Drought USA

The nation is suffering through the worst drought  in over 50 years.  Does it look to you like the actual guts of America are suffering from an 'exceptional' drought?  God only knows if and when the drought will end.  Of course you can see from the photo that the top corn and bean states have been decimated.  Will there be enough seed corn for next year?  Will there be enough corn to feed the hogs, chickens and beef we have all grown so fond of?  I wonder what it would take for Americans to humble themselves and pray to God...so that He would heal our land?  I wonder if we have printed enough money for all 330 million of us to pay for extremely expensive food if this continues for another year, or two, or three.....?

Iran and Iraq Sign Defense Deal

As the country song says, "I don't know the difference between Iraq and Iran...."

Actually, that country singer wouldn't have been far off had he been singing about ancient Persia.  Back in OT days, what is now known as Iraq WAS part of the Persian Empire.

God told the prophet Ezekiel that in the Last Days, after Israel had been reformed in the Promised land;  ⁴ I will turn you (coalition) around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords. ⁵ Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets, ⁶ also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.

So Persia is a nation to watch in the coming coalition.  Of course the modern nation of Iran IS what is left of the Persian empire....but maybe we should be watching for the nations around her to begin joining back with her on a military and political basis?

On Thursday, the Iranian Minister of Defense and his Iraqi counterparts, Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi and Saadoun al-Dulaimi, respectively, signed a document of bilateral cooperation in the defense field. According to the paper, the execution of these agreements will deepen even further the relations of the two countries.

According to the paper, based on previous letters of understanding signed between Tehran and Baghdad, the execution of these agreements will deepen even further the relations of the two countries in other fields, and will contribute to regional peace and stability. Also, during the meeting, the two sides exchanged views on relevant issues in the region.

During his official visit to Baghdad, Brigadier General Vahidi met with senior officials of the country, including President Jalal Talabani.

Also on Thursday, the Iraqi president, noting the importance of the Persian minister's trip to Iraq, described as solid and secure the relationships that support the governments in Tehran and Baghdad.

Here;  http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/06-10-2012/122370-iran_iraq_relations-0/

Shoot!  Iran and Iraq coming together??  Is it possible that our military venture to overthrow Saddam Hussein and the blood and treasure we spilled in the process is going to do nothing for us except bring Iraq into bed with Israel's (and our) arch enemy Iran?

Is it possible that God used the U.S. military to bring about this coming change?

Remember, Ezekiel knew nothing of Iraq...it didn't exist until post WWI...so he would have had no idea as he saw his vision of the Persian Empire gathering with other forces to wipe out Israel.

What a day that will be when God himself comes against this coalition!  I sure hope we AREN'T here to see it...but that the Lord has already raptured us home!

¹⁸ This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign Lord. ¹⁹ In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. ²⁰ The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will fall to the ground. ²¹ I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Sovereign Lord. Every man’s sword will be against his brother. ²² I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him. ²³ And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’

Politicians Talking About UFO's

Here is a short list of some very prominent U.S. politicians and what they have said about UFO's.

Bill Clinton

2005 -- Former Pres. Bill Clinton (D), speaking in Hong Kong, discussed UFOs, Roswell and Area 51: "The Roswell thing, I think, really was an illusion - I don't think it happened. I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that reveal things, and if there were, they were concealed from me, too. I wouldn't be the first president that underlings have lied to or that career bureaucrats have waited out. But there may be some career
person, sitting around somewhere, hiding these dark secrets, even from elected presidents. But, if so, they successfully eluded me, and I'm almost embarrassed to tell you I did try to find out."

 

Ronald Reagan

1974 - California Gov. Ronald Reagan (R) was one of four people in a Cessna Citation plane who witnessed an unusual object that was a steady light which elongated and went from a normal cruising speed to a rapid acceleration. Reagan told the Wall Street Journal, "We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement, it went straight up into the heavens."

 

Ronald Reagan

1987 - Pres. Ronald Reagan (R) told the United Nations General Assembly: "In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world."

 

Jimmy Carter

1969 - Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter (D) filed an official report in which he claimed to have seen a UFO - a "self-luminous" object "as bright as the moon." Most skeptics and debunkers have maintained that the future president had only misidentified the planet Venus in Leary, Ga.

 

John F. Kennedy

1963 - Pres. John F. Kennedy (D) sent a memo to the head of the
CIA, seeking documents about UFOs, just 10 days before he was
assassinated. In a letter dated Nov. 12, 1963, JFK wanted a review of all UFO intelligence files that might affect national security. On the same day, Kennedy sent a separate memo to NASA, indicating he wanted to cooperate with the then-Soviet Union on outer space activities.

 

Fife Symington

1997 -- Ariz. Gov. Fife Symington (R) was one of thousands of eyewitnesses to the historic Phoenix Lights, a mass UFO sighting, which he didn't admit was real until 10 years later, and which he felt was an extraterrestrial vehicle.

 

Bill Richardson

2004 -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D), and 2008 presidential candidate, calls on the U.S. government to declassify all Roswell UFO documents. Richardson wrote: "The mystery surrounding this crash has never been adequately explained. Clearly, it would help everyone if the U.S. government disclosed everything it knows. The American people can handle the truth -- no matter how bizarre or mundane."

 

Dwight Eisenhower

2010 -- NH State Representative Henry W. McElroy (R) records a video on which he claims to have seen a briefing document from the 1950s that described how benevolent aliens were present in the U.S. and that a meeting could be arranged between them and former Pres. Eisenhower.

 

Gerald Ford

1966 -- Michigan Rep. Gerald Ford (R), before becoming president, called for an official government hearing on the subject of UFOs after his home state experienced a wave of sightings. This was the incident which resulted in the famous use of the phrase "swamp gas" as a possible explanation for UFOs. Ford wrote a letter to the House Armed Services committee that read, in part: "In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force.

 

Richard M. Nixon

1974 -- Pres. Richard Nixon (R) became part of UFO folklore when he allegedly took comedian Jackie Gleason to Homestead Air Force Base in Florida in 1974 and showed him wreckage of a flying saucer as well as the remains of several extraterrestrials. The story was made public by two people: Gleason's wife, Beverly, told Esquire Magazine that her husband had related this tale to her. And Gleason, who was known to have a strong interest in UFOs, reportedly told the story to author Larry Warren.

 

See them all and more here; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/politicians-ufos_n_1897563.html?ref=topbar#slide=1578547

 

Remember friends and new readers, we don't believe that 'aliens' actually exist who have 'evolved' on other planets.  We believe that people are seeing something... but that it is all a part of the delusion that Satan, The Prince of the Powers of the Air, has been working on since the very beginning.

 

Genesis 6:4--The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God (fallen angels? Beings from the sky?) went to the daughters of men and had children (copulated them) by them.

 

So if this is what happened during the days of Noah, may Jesus be giving us hints that this may happen again in the Last Days? 

 

"As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man."  Matthew 24:37 

A Mile Wide and in Inch Deep

How many of us claim to know Jesus, claim to like Jesus and maybe even go to church for an hour a week to worship Jesus?

How many of that group are truely disciples of Christ?  How many of that group truly pick up our cross and follow Christ?  How many of us are excited about the medal ceremony but put in almost no training or work to prepare for it?

Many of you probably get Greg Laurie's daily devotional, but for those who don't, I have posted it below;

	"And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it. . ."

—Luke 14:27–28

When Jesus was in Jerusalem during the Passover, John's Gospel tells us that many believed in His name after they saw the signs He did. But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because "He knew all men, and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man" (John 2:24–25).

To put it simply, many believed in Him, but He did not believe in them. Many believed in Him in a shallow, superficial sort of way, without any real commitment attached. They were interested in Him, curious about Him, drawn by Him, and perhaps even felt affection for Him. But the loyalty of these crowds was a mile wide and an inch deep. Jesus knew that when push came to shove, the multitudes would simply drift away. For that reason, Christ did not commit Himself to them.

There are many people who say they want to follow Jesus. And that's good. But that commitment will be challenged. We must decide to follow Jesus—not because our best friend is, not because our boyfriend or girlfriend is, not because our parents are, but because we have chosen in our own heart of hearts to follow Christ.

Many of us can get caught up in the moment. It's like watching an Olympic medal ceremony. We see someone representing their nation standing up on that pedestal. As the gold medal is placed around the athlete's neck and the flag of his or her country is raised while the national anthem plays, we say, "I want to be an Olympic athlete. That's what I want to do." But do we realize the hours, days, months, and years these athletes dedicate to one competition?

We get excited about the medal ceremonies. But are we willing to go through the training? Are we willing to count the cost? Is our commitment to Him and Him alone? Are we willing to be real followers of Jesus?

Man Arrested for Sex With Horse

I don't know that it is illegal in all states to have sex with a horse...but I do know it's illegal to have sex with a horse owned by someone else in all states.

A horse owner in Florida shook his head when he told a reporter he wasn't surprised to learn that the man who had sex with his horses in 2010 came back.

Sunday marks Patrick Louis Linn's second time getting arrested on the Tallahassee property, accused of sneaking in and sexually abusing horses, according to WTSP. This time, he was allegedly caught having sex with Sunny.

"I had a feeling he'd be back because I believe it's a compulsion type thing with him," said Sunny's owner, Allen McDearmid. "I don't ... I just ... it's bad."

McDearmid said he knew something bad had happened when he noticed lubricant on the barn floor near Sunny's stall. Sunny had been cleaned, but neither McDearmid nor his wife had cleaned the horse that day, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

A surveillance camera reportedly caught Linn sneaking into the stable early that morning. He was arrested at his home, which was nearby, later that night. He faces charges of trespassing, resisting arrest, burglary, and bestiality.

He was arrested in 2010 after cops received complaints that he went into the barn several times and "conducted sexual acts with the horses," prosecutors told The Weekly Vice at the time. Cops staked him out and reportedly caught him in the act, but he fled before he was apprehended hours later.

Here;  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/patrick-louis-linn-sex-with-horse-again_n_1940156.html?ir=Weird+News&ref=topbar

Of course the day is coming when sex with all animals will not only be legal but anyone who disagrees or calls it perverse will be shunned and even called 'zoophobic.'  You don't think so....go grief, look at how far homosexual behavior has come in the last 10 years.  Almost every TV show this year has some homosexual story line, character or couple in it.

Dare to tell someone that a man penetrating another man's rectum is evidence of perversion and you will have the wrath of liberals descend on you like flies on poop.

Fast forward 10 years...dare to tell someone that a man penetrating a donkey, monkey, dog or horse is evidence of perversion and you will have the wrath of liberals descend on you like flies on poop.

Leviticus 18
²² “‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

²³ “‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.

Of course whenever God says NOT to do it....Satan wants people to do it.  The Bible calls it detestable and perverse.

Well here we go....further down the same article we have a man arrested for sex with a donkey and look what he says;  Carlos Romero was arrested Sept. 17 for having sexual contact with a miniature donkey. He told cops that Florida was was "backwards" since its residents "frown on zoophilia."

The Carnivores Next Door

"I looked, and there before me was a pale horse!  Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him.  There were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth."  Revelation 6:8

Have you noticed an increase in the news reports of wild beasts? 

Here in Minnesota the news of the first wolf hunting season in decades has the PETA folks out in full force wondering how ANYONE could shoot these wonderful creatures.

As one future wolf hunter said, "If you have ever been in Northern Minnesota and heard a pack of wolves hunting a screaming deer running for it's life and the sounds they make while eating the deer alive...you would be in favor of wolf hunting."

Most folks in Suburban MN don't realize that their backyards were once inhabited by great herds of elk, buffalo, cougars, wolves and bears.

I'm guessing most PETA folks would NOT want a grizzly bear roaming in their back yard when their kids are out there using the swing set...or a cougar, or a pack of hunting wolves.

First it was the raccoons. Next came the coyotes. And then? Bigger carnivores. Urban and suburban areas in North America are home to a lot of small, wild predators, and now scientists believe that the coyote’s success in adapting to an urban lifestyle could pave the way for larger carnivores to move in.

Ohio State University professor Stan Gehrt has been studying coyote populations near Chicago for 12 years (his team’s research found the coyotes to be monogamous). He described the research in a talk at EcoSummit 2012, an international conference held in Columbus, Ohio.

One of the coyote groups under observation occupies the smallest known coyote territory ever observed—about a third of a square mile. To Gehrt: “That’s an indication that they don’t have to go far to find food and water. They’re finding everything they need right there, in the suburbs of Chicago. It amazes me.”

Coyotes are the largest mammalian carnivores—so far—to have adapted and thrived in an urban setting. Gehrt believes that “The coyote is the test case for other animals. Raccoons, skunks, foxes—they’ve already been able to penetrate the urban landscape pretty well. The coyote is the most recent and largest. The jury’s out with what’s going to happen with the bigger ones.”

So who are the bigger ones poised to invade? Wolves, mountain lions, and bears, for a start. Mountain lions are making appearances near cities already—including the Wrigleyville neighborhood of Chicago and recently in Des Moines, Iowa. A family of black bears has recently been spotted roaming the suburban streets Cedar Grove, New Jersey.

According to Gehrt, it’s these larger mammals that “are going to be an even bigger challenge.” It used to be that humans moved to urban areas to get away from the dangers of living near big predators. Now, it seems the carnivores are following us.

Here;  http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/10/05/the-carnivores-next-door/

The Bible clearly tells us that wild animals will kill an enormous amount of people during the Tribulation.  Could this be one more sign?  Are the wild animals being gathered? 

When chaos, famine, weakness, disease and pestilence break out...human beings will be defenseless against packs of coyotes, wolves, bears and big cats.  Even packs of hungry domestic dogs will be prowling the streets looking for something to eat.  And yes, domestic dogs will attack and kill people when they are hungry.

When God says that the Tribulation will be the worst time the earth has EVER seen....that means those days will simply be unimaginable to today's civilized Americans.

Thank you Jesus that you have already delivered us from the wrath of God that is to come.

Christians Killed by Angry Muslims...Again!

I wonder how many stories of Muslims killing Christians will have to make the news before the leftists of the world say, "Hmmmm....I wonder if Islam is more than a religion...maybe it's actually a political movement that is trying to take over the world, nation by nation?"

What would have to happen?

Today we have a few new reports emerging from Islam Land that are troubling, tragic AND uplifting because of these folks who are praying for their murderers...exactly as Jesus told us to.

Multiple sources have confirmed that about 25 to 30 Christian college students were massacred at a university in northeastern Nigeria late Monday night, causing Christians to pray for a "change of heart" among the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram to put a stop to the continued violence.
While there is speculation as to the motive of the massacre, sources close to the human rights watchdog Open Doors USA confirm that the massacre was performed by Boko Haram.

Emily Fuentes, the communications and public relations coordinator for Open Doors who recently visited Nigeria and spoke to Christian leaders about Boko Haram, told The Christian Post that believers around the world can agree that prayer is the "only thing that will change the people of Boko Haram."

"There are people who are turning to Christ who used to be in the Boko Haram, and God is changing their hearts," Fuentes told CP.

"A lot of Christians believe that God will change these peoples' hearts," she added.

The killings reportedly occurred in the late night hours on Oct. 1, when masked gunmen went door-to-door in the off-campus housing section of Federal Polytechnic College in Mubi, a city in the remote Adamawa State in northeastern Nigeria.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-students-executed-by-boko-haram-in-nigeria-believers-pray-for-change-of-heart-82646/#dYqGwWLZ1Y1XSRUW.99

Meanwhile in Egypt, the new Islamic government looks like it is going to take Koran degradation VERY seriously.

CAIRO — Two Coptic Christian boys have been detained by the authorities on charges that they defiled the pages of a Koran, the latest in a spate of recent cases involving accusations that people have insulted Islam.

The boys, ages 9 and 10, are being held in juvenile detention in the village of Ezbet Marco, south of Cairo, according to Ishak Ibrahim, a researcher with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights who is investigating the case. They were detained last Sunday, when the imam of the local mosque claimed that he saw the children tearing the pages of a Koran.

Other news reports said the boys were accused of urinating on the Koran pages.
      

The charges seemed likely to add to growing anxieties in Egypt about free speech rights, the sway of hard-line Islamists and the status of the country’s Christian minority, which fears an erosion of rights under an Islamist government. It also recalled the recent arrest in Pakistan of a Christian girl who was accused of burning Muslim texts in a case that drew attention to the use of blasphemy laws to intimidate minorities.

 

Here;  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/world/middleeast/2-coptic-christian-boys-accused-of-defiling-a-koran.html

 

Poor little boys...what if they didn't do anything?  What if the old Imam simply hates Coptic Christians and made the whole thing up?  Of course we know Muslims have been prone to riot for a lot lesser fabricated offenses.

 

The spiritual battle is raging.  Are we all in God's army and doing our part in the fight?  Or are we all sound asleep as we continue dreaming of new Vikings stadiums, condos in Florida and buying our next dream car...while our brother and sisters are being butchered.

 

Will Jesus be proud of us during our service in the Lord's army on earth....or will he ask us what the heck we were doing sleeping under a tree while the battles raged all around us?

World's Most Dynamic Religion is Leftism

Radio host and author, Dennis Prager, has some great observations about the religion of Leftism...and make no mistake...it IS a religion because it requires an ENORMOUS amount of faith to believe what leftists believe.

For at least the last hundred years, the world’s most dynamic religion has been neither Christianity nor Islam.

 

It has been leftism.

Most people do not recognize what is probably the single most important fact of modern life. One reason is that leftism is overwhelmingly secular (more than merely secular: It is inherently opposed to all traditional religions), and therefore people do not regard it as a religion. Another is that leftism so convincingly portrays itself as solely the product of reason, intellect, and science that it has not been seen as the dogma-based ideology that it is. Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

That, in turn, explains why anyone who opposes leftism is labeled anti-intellectual, anti-progress, anti-science, anti-minority, and anti-reason (among many other pejorative epithets): Leftists truly believe that there is no other way to think.

It dominates the thinking of Europe, of much of Latin America, Canada, and Asia, as well as of the political and intellectual elites of most of the world. Outside of the Muslim world, it is virtually the only way in which news is reported, and virtually the only way in which young people are educated from elementary school through university.

Only the United States, of all Western countries, has resisted leftism. But that resistance is fading as increasing numbers of Americans abandon traditional Judeo-Christian religions, lead secular lives, are educated by teachers whose views are almost uniformly left-wing, and are exposed on a daily basis virtually exclusively to leftist views in their news and entertainment media.

Read entire article here;  http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/328993/world-s-most-dynamic-religion-dennis-prager?pg=1

It's pretty scary when you understand what our kids are being taught in public schools.  Of course a majority of their teachers and professors are of the leftist religion...and of course their textbooks are written by folks who come from the leftist religion.

Our network TV Shows are all created by, produced by and financed by the high-priests of the leftist religion...as are our Hollywood movies INCLUDING even the cartoon movies aimed at young kids.

Basically, unless we are parents who home school, we send our kids out every day to be indoctrinated into the leftist religion.  By the time they are teenagers and have their drivers license, the are spending 99% of their waking time in the belly of the leftist religion.

When Sunday morning rolls around and we ask our teens to come with us to church in hopes we can DE-PROGRAM their leftist thinking....should it surprise us that it is painful for most kids to attend church?  Should it surprise us that an hour or two spent at church each week doesn't seem to create the kids that we hoped for? 

They are literally swimming in and drinking the leftist water.

Lord, have mercy.  Please help us to raise our kids to fear God and love the Lord in spite of this godless society we are all immersed in.

Israel Will Not Go Quietly Into the Night

Remember the ex-mayor of New York, Ed Koch?  He's a pretty outspoken guy.  Recently he had some things to say about the nation of Israel.

On Sept. 27, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of Israel delivered a speech to the United Nations. That speech is well worth reading, if someone is interested in world events and, in particular, a discussion of why it is a matter of life and death whether Iran is able to develop nuclear bombs.

For Israel, it is an existential matter, since Iran's leaders have regularly threatened to destroy Israel. The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has on a number of occasions denied there is any connection between the Jewish people and the land he refers to as Palestine. And he is a Holocaust denier as well.

Jerusalem was the capital of the kingdom ruled by King David in approximately 1010 to 970 B.C.E. and later by his son, King Solomon in approximately 967 B.C.E. It is in the location of the Temple Mount where Solomon built the First Temple and where a later King, Herod, built the Second Temple and where the Western Wall, the remnant of one of the retaining walls to the Temple Mount stands today.

Most of us, I believe, are surprised to learn of the physical size of Iran, bigger than France and Germany put together. Prime Minister Netanyahu in his speech at the U.N. quoted one of the perceived moderate former leaders of Iran who said, "[t]he use of even one nuclear bomb inside Israel will destroy everything, however, it would only harm the Islamic world."

That individual added, "It is not irrational to contemplate such an eventuality."

Iran could also use a nuclear arsenal to terrorize the Middle East and the rest of the world. That, in turn, will likely set off a nuclear arms race first and foremost in an already highly unstable Middle East. This could have disastrous consequences for all of us.

You can be sure Israel will not go gently into the night but will take all measures available to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran. Israel will not allow itself to become Czechoslovakia of 1938 because other nations declined their responsibility to prevent an avoidable catastrophe.

Here;  http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Koch-Israel-nuclear-Iran/2012/10/02/id/458402

When you have 5 minutes, I would recommend going to the link and reading the entire article.  It is very well written and frames up the facts very well on why Israel can't just sit back and wait for Iran to get a bomb.

They tried just sitting back and waiting in the 1930's...just waiting for the Nazi party to blow over and disappear.  Of course that was the wrong choice and it cost the death of 1/3 of the world's Jews.  This is the reason that the words over the Holocaust Museum say, "Never Again".

I think they mean it.

Iran's Currency Collapses

The folks in Iran who have any money are stampeding to get rid of their Iranian dollars and exchange them for USA dollars.

What the heck is going on?

Iran’s already fragile currency, the rial, has fallen in value by about 40 percent over the past week, battered by a combination of potent Western sanctions over the disputed Iranian nuclear program and new anxieties among Iranians about their government’s economic stewardship, analysts said.

While the value of the rial has eroded for the past few years as Iran’s economic isolation has deepened, the severity of the drop worsened with surprising speed in recent days as Iranians rushed to sell rials for dollars. By the end of the day on Monday, it cost about 34,800 rials to buy $1 in Tehran. The rate had been 24,600 rials as of last Monday.

“It’s sort of in a full-blown stampede mode today,” said Cliff Kupchan, a Washington-based analyst at the Eurasia Group, a political risk consulting firm. “There’s very little confidence among many Iranians in the government’s ability to adroitly manage economic policy.”

The shriveling value of the rial is now contributing to fears in Iran of a severe inflationary spiral, as an increasing amount of rials are required to buy food, medicine and machinery needed from abroad. At the same time, Iran’s ability to sell oil, its main export, has been severely hampered by the sanctions on the nuclear program, which Iran says is for the peaceful development of nuclear energy but Western nations suspect is intended to produce nuclear weapons.
      

Economists said the rial’s decline was one of the clearest signs that the accumulated impact of sanctions had deeply wounded the Iranian economy.

      

“When a currency collapses, you can be certain that other economic metrics are moving in a negative direction too,” Steve H. Hanke, an economics professor at Johns Hopkins University and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, wrote in an article published this month in Globe Asia, a business magazine.

 

Here;  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/world/middleeast/irans-rial-plummets-against-the-dollar.html?src=recg

 

First off, sanctions ARE working to punish Iran.  There can be no doubt about that.  Will it be enough to stop their nuclear ambitions?  Who knows??

 

What is very interesting is to watch is what happens when confidence in our paper money collapses.

 

Now imagine what WILL happen (we don't know when) when some event shatters the confidence in U.S. dollars. 

 

What will happen to America when folks stampede to get rid of their paper U.S. dollars?

 

As for now the world still considers the USA to have one of the best paper currencies out there....this is evidenced by Iranians stampedeing out of their currency and into ours.

Jesus Will Kill All Who Refuse Islam

Did you know that many Muslims also see the Last Days signs the same as we do?  Yep, they understand that earthquakes, famines, wars, etc... are pointing to the soon return of Jesus.

But there is a BIG difference.  They believe that Jesus is coming to kill the Antichrist but also coming to kill all the Christians and Jews who DON'T ACCEPT ISLAM!!

See video here;  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opHttXSbRCs&feature=youtu.be

Of course this is terribly sad...because it means that hundreds of millions of Muslims have been deceived by a book full of lies.  These lies came to pervert the Truth of Jesus Christ almost 800 years after Christ had ascended. The world had already been given the book of Revelation and the entire New Testament.

Of course darkness doesn't like the light so when Satan saw that the Light had already spread all through the Middle East and Asia he came to Muhammad and said, "I have a story to tell you....you will be like god in the eyes of millions...I have a plan for you....my name is Gabriel....now listen closely...."

Hat tip to Tom F.

Let's Watch Azerbaijan

Where the heck is Azerbaijan?  Turns out it's the country that sits in between Russia and Iran!!

Holy strategic piece of real estate!!

So why should we care who they are??

Reuters correspondent Thomas Grove has reported that Azerbaijan is exploring the option of helping Israel with a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Grove based this report on information from “local officials with extreme knowledge of Azerbaijan’s military policy.” They have worked together with Israel to explore how their air force bases and drones could help the Israeli Air Force in an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.

http://unitedwithisrael.org/azerbaijan-helping-israel/

If this is true, I would suggest you may want to convert some of your U.S. dollars to Azerbaijani money...and if you know of any good companies operating in Azerbaijan that have stock for sale, you may want to pick up some of that too.

And lastly, if this is true, you may want to call that aunt of yours in Azerbaijan and ask her if she knows of any little houses for sale on the outskirts of Baku...which is the capital of Azerbaijan.

There!!  You have now learned something new today...1) how to spell Azerbaijan, 2) the capital of Azerbaijan, 3) where on the globe Azerbaijan is, 4) what country will survive global chaos if they choose to bless Israel in these Last Days.

Obama Says Something We Can Agree With

We hope you will consider joining some of us who are fasting and praying today and every Tuesday leading up to SUPER TUESDAY when the next POTUS will be elected.  This is certainly a time to be on our knees about the future of this great land and and pray that God will send a revival to us.

We have reached that point where a man simply cannot heal what now ails this country....but just maybe we can delay the collapse a little while longer.

Yesterday we saw a quote that Barack Obama said when he was just a young Senator back in 2006...and WE AGREE WITH HIM!!!  For this reason we thought his quote was blog-worthy.  Yes Mr. Obama....it is a failure of leadership. 

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

In 10 Years, There Will Be No More Israel

The Iranian leadership smell blood in the water.  They believe that the end of days is upon us and that Israel will be gone in a relatively short period of time.

These statements by Henry Kissinger about Israel being gone in 10 years only served to stir up the blood in the shark tank.  Good job Henry!  What is your deal anyway??  How can a Jew be anti-Israel?  How can so many U.S. Jews be pro-Obama?  Maybe we can discuss that in a later blog....

Notice these paragraphs below are from an Iranian news source...so are biased as such.

The idea of Israel’s inexorable collapse is no longer a taboo as more top brass US officials are explicitly attesting to the fact, with prominent US diplomat Henry Kissinger saying, “In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.”

“Kissinger's statement is flat and unqualified. He is not saying that Israel is in danger, but could be saved if we just gave it additional trillions of dollars and smashed enough of its enemies with our military.… He is not offering a way out. He is simply stating a fact: In 2022, Israel will no longer exist,” political columnist Kevin Barrett wrote in an article published on Press TV website on Sunday.

He also pointed to a study commissioned by the US Intelligence Community (IC), comprised of 16 US intelligence agencies, earlier this year, titled “Preparing for a Post-Israel Middle East,” and pointed out that the content of the IC’s report corroborates Kissinger's contention.

“The sixteen US intelligence agencies agree that Israel cannot withstand the coming pro-Palestinian juggernaut consisting of the Arab Spring, the Islamic Awakening, and the rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the analyst added.

The IC report contends that the US government no longer has the military and financial resources “to continue propping up Israel against the wishes of more than a billion of its neighbors” and suggests that “the US will have to follow its own national interests and pull the plug on Israel,” Barrett said.

Considering the fact that the Jewish Kissinger has long been viewed as an ardent friend of Israel and that the majority of US officials, including the authors of the IC report, are influenced by pro-Israeli lobby, the emerging messages become more remarkable, the article added.

Here; http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/10/01/264485/no-more-israel-in-10-years-kissinger/

Holy supernatural showdown!!  Israel against the world....Satan attacking God's word!!

Remember friends, the Jews were totally dispersed by the Romans in 70AD and were split up and sent all over the world.  Satan was almost successful in his plan to kill all the Jews using Hitler's Nazi Germany.  When the liberators went to the Concentration Camps they found heaps and piles of bones.  How could Israel and the Jews EVER recover??

We now pick up the story in Ezekiel 37 (The Valley of Dry Bones) where God promises to put life back into those bones and bring them back to the land of Israel...where they will dwell forever.  (bold is mine)

‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone.I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. ²² I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms. ²³ They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
²⁴ “‘My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees. ²⁵ They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your ancestors lived. They and their children and their children’s children will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever. ²⁶ I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever. ²⁷ My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people. ²⁸ Then the nations will know that I the Lord make Israel holy, when my sanctuary is among them forever.’”

How about Zechariah 12?
On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.

Please keep in mind that all of these prophecies have NOT been fulfilled.  The nation of Israel has much to endure before all the nations of earth will KNOW THAT THE LORD MAKES ISRAEL HOLY.

Of course Satan is an incredible student of the Bible.  He can see that God himself orchestrated the return of the Jews to the Holy Land.  He knows that his time is short.  He knows he only has a little more time to attempt to make God into a liar by having some of these unfulfilled prophecies NEVER COME TRUE.

And so he convinces America to go soft in its support for Israel and at the same time gets 1 billion Muslims convinced that NOW is the time to rid the world of Israel ONCE AND FOR ALL.

I seriously doubt followers of Christ will be here on earth to see the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38.  We will have to be taken out of this world so that America can either vanish and not be included as one of the nations gathered against Israel (Zechariah 12)...or.... America WILL be one of the nations gathered against Israel because the restraining force of the Holy Spirit was withdrawn and USA fell under the sway of the Antichrist.

Make no mistake though friends...the road for Israel is going to be tough.  They will be ALL ALONE in the world when the Christians get raptured.  They will end up taking the Antichrist's offer of peace and when he betrays them the Bible says 2/3 of the earths' Jews will be killed....but God ALWAYS keeps a remnant...and the Keeper of Israel will never let their light go totally out.

"What I say to you, I say to everyone, 'Watch!' "  Jesus, Mark 13

Hat tip to Tom F.

Obama; Sociopath or Compulsive Liar?

We have said it many times before but will say it again;  Americans will elect the leaders that they deserve.  And this pretty much explains how we got Barack Obama as our President.

So who is this guy?  Can we really survive another 4 years with him at the helm?

Barack Obama has lied about the terrorist attack on the American Consulate in Libya for over 15 days, even going so far as to overtly imply that this attack was prompted by an obscure internet movie trailer in his speech at the United Nations two weeks after it was confirmed the White House knew it was an Al Qaeda sponsored attack. Additionally, during the current campaign the lies and obfuscations about Mitt Romney and the Republicans have been so fast and furious that it is nearly impossible to keep up with them.

At times even the most diehard of his sycophants in the mainstream media are forced to report on this disturbing trait in their hero. This past spring the Washington Post ran a lengthy front page article on Obama's machinations during the debt ceiling debate. The highlight of the piece: Barack Obama deliberately lied to the American people concerning the intransigence of the Republicans in the House of Representatives. It was an amazing admission for a pillar of the sycophantic mainstream media to write a story claiming that their hero lied. A further example of the media's awakening to the deceit and fabrications of the Obama administration is the recent reporting on the Libyan scandal which is actively pursuing the lies and cover-up.

However, there has been five years of outright lies and narcissism that have been largely ignored by the media, including some in the conservative press and political class who are loath to call Mr. Obama what he is in the bluntest of terms: a liar and a fraud. That he relies on his skin color to intimidate, either outright or by insinuation, those who oppose his agenda only adds to his audacity. It is apparent that he has gotten away with his character flaws his entire life, aided and abetted by the sycophants around him; thus he is who he is and cannot change.

In an earlier column I asked the question is Barack Obama a compulsive liar or a sociopath? (h)
A Sociopath:

A sociopath is typically defined as someone who lies incessantly to get their way and does so with little concern for others. A sociopath is often goal-oriented (i.e., lying is focused--it is done to get one's way). Sociopaths have little regard or respect for the rights and feelings of others. Sociopaths are often charming and charismatic, but they use their talented social skills in manipulative and self-centered ways.

A compulsive liar:

A compulsive liar is defined as someone who lies out of habit. Lying is their normal and reflexive way of responding to questions. Compulsive liars bend the truth about everything, large and small. For a compulsive liar, telling the truth is very awkward and uncomfortable while lying feels right. Compulsive lying is usually developed in early childhood, due to being placed in an environment where lying was necessary.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/is_barack_obama_a_compulsive_liar.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz284om92QY

Of course this should be very concerning to us that our President may be a sociopath and/or a compulsive liar.  When liars tell lies, it gives us an idea of what kind of fruit they are bearing.

In John 8, Jesus tells us.

John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Hmmmmm......I wonder what Satan's desires are for the USA??  Maybe a full on financial collapse so we will be helpless to defend Israel in the next world war?  Maybe the worship of material goods and possessions to such an extent that we are clueless to what the Word of God actually says?  Maybe convincing us that Islam is a "Great Religion" that needs to be merged with Christianity?

Who better to lead us there than a compulsive liar?

Did I mention that women faint and cry when they are in his presence?  Did you see the women mopping their eyes when he finished talking at the DNC?

Who is this guy?  Where is he taking us?

Husbands, Beat Your Wives....

Of course Islam is offended over cartoons and backyard films 'dishonoring' Muhammad and seem fairly serious about trying to pass a worldwide law that would ban offending Islam, (can they really be that stupid?)...but when it comes to a TV show explaining that you should beat your wife to see if she will change before you divorce her....no one is offended at all!

Egyptian cleric Abd Al-Rahman recently explained on Al-Nas television how a man is permitted to beat his wife.

“A good woman, even if beaten by her husband, puts her hand in his and says: ‘I will not rest until you are pleased with me.’ This is how the Prophet Muhammad taught his women to be,” Al-Rahman said in comment aired in August, according to a translation provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

 

“Islam instructs a man to beat his wife as a last resort before divorce, so that she will mend her ways, treat him with kindness and respect, and know that her husband has a higher status than her,” he said.

 

“I say to every husband: Do not rush to beat her whenever a problem arises. O servant of Allah, Allah said: ‘Admonish those of them on whose part you fear disobedience, refuse to share their beds, and beat them.’ One should not beat out of anger.”

 

Al-Rahman said that beating one’s wife is a matter of discipline. He said that the Prophet Muhammad beat one of his wives, Aisha, in order to instill discipline, not because he enjoyed it.

 

Here; http://www.timesofisrael.com/egyptian-cleric-advises-men-beat-your-wife-so-she-will-mend-her-ways/

 

Did you hear that ladies?...a good woman, even after being beaten by her husband, should take him by the hand and say, "I will not rest until I am so good to you that you won't need to beat me."

 

I wonder where the women's rights movements are?  How come they aren't protesting in the streets all over the world to get justice for their poor sisters who are caught in Islam and are being beaten by their husbands into submission?

 

Also, I hope riots don't break out all over the Muslim world because this guy said MUHAMMAD BEAT ONE OF HIS WIVES!!!

 

Of course if someone in California said the same thing....our embassies could be under siege right now in Muslim land.

 

Do you see how the Father of All Lies is spinning this thing so that even our intelligent people can't understand how illogical this all is?

 

 

 

A New Marriage Contract is Needed

Friends, according to this NYT article we all need to ponder a new way of 'doing' marriage...this one man, one woman thing til death do us part is simply not working out.  We need a shorter term contract...one that expires after 10 or 20 years and then just dissolves unless you are still getting along then you can renew it.

It’s a dim data point but not an isolated one, suggesting people are rethinking marriage, at least around the edges. Prenuptial agreements, a different sort of contract, are on the rise, as is vowless cohabitation. The ages at which people marry have hit record highs, 28.7 years for men and 26.5 for women. And gay marriage has provoked widespread conversation about the institution’s meaning and place.

Last year, several lawmakers in Mexico City proposed the creation of short-term, renewable marriage contracts with terms as brief as two years. The idea was to own up to the reality that marriages fail about half the time.

“We’re remarkably not innovative about marriage even though almost all the environmental conditions, writ large, have changed,” said Pepper Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Washington and author of books on love, sex and marriage. “We haven’t scrutinized it. We’ve been picking at it like a scab, and it’s not going to heal that way.”

Dr. Schwartz said that gay marriage had become a tipping point to rethink marriage because it simply opened questions most people have been terrified to broach: Is there any other way to do this? Will doing so change the world?
      

Maybe, she said, for the better. As to my suggestion of a 20-year contract, she countered that people could do contracts of any number of years, adding: “It’s back to the past, which used to involve dowry, bride price, economic arrangement. Nobody pretended this was not an economic arrangement.” The idea of contracts “isn’t new.”

 

Here;  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/fashion/marriage-seen-through-a-contract-lens.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

Guys would love this new way of doing marriage!!  We could marry a nice young 25 year old woman, have a few kids with her, get her out to menopause and then the contract would dissolve when the kids started leaving home!  No more explaining how you went through a divorce to your kids...it just dissolved!

 

Then those same guys could go out a find another 25 year old woman...and we can spend our 50's and 60's with a younger, good looking woman!!  Just trade in the old one for a new version!

 

God would be so pleased....we just trashed everything he gave us to be holy.

 

The fact that this is even being discussed, along with gay marriage, is further evidence of what happens when everyone has their own god...and they can do whatever seems fit to them.

 

Chaos and anarchy will, no doubt, be the result.  Societies always start breaking down this way....when the family is attacked.