Another Iranian Announcement About 12th Imam

For those of you who already get Joel Rosenberg's emails, you will have seen this already.

For those of you who don't, I wanted to post his comments about Iran and the 12th Imam.

An apocalyptic, genocidal death cult is in power in Iran. The mullahs in Tehran believe we are living in the end of days and that the way to hasten the coming of their so-called Islamic messiah known as the Twelfth Imam is to annihilate Judeo-Christian civilization as we know it. I've been writing and speaking about this for years, trying to help the West understand how a fanatical version of Shia End Times theology is driving Iranian foreign policy. Now we have fresh evidence that this is not fiction; it is all too true.

"For the first time, Iran's highest-ranking military official has tied the reappearance of the last Islamic messiah to the regime being prepared to go to a war based on ideology," notes Reza Kahlili, the former Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officer turned spy for the CIA. "'With having the treasure of the Holy Defense, Valayat (Guardianship of the Jurist) and martyrs, we are ready for a big war,' Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said, according to Mashregh news, which is run by the Revolutionary Guards. 'Of course this confrontation has always continued; however, since we are in the era of The Coming, this war will be a significant war.' Shi'ites believe that at the end of time great wars will take place, and Imam Mahdi, the Shi'ites' 12th imam, will reappear and kill all the infidels, raising the flag of Islam in all corners of the world."

Kahlili, as you may recall, is now an American citizen and is the author of a book about his life in the CIA. Last year, in an article Reza published on his blog and sent out around the world, he renounced Islam and explained that he had become a follower of Jesus Christ. Reza's latest article is important and I encourage you to read the full version which you'll find linked on my blog. You should also watch the video at the end of the article that is an excerpt from an Iranian documentary called "The Coming." It explains how recent geopolitical events are, in the view of Shia eschatology experts, signs that we are living in the last days and that the Twelfth Imam or "Mahdi" is coming to earth at any moment to establish a global Islamic kingdom or "caliphate" to rule the world.

As I explain in my two recent novels, The Twelfth Imam and The Tehran Initiative, Shia Muslim leaders are convinced that the Mahdi's arrival and reign is imminent and that the way to hasten or accelerate his return is to either: A) annihilate Israel (which they call the "Little Satan") and the U.S. (which they call the "Great Satan"); or B) to acquire the nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles necessary to annihilate Israel and the U.S. and then let the Mahdi finish the job when he arrives.

Joel's blog can be seen here;  http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/

If you want to find out more about what the Iranian Leaders are telling the people of Iran to prepare them for war.....watch this video from Iran.  It's called THE COMING IS UPON US.

See it here;  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwiadYT-N9k

Please notice in the video that one of the Shiite prophecies says that whoever can kill the king of Saudi Arabia (who is of the Sunni sect, Wahhabi) will for sure see the return of THE BLESSED MESSIAH, THE PERFECT HUMAN BEING, AKA: THE 12TH IMAM.

Is it any wonder the leaders of Saudi Arabia hate Iran?  Is it any wonder that news reports from a few years back claimed hat Saudi Arabia had given Israel the green light to use their air space if need be to launch an attack on Iran?

There can be no doubt that Satan has been involved in the cooking of this big old mess.

As you learn about who they claim the 12th Imam is and what he is supposed to do when he arrives....pull out your Bibles and read about who the Antichrist is and what he is supposed to do when he arrives.

You will find out that they sound eerily similar.

Team Obama Using Video as Cover Up?

We could title this post, "It's Not About the Video-Part II"

As you all know, I became extremely frustrated watching the media unroll the news about the embassy attacks and constantly saying it was about the stupid video that led to Islamic violence.

News continues to surface that Team Obama may be trying to cover up a serious failure of policy and logistics that lead to our diplomat in Libya being murdered and our embassies being attacked in multiple Muslim countries.

The Jerusalem Post reported what most lucid observers already knew:

A US intelligence cable warned the American embassy in Cairo of possible violence in response to Arabic-language broadcasts of clips from an anti-Muslim film, US government sources said on Monday.

The cable, dispatched from Washington on Sept. 10, the day before protests erupted, advised the embassy the broadcasts could provoke violence. It did not direct specific measures to upgrade security, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. . . . Copies of the cable were not sent to other US outposts in the region, including the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where violence took the life of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. The ties between the Benghazi violence and the crude anti-Muslim film are still unclear.
 

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, also has expressed the view that the attacks were anything but spontaneous. As the facts emerge there is more reason to doubt the Obama cover story. There is one news report that “the assault came with no warning at about 9:35 p.m. local time, and included fire from more than two locations. The assault included RPG’s and mortar fire, the source said, and consisted of two waves. The account that the attack started suddenly backs up claims by a purported Libyan security guard who told McClatchy Newspapers late last week that the area was quiet before the attack.”

This is no small matter. Is the government (notice Secretary of State HillaryRodham Clinton isn’t to be caught telling the tale) misleading the public to conceal an intelligence failure? Is the administration so concerned about how the attacks would reflect on its Middle East policy that it would repeatedly misrepresent what occurred?

Many from both ends of the political spectrum suspect that there’s a policy failure at the heart of this, not a crank’s video. “Not us!” is the Obama response to attacks that expose the weakness, indeed the lack of a policy, in the most volatile region in the world. 

Here;  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/the-embassy-attacks-werent-about-a-video/2012/09/18/b8e49e34-019b-11e2-b257-e1c2b3548a4a_blog.html?wprss=rss_right-turn

Ouch....policy failure of Team Obama??  What???

Of course this news could be very damaging to Team Obama less than 50 days from election.  This news would also confuse the media who have repeated over and over that Islam only riots when The West provokes it...and The West needs to quit provoking and let the 'religion of peace' get back to all the wonderful contributions it has made to the global society and the global economy.

Silly liberals.  It must be hard to acknowledge that their world view of "peace, harmony and love can be achieved if everyone loves, tolerates and respects each other"....is being torn to shreds.  It can't be their failed world view...IT HAS TO BE THE VIDEO!!!  PLEASE LET IT BE THE VIDEO!!!!  IT CAN'T BE THE FAILED POLICIES OF MESSIAH OBAMA!!!  NOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Is Obama Really a Muslim?

It makes one wonder if Team Obama is thoroughly confused at this point. 

Seriously, Obama has come forward to publicly praise Islam, he even uses his Arabic accent to pronounce the words from the 'Holy Quran'.   He has apologized to Islam for all of the misunderstandings The West has held, he has given speeches to the world from within a Muslim country, he has even referred to himself as a Muslim....and yet, still these rioting Muslims keep burning flags and even mannequins of Obama himself!!!

Check out this video filled with clips of Obama loving on Islam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28

So could he be a Muslim?...or just a Muslim sympathizer?

Of course we can never know his heart and probably should stay far away from discussions of where his eternal soul is....but the words of Christ keep running through my head,  'you will know them by the fruit that they bear'.

As I paste that verse onto Obama I find it VERY HARD to believe that he has surrendered his life to Jesus Christ and is hence one of our brothers in Christ.

I sure wish we had some better choices for the upcoming election in 50 days.....

Syrian Regime Blows Up Gas Station Kills 50

Arabs all over the world should be outraged!  The leader of Syria just sent a helicopter to blow up a gas station and killed 50 people just on their way to work.  The 'religion of perpetual outrage' should be heading to the streets right now protesting Assad's bloody, murderous regime.

See the evidence of murder here;  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/state-run-syrian-tv-says-a-helicopter-has-crashed-near-damascus/2012/09/20/9e1fc1fe-02f5-11e2-9132-f2750cd65f97_story.html

So where the heck is everybody??  Come on man!!...this is a dictator killing thousands of innocent Muslims!

Where are they?  I believe they are home gathering French flags and writing on signs, 'Death to France' in preparation for tomorrows riots over the REALLY SERIOUS cartoon picture being published of Muhammad.

Makes perfect sense!!

Famine is Upon Us

We have all heard that part of the reason for the Arab Spring was because of the frustration over rising food price.

So here is just a short list of the headlines talking about famine, drought and hunger.

Rising Food Prices Leave UK Students hungry. Teachers in the UK are reporting an increase in children coming to school hungry and with no money to buy food.

 Rising food prices hit Nairobi slums.

Communities in the slums of Kenyan capital are surviving on food that is hardly fit for consumption.

 

Jordanians grapple with rising food prices

The fourth poorest Arab country has a high cost of living, and rulers worry about potential unrest and food riots.

 

Food security tops Somalia election agenda

Nearly one year after a famine killed tens of thousands of people in Somalia, millions are still in need of aid.

 

World Bank: Food costs at record levels again

Prices now one per cent higher than previous peak in February 2011 "threatening the health and well-being of millions".

 

Struggling to put food on the table in China

Amid rising food prices, poor families in urban areas are finding it hard to put together a square meal.

 

South Sudan refugees running out of food

In the latest feature in our "Feeding the World" series, Al Jazeera visits the struggling Yida refugee camp.

 

Balkans hit by worst drought in decades

After suffering a harsh winter, region faces severe drought that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

 

Drought wreaks havoc on Indian farmers

A punishing drought in western India is hurting livestock farmers as the region experiences water shortages.

 

See them all here;  http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/feedingtheworld/

 

Meanwhile...here in America we continue to plant millions of acres of corn ONLY TO BE BURNT UP to make ethanol for our cars...and our society has become so obese that we are bankrupting ourselves as we attempt to fix our obesity dilemna.

 

The world is definately out of whack.  We need someone to come and bring justice.

 

Sadly, the first dude to bring justice will be the Antichrist and it will all be just an illusion.

 

True justice will arrive with the 2nd advent of Jesus Christ when he returns to set up his 1000 year reign.

 

Even so, come Lord Jesus.

Hat tip to Dave P.

Now France is Scared

We were kind of happy to read that some news outlet in France was going to continue equally caricaturing everyone just as they always do...including Muhammad.

How is it fair to make fun of Jews, Christians, Presidents, Buddha's, Krishna's, etc....and leave Muhammad out of it?

So they published the cartoon....and now France is scared that it may have upset the 'religion of perpetual outrage'.

PARIS—France will close embassies and French schools in 20 countries on Friday, its Foreign Ministry said, amid fears of a backlash after a French magazine published a series of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

French authorities said they feared the cartoons published Wednesday in satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo could cause more outrage in the Muslim world, days after a video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad helped to fuel violent protests at U.S. and other Western embassies in several Muslim countries.

Here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444165804578005961344372792.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Why do you suppose they  are going to close them on Friday?  Why didn't the riots begin immediately on today or tomorrow?

Because Friday is the Muslim holy day, so they will all go to their local mosque and wait for an Imam to get them all whipped up into a riotous rage...then they will all go home, grab some lunch, their guns, machetes, American flags, (and now French flags) some gasoline, and maybe a rocket propelled grenade launcher....and then they will head out to whoever serves French Fries and open up a can of OUTRAGE.

It is all so predictable that it is actually kind of funny...if it wasn't so deadly serious and so eternally sad.

Best Example of Irony...EVER!

It is being reported that a protester in Pakistan died after inhaling the fumes from an American flag that was being burned in protest.

Protester dies after inhaling fumes from burning American flag

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/18/protester-dies-after-inhaling-fumes-from-burning-american-flag/?intcmp=obnetwork#ixzz26vdXSbnX

"Death to America!  Death to America!!""  cough..cough...gasp...sputter...........

I'm guessing that soon the 'religion of perpetual outrage' is going to believe that the CIA planted toxic poisons in all American Flags in a desperate attempt to silence the 'great religion of Islam'.

Sex Between Brothers and Sisters

Of course we all knew this public discussion would be coming.  How could it not?  A man can marry a man, a woman a woman...how about a man marrying a woman AND a man?  How about a man marrying two-three or four lesbians because they all want to child? 

Why not a brother and sister?  If they love each other...WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE???

In an interview published Monday, Hollywood director Nick Cassavetes, whose new movie Yellow tells the story of a fictional love affair between an adult sister and brother, claimed that incest is just the latest frontier in people throwing off the shackles of rigid, cultural convention and following their hearts.

According to Cassavetes’ interview with The Wrap, “I have no experience with incest . . . . We had heard a few stories where brothers and sisters were completely, absolutely in love with one another. You know what? This whole movie is about judgment, and lack of it, and doing what you want. Who gives a shit if people judge you? I’m not saying this is an absolute but in a way, if you’re not having kids — who gives a damn? Love who you want. Isn’t that what we say? Gay marriage — love who you want? If it’s your brother or sister it’s super-weird, but if you look at it, you’re not hurting anybody except every single person who freaks out because you’re in love with one another.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/11/can-sex-between-brothers-and-sisters-ever-be-normal/?intcmp=obnetwork#ixzz26vXTZd5O

Sex between brothers and sisters is nothing new.  Remember the Bible clearly tells us that 'there is nothing new under the sun'....meaning whatever perversion can be thought of has already been thought of AND DONE.

"Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere."  Leviticus 18:9

Of course people had clearly been doing this in the land that God was giving the Jews... and God DID NOT WANT HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE doing the same perverse things.

The chapter also tells us not to have sex with our grand kids, our mother, our step mother, your aunt, your daughter in law, your sister in law, no gay sex, no sex with animals.

"All these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled."  Leviticus 18:27

Do you think the land in America has become defiled?  Do you think it is going to get worse and worse....or are you holding out hope that morality will get better and better as time goes on?

It would appear that our ONLY hope would be another Great Revival of the Holy Spirit in this land.
 
We need to keep praying for that.

Hooray for France!

France has been a punching bag for many Americans over the last decade.  They have been called a bunch of wimps who won't help in any military engagement and have been ridiculed for surrendering before the first shots are fired.

But this time they got it right!  They are publishing cartoons of Muhammad that many Muslims are calling offensive!

And just like clock work...the 'religion of perpetual outrage'....is OUTRAGED!

France has sent riot police to guard the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo after it published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

The latest issue features jokes and several caricatures of the Prophet, including some images of him naked.

The Rector of the Great Mosque of Paris Dalil Boubakeur said:
“I think that what they’ve done here is beyond comprehension. It breaches normal reasoning, and is a breach of responsibility.”

“It people’s convictions have really been offended, and laws have been breached – then they can go to the tribunal. We are in a lawful state, laws must be totally respected. That has already happened once this week,” said French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.

But the magazine’s editor Stephane Charbonnier hit back:
“We do caricatures of everyone every week, But when we do it with the Prophet, it’s called a provocation.”

French police are preparing for more protests after breaking up an illegal rally last weekend against the American film ‘Innocence of Muslims’.

Here;  http://www.euronews.com/2012/09/19/france-steps-up-security-after-new-prophet-mohammad-cartoons-are-published/

This is pretty funny....the same nation that is in a firestorm for publishing naked photos of the Princess of England, Kate Middleton...has now published a naked cartoon of Muhammad.

And yes, the lady is EXACTLY right when she says they do caricatures of everyone every week but when they touch Islam its called a provocation??  France is a lawful state....if they broke the law take it up with the courts...says French PM.

This is what Hilary and Team Obama should have said right from the get go.  Instead they apologized for the 'offensive film' (which showed weakness and guilt) before they expressed regret over American soil attacked and American citizens killed.

Now of course the 'religion of perpetual outrage' is going to target French Embassies.  So look for another flash mob in Muslim lands today.

Hopefully Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland and some other countries will start doing this every day until the 'religion of perpetual outrage' grows so weary of rioting and protests that they all go home, take a nap, watch the soccer game and then go do something productive....like make something of value and contribute to the world's economy.

Military Begins Training for Zombie Apocalypse

Yes, I get it...this is all tongue in cheek fun.  You gotta train for something, so why not train for the zombie apocalypse?

What is interesting to us is how many times the word 'apocalypse' has been coming up in headlines all over the world for a whole variety of reasons.

Also of interest is that his 'tongue in cheek' training is really getting the military ready for how to deal with a contagious pandemic...where people run around in the streets with Ebola or some other organ destroying-highly contagious disease.

Jesus warned us about such times....times of pestilence. 

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is ready for a zombie apocalypse. Gun owners got prepared for a zombie apocalypse. Now, the military and law enforcement are getting ready.

And next month, they'll begin training.

Security firm HALO Corp. announced yesterday that about 1,000 military personnel, police officials, medical experts and federal workers will learn the ins and outs of a zombie apocalypse, as part of an annual counter-terrorism summit , according to the Military Times.

Sure, the lesson is tongue-in-cheek -- and only a small part of the summit's more serious course load -- but a zombie-like virus outbreak is a good training scenario. Visitors will learn to deal with a worldwide pandemic, where people become crazy, violent and fearful. Zombies will roam the summit grounds in San Diego, Calif. harassing troops and first-aid teams that will be participating.

Here;  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/zombie-apocalypse-training-halo-corp_n_1889724.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Friends, what do you think is going to happen during The Tribulation?....People are going to become crazy, violent and fearful.  The Bible says things will get so bad that people will be praying to die...yet death escapes them.  Jesus said if he didn't cut short this Tribulation that NO FLESH would survive.

The world IS preparing for a zombie-apocalypse of sorts....they just don't know it yet.  They believe it is all in fun....but it is really deadly (and eternally) serious.

What If Israeli Soldiers Refuse to Strike Iran?

Here is an interesting thought.  What if Israel is so divided about how to deal with their enemies that when Netanyahu orders a strike...certain soldiers and/or generals refuse to follow the orders?

Is Israeli society falling apart?

I’m generally an optimist. And yet, I’m sometimes overtaken, if only fleetingly, by a cloud of doom. I look at the newspaper and see that 400 Israelis, among them leading intellectuals, have signed a petition, urging Israeli fighter pilots to disobey orders if they are asked to attack Iranian nuclear installations.
    
This petition is the signal of a state and society that are falling apart.

To be a member of a people is to have the ability to overcome our egos, at least to some extent; it is the ability to work as part of a team, and, therefore, not always as the leader. Golda Meir once humorously complained that it’s difficult to lead a country of three million (now about seven million) prime ministers. We all think that we know best. We all think that we have a right to lead. Recall what Korach told Moses, in the Bible (I paraphrase): We’re all holy; after all, we’re a holy nation; so, why do you, Moses, laud yourself over us (Numbers 16:3)?

A healthy society holds its government to account with popular protests, an official parliamentary opposition, a free press, and, in extreme circumstances, civil disobedience. But, in normal situations, none of these jobs are for the army. I recognize that, under Israeli law, a soldier has an obligation to disobey an immoral order. But an order to attack Iran so as to stop it from destroying us is not an immoral order. At worst, it is just wrongheaded. We could judge it to be based upon faulty appraisals of Iranian behaviour and intentions. We could judge it to have consequences that are worse than any likely success. But are those judgements for the pilots to make? Isn’t that what the government is for? And, if the government is wrong, isn’t it our responsibility, rather than that of the pilots, to hold them to account?

Here;  http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/the-jewish-thinker/if-soldiers-shun-orders-to-strike-iran-israel-will-cease-to-be-a-state.premium-1.459493

One would think that since Israel is surrounded by millions of people who want to see them driven into the sea...that it would focus them all into a very similar place and worldview.  Obviously, that isn't the case.

Israel is full of liberals and conservatives just like America.  Yes, Obama may be the most unpopular U.S. President in all of Israel's history, but that doesn't mean they are all conservative hawks who are just chomping at the bit to attempt to blow up Iran.

It does seem concerning to me that leading intellectuals in Israel are passing around a petition telling their soldiers to disobey orders.

Sounds like Israel needs God to come to their rescue.

Worst Nightmare About to Unfold

Many of you probably don't know that I am a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) and have been for the past 25 years.  I have spent most of my time helping people recognize the gaps in their financial plans and then going with them into the financial markets to buy the products necessary to fill those gaps.

Over the years I have been put on many mailing lists by various investment companies who send me the latest updates on what their financial analysts are saying.  It's always been interesting to read these because one analyst will say the sky is falling while one will say it is the best time ever to be buying into a certain market.

How could two analysts with MBA's from the same school be looking at the same tea leaves and come up with totally opposite ideas on where the markets are going?

Today, a friend sent me the writing from another analyst...and suffice it to say, it's a little freaky.

Draghi and Bernanke's Worst Nightmares Are About to Unfold

Ben Bernanke and Mario Draghi must be absolutely terrified.

These two men, in the last two weeks, have both initiated open-ended bond buying programs. The purpose of these programs, aside from keeping insolvent banks in business, was to scare the markets into believing that no matter what happens, the Central Banks will be able to step in and support the financial system.

From a philosophical standpoint, this was Draghi's and Bernanke's "all in" moment. I won't say they they've gone "nuclear," as they have yet to truly monetize everything, but they're not far from that.

And they've both failed.

Spain, which I've been warning will bring about the break-up of the Euro, saw the yields on its ten-year bonds break back above 6% yesterday. This is absolutely extraordinary. It indicates that within two weeks of the ECB announcing it's going to do an "unlimited" bond purchasing plan, Spanish bonds are once again imploding.

Indeed, if you analyze the Spanish ten-year yield chart from a technical analysis perspective, you'd say that it's bounce off former resistance (indicating that it's now support) and is ready for the next leg up (north of 7% again).

This is Game Over for the ECB.

The EBC cannot announce an even larger program now as that would completely destroy its credibility in the markets.

Congratulations Mario Draghi, the markets were intimidated by your promise of unlimited bond buying for a total of less than two weeks.

On the other side of the pond, Ben Bernanke is rapidly approaching his own Game Over moment.

The US Federal Reserve bought roughly three quarters of all Treasury issuance last year. Let that sink in for a moment. Roughly $0.74 out of every $1 in debt created by the US in 2011 was bought by the US Fed... not by the bond market, not by foreign countries, but by our own Central Bank.

Despite this massive intervention, the US economy (according to the ECRI) has officially re-entered a recession. This is why the Fed announced QE 3 now, because Bernanke is growing truly desperate, both in terms of losing control of the markets and the potential of losing his job if Mitt Romney is elected President.

So the Fed chose to monetize Mortgage Backed Securities this time around. And the result is that the US Treasury market is tanking. If it takes out its trendline, things will get very ugly very fast.

Here's a thought... what happens if the Treasury market begins to implode despite the Fed buying roughly 75% of all Treasury issuance?

GAME OVER for Bernanke and the Fed.

The only option left would be to monetize everything, which would mean hyperinflation (all hyperinflationary episodes have been created by monetization of deficits... you can pull this off until you lose credibility... at which point you suffer a currency crisis).

Congratulations Ben Bernanke, you've managed to screw up the capital markets so badly that the US is on the verge of its own European-style debt crisis... despite you taking over the entire interbank money-market and nearly all US Treasury issuance.

Folks, this is the reality we're dealing with. The ECB and Fed have gone "all in" in their efforts to stop the debt implosion... and they've failed. All they've done is unleashed an even more serious inflationary storm than the one we were already facing.

The time to start preparing is now. The printers are running. The Great Currency Debasement has begun. Some folks will walk out of this mess winners. Most will walk out as losers.

Of course we have been asking the question for over 4 years now....How can the Fed 'buy' trillions of dollars worth of bonds and securities when they don't 'have' any money?  Isn't that a Ponzi scheme?

Friends, the FED was meant to be a shock absorber to smooth out bumps in the economy.  You know we are in serious trouble when they try to make the FED the main engine of the entire global economy.  It simply can't work.  Sooner or later people will catch on...and then the collapse will happen.

Can you see the Antichrist warming up and stretching as he gets ready to climb onto the world stage and take over the affairs of the world once the mayhem begins?

If you can, then you better first off be listening for the trumpet...because the rapture will precede the revelation of the Antichrist.

Of course what we DON'T KNOW is how much mayhem, chaos, collapse and hardship that the Lord may allow us to see before he comes for us.  There certainly is Biblical precedence for God tearing down the false gods before redemption...and if that's the case we may see our financial system (Mammon) get torn down and our precious savings reduced to ZERO...just to show us the folly of what we have done.

Lord, please give us oil in our lamps so we can stay awake, sober and ready until you return.

Hat tip to Guy B.

We Should Have Seen These Protests Coming

Here is a great article that just flat out tells it like it is.....ISLAM IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH DEMOCRACY!!

There...someone said it.  Now if the mainstream media and news outlets would only pick it up we might get somewhere.

That Cairo’s “Arab Spring” has devolved into another round of mayhem, including last week’s storming of the American embassy, comes as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.

In poll after poll, and now election after election, Egypt has told the world that three-quarters of its population is adherent to Islamic supremacism. They are Islamists: Muslims who wish to be ruled by Islam’s repressive Sharia societal system. As rendered by centuries of Islamic scholars, Sharia is antithetical to Western notions of liberty, rationalism, and self-determinism. 

Equally predictable were the atrocities in Libya, where American Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in an attack that was patently coordinated by trained militants—contrary to the risible denials of Islamist premeditation by Obama administration officials. Per capita, Libya sent more jihadists to fight Western troops in Iraq than any other Muslim country. The increasingly familiar black flag of al Qaeda was a constant presence among the “rebel” factions—it is more accurate to call them mujahideen—that warred against Muammar Gaddafi, even if their bipartisan American fan club made a habit of denying what was in plain sight.

Nearly 20 years after the World Trade Center bombing began bringing home to Americans the worst excesses of Islamic supremacism, we still do not grasp its fundamentals. Our government and commentariat adopted a seemingly immovable policy of willful blindness to the pervasiveness of this ideology, the mainstream Islam of the Middle East. Consequently, most Americans do not know what any child in Cairo could tell you: when non-Muslim forces operate in Islamic lands, particularly if they seek to plant Western ideas and institutions, they must be driven out, by violent jihad if necessary. It matters not that the West believes it is doing humanitarian work, attempting to make life better for Muslims. Classical Sharia regards these efforts as provocations.

My new book, Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, endeavors to explain that, on the matter of freedom, the Muslim Middle East and the West are ships passing in the night. In Islamist ideology, the concept of “freedom” is total submission to what is seen as the beneficent gift of Allah’s law—“perfect slavery” as Islamic scholars render the idea. Democracy is not a culture of liberty, as it is in the West. It is a route to power. It is not substantive democracy. It is democracy’s mere procedures, particularly popular elections. This understanding was perfectly captured by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, now the prime minister of Turkey: “Democracy is just the train we board to reach our destination.” The destination is Sharia, not liberty.

Here;  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/17/we-should-have-seen-these-protests-coming.html

Ouch!!  They don't want democracy???  What???  You mean when we actually send troops, guns and bombs to their 'freedom fighters' so they can use them to toss out the dreaded dictator...they will replace him with people who bring them closer to Sharia law???

Dang you George Bush...you told us Islam was a "great religion of peace."  Dang you Obama...you told us Islam was a great religion of peace and Hilary just said it again over the weekend.

Why won't someone just tell us the truth?...THE MAJORITY OF ISLAM WANTS SHARIAH.

 There is no god but Allah, Muhammad was his last prophet, there is no law but Koran.

As the article says...The West and Islam are just two ships passing in the night.

YouTube Denies White House Request

It appears that Team Obama called YouTube and asked that the video offending Muslims to be taken down.  YouTube said no.

YouTube walks a fine line between hate speech and protected speech. The problem exists in determining between what constitutes unpopular speech and what’s outright hatred. The clip that ostensibly caused the protests in Libya that resulted in attack on the United States consulate is one of these items. After a request from the White House to review whether the video violated YouTube’s terms of use, the video giant refused to take it down.

They issued a statement this past Friday saying that the clip is absolutely within the company’s guidelines and will remain on YouTube. The short film, titled “Innocence of Muslims,” is what supposedly instigated the violent outbursts in the first place. YouTube, for their part, has censored the clip in Libya and Egypt, due to the attacks, and removed it from India and Indonesia as it violates their laws.

YouTube’s statement, courtesy of Phys.Org, is pretty clear on the matter:
We work hard to create a community everyone can enjoy and which also enables people to express different opinions,” the YouTube statement said. “This can be a challenge because what’s OK in one country can be offensive elsewhere. This video—which is widely available on the Web—is clearly within our guidelines and so will stay on YouTube. However, we’ve restricted access to it in countries where it is illegal such as India and Indonesia as well as in Libya and Egypt, given the very sensitive situations in these two countries. This approach is entirely consistent with principles we first laid out in 2007.

Here;  http://www.geekosystem.com/google-denies-white-house/

Yep that sure is true....what's OK in one country can be offensive elsewhere. 

Maybe Islam should make it's own version of YouTube called MusTube.  In it they would only have videos that aren't offensive to Islam like; HOW TO CORRECTLY BEAT YOUR WIFE or HOW TO CORRECTLY BEHEAD AN INFIDEL, or HOW TO DRESS UP LITTLE BOYS FOR HOMOSEXUAL PERVERSION or HOW TO TEACH YOUR CHILDREN TO BLOW THEMSELVES UP AND LIKE IT or BEHEADING YOUR FIRST INFIDEL, A CHILD'S GUIDE.....wait....wait....this idea won't work because all those videos are already on YouTube.

Dang it!!  I thought I had a new and marketable idea there for a while.

OK..how about this idea....everyday another country sends an email with a YouTube link to Egyptian TV.  In the link is something that they will find offensive so they will play it on Egyptian TV until they have their people whipped into a riotous lather.  The riot group will rush out and start burning things until they have nothing left to burn and then go home and fall asleep.  The next day another video comes and the same group goes out rioting and burning again...and again...and again.  This keeps repeating until the rioters are so tired from rioting that they finally go home and start figuring out what they can do for work that will afford them a living salary in the 21st century....OR.....they will all go home and start talking amongst themselves about the reasons that the 57 member states of the Organization of Islamic Conference has 20% of the earth's population but only produce less than 7% of the earth's gross domestic product.

Maybe they can start looking in the mirror and wondering what the heck is wrong with their society....and maybe even ask the bigger question of "WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH ALLAH?  IS HE EVEN REALLY A GOD?"

Wait a second.....if Egyptian TV reads this blog...are they going to be offended?  Might this blog posting be the result of the next huge riot in the Middle East if they translate it to Arabic and show it??  Might I end up with my head covered in a towel heading for the police station because of may hateful and offensive comments above??? 

MIGHT TEAM OBAMA BE CALLING ME DEMANDING I TAKE DOWN THIS OFFENSIVE POSTING????

Pakistan Shuts Off YouTube

The news that Pakistan is shutting off YouTube is probably a good thing.  Lord knows there are 50,000,000 videos on YouTube that thousands of Muslims could find offensive.  The Lord also knows that once those Muslims get offended they can get whipped into a riotous lather pretty darn quick...and then stuff gets burned and people start dying.

New Delhi: The Pakistan government has blocked popular video-sharing website YouTube for not removing a video made in the United States which mocks the Prophet Mohammad and has enraged the Islamic world. The website will remain suspended till the anti-Islam film is removed.

"Blasphemous content will not be accepted at any cost," Prime Minister Raza Parvez Ashraf's office said in a statement.

According to a statement issued by the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, around 700 links of the anti-Islam film had already been blocked after several complaints were received. "Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has proactively blocked and vigorously preventing all access to anti-Islamic video placed on worldwide web via YouTube with the name of Innocence of Muslims," the statement said.

Rallies across Pakistan over the film intensified today, with thousands taking to the streets, burning US flags and an effigy of President Barack Obama.

Here;  http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/youtube-blocked-in-pakistan-for-not-removing-anti-islam-film-268570

Maybe Egypt, Syria, Libya, Iran, Jordan and every other Muslim country should also consider banning YouTube.  Maybe they should just consider banning the entire Internet....because what happens when they start finding all the porn?....they may get REALLY offended!!

"god' of Violence and Revolution

As you watch the news and see the Muslim countries coming apart with violence and revolution...doesn't it make you wonder why?  What's up with Islam?  Who is this Allah that they are always bowing to and yelling about?

Of course we know that the descendants of Ishmael were told by God they would be a 'wild ass' of a people who were constantly raising the stick of violence against each other and against outsiders as well...and this is pretty easy to confirm as you view Arab history.

But in the last decade and certainly since the Arab Spring started...when you look at these protestors and how lathered up they become jumping up and down burning flags, doesn't it make you wonder who the heck Allah is and how he can get these folks so whipped up with passion and hate?

Well, today we may have found a clue about who this Allah character actually is.

A research article posted on the website of terrorist-turned-Christian Walid Shoebat contends the oldest known references to the Islamic deity Allah are not in Arabian records but in Babylonian artifacts.

Ancient tablets describe “Alla” as a deity of “violence and revolution.”

“This link sheds new light since for many years we have been hearing various ideas on where Allah came from. Christian and Muslim scholars – as well as secular professors – presented numerous arguments on just who Allah really is,” wrote Ted Shoebat, the son of Walid Shoebat.

In his heavily footnoted project, he writes that historians have suggested Islam’s beginnings are found in the Persian religion Zoroastrianism, while others, including Christian writers, argue Allah was a moon-god in Babylon.

The younger Shoebat, who already has published several books, said previously the oldest known reference to “Allah” was in northern and southern Arabia about the fifth century B.C., according to Kenneth J. Thomas.

The new find, however, links the name to the Epic of Atrahasis, chiseled on tablets sometime around 1700 B.C. in Babylon.

Here;  http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/1700-b-c-alla-god-of-violence-and-revolution/

Well that would sure make sense if this is all true.  Remember the Tower of Babel when mankind first believed they were smart enough challenge God?  That was in Babylon...which is in present day Iraq.

Now turn to Revelation 17:5 and read;  "The title was written on her forehead; Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and the abominations of the earth."

Friends, it would appear that Satan started his religion in Babylon and God is going to finish it in Babylon at the end of the story.  Does it surprise us in the least that Islam is actually worshipping Allah....the god from Mystery Babylon...who is behind Allah and also behind every abomination of the earth?

Thank you Jesus that you are going to destroy this whole Satanic mess when you return to set up your kingdom.

Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done....

Something Big About to Pop?

Of course we have been watching for another major conflict in the Middle East ever since Israel was engaged in the war with Hezbollah in 2006.

Our focus is now on quite a few places.  We know that Syria is crazy and violent and they have chemical weapons.  We know that Hezbollah in Lebanon has re armed with thousands of missiles.  Egypt seems to be getting ready for more bloodshed as the Muslim Brotherhood takes over.  The list continues on and on.

The focus of the 'big thing' today though is Iran and what is taking place in the Persian Gulf.

“Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from 25 nations are converging on the strategically important Strait of Hormuz in an unprecedented show of force as Israel and Iran move towards the brink of war,” reports the London Telegraph. “Western leaders are convinced that Iran will retaliate to any attack by attempting to mine or blockade the shipping lane through which passes around 18 million barrels of oil every day, approximately 35 per cent of the world’s petroleum traded by sea. A blockade would have a catastrophic effect on the fragile economies of Britain, Europe the United States and Japan, all of which rely heavily on oil and gas supplies from the Gulf….In preparation for any pre-emptive or retaliatory action by Iran, warships from more than 25 countries, including the United States, Britain, France, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, will today begin an annual 12-day exercise….The war games are the largest ever undertaken in the region….The multi-national naval force in the Gulf includes three US Nimitz class carrier groups, each of which has more aircraft than the entire complement of the Iranian air force. The carriers are supported by at least 12 battleships, including ballistic missile cruisers, frigates, destroyers and assault ships carrying thousand of US Marines and special forces.”

Here;  http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/naval-forces-from-25-countries-massing-in-persian-gulf-as-israel-prepares-to-strike-iran-armada-includes-3-u-s-carrier-groups/

Did you catch that....largest war games EVER in the region?

Do you have sufficient oil in your lamps? 

We don't know when this thing will pop...but it will.  The Bible is very clear that the Middle East will be the playing field for the last battles of mankind before Christ returns to usher in his 1000 yr reign.

When it does pop this time...it will affect the whole world.  And with the world already shaking with unrest, hunger, hatred, volcanoes, financial collapse, earthquakes, drought, solar storms, love of most growing cold, lovers of violence, famine of the Word of God, etc....there does come a tipping point.

With Friends Like This...Who Needs Enemies?

This is so sad.  Another 4 U.S. soldiers are killed by the Afghans that we have been training.

KABUL -- Four U.S. troops were killed Sunday at a remote checkpoint in southern Afghanistan when a member of the Afghan security forces opened fire on them, military officials said. The attack brought to 51 the number of international troops shot dead by their Afghan partners this year, including Marine Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr. of Oceanside.
 
The insider attack came on the day that NATO warplanes killed nine women in an eastern province, according to local officials, adding to long-festering outrage here over civilian casualties and prompting new protests. Afghan president Hamid Karzai condemned the killings. The U.S.-led international coalition said the precision strikes killed "a large number of insurgents" but also acknowledged that that up to eight civilians had been hit and said it regretted any civilian deaths.

The attacks drew unusually strong criticism yesterday from the U.S. military's top officer, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, who called the problem of rogue Afghan soldiers and police turning their guns on allied troops "a very serious threat" to the war effort.

Here;  http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/officials-afghan-police-kill-4-u-s-troops-1.4008904

Probably another good reason why Afghanistan is called the "graveyard of nations."

This is a spiritual battle and Afghanistan is a serious Satanic stronghold.  Of course we will never 'win' this war because a democracy can not be made in a nation full of people who can't read or write and believe that the only book they need is the Satanically inspired Koran...where most can't even read it.

I think it's probably time to bring everyone home and ramp up the drone war where we can disrupt the Taliban with Stinger missiles fired from remote controls operated by U.S. soldiers pulling the trigger from 8000 miles away.