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THE GREAT PLAN OF ALMIGHTY GOD

CHAPTER 11

By Neville V. Stevens

New International version used throughout unless otherwise specified.

We have come to a most decisive point in the history of mankind where great changes will occur. Long ago, the Christ was asked by His disciples "What will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?" (Matt 23:3). His answer to this question was directed to the lost Ten Tribes of Israel – just as Jesus had previously said in Matt 15:24 "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel." Note that it says to ‘the lost sheep of Israel and not the ‘lost sheep of the Church. God has made it very clear that He intends to return all the Tribes of Israel to the Holy Land He gave them, and Jerusalem will be their Capital. Furthermore, Jerusalem will be the Capital of the world.

In answering this question, Jesus made it clear that tumultuous times would precede His coming. He said that nations would rise against nations, and kingdom against kingdom, and there would be famines and earthquakes in various places, and added that these were the beginnings of sorrows (Matt 24:7). And in V9 "Then you will be handed over to be persecuted (read tortured) and put to death, and you will be hated of all nations because of me." God knows His enemies and knows what they are capable of! V10 "At that time, many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will arise and deceive many people." Traditionally, God’s prophets are not believed, but false prophets are. False prophets proclaim favourable outcomes, and deceive the people, and in times of great calamity, people are prepared to believe anything – provided it’s not bad news. What the Christ was enumerating was decidedly bad news for those concerned. Being tortured and put to death is not good news!

When people learn that the false prophets predictions don’t come true, they will turn away from the faith. In other words, they will no longer believe anything relating to God. Long ago, God warned of this, and Jesus confirmed it: Isa 8:20 "To the Law and the Testimony! If they don’t speak according to this Word, they have no Light of Dawn. Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their King and their God. Then they will look towards the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness."

In the following verses, we learn a little more about the Light of Dawn when God describes those living in the land of the shadow of Death. These will increase the borders, spreading from Galilee to the whole of the Holy Land. At the beginnings of a great Harvest, they will divide the plunder. Isa 9:1 "Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulon and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honour Galilee of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan – The people walking in darkness have seen a Great Light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a Light has Dawned. You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they will rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as men rejoice when dividing the plunder." Jesus also brought these verses into focus in Matt 4:15-17 with a warning that when this happens the Kingdom of God is near. It’s important for everyone to realize that God is preparing a country for all who believe. The borders will be enlarged to accommodate those at the harvest, and this will be accomplished by driving out Death’s progeny. At that time, it will be God who decides who gets to live in the Holy Land! Satan and his brood need not apply!

So we can see that when people turn away from the faith, and begin to blame God, all hope will vanish for them. But in the Land that resides in the shadow of Death a new and great Light will dawn, and God will set in motion the process of redeeming the ‘lost Tribes of Israel’, and He will provide the ‘Place of Rest’. This is what the Bible calls ‘salvation’, which contrasts markedly with the perceptions of Christianity today! And Jesus confirmed it in Matt 24:10 "Because of the increase in wickedness, the love of many will wax cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved." Remember that Jesus said these things in response to ‘the end of the age’. Salvation will only come to those who enter God’s Rest, and actually getting there will not be easy. What is more, it will only be achieved by a difficult and circuitous route. But those who believe God will see that the firstfruits of the harvest are already active, and preparing the place of Rest by driving out the inhabitants, and setting up an infrastructure. As for the nations surrounding the Holy Land, they will be plundered, and the victors will divide the plunder. In the final great battle, when all the nations of the earth are gathered for the great showdown, the victors will again divide the plunder (Zech 14:1-2), and surprise, surprise, Judah (the Jews who have been hated of all nations for centuries) will be there for the gathering of the spoils of war (V14). God specifically mentions great hordes of gold and silver will be collected from the surrounding nations in the same verse. These surrounding nations, as we all know, are the oil-rich Moslem nations who love to horde gold and silver collectibles. But then, in the final carveup, the reality is that all nations surround the Holy Land, and this will be so when God restores the landmass of the earth to its former glory, where Jerusalem was once at its very center.

When Jesus was enumerating the details of the events leading up to the end of the age, He realized that the time would come when He, Himself, would fight. The recorded Scriptures were awaiting this event that would duly be fulfilled, and Zech 14:3 speaks of it. And on this occasion, the Holy Ones will be with Him (V5).

All this will occur following the destruction of the city of Babylon (Rev 14:8). This city will be rolled off the cliffs of a great earthquake and then buried – never to be found again! Having lost his city, Satan will set his eyes on Jerusalem and rally his troops for conquest. This time, His famous Brother, the Christ, will invite him to come. All the nations of the earth who were drunk on the wine of Babylon (Rev 18:3) – the endless litany of lies that has emerged from it – will become food and drink for all the vultures and scavengers of the earth, and the wine will be turned to blood. God will specifically prepare a great valley beginning with the Mount of Olives which will be split in two (Zech 14:4), and this corridor will extent for 180 miles and beyond. An enticing highway for all of Satan’s brood to storm Jerusalem. God intends to squeeze the ‘wine’ out of them and create a river of blood that will flow to the depth of a horse’s bridle (Rev 14:20). The valley walls will become the winepress to squeeze the blood out of them, and through this means, God will repay them for the blood of the saints (Rev 17:6). Since this great harlot (V5) was drunk on the blood of the saints – the blood of those who bore [the] Testimony of Jesus, their blood will be wine to all the carrion-eaters of the earth. No-one can have the Testimony of Jesus unless they have drunk of His very Blood and partaken of His Body at the appointed time of Passover. So perhaps you begin to see the importance of taking the Passover in a worthy manner.

God is a God of vengeance and a God of justice. When He repays, He leaves no doubt as to the meaning of His actions. God makes it clear that in the city of Babylon will be all those who are guilty of all the blood of the prophets and saints and all who have been killed on earth. Yes, at that time, all these evil spirit beings will be present. And the magician himself will be there as their overlord and weaving his magic spell: Rev 18:22 "The light of the lamp will never shine in you again. The voice of the Bridegroom and the Bride will never be heard in you again. Your merchants were the world’s great men. By your magic spell all the nations were led astray. In her was found the blood of the prophets and of the saints, and of all who have been killed on the earth." Everything God plans to do has meaning and purpose. He has a purposeful Plan to bring absolute justice to this earth. Only His true servants understand the real meaning of justice and the means to exact it according to God’s purpose.

A woman is either pregnant or she’s not – she can’t be partly pregnant. Oddly enough, Ephraim seems to believe in being partly pregnant to use God’s own analogy. Hos 13:12 "The guilt of Ephraim is stored up, his sins are kept on record. Pains of a woman in childbirth come to him, but he is a child without wisdom; when the time arrives, he does not come to the opening of the womb. I will ransom them from the power of the Grave, I will redeem them from Death." In plain language, there is no new birth for Ephraim because he is a child without wisdom. In order to bring them back to their inheritance in the Holy Land, they will have to be ransomed and redeemed from Death the monster (Rev 6:8), and from death itself.

Now Ephraim, the U.S. today, do think they have wisdom, and they use their own self-appointed wisdom to create an illusion of righteous acts. They’re prepared to forsake justice for their own citizens to show the world how wise they are. When four of their citizens are car-bombed, then dragged through the streets, mutilated, and then hung from a bridge, ‘wise’ ol’ Ephraim gives the killers a city – in this case the city of Fallujah in Iraq. With a wink and a nod, they conclude they have won peace there and endeared themselves in the hearts and minds of the Iraqis. And the chorus is supposed to sing ‘Auld Lang Sine’. It may have earned the praise of the deluded, but it didn’t earn the praise of God!

To further show their lack of wisdom, they indulged in a protracted bout of self-flagellation over the Abu Ghraib prison affair. What on earth were these dunces thinking? No-one in any of the photos showed any kind of injury through torture. There were no lacerations, cuts or broken bones. These types of injuries are at the low end of Moslem torture, and they had none of these. Have you

Al Jazeera host Fayssal Al-Qasem: "The acts themselves are not the issue. These pictures look like kid's play - five star treatment compared to what happens in Arab prisons. The Arab world should be up in arms over what goes on in their own prisons! The narrow minded Arab conscience should be up in arms condemning their Arab dictators and the treatment of their own citizens!"

Arab Guest: "The Arab world has mastered the art of torture and oppression."

Translation by CNN

read the book, ‘Bravo Two Zero’ by Andy McNab? This Scotsman will tell you a bit about torture in Iraq from his own personal experience. There are plenty of true accounts of torture in Moslem countries, and as one Iraqi said, ‘The Arabs have mastered the art of torture and oppression’. This was in an interview on Al Jazeera, the Moslem television channel beamed to all the Middle East. Notice what the Al Jazeera host had to say in relation to torture in Arab prisons in the picture caption.

Homosexual Moslem behaviour. Can anyone possibly imagine why U.S. soldiers would be forcing these Moslem faggots to carry on like this in full view of dozens of people in this hallway? The faggots are obviously enjoying themselves. No-one is forcing them to do anything. The spontaneity of their actions is clear from the fact that no-one else is aware of what is happening. The fact that it was taken from a level above indicates that the photographer had prior warning the Moslems were going to stage this.

So all the self-flagellation by Americans in this regard didn’t score any points with anyone, except to show Arabs that Americans are complete fools and totally lacking in wisdom. Many Moslems saw the same pictures and recognized some of their own bawdy games they like to play. Rather than torture, they like to refer to it as sexual romping, and it’s one of the few pastimes that Moslems are expert in.

What depraved beasts they are! Put two Moslems in a room and they immediately start fighting over who gets to play ‘Mabel’. Their version of the game ‘pin the tail on the donkey’ is a whole lot different to the innocent game of children. I kid you not that they are the most depraved people on the face of the earth. Satan has chosen his brood well, and they exhibit all the depravity of their father the devil.

Here we see a bunch of Moslem faggots playing out their typical Turkish bathroom routines in full view of senior military officers and everyone else in the hallway. The two senior officers look on perplexed, and one of them tries to break them up. This is a perfect example of how this was all staged.

People don’t pose like this Moslem fairy when they’re being electrocuted. His fingers are actually bent over to hold the wires. This would be a very cooperative torturee! It’s obviously staged and fake.

But the U.S. Central Command (Centcom) must share some blame. Though it’s difficult to regulate the rampant behaviour of these animals, one can’t help wondering why they were there. They should have been dead an hour after they were captured. With all the touting of the rules of the Geneva Convention, surely everyone in Centcom knows what the prescribed fate is for enemy combatants out of uniform – it’s death by firing squad! They should have convened a military tribunal, given them a brief trial and then either hung them or shot them. Had this been done, then the self-righteous SOB’s who have unjustly criticized young U.S. and British soldiers would have nothing to whine about! It’s disappointing to see President Bush prejudging young soldiers on the basis of the photographs shown to date. The photograph showing the black-robed man with electrical cable hanging off him is so obviously staged, that no-one could fail to see it. Yet all the media are suggesting that this was a means of torture that was being used by these young soldiers.

Just putting young kids in charge of a prison is crazy anyway. These youngsters are trained fighting machines – they are not trained nursemaids! The fact is that they are in the theatre of war, and they have been trained to kill or be killed. What mindless clown put them in this position anyway? Almighty God has something to say about sparing those who should not live! The rules for the church choir are a little different to the rules in the war zone – a fact that seems to have escaped the mindless chants of the critics.

God makes it very clear how wars must be conducted when the House of Israel goes to war against His enemies. The very first human king of Israel lost his kingship because he violated God’s instructions in this matter (1Sam 15). He fielded an army of 330,000 men to destroy the Amalekites, utterly killing them all except the king. He took him alive and treated him with honour. In addition to this, instead of destroying everything that belonged to the Amalekites, according to God’s instructions, they destroyed only that which was worthless, and spared everything that had value and kept it. When the Prophet Samuel heard of this he went looking for Saul, only to find that he had departed to Mount Carmel to set up a monument in his own honour (V12). Even when Samuel told Saul that God has wrenched the kingdom from him (V27) he was more concerned about being honoured in front of his subjects (V30). But sparing Agag, king of the Amalekites, that monstrous ruler of the heavenly realms, was an act so monstrous that Samuel demanded that he be brought in, and he hacked him to death on the spot (V32-33).

There are some interesting parallels to this story with the war in Iraq. Ephraim spares their sacred places – the mosques – out of deference to their beliefs and their god. The very things that should be destroyed were spared. They took Saddam Hussein alive and treated him with honour. This vile creature not only killed his own people, but paid rich rewards for anyone who killed God’s people, the Israelis. They’ve made it clear that they will hold him for his own protection, until such time as he can get a fair trial. Samuel, God’s priest and prophet didn’t give Agag a fair trial, why should Saddam Hussein get one? God’s form of justice is a little different to that of human beings; especially when there is no doubt as to the guilt of Saddam Hussein. But there is more to it than this. America wants to spare Saddam’s life, and they want to hold him until they can convince the Iraqis to abolish the death penalty. Then the whole world will say ‘What righteous and just people the Americans are!’ They hope! It’s not going to happen!

Salem Chalabi – President of the Iraqi War Crimes Tribunal. He has not wanted his face shown on camera since becoming head of the War Crimes Tribunal shortly after the raid on his brother Ahmed’s house.

Credit: CNN – Date June 24, 2004

The man who located Saddam Hussein and called in the Americans to arrest him, has not been given the credit for this. His name is Achmed Chalabi, the Kurdish leader. He wanted the right to put Saddam on trial, but instead, the Americans turned on him to destroy him. They raided his house and accused him of spying for Iran. They’d hoped that such an accusation would get him killed, but they have misread the meaning of being a Shiite, which makes 60% of Iraqis natural allies with the only Shiite nation on earth – Iran, the ancient Persians. Yet America has still succeeded in making Achmed Chalabi a pariah in the eyes of the world, and cut him off from power. But America’s hegemony falls far short of other powers operating in this world. Already, another player has arisen, and this is Salem Chalabi, the son of Achmed Chalabi. He has been designed as the head of the Iraqi War Crimes Tribunal by the legitimate government empanelled by America (with the rather funny suggestion that the UN chose the government). And guess what. Salem Chalabi has announced in an interview on CNN, that he plans to issue arrest warrants for Saddam Hussein within days of the handover on June 30, 2004. What we are seeing is a reversal of America’s desire to get what they want. Slowly but surely, everything is starting to go horribly wrong, and America doesn’t know the half of it. They should have handed Saddam over immediately to be killed by those who plenty of reasons to do it.

It’s not only the Chalabis that want Saddam dead, one of the greatest of the rulers of the heavenly realms wants him dead also. This is Cyrus, and God is backing him. America has now picked a fight with Cyrus. And all the Kurds and the Persians will rally to Cyrus.

Saddam will be killed – make no mistake about this! And this is regardless of anything America might do to stop it. Cyrus has no intention of letting him live because he represents the opposition, and remains a threat to the Empire he is soon to rule.

Salem Chalabi – as he appeared on Television in May, 2004, just before his appointment as Director General of the Iraqi War Crimes Tribunal.

If America had immediately handed Saddam over to the Kurds and Shiites, they probably would have risen to a man in support of America. Now they have people like Moktada al Sadr and his Shiite militia rising against them. America went into Iraq to fight the minority Sunni regime of Saddam Hussein, which controlled the country. Now they are fighting both Sunnis and Shias. Iran has started testing the water by seizing some patrol boats and taking 8 British soldiers as prisoners. They’ve now let them go, but have confiscated the boats. It’s the Persians way of warning that they are listening to what is going on and taking note. Be careful America! You are no match for Cyrus who is being backed by God to punish you for your outrageous behaviour. In a little while you will understand this clearly. The Book of Hosea indicts Ephraim, and foretells their end. Notice Hos 14:9. It’s no good thinking you are wise if you don’t understand the ways of the LORD God Almighty.

Cyrus is no friend of God since he was with Satan and his rebels who tried to seize God’s Throne anciently. But he does have some special qualities that suit God’s purpose for the job God has for him. And God will empower him to perform these tasks. One of these tasks is to break the back of America’s power and to leave them vulnerable to invasion. If the task seems too great for Cyrus, God will facilitate it along the way. Presently, America is in the very act of trying to contain the Persians and prevent them becoming a formidable power. Cyrus is determined to create a diversion that will impede America from looking over his back fence, and give them something else to focus on.

By way of example, King Saul, the first human king of Israel, thought he could do as he pleased and finished up losing his kingdom. His biggest mistake was honouring a ruthless killer of the Israelites – Agag, king of the Amalekites. Saul seemed to like the idea of giving a royal pardon to God’s enemies. Samuel put an end to that ambition with the blade of a sword. Samuel’s action was righteous; Saul’s was not! America must be crazy to believe they can win the hearts and minds of Islam the brood of Satan. In which Islamic nation have they succeeded in doing this? All Islam hates America, and this will never change!

Soldiers are put in the theatre of war to kill enemy combatants. Centcom seems to believe that enemy combatants should be give a hot cup of cocoa and then tucked into bed while the rest of the Moslem forces are out there killing Americans. At the very least, those who are imprisoned must know they are there to be punished – not pampered. Personally, I don’t condone torture in any form, but the photos from Abu Ghraib prison that I saw were not torture. Humiliation yes, but torture, no! But then I’m not given to the unbridled, smug, sanctimonious inuendo of those who love to deceive while posing as angels of light.

No-one seems to have considered how all these posed shots managed to find their way to the news media before anyone else could see them. And of particular interest is that they emerged just as President Bush’s new media bus was finished and ready to roll in electioneering. It’s one the most carefully planned political ambushes imaginable. And just who is this whistle-blower that claimed to be so outraged? His name is corporal Darby, but he seems to be conspicuously absent from the media scene. He’s being hailed as a hero. Some hero! Was he the one who handed the photos to the media before anyone else saw them? What patriotism to go and single-handedly destroy the reputation of his country with staged fake photos. I wonder if he is one of the several thousands that have converted to Islam during this war?

Everyone from the President down should start facing the reality of what they are dealing with and start defending their troops. It was obvious to everyone that saw these photos that there were no marks or injuries on these terrorists that indicated any form of torture. All that the photos showed was rampant homosexual behaviour – very common among Moslem men. Sex is sex to Moslems, regardless of whether it involves men, women, children or animals. Don’t believe me? Open your eyes, read a little. Consider some authors, like Jean Sasson, who wrote the Saudi ‘Princess’ trilogy. Read Tariq Ali’s book – ‘The Clash of Fundamentalisms, Crusades, Jihads and Modernity’. There are dozens of books giving true accounts, and many are written by Moslems. Tariq Ali frankly admits that homosexuality is forbidden by the Koran, but says the practice is widespread and universally ignored as far as stamping it out is concerned. It’s openly tolerated and widely practiced. Even if you have now realized that Moslems are ruthless killers, you still need to understand the extent of their depraved behaviour and realize that it has no bounds. I won’t even mention what these Moslem degenerates do to little children, but you will get some sampling of this in Jean Sasson’s books. It would make the angels weep!

Leaflets dropped over Najaf and Karbala warn that anyone bearing arms out of uniform will be considered terrorists.

Do you know the content of the leaflets that Centcom dropped over Najaf and Karbala. These leaflets let the Moslems know that anyone armed with weapons and out of uniform would be considered terrorists. So what does this mean? Does it mean that if they are captured they will be taken back to Abu Ghraib prison and given a hot sponge bath and a manicure, and as much bawdy homosexual activity as they want? Wasn’t the underlying meaning of the warning implying death? Isn’t this what the War on Terrorism is all about? Isn’t the purpose of it to kill terrorists and wipe them from the face of the earth? The Iraqi army no longer exists – it was disbanded! Every Iraqi, with the exception of the civil police, who are now carrying weapons are terrorists by Centcom’s own definition! None of these armed terrorists are wearing uniforms as the endless media footage shows. So, by definition, they are all terrorists!

Perhaps it’s time to change the rules of engagement to give the coalition troops some chance of survival. Presently, they can only fire on the enemy after they have taken fire themselves. This seems to be contradictory to the strange aberrations of Centcom. On the one hand, anyone bearing arms out of uniform is a terrorist, but they can’t be shot except in self-defence. Who is running this crazy war? I’m beginning to think that all the Centcom commanders are hopped out on mellow yellow. They are certainly looking a little yellow! It’s time they dropped their psychological façade and developed some guts and determination to win this war. Of course, they are not going to win the war, but at least they could go out in a blaze of glory.

What a laugh it is that Centcom refused to storm Najaf and capture Muqtada al Sadr! Their excuse was that they wouldn’t risk destroying a holy place – meaning a mosque – because of the illusion that these were sacred to Moslems. Are these whacko generals deaf, dumb and blind? In the very wake of this staged propaganda in Abu Ghraib prison, and the continuing guerilla war in Iraq, Moslems destroyed a Mosque themselves in Pakistan killing 17 and wounding hundreds (May 7, 2004). Naturally enough, it was Sunni Moslems killing Shiite Moslems. But factions aside, these Moslems don’t hesitate to kill their own people and destroy so-called ‘holy places’ whenever it suits them. So America’s hesitation on attacking a city because of a mosque is merely an illustration of how twined the U.S. Administration is becoming in the propaganda war. Moslems win the propaganda war every time because of the sheer stupidity of America’s policy makers and their ‘politically correct’ approach to everything.

Let’s again revisit the Mogadishu Somalia fiasco as a reference point for the lesson of war. The book and movie ‘Blackhawk Down’ was based on this engagement. The object was to send in about 90 elite troops to capture the Moslem rebel leader Mohamed Adide, whom the UN was continually supplying with food and provisions, and leaving the general masses to starve. The purpose of the military intervention was to enable food to get through to the one million inhabitants of the city of Mogadishu. It all seemed so virtuous and humane at the time. But they failed to factor in the ideals of the Islamic world. Regardless of the virtuous motives of America, they were still ‘infidels’ and the enemy of Islam and had to be killed. Dutiful to the ideals of Islam, the whole population of one million turned on them to the joyful restrain of Moslems all over the world. America was forced to turn tail and run. What is that definition of terrorist again? It seems to blink on and off to suit the circumstances!

Even today, we still celebrate the glorious victory of WW2. How was this war won? Was it only through targeting enemy combatants? In reality, Berlin was bombed so completely that no building remained intact, and what the bombs failed to destroy, the fires did. Tens of thousands of men, women and children were killed, and the whole nation learned a very harsh lesson. Tokyo, Japan was targeted with incendiary bombs and burned to the ground, and in one night, 100,000 men, women and children were burned alive. War is a terrible thing, but those who start them are well aware of this, and they also know the consequences. The Japanese believed their god (which just happened to be the Emperor) would grant them victory. So even after Tokyo was burned and left in ruins, they continued to fight on. For the Japanese, this was to be a disastrous decision, because they were about to experience the most devastating weapons ever devised by mankind, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki learned this lesson first hand. The decision was taken to drop these atomic bombs based on the realization that to take Japan with troop invasions would cost up to 250,000 American lives. The question in the minds of the American generals was whether these American soldiers should be sacrificed to placate the feelings of an enemy that had vowed to kill every American? The Japanese had started the war, and it was time to administer the coup de grace, and so the decision was taken. The lesson is that it’s better to bomb the enemy to oblivion than to risk the lives of soldiers. It was a wise decision – and it ended the war! Collateral damage and the targeting of only enemy combatants was not a consideration in this decision, and history has judged the decision to be the right one.

Time Magazine wasn’t so easily duped by the Abu Ghraib prison activities, as this editorial shows. They pull no punches as to their conclusions concerning Islamic torture and abuse of POW’s (their emphasis in red). They probably felt that everyone needed a timely reminder when they published this at the height of the Abu Ghraib prison carnival festivities.

Even today, we still have some cry-babies who regret the use of the nuclear weapons in Japan. They seem to believe that America should have gone in and fought fair regardless of casualties. They seemed to have forgotten the cruelty, torture, rape and indiscriminate murder of civilians and POW’s by the Japanese. Armchair quarterbacking is so popular among sanctimonious wimps who can’t face reality. To this very day, the Chinese have not forgiven the Japanese for the atrocities they committed. And while the Japanese may seem contrite for their many crimes against humanity, their history books don’t reflect it.

As regards Islam, perhaps some still remember the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein’s troops when they invaded Kuwait. Memories tend to be short when people are constantly bombarded with such radical statements as ‘Islam is a peaceful religion’ and ‘the Iraqi people are innocent’. Well, in the May 10, 2004 Time Magazine, some of it was brought to remembrance (see enclosed caption – the red letter emphasis is by Time Magazine).

Why is that so many people have trouble understanding this principle? ‘In that part of the world’ – isn’t this just double-speak for meaning Moslems? You have to beat the tar out of them to get their attention!

As a servant of Almighty God, let me tell you what would bring peace. Firstly, let’s take the example of Falujah where four Americans were attacked, dragged through the streets, and then hung from a bridge. What was Centcom’s reaction to this outrage? Well, they mustered 1200 soldiers and sent them into a city of 300,000 to find the killers. They walked into a firestorm, and Centcom announced that there were 2,000 foreign fighters in there doing the fighting and causing the conflict. Later we were to learn that there were no foreign fighters in there at all, and this information came from one of Saddam Hussein’s former generals whom Centcom employed to make peace. Centcom quickly revised their foreign fighter estimates down to 50. They couldn’t bring themselves to be honest and say it was only Iraqis who had joined the uprising, and of course, it was not Al Qaeda that killed the four Americans (listen for the catch-phrase ‘linked to Al Qaeda’ to create that airy-fairy illusion that all of Islam is virtuous except Al Qaeda). Contrary to the myopic views of Centcom, and the clever propaganda machine by which they deceive everyone (except Islam), with its feigned psychological mesmerism, the enemy are Iraqis, both Sunni and Shiite, and by their own admission they are both the enemy of the West. And even more definitively, this is universal throughout the Moslem world. There are many Islamic terrorist groups that existed before Al Qaeda. Does anyone remember Hezbollah and Hamas? Still remember the Lockerby bombing? Who was responsible for that? Mogadishu – was that Al Qaeda? Were the whole one million people in Mogadishu Al Qaeda? Is seems that some decision makers have their brains draining out of their noses.

As for solutions, it was well described by General Anthony Zinni. He said that Moslems only admire strength and despise weakness. So what should Centcom have done in Falujah? First let’s consider what they did do. They backed away, and turned the city over to their enemies. As for capturing or killing those who murdered the four Americans – forget it! Justice seems to have disappeared from their vocabulary, and the aggrieved feelings of Moslems have become the focus. Centcom huffed and puffed that the killers would pay for this outrage, and then they sent them a pardon. Have they ever heard of justice? Real justice? I think not! This act of treachery against the American people has done more to endanger the lives of U.S. soldiers that any other single act. Moslems all over the world have now seen how weak Central Command is when it comes to retaliatory justice, and they have visions of the Mogadishu, Somalia fiasco. The message is that when it comes to a real fight, America turns tail and runs. The perception in Moslem circles is that all you have to do is ‘go and kill four Americans, drag them through the streets and then string them up on a bridge, and America will give you a city’ – and they can only conclude that Americans are stupid people! In effect, Centcom has given all guerilla combatants a ‘safe’ city. Falujah is a city where they can flee and regroup to renew the attacks. In other words, they now have their own fortress city.

With all the might and power Almighty God has given to the U.S. they still send in young soldiers to face an invisible enemy holed up in mosques, schools and hospitals. Personally, I’m wondering why Fallujah is not now a pile of rubble and a ghost town. The inhabitants of this city have had ample time to deliver up the killers of the four Americans, but refused to do it. So this adds another dimension to what these people are. Instead they mounted a guerilla war to protect the killers. Faced with this reality, Centcom decided to mount a psychological action to show how tough they are by destroying an isolated railway station using AC-130 Spectre gunships. They managed to kill three or four guerillas and a bunch of goats and chickens, and then sent the gunships back to base. As for the rest of the mythical ‘2,000 foreign fighters’ they claimed were in the city, these had to be rooted out by house-to-house fighting by young soldiers. The whole world laughed at the pathetic action of destroying an isolated train station with an AC-130 while they baulked at attacking a mosque that housed hundreds of Iraqi guerilla snipers. Centcom either needs to face reality or go home!

Let me put everyone in the picture over the real meaning of justice. It doesn’t mean going ballistic over a bit of perceived humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison, especially in the theatre of war. What it does mean is going after murderous Moslem criminals who indiscriminately kill Americans who have come to liberate them from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. Instead, they have abrogated their responsibilities to the families of the four Americans killed in Falujah in order to placate the feelings of Moslems. The killers, it seems, can now go free provided they behave themselves from now on, even though no such assurances were sought or given. In other words, justice is not high on their priorities list, and delivering peace to Iraqis remains by far the most important consideration. Exposing young soldiers to entrenched Iraqi terrorist guerillas is considered more desirable than the risk of hurting the Iraqis feelings.

The whole world knows what the Moslems do to captives. At this very moment, Bloomberg News has just announced that a Moslem website is showing the execution of an American captive by beheading (May 10, 2004). Moslems aren’t ashamed of their vile behaviour, they rejoice in it. Not all nations are timid in the face of these Moslem beasts. An admirable example is that of the Italian soldier who was captured and paraded for the cameras for the purpose of propaganda. He tore off the blindfold and attacked them, shouting "I’ll show you how an Italian dies". They immediately killed him on camera. This Italian soldier was not prepared to be a propaganda patsy.

I find it outrageous that Centcom expresses deep regret when an Iraqi civilian gets caught in crossfire and killed, but when an American soldier is taken home in a body bag, they shield it from the media to create the illusion that it hasn’t happened. Have you watched some of the Centcom press briefings? Have you listened to some of the outrageous accusations that have been presented by foreign news reporters, and particularly Moslem ones? Never do Centcom spokesmen counter these accusations with real examples, but only with staged, weak, and insipid responses. Where’s General ‘Stormin’ Norman Schwartzkopt when we need him? Doesn’t anyone have any backbone anymore?

Since it’s unlikely that American generals are ever again going to show any real strength and character in the theatre of war, it remains to make the case for true strength. Here’s what should have happened: firstly, Falujah should have been given 24 hours (or less) to deliver up the killers and anyone else that was seen dancing in the streets at this atrocity. At the end of 24 hours, the city should be leveled and every man, woman, child and animal killed. After this, every Iraqi should be put on notice that if anyone fires on a member of the Coalition, or sets off a bomb, or takes a hostage, the nearest city will suffer the same fate. In the case of hostage-taking, the nearest city should be attacked and destroyed, and a warning given that city by city this will occur until the hostage is returned unharmed. If the hostage is never returned unharmed then the whole nation pays the price.

There is an interesting story concerning four Russian diplomats who were abducted and then held hostage by Chechnya rebels back in 1996. Demands were made for the release of captured rebel soldiers held in Russian prisons or the diplomats would be killed in 72 hours. The Russians immediately went and seized all the families of the rebel leaders and killed some of them, cut them into pieces, and packed them into boxes. These boxes were then dumped close to the rebel stronghold for them to find. Accompanying these boxes was a note informing them that if the diplomats were not released unharmed within 72 hours, a much larger shipment would be delivered. The four diplomats were immediately released! For all their faults, the Russian people can be very practical when favourable results become essential.

We need to take a lesson from the Israelis. When a suicide bomber kills an Israeli, his or her house is destroyed, and the family left homeless. It’s a just act and a step in the right direction, even though only tokenism because they warn the family first. God’s judgment is that neither root nor branch of these killers should remain alive. Just to put things in perspective from God’s point of view, one Christian or Jew is worth a million Moslems, and if this seems unreasonable, just wait until you see the ashes of millions of Moslems being trampled in the dust (Mal 4:1-3). At that time, you will rejoice to know that salvation is near.

Just remember that everyone in the whole world generally knows that Moslems respect strength and despise weakness and if any don’t, it’s time to teach them!

Executions by Hussein Kamil, Saddam’s son-in-law. 35 Iraqis were executed every day by Saddam and his sons according to some official Iraqi sources.

Some were luckier than others. This man had both hands chopped off.

His feet were spared. He’s happy it wasn’t his head!

Source: Iraqi film archives of Saddam’s era.

In connection with these photos from Abu Ghraib prison, they say there is worse to come when more are released. There’s worse to come alright, but it has nothing to do with the photos. Centcom has played right into the hands of those who hate Americans and Israelis, and have given them a psychological weapon that will return to haunt them. How the Iraqis must be laughing that some self-righteous fools are implying that these photos represent torture and atrocity. There may be elements of humiliation, but all of Islam would laugh at you if you suggested this was torture. Feet first through a plastics shredder is more on a par with their ideas on torture. Even whippings are at the low end of Islamic torture methods. To even suggest that the details in the photos represent torture only goes to show just how low policy-makers are prepared to go to win propaganda points in their determination to win the hearts and minds of Islam. To destroy the lives of six or seven young soldiers with a public show-trial is totally unacceptable – and especially in time of war. If these choir-boy Justice Department policy-makers are so upset, then they should have fined the soldiers a day’s pay, and send them back to the frontlines. This is the usual procedure in the theatre of war.

Let’s consider what God has in mind in establishing a Kingdom that will last forever. He plans to establish this Kingdom with an elite force whom He has chosen as sons. These sons are decent, compassionate and totally committed to the establishment of this Kingdom. Their minds are attuned to God’s way of doing things, and God’s Way is totally consistent with all the examples given in the Scriptures that Christ used. They don’t need or desire any input from God’s enemies in establishing policies, and neither do they need advice from sanctimonious do-gooders who can’t differentiate between good and evil.

Well, the story has just broken. Other media have followed Bloombergs lead and gone to the website, which shows the footage of a young American and business man Nick Berg having his head sawn off on camera. Like Daniel Pearl, who suffered the same fate, both men were Jewish. Moslems announced that this was done out of retaliation for the ‘atrocities’ done by Americans in Abu Ghraib prison. Thanks to all those self-righteous SOBs who made such a big deal out of the Abu Ghraib prison photos, AN AMERICAN HAS JUST BEEN KILLED IN RETALIATION. Twenty-four hours after this very real atrocity, there has not been one Moslem leader in any country condemning this depraved slaying. Yet all the Islamic media were quick to condemn America and accuse it of wartime atrocities and torture in Abu Ghraib prison. They were quick to capitalize on this as a propaganda tool and to inflame all of Islam. But their lack of condemnation of this horrific and brutal murder was designed to indicate that this was just retaliation for the events in Abu Ghraib prison.

America shouldn’t be in Iraq to give them peace but to give them hell! Any dreamer that had differing opinions in the past, now have the full-in-the-face evidence of this. These wild animals can never be tamed or enticed to respectability. They are the offspring of Satan, and none should forget it. Those who love this world of evil are the enemies of God, and God has no interest in this type of human being.

America is the most virtuous nation on earth by human standards, but they lack the standards of God, and have utterly failed to exercise any form of wisdom, or to enquire of Him before going into battle. This may have been obscure in the beginning, but it should now be obvious to all. Because of their ongoing love affair with Moslems, America has killed those who should not die, and spared those who should not live. Because they have done this as the armies of the Living God, a decision is being made to fire them as God’s army, and to replace them with a force that will uphold God’s values.

It would be unreasonable to blame the individuals in Centcom for everything that has gone wrong in the war. They must make decisions according to predetermined parameters. The blame should be collectively upon those who have whittled away at America’s resolve with their phony, psychological reasoning in virtually in every field of human endeavour. The departure from moral standards based on the Law of God is exemplified in the burgeoning convictions of men on the testimony of an isolated witness – usually a woman – who stands to make a lot of money if a successful prosecution for rape is achieved. God made it clear that justice requires two or more witnesses in order to even attempt a conviction. Fortunately, as an educational service, God has in mind to show exactly what rape is, and the examples will be so widespread that everyone will understand. In that day, no-one will venture to lay charges – they’ll be too busy trying to save their lives and their butts if you know what I mean!

What ever happened to the old idiom that it is better that five guilty go free than to have one innocent convicted? It seems that America is so determined to present an image of law-abiding to the world that they are prepared to convict the innocent at any cost. In the interests of justice, God has made the point that ‘whatever measure you use, the same measure will be used against you’ (Matt 7:2). Regardless of how popular a conviction may appear to the masses when the right spin is used to justify it, those who evoke God’s Name in a courtroom judgment must be aware of the consequences of convicting without proper evidence. Lying innuendo is not evidence! Those in America will be familiar with the Scott Peterson case concerning the death of his wife Laci. There is not a scrap of evidence against him! Just lying innuendo by prosecutors who want to make a name for themselves. Even if he is guilty, then there needs to be provable credible evidence or the charges dropped.

Lo and behold! There’s just been an addendum to the Martha Stewart saga. For those who don’t know the details, Martha Stewart is a household name in America as a Television identity. She was recently charged with insider trading on Imclone securities. The insider trading charge failed, but she was convicted of lying to investigators and is awaiting sentence. One of the prosecution witnesses who gave incriminating evidence against her has just been charged with perjury. The prosecution’s witness lied on oath in order to get a conviction. It was left to the defense counsel to prove that this was perjured evidence, while higher up the chain, the prosecutors feigned innocence. The prosecution has made the weak case that the lying perjury by their witness didn’t affect the outcome because Martha was not convicted of insider trading but of lying to investigators. Therefore, they say, the conviction should stand. It seems that justice is nowhere to be found these days! When prosecutors want to make a name for themselves by convicting a celebrity, they resort to lies, lies and damned lies. Mercy, decency and justice are not a part of their vocabulary, and this is becoming increasingly evident. The prosecution investigators used lies to convict Martha Stewart of lying to them. What irony!

In the wake of all that has happened recently, I received an email from someone who attempted to make the case of why the Jews have no rights to the Holy Land. It was his opinion that the presence of Jews in the Middle East has only served to inflame Islam and that all Jews should withdraw to 1917 borders. He attempted to make the case that the League of Nation and the United Nations had no right to allocate land that belonged to Islam. I would suggest that this man learn a little about history. To make such claims to an Australian is outrageous. On April 25 every year, Australians still greatly honour the men of the ANZAC tradition and their heroic struggle against Turkey and the Ottoman Empire that carved out their empire to the border of central Europe and extending to the Middle East, including Mesopotamia (Iraq today), Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Trans-Jordan and Arabia. The Ottoman Empire ruled this region for over 500 years after Saladin drove out the Crusaders and gained a foothold. Successive crusades were never able to dislodge the Moslem invaders from the Holy Land. Under the Ottoman Empire the Arabs were a conquered people who were dominated by the Turks.

By 1914 the Ottoman Empire had lost Libya and Egypt and was in a state of decline. Europe was of the view that it was time to crush them.

Napoleon liberated Egypt from Turkey’s rule, then the British liberated it from the French, and it became a British protectorate with a high commissioner appointed by Britain. At the start of WW1, Britain owned Egypt (as well as the Suez Canal, which was strategically important). After the horrific war in Galipoli, Turkey, the Australian Light Horse was repositioned in Egypt to start the thrust through the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza, and then the Holy Land. Their task was to clean out the Turks and pursue them all the way to Turkey. Let me make it very clear! It was Australians and New Zealanders first, then British, who were instrumental in destroying the Turks and liberating the Holy Land. There were also a number of Jewish people attached to the invading forces. I make the distinction of the Australians and New Zealanders (Anzac: Australian and New Zealand Army Corp) being first because they did all the real fighting on horseback with swords and guns. It’s considered to be the last great campaign on horseback.

Everyone saw the movie ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ with Peter O’toole, and assumed that it was factually correct. The fact is that T. E. Lawrence and his Arab irregulars were always behind the Australian Light Horse and never actually did any of the fighting in the Holy Land. The movie made no mention of the Anzacs. Lawrence himself followed all the action in a Rolls Royce supplied by Faisal, the Arab pretender to the throne of Arabia. The only blood they spilled in this particular engagement was on the wounded Turks left in the wake of the war. In the engagement in Deraa on the road to Damascus, wounded and captured Turks were horribly tortured and killed by Lawrence’s Arab irregulars, and presumably with Lawrence’s consent. Lawrence is best known for entering Damascus a day late while regaled in his flowing white lingerie.

So don’t anyone try to tell Australians and New Zealanders who liberated Jerusalem and the Holy Land! It was Aussies and Kiwis who fought the ferocious battles that resulted in victory. To the victor goes the spoils, and the victors turned the whole of Palestine over to the Jewsnot Arabs! Let this be firmly implanted in the brains of all those who hold to Lawrence-like fantasies of Arab rights. The Arabs owned nothing in the Middle East – they were under the realm of the Turks. For 500 years they lived like pigs and suffered the indignities of a conquered nation. All the Arab nations in the Middle East were finally liberated by the Anzacs, and the freedom they now have is by the blood, sweat and tears of these gallant warriors. The evil empire that dominated them was shattered in this campaign. And through this campaign the Jewish people became a nation after 2,500 years, and this was essential for prophecy to be fulfilled. It’s no coincidence that the majority of these Anzacs were of Welsh and Scottish descent. The Welsh and some of the Scots were the original inhabitants of England and were the real British. The Angles and Saxons finally defeated them and took over the country. Western Australia was originally colonized largely with people of Welsh origin. So was New South Wales – hence the name Wales which reflected the Welsh contingent. It seems that God wanted to make it clear by example just who would lead the charge to finally liberate the Holy Land, and establish a righteous Kingdom that would last forever. It had to be a Levite of Welsh extraction.

T. E. Lawrence’s claim to fame was the desert attack on the City of Aqaba at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba. But this had nothing to do with the liberation of the Holy Land, but had everything to do with the ambitions of the Arabs to liberate from the Turks the cities of Mecca and Medina in the western strip (the Hijaz) of Arabia. The efforts of T. E. Lawrence may have been heroic, but they were ill-considered from the Bible point-of-view.

The great irony of the Great War of 1914-18 was what caused it, and the motivation of those who engaged in it. When Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in the Balkans, the Austrians decided that they could no longer tolerate the Ottoman Empire, and used it as a pretext to start a war in the Balkans. If no other nation had reacted, then Germany would have united with Austria (as they did anyway) to defeat the Ottoman Empire. But Russia saw themselves as the protectors of the region and immediately reacted against Austria, mobilizing their forces to engage them. When Germany backed Austria against the Russians, Russia called up their allies, the French and British, to fulfill their treaty obligations, and they entered the war against the Germans and Austrians. The great irony is that after months of consideration, the Turks backed the Germans and Austrians because of their hatred of the Russians. The irony is that the Turks actually backed those who started the war to defeat them!

It was obvious to all concerned that the Allies would seek to link up with Sebastopol in the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea to supply the Russians, and this would require naval passage through the straits of the Black Sea. The Germans rushed generals and officers to the region to train the Turks to defend the region. The only forces the British could spare at the time were the Australian divisions garrisoned in Egypt. So they were shipped in to clear the Gallipoli Peninsula. The problem was that German General Otto Liman von Sanders already had the Turks there in fortified trenches in the hills overlooking the landing area. It has gone down in history as the most brutal and futile engagement of the war. Hopelessly outnumbered, and against well-entrenched Turks, the Anzacs died in their thousands. Eight months of fighting resulted in no gains, and the Australians were withdrawn back to Egypt to prepare for the incursion into the Holy Land.

Prior to this, the British forces had met stiff resistance in Gaza, and were driven back, but in 1917 General Sir Edmund Allenby was assigned the task of leading the Australian Light Horse to the capture of Jerusalem and then Damascus in Syria. They fought across the Sinai Peninsula, engaged the Turks in the battlefront that extended from Gaza to Beersheba and defeated them; they then proceeded to Jerusalem, which was liberated on December 6, 1917. Under instructions from London, General Allenby dismounted from his horse and walked through the Jaffa Gate on foot on December 11. There he made a proclamation heralding the establishment of Crusader rule in Jerusalem after 730 years. It was considered to be a very historic moment. What was largely ignored was the fact that the commander of the 10th Light Horse rode in with some of his troops and took the City two days before, presumably unaware of the instructions from London. General Allenby was a little peeved over this, because his specific instructions from London were that the City be taken in Britain’s name by the ranking officer in command.

Interestingly, the Anzacs had fought right to the gates of the City and prepared to storm it. The Turks realized they were about to be slaughtered and fled out the back door and down the road to Damascus. A solitary man walked out and approached the Anzacs waving a white bedsheet as a declaration of surrender, and the Anzacs accepted the surrender. The City was theirs.

Central to the success of the Holy Land campaign was the Australian Flying Corps. Captain Ross Smith, formerly a Light-Horseman and now a pilot, flew the Bristol fighters and the Handley Page 0/400 bombers, and was able to give excellent reconnaissance and engage in strategic bombing. Smith and a number of other Anzacs were trained at the British Air Force Base in Cairo. Without this handful of planes, and the gallantry of the Light-Horsemen-turned-pilots, the campaign would have been much more difficult. Like eagles, they went aloft and directed the campaign on the ground, and their bombing campaigns softened up the resistance. It was seat-of-the-pants flying in those days where landing strips were any clear area of the desert.

From Jerusalem, Allenby planned to advance into the Jordan Valley but met with stiff resistance from the Turks. Even though assured of assistance by Lawrence and his Arab irregulars, they failed to show when battles were joined, and were clearly upset at the occupation of Jerusalem and the new generation of Crusader ‘infidels’. All of which shows how deeply entrenched is the hatred the Arabs feel, even for their liberators.

And again the irony of it all comes into play. The Ottoman Empire was Islamic and was ruled by the Sultan of Turkey, who claimed the title of Caliph of all Islam. This Sultan-Caliph was outraged at the occupation by the British of his territories, and issued a jihad that was proclaimed in every newspaper in his empire. He ordered it to be recited in all the mosques throughout the empire. It ordered all Moslems to rise up and create terror for the ‘infidels’. At that time, there were over 100 million Moslems in the British Empire (mainly India and Egypt) and they actually preferred the British to the Turks. So the jihad of the Sultan-Caliph was largely ignored. The Middle-East Moslems hated the Turks who ruled over them, and were more than willing to kill them or drive them from their lands – Moslem or not! It was their contention that they would deal with the ‘infidels’ later, once the Turks were out of the way.

These sentiments were not universal, however, throughout the Arab world. Tribal factionalism had been rampant for thousands of years among Arabs, with the strong dominating the weak. To some Arabs, the Turkish occupation was more desirable than the factional infighting that had characterized their existence for millennia. The Turks had successfully suppressed the trouble spots and ensured some form of order, howbeit with heavy-handed oppression. But at least all pretenders to thrones in the region were discouraged. Moslems, by nature, prefer a single strong leader who sees the enemy as being someone other than themselves. In the past, when conflicts and infighting occurred between rival sheiks and pretenders, it was often difficult to pick the winning side, and the frequent swapping of sides often proved disastrous, and very painful when accused of being a traitor. Moslems are not driven by idealism but by lawlessness and greed, together with the desire for power over the weak. This is why God describes them as ruthless and impetuous (Hab 1:6-7), and like vultures swooping in to devour (V8), and they come bent on violence (V9). We are certainly seeing just how ruthless they can be, and how they delight in cutting the throats of ‘infidels’. By nature, they don’t hesitate to put their own people feet-first through a plastics shredder; so don’t imagine that cutting throats is the extent of their ruthlessness. They are evil degenerates and it’s as well to bear this in mind. God has said it, and time will prove it! When Satan’s brood hates, their hatred knows no bounds! They will commit the most monstrous acts that the human mind can devise.

Mesopotamia until 1922, when it was renamed Iraq by the British.

Map credit: History channel archives

Moslem leaders decided that they wanted their own territory and kingdoms, free from the power of external forces. They had in mind to establish their own kings over their own territories, and this was their bargaining chip for their efforts in support of the destruction of the Ottoman Turks. Duly it was granted after the war, when the Trans-Jordan became an independent nation (Jordan), and Arabia became a regal sovereignty (now Saudi Arabia); and of particular interest to the Arabians, sovereignty over Mecca and Medina. There were one or two hiccups before Al Saud seized power in Arabia, but the final result fulfilled their expectations. And so these despots got their way, and the British Empire continued to protect their interests. Mesopotamia was renamed Iraq, and the British helped them rule the country for a decade or two. The British chose the name Iraq after the province of Uruk where the ruins of ancient Ur are. Some British officials wanted to name it Babylon, but this was rejected because of the obvious fervour it may have instilled in the Moslems, and so the compromise was to name it after the province which was once called Ur of the Chaldees. And so Uruk became Iraq.

As for the Holy Land, General Allenby declared a sovereign state for the Jews. Jerusalem and all the surrounding lands were to be their homeland. The Arabs had their territory, and now the Jews had theirs. It was a simple and just solution – but not in the minds of the greedy Moslems. These greedy beasts wanted the Holy Land and Jerusalem as well. And they were literally driven to madness when the Jews began to prosper in the region.

An excellent historical account of the capture of the Holy Land and Jerusalem by the Anzacs.

Sovereignty over Palestine by the Jews is known in history as The Balfour Declaration of 1917, and in 1922 a mandate was granted to Britain by the League of Nations to enforce the rights of the Jewish State. Arthur James Balfour was the British Foreign Secretary, and he was fully persuaded that the Jewish people had to establish their own state in the Holy Land to fulfill prophecy. It was indeed fortuitous that British Prime Minister Lloyd George shared his views. Here’s an interesting quote: ‘Lloyd George initially promoted the idea of colonizing the Holy Land and turning it into a Jewish homeland. Instilled with religion during his fundamentalist Welsh Christian upbringing, he preferred the Old Testament to the New, and once remarked that he was more familiar with the names of towns in the Holy Land than those on the Western Front. But there was nothing new in politicians being interested in restoring Jews to the Holy Land. Lord Shaftesbury and the late Lord Derby had been among the nineteenth century Christians who believed in the ‘restoration’ of the Jewish people to Eretz to Israel as a fulfillment of prophecy.’ (Quoted from the book ‘First to Damascus’ by Jill, Duchess of Hamilton, page 106).

British Foreign Secretary James Arthur Balfour had similar Christian beliefs to Lloyd George: ‘The most famous of all supporters was Arthur James Balfour, historically minded Scot whose mother had read to him from the Bible every day during his early childhood, and who had sang Psalms about remembering Zion. Balfour, like Lloyd George, had seen the virtues of the Jewish Return before, through the persuasive arguments by the ever-popular Weizmann (Jewish Chaim Weizmann of the British Zionist Federation).’ (Page 107 of ‘First to Damascus’)

Apart from the madness of Islam, Satan and the rulers of the heavenly realm were furious at the outcome of everything, and so they decided to make an example of the Jews, and to stir up international resentment. Within ten years, this hatred of Jews was becoming widespread in Europe. By the early 1930’s Jew-baiting was becoming endemic. Satan’s agents were very busy ensuring it.

Satan’s dream of the Ottoman Empire conquering Europe was gone, and those who fought against his interests would pay. Since Germany and Austria had supported him, he would reward them, and use them to destroy his enemies. And so the staging began for WW2, and this time, according to Satan’s plans, the Jews would be wiped from the face of the earth. But God had other plans! God decided that the Jews would set an example for the whole world, a lasting memory of a holocaust that would haunt the memory of decent people everywhere. The final outcome for the cruel martyrdom they had suffered would be to give them their own land – the Land that God gave them three thousand years before! They would be the rightful heirs to the Promised Land. By example, they would again show their faithfulness to God and the love of His precious gift to them.

Anciently in Israel, the northern ten Tribes abandoned the Holy City of Jerusalem and pursued paganism. They rebelled against Solomon’s son Rehoboam, and followed the rebel Jeroboam (an Ephraimite, who ruled over them). The Tribes of Judah and Levi refused to abandon God’s City and remained faithful to God. This act of loyalty to God granted them the first right of return to the Holy Land. The fact is that prophecy would fail if the Jews were not established in the Holy Land today, since much prophecy concerns them and must be fulfilled. It’s God’s doing that they are there! Still it doesn’t suit some Christian groups with their holier-than-thou attitudes, and their perception that the Jews are worthless in comparison to them. Contrary to the beliefs of such groups, the Jews have a center-stage role in the establishment of God’s Kingdom – and God has decreed it!

Some Christians today believe that the Jewish people have no rights to anything because they rejected the True Messiah. In this they fail to understand that it was prophesied that He would be rejected of His own people (Luke 17:25, Luke 20:17, Psalm 118:22, 1Pet 2:6-8), and this prophecy had to be fulfilled. Of particular note is Luke 17:25 where it states that He was rejected by a certain generation, which is further identified in Matt 23:35-36 as the generation that killed righteous Abel, the son of Adam. It’s this reference to the Cain and Abel account that shows that Cain was Satan’s agent, and Abel was God’s. Two brothers with polar diversity! And these same agents or generation were again present to kill the Righteous Son – this time, Jesus the Son of God. In Luke 9:22, we learn that it was the Jewish priests, teachers and Scribes that were the agents of Satan and his demons. Generally, the Jewish people loved Him, and delighted in listening to Him, and to such an extent, that the Jewish religious leaders felt their positions were threatened. So they plotted to kill Him, but they feared the people who believed Him to be a prophet. So they schemed to do it under the cover of darkness and in the dead of night. They wanted someone with great authority in the land to condemn Him, and their desire was for this to be either Herod or Pontius Pilate. Having suffered nightmares after killing John the Baptist, Herod was more than willing to abrogate this responsibility to Pilate. Pontius Pilate however, said he found no fault with the man (Luke 23:13-14) and wanted to release Him (V20). But the jackals howled for blood, and after washing his hands of the whole affair publicly, Pilate handed Jesus over. So the verdict was innocent, but the penalty extracted by lies and deception was death. So typical of Satan’s brood!

Well may the Scribes, Pharisees and Herodians have said that they feared the people! After Jesus’ death, they no longer feared the Jewish people, but with crazed fanaticism they set out to kill their own people who had supported Jesus and began rounding them up and stoning them to death. The rulers of the heavenly realms were determined to destroy Christianity at its roots. But they were to fail miserably in their objectives. The account of Jesus’ death and resurrection spread all the way to Europe.

Jesus knew that God would raise Him from the dead and that He would return. He foreshadowed this time with the words from the book of Hosea (Hos 10:8). Luke 23:28-31 "Jesus turned and said to them, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, weep for yourselves and your children. For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ Then "They will say to the mountains, "Fall on us!" and to the hills "cover us!" For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?" These very words that Jesus quoted from the Book of Hosea (Hos 10:8) were later immortalized in the Book of Revelation (Rev 6:16) long after the outrage against Jesus Christ was committed. You will find that what Hosea wrote was linked to the destruction of Ephraim. The warning of all three books is what is to happen to Ephraim, and the events in the aftermath of this slaughter and captivity.

While the tree was green and in full bloom on September 11, 2001, God’s enemies attacked Ephraim (America) and then set out to slaughter their sons on the battlefield. Satan and his minions hated the Christ, and set out to kill Him, and now they are set on killing the mighty Ephraim, whom God appointed as a son to lead the armies of the Living God. It was God who appointed the U.S. to attack the Babylonians in Mesopotamia in 2003. Human reasoning had little to do with it, because God had chosen a President who would do it! And he did it!

Mesopotamia literally means ‘land between the rivers’ (Euphrates and Tigris rivers). This region is sometimes called Aram Naharaim in the Bible (Deut 23:4). The sons of Aram (Gen 10:22) were called the Arameans, and later called Babylonians. This is the region where Balaam lived, the spirit ruler whom Moab (Jordan today) sought to curse the House of Israel (Num 22:5). By sheer ‘coincidence’, God mentions a city where Satan lives (Rev 2:13), and in V14 speaks of Balaam the sorcerer, who lived in Babylon. In these verses, God is telling the Churches not to listen to the wine of Babylon, or they would not receive a much-needed supply of hidden manna (V17).

The Assyrian Empire

Immediately to the north of Aram Naharaim, and sharing a contiguous boundary, were the ancient Assyrians – the sons of Asshur. Their most famous city was Ninevah. The Assyrians themselves are most famously known for their conquest of the Northern Ten Tribes of Israel around 721BC. By 600BC the Babylonian Empire had swallowed up the Assyrian Empire, and under King Nebuchadnezzar had set out to conquer the whole Middle East.

Nebuchadnezzar came to power around 606BC by training a small army in the region of Ur, and attacking the Assyrian forces. Conquest followed conquest, and he became the ruler of Babylon. What is so interesting about this region is that the major identities mention in Gen 10 originated and spread from here. Of particular interest are the sons of Shem who are identified as Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram. Asshur (Assyrians) and Aram (Babylonians) (V22) lived between the rivers (Euphrates and Tigris) and shared a common boundary in that region. Elam became known as the Persians. All five of the sons of Shem became empire builders, but three of them really

The Babylonian Empire and the rise of the Persian Empire.

excelled and made their mark in history. Nebuchadnezzar united with the Medes in the conquest of Ninevah (the Assyrian capital) and the people of the region were united under Babylon’s banner. The whole region became Media, and the Assyrian Empire was swallowed up and ceased to exist. Media became ambitious and made advances into Elam (Persia), and finally joined with them to seize and conquer the Babylonian Empire.

The Medes have traditionally aligned with the Persians even in recent history.

The no-fly zone was established for the protection of the Kurds in the North, and the Shias in the south.

It’s patently obvious that the Kurds and Shias having nothing in common with Sunni Iraq, but they do have historic ties to Iran (Persians).

None of this would be significant except for the Bible prophecies concerning this region occupied by the Kurds today. The live in the same area of what was formerly called Media. And like Medes of Media, the Kurds have strong associations with Iran (Persia). In fact, the Kurds are the same people who formerly existed under the various names of Assyria, Media, and a few other names of lesser importance. During the Iran-Iraq war that lasted for eight years from 1980-88, many of the Kurds fled Iraq into Iran. And the Kurds became Saddam Hussein’s enemies. Following the Gulf war, the U.S. set up no-fly zones to protect the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south.

The area shown in orange is more on a par with Iran’s immediate territorial ambitions. And they don’t mind America doing all the hard work to achieve these goals. Naturally enough, this does not bode well for the southern Islamic states: Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, or even Pakistan.

What has become alarming are the recent comments by the Whitehouse that the present breach with Turkey may be partially alleviated by the announcement of America’s intentions of a cooperative effort with Turkey against the PKK, a Kurdish group who are considered terrorists by Turkey. Why America would want to cooperate with Turkey on anything beggars belief, especially after Turkey slammed the door shut on U.S. forces at the start of the War in Iraq. They refused to allow troops to disembark on their soil. America has an airbase in Turkey, but are forbidden to use it for anything except humanitarian aid. The new Turkish government is as hostile to America as the rest of their ‘friends’ in the Middle East, and they are becoming more vocal. So it seemed prudent to America to identify a common enemy to repair their friendship with Turkey. The PKK has been militant with Turkey and there have been clashes at their common border, but this was always at Turkey’s provocation and their stated desire to get their hands on Kurdish oil fields. Any negotiations with Turkey by the U.S. is sure to involve rights to Kurdish oilfields, and to the east, Iran will be listening and preparing to act. Iran has been very silent during the whole saga of accusations and threats by the U.S., and they are well-aware that America has a long history of making rash judgments when identifying the enemy.

What immediately comes to mind is the Balkans war, when America beat the hell out of the Greek-Macedonians in favour of the Moslems – those who settled in Croatia from the former Turkish-Ottoman empire. There was no whining or complaining from anyone, including the UN, when this occurred. It was considered a noble cause to protect Moslems. America rained down hell-fire on the Serbians to the applause of the whole world.

Many American, British and Australian soldiers have given their lives for the hope of bringing peace and democracy to Iraq. They died because of the stupidity and the futility of trying to bring peace to Moslems. America went there to make peace not war! They didn’t believe that all Iraqis are hostile to them, but only the minority regime of Saddam Hussein. They now know differently, and they learned this lesson when the Shiites rose up against them. America believed that it was these Shiites who would be grateful, and who would rally to them for their efforts. Never did it occur to them that it was against the interests of 90% of all Islam to empower Shiites. The killing of Shiites has always been considered fair game to the Sunnis. One of the really stupid comments that came out of the U.S. State Department was that Al Qaeda and the Taliban were receiving sanctuary in Iran. Iran, and all the Shiites are well aware that Al Qaeda and the Taliban were targeting Shiite villages and towns in Afghanistan and brutally killing them. It was ethnic cleansing of the worse kind, and Iran wanted to get their hands on these killers. There was no safe-haven in Iran for them!

God sets up rulers and destroys them. This doubly applies to the rulers of the heavenly realms. God is presently empowering Cyrus, a spirit ruler, to seize power in preparation for the establishment of the former Medo-Persian Empire. There is much riding on the establishment of this Empire in prophetic terms. Cyrus is a different cut-of-the-cloth in comparison to other spirit rulers. He is much more pliable to God’s requests. Whereas the Sunni southern states are determined to seize the Holy Land and exterminate the Jews, Cyrus’ ambitions are completely different. Under Cyrus’ helmsmanship, and after the Holy Land is overrun by the southern states, Cyrus will set out to restore the land and it’s people, and to actually encourage the building of the Temple. He will provide the lion’s share of the wealth to do this.

At that time, the armies of the Living God will be actively engaging all the nations from the Nile River to the Euphrates River and clearing the land of Satan’s brood. God’s instructions are to stop at the Euphrates River and to stay out of Cyrus’ territory. God designated this land in the promise He made to His friend Abraham (Gen 15:18). God has reasons why His armies will not cross the Euphrates to engage the Persians. It’s called justice, and in order to exact this justice, Gabriel and his legions of angels will get this task. Cyrus once took Gabriel hostage and refused to let him go (Dan 10:13). Michael had to be sent to even the odds, and successfully extracted him. God has determined that Gabriel will be given the task of softening up the Persian Empire to prepare the way for the King of Greece (Dan 10:20). And the King of Greece will come!

Prior to this, Cyrus will get a little justice of his own. Once he has moved to consolidate his power, and at God’s request, he will take vengeance on the United States of America for their protracted accusations and unjust criticism against him. And God will empower him to do it. If the new army of the Living God is not permitted to cross the Euphrates River to engage Cyrus, it stands to reason that the same restrictions apply to the present armies of the Living God, and America should take this advisedly.

The Christ gave us an example of what the rulers of the heavenly realms are like. Against all rationale and against the better judgment of Pontius Pilate they continued to scream ‘Crucify Him! Crucify Him!’ (Luke 23:21). If they were so unreasoning and unjust in their actions then, these characteristics have survived to the present day, and will be just as intractable in the defeat and death of Ephraim – who is presently a son of God (Jer 31:20). All the rulers of the heavenly realm have a seething hatred of America. They know that God has given America excessive power in comparison to them, and they are unable to stand against them. They are happy to bleed off America’s wealth to their advantage, but can’t express any gratitude – only the same hatred and venom that was shown the Christ! As long as America remains convinced that they are only dealing with human elements, and not the invisible rulers of the heavenly realms, they will hold out hope of eventually converting these evil creatures to their own form of government and standards of decency. And Almighty God is making it clear that it can’t be done! Satan’s brood represents everything that God detests, and He can’t wait to rid the earth of them. He has endured their behaviour for six thousand years, but He foreshadowed the Seventh Millennium as bringing major changes.

So what has Ephraim done wrong in Iraq?

They’ve failed to understand the Scripture that indicts the anti-Christ forces, and they have failed to understand who the children of the devil are. Jesus plainly came to destroy the devil’s work: 1John 3:8 "…The reason the Son of God came was to destroy the devil’s work." And in V10 "This is how we know who the children of God are, and who the children of the devil are." A son who goes out to preserve the devil’s work rather than destroy it cannot be considered to be acting in the Christ’s best interests. It they continue to go out to war against the Christ’s best interests, then they will no longer be considered ‘the armies of the Living God.’ It was King David who first coined this phrase. At that time, the Philistines were standing against the armies of Israel, and the young, youthful David was outraged on God’s behalf, and sought to address this wrong. And we all know the story of how David killed Goliath, and the Philistines were routed. But David soon found himself in disfavour, and he became a fugitive from Saul’s wrath. For seven years he had his own small army and they lived off the land until finally they took possession of Jerusalem where he completed a total of 40 years in all of rule. It was a tough life for David; a life of constant conflict and trouble on every side, with wars constantly plaguing his rule, but he fought them all and constantly confirmed his faithfulness to God. His writings in the Psalms reflect his devotion to God. Not only was he a man after God’s own heart, he was also a man patterned after God’s own Son Jesus. In fact, he was the embodiment of Jesus in human form, and Jesus was happy to call Himself the Son of David. But He did point out that He was both the Root and Offspring of David (Rev 22:16).

When the Son of David appeared on earth, having warned of future horrific events, a small sampling of which occurred forty years later in 70AD, Jesus forewarned of a time when He would return as the Warrior Christ and King. It was made very clear the He was the Root and the offspring of David; thereby declaring that David had upheld all that was expected of him. In the same manner the Mighty Christ will make war and He will rule in Jerusalem.

Jesus forgave the Jewish people for not coming to His defense. In fact, no-one came to His defense except Pilate, and then he caved in to the demands of the rulers. Jesus had previously armed the Apostles with swords, and then prevented them from acting. As Jesus had said, if He did not proceed with the desires of the rulers to kill Him, how would Scripture be fulfilled? It had to happen this way! All the while the rulers stood there sneering at Him (Luke 23:35) while the people mourned (V27). He specifically told Peter to put away his sword saying that if anyone drew a sword they would be killed by the sword: Matt 26:52 "Put back your sword in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword. Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and He will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? But how then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?" It was very plain to Peter what the consequences would be at that time if he had again drawn his sword. It would have been tantamount to preventing the Scriptures from being fulfilled, and he would have died by the sword. At this crucial time, there were to be no ‘ifs’ or ‘buts’. I don’t know that it’s fully realized just how much havoc twelve legions of angels could cause, but Jesus had the option to do so. He chose not to put up a fight, but rather to go as a Lamb to the slaughter. And the Scriptures were duly fulfilled. It’s funny how Matt 26:52 has been so misinterpreted by anti-war demonstrators. If their interpretation had been correct, then everyone who ever drew a sword would have died by a sword – but this is clearly not the case! The warning was for His disciples at that time! Jesus was saying that He didn’t need their help at that time, because there were twelve legions of angels standing ready to come to His aid if He requested it. Twelve legions of angels would have been overkill for the rabble that were about to kill the Christ, and it is clear what God’s instructions to them would be if they were called. It would have been curtains for all humanity!

The Christ and the Father had an agreement. If Jesus gave up His life as a measure of His faithfulness to God, then He would inherit all that the Father owns and replace the present rulers of the heavenly realms with His own offspring – those who possess His very Spirit. Having now accomplished this faithful act, it remains only for Christ to destroy all dominion, authority and power of the enemies of God: 1Cor 15:24 "Then the end will come, when He hands over the Kingdom to the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet." He will be reigning until all His enemies are destroyed – and are ashes under the feet of those who revere God’s Name (Mal 4:1-3). These enemies will also be ashes under Christ’s feet, since He will be doing much of the fighting (Isa 63:1-6). All of which goes to show how wide of the mark are those in mainstream Christianity who don’t see Jesus as the Christ at all! They see Him as a milquetoast philosopher who hopes to win the affection of the world by pleading and whimpering. I would suggest that they have overlooked a whole lot of Scripture to arrive at this conclusion!

As for Christianity generally, they have rejected the True Messiah in favour of their own perceptions of Him. They happily call Him their Saviour, but fail to understand the meaning of salvation. Ask any mainstream Christian believers what salvation is, and you will receive the most mindless, convoluted version of their own aberrational minds. They would have you believe that a few well chosen words will propel you to everlasting glory. Well, such ideas are not supported in the Bible! Some may feel that their devotion to God is therefore meaningless unless there is some hope of a reward. Well, God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him, but you must seek Him and serve Him according to His rules. Those who have devoted their lives to honouring God to the best of their knowledge and understanding have laid a good groundwork for becoming His servants. God only accepts those who are of a contrite and humble spirit, and who don’t pursue personal ambition to God’s detriment. Decent, humble and devoted men and women are the type of people that most assimilate His Glorious Son, and it’s these from whom God will build His Kingdom and His Family. This is God’s objective and this is His Great Plan. Amid the chaos and confusion of a world gone mad, the Kingdom of God will emerge in very troublous times and forceful men will lay hold of it. Contrary to all you have believed, Jesus didn’t come to bring peace, but the sword of war! (Matt 10:34). Those who teach such things quickly find themselves alienated even within their own family, especially those who have been involved with groups of pseudo-Christians who have never believed God. God doesn’t favour those who don’t share His objectives. It’s doubtful that there is time for many more to join this Brotherhood, but in the aftermath of what is about to occur, some real service to God for many Christians still remains an option. Their job will be to teach others what this Brotherhood has been teaching, and to lead others to repentance for their willful disobedience to God. Those who follow these instructions will be rescued – either in life or in death. But they will be in God’s Kingdom.

The Jewish people have always believed that God would set up a Kingdom, and they remained faithful to, and longed for, the Land that God gave them. They also knew that Bible prophecy shows that they would be in the Holy Land when the Kingdom of God is established. A Jewish state was essential for the fulfilling of prophecy.

With the passing away of men like Lloyd George, Balfour and Chaim Wiezmann, the presence of a Jewish State has no significance to mainstream Christianity. Their doctrine has marginalized the importance of prophecy in favour of their own myopic views of what God requires of His people. And fulfilling prophecy has no place in their agenda. If they accepted the importance of an established Jewish Homeland in prophecy, they might feel obligated to revisit other prophecies, and this they staunchly resist! They seem to believe that if they continue with their soft, syrupy nonsense, then perhaps God will feel obligated to forget all about prophecy, and particularly the Book of Revelation, which makes their belief system look hollow and very stupid.

It’s true that generations of Christians have paid lip-service to the Holy City of Jerusalem, but none revered it to the point that they desired to live there as established nations of God. It was largely tokenism through the building of churches and a desire for association. But they should have known only too well that God truly intends to establish His chosen nations there, firstly the Jews (who never willingly abandoned it, and who sought all their lives to return) and then to the other ten Tribes who presently have no desire to live there. The Jewish people had no rest in Europe and were hounded and slaughtered wherever they went. It was only in their own land that they found rest, and because of frequent ongoing hostilities, limited rest at that.

And now it’s time for the scattered Ten Tribes to learn a similar lesson, and to desire the Rest that God is offering. And desire it they will! When all hope is gone, a new dawn will signal a hope for respite and rest. And the entrance fee will be total repentance for their willful disobedience to God and the defaming of His Name. And I can tell you, that any rebels among them will be turned back and sent to their destruction. The fledgling Kingdom of God will not tolerate the madness of this world nor any of those who have willfully discredited their Creator. God is a God of vengeance, and He will repay. This Brotherhood has emphasized that He will be feared, and not treated like a lesser being by the arrogant. Those who truly fear God and revere His Name (Mal 3:16) will have nothing in common with those who don’t.

God has chosen the Levites to lead the charge. He chose the Levites long ago as His very own Tribe, and made them the firstfruits – the early crop (Num 8:15-16) and the firstborn sons. But in addition to true Levites, God has also grafted in others from diverse nations, and He did this to provoke jealousy of the Tribes of Israel just as the Apostle Paul observed (Rom 10:19, 11:11, 17). One of these (Rom 10:19) is a quote from Moses, and it just happens to be from the Song of Moses (Deut 32) – an endtime prophecy that will be fulfilled and never forgotten. The Song of Moses will be sung for all time as a reminder, together with the Song of the Lamb (Rev 15:3). It’s a good idea to read the Song of Moses from time to time, because it will be sung by Moses’ Tribe – the Tribe of Levi – as a constant reminder of God’s warning to His people Israel. The Song of Moses also contains the hope of their rescue or salvation, and God wants everyone to know this. During the long dark night, rescue plans will be underway to usher in a new dawn. Peter urged the observance of hope of the new dawn (2Pet 1:19), and emphasized the importance of understanding the Scriptures in regard to prophecy (V20), saying ‘above all’ don’t listen to those who interpret prophecy according to their own interpretation and who don’t have God’s Holy Spirit. Surely this is easy enough to understand? Those who teach that the Testimony of Jesus is anything other than the Spirit of prophecy fall into this category. Rev 19:10 "…For the Testimony of Jesus IS the Spirit of Prophecy." Those who teach contrary to this are teaching a fake gospel, and a false Jesus. A spirit that is not of God is leading them! And any emotional fervor they may generate is not through God’s Holy Spirit. God’s Holy Spirit does not turn people into foaming lunatics. On the contrary, God’s Holy Spirit speaks of hidden Wisdom (1Cor 2:7) and Jesus Christ is the Wisdom of God (1Cor 1:24).

So God’s endtime message does focus on the Kingdom of God and the fulfillment of all that is written in the Scriptures. And there is much to be done before real peace is established on this earth. To this end, everyone should understand that what history has recorded, particularly in recent decades, is vitally important to understanding the means by which God acts to bring about His intended outcome. You’ve seen the rise of Islam and their mindless ambitions to destroy Jews and Christians, and to bring an end to Western democracy. They’ve issued jihads and shouted from the roofs their intentions, but the Western nations don’t seem to believe them. As often as they breath fire and brimstone against the Western powers, they only response they get is to state that Islam is a peaceful religion, and Moslems are peaceful people. When Christians and Jews have their throats cut by Moslems, opinions don’t change! How strange people have become. When a mad Muslim killed Austrian Archduke Ferdinand, it plunged the whole world into war – how times have changed. Today, Islam has a free pass to do as they please. They are a law unto themselves (Hab 1:7).

Had cooler heads prevailed at the start of the 1914-18 war, Germany and Austria would have defeated the Ottoman Empire and liberated the Holy Land and driven the Arabs back into Arabia. But this is not what God intended at that time or by these people, and He took steps to regulate the outcome. Even today, historians still ponder how this conflict arose so rapidly, and against all rationale. Turkey actually sided with those who were poised to conquer them. After all, the Balkans were a part of the Turkish/Ottoman empire, and this was the lead-in for the conquest of Turkey. At Russia’s request, Britain and France actually entered the war to protect Turkey’s interests, but in an astounding role reversal, finished up fighting them. How it all happened and why, prompted many people to wonder if the whole world had gone mad.

Amid all the twists and turns of this crazy war, God was teaching a lesson. When Jerusalem is finally liberated, and established as the City of the Great King, God will decide who gets to liberate it – it’s the Sons of Jerusalem! It will require great planning, and careful strategy, and of course, war against God’s traditional enemies by those who have been specifically trained to make war.

From earliest times, beginning with Abraham – a great warrior himself (Gen 14:14-20) – God determined to raise up sons through blood-lines like the most Mighty of Warriors – His Son Jesus the Messiah. Through these sons, whom God specifically refers to as the Sons of Jerusalem, the offspring of Abraham, through Jacob and his 12 sons, will be rescued and brought back to the Holy Land that God gave them. As fanciful as this seems in the political climate of this world, this is God’s overall objective and the means by which He will establish a family of sons and daughters as the ruling class forever. God knows that family ties are far stronger than political considerations, and in times of trouble, families tend to unite. God the Father always intended to be a Father to His offspring, but in the past they turned away from Him, and refused to serve Him. God intends to create an environment where they will serve Him with gladness and appreciation. He intends to teach them a lesson they will never forget. Only when all hope is gone will the House of Israel truly understand the consequences of dishonouring their Creator and their Heavenly Father. And this lesson has now begun!

Astoundingly, God foreshadowed this Day of Rest in the Garden of Eden in Mesopotamia, when He established the Seventh Day of the week as the Sabbath rest. He was making reference to another rest that would be offered at the most crucial time in history. And in this regard, God made it clear that some would not enter His Rest. This is the point that was made in the Book of Hebrews (Heb 4:1-3). His Rest is to be a time of resolution as well as retribution. A time for people to decide whether they stand with God or against Him. Those who resolve to serve God will need to prove themselves – not with words but with actions, and their resolve will be tested. Jesus Christ set the example to follow. All those who would be Sons of God must believe Him and serve Him faithfully, even if it means death. Their belief that God can raise them from the dead (just as Abraham believed Heb 11:19) must be stronger than their fear of death.

The Sons of Jerusalem have qualified as sons of God by believing Him just as Abraham did, at a time when from a human point of view, the outcome was not evident. It required Godly faith to believe. And now, all that God has taught His sons (Matt 6:44, Isa 54:13) is rapidly coming to pass. Obviously, God places great stock on the early fruit rather than the late-comers who only believe because of what they have seen with their eyes. And this is summed up in Heb 11:1 "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we don’t see. This is what the ancients were commended for." The KJV renders it ‘Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.’ God hates waverers who are like reeds shaken in the wind. Such people want evidence that they can see with their own eyes before they actually believe God. They only believe God’s prophecy when they see it fulfilled. This is NOT what the ancients were commended for!

As for God’s Place of Rest, only those who believe God will establish it, will enter it. And now God requires all to believe that He has the power to establish it, and that He has chosen His sons, whom He has taught, to complete it. That process began at the appointed time, and will be completed at the appointed time. God began by teaching His sons and daughters, and preparing them for the task. No-one else on earth understood God’s intentions except those whom He has taught. You can scour the earth and you will find none that understood apart from the branch God chose. And any who would be sons of God must be attached to that branch or be grafted in. Life flows from the tree to the branches, and the tree is the olive tree. God speaks of two olive trees (Rev 11:4) – one of the Kingly line, and the other of the Priesthood. In other words, of kings and priests! Jesus Christ is both King and Priest, though if He were on earth, He would not be a priest because there are others who perform this role (Heb 8:4).

The terms ‘Christ’ and ‘Messiah’ are interchangeable, but both mean the Mighty Conqueror! Christianity today has a completely different take on this. They have deliberately chosen to portray the Mighty Christ as a wimp. They’ve not only fooled themselves, they’ve also fooled the whole world. They’ve imagined that God believes that He can convert the world by being weak and conciliatory. Those who believe such things have never known God! You begin to wonder if such people have ever read the Book of Revelation or the Book of Daniel or the Song of Moses.

In the Book of Daniel four kingdoms are described, which would arise one after the other. First it was Babylon the Great, then the Medes and Persians, then another king arose from Greece and battered both kingdoms into shape and absorbed them into his kingdom. God made it clear that in the days of these kings, a Kingdom would be set up that would never be destroyed. The fourth and final kingdom comprising God’s enemies will comprise all those of the first three kingdoms, but will bring together the nations of the whole world to do battle with their common enemy – and their common enemy will be the Christ Himself! And the king of Greece will lead the charge. No longer will this king be just a ruler of the Heavenly realms but Satan and all his generals combined to a common purpose, a combination of the most ruthless and evil of all existing beings. All of these will give their power to the beast to organize the final stand. Under his auspices, everything that Satan and his demons have will be thrown at Jerusalem and the Mighty King. The Book of Zechariah (Chapt. 14) describes this final showdown.

On a different note, I’m still trying to figure out why the U.S. Administration is so keen to spend $400 million dollars on building eight new prisons in Iraq. They suggest that it would make a ‘statement’ against the evils of Saddam’s regime. I could imagine that building hospitals or universities would make some kind of a statement – but prisons? What am I missing here? Congress baulked at building eight prisons, but seem to be OK with replacing Abu Ghraib prison. It seems that twilight is closing in fast, and the night will be long and dark. With the type of illogical behaviour going on now, the long dark night will be upon them before they realize it. But credit needs to be given to the Christ for saying it first: Matt 24:37 "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage (probably same sex marriages too), up to the day when Noah entered the ark, and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them away."

While America is marshalling their troops in Satan’s territory of Babylon, Satan and his spirit rulers are busily marshalling his forces in South America – his ancient reserves that delight in offering human sacrifices to him. While America is busy with other calamities, they will come like an unstoppable flood, and will prove to be just as ruthless as Islam.

It’s incumbent upon all of the Western World to saturate their minds with the treachery of Islam and all of Satan’s brood and not be deceived. Shallow-minded people seem to want to play the blame-game against those who sought to bring peace