In the middle 1970's, a top Soviet general defected to the United States. In a book he published a few years later, he stated that there would come a Soviet Spring - when the winds of democracy would blow across the Soviet Union. This occurred as he stated. He next stated that this Soviet Spring would be followed by a global war on terrorism. We now know the truth of this statement. Next, he said, would be a war on asteroids and meteorites to be followed by a war on aliens. All these he said would be false. Deceptions and misdirection perpetrated by those in power to obtain more power and wealth for themselves while stripping people of their rights and turning the world into their own slave labor camp.
Although this General did not foresee the fall of the Soviet Union, everything else he stated has occurred, almost to timtable. We see the war on terrorism going on and growing worse while our freedoms are stripped away by the Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security.
The Discovery Channel and other vanguard cable channels report that the threat from space is growing; that meteors and asteroids could wipe out life on Earth if they were ever to crash into the planet.
Power is consolidating into the hands of a few at the expense of the many. To determine who is behind all this we need only "follow the money" as Deep Throat once stated.
Now President Bush is saying that we are winning a war that cannot be won, that the numbers of troops in country are sufficient to achieve peace and that the threat from Iraq is declining.
How much of this is sheer fabrication we do not know. This may be more of a Weapons of Mass Destruction type excuse. A Potemkin Village to disguise the truth behind paper thin facades.
In South Dakota, a vice president catches a cold while hunting. But this can be a most dangerous game in which a virus can spread to destroy those who would seek to control all.
The United States is in fast decline.
The United States has reached the point of "imperial overstretch" in which our domestic and worldwide obligations outstrip our ability to deliver on those obligations. Our budget is in deficit and our industry is in decline.
A restructuring is upon us, but the powers that be refuse to relinquish the past. The current administration and past administrations have done much damage to the power of the United States and the liberty that once flourished here.
Our colleges and universities, once the envy of the world are now in decline as visas for foreign students become harder and harder to obtain. The brainpower of these students is essential to the intellectual power of our great schools of learning.
Primary and secondary schools are unable to prepare students for life after school. In excess of 30% of students graduating from these schools are almost totally unprepared and unsuited for life after school.
Our moral and ethical decline is evident at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo and in the way we kidnap innocent people off the street to whisk them away to foreign countries where they are tortured for months at a time.
American prisons house over 1% of the American population - mostly the underpriviliged and poverty stricken. Those who are released from prison use their new found prison skills to commit even more dastardly crimes.
Racial enmity, once on the decline, again threatens the inner city and urban and rural America. Hate crimes, violence against those who are different than we and crimes of state threaten every American and imperil the rights we have fought to sustain for over 200 years.
The Statue of Liberty should be weeping. For we are no longer a nation of the free and the brave. We are no longer a nation that opens its doors to the huddled masses of the world seeking to breathe free. We have turned our backs on immigration and in so doing, we have turned our backs on our future.
In all this darkness, and this is just a small sample, there yet is light. The American people are bold and brave and when faced with a challenge, we have always risen to the occasion - when led by enlightened leadership. But there is no such leadership in sight - yet. All we have now are partisan politics, power grabbing decisions and wealth accumulating strategies designed to strip Americans of their rights and wealth and voice.
We will win, as a nation, as a people and as idea. For America Is the land of the free and the home of the brave. That idea lives in our hearts, perhaps, as only an idea right now, but it shall return as a fact, as a lived out function of our daily reality - if noble politicians, bold leaders and enlightened individuals speak up and make their opinions known.
A new world is upon us. The economy becomes global and the world village manifests as a fact. Jobs, once the economic engine of the family and individual are passe in postindustrial states.
We need to relearn about finances, education, spirituality, politics and religion, as all of these are intertwined in ways most people are incapable of fathoming. And, those who can understand must teach those who do not. Enlightened leadership is required now more than ever. An understanding of metaphysical reality must meet with the sharp edges and hard planes of materialism and capitalism which have been the mainstay of the western democracies for a hundred plus years.
Now is the time for change, for the threat is great. President Bush is right about one thing - we are in dire and even fatal straits if we are unable to make things right.
America may be in decline. But it doesn't have to stay that way.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Is This the End? God's Coming Wrath
Is this the end? Earthquakes in California. A tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Wars and rumors of wars. Isaiah Chapter 18 says that the nation of "whirring wings" - a nation crossed with rivers, a nation undefeated in war, feared around the world, will send its soldiers to die in the mountains and deserts of the Mid East in a time shortly before the harvest. During this time, this nation will deliver a present to Zion.
What this present delivered to Israel or Jerusalem is we are not told. Above the United States at any one time, over 4000 aircraft are winging their way across the continent. Surely, these are "whirring wings". This will all occur "shortly before the harvest" - the Judgement.
Is this the end? Is God coming soon? There are many who think so. God sends prophets to warn the people of His coming. God also brings earthquakes and other "natural" disasters to help people understand that they need to turn back to Him, to repent. These earthquakes and natural disasters will grow in intensity as the day of God's judgement nears. Are you ready?
The day for this is now upon us. God is warning us strongly to return to Him, to repent, to recognize Him as the ultimate authority. The warnings are here to indicate that if we do not, we will all be lost. Everything will be destroyed.
God loves us so much that He sends us these warnings so that we have the chance to turn back to Him, before it's too late and escape the coming wrath.
People don't understand that natural disasters are not "caused" by God. He has established principles and laws which govern the operation of the universe. When these laws are disobeyed, consequences result. If we step off a 10 story building, we will fall. If we try to cross the ocean by swimming, most likely we will drown. God will usually not save us from our own stupidity, even though it is in His power to do so.
It is we who don't understand that every natural law of the universe is underpinned by a spiritual law. And it is the spiritual law which governs and controls the natural law. When these spiritual laws are broken, the natural law is similarly affected, although it may take months, years or even generations for the impetus of the breaking of the spiritual law to affect the natural law.
This is what we are seeing now. We have polluted the Earth and it is repaying us. We have wars and now earthquakes result. We kill each other for drugs, money or mere acceptance into a gang and morality around the world declines. God says in Galatians 6:7 that He "will not be mocked"; for every action there is a consequence. If we sow to our lower nature we will reap that nature. If we sow to our higher self, we will reap that self.
We have forgotten that we are spiritual beings. We have been taught - deceived really - into believing that we are mere flesh and blood. But that is not true. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. By indulging our physical pleasures we break spiritual laws. Rather than committing ourselves to long term joy and happiness - which come from the soul, we indulge in short term gratification of the body - pleasure.
As we indulge in pleasure of the body, whether physical (drugs, sex, drunkeness, etc.) or emotional (anger, hate, envy, etc.) we build barriers to our spiritual nature and add on to those events which break the spiritual laws. Eventually, these broken spiritual laws manifest as broken physical laws - earthquakes, wars, famines, plagues. And pleasure is habit forming. The more we engage in it, the more we want it.
Satan has tricked us into believing that we can only be happy by engaging in pleasure and materialism. It feels so good and the pleasure is so intense. Yet, everything and anything that does not glorify God is a sin. We can do the same things, theoretically, but doing those things for God will bring us closer to Him, while doing those things for pleasure leads us away and generates Satan's kingdom.
Our time is short. God is and has been patient. But His patience will not continue to endure. There will be calms and lulls before the storm. But eventually the storm will break. We must repent to save ourselves. And God has promised us one more thing.
We can escape the coming storm.
If enough of us repent and turn back to God, building a direct relationship with Him and Jesus through the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit, we can bypass the storm.
Churches, religions, doctrines and dogma have had their day. But the day for all such things has passed. Today a new day is upon us. Is is the day of a new direct personal relationship with God through the personage of His Only Son Jesus, guided by the indwelling Holy Spirit.
The Bible and church policy and doctrine may be where we need to start for us to begin that direct personal relationship. But is only a first step. Jesus seeks a direct, immediate and personal relationship with each of us. If enough of us initiate this kind of a relationship, the Earth will not need to go through the terrible day of wrath that is fast approaching.
Nostradamus, prophets, seers, aborigine peoples, New Age channelers, natives of all kinds have all predicted horrible and terrifying earth changes within the next few years. But God has shown me that this is only one possibility. There remains another. Turn to Him, begin that direct, personal relationship with His Son and all these changes will pass us as the avenging angel passed over the Hebrews when they anointed their doorframes with blood of a sacrifice. That angel passed over ("Passover") the Hebrews and went on to claim the first born sons of the Egyptians.
The same time is upon us now. We can die as the Egyptians died or we can accept the Gospel of Jesus in a direct, immediate and personal relationship and escape the coming storm.
What do you choose? I'll explain further in "The Purpose of Life."
What this present delivered to Israel or Jerusalem is we are not told. Above the United States at any one time, over 4000 aircraft are winging their way across the continent. Surely, these are "whirring wings". This will all occur "shortly before the harvest" - the Judgement.
Is this the end? Is God coming soon? There are many who think so. God sends prophets to warn the people of His coming. God also brings earthquakes and other "natural" disasters to help people understand that they need to turn back to Him, to repent. These earthquakes and natural disasters will grow in intensity as the day of God's judgement nears. Are you ready?
The day for this is now upon us. God is warning us strongly to return to Him, to repent, to recognize Him as the ultimate authority. The warnings are here to indicate that if we do not, we will all be lost. Everything will be destroyed.
God loves us so much that He sends us these warnings so that we have the chance to turn back to Him, before it's too late and escape the coming wrath.
People don't understand that natural disasters are not "caused" by God. He has established principles and laws which govern the operation of the universe. When these laws are disobeyed, consequences result. If we step off a 10 story building, we will fall. If we try to cross the ocean by swimming, most likely we will drown. God will usually not save us from our own stupidity, even though it is in His power to do so.
It is we who don't understand that every natural law of the universe is underpinned by a spiritual law. And it is the spiritual law which governs and controls the natural law. When these spiritual laws are broken, the natural law is similarly affected, although it may take months, years or even generations for the impetus of the breaking of the spiritual law to affect the natural law.
This is what we are seeing now. We have polluted the Earth and it is repaying us. We have wars and now earthquakes result. We kill each other for drugs, money or mere acceptance into a gang and morality around the world declines. God says in Galatians 6:7 that He "will not be mocked"; for every action there is a consequence. If we sow to our lower nature we will reap that nature. If we sow to our higher self, we will reap that self.
We have forgotten that we are spiritual beings. We have been taught - deceived really - into believing that we are mere flesh and blood. But that is not true. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. By indulging our physical pleasures we break spiritual laws. Rather than committing ourselves to long term joy and happiness - which come from the soul, we indulge in short term gratification of the body - pleasure.
As we indulge in pleasure of the body, whether physical (drugs, sex, drunkeness, etc.) or emotional (anger, hate, envy, etc.) we build barriers to our spiritual nature and add on to those events which break the spiritual laws. Eventually, these broken spiritual laws manifest as broken physical laws - earthquakes, wars, famines, plagues. And pleasure is habit forming. The more we engage in it, the more we want it.
Satan has tricked us into believing that we can only be happy by engaging in pleasure and materialism. It feels so good and the pleasure is so intense. Yet, everything and anything that does not glorify God is a sin. We can do the same things, theoretically, but doing those things for God will bring us closer to Him, while doing those things for pleasure leads us away and generates Satan's kingdom.
Our time is short. God is and has been patient. But His patience will not continue to endure. There will be calms and lulls before the storm. But eventually the storm will break. We must repent to save ourselves. And God has promised us one more thing.
We can escape the coming storm.
If enough of us repent and turn back to God, building a direct relationship with Him and Jesus through the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit, we can bypass the storm.
Churches, religions, doctrines and dogma have had their day. But the day for all such things has passed. Today a new day is upon us. Is is the day of a new direct personal relationship with God through the personage of His Only Son Jesus, guided by the indwelling Holy Spirit.
The Bible and church policy and doctrine may be where we need to start for us to begin that direct personal relationship. But is only a first step. Jesus seeks a direct, immediate and personal relationship with each of us. If enough of us initiate this kind of a relationship, the Earth will not need to go through the terrible day of wrath that is fast approaching.
Nostradamus, prophets, seers, aborigine peoples, New Age channelers, natives of all kinds have all predicted horrible and terrifying earth changes within the next few years. But God has shown me that this is only one possibility. There remains another. Turn to Him, begin that direct, personal relationship with His Son and all these changes will pass us as the avenging angel passed over the Hebrews when they anointed their doorframes with blood of a sacrifice. That angel passed over ("Passover") the Hebrews and went on to claim the first born sons of the Egyptians.
The same time is upon us now. We can die as the Egyptians died or we can accept the Gospel of Jesus in a direct, immediate and personal relationship and escape the coming storm.
What do you choose? I'll explain further in "The Purpose of Life."
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