of the riots.” After quoting Isaiah 1:5-6, Mr. Flurry stated: “Neither the leaders nor their followers have the will or the strength to get to the roots of race riots or terrorist attacks and solve them once and for all (see Daniel 12:9; 9:13; and Leviticus 26:19).”

These riots are a warning to the whole world: This is what happens when a nation rejects God’s laws and revolts against His way of building a family. These riots are only going to get worse.

And why is this happening? Because this is what it takes for our peoples to finally come to really know their God. This is what it takes for us to finally admit that the desperately needed solution is not just one more election, just one more law, just one more committee, just one more spending initiative, just one more social program away. This is what it takes to admit that we must turn to God! And believing in Him and obeying His laws will solve these chaotic problems!

“And they shall know that I am the Lord, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them,” it says in Ezekiel 6:10. This is the big lesson God wants the latter-day Israelites and the rest of this world to ultimately learn—then “they shall know that I am the Lord.” •

THE WEATHER - 2011

2011-07-01T06:27:00.000-07:00

Twisters, Floods, Drought—What’s Wrong With the Weather?

From the July 2011 Trumpet Print Edition »

When the U.S. is getting walloped by record tornadoes, record flooding and record drought—all at the same time—you have to ask the question. By Joel Hilliker

The United States had already experienced its deadliest tornado season since the mid-1970s, with 365 deaths. Then came Joplin.

“You see pictures of World War ii, the devastation and all that with the bombing. That’s really what it looked like,” said Joplin High School Principal Kerry Sachetta. “I just couldn’t believe what I saw.”

On May 22, a twister ripped through the Missouri town killing 125 people and injuring some 1,150 more, according to early figures. Swaths of suburbia a half-mile wide were leveled along a six-mile stretch, leaving the town unrecognizable. Debris from a hospital that was hit was found 60 miles away.

“You could have probably dropped a nuclear bomb on the town and I don’t think it would have done near as much damage as it did,” said cnn iReporter Zach Tusinger, who lost his uncle and aunt in the tornado.

Devastating

The Joplin tornado killed more people than any tornado since records started being kept six decades ago, and made 2011 the deadliest year for tornadoes since 1953.

Another 67 twisters touched down the same day across the Midwest. Two days later, five more tornadoes hit Oklahoma, killing nine, including two small children from one heartbroken family just a few miles from the Trumpet’s offices.

This was all less than a month after 362 tornadoes hit seven states in just four terrifying days—a rampage that killed over 350 people, injured thousands more, cut power to a million others, and splintered entire towns. It was the worst disaster in America since Katrina.

A record-shattering 312 of those tornadoes touched down within a single 24-hour period between April 27 and 28; before then, the most America had ever seen in a single day was 148. The most violent twister was 20 times normal size. This monster tore a scar one mile wide and a record 300 miles long across Alabama and Georgia.

Remarkably, this all hit just days after another devastating rash of 155 tornadoes between April 14 and 16.

How unusual was this? The previous 10 Aprils each spawned an average of 161 tornadoes in the U.S.; the previous April record was 267. But in April of this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (noaa) estimates the number of twisters to touch down on American soil was an unparalleled 600-plus.

“This is a history-making tornado outbreak,” said meteorologist Jeff Masters.

The crazy thing is, when it comes to disasters, “history-making” is becoming commonplace.

Every few weeks it seems, the Earth unleashes unprecedented fury of another sort. One more dreadful record falls, and another constellation of survivors is left breathless in its wake.

What’s wrong with the weather? You have to have blinders on not to at least be asking the question.

Unprecedented

Even with Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee in states of emergency from the tornadoes, other disasters are striking elsewhere in the country.

Texas is withering from its worst drought since 1895. None of the state is drought-free, according the U.S. Drought Monitor’s May 17 edition; over 80 percent is in “extreme” or “exceptional” drought. This is demolishing the state’s wheat production. The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects wheat production to drop 63 percent in Texas this year—which is certain to hurt already-low global supplies.

The bone-dry conditions have created a tinderbox for wildfires. More than 6,900 separate blazes this year have torched more than 2 million acres across the state. “At times, we were literally burning border to border,” said a Texas Forest Service spokesperson. “I’ve never seen anything like it” (emphasis mine).

Wildfires are also blazing in Arizona, charring more than 40,000 acres so far.

Many people in these parched and blackened regions must be shaking their heads at the irony as they see other parts of the country being deluged with severe flooding.

Downpours across the South have swamped 3.6 million acres of farmland,  1 million acres in Arkansas alone.

Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois and Louisiana have also been hit hard after heavy rains and melting snow swelled the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to record levels. Federal authorities in Missouri were forced to blast a levee that was creaking under the strain of floodwaters, inundating a 200-square-mile region. “Nobody has seen this type of water in the system,” the president of the Mississippi River Commission said. “It’s an unprecedented flood.”

Puzzling

These where-did-this-come-from, once-in-a-lifetime, never-before-witnessed calamities are piling up on top of one another. Why? Scientists are scrambling for answers.

Climate change models do not explain the increase in disasters hitting the U.S. right now. “Some ingredients that are favorable to tornadoes will increase in a warming world, others will decrease,” says Harold Brooks of the National Severe Storms Laboratory.

“I don’t think there’s any way of proving climate change is responsible for the weather patterns this week and week before,” said meteorologist Howard Bluestein of the University of Oklahoma in the first week of May.

After the Joplin tornado, a National Weather Service representative said it was hard to find correlation between climate change and the weather in spring 2011. “We just don’t know,” he said.

Whatever instruments and computer models they consult, however, scientists are overlooking the most important dimension to this trend.

That is, that weather is not entirely random.

It has a Maker. And it has a Sustainer.

Purposeful

If you believe the Bible, God challenges you to accept its assertion that He has power over the potent and destructive phenomena that are increasingly besieging our world. He can create them, and He can prevent them.

Job 38:28, for example, reveals God as the father of rain. He is able to command storm clouds, tornadoes and hurricanes to serve His purposes: “Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud: And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy” (Job 37:9-13).

Yes, sometimes God bathes the Earth with gentle rain to show His loving concern and mercy—and other times God uses the weather, including floods and tornadoes, to correct people!

The God of the Bible is not impotent. He likens His judgment against the wicked to a tornado or hurricane (e.g. Jeremiah 23:19; 30:23-24). He uses the punitive sword of flood and mildew—and also that of drought (Deuteronomy 28:22; 11:17). Sometimes He wields both at the same time in order to heighten their corrective power (Amos 4:7).

The Bible also reveals that God has set spiritual and physical laws in motion, and that in this present age He is allowing mankind to develop its own ways of living—contrary to those laws—and to reap the natural consequences that result, including weather upsets.

Further, God, in His great purpose, also allows Satan the devil—the current (and temporary) god of this world, according to 2 Corinthians 4:4—to have a role in producing catastrophic weather, for man’s ultimate learning (see Job 1).

We should consider the worsening weather trend a warning from God. That’s not to say—as Christ Himself clarified—that those specifically hit by these storms are any more sinful than those who were spared. We should recognize these as being curses on and warnings to the nation, not particular individuals. Christ’s message was, “[E]xcept ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:5). Biblical prophecy shows that we can expect this increasingly chaotic weather to get far, far worse very soon (see Revelation 6:5-8; 8:4-12). The powerful natural forces are going to be unleashed upon a disobedient world to bring it to its knees in repentance.

In Leviticus 26, God promises “rain in due season” and that “the land shall yield her increase” (verse 4)—“if ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them” (verse 3). Were the nations to do so, we would find ourselves blessed with beautiful weather and stable climates. We would not have to fear crop failures and famine, or being killed in a severe weather event.

We can—and prophecy shows, we will—experience prosperous living with pleasant weather—when we acknowledge and obey God, His laws and His benevolent rule. •

SHOCKING EVENTS ARE HAPPENING

2011-06-01T07:55:00.000-07:00

Cover-up surrounding Obama’s alleged crimes begins to unravel

Obama’s ineligibility: Prepare for the fall

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- Lawrence Sellin Monday, May 30, 2011

The United States is in a Constitutional and political crisis without precedent.

What can ordinary Americans do when a large number of politicians are corrupt and an even larger portion of the national political leadership is complicit in a cover-up of that corruption?

Do we petition those leaders to investigate and punish themselves?

George Will, for whom I have great respect as a commentator, recently wrote a scholarly, but an unintentionally satirical article entitled “Is Obama above the law?” about his violation of the War Powers Act in regard to the Libyan War.

Mr. Will ended his commentary with what must have been deliberate satire:

“‘No president,’ says Sen. John McCain, ‘has ever recognized the constitutionality of the War Powers Act, and neither do I. So I don’t feel bound by any deadline.’ Oh? No law is actually a law if presidents and senators do not “recognize” it? Now, there is an interesting alternative to judicial review, and an indicator of how executive aggrandizement and legislative dereliction of duty degrade the rule of law.”

The evident bewilderment displayed by Will is prima facie evidence of the depth of denial now prevalent in Washington, D.C.

It is an equivalent to writing an article after the Pearl Harbor attack entitled “The Japanese might not like us.”

The arrogance of the permanent political class is both shocking and out of control.

Having been born in Panama and not eligible to run for the Presidency, McCain obviously doesn’t recognize the Constitution either.

For me, the uncertainty about McCain’s ineligibility was resolved by the bogus, non-binding Senate Resolution 511, co-sponsored by Obama, which declared McCain a “natural born citizen” and, therefore, eligible for the Presidency.

The fact that Congress has no authority to do such a thing was apparently completely irrelevant to that majestic body. Maybe I’m a cynic, but it sounds to me like just another crooked, backroom deal.

If McCain and Obama both didn’t need the “cover”, why go through that elaborate Senate charade?

Andrew Napolitano once asked South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, where in the Constitution it authorizes the federal government to regulate the delivery of health care.

Clyburn replied: “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says that the federal government has anything to do with most of the stuff we do.” Then he shot back: “How about [you] show me where in the Constitution it prohibits the federal government from doing this?”

Rep. Clyburn, like many in Congress, has conveniently forgotten that, according to the Constitution, the federal government has only specific enumerated powers.

As Mr. Napolitano correctly noted, Congress has gone from upholding the Constitution to evading it.

Basically, the permanent political class is saying to the American people: “we’ll do whatever we want and you prove that we can’t do it.”

That is exactly how Barack Obama has been operating and why no one in Washington, D.C. will challenge him.

Our political royals want the option of evading the Constitution or any law they deem inconvenient, like, most recently, what appears to be Congressional insider stock trading and the distribution of Obamacare waivers as political favors.

If the people at the highest levels of government believe that they can, whenever they wish, commit law evasion, what can ordinary citizens do?

We can hope that the cover-up surrounding Obama’s alleged crimes begins to unravel and honest, courageous and patriotic leaders step forward to root out those complicit, eliminate the endemic corruption and guide the country back on the right course.

Otherwise, left with no alternatives, open dissent will grow and chaos will ensue.

Keep your powder dry.

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Congressman Warns: “Those Who Can, Should Move Their Families Out Of the City”

Mac Slavo
May 27th, 2011
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There are a whole host of events that can bring the world as we know it today to its knees. From a hyperinflationary economic collapse to an electro magnetic pulse originating from the sun or a nuclear weapon , there exists a real and present danger that our system may, in the near future, experience unrecoverable shocks to the power grid and clean water infrastructure, a halt to just-in-time agricultural transportation systems and a collapse of the currency exchange mechanisms that make the economy function.

US Representative Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), lived through the great depression, so he’s seen how bad things can get. In a new documentary, Mr. Bartlett and others discuss the dangers posed to those living in cities and ways that your family can survive if the worst were to ever happen.

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FROM "STEVE QUAYLE"

NRA Sells Out Second Amendment on Patriot Act: The NRA sold out the Second Amendment during the Patriot Act fight, criticizing Senator Rand Paul's amendment to exempt gun purchases from search provisions of the Patriot Act in e-mails to Congress while sitting on information showing the need for Paul's amendment. The information shows that the FBI and the federal government's Joint Terrorism Task Force have already begun trolling the records of law-abiding gun owners, using the excuse of terrorism surveillance. more

SHOCKING STATEMENT

2011-05-30T07:52:00.000-07:00

Subject: MOST STUPID STATEMENT EVER MADE BY A PRESIDENT

If someone has to explain this to you, You are not a veteran……….

He doesn't seem to have much respect for the military.
Maybe in the future our leaders should be veterans.

THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE TO SEE THIS!!
THE MOST STUPID STATEMENT EVER BY A PRESIDENT-Unbelievable

THIS THE MOST UNBELIEVABLE PRESIDENT?
HERE IS HIS RESPONSE WHEN HE BACKED OFF FROM HIS DECISION TO REQUIRE THE MILITARY PAY FOR THEIR WAR INJURIES.
Bad press, including major mockery of the play by comedian Jon Stewart, led to President Obama abandoning his proposal to require veterans carry private health insurance to cover the estimated $540 billion annual cost to the federal government of treatment for injuries to military personnel received during their tours on active duty. The President admitted that he was puzzled by the magnitude of the opposition to his proposal.

"Look, it's an all volunteer force," Obama complained. "Nobody made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the risks. Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice? It doesn't compute.." "I thought these were people who were proud to sacrifice for their country, "Obama continued "I wasn't asking for blood, just money. With the country facing the worst financial crisis in its history, I'd have thought that the patriotic thing to do would be to try to help reduce the nation's deficit.. I guess I underestimated the selfishness of some of my fellow Americans."
Please pass this on to every one including every vet and their families whom you know. How in the world did a person with this mindset become our leader?
REMEMBER THIS STATEMENT...."Nobody made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the risks. Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice?"

If he thinks he will ever get another vote from an Active Duty, Reserve, National Guard service member or veteran of a military service he ought to think it over.. If you or a family member is or has served their country please pass this to them.
Please pass this to everyone. I'm guessing that other than the 20-25 percent hardcore liberals in the US will agree that this is just another example why
this is the worst president in American history. Remind everyone over and over how this man thinks, while he bows to the Saudi Arabian king...

UDAI & QUSAY AUTOPSY PHOTOS

2011-05-03T04:41:00.000-07:00

Udai and Qusay Post Mortems
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The U.S. Army permitted further access to the Hussein brothers' corpses, and these photos document that. Unfortunately, they seem to have "over-morticianed" the pair, giving the skeptical Arab audience even more reason to believe that we doctored the cadavers. For more detailed information on these two diabolicals, read the Rotten Library entry on Uday Hussein.

ACTIONS BY T

2011-04-30T07:20:00.000-07:00

If it doesn't have the 'T', its not Actions By 'T'

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ACTIONS BY T

BREAKING NEWS: FOR REASONS BEYOND OUR CONTROL WE ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO ACCEPT CREDIT CARDS OF ANY KIND. WE NOW ONLY ACCEPT CASH, CHECK, OR MONEY ORDER. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THIS INCONVENIENCE BUT WE HAVE NO CHOICE.

THE WORLD IS COMING APART

2011-04-10T07:17:00.000-07:00

The World Is Coming Apart—Where Is America?

From the May June 2011 Trumpet Print Edition »

By Brad Macdonald

On March 28, Barack Obama went on television to inform his people and the world about America’s objective in the war on Libyan strongman Muammar Qadhafi.

One theme the president emphasized was leadership. “To brush aside America’s responsibility as a leader and—more profoundly—our responsibilities to our fellow human beings under such circumstances would have been a betrayal of who we are,” he stated (emphasis mine throughout). Mr. Obama recalled America’s historic role as a world leader and affirmed that America would uphold its leadership responsibilities in Libya.

Though the speech was articulate, it was not convincing. The attempt to cast America as a leader in Libya was a flop. Aside from the fact that it came nine days too late, it was undermined by the reality that the White House had for days, even weeks, been attempting to unload its leadership responsibilities in Libya.

Under U.S. leadership, it took more than three weeks to get a UN resolution to enter Libya. When the resolution finally did arrive, France and Britain led the military operations. Meanwhile, as fighter jets dropped thousands of pounds of ordnance over Libya, allied partners bickered over the scope and objective of the campaign. After the mission had been under way for more than a week, apparently under “U.S. leadership,” allied partners still hadn’t agreed on who was in charge, or even what their ultimate strategic objective was.

Why the confusion? The dissension, Charles Krauthammer noted, was “purely the result of Obama’s decision to get America into the war and then immediately relinquish American command.” Indeed, Operation Odyssey was less than 48 hours old when the president told the world he was ready to transfer America’s responsibilities to nato—within “days, not weeks.” The remark set off intense squabbling as allied powers wrestled over who would lead in the absence of clear, decisive leadership from the world’s most militarily powerful nation!

German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel observed, “The indecisive, sometimes helpless dealing with the uprisings of the West in North Africa is a testament to the American withdrawal from world affairs.” Harvard historian Niall Ferguson said that the Libya affair exposed “a president without a strategy.” Krauthammer observed that the U.S. administration was “obsessed with pretending that we are not running the operation” and with “handing off the lead role.”

Tagesspiegel also noted that America’s relative disinterest is evident in more than just Libya. Consider Washington’s conduct in all the major crises lately—in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria. In each case, the U.S. has acted like a third-rate power. It has failed to tackle the issues with force and determination, with clarity of vision and purpose, with the confidence and vigor of a superpower. Instead, its response in virtually every case has been late, ill-informed or hastily conceived, morally or politically shallow, or downright irresponsible. And, most significantly, it has willfully passed leadership to someone else.

One of the most significant lessons from the traumatic events thus far in 2011—and a reality that has surely been seen around the world—is that the United States no longer possesses the desire to be a global leader.

Experts have given a number of reasons why. They say Washington has multiple domestic problems to deal with, that it lacks the resources to lead on every issue. But the conclusion drawn by others—that abdicating global leadership has become a fundamental goal of U.S. foreign policy—is startling. Nevertheless, look at the evidence.

This is the “Obama conception of the U.S. role in the world,” stated White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes in the midst of the Libya debacle: “to work through multilateral organizations and bilateral relationships to make sure that the steps we are taking are amplified.”

The Obama foreign-policy team includes Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg and ambassador to nato Ivo Daalder. In July 2008, these men published a report outlining an “intellectual and policy blueprint for the next administration.” Current U.S. foreign policy is aptly summarized in the report’s concluding sentence: “And such [U.S.] leadership recognizes that in a world in which power has diffused, our interests are best protected and advanced when others step up and at times lead alongside or even ahead of us.”

President Obama said it himself in March. “This is how the international community should work,” he said: “more nations, not just the United States, bearing the responsibility and the cost of upholding peace and security.”

The problem with this approach is now on full display in the Middle East and North Africa. As Daniel Henninger wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “[N]o one has stepped up, no one is leading alongside and our allies are in the rear, accomplishing nothing while they wait for … America.”

In Libya, Washington abdicated its leadership—or, as some would put it, gave others the opportunity to step up and lead. What happened? Chaos and dissension reigned. “At a time when the world is hungry for America to lead,” wrote Krauthammer, “America is led by a man determined that it should not.”

It is now a sad but evident reality that the United States has abandoned its post as a world leader.

As the world’s leading power since World War ii, America has not been above reproach. Despite its shortcomings, however, over the past 200 years it has given mankind some terrific benefits and, for a long while, strong, stable and—compared to most others—charitable leadership.

There is a reason for this. The central reason for America’s wealth and global preponderance is that it has been the recipient of a promise God made to Abraham 3,000 years ago. You can study that promise in Genesis 12. It is a promise of spectacular and unprecedented wealth, power and leadership being bestowed upon Abraham’s descendants, and specifically the United States of America.

Now, however, because of America’s sins, God has removed the strong leaders from this nation and broken the pride of its power (e.g. Isaiah 3:1-4; Leviticus 26:19). The distressing evidence of the fulfillment of this powerful prophecy resounds loudly in these recent events!

God’s promise to Abraham—one of the most far-reaching and important God has ever made—is a theme in our free book The United States and Britain in Prophecy. If you haven’t already studied this book, request it now. Truly, nothing explains America’s calamitous, yet God-ordained, fall from the heights of global power and affluence like this groundbreaking work. •

AN AMERICAN DISGRACE

2011-04-05T08:23:00.000-07:00

This picture was taken at the AZ state capitol Thursday.

This photo was taken at a rally at the state capitol yesterday. The news will not show it and the Capitol Police and Homeland Security would not let Americans or any of the Veterans that were there do anything about it.

My husband and his friends were threatened to be arrested and were told they would be booked under federal charges if they did anything. I am sending this to you so that you in turn can start emailing it to everyone on your list. It is totally uncalled for and people need to see it.

This is not about politics and rhetoric, it is about a direct threat to our country. Those of you that don't live in Arizona will maybe get a chance to see the other side of what the news is telling you. If this offends you greatly, then I have truly accomplished what I set out to do.

I understand that sometimes we don't see eye to eye on certain things, but that is the right our forefathers fought for. I am an American before I am anything else. For those of you who choose to dismiss this: If you believe that this is okay I believe you are a traitor to this country and everything it stands for.

I am not a racist and I am not a Nazi, this has nothing to do with race, it has to do with respect to the country that is continually taking you in and turning a blind eye to your agenda.

Homeland Security was designed to identify and defend America from Terrorist acts yet yesterday it let illegal and legal citizens of this country desecrate the Flag. People were spitting on it, stomping on it and burning it with cigarettes. One soldier who had just returned from Iraq tried to grab the flag and was thrown to the ground by the Capitol Police and Homeland Security.

It amazes me how many people will stand against the American People while all the while prospering from our system and our government.

To those of you that will forward this to your friends I applaud you for the courage to stand up for the country in which you live.

To those of you who delete this, there is always someplace else for you to go.

THIS PLANET IS IN "MELTDOWN"

2011-03-25T07:29:00.000-07:00

Brad MacdonaldColumnist

The World Is Coming Apart—Where Is America?

March 24, 2011 | From theTrumpet.com

The U.S. has abdicated its global leadership.

Despite losing the majority of his air defense capabilities, multiple command and control bases, including the critical Bab Al Azizia compound in Tripoli, and a top military general, Libyan strongman Muammar Qadhafi has reason to be confident in his war against Western-backed rebel forces.

This week, while unloading thousands of pounds of ordnance on Qadhafi strongholds, allied leaders began debating a new command structure for the coalition. In addition to arguing about who should lead the campaign, dissension also arose over the strategic objective of Operation Odyssey. Some allies, such as Britain and France, believe removing Qadhafi is a paramount objective, while others, most notably the United States, argue that this does not fall within the UN mandate for Libya.

Doesn’t this seem a little odd?

One doesn’t require the military genius of Napoleon to see that it’s a bad idea to undertake a major military campaign without agreeing on who will lead or what its strategic objective is.

The confusion began Monday when America, after two days of conducting air strikes on Libya, said it will soon hand the reigns over to nato. Problem is, France and Germany oppose nato running the mission, while Britain and Italy are adamant that nato must lead (Rome even threatened to restrict access to vital air bases unless nato is given charge). On Wednesday, Germany, frustrated by the infighting and the plan to hand over control to nato, announced it was pulling two frigates and a surveillance plane from the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, France and Italy have stationed aircraft carriers in waters adjacent to Libya, while Norway, Denmark, Belgium and Canada have all dispatched fighter jets to the region.

If that sounds confusing, that’s because it is. It seems the only party participating in this conflict who is not confused is Colonel Qadhafi. The war against him is less than a week old and he sees an enemy that is headless, confused and paralyzed by bickering.

Amid the arguments and murky unknowns, however, one important reality has become crystal clear: America has no interest in playing a leadership role in Libya. The U.S. was one of the last to join the fight and wants to be the first out. On Monday, President Barack Obama stated that the U.S. is ready to transfer its responsibilities in Libya to someone else, preferably nato. This transition, he emphasized, will happen over “the next several days, not weeks.”

All sorts of experts have all sorts of explanations for the confusion handicapping the Western alliance and the merits of America’s involvement. Some believe Libya is not America’s fight and that the U.S. ought to have stayed home. Others say U.S. intervention should have come earlier and been more intense. Some argue that America simply cannot afford to fight another war; others say it has moral and/or financial obligations to intervene.

Whatever side you are on, Libya has exposed this reality in the world order: The United States has no interest in taking the lead on an issue of extreme global import!

And it’s not just Libya where America appears disinterested. Consider Washington’s conduct in all the major crises lately, be it the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, or the grave and significant struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia being fought in the likes of Bahrain, Syria and Yemen. In each instance, Washington’s record for displaying leadership, at least by American standards, is nothing short of dismal.

In every case, the United States has acted like a third-rate power. It has failed to tackle the issues with force and determination, with clarity of vision and purpose, with the confidence and vigor of a superpower. Instead, its response in virtually every case has been late in coming, ill-informed or hastily conceived, morally or politically shallow, or downright irresponsible.

And, most significantly, in virtually every crisis, America has willfully abdicated leadership to someone else.

One of the most significant lessons from the traumatic events thus far in 2011—and a reality that has surely been seen around the world—is that the United States no longer possesses the desire to be a global leader!

Experts have given a number of reasons why. They say Washington has multiple domestic problems to deal with, that it lacks the resources to lead on every issue, and that America is bankrupt and can no longer play its leading role. Some few others believe the cause runs deeper: that abdicating global leadership has become a fundamental goal of U.S. foreign policy.

This is understandable when you consider some of the statements coming from the White House. This is the “Obama conception of the U.S. role in the world,” stated White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes last week: “to work through multilateral organizations and bilateral relationships to make sure that the steps we are taking are amplified.” In other words, the days of America standing alone to single-handedly pursue a policy in its best interests are over.

Then there’s the “Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st-Century National Security Strategy.” Published in July 2008, this report outlines an “intellectual and policy blueprint for the next administration.” It was developed by individuals now serving in the Obama foreign-policy team, including James B. Steinberg, Mr. Obama’s deputy secretary of state, and Ivo Daalder, America’s ambassador to nato.

Current U.S. foreign policy, as Daniel Henninger noted in the Wall Street Journal last week, is most aptly summarized in the report’s concluding sentence: “And such [U.S.] leadership recognizes that in a world in which power has diffused, our interests are best protected and advanced when others step up and at times lead alongside or even ahead of us” (emphasis mine throughout). Put simply, the primary foreign-policy objective of the current administration is to refrain from exhibiting unilateral leadership, and to step aside and allow others to lead.

The problem with this strategy, which Henninger says is on full display in the Middle East and North Africa, is that “no one has stepped up, no one is leading alongside and our allies are in the rear, accomplishing nothing while they wait for … America.”

America’s decision to abdicate leadership is having a disastrous effect on the Middle East, and has resulted in what Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick terms “strategic dementia.” Motivated by a deeply rooted anti-imperialist agenda, “the overarching goal of Obama’s foreign policy has been to end U.S. global hegemony.”

The result? America’s president “looks to the UN as a vehicle for tethering the U.S. superpower” and “views U.S. allies in the Middle East and around the world with suspicion because he feels that as U.S. allies, they are complicit with U.S. imperialism,” writes Glick. This explains why Washington supported the ousting of long-time U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak, and why America continues to refuse to lift a finger against Iran’s mullahs. It also explains Washington’s relative silence over the hugely significant struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran currently being fought on the streets of Bahrain, Syria and Yemen.

Today, it is a sad but evident reality that the United States has abandoned its post as a world leader.

As the world’s only superpower over the past two decades, and its leading power since World War ii, America has not been above reproach. Despite its shortcomings, however, over the past 200 years it has given mankind some terrific blessings and, for a long while, strong, stable, and compared to most others, charitable leadership.

For Americans, this legacy of leadership ought not be a cause for arrogance. Instead, when the truth about the source of America’s existence as the single greatest power in history is known, it ought to arouse a sense of humility and contrition, and of submission to the Source of that greatness. The central reason for America’s wealth and global preponderance is that it has been the recipient of a promise God made to Abraham 3,000 years ago. You can study that promise in Genesis 12.

Also, this promise—one of the most far-reaching and important God has ever made—is a theme in our free book The United States and Britain in Prophecy. If you haven’t already studied this book, request it now. Truly, nothing explains America’s calamitous, yet God-ordained, fall from the heights of global power and affluence like this groundbreaking work. •

TREASON

2011-03-07T12:05:00.000-08:00

THIS IS A MUST SEE PUBLIC VIDEO

CHAOS WORLD WIDE

Personal Commentary

2011-02-17T05:27:00.000-08:00

PERSONAL COMMENTARY

I have decided this is the proper time to write a personal commentary about our ECONOMIC situation. What I am about to write is my own opinion only and I admit freely that I do not claim to have a degree in Economics or a college degree of any kind, but I am not stuck on stupid like most people in this world.

First I honestly believe all that is happening is pre ordained by G-d the FATHER, all elected officials world wide were put in office for his end game that will lead to the final Battle in the Valley of JEZREEL which is about 55 miles North of Jerusalem. ISAIAH 34-6 will initiate this. This book or play has been written in concrete thousands of years ago and nothing can change it. Right now its Target = "JERUSALEM" the only winner will be G-d the FATHER. The ESSENES spelled it out in the DEAD SEA SCROLLS FOUND IN 1947.

Lets get back to ECONOMICS which I have very limited experience in but I am going to explain it to you as I see it. Lets first break down what a TRILLION dollars means. One (1) Trillion Dollars is one (1) one thousand Billion dollars. One BILLION dollars is one (1) thousand Million dollars. Most people like me have no concept of how much money $$$ this represents.

Lets now assume the UNITED STATES has a credit card issued by the BANK OF CHINA which I will call the MASTER CHINA CARD. Credit limit is 14 Trillion dollars. Its like our personal credit card where we must pay a minimum monthly bill every month so as not to be in default or late. This MCC (master china card) requires a minimum payment of one Million dollars per month to maintain its stability and credit line. Are you with me so far ??

So the UNITED STATES must make this payment come hell or high water to maintain its credit line or they will default or cancel our credit card. These Government programs initiated to get more money now go to pay off this monthly debt, and as most of you already know paying the minimum balance never will get you out of debt, it just gets you deeper in debt depending on the interest rate that this MCC is now charging you. If you are late you pay a late fee. There is basically no way out, you are caught in a revolving door with no exit.

This is the easiest way I have come up with to explain what our situation is at this time. Printing more fake money with no gold behind it thanks to "NIXON" becomes Monopoly play money. Its just a fraud and only a matter of time before American states start to declare Bankruptcy. When they do the Police, Firemen, State employees etc, will all lose their pensions that they worked so hard for all their lives.

I have no answers, I know this is going to get much worse. Just look what happened to GERMANY after WWI. This is how Hitler came to power, promising people a future of lies and deceit. We are now at the beginning of the end as I see it, in my opinion this has "ALL" been pre ordained. The key now is the more that the UNITED STATES turns their back on ISRAEL which is still the land of G-d whether you want to believe it or not the worse it will get.

Here is what I see that will happen and it is my opinion only. As it is written so it shall be done. GENESIS 12-3 tells you clearly what G-d will do. then to clarify, go to OBADIAH 1-15 and G-d basically says that what you do to the Jews will be done to you. There is so much more but you must get the idea by now.

I am going to tell you why G-d in the end destroyed FDR, CHURCHILL, STALIN. You do not have to believe a word I say but I am compelled to tell you. DURING WWII The Rabbi's begged FDR and CHURCHILL to bomb the railroad tracks going into the NAZI death camps and they "BOTH" refused saying it was not a priority target. The Rabbi's only wanted the tracks destroyed. FDR refused to allow a ship full of Jews to enter the UNITED STATES, these Jews went back to Germany and were killed.

As far as CHURCHILL its much more complicated than that, he turned NAZI GERMAN AGENTS into "DOUBLE" agents that he used to feed the "NAZI's" misinformation. Churchill decided during the terrible NAZI bombing of LONDON to feed the NAZI machine using his converted GERMAN DOUBLE AGENTS coordinates of the "JEWISH AREAS" of LONDON to be annihilated by NAZI bombers to save the areas he deemed were more important. It was done and G-d the FATHER paid him and FDR back big time. This is fact. The HEBREW ANGEL OF DEATH KILLED THEM BOTH.

Lets talk about STALIN. Aside from killing his own people and being a mass murderer. In his last days on earth he issued an order saying that ALL "JEWS" were to be killed. On the 12th day before his orders were carried out he was stricken with a massive brain hemorrhage and died. This was again done by the HEBREW ANGEL OF DEATH. This is the same ANGEL that killed all the first born in EGYPT DURING THE TIME OF MOSES. HE IS STILL DOING HIS WORK AS I WRITE.

This is as I see it and its going to get a great deal worse. America is in Decline and I can only feel very bad because I grew up in a once great America that I will never forget. I was dirt poor, had nothing but G-d the FATHER was always in my life from day one.

Thank you

Teddy

WATCHING YOUR COUNTRY DIE

2011-02-13T06:44:00.000-08:00

It’s Hard to Watch Your Country Die

From the March 2011 Trumpet Print Edition »

One can’t help but sigh and cry. By Joel Hilliker

The talk in global political circles is that the U.S. is washed up. America’s defense secretary, traveling to China in January, addressed the gossip. “I’ve watched this sort of cyclical view of American decline come around two or three times, perhaps most dramatically in the latter half of the 1970s,” Robert Gates said. “And my general line for those both at home and around the world who think the U.S. is in decline is that history’s dustbins are filled with countries that underestimated the resilience of the United States.”

Maybe. But it seems hard to underestimate the U.S. these days.

The secretary’s words ring especially hollow when you look at where he was heading. China has plenty cause for a low estimation of the United States. America owes it probably a trillion dollars. And China looks poised to single-handedly neutralize America’s robust, decades-long influence in the Asia Pacific thanks to a military spending binge that will yield aircraft carriers, stealth planes and aircraft-carrier-killing missiles.

Meanwhile, Secretary Gates, just days earlier, announced that America will slash military spending by $78 billion. The contrast between a country rising and a country sliding is stark.

It’s painful to watch someone you love dying of a terminal sickness. The same must be said of seeing a country you love die.

America suffers with several ills from which it will not recover. This reality is becoming inescapably plain. There is hope—a bright, shining, sure hope for this country. But it is most certainly not to be found in any of the sources that naive optimists look to. We must face facts.

The virtues America once embodied have largely faded. The blessings America once enjoyed have been squandered. America’s military dominance is proving inadequate. Its wars are proving impossible. Our allies are leaving us. Our enemies are provoking us.

The epic indebtedness to China and the shrinking military are both symptoms of an irreparably broken economy. Not only has America’s fiscal irresponsibility gone on too long to correct, the country shows no sign of having the will to even try.

Despite growing unemployment, despite ruinous private and public debt, despite whole states risking bankruptcy, despite the federal government now paying its bills with nothing but printed paper, Americans keep spending like good times will roll forever. Frugality, thrift, moderation, self-control, self-sufficiency—it seems such perennially American virtues are permanently lost, buried by rank materialism and excess.

The nation simply will not recover from this condition before it pays dearly for it. The last Congress racked up a stupefying $3.22 trillion in debt in two quick years. After an election that supposedly rebuked Washington for its profligacy, Republicans agreed to a spending bill that will add another trillion to the debt.

This new Congress will not reverse this juggernaut trend. Newcomers agitating for change face a House controlled by one party, a Senate controlled by the other, and a president with veto power and a bulldog determination to keep expanding the government.

And, truth be told, he’s got the people behind him. Maybe not for healthcare. But Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare represent more than $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities—and no politician plans to lose his job trying to prevent those programs from bankrupting the country. The problem isn’t Obama: The wild spending, the disastrous deficits, the entitlements, the bailouts—these all started with his “conservative” predecessor. The problem is Washington—and the voters that decide who to send there.

The children of hard-bitten, self-reliant settlers who conquered the West have become grabby government dependents.

The nation’s spreading economic and political sickness is matched by its moral decline. Despite warnings from military leaders and front-line soldiers of how it will hurt America’s fighting capability, civilian leaders decided that homosexuals can now freely serve in the military. At a press conference celebrating this policy “victory,” the president said his views on same-sex “marriage” are “evolving.” Those views, like those of the public, will never “evolve” back to upholding the plain definition of marriage that has underpinned stable families and strong societies for millennia.

As if the stabilizing force of family isn’t being rocked enough. Out-of-wedlock births and single-parent households, once associated with inner-city poor, are now common among the rural white working class as well. In the nation’s capital, more than half of family households are run by single parents. In one area of Washington, only a quarter of homes contain a functioning marriage; of the remaining homes, nearly 9 in 10 are run by women.

No wonder 40 percent of Americans think marriage is becoming obsolete: A generation is growing up without even seeing what it is supposed to look like. Fractured families breed more fractured families. This is a sickness that simply will not heal.

The litany of such problems goes on and on. Each headline shows a bleaker prognosis, a new pain, another symptom bound only to get worse. “The passing of the Christian West signifies the end not only of a worldview, but of a character type—one based on honor, family, self-help, blood-and-soil patriotism, personal responsibility and a God-centered moral order,” wrote Jeffrey Kuhner. “Self-indulgence and self-expression have filled the vacuum. Life is no longer about sacrifice and duty; it’s about maximizing pleasure and self-fulfillment.”

Viewing this, one can’t help but sigh and cry—as the Prophet Isaiah did, speaking prophetically of America today: “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. … [T]he whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment” (Isaiah 1:4-6). It’s painful to watch, particularly in a country you love.

Secretary Gates may have been technically accurate. But the far more relevant truth is that history’s dustbins are filled with countries that overestimated their own resilience. •

THE SUEZ CANAL

2011-02-04T07:44:00.000-08:00

Joel HillikerColumnist

Will the Muslim Brotherhood Close the Suez Canal?

February 2, 2011 | From theTrumpet.com

Oil prices have spiked at just the possibility. Europe is keeping close watch.

Almost immediately after angry Egyptians took to the streets last week, oil jumped to over $100 a barrel. It was the first time oil hit triple digits since the record spike to $147 two years ago. Clearly, investors were spooked at even the thought of a disruption in energy production and shipping.

On Monday, we got a glimpse at one important reason why. A leading Muslim Brotherhood member said the Suez Canal should be immediately shut down.

Muhammad Ghannem made the provocative statement to an Arabic-language Iranian news network. He also said Egyptians should “be prepared for war against Israel.”

It was a chilling peek at what might happen once the dust settles from these popular protests sweeping Egypt. Western optimism notwithstanding, the Muslim Brotherhood will likely end up in power—which means the Middle East’s most populous and influential Arab country is about to lurch from relatively stable, moderate ally to volatile, radical enemy.

The shock waves will be massive. This will revolutionize the landscape in the most combustible part of the world. It will embolden extremists like nothing since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and place formidable levers of power in their hands.

Control over the Suez Canal is definitely one of those levers. It’s a prime example of why Europe is watching events in Egypt so intently.

The Suez Canal is one of the engineering marvels of the modern world. It cuts through 118 miles of Egyptian countryside, connecting the Red Sea with the Mediterranean, thus linking Europe with East Africa and Asia. Initially completed over 140 years ago—after 1.5 million laborers moved more than 1.2 billion cubic feet of soil with picks and shovels—to this day it remains a conduit for roughly 8 percent of global seaborne trade.

Of particular concern is oil. Though Egypt exports none itself, the U.S. Energy Department still classifies it as one of the few World Oil Transit Chokepoints. Every day, 2 to 3 million barrels of oil and fuel products pass through the canal and the Suez-Mediterranean Pipeline, which also traverses Egypt. That amounts up to 2.5 percent of global oil production.

According to Barclays, about two thirds of that energy is traveling north toward Europe. It accounts for 5 to 7 percent of Europe’s oil consumption.

Disrupt these shipments, and European supply—and global prices—would be “affected tremendously,” Dalton Garis, an associate professor at an Abu Dhabi energy-research center, told the Wall Street Journal.

The New York Times reported on the same possibility: “While [oil] prices are set globally, the immediate impact of any interruption would be felt primarily in Europe, which relies heavily on jet fuel, heating oil and other distillates refined in the Middle East and shipped via the canal and pipeline” (emphasis mine). Already this past week, European oil prices have soared—even higher than those in America.

Investors are concerned that Egypt’s instability makes ships passing through the canal more susceptible to attack. Worse, though, is the prospect of a radical, anti-West government taking over Cairo and shutting the canal down altogether, a likelihood Barclays Capital warned of this week. Oil tankers transporting Middle East oil westward would have to travel the extra 6,000 miles around Africa, delaying delivery times and markedly increasing costs. That’s the last thing a continent mired in economic problems wants.

One could be forgiven for thinking that Ghannem’s call to close the canal was calculated to panic Europeans.

“People talking about the closure of the Suez Canal are talking about a collapse of the state, which it is in our interest to avoid at all costs,” Italy’s foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said Monday. “This is one of the reasons why Egypt’s stability is fundamental for the economy too, as a result of trade in the Mediterranean and therefore with Europe.”

Remember, the Suez Canal was once before at the heart of a war. In fact, current conditions resound with echoes of that history.

On one side was an Egyptian leader with a vision of militant pan-Arabism that put him at odds with European colonial powers. Colonel Gamal Nasser had taken part in a coup against the Egyptian monarchy in 1952 and then overthrown the president two years later. In July 1956, in a purposeful display of Arab strength, he seized control of the Suez Canal.

On the other side were the canal’s European owners. The canal was the West’s most prominent asset in the Middle East: At the time, a full four fifths of Western Europe’s oil was passing through it. France, Britain and Israel responded to Nasser’s provocation by combining forces to invade.

In what has proven to be a terrible blunder, the United States broke from its British ally and came out firmly against the action. The United Nations, beholden to Third World opinion, also dissented. In the end, a ceasefire was imposed, and control of the vital Suez Canal was yielded up to Egypt. It was a massive defeat for Britain in particular, marking its unmistakable loss of status as a great power—and the fulfillment of a biblical prophecy that it would lose control of its sea gates.

Since that event, Europe has significantly reduced its dependence on Suez. Nevertheless, in these economically strained, extremely oil-dependent times, the Suez Canal remains very significant strategically.

The prospect of a Muslim Brotherhood government gaining control over this asset—punctuated by the explicit call for its closure by a prominent member—makes it easy to imagine a militant Egyptian government again using the canal to provoke a European power.

This time, however, the players would be somewhat different. On one side would be the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization sure to prove even more aggressive than Nasser was (at one time, it actually tried to assassinate Nasser). And on the other, rather than a fading Britain, would be a surging, unified Europe. These differences would result in a far different outcome than the war in 1956.

Longtime Trumpet readers are well familiar with the end-time prophecy in Daniel 11—set to be fulfilled soon—of a “push” by an Iranian-led, Islamist Middle Eastern power (“the king of the south”) of a German-led European empire (“the king of the north”). Our editor in chief has speculated about the likelihood of oil factoring into this provocation: Iran could well gain control over supplies to such an extent as to be able to drive prices to uncomfortable highs. “This in turn could cause Europe to quickly unite into the most powerful economic bloc in the world,” he wrote in the Trumpet’s December 1994 edition.

The European empire described in biblical prophecy—and presently coalescing, even amid financial troubles—is a voracious economic power, and unimaginably ferocious in securing the energy and other resources it needs to fuel itself.

It is important to note that, in Daniel’s prophecy, when a unified Europe wipes out Iran, it violently overthrows Egypt in the process (“and the land of Egypt shall not escape,” Daniel 11:42 tells us). Clearly, the links between Iran and Egypt will be strong and deep by that point—so much so that Europe will feel compelled to eliminate them both in a stroke.

Today, the ideological similarities and informal ties between the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran are well known. This is a major reason why we have been saying for two decades that the Brotherhood was destined to come to power in Egypt. Daniel’s prophecy reveals that this Arab state would experience exactly the sort of lurch toward extremism that we see unfolding before our eyes today.

How much might the Brotherhood’s use of the Suez Canal as a weapon factor in to the king of the south’s “push”—and the king of the north’s violent response? We know that Egypt will not escape the European whirlwind. Perhaps today’s $100 oil and a threat to close the canal give us a clue as to why. •

Psalms Chapter 109 תְּהִלִּים

2011-01-04T07:12:00.000-08:00

Psalms Chapter 109 תְּהִלִּים

א לַמְנַצֵּחַ, לְדָוִד מִזְמוֹר: אֱלֹהֵי תְהִלָּתִי, אַל-תֶּחֱרַשׁ.	1 For the Leader. A Psalm of David. {N} O God of my praise, keep not silence;
ב כִּי פִי רָשָׁע, וּפִי-מִרְמָה--עָלַי פָּתָחוּ; דִּבְּרוּ אִתִּי, לְשׁוֹן שָׁקֶר.	2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me; they have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
ג וְדִבְרֵי שִׂנְאָה סְבָבוּנִי; וַיִּלָּחֲמוּנִי חִנָּם.	3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
ד תַּחַת-אַהֲבָתִי יִשְׂטְנוּנִי; וַאֲנִי תְפִלָּה.	4 In return for my love they are my adversaries; but I am all prayer.
ה וַיָּשִׂימוּ עָלַי רָעָה, תַּחַת טוֹבָה; וְשִׂנְאָה, תַּחַת אַהֲבָתִי.	5 And they have laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love:
ו הַפְקֵד עָלָיו רָשָׁע; וְשָׂטָן, יַעֲמֹד עַל-יְמִינוֹ.	6 'Set Thou a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
ז בְּהִשָּׁפְטוֹ, יֵצֵא רָשָׁע; וּתְפִלָּתוֹ, תִּהְיֶה לַחֲטָאָה.	7 When he is judged, let him go forth condemned; and let his prayer be turned into sin.
ח יִהְיוּ-יָמָיו מְעַטִּים; פְּקֻדָּתוֹ, יִקַּח אַחֵר.	8 Let his days be few; let another take his charge.
ט יִהְיוּ-בָנָיו יְתוֹמִים; וְאִשְׁתּוֹ, אַלְמָנָה.	9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
י וְנוֹעַ יָנוּעוּ בָנָיו וְשִׁאֵלוּ; וְדָרְשׁוּ, מֵחָרְבוֹתֵיהֶם.	10 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
יא יְנַקֵּשׁ נוֹשֶׁה, לְכָל-אֲשֶׁר-לוֹ; וְיָבֹזּוּ זָרִים יְגִיעוֹ.	11 Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.
יב אַל-יְהִי-לוֹ, מֹשֵׁךְ חָסֶד; וְאַל-יְהִי חוֹנֵן, לִיתוֹמָיו.	12 Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; neither let there be any to be gracious unto his fatherless children.
יג יְהִי-אַחֲרִיתוֹ לְהַכְרִית; בְּדוֹר אַחֵר, יִמַּח שְׁמָם.	13 Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
יד יִזָּכֵר, עֲו‍ֹן אֲבֹתָיו--אֶל-יְהוָה; וְחַטַּאת אִמּוֹ, אַל-תִּמָּח.	14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be brought to remembrance unto the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
טו יִהְיוּ נֶגֶד-יְהוָה תָּמִיד; וְיַכְרֵת מֵאֶרֶץ זִכְרָם.	15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
טז יַעַן-- אֲשֶׁר לֹא זָכַר, עֲשׂוֹת חָסֶד: וַיִּרְדֹּף, אִישׁ-עָנִי וְאֶבְיוֹן--וְנִכְאֵה לֵבָב; לְמוֹתֵת.	16 Because that he remembered not to do kindness, {N} but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart he was ready to slay.
יז וַיֶּאֱהַב קְלָלָה, וַתְּבוֹאֵהוּ; וְלֹא-חָפֵץ בִּבְרָכָה, וַתִּרְחַק מִמֶּנּוּ.	17 Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; and he delighted not in blessing, and it is far from him.
יח וַיִּלְבַּשׁ קְלָלָה, כְּמַדּוֹ: וַתָּבֹא כַמַּיִם בְּקִרְבּוֹ; וְכַשֶּׁמֶן, בְּעַצְמוֹתָיו.	18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his raiment, and it is come into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones.
יט תְּהִי-לוֹ, כְּבֶגֶד יַעְטֶה; וּלְמֵזַח, תָּמִיד יַחְגְּרֶהָ.	19 Let it be unto him as the garment which he putteth on, and for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.'
כ זֹאת פְּעֻלַּת שֹׂטְנַי, מֵאֵת יְהוָה; וְהַדֹּבְרִים רָע, עַל-נַפְשִׁי.	20 This would mine adversaries effect from the LORD, and they that speak evil against my soul.
כא וְאַתָּה, יְהוִה אֲדֹנָי-- עֲשֵׂה-אִתִּי, לְמַעַן שְׁמֶךָ; כִּי-טוֹב חַסְדְּךָ, הַצִּילֵנִי.	21 But Thou, O GOD the Lord, deal with me for Thy name's sake; {N} because Thy mercy is good, deliver Thou me.
כב כִּי-עָנִי וְאֶבְיוֹן אָנֹכִי; וְלִבִּי, חָלַל בְּקִרְבִּי.	22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
כג כְּצֵל-כִּנְטוֹתוֹ נֶהֱלָכְתִּי; נִנְעַרְתִּי, כָּאַרְבֶּה.	23 I am gone like the shadow when it lengtheneth; I am shaken off as the locust.
כד בִּרְכַּי, כָּשְׁלוּ מִצּוֹם; וּבְשָׂרִי, כָּחַשׁ מִשָּׁמֶן.	24 My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.
כה וַאֲנִי, הָיִיתִי חֶרְפָּה לָהֶם; יִרְאוּנִי, יְנִיעוּן רֹאשָׁם.	25 I am become also a taunt unto them; when they see me, they shake their head.
כו עָזְרֵנִי, יְהוָה אֱלֹהָי; הוֹשִׁיעֵנִי כְחַסְדֶּךָ.	26 Help me, O LORD my God; O save me according to Thy mercy;
כז וְיֵדְעוּ, כִּי-יָדְךָ זֹּאת; אַתָּה יְהוָה עֲשִׂיתָהּ.	27 That they may know that this is Thy hand; that Thou, LORD, hast done it.
כח יְקַלְלוּ-הֵמָּה, וְאַתָּה תְבָרֵךְ: קָמוּ, וַיֵּבֹשׁוּ--וְעַבְדְּךָ יִשְׂמָח.	28 Let them curse, but bless Thou; when they arise, they shall be put to shame, but Thy servant shall rejoice.
כט יִלְבְּשׁוּ שׂוֹטְנַי כְּלִמָּה; וְיַעֲטוּ כַמְעִיל בָּשְׁתָּם.	29 Mine adversaries shall be clothed with confusion, and shall put on their own shame as a robe.
ל אוֹדֶה יְהוָה מְאֹד בְּפִי; וּבְתוֹךְ רַבִּים אֲהַלְלֶנּוּ.	30 I will give great thanks unto the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him among the multitude;
לא כִּי-יַעֲמֹד, לִימִין אֶבְיוֹן-- לְהוֹשִׁיעַ, מִשֹּׁפְטֵי נַפְשׁוֹ.	31 Because He standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from them that judge his soul. {P}

THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS

2010-12-21T06:29:00.000-08:00

Friend of Freedom,

This is the most preposterous nomination by this Administration. Mr. Obama has nominated an ANTI-GUN ZEALOT to head the ATF. Can you believe that?

Worse yet, is that he may use the Christmas recess to confirm him WITHOUT a Senate confirmation hearing!

Please read this email. It contains unbelievable information about this travesty.

Thanks,

Patriotic American,

Nearly two years into his term, President Obama finally chose a director for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Mr. Obama will submit the name of Andrew Traver, the special agent in charge of the Bureau's Chicago field division, to the Senate, the White House said. However, he will face a confirmation fight---if his nomination is not filibustered, eliminating him from consideration.

Why? He is an anti-gun zealot. This is preposterous!

I can't---nor can most Americans---comprehend the idea of an anti-gun zealot being in charge of the ATF. Even worse, Mr. Obama appears to be waiting to appoint him during the Christmas holiday recess because he knows he will face a brutal confirmation hearing by Senate Republicans and gun-rights moderate Democrats---if not an outright boycott of his nomination...

Please CLICK HERE to FAX all Members of Congress to let them know about this outrageous appointment; and to go against this ludicrous appointment. Please urge them to let Mr. Obama know that he must wait for a Congressional confirmation, nothing else. Be sure to include a very special Donation to CCRKBA so we can continue to fight for our gun-owner rights, as given to us in the Second Amendment.

Insiders tell me it this appointment could, and likely will, happen when no one is thinking about it. It could be the last Christmas present you unwrap on Christmas morning; or perhaps, it will be the throbbing headache you wake up with on January 1. The bottom line is this: Andrew Traver is an ENEMY of the people, like you and me, who understand the Second Amendment is the cornerstone of liberty and, without the Second Amendment right to own and bear arms, we would be no more secure, no more safe in our homes, than the least safe and least secure people in the most despotic nations on Earth. The Second Amendment is what safeguards the entire Bill of Rights. Weaken the Second Amendment and the Constitution of the United States will easily be breached.

Please CLICK HERE to FAX all Members of Congress to let them know about this outrageous appointment; and to go against this ludicrous appointment. Please urge them to let Mr. Obama know that he must wait for a Congressional confirmation, nothing else. Be sure to include a very special Donation to CCRKBA so we can continue to fight for our gun-owner rights, as given to us in the Second Amendment.

Let me give you Andrew Traver's philosophical resume:

He favors banning ALL gun shows.

He opposes civilian ownership of semi-automatic rifles and shotguns.

He opposes private firearm sales.

He wants the Center for Disease Control to have oversight of the firearms industry. Apparently Mr. Traver believes guns are a disease. Or, maybe it's the gun owners he believes are diseased.

This is a DIRECT AFFRONT to those of us who own guns and use them properly and lawfully.

A frightening as it is, Mr. Obama can legally make a "recess appointment" and commission Mr. Traver is the TOP law enforcement official over the gun industry without a single Senator voting to confirm him. By confirming him on January 1, 2011, Traver would head the ATF for the balance of Obama's term in office. Now, that's scary, too. Your fax and your Donation can help to delay this appointment. That's why I am writing this URGENT EMAIL today. We must make a difference against this outrageous affront to you and me who are gun-owners. Will you help us---and assist America---today?

Please CLICK HERE to FAX all Members of Congress to let them know about this outrageous appointment; and to go against this ludicrous appointment. Please urge them to let Mr. Obama know that he must wait for a Congressional confirmation, nothing else. Be sure to include a very special Donation to CCRKBA so we can continue to fight for our gun-owner rights, as given to us in the Second Amendment.

The ATF hasn't has a director for almost four years. Former director Carl Truscott's reign was marked by numerous complaints about misappropriation of funds and poor treatment of employees. Following his resignation in 2006, the parameters were changed, and Senate confirmation is now required for a nominee.

Mr. Traver is NOT a friend of the people who whole-heartedly believe in the Second Amendment rights in the U. S. Constitution. Yes, that's you and me!

What he is a "friend" of is the "Chicago Machine" that spawned so many of your favorite Chicago-Washington "elites" who use the word "Chicago" as a synonym for cronyism. Cronyism was voted OUT in the November elections; but the message has not yet resonated at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Obama's anti-gun friend will head the ATF if the American people don't stop him. That's why you and I must FAX every Member of Congress to STOP this recess appointment.

The bottom line: We MUST let our voices and votes be heard. Traver is obviously NOT the man to head the most powerful firearms policing agency. His ANTI-GUN BIAS illustrates a clear conflict of interest on his part and his nomination proves that Barack Obama is openly hostile to your gun rights.

Anyone as clearly hostile to the Second Amendment as Mr. Traver is, has no business being allowed to head the powerful gun licensing and regulatory agency.

Please CLICK HERE to FAX all Members of Congress to let them know about this outrageous appointment; and to go against this ludicrous appointment. Please urge them to let Mr. Obama know that he must wait for a Congressional confirmation, nothing else. Be sure to include a very special Donation to CCRKBA so we can continue to fight for our gun-owner rights, as given to us in the Second Amendment.

The nomination of the Naperville, Illinois native to be top gun cop is applauded by gun-control activists, who say the 5,000-employee ATF has lost ground in its regulation of the $28 Billion US firearms business, having labored under interim directors since 2006.

Quite frankly, Mr. Obama has chosen a very strong, anti-Second Amendment ATF head for an administrative job that has far more influence over the practical exercise of the Second Amendment rights than any other job in the country.

In spite of our economic uncertainty, Americans spent $11 BILLION MORE in 2009 than in 2008 to buy guns, ammo, and gear, etc. In an economy that needs every dollar in retail sales from every corner of the free enterprise system, killing $11 billion more in retail sales in a failing economy is not wise, the Second Amendment notwithstanding.

There are roughly 80,000,000 gun owners in our great country who like you, must reject this presidential appointment. So we must GET INVOLVED NOW to fax every single Member of Congress to make sure that the appointment of Andrew Traver is TOTALLY BLOCKED.

Chris Cox, NRA spokesperson said this about Andrew Travers: "You might as well put an arsonist in charge of the fire department."

The bottom line: Andrew Traver is an anti-gun zealot. His confirmation, recess or otherwise, MUST be blocked! Mr. Traver is clearly NOT the man to head the most powerful firearms policing agency in the world. His anti-gun bias illustrates a clear conflict of interest. Please help us at this very moment to block this travesty and adverse person who is AGAINST YOU and your ownership of a gun.

We must OPPOSE this confirmation right now.

Thank you for understanding the seriousness of this email.

And, thank you for your faxes... and that donation.

Please give the largest gift that you possibly can to CCRKBA as we EXPOSE this complete violation of our Second Amendment of our United States Constitution.

Respectfully,

Alan M. Gottlieb
Chairman
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

P. S. Mr. Traver MUST be stopped. He is an anti-gun zealot. Please assist us in this tremendous fight to HALT THIS CONFIRMATION. We must make a genuine stand against this assault against one of our most cherished freedoms to own a gun. Please fax every Member of the U. S. Congress and let them know how you really feel; and donate to this organization that has stood for your right to bear arms---to make sure NO person is confirmed who is anti-gun.

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2010-11-29T07:06:00.000-08:00

Target:  Jerusalem

From the January 2011 Trumpet Print Edition »

Locked in a battle over the Holy City By Ron Fraser

This is not a story you are going to see on the nightly news. Yet it is a huge story of the moment that will soon dominate all news media.

Iran and the Vatican State—representing two great religious movements: pan-Islamism and Roman Catholicism—and the most powerful state in Europe, Germany, are gearing up for a titanic battle for the possession of the “city of peace”—Jerusalem.

Besides those two globally dominant religions claiming entitlement to that city, a third does as well: world Jewry.

This is an age-old battle. In modern times it has waged since World War ii, when Islam, under the Ottoman Turks, lost Jerusalem, and since Kaiser Wilhelm was denied its possession by British Imperial forces occupying Palestine, freeing the city from past Islamic dominance and the prospect of a Teutonic-Roman takeover.

Vatican Vision

The recapture of Jerusalem has burned as a fervent desire in Vatican hearts since the days of the great Crusades, initiated by Pope Urban ii in a.d. 1095.

Since the end of World War ii, and especially since the 1962 Vatican ii congress, Rome has worked toward this goal. Through diplomacy, primarily employing its excellent international intelligence network and by exercising more open dialogue with its wayward Protestant and Orthodox daughters, it has sought to achieve a bridgehead in the drive for the universal conversion of mankind with Jerusalem as its spiritual capital.

At the same time, since the Israelis withdrew from the territories they occupied in 1967, Islam has chosen the path of jihadist war through terrorism to achieve similar goals. Extremist Islamic movements intent on “holy war” have been blowing up airplanes, blowing up embassies, blowing up their enemies by blowing themselves up in their midst, in their efforts to achieve the universal salvation of mankind in the name of Allah and their prophet Mohammad. They take the future seizure of Jerusalem as a given.

Recently the pope upped the ante in his crusade via his coded anti-Islam verbal salvos. He received a swift, violent Muslim response: the slaughter of Roman Catholics celebrating mass in a cathedral in Baghdad.

Check the sequence of events.

First came Pope Benedict’s verbal outburst in his controversial speech at Regensburg, Bavaria, in September 2006. Careful analysis of that speech reveals that Benedict was accusing Islam of being an irrational faith. Indeed, he provoked great wrath from Islamic clerics by quoting a dialogue between a Byzantine Emperor Manuel ii Paleologus and an educated Persian on the subject of Christianity and Islam: “Show me just what Mohammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”

The stab at Islam was not lost on the religious and political leaders of modern Persia—Iran—nor on their terrorizing lackeys!

Pope Benedict is known for his brilliant intellect. This was a well-thought-out speech, prepared in advance, not off the cuff. The choice of Manuel ii’s statement was both deliberate and calculated—calculated to get a reaction!

And what a reaction it received! Public demonstrations broke out in Turkey, in Iran, in the Islamic communities in Britain and on the European continent. Effigies of the pope were burned in the streets. Al Qaeda called for the pope’s death.

Ever since, Islamic extremists have increasingly targeted Christians—mainly Roman Catholics—in the Middle East, especially within Iran’s western neighbor, Iraq. UN statistics show that, before the Iraq War began in 2003, Baghdad was home to 1.5 million Christians of various sects. Today that number is fewer than 500,000—mostly because of those who have fled religious persecution.

Extraordinary Synod

This past October, the pope called an extraordinary synod of archbishops together in Rome to consider the fate of the church in the Middle East. It was a watershed event in the pope’s program for evangelizing the world. For Benedict, the fulcrum around which his global project revolves is—as it has always been with the Vatican down through the ages—Jerusalem. To this end, the Vatican is ramping up its involvement in the Middle East peace process.

This synod was the platform the Vatican used to further emphasize its coded verbal crusade against Islam.

In his homily at the close of the synod on October 24, Pope Benedict recalled, “During the work of the synod what was often underlined was the need to offer the gospel anew to people who do not know it very well or who have even moved away from the church. What was often evoked was the need for a new evangelization for the Middle East as well.” To Islamic extremists, that statement would have to have been like waving a red flag in front of a bull!

To top it off, Benedict promised that the theme for the next synod in 2012 would be “the new evangelization for the transmission of the Christian faith.” He explained, “At any time and in any place—also in the Middle East today—the church is present and works to welcome each human being ….”

Those are crusading words—words that offer a powerful challenge to any competing religion that has its own missionary zeal to convert the world—which, very obviously, Islam does!

It was no coincidence that, on October 31, just one week later, masked Islamist gunmen burst through the doors of a Catholic cathedral in Baghdad and slaughtered 58 Roman Catholics attending Sunday evening mass. Days later, follow-up attacks occurred in Christian neighborhoods in Iraq.

The pope had his answer to his latest missionary challenge to Islam!

Historic Comparison

Compare these events with the spark that ignited Rome’s earliest crusade to capture Jerusalem. In a.d. 1077, the Seljuk Turks massed in Jerusalem and slaughtered around 3,000 Catholic pilgrims. The attacks continued on Catholics over the next decade and a half. In 1095, Pope Urban ii cried “enough” and challenged the knights of Europe at the Council of Clermont to a crusading battle to seize Jerusalem and wreak revenge on the Islamic hordes: “The Turks and Arabs have attacked our brethren in the East and have conquered the territory of Romania (the Greek Empire) as far as the shore of the Mediterranean and the Hellespont …. They have killed and captured many and have destroyed the churches and devastated the [Roman] Empire …. On this account I … persuade all people of whatever rank, foot soldiers and knights, poor and rich, to carry aid promptly to those Christians ….”

Thus was the First Crusade enkindled.

Nine centuries later, another Islamic horde pushes at the doors of Jerusalem and Rome, threatening to overtake much of Europe by mass migration from the Middle East and to push the tiny nation of Israel into the sea. Hidden among the émigrés are hundreds of extremist Islamists bent on crusading jihad warfare against Christendom. In the Middle East, once again, Islamists slaughter Roman Catholics.

When will the pope move beyond his war of words?

The Vatican may well be able to boast of a billion-plus adherents to the Roman Catholic faith—yet crusades are fought by bloodletting battles. It is to the Vatican’s traditional protector, Germany, that the popes have looked as Rome’s defender since the time of Charlemagne.

Believe it or not, your Bible prophesies that Rome will yet again look to Germany for support in one final crusade to eliminate the threat of Islam and recapture the real prize in the process—Jerusalem.

The Pope and the Baron

In the early Crusades, the Franks were at the forefront. It is interesting to note that a bright, charismatic young Frank, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Germany’s current defense minister, has become the driving force behind the effort to drastically upgrade the German armed forces. In the process he has made it clear that he seeks the amalgamation of nato with a combined European military force to produce a battle group of a size and with the nuclear power potential to match all comers!

This same young Frankish aristocrat traces his lineage back 900 years to the First Crusade! His family has been dedicated supporters of the popes down through the centuries.

Recently on a balmy Roman autumnal evening, the pope witnessed a stunning performance of Verdi’s Requiem Mass led by a fellow Bavarian, conductor Enoch zu Guttenberg, father of Germany’s minister of defense, at the Paul vi Hall in the Vatican.

Among the audience was an inveterate Vatican watcher, Dr. Robert Moynihan. He was moved by the uniqueness of the event to make an intriguing observation in respect of this particular performance. Referring to “the political overtones of the event,” Moynihan noted that “[t]he concert had perhaps unintentional political overtones because the son of the conductor, right now Germany’s minister of defense, Karl-Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg, 38, has just become, according to polls, the single most popular politician in Germany. This means the younger Guttenberg may have a real chance, and soon, to become the next chancellor of Germany after Angela Merkel” (Inside the Vatican, Oct. 19, 2010).

Meanwhile, across the Tyrolean border in neighboring Germany, it was as though the whole country was seized with Guttenberg fever. One German newspaper termed it “Guttenberg Hysteria.” Literally every leading German newspaper and magazine has carried a major story on the Guttenbergs since the end of summer. Germans are simply enraptured with the baron and his wife.

But what will be most intriguing to readers of the Trumpet is the following statement made by Dr. Moynihan: “The fact is that this concert for the German pope was conducted by the father of the man who may soon head the German government.

“This at least suggests a strengthened connection between Berlin and Rome, or between the two men, should they come into contact in the future as world leaders” (ibid., emphasis mine throughout).

For decades we have been looking out for two dominant leaders to come to the fore in Europe: one, a powerful political leader from Germany; the other, an influential religious leader from Rome. This power pair is prophesied to dominate the final rise of a European-based empire, a reincarnation of the old Holy Roman Empire.

Watch for further developments that may suddenly propel this duo into the spotlight! The fact that one of the most astute watchers of Vatican politics is prepared to suggest a future linkage between Pope Benedict xvi and fellow Bavarian Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, a Frankish baron of the Holy Roman Empire, is most intriguing indeed.

Another Target of the Vatican

One other dramatic episode emanated from that recent synod in Rome. What was most profound in relation to the “peace” spoken of there was the stance the Vatican took on the tiny, embattled, fighting-for-its-own-survival, Judaic nation of Israel.

Reuters reported that, in their concluding statement, the bishops declared that “Israel cannot use the biblical concept of a Promised Land or a chosen people to justify … territorial claims …” (Oct. 23, 2010). When Greek-Melchite Archbishop Cyrille Salim Bustros was asked about this passage at a news conference, he responded, “We Christians cannot speak about the Promised Land for the Jewish people. There is no longer a chosen people. All men and women of all countries have become the chosen people. The concept of the Promised Land cannot be used as a base for the justification of the return of Jews to Israel …. The justification of Israel’s occupation of the land of Palestine cannot be based on sacred scriptures.”

In the synod’s concluding message, the Vatican reiterated a call it has made before: that Jerusalem come to have a special status that “respects its particular character” as a city sacred not only to Jews, but also to Christians and Muslims. Though it briefly acknowledged the Jews’ need to enjoy peace within internationally recognized borders, the document spent far more words on the Palestinians’ plight. It bemoaned their “suffering the consequences of the Israeli occupation: the lack of freedom of movement, the wall of separation and the military checkpoints, the political prisoners, the demolition of homes, the disturbance of socio-economic life and the thousands of refugees.” The imbalance of the Vatican’s perspective on the situation of Jerusalem, the Jews and Palestinians was obvious.

Peel aside the sophistry, and the truth is plain: The Vatican is clearly biased against the Jews and Israel’s birthright claim to the city of Jerusalem and the biblical land of Israel, which were gifted by God to the nation of Israel in perpetuity. This, from a religion that claims to speak for all Christendom—indeed, claiming, albeit falsely, that its own religious roots lie in the birth of the land of Israel.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch said it all in a recent speech at an Anti-Defamation League dinner, the text of which was printed in Commentary magazine under the headline, “The Aim Is to Make Israel a Pariah”: “Now the war has entered a new phase. This is the soft war that seeks to isolate Israel by delegitimizing it. The battleground is everywhere: the media … multinational organizations … ngos. In this war, the aim is to make Israel a pariah.

“The result is the curious situation we have today: Israel becomes increasingly ostracized, while Iran—a nation that has made no secret of wishing Israel’s destruction—pursues nuclear weapons loudly, proudly, and without apparent fear of rebuke.”

War Against the Jews

Murdoch, who received an award from Pope John Paul ii for his contributions to the media, made no reference to the Vatican’s stance on the nation of Israel, his statement coming before this latest startling declaration of the Vatican Synod on the Church in the Middle East.

But he did condemn the European Union for its blatant bias against Israel, a bias that is feeding the rising anti-Zionism across the Continent: “We saw a recent outbreak when a European commissioner trade minister declared that peace in the Middle East is impossible because of the Jewish lobby in America. Here’s how he put it: ‘There is indeed a belief—it’s difficult to describe it otherwise—among most Jews that they are right. And it’s not so much whether these are religious Jews or not. Lay Jews also share the same belief that they are right. So it is not easy to have, even with moderate Jews, a rational discussion about what is actually happening in the Middle East.’

“This minister did not suggest the problem was any specific Israeli policy. The problem, as he defined it, is the nature of the Jews.”

This is the same argument that former German central banker and politician Thilo Sarrazin makes in his bestselling book Germany Does Away With Itself to underpin his thesis that Jews are unsuitable for residence in Germany.

Murdoch also hit out at the anti-Zionism prevalent in Islamic communities in Europe, and the degree of tolerance that Islamic-inspired anti-Zionist attacks are given by European authorities: “In Europe today, some of the most egregious attacks on Jewish people, Jewish symbols and Jewish houses of worship have come from the Muslim population.

“Unfortunately, far from making clear that such behavior will not be tolerated, too often the official response [suggests] Jews and Israel were partly to blame themselves.

“When Europe’s political leaders do not stand up to the thugs, they lend credence to the idea that Israel is the source of all the world’s problems—and they guarantee more ugliness. If that is not anti-Semitism, I don’t know what is.

“The world of 2010 is not the world of the 1930s. The threats Jews face today are different. But these threats are real. These threats are soaked in an ugly language familiar to anyone old enough to remember World War ii. And these threats cannot be addressed until we see them for what they are: part of an ongoing war against the Jews.”

The reality is that this “war against the Jews” is just one part of an insidiously spreading anti-Semitic mindset—one that extends out against the Anglo-Saxons. For unbeknown to the greater part of society is the fact that the Promised Land was gifted to the nations of Israel—plural! For proof of just who these nations are, request our eye-opening book The United States and Britain in Prophecy.

The Promised Land

The Eternal Creator of humankind promised the territory from the Nile River to the Euphrates to the descendants of Abraham, through his son Isaac and, in turn, the descendants of Jacob (Genesis 15:18-21; 28:13; Exodus 23:31; Deuteronomy 1:8). These are the true Israelites. Believe it or not, they include 11 other nations in addition to the Jewish people.

Since the Scripture cannot be broken (John 10:35)—despite what Archbishop Cyrille Salim Bustros falsely maintains—and the Eternal God never changes (Malachi 3:6), His promise of the perpetual inheritance of that piece of Middle Eastern real estate by Israel is binding to this day and beyond.

It is certainly not conditional on the utterances of the Vatican. In fact, Israel is least accountable to that particular Babylonish institution, of all institutions.

Those who seek to refute the claim on the Promised Land by Israel will one day have to swallow their own words. Jerusalem is destined to be the capital of a new society, a whole new civilization to be established by the very King of Salem, the King of kings, Jesus Christ Himself (Hebrews 7:2; 1 Timothy 6:15). It will remain the capital of that globe-girdling kingdom for over a thousand years. Then it will become the very site of the eternal throne of Almighty God Himself! (Revelation 21:1-3).

Those who falsely claim that “there is no longer a chosen people” are refuted by Scripture! The very “peculiar people” (1 Peter 2:9) chosen by God to do so will soon claim their rightful inheritance of the Promised Land—and, not long after, the whole world will learn to truly rejoice in the reality of that inheritance!

It’s time to more closely watch Iran as it continues to aggressively push its jihadist foreign-policy agenda against Rome, against a German-led Europe and against the embattled Judaic nation of Israel.

It’s time to more closely watch Germany’s growing exertion of its national power, especially in militaristic terms, and to watch for its coming blitzkrieg response to this push from the biblical “king of the south,” Iran!

And it’s time to watch, ever more closely, the city of Jerusalem. This “city of peace” has endured centuries of warfare, and yet again it faces being torn apart by two great competing religions in a great new crusade for its possession, propelled by the resurrected power of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.

But more, as you watch, watch in hope for what is prophesied to follow: the establishment of a new city of Jerusalem that will last for over a thousand years—then the ultimate vision of hope, the new Jerusalem! That city will be one of universal peace, the future capital of the universe! It will last forever, on into an eternal future of scintillating peace, joy and happiness under the supreme rule of the eternal Father of all mankind! •

MUBARAK HAS TERMINAL CANCER

2010-11-22T07:41:00.000-08:00

Egypt’s Next Pharaoh

From the September 2010 Trumpet Print Edition »

A change of leadership in Cairo will alter the entire Middle East, particularly Israel. By Brad Macdonald

Egypt could soon experience the most significant political development in three decades.

More than likely, the catalyst for this change will be the death of President Hosni Mubarak. Egypt’s “Pharaoh,” as he’s not-so-affectionately known, is reported to be suffering the advance stages of stomach cancer and is expected to have less than 12 months to live.

Naturally, rumors of Mubarak’s imminent demise are raising questions about his replacement, Egypt’s future, and the future of the entire Middle East. These are important questions, not just for Egyptians, but for citizens of Israel and, ultimately, for all of us.

The Rise of Islam

Although he hasn’t announced it officially, it is widely known that Mubarak has groomed his son Gamal to replace him as president. A smooth transition, however, is unlikely. Although Gamal has strong ties with Egypt’s business community, his relationship with the military—the instrument through which his father has maintained his 30-year vice-like grip on Egypt—is tenuous.

Mubarak’s death and the political chaos that will inevitably follow it will provide his many opponents a long-awaited opportunity. Without the military to silence dissenters, Gamal will face intense and unchecked opposition from his increasingly fearless enemies.

The group best positioned to gain from Mubarak’s death and the subsequent struggle for power is the Muslim Brotherhood. Banned from government in 1954, the MB is a thriving organization of Islamic conservatives who seek strict implementation of Islamic law in Egyptian politics and society. The Brotherhood helped give rise to Hamas and al Qaeda and has strong ties with Iran.

Although persecuted, the MB’s political footprint has grown, especially since parliamentary elections in 2005 in which it ran candidates as independents and won 20 percent of the seats in Egypt’s parliament.

The organization’s political popularity is peaking at the perfect time partly thanks to an added boost from Egyptian-born Mohamed ElBaradei, the internationally recognized Nobel laureate and former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency. In February, after 12 years of living and working in sophisticated Europe, ElBaradei returned to Egypt. While traveling through the rundown cities and villages of his homeland, ElBaradei says he was “shaken by the backwardness of my country, deeply moved by the people’s palpable desire for change, overpowered by the sympathy and enthusiasm I was met with.”

When the Mubarak regime took note of his swelling popularity and launched a smear campaign against him, ElBaradei says he realized he had no choice but to become “politically active.” Since then, he and his National Movement for Reform, which has fanned out and spread the word in villages and cities across the country, has grown increasingly popular.

In June, ElBaradei led roughly 4,000 people in a protest against the Mubarak regime’s strong-arm tactics. He has developed a robust presence on the Internet, out of the reach of Mubarak’s censors; he has tens of thousands of permanent users on his website and more than a quarter of a million followers for each of his Facebook pages.

Tellingly, ElBaradei has also forged a relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood. In a July interview with Der Spiegel, he confirmed having spoken with MB representatives about “the struggle against Mubarak.” His embrace of the anti-Israel, pro-Iran Brotherhood reveals much about his moral and political leanings.

More than that, it says a lot about the political weight and influence of the radical Islamic organization within Egyptian politics and society. ElBaradei would hardly hitch his wagon to the MB if it was political suicide to do so.

For the Brotherhood, gaining the support of an internationally recognized mainstream figure surely positions the Islamic party to make significant political gains in the event of Mubarak’s death.

Israel’s Nightmare

Keep a close eye on Egypt. The death of Hosni Mubarak and the emergence of a more radical Islamic administration in Cairo will have monumental implications for the Middle East. Most notably, it will be a tremendous victory for Iran. For Tehran, forming an axis with Cairo would do more than provide an ally: It would provide Iran and its terrorist proxies game-changing strategic and tactical advantages over the Jewish state.

Ever since the Camp David Accords in 1979, Israel’s safety—and the entire security equation of the Middle East—has hinged on Egypt’s willingness to maintain peaceful relations with Israel. As Stratfor ceo George Friedman observed, “The only thing that could threaten the survival of Israel, apart from a nuclear barrage, would be a shift in position of neighboring states. [And] the single most important neighbor Israel has is Egypt” (June 19, 2007; emphasis mine).

Should Egypt sweep aside the Camp David Accords and align itself with Iran—which is certain if Islamic lawmakers in the MB gain power—Israel will face the nightmare scenario of having its southern border vulnerable to attack from Iranian-sponsored radical Islamic terrorists!

Ultimately, we must take note of the impending radical change in Egyptian politics because it will speed up the fulfillment of the biblically prophesied events to occur in the Middle East, and in Jerusalem specifically, immediately before Jesus Christ’s return. As the Trumpet’s editor in chief has written, Egypt is actually prophesied to align with Iran in this end time! Today’s events appear to be pointing in that direction in a dramatic way. To learn more about these prophecies, request our reprint article “Egypt in Prophecy” and our free booklet The King of the South.

PSALM 109

2010-11-04T06:37:00.000-07:00

Psalms Chapter 109 תְּהִלִּים

א לַמְנַצֵּחַ, לְדָוִד מִזְמוֹר: אֱלֹהֵי תְהִלָּתִי, אַל-תֶּחֱרַשׁ.	1 For the Leader. A Psalm of David. {N} O God of my praise, keep not silence;
ב כִּי פִי רָשָׁע, וּפִי-מִרְמָה--עָלַי פָּתָחוּ; דִּבְּרוּ אִתִּי, לְשׁוֹן שָׁקֶר.	2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me; they have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
ג וְדִבְרֵי שִׂנְאָה סְבָבוּנִי; וַיִּלָּחֲמוּנִי חִנָּם.	3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
ד תַּחַת-אַהֲבָתִי יִשְׂטְנוּנִי; וַאֲנִי תְפִלָּה.	4 In return for my love they are my adversaries; but I am all prayer.
ה וַיָּשִׂימוּ עָלַי רָעָה, תַּחַת טוֹבָה; וְשִׂנְאָה, תַּחַת אַהֲבָתִי.	5 And they have laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love:
ו הַפְקֵד עָלָיו רָשָׁע; וְשָׂטָן, יַעֲמֹד עַל-יְמִינוֹ.	6 'Set Thou a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
ז בְּהִשָּׁפְטוֹ, יֵצֵא רָשָׁע; וּתְפִלָּתוֹ, תִּהְיֶה לַחֲטָאָה.	7 When he is judged, let him go forth condemned; and let his prayer be turned into sin.
ח יִהְיוּ-יָמָיו מְעַטִּים; פְּקֻדָּתוֹ, יִקַּח אַחֵר.	8 Let his days be few; let another take his charge.
ט יִהְיוּ-בָנָיו יְתוֹמִים; וְאִשְׁתּוֹ, אַלְמָנָה.	9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
י וְנוֹעַ יָנוּעוּ בָנָיו וְשִׁאֵלוּ; וְדָרְשׁוּ, מֵחָרְבוֹתֵיהֶם.	10 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
יא יְנַקֵּשׁ נוֹשֶׁה, לְכָל-אֲשֶׁר-לוֹ; וְיָבֹזּוּ זָרִים יְגִיעוֹ.	11 Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.
יב אַל-יְהִי-לוֹ, מֹשֵׁךְ חָסֶד; וְאַל-יְהִי חוֹנֵן, לִיתוֹמָיו.	12 Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; neither let there be any to be gracious unto his fatherless children.
יג יְהִי-אַחֲרִיתוֹ לְהַכְרִית; בְּדוֹר אַחֵר, יִמַּח שְׁמָם.	13 Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
יד יִזָּכֵר, עֲו‍ֹן אֲבֹתָיו--אֶל-יְהוָה; וְחַטַּאת אִמּוֹ, אַל-תִּמָּח.	14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be brought to remembrance unto the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

THIS IS THE WILL OF G-D

2010-11-01T07:29:00.000-07:00

Deuteronomy Chapter 28 דְּבָרִים

א וְהָיָה, אִם-שָׁמוֹעַ תִּשְׁמַע בְּקוֹל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, לִשְׁמֹר לַעֲשׂוֹת אֶת-כָּל-מִצְו‍ֹתָיו, אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוְּךָ הַיּוֹם--וּנְתָנְךָ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, עֶלְיוֹן, עַל, כָּל-גּוֹיֵי הָאָרֶץ.	1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth.
ב וּבָאוּ עָלֶיךָ כָּל-הַבְּרָכוֹת הָאֵלֶּה, וְהִשִּׂיגֻךָ: כִּי תִשְׁמַע, בְּקוֹל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ.	2 And all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
ג בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה, בָּעִיר; וּבָרוּךְ אַתָּה, בַּשָּׂדֶה.	3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
ד בָּרוּךְ פְּרִי-בִטְנְךָ וּפְרִי אַדְמָתְךָ, וּפְרִי בְהֶמְתֶּךָ--שְׁגַר אֲלָפֶיךָ, וְעַשְׁתְּרוֹת צֹאנֶךָ.	4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock.
ה בָּרוּךְ טַנְאֲךָ, וּמִשְׁאַרְתֶּךָ.	5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
ו בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה, בְּבֹאֶךָ; וּבָרוּךְ אַתָּה, בְּצֵאתֶךָ.	6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
ז יִתֵּן יְהוָה אֶת-אֹיְבֶיךָ הַקָּמִים עָלֶיךָ, נִגָּפִים לְפָנֶיךָ: בְּדֶרֶךְ אֶחָד יֵצְאוּ אֵלֶיךָ, וּבְשִׁבְעָה דְרָכִים יָנוּסוּ לְפָנֶיךָ.	7 The LORD will cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thee; they shall come out against thee one way, and shall flee before thee seven ways.
ח יְצַו יְהוָה אִתְּךָ, אֶת-הַבְּרָכָה, בַּאֲסָמֶיךָ, וּבְכֹל מִשְׁלַח יָדֶךָ; וּבֵרַכְךָ--בָּאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר-יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לָךְ.	8 The LORD will command the blessing with thee in thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto; and He will bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
ט יְקִימְךָ יְהוָה לוֹ לְעַם קָדוֹשׁ, כַּאֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּע-לָךְ: כִּי תִשְׁמֹר, אֶת-מִצְו‍ֹת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, וְהָלַכְתָּ, בִּדְרָכָיו.	9 The LORD will establish thee for a holy people unto Himself, as He hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in His ways.
י וְרָאוּ כָּל-עַמֵּי הָאָרֶץ, כִּי שֵׁם יְהוָה נִקְרָא עָלֶיךָ; וְיָרְאוּ, מִמֶּךָּ.	10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that the name of the LORD is called upon thee; and they shall be afraid of thee.
יא וְהוֹתִרְךָ יְהוָה לְטוֹבָה, בִּפְרִי בִטְנְךָ וּבִפְרִי בְהֶמְתְּךָ וּבִפְרִי אַדְמָתֶךָ--עַל, הָאֲדָמָה, אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּע יְהוָה לַאֲבֹתֶיךָ, לָתֶת לָךְ.	11 And the LORD will make thee over-abundant for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers to give thee.
יב יִפְתַּח יְהוָה לְךָ אֶת-אוֹצָרוֹ הַטּוֹב אֶת-הַשָּׁמַיִם, לָתֵת מְטַר-אַרְצְךָ בְּעִתּוֹ, וּלְבָרֵךְ, אֵת כָּל-מַעֲשֵׂה יָדֶךָ; וְהִלְוִיתָ גּוֹיִם רַבִּים, וְאַתָּה לֹא תִלְוֶה.	12 The LORD will open unto thee His good treasure the heaven to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow.
יג וּנְתָנְךָ יְהוָה לְרֹאשׁ, וְלֹא לְזָנָב, וְהָיִיתָ רַק לְמַעְלָה, וְלֹא תִהְיֶה לְמָטָּה: כִּי-תִשְׁמַע אֶל-מִצְו‍ֹת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוְּךָ הַיּוֹם--לִשְׁמֹר וְלַעֲשׂוֹת.	13 And the LORD will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them;
יד וְלֹא תָסוּר, מִכָּל-הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוֶּה אֶתְכֶם הַיּוֹם--יָמִין וּשְׂמֹאול: לָלֶכֶת, אַחֲרֵי אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים--לְעָבְדָם. {פ}	14 and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. {P}
טו וְהָיָה, אִם-לֹא תִשְׁמַע בְּקוֹל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, לִשְׁמֹר לַעֲשׂוֹת אֶת-כָּל-מִצְו‍ֹתָיו וְחֻקֹּתָיו, אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוְּךָ הַיּוֹם--וּבָאוּ עָלֶיךָ כָּל-הַקְּלָלוֹת הָאֵלֶּה, וְהִשִּׂיגוּךָ.	15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.
טז אָרוּר אַתָּה, בָּעִיר; וְאָרוּר אַתָּה, בַּשָּׂדֶה.	16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
יז אָרוּר טַנְאֲךָ, וּמִשְׁאַרְתֶּךָ.	17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
יח אָרוּר פְּרִי-בִטְנְךָ, וּפְרִי אַדְמָתֶךָ--שְׁגַר אֲלָפֶיךָ, וְעַשְׁתְּרֹת צֹאנֶךָ.	18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock.
יט אָרוּר אַתָּה, בְּבֹאֶךָ; וְאָרוּר אַתָּה, בְּצֵאתֶךָ.	19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
כ יְשַׁלַּח יְהוָה בְּךָ אֶת-הַמְּאֵרָה אֶת-הַמְּהוּמָה, וְאֶת-הַמִּגְעֶרֶת, בְּכָל-מִשְׁלַח יָדְךָ, אֲשֶׁר תַּעֲשֶׂה--עַד הִשָּׁמֶדְךָ וְעַד-אֲבָדְךָ מַהֵר, מִפְּנֵי רֹעַ מַעֲלָלֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר עֲזַבְתָּנִי.	20 The LORD will send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that thou puttest thy hand unto to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the evil of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken Me.
כא יַדְבֵּק יְהוָה בְּךָ, אֶת-הַדָּבֶר--עַד, כַּלֹּתוֹ אֹתְךָ, מֵעַל הָאֲדָמָה, אֲשֶׁר-אַתָּה בָא-שָׁמָּה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ.	21 The LORD will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until He have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest in to possess it.
כב יַכְּכָה יְהוָה בַּשַּׁחֶפֶת וּבַקַּדַּחַת וּבַדַּלֶּקֶת, וּבַחַרְחֻר וּבַחֶרֶב, וּבַשִּׁדָּפוֹן, וּבַיֵּרָקוֹן; וּרְדָפוּךָ, עַד אָבְדֶךָ.	22 The LORD will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
כג וְהָיוּ שָׁמֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר עַל-רֹאשְׁךָ, נְחֹשֶׁת; וְהָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר-תַּחְתֶּיךָ, בַּרְזֶל.	23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
כד יִתֵּן יְהוָה אֶת-מְטַר אַרְצְךָ, אָבָק וְעָפָר: מִן-הַשָּׁמַיִם יֵרֵד עָלֶיךָ, עַד הִשָּׁמְדָךְ.	24 The LORD will make the rain of thy land powder and dust; from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
כה יִתֶּנְךָ יְהוָה נִגָּף, לִפְנֵי אֹיְבֶיךָ--בְּדֶרֶךְ אֶחָד תֵּצֵא אֵלָיו, וּבְשִׁבְעָה דְרָכִים תָּנוּס לְפָנָיו; וְהָיִיתָ לְזַעֲוָה, לְכֹל מַמְלְכוֹת הָאָרֶץ.	25 The LORD will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways before them; and thou shalt be a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth.
כו וְהָיְתָה נִבְלָתְךָ לְמַאֲכָל, לְכָל-עוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם וּלְבֶהֱמַת הָאָרֶץ; וְאֵין, מַחֲרִיד.	26 And thy carcasses shall be food unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and there shall be none to frighten them away.
כז יַכְּכָה יְהוָה בִּשְׁחִין מִצְרַיִם, ובעפלים (וּבַטְּחֹרִים), וּבַגָּרָב, וּבֶחָרֶס--אֲשֶׁר לֹא-תוּכַל, לְהֵרָפֵא.	27 The LORD will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
כח יַכְּכָה יְהוָה, בְּשִׁגָּעוֹן וּבְעִוָּרוֹן; וּבְתִמְהוֹן, לֵבָב.	28 The LORD will smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.
כט וְהָיִיתָ מְמַשֵּׁשׁ בַּצָּהֳרַיִם, כַּאֲשֶׁר יְמַשֵּׁשׁ הַעִוֵּר בָּאֲפֵלָה, וְלֹא תַצְלִיחַ, אֶת-דְּרָכֶיךָ; וְהָיִיתָ אַךְ עָשׁוּק וְגָזוּל, כָּל-הַיָּמִים--וְאֵין מוֹשִׁיעַ.	29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosperous; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee.
ל אִשָּׁה תְאָרֵשׂ, וְאִישׁ אַחֵר ישגלנה (יִשְׁכָּבֶנָּה)--בַּיִת תִּבְנֶה, וְלֹא-תֵשֵׁב בּוֹ; כֶּרֶם תִּטַּע, וְלֹא תְחַלְּלֶנּוּ.	30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof.
לא שׁוֹרְךָ טָבוּחַ לְעֵינֶיךָ, וְלֹא תֹאכַל מִמֶּנּוּ--חֲמֹרְךָ גָּזוּל מִלְּפָנֶיךָ, וְלֹא יָשׁוּב לָךְ; צֹאנְךָ נְתֻנוֹת לְאֹיְבֶיךָ, וְאֵין לְךָ מוֹשִׁיעַ.	31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof; thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee; thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies; and thou shalt have none to save thee.
לב בָּנֶיךָ וּבְנֹתֶיךָ נְתֻנִים לְעַם אַחֵר, וְעֵינֶיךָ רֹאוֹת, וְכָלוֹת אֲלֵיהֶם, כָּל-הַיּוֹם; וְאֵין לְאֵל, יָדֶךָ.	32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day; and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.
לג פְּרִי אַדְמָתְךָ וְכָל-יְגִיעֲךָ, יֹאכַל עַם אֲשֶׁר לֹא-יָדָעְתָּ; וְהָיִיתָ, רַק עָשׁוּק וְרָצוּץ--כָּל-הַיָּמִים.	33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed away:
לד וְהָיִיתָ, מְשֻׁגָּע, מִמַּרְאֵה עֵינֶיךָ, אֲשֶׁר תִּרְאֶה.	34 so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
לה יַכְּכָה יְהוָה בִּשְׁחִין רָע, עַל-הַבִּרְכַּיִם וְעַל-הַשֹּׁקַיִם, אֲשֶׁר לֹא-תוּכַל, לְהֵרָפֵא--מִכַּף רַגְלְךָ, וְעַד קָדְקֳדֶךָ.	35 The LORD will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the crown of thy head.
לו יוֹלֵךְ יְהוָה אֹתְךָ, וְאֶת-מַלְכְּךָ אֲשֶׁר תָּקִים עָלֶיךָ, אֶל-גּוֹי, אֲשֶׁר לֹא-יָדַעְתָּ אַתָּה וַאֲבֹתֶיךָ; וְעָבַדְתָּ שָּׁם אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים, עֵץ וָאָבֶן.	36 The LORD will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
לז וְהָיִיתָ לְשַׁמָּה, לְמָשָׁל וְלִשְׁנִינָה--בְּכֹל, הָעַמִּים, אֲשֶׁר-יְנַהֶגְךָ יְהוָה, שָׁמָּה.	37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither the LORD shall lead thee away.
לח זֶרַע רַב, תּוֹצִיא הַשָּׂדֶה; וּמְעַט תֶּאֱסֹף, כִּי יַחְסְלֶנּוּ הָאַרְבֶּה.	38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
לט כְּרָמִים תִּטַּע, וְעָבָדְתָּ; וְיַיִן לֹא-תִשְׁתֶּה וְלֹא תֶאֱגֹר, כִּי תֹאכְלֶנּוּ הַתֹּלָעַת.	39 Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.
מ זֵיתִים יִהְיוּ לְךָ, בְּכָל-גְּבוּלֶךָ; וְשֶׁמֶן לֹא תָסוּךְ, כִּי יִשַּׁל זֵיתֶךָ.	40 Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olives shall drop off.
מא בָּנִים וּבָנוֹת, תּוֹלִיד; וְלֹא-יִהְיוּ לָךְ, כִּי יֵלְכוּ בַּשֶּׁבִי.	41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity.
מב כָּל-עֵצְךָ, וּפְרִי אַדְמָתֶךָ, יְיָרֵשׁ, הַצְּלָצַל.	42 All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the locust possess.
מג הַגֵּר אֲשֶׁר בְּקִרְבְּךָ, יַעֲלֶה עָלֶיךָ מַעְלָה מָּעְלָה; וְאַתָּה תֵרֵד, מַטָּה מָּטָּה.	43 The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.
מד הוּא יַלְוְךָ, וְאַתָּה לֹא תַלְוֶנּוּ; הוּא יִהְיֶה לְרֹאשׁ, וְאַתָּה תִּהְיֶה לְזָנָב.	44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
מה וּבָאוּ עָלֶיךָ כָּל-הַקְּלָלוֹת הָאֵלֶּה, וּרְדָפוּךָ וְהִשִּׂיגוּךָ, עַד, הִשָּׁמְדָךְ: כִּי-לֹא שָׁמַעְתָּ, בְּקוֹל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ--לִשְׁמֹר מִצְו‍ֹתָיו וְחֻקֹּתָיו, אֲשֶׁר צִוָּךְ.	45 And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded thee.
מו וְהָיוּ בְךָ, לְאוֹת וּלְמוֹפֵת; וּבְזַרְעֲךָ, עַד-עוֹלָם.	46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever;
מז תַּחַת, אֲשֶׁר לֹא-עָבַדְתָּ אֶת-יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, בְּשִׂמְחָה, וּבְטוּב לֵבָב--מֵרֹב, כֹּל.	47 because thou didst not serve the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
מח וְעָבַדְתָּ אֶת-אֹיְבֶיךָ, אֲשֶׁר יְשַׁלְּחֶנּוּ יְהוָה בָּךְ, בְּרָעָב וּבְצָמָא וּבְעֵירֹם, וּבְחֹסֶר כֹּל; וְנָתַן עֹל בַּרְזֶל, עַל-צַוָּארֶךָ, עַד הִשְׁמִידוֹ, אֹתָךְ.	48 therefore shalt thou serve thine enemy whom the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
מט יִשָּׂא יְהוָה עָלֶיךָ גּוֹי מֵרָחֹק מִקְצֵה הָאָרֶץ, כַּאֲשֶׁר יִדְאֶה הַנָּשֶׁר: גּוֹי, אֲשֶׁר לֹא-תִשְׁמַע לְשֹׁנוֹ.	49 The LORD will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the vulture swoopeth down; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
נ גּוֹי, עַז פָּנִים, אֲשֶׁר לֹא-יִשָּׂא פָנִים לְזָקֵן, וְנַעַר לֹא יָחֹן.	50 a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young.
נא וְאָכַל פְּרִי בְהֶמְתְּךָ וּפְרִי-אַדְמָתְךָ, עַד הִשָּׁמְדָךְ, אֲשֶׁר לֹא-יַשְׁאִיר לְךָ דָּגָן תִּירוֹשׁ וְיִצְהָר, שְׁגַר אֲלָפֶיךָ וְעַשְׁתְּרֹת צֹאנֶךָ--עַד הַאֲבִידוֹ, אֹתָךְ.	51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; that also shall not leave thee corn, wine, or oil, the increase of thy kine, or the young of thy flock, until he have caused thee to perish.
נב וְהֵצַר לְךָ בְּכָל-שְׁעָרֶיךָ, עַד רֶדֶת חֹמֹתֶיךָ הַגְּבֹהֹת וְהַבְּצֻרוֹת, אֲשֶׁר אַתָּה בֹּטֵחַ בָּהֵן, בְּכָל-אַרְצֶךָ; וְהֵצַר לְךָ, בְּכָל-שְׁעָרֶיךָ, בְּכָל-אַרְצְךָ, אֲשֶׁר נָתַן יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לָךְ.	52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou didst trust, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
נג וְאָכַלְתָּ פְרִי-בִטְנְךָ, בְּשַׂר בָּנֶיךָ וּבְנֹתֶיךָ, אֲשֶׁר נָתַן-לְךָ, יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ--בְּמָצוֹר, וּבְמָצוֹק, אֲשֶׁר-יָצִיק לְךָ, אֹיְבֶךָ.	53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom the LORD thy God hath given thee; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall straiten thee.
נד הָאִישׁ הָרַךְ בְּךָ, וְהֶעָנֹג מְאֹד--תֵּרַע עֵינוֹ בְאָחִיו וּבְאֵשֶׁת חֵיקוֹ, וּבְיֶתֶר בָּנָיו אֲשֶׁר יוֹתִיר.	54 The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his children whom he hath remaining;
נה מִתֵּת לְאַחַד מֵהֶם, מִבְּשַׂר בָּנָיו אֲשֶׁר יֹאכֵל, מִבְּלִי הִשְׁאִיר-לוֹ, כֹּל--בְּמָצוֹר, וּבְמָצוֹק, אֲשֶׁר יָצִיק לְךָ אֹיִבְךָ, בְּכָל-שְׁעָרֶיךָ.	55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in all thy gates.
נו הָרַכָּה בְךָ וְהָעֲנֻגָּה, אֲשֶׁר לֹא-נִסְּתָה כַף-רַגְלָהּ הַצֵּג עַל-הָאָרֶץ, מֵהִתְעַנֵּג, וּמֵרֹךְ--תֵּרַע עֵינָהּ בְּאִישׁ חֵיקָהּ, וּבִבְנָהּ וּבְבִתָּהּ.	56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter;
נז וּבְשִׁלְיָתָהּ הַיּוֹצֵת מִבֵּין רַגְלֶיהָ, וּבְבָנֶיהָ אֲשֶׁר תֵּלֵד, כִּי-תֹאכְלֵם בְּחֹסֶר-כֹּל, בַּסָּתֶר--בְּמָצוֹר, וּבְמָצוֹק, אֲשֶׁר יָצִיק לְךָ אֹיִבְךָ, בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ.	57 and against her afterbirth that cometh out from between her feet, and against her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in thy gates.
נח אִם-לֹא תִשְׁמֹר לַעֲשׂוֹת, אֶת-כָּל-דִּבְרֵי הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת, הַכְּתֻבִים, בַּסֵּפֶר הַזֶּה: לְיִרְאָה אֶת-הַשֵּׁם הַנִּכְבָּד וְהַנּוֹרָא, הַזֶּה--אֵת, יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ.	58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and awful Name, the LORD thy God;
נט וְהִפְלָא יְהוָה אֶת-מַכֹּתְךָ, וְאֵת מַכּוֹת זַרְעֶךָ: מַכּוֹת גְּדֹלֹת וְנֶאֱמָנוֹת, וָחֳלָיִם רָעִים וְנֶאֱמָנִים.	59 then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
ס וְהֵשִׁיב בְּךָ, אֵת כָּל-מַדְוֵה מִצְרַיִם, אֲשֶׁר יָגֹרְתָּ, מִפְּנֵיהֶם; וְדָבְקוּ, בָּךְ.	60 And He will bring back upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast in dread of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
סא גַּם כָּל-חֳלִי, וְכָל-מַכָּה, אֲשֶׁר לֹא כָתוּב, בְּסֵפֶר הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת--יַעְלֵם יְהוָה עָלֶיךָ, עַד הִשָּׁמְדָךְ.	61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
סב וְנִשְׁאַרְתֶּם, בִּמְתֵי מְעָט, תַּחַת אֲשֶׁר הֱיִיתֶם, כְּכוֹכְבֵי הַשָּׁמַיִם לָרֹב: כִּי-לֹא שָׁמַעְתָּ, בְּקוֹל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ.	62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
סג וְהָיָה כַּאֲשֶׁר-שָׂשׂ יְהוָה עֲלֵיכֶם, לְהֵיטִיב אֶתְכֶם וּלְהַרְבּוֹת אֶתְכֶם--כֵּן יָשִׂישׂ יְהוָה עֲלֵיכֶם, לְהַאֲבִיד אֶתְכֶם וּלְהַשְׁמִיד אֶתְכֶם; וְנִסַּחְתֶּם מֵעַל הָאֲדָמָה, אֲשֶׁר-אַתָּה בָא-שָׁמָּה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ.	63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
סד וֶהֱפִיצְךָ יְהוָה בְּכָל-הָעַמִּים, מִקְצֵה הָאָרֶץ וְעַד-קְצֵה הָאָרֶץ; וְעָבַדְתָּ שָּׁם אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים, אֲשֶׁר לֹא-יָדַעְתָּ אַתָּה וַאֲבֹתֶיךָ--עֵץ וָאָבֶן.	64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.
סה וּבַגּוֹיִם הָהֵם לֹא תַרְגִּיעַ, וְלֹא-יִהְיֶה מָנוֹחַ לְכַף-רַגְלֶךָ; וְנָתַן יְהוָה לְךָ שָׁם לֵב רַגָּז, וְכִלְיוֹן עֵינַיִם וְדַאֲבוֹן נָפֶשׁ.	65 And among these nations shalt thou have no repose, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot; but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and languishing of soul.
סו וְהָיוּ חַיֶּיךָ, תְּלֻאִים לְךָ מִנֶּגֶד; וּפָחַדְתָּ לַיְלָה וְיוֹמָם, וְלֹא תַאֲמִין בְּחַיֶּיךָ.	66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life.
סז בַּבֹּקֶר תֹּאמַר מִי-יִתֵּן עֶרֶב, וּבָעֶרֶב תֹּאמַר מִי-יִתֵּן בֹּקֶר--מִפַּחַד לְבָבְךָ אֲשֶׁר תִּפְחָד, וּמִמַּרְאֵה עֵינֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר תִּרְאֶה.	67 In the morning thou shalt say: 'Would it were even!' and at even thou shalt say: 'Would it were morning!' for the fear of thy heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
סח וֶהֱשִׁיבְךָ יְהוָה מִצְרַיִם, בָּאֳנִיּוֹת, בַּדֶּרֶךְ אֲשֶׁר אָמַרְתִּי לְךָ, לֹא-תֹסִיף עוֹד לִרְאֹתָהּ; וְהִתְמַכַּרְתֶּם שָׁם לְאֹיְבֶיךָ לַעֲבָדִים וְלִשְׁפָחוֹת, וְאֵין קֹנֶה. {ס}	68 And the LORD shall bring thee back into Egypt in ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee: 'Thou shalt see it no more again'; and there ye shall sell yourselves unto your enemies for bondmen and for bondwoman, and no man shall buy you. {S}
סט אֵלֶּה דִבְרֵי הַבְּרִית אֲשֶׁר-צִוָּה יְהוָה אֶת-מֹשֶׁה, לִכְרֹת אֶת-בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל--בְּאֶרֶץ מוֹאָב: מִלְּבַד הַבְּרִית, אֲשֶׁר-כָּרַת אִתָּם בְּחֹרֵב. {פ}	69 These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which He made with them in Horeb. {P}

WORLD WATCH OVER VIEW

2010-10-18T07:37:00.000-07:00

WorldWatch

From the October/November 2010 Trumpet Print Edition »

As America leaves …

The U.S. has officially ended combat operations in Iraq. Meanwhile, violence is rising and Iran stands ready.

In August, a prominent Shiite militant leader returned to Iraq from Iran under Iranian protection. Ismail al-Lami, who uses the name Abu Deraa, has been wanted by the U.S. since 2004 for his Iranian-sponsored attacks against Iraqi Sunnis as a leader in Muqtada al Sadr’s Shiite Mahdi Army. He escaped to Iran in 2008. Abu Deraa’s return to Iraq just as the U.S. cut its troops in Iraq down to 50,000 as its operations moved from combat to assist was likely carefully deliberated by Iran. It is a reminder to the U.S. that Iran still has powerful levers to influence events in Iraq. If Tehran perceives politics in Iraq are not going its way enough, it could ratchet up the violence in the country.

Iraq received a taste of such violence on August 25, the day after the U.S. announced it had shrunk its troop level. Thirty-four terrorist attacks took place in 16 cities across the country, killing more than 60 and wounding about 400. Most of the bombings targeted police and security forces, with markets and neighborhoods also being hit. These coordinated attacks hit more cities simultaneously than any previous round of attacks.

Clearly, U.S. troops are leaving a country that is far from stable. In addition to rising violence, political parties have yet to form a government months after elections were held in March.

Iran is well placed to intervene in Iraq. “With the absence of an agreed-upon government and with political rivals threatening that the situation could deteriorate into renewed civil war, the political vacuum gives Iran space to interfere in Iraq’s affairs,” wrote Zvi Bar’el in Israel’s Haaretz (August 3).

Iran has a lot of levers it can pull in Iraq, but it doesn’t yet have full control of the country. But with the U.S. leaving the country, it is only a matter of time.

A match made in Rome

Germany has launched a new diplomatic initiative to improve relations with Latin America.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle presented a 60-page strategy paper to an audience at the Foreign Ministry, including ambassadors from Latin America, on August 4. “The whole South American continent is taking off,” it read. “Despite many setbacks and difficulties, it is a singular success story, and we should be smart enough to take part.”

Germany’s last formal strategy for Latin America was formed in 1995. Westerwelle said the region now deserves more focused attention. He said he wants to bring a “new quality” to the German-Latin American relationship. He outlined a three-pronged approach: increase trade, harness the diplomatic influence of key nations like Brazil, and take more collective responsibility on transnational issues.

Germany conducted €36.5 billion (us$48.2 billion) worth of trade with Latin America in 2009, an increase of 16.3 percent since 2005.

Latin American diplomats welcomed the news. “We now have the opportunity to reestablish a historic bond,” Argentina’s Ambassador Guillermo Nielsen said. “At the start of the last century, our most important market for exports was Germany, but in the postwar era, this relationship was lost. Now it’s coming back.”

Europe and Latin America have a shared Catholic heritage. Expect this to be exploited as the two continents draw closer together.

As the Church of England becomes embroiled in controversy over female bishops, 15 Anglo-Catholic bishops have said that some in their ranks would try to join the Catholic Church. Expect the Vatican to use Anglican liberalism to gather more members under the banner of Rome.

Another reason to love the EU

The European Union is considering a new EU-wide tax, imposed on member states by Brussels. On August 9, EU Budget Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski said he would unveil plans for the tax in September.

The idea has been smacked down by most of the important countries in Europe. However, according to Mary Ellen Synon of the Mail Online, these nations already gave Brussels the power to impose new taxes when they signed the Lisbon Treaty, which states, “The Union shall provide itself with the means necessary to attain its objectives and carry through its policies.”

This, according to Synon, means it can raise its own taxes. “The British will have to pay the tax these people demand, but can never vote them out,” she wrote. “The Commission wants to start with a tax on all bank transactions, or perhaps air travel. It doesn’t really matter which. Their point now is to establish the power of Brussels to tax the populations of the countries of the EU without any control by national parliaments. Once that power is in place, the taxes can be ratcheted up” (August 9).

Though these taxes may not come into force this time around, they are certain to at some point. The proposed European-wide taxes will be just one more step toward the EU becoming a superstate.

Swallowing the Pacific

China’s soft-power buildup is paying dividends in the Pacific.

In recent months, China has become more aggressive in its claim on the entire South China Sea, which competes with claims by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.

In July, the U.S. rejected China’s claims and declared that Washington would get more involved in the disputes to guarantee free trade and open navigation throughout the region. Several Southeast Asian nations, led by Vietnam, made clear they would welcome such a U.S. role to counter China’s muscle.

But others did not support Washington’s stance. In a stark deviation from historic allegiance, and in a sign of Asia’s shifting tides, Manila said Washington should have no part in the territorial row. On August 9, Filipino Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo said the U.S. should stay out of disputes between China and Southeast Asian nations over territories in the South China Sea.

Then, on August 24, Beijing signed a contract with East Timor detailing plans for China to build a new military headquarters for Dili’s army. The deal was the latest of many signals that East Timor is shifting away from its traditional patron, Australia, and toward China.

In May 1968—seven years before the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam to communism—the Trumpet’s forerunner, the Plain Truth, stated, “Bible prophecy reveals that not even America, with all of her nuclear muscle, can prevent Southeast Asia from eventually being overrun by communism”—or, more accurately, from being drawn into a Chinese-Russian-dominated geopolitical bloc.

We can expect Southeast Asian nations to increasingly fall under China’s sway. As China’s soft-power diplomacy and hard-power buildup continue to unify Asian nations, the influence of Australia and America in the region will wane all the more.

The annual report to Congress on China’s military power was released on August 15, and describes a massive Chinese military buildup designed with the purpose of pushing America out of the Western Pacific. The report says China is developing technology designed specifically to destroy U.S. carrier battle groups. Beijing officials called the report exaggerated, but Washington is right to be concerned over China’s military buildup. Concern alone, however, will not neutralize the threat.

The incredible shrinking military

Britain’s armed forces are making drastic cuts to their operations, even sacrificing core capabilities, to fight government debt. In cutting up to 16,000 personnel and thousands of weapons, it appears the government has resigned itself to downgrading the nation from a “major military power” to a “medium-scale player.”

The Royal Air Force may shrink to its smallest size since World War i under proposed cuts, losing 7,000 airmen (one in six) and 295 aircraft, leaving the branch with fewer than 200 fighter planes. The army could lose 40 percent of its 9,700 armored vehicles and an entire brigade of 5,000 troops.

Moreover, the Telegraph reported August 25 that the Royal Navy may be forced to borrow American warplanes for its two planned new aircraft carriers. The Treasury reportedly has not budgeted any money for actual planes to be carried by the two ships. To make ends meet, the second carrier may not even make it to completion, may have to carry helicopters instead of jets, or might even have to be shared with France.

Finances are also dictating that in order to keep even these naval capabilities, Britain will likely have to give up its amphibious landing capability altogether, the heart of Britain’s operations in the Falklands in 1982. Meanwhile, the Royal Navy is likely to lose two submarines, three amphibious ships, more than 100 senior officers and 2,000 sailors and marines.

The Ministry of Defense is also trying to fathom the “black hole” in its finances: £72 billion worth of orders that cannot be paid for.

Britain is but a shell of its former powerful self. For a comprehensive view on why this greatest empire in history has so quickly fallen, request a free copy of Herbert W. Armstrong’s book The United States and Britain in Prophecy.

Europe

While many countries are facing financial ruin, Germany has experienced its best quarter of growth since reunification. During the second quarter of this year, the German economy grew by 2.2 percent, according to data released by Germany’s statistics office August 13. These strong results will probably cement Germany’s role as Europe’s, and even the world’s, economic leader. Germany wanted to deal with the financial crisis in a much more cautious and prudent way than the rest of the world. Now, the numbers seem to show that Germany got it right. Germany’s economy is stronger, while most of the world is economically weak. More significantly, the Germans are growing more self-confident and assertive. Expect this attitude to spread beyond just economic policy.

France wants to make its taxation and spending policies more similar to Germany’s, French Budget Minister Francois Baroin said on August 25 after visiting his German counterpart Wolfgang Schäuble. “Germany is a model which should be a source of inspiration for us,” he said. In July, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that he wanted to coordinate France’s tax system with Germany’s. Already other nations are seeing Germany’s success and following its lead.

Geert Wilders’s anti-Islamic Freedom Party will play a key role in the new Dutch government as part of a coalition arrangement agreed upon on August 1. The People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy and the Christian Democrats announced they would form a minority coalition. Wilders’s party will back these two parties on a case-by-case basis. This allows Wilders to play a role in government without having to stop speaking out about Islam in order to toe the government line. Wilders’s powerful role in Dutch politics shows how concerned the people of Europe are becoming with Islamic immigration. For more, see “How to Be Popular in Europe” in our August edition.

Mideast

Russia began loading uranium into Iran’s first nuclear power plant on August 21. If all goes well, Iran will be producing fissile material by October. The activation is a milestone for Iran. On the global playing field, Bushehr’s activation is a symbolic victory for Iran in its confrontation with the West over its quest for nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, Iran has stockpiled three tons of low-enriched uranium—enough for one or two nuclear weapons—according to former top UN nuclear official Olli Heinonen.

Israel and the Palestinian National Authority, under pressure from the U.S., agreed to begin direct peace talks September 2 in Washington. In practice, both sides are just going through the motions once again, with neither side hopeful of actual progress. The most significant outcome is likely to be internal political weakening of Israel and further hurtful concessions by Israel. The Trumpet has long pointed out how the peace process is in fact a deadly “wound” for the Jewish state.

Pakistan has suffered its worst floods in 80 years, beginning in July and continuing through August. At least 17.2 million people have lost their homes and livelihoods, and more than 1,500 people have been killed, according to the United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The disaster is helping the Taliban make a comeback. Before the floods hit, the Pakistani government seemed to be finally making progress in the Swat Valley, one of the areas most affected by the flooding, with every bridge there being destroyed. The Taliban is taking full advantage of the opportunity, aiming for the hearts and minds of the people. Islamist groups were quick to respond, with a network of volunteers and donations from urban middle-class Pakistanis. “Given the circumstances, for [the government] to now act against groups who are seen to be doing a sterling job in terms of helping people will be absolutely suicidal,” said Pakistan expert at London’s Royal Institute of International Affairs, Farzana Shaikh. The government, on the other hand, is rapidly losing popularity.

Asia

Russia, China, India and Turkey have entered into trade deals that violate U.S.-led sanctions on Iran’s oil and gas sector. Washington and the EU hoped to intensify existing UN sanctions against Tehran by adding restrictions on companies that supply fuel to Iran, but their efforts are proving ineffective. Russia, China, India and Turkey are all rushing into the lucrative void left by Western nations that won’t sell to Iran, and all four have opened talks regarding investments worth billions of dollars in Iran’s energy resources. As Eastern powers become more defiant, the rift between East and West will broaden.

Russia announced on August 11 that it had deployed an S-300 advanced missile defense system in Georgia’s Moscow-backed rebel region of Abkhazia, saying it would provide anti-aircraft defense for Abkhazia and Georgia’s other Russia-supported breakaway enclave, South Ossetia. The move signals that Russian forces are bolstering involvement in the disputed area which was at the heart of the brief 2008 Russia-Georgia war. Stratfor noted that Russia’s defense buildup in Georgia’s rebel regions “is one component of a multi-pronged Russian effort to consolidate its military control over the Caucasus” (August 11).

Kremlin experts say that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s high-profile response to wildfires and ownership of a recent spy scandal are designed to demonstrate to the Russian people that he, not President Dmitry Medvedev, is leading the country. More than two years ago, term limits forced Putin to surrender the presidential office and instead take the prime minister’s title. With the presidential election only 18 months away, Putin is gearing up to make his leadership of Russia official once again.

Latin America/Africa

Mexico’s drug war continues to escalate. On August 5, an improvised explosive device exploded inside a car near a police facility. On August 14 and 15, Los Zetas attacked the local affiliates of Televisa, a large media company. On August 24, Mexican marines found the bodies of 72 recently murdered people on a ranch a few miles south of the U.S. border; it was learned that the Zetas committed the deed. August 16, Edelmiro Cavazos, the mayor of Santiago, was kidnapped in a reasonably safe part of Mexico. Two days later, his dead body was discovered on a nearby road. Six of the mayor’s own police confessed to helping in the murder. These are just some of many ongoing incidents in Mexico’s drug war, which has killed 28,000 over the past four years.

Even worse than Mexico is Venezuela, where over 16,000 people were murdered in 2009 alone. By comparison, in Iraq, which has a similar population to Venezuela, 4,644 civilians died violently in the same year. Since 1999, there have been more than 118,000 homicides. Since 2007, there have been over 43,000. Morgues receive more bodies from homicides than from car accidents. The government’s response has been to crack down not on crime, but on a free press.

South Africa and China signed a “comprehensive strategic partnership” on August 24, as South African President Jacob Zuma visited Beijing. China has technical expertise and money that South Africa wants access to. The two nations signed commercial agreements relating to finance, mining, nuclear energy and many other sectors. South Africa already has a large trade deficit with China, its top trading partner, so these deals aim to give China access to South Africa’s resources. Expect China to continue to make inroads into Africa to get hold of them.

Anglo-America

The Pentagon is cutting spending on “big war” weapons, the Washington Times reported on August 3. Military planners are trying to save $100 billion over five years. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is looking to axe systems made for fighting large-scale international conflicts, such as next-generation ballistic-missile submarines and perhaps even one or two carrier strike groups. The Pentagon is looking to develop less-expensive systems for smaller conflicts comparable to Iraq and Afghanistan. Gates has already halted production of the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter and scaled back or shelved missile defense systems, long-range nuclear bombers and other warplanes. While these attempts to trim budgets may seem prudent to some, the Trumpet projects that the Pentagon will soon miss those “big war” weapons.

On July 27, Britain opted in to the EU’s European Investigation Order. The decision means that Brussels can force British police to place British citizens under surveillance or hand over dna records. Police from European nations can even request information about activities that aren’t crimes in the United Kingdom.

The Daily Mail reported on August 3 that the number of pre-teenage girls on “the pill” has quintupled over the last decade. In 2009, doctors prescribed the contraceptive to more than 1,000 girls who were 11 or 12, usually without their parents’ knowledge. According to the National Health Service, another 200 children ages 11 to 13 received long-term implanted or injectable contraceptives. At least 58,000 15-year-old children were on the pill, compared to 23,000 in 1999.

In August, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said that Australia should reject the Commonwealth and become a republic when Queen Elizabeth ii dies or abdicates. •

MOTIVATIONAL POSTER

2010-10-03T07:26:00.000-07:00

Subject: Very Motivational Poster

MUST READ PSALM 109

2010-09-15T06:06:00.000-07:00

Psalms Chapter 109 תְּהִלִּים

א לַמְנַצֵּחַ, לְדָוִד מִזְמוֹר: אֱלֹהֵי תְהִלָּתִי, אַל-תֶּחֱרַשׁ.	1 For the Leader. A Psalm of David. {N} O God of my praise, keep not silence;
ב כִּי פִי רָשָׁע, וּפִי-מִרְמָה--עָלַי פָּתָחוּ; דִּבְּרוּ אִתִּי, לְשׁוֹן שָׁקֶר.	2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me; they have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
ג וְדִבְרֵי שִׂנְאָה סְבָבוּנִי; וַיִּלָּחֲמוּנִי חִנָּם.	3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
ד תַּחַת-אַהֲבָתִי יִשְׂטְנוּנִי; וַאֲנִי תְפִלָּה.	4 In return for my love they are my adversaries; but I am all prayer.
ה וַיָּשִׂימוּ עָלַי רָעָה, תַּחַת טוֹבָה; וְשִׂנְאָה, תַּחַת אַהֲבָתִי.	5 And they have laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love:
ו הַפְקֵד עָלָיו רָשָׁע; וְשָׂטָן, יַעֲמֹד עַל-יְמִינוֹ.	6 'Set Thou a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
ז בְּהִשָּׁפְטוֹ, יֵצֵא רָשָׁע; וּתְפִלָּתוֹ, תִּהְיֶה לַחֲטָאָה.	7 When he is judged, let him go forth condemned; and let his prayer be turned into sin.
ח יִהְיוּ-יָמָיו מְעַטִּים; פְּקֻדָּתוֹ, יִקַּח אַחֵר.	8 Let his days be few; let another take his charge.
ט יִהְיוּ-בָנָיו יְתוֹמִים; וְאִשְׁתּוֹ, אַלְמָנָה.	9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
י וְנוֹעַ יָנוּעוּ בָנָיו וְשִׁאֵלוּ; וְדָרְשׁוּ, מֵחָרְבוֹתֵיהֶם.	10 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
יא יְנַקֵּשׁ נוֹשֶׁה, לְכָל-אֲשֶׁר-לוֹ; וְיָבֹזּוּ זָרִים יְגִיעוֹ.	11 Let the creditor distrain all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.
יב אַל-יְהִי-לוֹ, מֹשֵׁךְ חָסֶד; וְאַל-יְהִי חוֹנֵן, לִיתוֹמָיו.	12 Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; neither let there be any to be gracious unto his fatherless children.
יג יְהִי-אַחֲרִיתוֹ לְהַכְרִית; בְּדוֹר אַחֵר, יִמַּח שְׁמָם.	13 Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
יד יִזָּכֵר, עֲו‍ֹן אֲבֹתָיו--אֶל-יְהוָה; וְחַטַּאת אִמּוֹ, אַל-תִּמָּח.	14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be brought to remembrance unto the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
טו יִהְיוּ נֶגֶד-יְהוָה תָּמִיד; וְיַכְרֵת מֵאֶרֶץ זִכְרָם.	15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
טז יַעַן-- אֲשֶׁר לֹא זָכַר, עֲשׂוֹת חָסֶד: וַיִּרְדֹּף, אִישׁ-עָנִי וְאֶבְיוֹן--וְנִכְאֵה לֵבָב; לְמוֹתֵת.	16 Because that he remembered not to do kindness, {N} but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart he was ready to slay.
יז וַיֶּאֱהַב קְלָלָה, וַתְּבוֹאֵהוּ; וְלֹא-חָפֵץ בִּבְרָכָה, וַתִּרְחַק מִמֶּנּוּ.	17 Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; and he delighted not in blessing, and it is far from him.
יח וַיִּלְבַּשׁ קְלָלָה, כְּמַדּוֹ: וַתָּבֹא כַמַּיִם בְּקִרְבּוֹ; וְכַשֶּׁמֶן, בְּעַצְמוֹתָיו.	18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his raiment, and it is come into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones.
יט תְּהִי-לוֹ, כְּבֶגֶד יַעְטֶה; וּלְמֵזַח, תָּמִיד יַחְגְּרֶהָ.	19 Let it be unto him as the garment which he putteth on, and for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.'
כ זֹאת פְּעֻלַּת שֹׂטְנַי, מֵאֵת יְהוָה; וְהַדֹּבְרִים רָע, עַל-נַפְשִׁי.	20 This would mine adversaries effect from the LORD, and they that speak evil against my soul.
כא וְאַתָּה, יְהוִה אֲדֹנָי-- עֲשֵׂה-אִתִּי, לְמַעַן שְׁמֶךָ; כִּי-טוֹב חַסְדְּךָ, הַצִּילֵנִי.	21 But Thou, O GOD the Lord, deal with me for Thy name's sake; {N} because Thy mercy is good, deliver Thou me.
כב כִּי-עָנִי וְאֶבְיוֹן אָנֹכִי; וְלִבִּי, חָלַל בְּקִרְבִּי.	22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
כג כְּצֵל-כִּנְטוֹתוֹ נֶהֱלָכְתִּי; נִנְעַרְתִּי, כָּאַרְבֶּה.	23 I am gone like the shadow when it lengtheneth; I am shaken off as the locust.
כד בִּרְכַּי, כָּשְׁלוּ מִצּוֹם; וּבְשָׂרִי, כָּחַשׁ מִשָּׁמֶן.	24 My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.
כה וַאֲנִי, הָיִיתִי חֶרְפָּה לָהֶם; יִרְאוּנִי, יְנִיעוּן רֹאשָׁם.	25 I am become also a taunt unto them; when they see me, they shake their head.
כו עָזְרֵנִי, יְהוָה אֱלֹהָי; הוֹשִׁיעֵנִי כְחַסְדֶּךָ.	26 Help me, O LORD my God; O save me according to Thy mercy;
כז וְיֵדְעוּ, כִּי-יָדְךָ זֹּאת; אַתָּה יְהוָה עֲשִׂיתָהּ.	27 That they may know that this is Thy hand; that Thou, LORD, hast done it.
כח יְקַלְלוּ-הֵמָּה, וְאַתָּה תְבָרֵךְ: קָמוּ, וַיֵּבֹשׁוּ--וְעַבְדְּךָ יִשְׂמָח.	28 Let them curse, but bless Thou; when they arise, they shall be put to shame, but Thy servant shall rejoice.
כט יִלְבְּשׁוּ שׂוֹטְנַי כְּלִמָּה; וְיַעֲטוּ כַמְעִיל בָּשְׁתָּם.	29 Mine adversaries shall be clothed with confusion, and shall put on their own shame as a robe.
ל אוֹדֶה יְהוָה מְאֹד בְּפִי; וּבְתוֹךְ רַבִּים אֲהַלְלֶנּוּ.	30 I will give great thanks unto the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him among the multitude;
לא כִּי-יַעֲמֹד, לִימִין אֶבְיוֹן-- לְהוֹשִׁיעַ, מִשֹּׁפְטֵי נַפְשׁוֹ.	31 Because He standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from them that judge his soul. {P}

THE 12th "IMAM"

2010-08-27T06:22:00.000-07:00

The Return of the Mahdi Is Nigh

August 24, 2010 | From theTrumpet.com

Can anyone stop Iran?

Iran may be days away from going nuclear—in the full sense of the word. Russia is complicit, Israel is handcuffed, America’s will is broken, and Europe appears impotent. The countdown to a nuclear Iran is nearing its end. Will anyone stop Iran from unleashing a Muslim-inspired Armageddon?

On Saturday, Iran began commissioning its first nuclear power plant. Barring a full-scale invasion, it may now be impossible to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons (if it hasn’t already). With Russian-supplied uranium in its reactors, any aerial bombing risks spreading nuclear fallout far beyond the Persian Gulf region.

Who would take such a risk? Israel might have previously, but American handcuffing purposefully postponed military options until the risk of fallout made them possibly non-options.

America does not have the will to stop Iran either. It has proven great at talking, at negotiating, at pleading. And at being told what it can do with all its empty rhetoric.

Iran just doesn’t care!

On Friday, the day before it began loading its radioactive uranium rods, Iranian Defense Minister, Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi announced the launch of a special new upgraded surface-to-surface missile. Written on the side of the missile was a very specific and literal message for President Obama, the world, and anyone who would oppose Iran.

“Ya Mahdi.”

Ya Mahdi—also known as the 12th imam—is the most important Shiite personage after Mohammad. The belief of a returning Mahdi, or 12th imam, is a defining doctrine within the most populous group of Shiite Muslims (known as the “Twelvers”), to which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a devout adherent.

Why is this important?

Twelvers believe that the 12th imam will emerge from hiding during a time of world chaos to bring order and exalt Shiite believers to their rightful place. Ahmadinejad belongs to this sect, which believes it is their job to pave the way for the Mahdi’s return. Ahmadinejad claims that Ya Mahdi has communicated with him personally and that it is within his ability to hasten the Mahdi’s return.

The televised viewing of the missile’s launch, which was accompanied by shouts of “Allahu Akbar” (meaning, our God is greatest) and timed to coincide with the arrival of nuclear fuel to the Bushehr reactor, sent an unmistakable message.

And if the world didn’t get it, Iran sent it another memo on Sunday, the day after the nuclear reactor got the fuel.

On Sunday, Ahmadinejad announced the completion of Iran’s very first unmanned aerial vehicle (uav) capable of delivering weapon payloads. Named the Karrar, Ahmadinejad said the new weapon would be an “ambassador of death” for Iran’s enemies.

In the past, American officials have scoffed at Iran’s uav technology, noting that past models were small drones, only capable of monitoring. This new model has a range of 1,000 kilometers and can carry two bombs weighing 250 pounds each. Analysts say Iran’s rapid advances are due to Russian technology.

In the same Sunday victory speech, Ahmadinejad also announced that Iran would begin mass production of the Bladerunner 51, a boat often referred to as the world’s fastest. Ahmadinejad christened the more heavily armed Iranian version of the Bladerunner “Zolfaqar.” Zolfaqar was the name of Shiite Imam Ali’s famous sword. Imam Ali, the first imam, was known as “Allah’s Lion” for his aggressive wars against unbelievers. Earlier, in June, Iran announced that it would no longer accept UN-approved cargo inspections on Iran-bound ships. From now on, Iran would use its burgeoning navy to retaliate by searching foreign vessels of offending nations.

So with Iran growing stronger and more radicalized, who is going to stop it from hastening the return of Ya Mahdi by getting the bomb?

It certainly won’t be the United States. Remember the famous 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (nie) released by the U.S. government claiming that Iran actually gave up its nuclear weapons program way back in 2003. That report also claimed that Iran was a “rational actor” not motivated by religion and that it could be coerced into giving up its civilian nuclear program by conventional means such as economic sanctions and political pressure.

At the time of the 2007 nie report, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote that the “report was America’s indirect announcement to a stunned world that we lack the will to ever stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons” (emphasis mine throughout).

“Americans prefer to live in a fantasy world—like the one portrayed in the nie,” he wrote.

A fantasy world is one in which someone tells you he is going to do everything he can to wipe you off the face of the map and you don’t believe him. A fantasy world is one in which a country labels you as “the Great Satan” because it wants to form a partnership with you. And a fantasy world is one in which a country with the world’s third-largest oil and natural gas resources builds a nuclear power station because it needs more electricity.

Unfortunately, when you are dealing with nuclear weapons, living in a fantasy world can lead to a nightmare.

Iran has sent a clear message to the world: We are going nuclear and there is nothing you can do about it. And even if you try, we will actually welcome that because you are just doing us a favor. Long live the 12th imam and hasten his return.

As America fades from Iraq, one nation is stepping into the power void. To learn what power the Bible predicts will actually put a stop to Iran’s nuclear program, read History and Prophecy of the Middle East. •

BARRY CHAMISH

2010-08-19T07:19:00.000-07:00

THE BIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

by Barry Chamish

FROM THE FILES:

In 1976, the loss of his brother Yoni during the Entebbe raid put a
stop to
Binyamin's plans to become an architect. Instead he settled for an MA
in business administration and took a post at the Boston Consulting
Group. His boss was Ira Magaziner, the man who later was the
intellectual force behind the Clinton administration's failed health
reform package.

Already earning $100,000 and with a splendid career before him,
Netanyahu decided to give it all up and return to Israel to act as the
marketing manager of a furniture concern, RIM Furniture, for a fraction
of his Boston salary.
In 1979, Netanyahu organized an anti-terrorism conference in Jerusalem,
dedicated to his fallen brother. Somehow, the unknown 27 year old,
managed to attract the
likes of CIA Director George Bush, and Council On Foreign Relations
(CFR)
executives
George Shultz, and Richard Perle (President's
Reagan's chief arms negotiator) to the meeting and was thrust briefly
onto the world stage. But when the conference ended, it was back to
work at the furniture factory.

That all changed in 1982, when Israel's Washington Ambassador Moshe
Arens invited Netanyahu to be his deputy. This unprecedented career
rise has been a subject of much speculation. Arens was forced to
explain,
"People got a good laugh when they heard I phoned a
furniture factory to find a deputy. What sold me on Bibi was his
organization of the anti-terror conference and the strong impression he
made on American leaders who participated."

   In the 2001 CFR annual report, Moshe Arens was listed
as a member of the CFR's Foreign Advisory Committee, followed, in
alphabetical order, by the PLO's Hanan Ashrawi. He admitted that Bush,
Shultz and Perle pressed him to advance Netanyahu's career and he fell
in
line.

In 1984, after two visibly successful years as Arens' deputy, Bibi was
named Israel's ambassador to the UN. In another of those ironies that
follow him, he was appointed to the post by Shimon Peres against the
objections of Yitzhak Shamir. It was the leader of the Labour
Party who promoted his early career.

And what a wise investment that turned out to be. Since putting Netanyahu in the Prime Minister's office, no matter how badly Labor was mauled in the polls, the

leader of the Likud or its offspring Kadima, would give the leader
of Labor, a vital cabinet Post. Ehud Barak is now Defence Minister
though
Labor only won 8% of the vote. Sharon made Shimon Peres his Foreign
Minister, while Ehud Olmert appointed the incompetent Amir Peretz as his
Defence Minister.

In 1985, Shultz chaired another anti-terror convention in Washington supposedly
organized by Netanyahu.

Further,whenever George Bush visited New
York, and
that was often, he would call on UN Ambassador Netanyahu.

I received the following information from the CFR Roundtable website. (For info write: TomJefferson1976@aim.com):

    I took a look at my list of CFR members. I have
Netanyahu listed as NETANYAHU BENJAMIN,, 1988 annual rpt. I do not have
him as a member of the CFR but he did show up in the 1988 annual report.
Perle first showed up on the 1992 membership list. PERLE RICHARD N,CFR
'92. Kissinger shows up a KISSINGER HENRY A,CFR '84, 1988 annual rpt, TC
'92. TC is the Trilateral commission.
It seems that both Netanyahu and Kissinger showed up in the 1988 annual
report. Bush Sr. was head of the CIA. Perle was chairman of the Defense
Policy Board under Bush. Ira Magaziner has close CFR connections. He was
a Rhodes Scholar and was a chief health care policy advisor for CFR
member Bill Clinton.

Having groomed and financed Netanyahu into office, the CFR made certain
his tenure as head of the opposition did not endanger the Oslo process.
Though Netanyahu had the goods and scandals to fell Labor, ie Peres' organization
of the Rabin assassination, he was a remarkably restrained opposition leader.
In September 1995, PM Rabin told what he thought was a funny story on
Israel Television One. It seems his CFR handler, Henry Kissinger phoned him
to relate that Netanyahu called to ask him to declare that American troops
would not be placed on the Golan Heights as part of a peace deal with Syria.
Who Kissinger was supposed to make this declaration to was not revealed.
Kissinger, according to Rabin, laughed at Bibi and told him to quit
bothering him. The next day Netanyahu confirmed his phone call but denied
Rabin's mocking version of it.

The moral of the story is that both the leader of the government and opposition got their commands from their same CFR officer. When most Israelis vote, they actually believe it is a personal lesson in democracy. They don't even consider that the timing of the election and the primary candidates for office, Left and Right, are run out of the New York office of the CFR.
Early in 2001, Binyamin Netanyahu was in the midst of a lucrative speaking tour when he shared a private meeting with George Shultz and Henry Kissinger. In Netanyahu's
own words, they told him it was time for elections in Israel. In fact, it wasn't. They weren't scheduled for another two years. Nonetheless, Netanyahu interrupted his tour, caught the
first plane back to Israel, had a few words with Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and caught the next plane back to New York. Two days later, Barak resigned as Prime Minister and called for new elections in which he would remain a candidate. It made no sense to Israelis who had no power over their electoral system; that was controlled from New York.
The timing of elections is to badly change the viability of Israel and quickly, while the new Prime Minister is immune from public revolt. In 1992, Rabin entered the Oslo process immediately after his election. In 1996, Netanyahu unilaterally pulled out of Hebron within days of forming a government. In 1999, the new PM Ehud Barak quickly ordered IDF troops out of Southern Lebanon, leaving the mostly Christian ally, the South Lebanese Army, helpless against retaliation. In 2001, a Right Winger would have to replace Barak to get Israel out of Gaza and Northern Samaria. Ariel Sharon was the man for the job.
But wait, you may ask! Wasn't Sharon ruined by ordering Falangist troops into their famed massacre at Sabra and Shatilla in 1982. Not at all. Once you have the CFR on your side, nothing will ever ruin your political career. Even Rabin's murderer Shimon Peres survived all indignities and is PM Netanyahu's President. But all is fair since, after all, Netanyahu got his
job by blackmailing Peres over the Rabin murder in 1996. (Scroll to the end for proof).
Will Israelis ever wake up and understand that they don't live in a democracy? Will they finally realize that the current PM Binyamin Netanyahu is not working in their interests but electing someone else will change nothing? Or that no common citizen can ever be Prime Minister. For that honor, you are chosen, financed and aided from the Manhattan headquarters of the CFR or you go on selling fish in the market.

end

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MAKAROV PISTOL ARTICLE

2010-08-06T15:15:00.000-07:00

MAKAROV ARTICLE

by Teddy Jacobson

Monday, November 15, 2004

Makarov - Part 1

THIS WILL BE A MULTIPLE PART COMMENTARY ABOUT THE RUSSIAN MAKAROV SEMI AUTO PISTOL AND IT WILL BE IN DEPTH.
Through out history Russia has always had a great deal of land to protect. In the late 1800 hundreds Russia purchased a great many handguns from other countries. A Russian named Alex Gorlov came to the United States and bought weapons from Gatling and from Colt in Ct. He also placed an order for Nagant revolvers that were of Belgium manufacture..

Another Russian who was a gun design engineer of semi auto pistols was a man named Sergey Korovin, this was in the time of World War 1 and he developed the Tula Korovin pocket pistol. Most all of the Russian handguns that were developed and used were very small calibers, and were not very suitable for a modern army combat man that depended on stopping power.

There was another Russian gun design engineer named Fedor Tokarev, who mainly designed rifles and it was he who designed and engineered the Tokarev semi auto pistol in 7.62 caliber, it was also known as the TT-33 .

Early in 1941, Russia was in deep trouble as they did not have the correct and proper weapons that could be used to stop the German invasion of Mother Russia. It was panic city and the Russians used anything they could get their hands on, but their handgun was still the under powered Tokarev TT-33 . The Russians were in serious trouble and lost a tremendous amount of civillian and military people to Hitlers superior invading army.

In 1945 an assembled group of Russian gun design engineers included one Nikolai Makarov. Russia was in desperate need of a new semi auto handgun that was completely reliable, the guide lines were set and it had to be easy to manufacture, it had to be inexpensive, and it had to be able to work flawlessly in freezing sub zero temperatures as well as hot climates.

The design engineers instructions were, it had to be a design of simplicity, because this new pistol regardless of which manufacturing plant it was made in, had to have the advantage that the interchangeability of its parts was mandatory. Russia's tremendous big break and advancement came when they captured German machinery and equipment along with live cooperating German arms engineers and personnel. This gave the Russian's a great leap forward into the future in manufacturing developement as the Germans were far more advanced in weapons engineering and knew how to mass produce everything.

This was how the Russian Makarov pistol was not only designed and manufactured but was adopted in the 1950's era of time by the Russian military because it was a truly superb pistol. The Russians had so many soviet bloc countries to think about and they all adopted the new 9x18mm Russian caliber. The new Russian Makarov in this new caliber was now the standard of not only the Russian army but it was used and adopted by all the soviet bloc countries as their military sidearm. This new 9x18mm Russian caliber is rated at 24,100 psi. A 380 acp (9x17mm) cartridge is rated at 18,900 psi. A 9mm (9x19mm) luger cartridge is rated at a maximum of 35,000 psi.

THIS MAKAROV COMMENTARY WILL BE CONTINUED TOMORROW IN PART 2 AND I WILL CONTINUE IT THIS WEEK UNTIL IT IS FINISHED. THIS WILL BE VERY DETAILED AND WILL BE VERY THOROUGH FOR EVERYONE TO UNDERSTAND, NOT ONLY HOW THIS MAKAROV HAS BEEN DEVELOPED BUT I WILL EXPLAIN IT ALL IN AS MANY COMMENTARY PARTS AS IS NECESSARY. I SUGGEST YOU PRINT THIS SERIES AND PUT IT IN A BINDER FOR FUTURE REFERENCE.

AUTHORS PERSONAL NOTATION: This commentary as well as all my previous commentaries are my personal opinion only and my own viewpoint. I mean what I say and I say what I mean. I have no personal agenda and I lie for no one and I am certainly not motivated by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. I do all this because I want to help educate those that are sincere and really want to learn the truth.

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Makarov - Part 2

The 9x18mm Russian Makarov is a direct blow back design. You can "NOT" convert this pistol to safely work with a 9mm Luger caliber (9x19mm). The 9mm Luger or Parabellum (the word Parabellum is Latin and it means "FOR WAR") as it is called should be used in a locked breech designed pistol.

Buying a box of ammo for your 9x18mm Russian Makarov you can expect a 90 grain (refers to weight of the bullet) bullet to achieve approx. 1000 FPS. A Makarov pistol of any origin was almost unknown of in the United States about 13 years ago. I am quite familiar with most Makarovs coming from different countries of origin, such as Russia, Bulgaria, East Germany, and of course the Chinese version. I do not see many Chinese Makarovs.

All of the East German Makarovs imported into this country are used and some are still in very good condition. I have always considered the East German Makarov to be the very best of all the imports. Finding one today is not that easy. The East German Makarovs were used by the East German Police. If I could buy just one Makarov today it would be the East German model if I could find one in mint condition and I would have it hard Chromed. My second choice would be Bulgaria. I would only buy it in 9x18mm caliber in the 8 shot version. There are others out there in a wide body high capacity design and I do not recommend them. There are some in 380 acp caliber and I would not recommend them if I could get 9x18mm caliber.

The Makarov pistol resembles the Walther PP, and the initial take down is very similar. You need to pull down the front of the trigger guard on either the Walther or the Makarov, aside from this feature its a completely different internal design and the Makarov is far more reliable than the German Walther in feeding and extraction.
The Soviet made Makarov including the magazine and springs has a total of about 30 parts. A German Walther whether it is a PP, PPK, or PPK/S contains more than 50 parts which includes the magazine and springs.

If I had to point out the most common denominator of both the Makarov and the Walther, it would be the fixed barrel which is permanently attached to the frame which gives these pistols the advantage of being more accurate that many other type designs using a floating or movable barrel design. The other pistol that comes to mind which is my favorite is the HK P7 M8, and the HK P7 M13 also having a fixed barrel design which is super accurate.

There are a number of countries now making these Makarovs. The down side to the imported Russian made Makarov is the adjustable rear sight. Thanks to the Clinton administration who sent all the replacement parts back to Russia, which has caused untold grief if you were to break the rear sight, there are no current rear sight replacements that I know of. That is what I have been told by doing extensive research of the Russian parts years ago.

I have had to repair many of these adjustable rear sights that were broken by making a plate using hardened flat steel stock and using screws to piece it back together. I had to drill and tap holes using either size 72 or 80 stainless steel screws to hold it together, this is not an easy job and certainly should not be attempted by a "NEWBIE SMITH" , it was a nitemare, as parts of the sight are hollow. I will no longer take in jobs like this.

These problems with the adjustable Russian rear sight usually happen when some one tries to disassemble the rear sight, in order to remove it off the slide to plate or refinish the slide. They do not realize that the main cross pin which is hollow and goes thru both legs of the rear sight, this cross pin is FLARED on both ends. You must very carefully cut the flared end off "BEFORE YOU EVER" try to drive the pin out "OR" you will break the leg of the adjustable Russian rear sight right off instantly. This usually happens when a person working for a plater attempts to remove the rear sight not understanding the problem.

This rear sight problem only effects the Russian made adjustable rear sight model, which is the very type of Makarov that I own. All the other Makarovs from different Soviet bloc countries are not effected because they use fixed rear sights. There is no way to convert the Russian model to adapt it to install the tiny fixed rear sight used by everyone else.

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Makarov - Part 3

I WANT TO DEDICATE THIS ENTIRE MAKAROV SERIES OF ARTICLES TO MY FRIEND "JOHN DRAKE" WHO DIED SUNDAY NOV. 14, 2004 IN GALVESTON, TEXAS. I WILL MISS HIM. JOHN WENT HOME.

The Soviet made Makarov visually looks like the German Walther PP series of handguns, but I am now going to set the record straight once and for all.
Besides the removal of the slide from the frame in the same manor, and the fixed barrel design, the similarities go no further.

POINT OF FACT 1A. The Makarov does not have a loaded chamber indicator like the German Walther series.

POINT OF FACT 2B. The thumb safety on the Makarov is pushed in the "UP" position in order to initiate a safe condition, where the German Walthers thumb safety must be rotated "DOWN" in order to achieve a safe condition.

POINT OF FACT 3C. The Makarov uses a flat leaf mainspring, where the Walther pistols use a coil main spring. (main spring is also called a hammer spring)

POINT OF FACT 4D. The Russian Makarov as with all copies use a Trigger, Hammer, and Sear that have a totally different design compared to the Walther pistols.

POINT OF FACT 5E. The Makarov pistols use a different type of breech face and the extractor system is totally different and it is far more rugged and designed to withstand extreme service that is required for a military sidearm.

POINT OF FACT 6F. The ejector in the Makarov is part of the manually operated slide stop and it is designed for extreme service. The German Walther has no manually operated slide stop. In order to release the slide of the Walther that is locked back in the rear position, the magazine must be lowered or removed.

POINT OF FACT 7G. The magazine lock and release on the Makarov is located at the bottom rear of the magazine well. The German Walther has a magazine release button which is located on the left side of the frame below the slide in the upper portion of the left grip panel.

You are now starting to see we are not comparing apples to apples as there are very few similarities between these two very different designs .
The Russian military had major requirements and problems with supplying this Makarov not only to their own military, but they had to supply this Soviet pistol to all the Warsaw Pact countries everywhere.

They used stamped parts where ever possible, where as if you compare it to the German Walther they used many fully machined parts. Looking at these two very different handguns, the Makarov vs. the Walther PP, PPK, PPK/S, it is my personal opinion based on my experience and viewpoint that the Russian Makarov design is with out question far superior in every way to the Walther design.

Russian military handgun design engineers realized that the 380 acp cartridge was not adequate in stopping power for a military pistol. A 380 acp pistol in years past was a very poor man stopper using ammunition technology of years ago. They did not have the advancement of powders and bullet design to achieve a satisfactory load that would be superior in 380 acp caliber.

The Russians are no fools, they needed a pistol that was simple and something that was easy to manufacture in a direct blowback design that could be made cheaply and efficiently and they needed the most powerful cartridge they could use. The result was the 9x18mm Russian caliber. If the Russians would have made a pistol with a locked breech design in 9mm Luger (9x19mm) caliber it would have cost a great deal more money and it would have been a much more complicated design. At that point in time their resources were limited.

PLEASE NOTE: For so many of you that emailed me and requested an indepth commentary about the Makarov, I am keeping my promise. When this series is completed you will know more about the Makarov than all the "EXPERTS" . I have no agenda other than the truth. I have no intention of writing articles for monetary compensation for publications where a person with a fraction of my knowledge would be allowed to scrutinize and change my article to satisfy his or her agenda, for what ever reason. Whether it would be to justify their salary or to save money or protect advertisers. I have been down that road before and I did not like the ride, its a dead end. If you sincerely want the truth and no nonsense facts you have come to the right place.

Thursday, November 18, 2004

Makarov - Part 4

Lets go back to the end of World War II, The Russian army also known as the Red Army captured the German Walther plant in 1945. This became a great asset to the Russian army and the Russian Military small arms design engineers, the captured people cooperated and it all started from that point in time. The Russians did not have the ACLU to worry about, Stalins word was final, it was either cooperate or a bullet in the head, they had no liberal press to worry about.
And certainly no video cameras.

The Makarov has a completely different type of firing pin design as compared to the German Walther PP, PPK, and PPK/S. The Makarov uses a free floating firing pin design and does "NOT" use a firing pin spring. The German Walther uses a completely different type of firing pin and it utilizes a typical coil firing pin spring. The Makarov has a uniquely triangular shaped firing pin that is totally free floating. If you were to carry your Makarov pistol with a bullet in the chamber, the free floating pin could move about 1/16 of an inch and its limited free travel is so slight there is no way I can ever forsee an accidental discharge with this design.

I have had people call me many times being concerned about this design. I do not see a problem, being as conservative and as cautious as I am, I am not the least bit worried about this firing pin design. I do not see a problem. So the more I point out the differences between the Makarov and the Walther you are getting to see that there are very few common parts after I have explained it to you in complete detail. These Two different pistols are worlds apart.

The thumb safety of the Makarov is brutal and trying to move it up and down is very difficult. I will explain why, the Russian designer decided to use a piece of hardened spring steel wire that is inserted in to the inside of the thumb safety and rides in the detents of the slide. This decision had to be to save money in manufacturing. They should have used a ball bearing or a spring activated pin detent. This can all be corrected and smoothed out.

The operation of the Makarov thumb safety is similar to the Colt 1911 pistol. When the thumb safety is in the "UP" position it is in the safe mode, and when it is in the "DOWN" position it is in the firing mode and good to go by just pulling the trigger.

The flat leaf mainspring is an ingenious design and it does a number of things. The largest leaf operates the hammer, looking from the rear it is on the left side. The thinner leaf spring leg which is on the right also looking from the rear operates the trigger bar assembly. The very bottom of the main spring is used as a magazine catch, this retains the magazine in the pistol.

A separate part called the mainspring clamp secures the mainspring in place against the rear of the frame. This clamp has a hole so that when the mainspring clamp is in place, and the grip is installed which is actually a one piece wrap around design that slides into place from the rear. The unusual looking grip screw is actually screwed through the grip, through the hole in the mainspring clamp and threaded directly into the FRAME which is at the very rear of the frame. The only major problem you would ever have is if you buy an after market grip and the screw turns in to deep it could bind your magazine from either entering the magazine well, because the screw is in to deep and or you will not be able to remove your magazine unless you back out the grip screw a little, by turning it counter clockwise.

So now you see even more proof that there is no similarity to the Walther design beyond the very few things I have already mentioned early on, as some ignorant people would have you believe.
There are some after market grips that are sold for these Makarovs, but they are too thick for my application of a concealed carry handgun. I took the original grips on my chrome plated Makarov and removed the lanyard ring off the grip and the Russian symbols and totally recontoured it to my hand, then I blackened it and then used fiberglass to refinish it. My Russian Makarov is beautiful and its picture has been in many published gun magazines. As you can now see Nickolai Makarov was a truly brilliant handgun designer.

Please Note: Tomorrow, Makarov - Part 5 . This will be Makarov week and I am sure by now you realize I know a great deal about handguns as I work on over 100 different models. I will not be teaching anyone what I know other than what I write about in these commentaries. It all goes to the grave with me. Please print anything that interests you and save it for future reference. I have quite a bit more to write about this Makarov pistol.
POINT OF NOTE: I am of 100% Russian ancestry, My Grandfather was in the Army of the Czar in approx. the year 1890.

Friday, November 19, 2004

Makarov - Part 5

I have decided to write this continuation a little earlier than usual. I want to start this segment with a list of the Makarov parts so you can see what the Russian design engineers have accomplished with so few parts. This is remarkable.
Parts for the Makarov are as follows; ( I have used the non Russian model for this list, using fixed sights)

1. Slide
2. Extractor
3. Extractor plunger
4. Extractor spring
5. Fixed rear sight
6. Firing pin
7. Thumb safety
8. Thumb safety detent spring
9. Recoil spring
10. Slide stop and ejector
11. Hammer
12. Sear
13. Sear Spring
14. Trigger bar assembly
15. Barrel
16. Trigger
17. Trigger guard
18. Trigger guard pin
19. Trigger guard spring
20. Trigger guard spring plunger
21. Magazine assembly
22. Mainspring
23. Mainspring clamp
24. Grip
25. Grip bushing
26. Grip screw
27. Barrel pin

The following is the disassembly procedure for cleaning and field stripping.
You must always make sure the pistol is unloaded. Safety must come first, Always, repeat, Always remove the magazine before you rack the slide to empty the pistol of any cartridges.

You are going to pull the front portion of the trigger guard down and push it over very little to either side and let it rest on the frame while it remains in the down position. Now you will pull the slide all the way to the rear and lift up the back end of the rear of the slide and you will be able to now ease the slide slowly forward and off the frame. With the help of the recoil spring, it will have helped you guide the slide off the front of the barrel.

You can remove the recoil spring off the fixed barrel. To remove the grip off the frame you must remove the grip screw by turning it counter clockwise. When the screw has been removed, pull the one piece grip straight back off the frame.
YOU HAVE NOW FIELD STRIPPED THE MAKAROV PISTOL.

The Makarov can now be cleaned executing this procedure and no further disassembly is required for the average person that justs wants to clean and maintain their pistol by cleaning it and replacing the lubrication.

At this point I would clean everything using LPS MICRO X contact cleaner and when it is totally clean I would re lube all the contact and moving parts using Militec gun oil. Be sure to clean the chrome lined bore using the proper cleaning rod and jag. Use a bore cleaner and be sure all fouling is removed from the bore.

I use a VERY thin film of lithium base Militec grease on the rails. DO NOT APPLY ANY LUBRICANT OF ANY KIND ON THE BREECH FACE OR THE EXTRACTOR. Spray the Micro X cleaner into the magazine using the 5 inch red spout that comes with each can, until it runs clean. DO NOT PUT ANY LUBRICATION IN THE MAGAZINE.

If you have a blued pistol you can wipe it down with a Sentry Tuff Cloth that will prevent rust.

IN MY NEXT COMMENTARY I WILL TELL YOU HOW TO DETAIL STRIP THE ENTIRE PISTOL. I WILL GO SLOW AND I WILL BE VERY CLEAR SO YOU WILL UNDERSTAND EVERY THING IN DETAIL. I INTENTIONALLY LISTED ALL THE PARTS AND NUMBERED THEM, SO IN CASE I HAVE TO REFER TO THEM FOR CLARITY. THERE ARE VERY FEW SEMI AUTO PISTOLS THAT I KNOW OF WITH THIS FEW PARTS THAT HAVE BECOME SUCH A SUPER RELIABLE AND ACCURATE SEMI AUTO PISTOL THAT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED BY THE ENTIRE WORLD. NOW YOU SEE HOW VERY SMART THE RUSSIAN DESIGN ENGINEERS REALLY WERE.

Saturday, November 20, 2004

Makarov - Part 6

I have decided to continue this very indepth commentary and cover all bases so that you will know how to completely disassemble the Makarov pistol and we will go thru the complete reassesmbly. I do not plan on going into this much detail on future commentaries because with out drawings to show you its very difficult on my part. You can be certain that even though this is a fairly inexpensive pistol with approx. 30 parts, it is an all time world classic. If you own one its a keeper.

The following is the detailed disassembly procedure;

As always make sure the pistol is empty, "BEFORE" you pull the slide back to check the chamber, remove the magazine. This is a standard safety rule of practice for all semi auto pistols. The mainspring clamp must be pushed down to remove it, the hammer must be rotated forward while doing this. If the mainspring clamp is too tight, use a nylon or brass punch and tap it using a small brass hammer. Be sure to cover it with your hand or it will go flying.

You can now remove the mainspring from the frame. Your next step is to release the sear spring off the slide stop using a very small screw driver. In order to remove the sear and the attached sear spring, rotate the sear forward and line up the flat end of the sear pin with the corresponding sear pin hole in the frame and you can remove it from the frame holes.

You will now remove the hammer by rotating it forward so that the ends of the hammer pin match up with the cutouts in the frame that hold the hammer pin. One end of the attached pin is flat, it is a keyed installation. It only goes in and out one way, similar to the sear and its attached pins. They are one piece designs.

To remove the trigger bar from the trigger, just lift the trigger bar out after separating it from the trigger. In order to remove the trigger from the frame, you must pull the trigger guard down, in the down position, much the same way as you did in the basic field stripping operation. Push the trigger forward and unhinge it and pull down out of its recess in the frame.

You have now removed everything out of the frame, except the trigger guard assembly. I see no reason to go any further and remove the trigger guard unless you are preparing to refinish the frame. If it must be removed, a pivot pin must be removed from the frame which includes a strong trigger guard spring and a pin.

I see no reason to remove the barrel. There is a special press fixture tool made by Federal Arms Company that will make this an easier operation.

Now you are ready to disassemble the slide. In order to remove the thumb safety, it must be rotated ALL the way up and it will match up with the cut out in the slide and you can easily remove it. To remove the firing pin, tilt the slide with the muzzle end up and it should drop right out.

To remove the extractor from the slide, I always tape the slide with masking tape to protect the finish around the extractor. I put the slide on my work towel and using a small screwdriver, depress the extractor plunger and while it is depressed you can rotate the extractor out. Now you can release the plunger and spring out of the extractor tunnel assembly of the slide. The slide is now fully stripped, except for the rear sight and there is no reason to remove the rear sight. If you have a Russian Makarov with the adjustable sight I suggest you leave it alone.

All you have left is the magazine assembly and you can remove the plate on the very bottom (magazine floor plate) , now you can remove the magazine spring and follower from the bottom of the magazine body.

This Part 6 concludes the complete stripping of this very good pistol that is a superb design using about 30 parts and springs.

PLEASE NOTE: I will conclude this Makarov series very soon as I want to first explain to you the total reassembly of this pistol. At one time these Makarov's were very cheap, now that people realize how good they are prices have sky rocketed. I have always suspected the reason the Russian Makarov had an adjustable rear sight was because the US Government set up that requirement in order to allow the Russian Makarov to be imported. My opinion only.

Sunday, November 21, 2004

Makarov - Part 7

THIS IS THE LAST SEGMENT OF THIS SERIES. We are finally finishing this commentary about a remarkable handgun. We are going to discuss reassembly.
Start with installing the extractor in the slide, install the extractor spring and plunger in the slide extractor tunnel. You must be sure the claw is facing the breech face as it appeared originally. Insert the extractor by pushing the spring detent pin, (using a small screwdriver) in while you rotate the extractor into place. Remember to use masking tape to protect the slide.

Now install the triangular firing pin, there is no firing pin spring. The rear of the firing pin has a cut out that must be aligned correctly in order to allow you to install the thumb safety. The thumb safety is inserted with the lever above the slide and when it is positioned correctly it can be rotated down into position. The internal spring wire on the inside of the thumb safety will mark the slide but this is normal and it can not be helped. The slide is now fully operational.

We now go to the frame and install the trigger, pull down the trigger guard and push it over to either side of the frame so it remains in the down position. With the trigger aligned correctly insert it in to its respective slot in the frame, move the trigger guard into its normal position, which locks the trigger in place. You can now move the trigger in the rear position and connect the front of the trigger bar pin into the hole in the trigger. The rear of the trigger bar is the hinged cocking lever which is installed into its recess in the right rear inner section of the frame below the area where the hammer will be installed.

To install the hammer with the trigger fully forward, insert the hammer pins in their respective open slots in the frame, the hammer must be rotated forward to line up these attached pins in the frame cuts.

You will now install the flat mainspring. The trigger must be fully forward and the cocking lever placed in its proper recess. Insert the dual flat mainspring into position in the rear opening in the frame. The thin leaf of the right side of the mainspring (looking from the rear) will rest on the cocking lever and the larger leaf of the main spring on the left side fits into the hollow recess in the bottom rear of the hammer. Align the hole in the mainspring into position on the raised boss on the back of the frame, and reinstall the mainspring clamp which secures it in place.

Now you will install the slide stop / ejector on the left side of the frame. You will install the sear and sear spring assembly with the slide stop / ejector in place. Install the pin on the spring side first then the other pin and rotate the sear and sear spring toward the hammer, the right attached pin is keyed and lines up with the opening in the frame to accept the sear pin. ALL REFERENCES I SPEAK OF ARE VIEWED FROM THE REAR. Use a small screwdriver and lift up the very end of the sear spring, which has a bend for this very purpose, over the slide stop / ejector where it remains.

Installing the one piece grip is done by sliding it into the rear of the frame. Install the grip screw through the grip and turn it clockwise into the threaded hole into the frame. you must always check that the grip screw never goes in to deep in the magazine well or it will restrict the magazine.

You have now completed the installation of the frame and slide, and now you will install the recoil spring on the fixed barrel. Cock the hammer and leave it in the single action engagement. Pull the trigger guard down and push it to either side of the frame where it will stay temporarily. Insert the recoil spring into the slide guiding the barrel forward and pull the slide all the way back, raising the rear of the slide over the frame and push it down into position, allowing the slide to go fully forward into battery. Put the trigger guard back into its normal position.

The only thing left to reinstall are the magazine components. Insert the magazine follower into the magazine body and install the magazine spring. Be sure the magazine spring at the very top is angled with the high side under the front of the follower, you will now compress and captivate the magazine spring, protect your eyes, you will install the magazine floor plate exactly as it was originally by siding it into position.

Always check everything before you ever attempt to take anything apart. You should have an exploded drawing and a parts list of every gun you work on. In my case I often take pictures first or make hand made drawings when I do not have a second gun that is identical.

THIS CONCLUDES YOUR REASSEMBLY PROCEDURE AND ENDS THIS ENTIRE SERIES ON THE MAKAROV PISTOL. IT IS VERY HARD TO EXPLAIN ALL THIS IN WORDS AND I DOUBT I WILL DO ANOTHER COMMENTARY EXACTLY LIKE THIS BECAUSE IT MAY BE VERY BORING TO THOSE THAT ARE NOT INTERESTED IN COMPLETE DETAIL. THIS WAS A VERY DIFFICULT COMMENTARY FOR ME TO WRITE AND EXPLAIN. I GO THROUGH THIS WITH EVERY HANDGUN I WORK ON, AND THAT IS OVER 100 DIFFERENT MODELS.
YOU MUST READ PART 1 THROUGH 7 TO UNDERSTAND THIS ENTIRE SERIES OF COMMENTARIES OF THIS EXCELLENT MILITARY PISTOL OF THE RUSSIAN MILITARY AND POLICE. ANY QUESTIONS CALL ME OR EMAIL ME AND I HOPE YOU NOT ONLY LIKED THIS 7 PART COMMENTARY BUT ALSO REALIZE HOW MUCH TIME I DEVOTED TO THIS SERIES IN ORDER TO HELP YOU.
ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT I DO THIS BECAUSE I WANT TO HELP YOU AS I DO NOT GET PAID ONE DIME FOR THESE COMMENTARIES OR MY TIME.

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2010-08-03T08:12:00.000-07:00

Esau's Angel Has Fled to Batzrah (Basra)

Here is a reprint of a response to a recent letter from a friend of this blog:

Since the first Persian Gulf War in 1991, when Gog Sr. stopped at the outskirts of Basra and permitted 2 Babylonian divisions to return to Baghdad, I knew that the second Gog would be back to place Babylon under his thumb. In 1994 when he became Governor of Texas, I knew he was the second Gog. Yechezkel repeats himself in chapters 38 and 39, hinting that there would be two men named Gog. Until Gog W. became Governor, there was no way of knowing that the second Gog would be the son of the first one. Yet, every Shabbat since March 1991 when the Gulf War ended, I have made it a point to sing Droch Pura B'Toch Batzrah VeGam Bavel Asher Gavrah (Tread the winepress in the city of Batzrah {Cause Edom's blood to flow there} and also in Babylon which arose with strength.) This is, of course from the third verse of Dror Yikrah, by tenth century Baghdad poet Donash ibn Labrat who understood that the last war between Edom and Yishmael would lead to the destruction of both, Yishmael in Baghdad and Edom in Batzrah.

The real source to all this lies literally "In the Beginning". On the third day of Creation G-d planted a garden in the eastern half of Eden. (According to Dr. Gerald Schroeder's calculation in The Science of G-d using the General Theory of Relativity, the remaining three days of Creation elapsed over two billion of our years. Of course, these were three 24 hour days by G-d's clock since he fills the universe with His Glory, but His clock ticks one million million times more slowly than our terrestrial clocks in accordance with Einstein's Theory. Therefore, since the third day of Creation took place over a two billion years between two to four billion years ago, the Garden, which exists even now if we could experience the passage of time as G-d's "Divine Presence" experiences it, has existed for at least 2 to 3 billion of our years.) This is important to understand what came next. See my article from last year on this subject.

The text of the Bible is very straightforward but puzzling. And HaShem, G-d, caused to sprout from the ground every tree that was pleasing to the sight and good for food; also the Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden, and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Here comes the puzzling part. The Torah spends the next four pasukim discussing four rivers that issue from Gan Eden. Only then does the Torah bother to tell us that oh by the way about that tree of knowledge of good and evil: On the day you eat of it, you shall surely die.

Rav Shimshon Raphael Hirsch on verse seven dealing with the breathing of Man's neshama into his nostrils explains to us the reason why there is this interlude in the text about the four rivers. In the Torah itself G-d always introduces the tikun (the repair) into the world before the sin. Therefore G-d placed into these four rivers the mineral wealth of repairing the sin of Adam HaRishon. Here another problem arises. The Torah only tells us about the mineral wealth associated with the River Pishon. The good gold is for hashra'at Shekhina (induction of the Divine Presence) on a bed of gold between the Cherubim. The onyx is for Aharon and his descendants to feel the pain and ecstasy of every Jew as the Kohen Hagadol goes about his avodah (Divine service), literally carrying the onyx on his shoulders as the he carries out his daily tasks. These two minerals are therefore integral in returning the world to a Gan Eden existence.

The problem arises with the remaining three rivers. They are mentioned with no mineral wealth associated with them. Chazal (our Sages of the Ages) tell us the Euphrates is mentioned in association with the final borders of Eretz Yisrael, but this does not explain why the Torah seems at first glance to waste print with regards to the Gihon (Ganges) and the Hiddekel (Tigris). For this we need to skip forward 2200 years to when Yakov and Esau received their blessings.

It is with regards to the blessings of Yakov and Esau that we get the keys which unlocks why these remaining three rivers are mentioned if the principle reason for mentioning all four of them is to show us how we can return to a Gan Eden existence. Yakov is told that "Elokim will give you from the dew of heaven and the fat/oil of the earth." There are three things to recognize about this verse.

1. Yakov would get his blessing from Elokim. Therefore he would suffer for his sins in this world so that he would be certain to have a place in the World to Come.

2. Yakov principally gets his blessing from the dew, which emanates from the mouth of G-d. Where there is no dew, he gets no blessing. Everything for Yakov emanates from the dew.

3. The Torah leaves us with a double entendre'. Mishmanei ha'aretz can either mean from the shumanei ha'aretz (fats of the earth) or from the shamnei ha'aretz (oils of the earth). For Yakov Avinu there is no question. Since the shuman (fat) is dependent on the dew for its purpose, the Torah is referencing the fats of the earth which gives forth its blessing dependent on the dew.

Esau swaggers in, begs his father for one blessing, and he receives the following: From the fats/oils of the earth you will receive a dwelling and from the dew of heaven above. The two differences stick out like a brilliant flash.

1. Esau does not get his blessing from Elokim. Therefore, he will not suffer for his sins in this world. Therefore, he may lose his world to come by not being chastised down here.

2. His bracha is reversed! Therefore, even though he does get reward for the good that he does through dew, his blessing for the oil of the earth is not contingent upon his receiving dew. When he deserves blessing, the dew comes to water the fatness of the earth, but Rashi says that even if he is a total rasha (wicked person) with no more merits for the dew, he will still receive from the oil of the earth. Notice that here the double entendre' matters, for without the blessing of water from heaven, he will either depend upon irrigation for the the fat of the earth, or it does not mean fat at all. When it does not mean fat of the earth, it means oil of the earth a.k.a. bubbling crude.

At this point I would need to explain why I believe the end of Esau's bracha came during the Clinton years, but Shabbat is approaching and I must go.

Just food for thought. The Pishon tells us about the tikun to build Olam Haba (World to Come). The other three rivers are the source for the principle mineral wealth of this world. Therefore the Torah which is interested in building Olam Haba does not tell us about the mineral wealth of the other three rivers. The principle mineral wealth for two of the remaining three rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, is of course 55% of the world's sweet oil reserves. These reserves are located along the banks of these two rivers in northern and central Iraq and of course at the mouth of these two rivers as they enter the Persian Gulf. This is why, except for Iraq itself, most of the Persian Gulf oil is close to the coast of the Gulf. The city which is at the confluence of these two rivers of Eden as they enter the Persian Gulf is of course Basra. Whoever controls the confluence of two rivers which exist to bestow the world with an existence before Mashiach comes can try to dictate terms to others about how they should run their affairs in Olam HaZeh (this world where the wicked are rewarded for the good that they do and where the righteous suffer for their few sins). Gog W. and Blair have come to do just that.

The fact that the oil is "sweet" requires a scientific explanation. In the course of my research on this subject I came across an intriguing fact about oil fossilization. When ancient mulch contains a high concentration of dead animal decay, the resulting fossilized crude will have a high percentage of the high melting point oils. It is therefore not desirable as a source for the more highly volatile, low melting point gasolines which power Western Civilization. Crude oil which is fossilized over eons is considered "sweet" and desirable for energy when the original mulch had negligible amounts of dead animal products. Since these two rivers come from Gan Eden where animals do not die but trees natuarally shed their leaves, one would expect that the original organic mulch would have a non-existent amount of animal decay in it. Therefore, Persian Gulf oil is some of the sweetest oil on the planet. Secondly, the Torah tells us that the river which waters the Garden of Eden goes way underground to become the source of the four rivers, placing the organic waste under intense heat and pressure in an oxygen starved environment. This environment of anaerobic heat and pressure favored oil production over coal production when the organic decay fossilized. G-d has been setting up the conditions of Edom's destruction for a long, long time.

The geulah process is unfolding before our eyes, and I have to finish planting my tree of becoming a teacher. What a bummer! I am figuring that he (Gog) will not attack Iran until at least September or October when night cover for air raids becomes lengthier. America does very well when it starts its air wars as the nights are getting longer and longer. If a ground assault becomes necessary, which is probably the case, Gog W. would like to wait until Spring when it stops raining. If on the other hand, he is expecting to need to launch a ground invasion almost immediately, then you are right, and hostilities are imminent. My reading of Debka.com which is right about 90% of the time is that he wants to begin the air war in the dead of winter (Chanukah?) allowing for a possible ground invasion in the Spring. Yet, you are right. The British are scared to death of this one. Both passages in Isaiah describe exactly the end of Edom's malkhut. I did an entire blog on Isaiah 34 called "Let the Skies Roll Up." The destruction in Basra there is quickly followed by a description of massive oil fires:

Its Rivers will be filled with tar and the soil to sulfur, and its land will become burning tar. Night and day it will not be extinguished; its smoke will ascend forever. (Isaiah 34)

It appears that Red "Edom" Adair who has now passed on has no replacement. He put out the oil fires in the first Gulf War for a million dollars a well. For some reason noone will put the fires out this time. It will no longer be worth a million bucks for each well. By the way the preceeding verse to the above passage tells us why Edom's angel is being slain in Basra: For it is a day of vengeance for HaShem, a year of retribution for the grievance of Zion.

The Talmud in Makkos in the perek of Eilu hen hagolin discusses in detail the ins and outs of a negligent murderer who can flee to a city of refuge. There Reish Lakish makes a striking prediction which you can take to the bank. He says that at the End of Days, the angel of Rome will make three mistakes.

1. He will flee to Basra thinking that it provides refuge like Betzer which is one of the six cities of refuge for negligent but unintentional murderers.

2. An angel like a man can find refuge in a city of refuge. (This is of course not true.)

3. One who has murdered intentionally (bemayzid) can find refuge like one who has murdered unintentionally (beshogaig). This is of course absurd. One who murders intentionally is liable for the death penalty. One can pursue such a murderer into the city of refuge, put him on trial, and if found guilty execute him.

Prior to WW2 every country in the world closed their doors to Jews escaping continental Europe. Yet, a gentile is not obligated in Chesed. Believe it or not, their refusal to provide refuge was not a crime that could be tried in the Heavenly Court. There is one glaring exception to this. The country that closed the door to Eretz Yisroel was not closing the door to its own country. It was closing the door to the land which was given by the Creator to the people that were seeking refuge. That country that shut the door in 1939 was of course Great Britain. By closing the door to our own home, they became partners with Hitler. They of course claimed that they were ignorant of the goings on in Europe during the war. Therefore they were only "shogaig" or negligent. You and I and the Eibishter know very well that the British were fully appraised of the Holocaust while it was happening. They were Hitler's fully cognizant partner in the Crime of intentional mass murder. Whatever happens in Basra, the British have it coming to them.