Military Burns Bibles

Of course death, riots and mayhem have spread all across Afghanistan because of some Korans that got burned by accident.

But what happens when Bibles are burned?

Unsolicited Bibles a U.S. church sent to Afghanistan were confiscated and burned by the military, a Defense Department spokesman said.

Lt. Col. Mark Wright said the Bibles printed in the two most common Afghan languages were seized on arrival at Bagram Air Base because U.S. military rules forbid troops from proselytizing.

"The decision was made that it was a 'force protection' measure to throw them away, because, if they did get out, it could be perceived by Afghans that the U.S. government or the U.S. military was trying to convert Muslims," Wright told CNN.

He said military officers considered sending the Bibles back to the church but worried the church might turn around and send them to a different organization in Afghanistan.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/05/20/Military-burns-Bibles-sent-to-Afghanistan/UPI-70431242828660/#ixzz1nSjnRhVJ

Yes...heaven forbid that those Bibles would somehow make their way back to Afghanistan!  What if those poor Afghans actually got hold of the Living Word of God and it ended up revealing what a joke the Koran actually was?  Then you might actually have peace, joy and love break out as the Holy Spirit transforms hearts and minds...and that would certainly not be good for Islam!

Hat tip to Tom F.

Israel Attack on Iran Could Draw in USA

I'm not sure this headline is really surprising...it's simply more evidence that the world is literally boiling over with wars and rumors of wars.

WASHINGTON (AP)–An Israeli pre-emptive attack on Iran's nuclear sites could draw the U.S. into a new Mideast conflict, a prospect dreaded by a war-weary Pentagon wary of new entanglements.

That could mean pressing into service the top tier of American firepower — warplanes, warships, special operations forces and possibly airborne infantry — with unpredictable outcomes in one of the world's most volatile regions.

"Israel can commence a war with Iran, but it may well take U.S. involvement to conclude it," says Karim Sadjadpour, a Middle East specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Uncertainty about Iranian retaliation, as well as the cascade of potential consequences if the U.S. got drawn into the conflict, is at the core of U.S. officials' rationale for publicly casting doubt on the wisdom of Israeli military action now.

here;  http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-02-25/israel-iran/53242476/1

Did you catch the blurb there about casting doubt on the wisdom of Israel hitting Iran now?  When would it be smarter...3 years from now when they have nuclear warheads already attached to ICBM's?

There is no doubt that Israel is being backed into a corner and it is appearing more and more likely that The West is simply preparing for how to deal with a nuclear armed Iran...somehow figuring that it will be like dealing with a nuclear armed Pakistan.  However, Israel KNOWS that Iran isn't Pakistan...and their leaders have said over and over that they mean to destroy Israel. 

So, if you were Netanyahu, do you go and make an attempt on Iran's nuke facilities tonight?  Or tomorrow?  Or next week?  Or next month?  At what point do you tell your military that you have no more options...we just have to go...and see how it all turns out?...but at least you went down fighting.

Worse Than Greece

Senator Sessions on the U.S. Budget Committee released a chart showing per capita debt...and the U.S. was worse than Greece, Ireland, Italy, France and Spain.

See it here;  http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/chart-america-s-capita-government-debt-worse-greece_631797.html

"Death to Obama"

By now you probably all have heard the news that the Muslims in Afghanistan are extremely mad over some burnings of the Koran.  The U.S. military base is closed and thousands of Muslims are rioting and shooting rocks from sling shots at the soldiers on the base.  And sadly, more people are dying in the upheaval.

It's not a surprise that the Muslims are angry...they are always angry over something...but it is surprising that they are yelling, "death to Obama!".  I thought he had pushed the RESET button with the Muslim world?

At least another eight people have been killed, including two Nato soldiers, in violence across Afghanistan, after the burning of the Koran at a US base.

Many others were injured in the protests, while armed men also attacked at least two military installations.

US President Barack Obama has sent his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai a letter of apology for the burnings.

Crowds shouting "death to Obama" have been throwing stones and setting fire to the US flag.

Mr Obama's letter, delivered by the US ambassador to Afghanistan, assured the Afghan president that US authorities would question all those responsible.

"I convey my deep sympathies and ask you and the people to accept my deep apologies," the letter said.

Meanwhile the Taliban has called on Afghans to kill and beat all invading forces in revenge for "insulting" the Koran.

Here;  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17137338

I believe it may be time to withdraw from Afghanistan and let the place burn.  Honestly, we gave them a chance to overthrow the hideous creatures called the Taliban...but the Satanic horde will have none of it.  They can't read, they can't write and they have virtually no chance at democracy.

We have spilled enough blood and spent enough treasure.  We never realized that our battle was NOT against flesh and blood but instead was against the evil forces of Satan who has a stronghold in that dark country...and only the blood of Jesus Christ can defeat a force like that.

Israel's New "Doomsday Sub" Revealed

If you are Israel and you KNOW that Iran has been cooking it's nuclear program with one goal in mind...your destruction, then of course you need to have serious plans on how you will retaliate if Iran was successful in nuking your country.

Israel's "doomsday weapon" revealed? The Navy will soon begin its test-deployment of Israel's new super-submarine, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Wednesday.

The report quoted various foreign newspapers as saying that the new Dolphin-Class submarine's systems will enable it to spends prolonged periods of time at sea and fire nuclear missiles.

The submarine, names the "INS Tannin," is also said to be equipped with special diesel and hydrogen conversion systems that will allow it to produce its own fuel; as well as with a stealth system making its acoustic signature virtually undetectable by sonar.

The INS Tannin ("Alligator") is the namesake of the Israel Navy's first ever S-Class submarine, which was retired from active duty in 1972.

According to German media, the Tannin – which will be supplied by the end of 2012 – is the first of three super-submarine slated to eventually be deployed by the Navy. A second super-sub – the INS Rahav ("Splendor") will arrive in 2014 and the third, which has yet to be named, by 2015.

Germany's Kieler Nachrichten newspaper said that the super-sub is the biggest and most advanced underwater vessel to be constructed in Germany since World War II.

Here;  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4193389,00.html

Of course anytime you see the word "doomsday" and "Israel" in the same headline...the article automatically qualifies as prophetic.

We KNOW that Israel will never be totally destroyed...but we also KNOW that the TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE appears to be much closer than most people realize.

Eisenhower Had Meetings With "Aliens"

The Satanic agenda of preparing the world to accept alien beings from other planets is continuing...like a flood.  And today's headline is giving us some pretty big top level secrets.

Remember friends, if some strange beings show up claiming to be from some far away planet...and then proceed to show us amazing technology...and then proceed to give us the CORRECT explanation of who Jesus Christ REALLY is....we will need to stand firm in the Gospel AS IT IS WRITTEN!

Former American President Dwight D. Eisenhower had three secret meetings with aliens, a former US government consultant has claimed.

The 34th President of the United States met the extra terrestrials at a remote air base in New Mexico in 1954, according to lecturer and author Timothy Good.

Eisenhower and other FBI officials are said to have organised the showdown with the space creatures by sending out 'telepathic messages'.

The two parties finally met up on three separate occasions at the Holloman Air Force base and there were 'many witnesses'.

But the claims from Mr Good, a former U.S. Congress and Pentagon consultant, are the first to be made publicly by a prominent academic.

Speaking on Frank Skinner's BBC2 current affairs show Opinionated, he said that governments around the world have been in regular contact with aliens for many decades.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100947/Eisenhower-secret-meetings-aliens-pentagon-consultant-claims.html#ixzz1nDQkAxpj

Let's remember what Paul clearly told us in his letter to the Galatians:

⁶ I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— ⁷ which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. ⁸ But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! ⁹ As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!

What was that Paul?  You mean if some fallen angel working for Satan were to show up and tell us a different gospel that WE SHOULDN'T believe it?

Friends....do you know how few people on planet earth know their Bibles today?  Next time you are at a basketball game or the grocery store, look around you and ask yourself how many of those folks started their days reading the Word of God and ended their days thanking Jesus for all he has done in their lives.

You will quickly come to the conclusion that it is VERY FEW.  So who do you think they are going to believe when advanced angels, pretending to be aliens, show up on earth, call down fire from heaven and tell us what our itchy ears desperately want to hear?

Lord, have mercy.

U.S. Global Supremacy is OVER

Back when the Romans ruled the world...if a group of folks got out of  line, the Roman army was sent in they destroyed the place and killed everyone involved in the rebellion.  The same thing when the Greeks, or English ruled.

But America is different.  We have never set out to rule the world, but our power has been used to keep the peace.

It appears those days are over...because the world is coming apart in many places and we seem powerless to keep the peace anymore.  And our enemies are aware that our power is declining.

The United States can no longer reign supreme as the world’s sole superpower, says Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security adviser and a prolific foreign affairs scholar.

“The era of global supremacy by a major power . . . is over,” he tells Yahoo.

“The world is now much more diversified. There is now the new East in Asia. There is now a globally, politically awakened population.”

But that doesn’t mean the demise of the United States, as long as we’re willing to make some changes, Brzezinski, says.
Read more: Former Carter Adviser Brzezinski: US Global Supremacy ‘Is Over’

The article then speaks of China and asks the million dollar question that we have been asking for some time;  How do we pressure China to adopt fair trade practices and let the yuan appreciate when we are dependent on the nation to finance our debt and provide low-cost goods?
Good question.  How do we keep China from invading Taiwan when we are reliant on them to give us money to keep our military afloat?

Remember friends...the USA is no where to be found in Last Days prophecy.  So ask yourselves...where did we go?

Valencia College Economics Professor

What is the American Dream?  I believe the phrase that goes with it is, "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

I know that most American college kids over the last 150 years would have answered that correctly.

Now watch the short video from this college professor when he asked his sophomore students to describe the American dream.

Here; http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=VxHfYNTrnic

So now 80% believe that the government should give you a job, a house, a college education, healthcare...and that would fulfill their American dream.

How did we go so wrong?  Simple.

  ¹⁰ When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you. (Thank you Jesus for this good land called America!) ¹¹ Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. (Yeah...we don't really read the Bible anymore...) ¹² Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, (Living the American dream with a cabin up north, and a winter home down south!) ¹³ and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, (I've got everything!!  And what I don't have the government will give me!) ¹⁴ then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.  Deuteronomy 8:10-14

Hat tip to Wilson R.

Santorum and Satan

I was watching Good Morning America this morning and one of the top headline stories that they had was about Rick Santorum talking about Satan.

Back in 2008, Santorum was giving a speech to a religious group and he said something like this, "I believe that America us under attack from Satan.  As you look around the world at other nations, what other country is there for him to set his sights on?"

You and I know EXACTLY what Santorum meant.  To which I would have stood up and said, "AMEN!" 

Satan IS focused on America for two reasons.  One because we have a whole bunch of followers of Jesus Christ who are shining their light into the darkness and Satan wants to extinguish those lights.  And number two he wants the USA gone because he knows that our military has been used to God to incubate and protect Israel...and Satan would love to see that "special relationship" come to an end.

And because Santorum told the TRUTH about Satan....he is going to be brutally attacked by the media and even those within his own party.

Friends, if we have now arrived at the day when a Presidential candidate can't say the word "Satan" without the media abusing his words to make it sound like he believes in the tooth fairy or Santa Claus....this nation is in deep and serious trouble.

Persecution is coming hard for this country...and if the Lord tarries even a few more years, I believe you will soon be seeing pressure put on churches who dare to preach about Satan and sin.  The pressure will come when the government tells them that they will lose their charitable tax exemption...unless they conform to hate speech laws.

Friends, please pray for Rick Santorum.  I don't know if he is the man that the Lord wants as President....but it is pretty clear that he is a brother in Christ and it is pretty clear that Satan has leveled his sights on him...so he needs to be bathed in prayer.

Treating a Nation of Anxious Wimps

Admitedly, this next article might not be your normal prophetic article....but it does give us a clear window into what this nation has become.

30-40 years ago we were a nation of children who climbed trees, made forts in the woods, built go carts with no brakes, went skating on ponds with no adults in sight...the lists go on and on.

Today we have become a nation of wimps that calls the ambulance when we get a bee sting.  This is having a calamitous effect on the health care field and also will have a calamitous effect on the expenses paid by all of us.

It may be just one more nail in the USA's coffin.

Healthcare costs too much in our country because we deliver too much healthcare. We deliver too much because we demand too much. And we demand it for all the wrong reasons. We’re turning into a nation of anxious wimps.

I still love my job; very few things are as emotionally rewarding as relieving true pain and suffering, sharing compassionate care and actually saving lives. Illness and injury will always require the best efforts our medical system can provide. But emergency departments nationwide are being overwhelmed by the non-emergent, and doctors in general are asked to treat what doesn’t need treatment.

In a single night I had patients come in for the following complaints (all brought by ambulance): “Smoked marijuana and got dizzy”, “stung by a bee and it hurts”, “got drunk and have a hangover”, “sat out in the sun and got sunburn”, “ate Mexican food and threw up”, “picked my nose and it bled, but now it stopped”, “just had sex and want to know if I’m pregnant.”

Here;  http://www.epmonthly.com/columns/in-my-opinion/treating-a-nation-of-anxious-wimps/?_ft_qid=5695300947057173307

There was a famous saying by some French dude that basically said, "Tomorrow's soldiers are being made on the playgrounds today." 

I just finished watching Band of Brothers which is true stories from WWII and the intense physical stamina of those soldiers 65 years ago.  It makes me wonder if we have any of the manly-men today that we had in generations past...or if the men today are more concerned about getting their nails and hair done?

Hat tip to Julie E.

Israel Drums Up for Iranian Strike

This video is pretty interesting for a few reasons.  Number one reason is that it is from Russia Today news service and we KNOW Russia is not going to be pro Israel...so you can watch the bias against Israel in the report.

Number two because it was on the front page of Google News...so Israel continues to be front and center every single day as the world begins to choke on what to do about Israel.

Number three is because the video seems to suggest that Israel is getting ready to strike Iran and that there maybe is nothing that can be done to stop it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0t1f7wLUMM&feature=player_embedded

The world seems to be getting more dangerous every day.  What will America do if Israel strikes and missiles start raining onto Israel from Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Egypt and maybe others?  What will Russia do if Israel takes out Syria in one fell swoop?  What will happen to our wonderful American dream if gasoline doubles in price and we get sucked into another major war while having to borrow money from China to fight it?

Fear not.....just make sure the oil is in your lamps.

Who Is Helping Iran?

The civilized world seems to be coming together on sanctioning Iran.  Their money supply is being cut off, their products in and out of the country and being squeezed in hopes that pressure will get the regime to turn away from its nuclear weapons program.

But some countries don't seem willing to squeeze Iran.

In an attempt to escape the effects of the wide-ranging sanctions imposed over Iran's illegal nuclear programme, Iran's central bank is using a number of financial institutions in China and Turkey to fund the purchase of vital goods to keep the Iranian economy afloat.

According to Western security officials China, which is Iran's largest oil trading partner, is playing a major role in helping Iran to avoid the sanctions.

Instead of transferring payments to Iran owed from oil purchases, Chinese banks are using the money to buy goods on behalf of the Iranians and then shipping them to Iran.

"It is like an old-fashioned barter mechanism," explained a senior security official. "The money Iran earns from oil sales goes into banks in China and is then used for Iranian purchases of other goods and materials. It is a very good way of getting round the sanctions." Security officials have also identified a number of financial institutions in Turkey that are helping Iran to evade sanctions.

Turkey, which maintains good diplomatic relations with Tehran, is particularly useful to Tehran because of its close trading ties with Europe.

Here; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9091736/Turkey-and-China-helping-Iran-evade-UN-sanctions.html

Isn't it interesting how the named players in Ezekiel 38 keep helping each other?  Iran and Turkey are both key players in the coming coalition.  It's getting harder and harder to deny the evidence that something really big is cooking.