Question: Is ‘political correctness’ and ‘multiculturalism’ supported by God’s Word?

This question has been reworded to omit the glandular ferocity of the original one by people who are cascading into social madness in defence of it. It’s become a prime-time absurdity in a world gone mad.

Answer: Political correctness is a modern invention of a society gone mad. Humanity has survived for thousands of years without it, and they have done it quite successfully. For all those millennia, no-one was inflicted with guilt because others raped, robbed and murdered, nor were they besotted with feelings that the fault lay with them and the rest of society. They never experienced the mind-draining numbness of trying to rehabilitate evil-doers. Retribution was the prevailing legal concept that solved the problems relating to the activities of the lawless. If someone murdered someone else then he was denied the opportunity to do it again. Such people were considered unworthy of life. In a well-ordered society these precepts seemed to work well – until now!

Before the advent of political correctness, when one went to a wedding one could be assured that the bride and groom were of opposite genders and capable of producing children. In this atmosphere they were joyful and happy occasions. To everyone it was obvious that God created man and woman for this very purpose. And then about 20 or 30 years ago cracks began to appear in this philosophy. Closeted faggots began to appear en masse claiming the right to ‘love’ others of their own gender. Britain and California engaged in an undeclared rivalry to be the first to legalize homosexuality between consenting adults. Britain won when they legalized it, and David Frost famously said that he was getting out of Britain before it became compulsory. The Cally Fornis as Arnold Shwartzenneger calls them, found new ways to fornicate in men’s bathhouses and insisted ‘there was nothing wrong with it’. Soon it was considered quite normal in that society. And by ‘sheer coincidence’ they began to die like flies – from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). In no time at all, the disease had spread around the world among the promiscuous. Then the race was on to keep them alive by expending enormous funds from the public purse to find drugs to combat it. Collectively all taxpayers in the Western world were burdened with the cost of their disgusting conduct. The ‘age of enlightenment’ had arrived.

In time the rights of evil-doers became greater than that of the ordinary, law-abiding citizen. When monstrous acts of murder were committed, the killer was afforded more rights than the victim, and the surviving loved-ones had to continue their lives grieving, knowing that justice would pass them by. They would observe the killer standing in court, well-dressed, well-fed, and treated with the utmost respect and consideration. Mothers had a right to wonder whose side society was on. Deterrence became a dirty word as the focus became rehabilitation, and quixotically, the ‘right to life’ for the most vicious, evil creatures one could imagine. I hasten to add that those most glandular in the defence of the rights of these monsters are the same people who don’t believe that innocent babies have a right to life. They happily subscribe to third semester ‘partial birth abortion’. Suddenly murderers are more worthy of life than the unfortunate victim. In the hurly-burly of the moment, a person could be verbally or even physically assaulted by people crazed with emotional lunacy at the mere mention of the concept of ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’.

The ‘age of enlightenment’ began to usher in new concepts as the affluent were blamed for the misfortunes of the poor. Inequality became the catch-word, and the misdirected and erroneous philosophy that ‘all men were created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights’ began to be used as a social tool for reform. All that remained was to find out what those unalienable rights were and vigorously apply them. In the first place, The Declaration of Independence was wrong in assuming that all men were created equal – they are not! And in the second place, no one is endowed with unalienable rights as the world is about to find out. And this is the subject matter of this article. It’s called Bible prophecy.

Minority groups milked the public purse for all it was worth, while demanding more and more rights. But it wasn’t enough to ostracize the working-class and force them to pay tribute to the undeserving, the concept became global, and the rich nations were responsible for the plight of poor nations. People were drenched with pictorial evidence of the plight of other nations, and guilt set in. Western governments assured us all that alleviating the suffering of people ruled by corrupt governments was an aspiring virtue to ‘win hearts and minds’ in third world countries. And so the public purse was milked even more. After decades of this madness the only fruit borne is the venomous hatred of the beneficiaries.

So let’s divest ourselves of emotional concepts for a moment and examine what the Creator God has to say on this matter. First of all, though it may shock some people, God has no interest in over 90% of humanity. In fact their plight demonstrates the thrust of all that God has to say. They live like pigs because they are not God’s people. Of all the families of the earth, God chose only one group of people. And He was perfectly fair in doing so. Does anyone imagine that other’s children are more deserving of love and sustenance than their own children? No? And neither does God! So let’s nail down God’s feelings here and now: Amos 3:1-2 "Hear this word the LORD has spoken against you, O people of Israel – against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt: ² "YOU ONLY HAVE I CHOSEN OF ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH; therefore I will punish you for all your sins." And for emphasis, these things are repeated in Deut 7:6, Deut 14:2, and in a slightly different way in 2Sam 7:2-3. And so as long as God’s promise to the Patriarchs still stands this will be so forever. God gives life and He can take it away, and no apologies are necessary. He is the Creator God and He decides how things will be. If God decrees that any city has no further right to life, then He will destroy it, as He did with Sodom and Gomorrah when all traces of them were wiped out. Similarly, it God loses patience with all life on earth, then He can wipe it out as He did in the days of Noah. God is the beneficiary of the 12 Tribes of Israel and no-one else. The rest of the world live merely by consent and God never chose them. What they suffer is the product of their ruler – Satan the devil. Satan is responsible, and he is certainly not benevolent. The Almighty God is, and He takes care of the only family He ever chose of all the families of the earth. Even so, God reserves the right to punish His chosen ones for their sins. Not unjustly though. He gave them Laws to live by, that would enlighten their way and prevent them from succumbing to the penalties of sin. Most rational people understand that if they break the law of the land, they suffer a penalty. And this is so with the Great Lawgiver Himself. God even told them at the outset that He had set before them life on the one hand and death on the other, and counseled them to choose life. Deut 30:19-20 "This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live ²⁰ and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him. For the LORD is your life, and He will give you many years in the land He swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."

As a matter of fact, the Book of Amos speaks against the House of Israel because of their sins and warns of punishment. In the next verse of this Book, V3, God begins to explain a few home truths: V3-4 "Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so? ⁴ Does a lion roar in the thicket when he has no prey? Does he growl in his den when he has caught nothing?" Political correctness would have gained no traction unless people caved in and agreed to walk in unison in support of fanciful ideas. With enough propaganda anything can sound feasible, and God holds the whole nation collectively responsible. Does a lion roar in the thicket when he has no prey? This would alert the prey to his presence and would serve as a warning – so lion’s don’t do that. Lions roar when they have caught their prey. God’s purpose in mentioning this was not to give a zoology lesson but to reveal something of great importance. In the next couple of verse He speaks of snares being set and traps being sprung (we’ll put a marker on this and come back to it). Then in V6 He speaks of the trumpet sounding disaster for a city, and He takes credit for bringing this disaster. And this is where the punishment aspect comes in. In keeping with God’s established practice, He warns His people Israel: V7 "Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to His servants the prophets." So this is all about a plan – God’s Plan. And the reference to the lion reveals the meaning of it: V8 "The LION has roared – who will not fear? The Sovereign LORD has spoken – who can but prophesy?" So it’s all about prophecy! Now what prophecy could this be referring to, and where is there a reference to a LION? It’s perhaps the most important and ominous of all prophecies, and was first detailed by Daniel. It’s a reference to the LION of the Tribe of Judah as He begins to unseal the Seven Seals (Rev 5:5). So once again, who is that God reveals His Plan to? It’s His servants the prophets! And it’s the prophets that reveal the Testimony of Jesus through the Spirit of Prophecy (Rev 19:10). So without the Spirit of Prophecy nobody can understand the Testimony of Jesus because both are one and the same.

So how come so many have published their own renditions of the meaning of these Seven Seals with no Bible support for their theories? They came up with famines and fantasy to explain the meaning, but could provide no conclusive proof from the Bible. Some spewed out their ‘prophecies’ claiming guidance by the Spirit of Prophecy, but were quick to assure everyone they were not prophets (just in case their prophecies failed – which they always did!) In spite of all the lies they told in God’s Name, they had no conscience because they never claimed to be prophets. So there! Adopting the name of a prophet was okay as long as they didn’t actually claim to be a prophet, because they didn’t want to provoke the specter of Isa 8:20. You could hardly describe such people as servants of God!

So the Seven Seals relate to the only people God ever chose out of all the families of the earth, and they relate to God’s punishment of them. At the time of their fulfillment, God says, "Who can but prophecy?" In time of war, both sides of the conflict traditionally prophesy good outcomes for their side. But God is not talking about these ‘prophets’! He is speaking of His servants the prophets. Only these can prophesy according to God’s instructions. That’s why the Seven Seals were sealed – as Daniel indicated, for the time of the end (Dan 12:13), which has suddenly come upon us.

Just to offset any suggestion that I might support the madness of the Democrats, America had the sanction of God to attack the Babylonians hordes of the Middle East. But it was the madness of political correctness that altered the course of war. In the wake of ‘shock and awe’ bombing raids, peace overtures began to filter out. ‘Winning hearts and minds’ became the catch-phrase. It was a war of liberation not attrition. The people were judged to be innocent, and only Saddam Hussein and his lieutenants were responsible. All that was necessary was to round up all the 52 faces shown on the pack of cards and it was all over. Every soldier was given this pack of cards with the faces of Saddam’s 52 henchmen. But then reality began to dawn. Winning the hearts and minds didn’t appear to be working. The ordinary people were arming themselves against the Coalition Forces just as they did in Mogadishu, Somalia. They didn’t appear to understand that the Coalition Forces were there to liberate them. They understood all right, but to these people, anyone who wages war to liberate an enemy is a coward. Muslims, like the Japanese of WW2, consider it an honour to die for their god, and anything short of this is cowardice, and the guilty contemptible.

And just a caveat or two! The American soldiers went into battle knowing it could cost their lives, but they went willingly. They went in honour of their country and with the sure knowledge they were engaging a known enemy. But in the heat of the battle alarming restrictions were placed on them, preventing them from fighting a real war and executing their duties as they had been trained. ‘Winning hearts and minds’ became more important than winning the war. Sacrificing a few soldiers seemed a small price to pay to enhance the pomposity of the ‘political correctness’ brigade. The Democrats began to invent their own rules of war and enforce them through calculated attacks on the President. Dredging the cesspools of reason, they came up with all sorts of impediments to victory. Collateral damage and the killing of ‘innocent’ civilians became a hanging offence even in the fog of war. They pontificated from their armchairs in Washington on how the war must be fought. John Kerry weighed in with his wartime accounts of how he was decorated for running away from the enemy in his Swift Boat while on patrol in Viet Nam. The Democrats considered this to be heroic, and upheld him as a role model. Of course, his treasonous contempt for his own country when he returned from Viet Nam was overlooked. Apparently he’s now changed his views. He was against the war before he was for it, but now he’s for the war but against it. He’s convinced himself that all those who are stuck in Iraq fighting the war are the uneducated, moronic cannon fodder of the country, but educated people like him are the light of the ages. This man might aspire to be the most contemptible man to ever run for President!

My opinions are not important, but God’s are! There are right ways and wrong ways to conduct a war, and God gave many examples in the Bible. As Daniel said, wars will continue to the end and desolations have been decreed (Dan 9:26). Desolations are the unpleasant side of war, when cities and people are destroyed and destitution sets in. Under such circumstances this is make or break time. In reference to the prophecy of all these things, Isaiah wrote this: Isa 8:20-21 "To the Law and to the Testimony! If they do not speak according to this Word, they have no light of dawn. ²¹ 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. ²² Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness." That would be right, wouldn’t it! It’s all God’s fault because they refused to listen. But right at the end of the description of their ranting behaviour are four words: ‘thrust into utter darkness’, and the Bible student will understand that this means death – the ultimate darkness.

And just to put Isaiah’s writing in context, we get a picture of the timeframe in the next few verses: Isa 9:1 "Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan – ² 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. ³ You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as men rejoice when dividing the plunder." Was this fulfilled in the time of Isaiah? Well Jesus was still quoting it hundreds of years later as a future event. These people are living in the northern part of Israel in Galilee and they will be honoured – even though they live in the shadow of Death, but we’ll get to the meaning of this later in this article. This is Jesus’ quote from Isaiah: Matt 4:15 "Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way to the sea, along the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles – ¹⁶ the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of Death a light has dawned. ¹⁷ From that time on Jesus began to preach, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near." The great light they saw at the time of Jesus’ birth is the same great light they will see in the future, and all this was explained in our last article. At the time, some described it as a star hovering over them and bathing them in light. But this ‘star’ will have an ensign (flag, banner) unfurled against the bow of the craft.

Now back to the words of Amos about the prophecies concerning the House of Israel. Amos 3:5 "Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground where no snare has been set? Does a trap spring up from the earth when there is nothing to catch?" God obviously has something in mind in mentioning this. The reference to a bird is an interesting one. One of America’s national symbols is an eagle holding 13 arrows in his claw. Some people recognize that this is a reference to the 12 Tribes of Israel, with Joseph getting a double portion (Ephraim and Manasseh) to form 13 Tribes. But leaving that aside, God speaks of an event that will prove to be the catalyst for the greatest defeat of all time for the American people. And that time of punishment is very near. At a time when America is making lyrical overtures to Egypt while similtaneously breathing fire against the former territories of the ancient Assyrians – their enemies and conquerors of old, God speaks of setting a trap. Hos 7:11 "Ephraim is like a dove (not an eagle in God’s view), easily deceived and senseless – now calling to Egypt, now turning to Assyria. ¹² When they go, I will throw my net over them; I will pull them down like birds of the air. When I hear them flocking together, I will catch them. ¹³ Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them but they speak lies against me." Now having lost so many ‘friends’ in the Middle East, America (Ephraim) continues to seek Egypt’s help as a ‘moderate’ in the region. Ephraim’s ideas of who is a ‘moderate’ in the region is positively alarming! They seem to think that if Egypt brokers peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, then this will take the heat of them.

God has made it all clear from days of old, but no-one understood it. But now God is strengthening His warning of impending desolations.

Isa 31:1-9 "Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in the multitude of their chariots and in the great strength of their horsemen, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel, or seek help from the LORD. ² Yet He too is wise and can bring disaster; He does not take back his words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked, AGAINST THOSE WHO HELP EVILDOERS." Wow! This is what we have been saying all along, and at a time when no-one else could tell the difference between good and evil (see Heb 5:14). This is largely due to the social disease called ‘political correctness’ that has afflicted the whole House of Israel. So the House of Israel should not get their hopes up that Egypt will help them. In fact, God warns never to rely on Egypt because you only have to lean on them and they fall over.

Continuing in Isaiah 31: V3 "But the Egyptians are men and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, he who helps will stumble, he who is helped will fall; both will perish together." But now God gets right to the point, speaking first about the Lion, and concluding with the King of Righteousness and the Kingdom of God: V4 "This is what the LORD says to me: "As a LION growls, a GREAT LION over his prey – and though a whole band of shepherds is called together against him, He is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor – so the LORD Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights." Don’t say we didn’t warn you! A whole band of shepherds – it seems everyone thinks he’s a shepherd. But these shepherds make the mistake of gathering against Him. Probably streets rallies or something similar, but God will be blamed for everything. But God is not listening to them, and their cries are to no avail. V5 "Like birds hovering overhead, the LORD Almighty will shield Jerusalem; He will shield it and deliver it, He will ‘pass over’ it and will rescue it." Do you have any idea why the words ‘pass over’ are in parentheses in this verse from the Bible? We’ve published a whole article on the coming reality of Passover, and the meaning of these words is revealed. It’s as timely a prophecy as it was anciently. America will launch ‘birds’ to protect any city of the enemy, but not Jerusalem! So God Himself will take on that role. What is more, God will ‘pass over’ Jerusalem, but He will not ‘pass over’ Ephraim’s cities – but will ‘visit’ them! Then they will know the folly of repudiating God’s Holy City Jerusalem.

V6 "Return to Him you have so greatly revolted against, O Israelites. ⁷ For in that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made." Notice how God links ‘returning to Him’ with the expensive ‘idols of gold and silver their sinful hands have made’? Now God demands a tenth of everything they earn before they can return to Him (Mal 3:7-10). This applies not only to the whole House of Israel, but also the ‘whole band of shepherds’ who’ve been lying in His Name and collecting His tithe when they had no right to do so.

The Assyrian Empire is virtually the same territory as the Babylonian Empire, and the Medo-Persian Empire after that. It so happens that this same territory destroyed and captured the northern Ten Tribes of Israel following their rebellion against the God and His Holy City. And they also rejected the Temple in God’s Holy City and introduced substitutes. At the time of the conquest of the Assyrian Empire by the Babylonians, it was the sword of man that destroyed them and not the immortals which the next verse alludes to. I won’t go into it all now, but the present-day Kurds are the same people, and they allied themselves with the Persians to defeat Babylon. V8 "Assyria will fall by a sword that is not of man; a sword, not of mortals, will devour them. They will flee before the sword and their young men will be put to forced labor. ⁹ Their stronghold will fall because of terror; at sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic," declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem." In the very next verse, in speaking of those who are not mortals, and who unfurl the battle standard against the bow, they will be ruled by the King of Righteousness: Isa 32:1 "See, a King will reign in righteousness and [His] rulers will rule with justice." I might add that this attack by the ‘immortals’ will occur after the Great Lion of the Tribe of Judah begins to reign. All this has been explained in previous articles, but as a point of interest, the Euphrates River will be split into seven streams so that God’s people can cross over in sandals.

I hope you understand what justice means (see Rev 2:26-27) and just remember who wrote these words in the Book of Revelation! Forget all about ‘political correctness’, this is reality! So it should be obvious to all that these verses are speaking of the here and now! There is a danger of course, if you have been listening to the ‘whole band of shepherds’ who have been ganging up on God, then there is the likelihood that you won’t believe anything that God has said. It now emerges that this ‘whole band of shepherds’ are the very worst of the examples of political correctness. They’ve been at the forefront of promoting it. So if anyone numbers themselves among them, expect the worst!

Jesus spoke some cryptic words when He said to those who have will more be given, but those who have not, what they have will be taken away. We’d be left to ponder the meaning of this if it were not explained in other verses. First and foremost, Jesus came only to the ‘lost sheep of Israel’. You can howl and whine all you like, but these are His words – not mine! And if you don’t know who the ‘lost sheep of Israel’ are, then perhaps Jesus never knew you (Matt 7:21-23). Luke 19:26 "He replied, ‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away. ²⁷ But those ENEMIES OF MINE who did not want me to be king over them – bring them here and kill them in front of me.’" So Jesus had enemies, and what is more, He demands that they are brought and killed in front of Him. These are specifically those who don’t want Him to be King over them! They don’t want or desire the Kingdom of God, but rather they desire rewards in the afterlife like rolling around in heaven all day. The knowledge of God’s Word is life, or the lack of it means death. God has made this clear in Ephraim’s Book – the Book of Hosea: Hos 4:1-5 "Hear the word of the LORD, you Israelites, because the LORD has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: "There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land. ² There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. ³ Because of this the land mourns, and all who live in it waste away; the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea are dying. ⁴ But let no man bring a charge, let no man accuse another, for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest." God is not referring to Catholic priests, who have deserved the acrimony they received for their wickedness with young boys; God is speaking of His priests in the Levitical Priesthood who are always under fire from ignorant heretics. And these are the type of people who will number among those who are brought and killed before Christ. V5-6 "You stumble day and night, and the ‘prophets’ stumble with you. So I will destroy your mother – ⁶ MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FROM LACK OF KNOWLEDGE." There is an interesting explanation about ‘I will destroy your mother’, but we won’t go into that now.

So the ‘holier than thou’ brigade is off and running, ignoring their own faults and castigating others. Invariably, these attacks are either about sex or money, and the obsession is with celebrities. They hunt them down ruthlessly – always seeking a scalp! A word out of place, an innocent faux pas, can destroy their lives. As God indicates in the passage above, He hates the lying and the cursing, and it’s now breaking all bounds of decency. Now God is about to strip away all the assets of Ephraim and give them what they deserve and they will waste away in the sure knowledge that they have been deceived and senseless – like a silly dove! (Hos 7:11).

Now the West has gone beyond any form of rational behaviour, and have set themselves up for destruction and desolation. What is more, political correctness has been a tool to weaken the nations of Israel and denied them the right to engage in an effective war. Remember Pearl Harbor? The whole American nation was outraged against the Japanese. It was rightly called a ‘Day of Infamy’ by Roosevelt, and the people responded by locking up all Japanese living in the country. A logical first step in the time of war! Suddenly the Japanese were left with no effective spy mechanism. To the American people, the Japanese were the most hated people on the planet – and with good reason! And finally, after decimating them – man, woman and children – they finally humiliated their god – the Emperor. The Japs were burned alive in the bombings of Tokyo, they were vaporized in the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in humiliation, the Emperor pleaded for unconditional surrender. Was this a successful war? The answer is obvious. The Japanese were transformed into a decent and well-respected nation and they have greatly prospered. But first they had to be utterly crushed and humiliated!

People have some funny ideas about the God they purport to serve. Don’t they understand the Scriptures that Christ used? When God sent the House of Israel into a campaign against His enemies, recall the instructions they were given. The overall instructions were that all the people living in the Promised Land had to be driven out or killed without mercy and without exception. And for all those who believe this to be just ancient history and that everything has now changed, let me illuminate a future event that will verify God’s feelings in this matter: Rev 2:26-27 "To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations – ²⁷ ‘he will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery’ just as I have received authority from my Father. ²⁸ I will also give him the Morning Star (Sun of Righteousness – Mal 4:2). ²⁹ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches (plural)." Just like Christ they will be given authority over the Gentile nations, and those who don’t respond to that authority will be dashed to pieces like pottery! And you will note that this is speaking to the Churches. The Churches must overcome to the bitter end to earn this authority, and the bitter end means death at the hands of the Gentiles. It’s not a pleasant prospect, but just remember the appalling nonsense you believed all your life, and how you preferred to believe men rather than God. Do you believe God’s servants the prophets now? Or do you prefer to wait a little longer to see if what they teach comes true? This is not the type of faith that gives you a place in this Brotherhood, but rather relegates you to the fortunes of the Churches and what they must face. God gives the example of the type of faith He requires: Heb 11:1 "Now faith is being SURE of what we hope for and CERTAIN of what we do not see. ² This is what the ancients were commended for." I hasten to add that being in this Brotherhood will not be easy, because we have a very important function, but at least you will know in advance the beginning to the end, and the end will be glorious. But most importantly, you will be in the service of God. It’s your choice! But remember that this is a ministry of repentance just as was that of John the Baptist. In other words, you come cap in hand and repentant for your appalling former treatment of God’s Word or you’ll be rejected. And leave your old heresy behind you! Many are called but few are chosen. We in this Brotherhood are not reeds shaken in the wind; we don’t flip-flop all over the place. We know what we believe, because we believe God and were taught by Him. Surely you know that all God’s sons are taught by Him (John 6:45, Isa 54:13). The average parishioner knows very well that the nonsense they have believed all their lives was not taught by God! It was taught by men who never really knew the Mighty Christ and who never really acknowledged obedience to God.

The Tribes of Israel are now facing hostility from all the Gentile nations around the world, and daily the hostility grows stronger. Does anyone imagine that the Gentiles are suddenly going to reform and start behaving themselves? It’s only the fear of attrition that has held them in check for so long now, but this is rapidly changing. They’ve become emboldened by the weak, cowardly behaviour of those who send young men into war with the instructions that they must only fire when fired upon. The enemy is the enemy is the enemy! It’s so ludicrous that soldiers almost have to interview the enemy to determine whether they’re terrorists before engaging them. If anyone believes this is the way to wage war, then they’ve got to be crazy!

So why aren’t the Muslims living in America in concentration camps? America is at war with all of Islam, and this is obvious to the rational minded. There have been scores of examples of them plotting against the American people, but they don’t even get deported. This is not the way to wage war against a ruthless and implacable enemy! America has painted itself into a corner with their ridiculous political correctness, which is dominating their thinking, and they have become paralysed when accusations like the Abu Ghraib prison affair are levelled at them by the most murderous swine on the planet. Amid all the carnage perpetrated by these Islamic swine, America listens to their unjustified complaints and wrings their hands in despair and humiliation. This results from a lack of backbone when dealing with the enemy. And here we see the results of the madness of political correctness, where everyone wanted to be seen as a gleaming example of virtue – even though they possess none of God’s virtues. So great was their desire to proclaim their sanctimonious self-righteousness, that they ignored the vile acts of the enemy and castigated their own soldiers with public humiliation, and finally imprisonment. And through the fruits of political correctness they felt so good about themselves. The idea was to show the world how ruthless they can be with their own soldiers, but yet overly humane to murderous enemy combatants.

So now these buffoons have left themselves wide open to God’s retribution, and justice will prevail. America and Europe are facing some real humiliation now. Driven by the lunacy of political correctness, they have actually tried to befriend the enemy and this has led to overwhelming hostility from all quarters of Islam, and now this hostility has become a disease that is engulfing South America, Africa and the whole of Asia, and effectively the whole world. Hatred for America is endemic because they have shown cowardice in the face of the enemy. With all their might and power, they have yet to humiliate any of the Islamic nations. They should have knocked them down like nine-pins, decimating country after country until they ‘holler uncle’. I don’t know if this term is familiar in other countries, but it means total capitulation. As we will see in the rest of this article, God has a way of waging war that is totally alien to the prevailing thinking today. And there will be no mercy shown, and no quarter given to the Muslim scum that surround the Holy Land. Naturally enough, America and Europe will have no part of it. Imagine trying to enlist these in a real war! They’d be screeching political correctness and claiming unjustified atrocities against ‘innocent’ people. America and Europe need to ask themselves if any Muslim is really innocent, and they will rue the day they decided they were.

Here’s my prediction to the reader: In the day when the Holy Land is cleared with overwhelming force, there will be no Muslim standing in that territory! And most still alive today will see it with their own eyes. Then they will see how the ‘Armies of the Living God’ conduct their warfare. Even the Jewish people will wake up to themselves, and recognize that the ‘Sons of Jerusalem’ are strong because the Almighty is their God. In that day, the armies of Israel will be the only super-power on earth, and God will be watching over them.

But we are getting ahead of ourselves.

Almighty God gives us the option of believing Him or not. For those who believe Him a whole new world of understanding opens up. God provides the evidence to show that their belief is vindicated. There was a time when nations went to war with extreme brutality, killing, raping, pillaging and enslaving. These were the fortunes of war. To the victor went the spoils. And while we can look back at history with extreme dismay at the horror of it all, there was no alternative, and defeat meant certain death or slavery.

So it’s hardly surprising that in the twilight of humanity’s rule on earth, someone should come to the conclusion that there are more humane ways of waging war. The question was always going to be ‘Would it work?’ Well, we are seeing the effects of it today, and it certainly doesn’t work! But the reasons why are still not clear to the Western world. The West has been unable to defeat a few ragtag armies, and these Muslim swine continue to wage a war of attrition. Why are the Coalition Forces going house to house rounding up insurgents? The right approach is to tell the towns or cities to deliver up the insurgents or face certain death. If they don’t comply, then the whole town or city should be bombed back to the stone-age and everyone in it killed. I tell you that after a few cities were totally destroyed these evil swine would be delivering up their own mothers.

Today, the mightiest power is in the hands of a beneficial nation that has never colonized any nation through war. The world should be grateful to live in an era of such human compassion and tolerance. But are the nations grateful to have justice and mercy dispensed by the mightiest power on earth, and the magnificent benevolence of the American nation? Like dogs their enemies have turned on the hand that feeds them, the very nation that dispenses freedom to all who choose to behave like decent human beings. Instead of appreciation they have despised America and on 9/11 actually rejoiced at the calamity. An interesting poll was conducted recently in Muslim countries. It showed that about two thirds of the people polled hate America and Israel and want them destroyed. So much for the fantasy that this hatred is confined to a few terrorists! How could the West be so blind to the obvious?

This present global situation is the lesson of the ages, and one which God foreshadowed because He alone understands humanity. The majority of human beings living on this earth are evil creatures that must be contained and even suppressed or their actions become boundless and unrestrained. It’s no secret that kindness and generosity are not appreciated by the heathen, and some bitter lessons must be learned now to forestall the inevitable. Unfortunately, political correctness has inhibited this type of reasoning, and led the formerly rational-minded to the path of destruction.

And what a time to embark of this type of madness! The great experiment has already failed countless times, because the true nature of humanity has been ignored. Some people may find fault with God from the accounts of the Bible, and many have expressed this, but the world is about to learn what justice is, and against whom God will exact it. Clearly, showing kindness to evil creatures and trying to ‘win their hearts and minds’ has not worked, nor could it ever! But it seemed right at the time to those devoid of God’s Holy Spirit.

In the final curtain call to restrain the nations, God has appointed the son of Joseph, the mighty Ephraim, the mightiest power on earth to demonstrate the folly of appeasement of God’s enemies. To this end, they are trying their own methods to weave their spell over the heathen, and to bring them to prosperity and peace. But America doesn’t know the way to peace, and neither have they ever. The most ferocious war they ever fought was against their own kin in the American Civil War. Perhaps this madness served to moderate them to some degree, and their guilt of this mad insurrection against all reason has made them aware of the horrors of war. Whatever the reason, the accepted rules of war, which have existed for thousands of years, have been ignored in favour of persuading their enemies to change their spots. And now they’re in a battle for their lives just to hold the territory they sought to gain in the Middle East, as was supposed, for the betterment of humanity. It’s become a war of attrition, and still the US Administration thinks peace is attainable. There will be no peace until the ‘eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth’ principle is realized and applied. Political correctness has even diminished this principle with the abolition of capital punishment. Now America is trying to enforce this abolition onto other nations. Oddly enough, it’s only the Western nations that are heeding this advice. With all the aggression against America for the Abu Ghraib prison affair, the day the American forces left, the Iraqis executed 27 prisoners by hanging. The ‘political correctness’ disease has not yet afflicted these people – and nor will it ever! Tortured screams rang out as the Americans left the prison and handed over authority to the Iraqis. The prisoners literally begged the Americans not to leave. And the tortured screams continue to ring out. Those lucky enough to be released from the prison make it very clear why these tortured screams are echoing through the night. If Muslims take such joy from torturing their own people, imagine their ecstasy at capturing American soldiers! America likes to suppress the condition of the dumped bodies of captured soldiers. They prefer only to illuminate the ‘atrocities’ committed by Americans!

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This is the article about the evacuation of Americans from Abu Graib prison in Iraq, and what followed:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=S0NFQ4OVPSVHJQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2006/09/10/wirq10.xml
Tortured screams ring out as Iraqis take over Abu Ghraib.

It’s a real eye-opener! It makes one wonder if America will try to prevent Saddam Hussein from hanging, based on the ludicrous assumption that he is more worthy of life than his victims. Saddam’s life is sacred, no man has the right to take the life of another, blah, blah, blah! It gives new meaning to God’s description of ‘deceived and senseless’ doesn’t it!

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God holds every Muslim on earth accountable for the atrocities committed by their nations or leaders in the name of their religion, and every last one of them will suffer the consequences of extinction. Similarly, God holds the whole House of Israel guilty for the actions of their leaders. The innocent blood shed because of the madness of ‘political correctness’ and the unhealthy attitude towards the enemy will result in severe retribution, and God makes it very clear what this retribution will be. It’s called Bible prophecy and it gives specific details of all that is now rapidly unfolding and the final outcome. If you value your lives, stop listening to the hypocritical teachings of your local preacher; he will lead you to destruction. Of course, you may not believe this until the bleak winds of war enter your neighbourhood, but then it will be too late.

God is preparing to teach the lesson of the ages, and this time the nations of Israel will get the message. They never have in the past. It’s certainly true that the church pews fill in times of war. This time it will be a little different, and it will be every man for himself. Remember what Jesus said when He quoted the Book of Micah? Matt 10:34 "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did NOT come to bring peace, but a SWORD. ³⁵ For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law – ³⁶ a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’ ³⁷ Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; ³⁸ and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. ³⁹ Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." It takes a very special person to love God so much that they would give up their lives, and such people are thin on the ground. I hope the reader understands the severe circumstances under which these things will be enacted. Since Jesus quoted from the Book of Micah, He makes it clear that this has yet to be fulfilled. I mention this because so many people believe the prophecies of the Scriptures used by Christ have all been fulfilled. This is clear evidence that they have not. So why did Jesus come? He came to bring a sword, and this will be the lesson of the ages. The sword of course represents war. But he also said He had come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother….and a man’s enemies would be those of his own household’. So this gives us an idea of the type of hostility and betrayals that will be occurring at that time. Those with no depth of character will betray anyone in order to save their lives. Of these, Jesus said plainly they would lose their lives. More importantly, those who hide behind ‘political correctness’ will be the first to die as others realize where it has all led them. In that day, ‘political correctness’ will be abhorred by all and they will duly hand out retribution to those who practiced it.

I would remind the reader that Jesus came only to the House of Israel – the ‘lost sheep of Israel’, and so what He’s referring to is the misfortunes of these. And just to clarify this, God says of the House of Israel that they are the Vineyard in prophecy – and He adds that Judah is the garden of His delight. Isa 5:3-7 "Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. ⁴ What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad? ⁵ Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its HEDGE, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its WALL, and it will be trampled. ⁶ I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it." ⁷ THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD ALMIGHTY IS THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, and THE MEN OF JUDAH ARE THE GARDEN OF HIS DELIGHT. And He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress."

God asks the dwellers of Jerusalem and the men of Judah to judge between Him and His vineyard. This is, in itself, very significant, but we won’t go into it now. God says He will take away the hedge that protects the vineyard from winds, and He will break down its wall that keeps out the enemy. We now know all about the wall that the ‘vineyard’ is building on the southern border to keep out the enemy. Well God has predicted in advance what will happen to that wall. It’s interesting that God has asked the men of Judah to judge these things. Wasn’t it America that spearheaded the campaign to prevent the Israelis from building a wall to keep out murderous Muslim swine? In their tangled web of mindless ‘political correctness’, the Whitehouse judged that wall to be unfair to suicide bombers who demanded unrestricted access to kill Israelis. Now their hypocrisy has been revealed, and God will heap on their heads the unrestricted access of murderous Aztecs posing under the pseudonym of Latinos. Not surprisingly, there are howls of rage from the Southern Americas over the building of this wall. They should relax – the wall will be gone almost before it’s completed! Then they’ll have unrestricted access to trample down the vineyard and to do as they please.

As for the vineyard, God also says that briers and thorns will grow there. You’ll learn the identity of these further in this article. They are presently growing in America and Europe and elsewhere, in fact, they are everywhere!

But there is hope for God’s vineyard after He has dealt with them and also the ruler of the heavenly realms that engineered their demise: Isa 27:1-6 "In that day, the LORD will punish with His sword, His fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; He will slay the monster of the sea. ² In that day – "Sing about a fruitful vineyard: ³ I, the LORD, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it. ⁴ I am not angry. If only there were BRIERS AND THORNS confronting me! I WOULD MARCH AGAINST THEM IN BATTLE; I WOULD SET THEM ALL ON FIRE. ⁵ Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me." ⁶ In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit." Notice what God says about the briers and thorns? He laments that there are none to confront Him, because if there were He would engage them in battle and set them all on fire. So what should His sons do? God’s sons are those who serve Him faithfully. Like Father, like son, His sons are of the same mind as their Father.

Just a further bit of confirmation about briers and thorns and who they are: Eze 28:24 "No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign LORD." So there is hope for the future, but that day is a long way off. The Day of Retribution will precede it, and this will last for many years. And during those years the House of Israel will see a glistening new land emerging – the Holy Land, which God gave to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the descendants of Jacob. If they make it into that land they will have peace.

If it wasn’t bad enough that God identifies these treacherous briers and thorns, God also likens Israel to them: Micah 7:4 "The best of them is like a brier, the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your Watchmen has come, the day that God visits you." It’s perfectly obvious that if the House of Israel is acting like briers and thorns, then the purpose of God’s visit will not be a pleasant one. And furthermore, God’s Watchmen are here now! They’ve been watching every day, but it’s likely that you haven’t. The House of Israel has no idea what to watch for! In the darkness that is now descending and the paucity of light they will be blind to reality. And for this they can blame the mindless ‘political correctness’ that they believed would solve all the problems in the world. And soon they will despise themselves for their stupidity. Their stupidity has certainly been a windfall for Satan the devil.

We warned at the very outset of this war that failure would result unless America used their might and power to crush the Islamic hordes like ants with no regard for collateral damage or they would lose the war! And what is more, they will lose their own nation! But all this was by design, and is carefully documented in Bible prophecy. And for all the sceptics, nothing can save the House of Israel now from defeat and destruction. At this stage even the sceptics should be able to see THE WRITING ON THE WALL! America went into this war believing that diplomacy coupled with low-yield incursions with precision bombing to avoid collateral damage and a limited mop-up would bring the enemy to heel. How wrong they were! They had no idea what they were dealing with, but this image is now rapidly emerging, and fear and dread is now gripping the nations of the world as they see power shifting into the hands of lunatics.

America and Europe have seen the leaders of these nations as merely human despots, and have no idea that they are dealing with the rulers of the heavenly realms. These creatures are not flesh and blood, as the Apostle Paul pointed out in Eph 6:12, and any hope of reasoning with them is futile. They only understand overwhelming force and humiliation. But make no mistake about it; these creatures are very real and very dangerous. Unlike human beings, these creatures know that they will succeed in nothing unless God permits it. All of them know God well, but they don’t know what He intends unless it is revealed to them. They’ve never understood the Scriptures and they certainly don’t understand prophecy. The truth is that they despise the Scriptures and never miss the chance to contradict the Scriptures and challenge what God has said. It amuses them to weaken the nations of Israel with sanctimonious nonsense and to induce cowardice. And how their human agents like to comply! We’ve all seen them droning on with meaningless nonsense to gain a following, but they assiduously avoid any real knowledge of the Scriptures. And the reason is, that just like Satan and his rulers, they don’t understand them, and neither do they desire to.

So the spin-off of all this is that they like to add pharisaic reasoning to promote ‘political correctness’ where consideration is given to those least worthy of it. Today it has taken lunacy right off the scale. Those who should appreciate that they are the beneficiaries of ‘multiculturalism’, which is the major offshoot of ‘political correctness’, have turned against their benefactors for entitlements of which they are undeserving. In truth, all this ‘political correctness’ has done nothing to enhance the benefits of any sector of the community. All it has done is to make them greedier and more demanding and actual appreciation is non-existent. No amount of compromise is ever enough!

Of all the nations on the face of the earth, the nation most susceptible to the the crazy reasoning of political correctness is the U.S. They are the authors of this madness. And why? What facilitated this in the first place? Believe it or not, its origins go back thousands of years to a state of mind that existed in the time of Jeroboam – an Ephraimite – who used human reasoning to alienate Ten Tribes of Israel from obedience to God and reverence for His Holy City Jerusalem. And it was the monstrous arrogance of this man and his rebellion against God that led to these Tribes being ‘lost’ and unclear of their national identity. A couple of hundred years or so after their rebellion against God they got hammered by the Assyrians and decimated. In time they found pathways to Europe and the remnant settled there.

It’s interesting that the Ephraimite rebel Jeroboam was so persuasive at the time of the rebellion, and managed to weave a web of deceit so convincingly, that Ten of the Tribes followed him. What is so surprising about this Jeroboam is that God Himself appointed him. Jeroboam was a wise man and had previously been elevated to a position of authority by Solomon. He was obviously a wise and practical man. God had in mind to alienate ten of the Tribes of Israel from the House of David, and to send them far away at a future time. To begin this process, God chose Jeroboam and gave him rule over these ten Tribes.

This is the account: 1Kings 11:26-40 "Also, Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. He was one of Solomon’s officials, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah. ²⁷ Here is the account of how he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the supporting terraces and had filled in the gap in the wall of the city of David his father. ²⁸ Now Jeroboam was a man of standing, and when Solomon saw how well the young man did his work, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the HOUSE OF JOSEPH. ²⁹ About that time Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, and Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh met him on the way, wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone out in the country, ³⁰ and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces. ³¹ Then he said to Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘See, I am going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon's hand and give you ten Tribes. ³² But for the sake of my servant David and the city of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, he will have one Tribe. ³³ I will do this because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molech the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in my ways, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my Statutes and Laws as David, Solomon's father, did."

As a point of interest, Jeroboam was to get ten Tribes, but Rehoboam the son of Solomon was to get just one Tribe. What about the other Tribe that makes up the 12 Tribes of Israel? This was the Tribe of Levi, and God didn’t give this Tribe to anyone! The Tribe of Levi is God’s very own Tribe (Num 8:13-14), and this Tribe has been set aside for a divine purpose.

V34 "But I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon's hand; I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose and who observed my Commands and Statutes. ³⁵ I will take the kingdom from his son’s hands and give you ten tribes. ³⁶ I will give one tribe to his son so that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put my Name. ³⁷ However, as for you, I will take you, and you will rule over all that your heart desires; you will be king over Israel. ³⁸ If you do whatever I command you and walk in my ways and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my Statutes and Commands, as David my servant did, I will be with you. I will build you a dynasty as enduring as the one I built for David and will give Israel to you. ³⁹ I will humble David’s descendants because of this, but not forever." Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king, and stayed there until Solomon’s death."

Did God know that Jeroboam would turn against Him? Well, God certainly gave him the option to obey Him and to lead the people in righteousness. And as a reward, he was told that God would make his dynasty as enduring as David’s. Nevertheless, Jeroboam had no desire to trust God for the outcome, and set about to make his own destiny. When people set their hearts on power and influence, they don’t care who they trample on to achieve their aims. Jeroboam had been the recipient of a promise from God delivered by His servant the prophet, and Jeroboam saw it fulfilled perfectly. But it wasn’t enough, and soon Jeroboam was going the way so typical of people who don’t have God’s Holy Spirit. In his mad power struggle, he began to plot against God and His Holy City Jerusalem, and in so doing, earned God’s eternal contempt!

This man was an advisor to Solomon until the latter part of Solomon’s life. He became alienated after Solomon heard that a prophet of God confirmed that Jeroboam had been chosen by God to rule over ten Tribes of Israel. Then Solomon sought to kill him. Jeroboam fled to Egypt, but was brought back by the northern Ten Tribes in the days of the rebellion against Rehoboam son of Solomon. Here was a man, chosen and confirmed by God for this role, to lighten the load of the common people. Solomon had all but worked them to death to enhance his glory and lifestyle. Jeroboam was quick to realize that the mood of the common people was for freedom from oppression from self-serving and oppressive kings. This was achieved by the mere act of declaring independence from the king and refusing to honour his sovereignty.

So Jeroboam decided that to further consolidate his position, he would proclaim freedom of religion, where everyone had the right to worship as they saw fit. But there was a problem! If Jeroboam encouraged the worship of God in Jerusalem, it may result in the people seeing Jerusalem as their capital. So he encouraged disobedience to God and promoted the worship of foreign gods. The people clambered to his newly built shrines to honour foreign gods. Generations of the Ten Tribes continued their idol worship and continued to repudiate God and His City.

Naturally enough, God was angered at their conduct, and stated that He would never forget what Jeroboam had done. One of Jeroboam’s first acts was to cast two golden calves and state that these were the gods that led them out of Egypt. The people must surely have realized that this was the sin that nearly destroyed them after the House of Israel had left Egypt and were camped at Mount Sinai. It was clearly an obvious and retrograde step – and a dangerous one! 1Kings 12:25-30 "Then Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built up Peniel. Jeroboam thought to himself, "The kingdom will now likely revert to the house of David. ²⁷ If these people go up to offer sacrifices at the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem, they will again give their allegiance to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will kill me and return to King Rehoboam." ²⁸ After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt." ²⁹ One he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan. ³⁰ And this thing became a sin; the people went even as far as Dan to worship the one there." This is the irony of it all. His ruse was that Jerusalem was too far to go to worship God, but he built one of the shrines in Dan, which was even further for the people to go.

Not one of them could have honestly believed that a golden calf idol had led them out of Egypt after all the miracles God had performed. And surely the golden calf was discredited when Moses had it ground to dust and castigated the people for their ignorance in worshipping it. This demonstrates the propensity of people to believe a lie. Against all evidence and experience to the contrary, they chose to worship gods they knew to be false. And what was the big attraction for the worship of a golden calf? It was sex – rampant, public orgies of sex where, in the days of Moses, the people were naked (Exodus 32:25, KJV) and indulging in profligate sex acts when Moses returned from the Mountain.

It’s no coincidence that God describes Ephraim as a heifer – a female calf (Hos 10:11). This is a subtle reminder that the Ephraimites are reluctant to believe that God led them out of captivity in Egypt formerly, and that He is their Saviour. While they may not openly worship a golden calf idol, neither do they acknowledge their Creator God to serve Him wholeheartedly. Instead, just like Jeroboam, they openly supported any type of worship and any type of conduct that appeals to the individual citizen. Wanting to be a multicultural society is paramount to encouraging the learning of the way of the heathen – which God expressly forbids! (Jer 10:2). Surely it should be obvious to every thinking person in the Tribes of Israel that the worship, or even acknowledgement of, foreign gods is unacceptable to God. But the importance of this has been greatly diminished by the fiction that God has arranged for people to go to heaven when they die (another pagan myth), and any form of service to Him is not required in the ‘rewards of the afterlife’. In view of the faithful obedience and conduct of so many men of God down through the ages, it’s a monstrous liberty to assume that God has recanted on the requirement of obedience to Him and His Laws. Human beings can’t mould and shape God as they wish! He is the One who makes the rules, and to this end, God plans to make this obvious.

It’s fitting that since power was thrust into the hands of the Tribe of Ephraim through Jeroboam, the most influential one of his time, that God should again choose Ephraim to be a formidable power in this end of the age. And why should anyone be surprised? Bible prophecy speaks extensively of Ephraim, and indeed a whole Book – the Book of Hosea – is dedicated to him. There are severe warnings in this Book of Hosea, specifically for the Tribe of Ephraim.

The Worldwide Church of God convinced themselves that England represented Ephraim, and that America represented Manasseh (the older brother of Ephraim). They baulk at believing the U.S. is Ephraim in Bible prophecy, but can offer no evidence of why they think America is Manasseh! Funny people! The younger was to become far greater than the elder at the end of the age, and the might and power of America, from the start of WW2 to this present time is unequalled in all the earth.

After 6,000 long years, humanity is virtually unchanged, and nothing has served to moderate the murderous intent of the heathen nations. In human terms, the House of Israel has stood out as a beacon to the rest of the world in lifestyle and prosperity. In the Book of Hosea, God points out that Ephraim’s fruitfulness, that is, his prosperity, has come from Him (Hos 14:8). God also adds something else in the very next verse: V9 "Who is wise? He will realize these things. Who is discerning? He will understand them. The ways of the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them." It’s a fitting conclusion to a Book dedicated to Ephraim, and which specifically says that Ephraim is not wise! As a matter of fact, God describes Ephraim this way: Hos 7:11 "Ephraim is like a dove, easily deceived and senseless…" These dove-like overtures to God’s ancient enemies that surround the Holy Land are, indeed, completely senseless! What have they achieved with trying to ‘win hearts and minds’? They’ve merely emboldened them all! It’s actually hilarious that Ephraim believes that diplomacy will carry the day with the mindless lunatics of the Middle East. We’ve all heard the endless talk-fests, and the crazy reasoning, coupled with the lunacy that Islam is a peaceful religion. And where has all this groveling led? Islam has noted that the more they provoke America, the more compliant they become. Ephraim indeed, is easily deceived and senseless.

From time to time, you do hear a still, small voice emanating from someone in Washington, and endeavouring to add some commonsense to the debate, but this is becoming evermore rarified. Washington continues to believe that peace is the antithesis of war. In this vein they assume because they believe that ‘Islam is a peaceful religion’ that they don’t want war. And who is it that declares everyday a holy war against the West? It’s Islam! Are they peaceful? When there are no Americans available to kill, they kill each other! How could anyone in their right mind think Islam to be a peaceful religion? The whole religion was formed by a madman and a marauding killer called Mohammed. And this is the man they have deified.

Time is running out for Ephraim to come to their senses: Hos 7:8-9 "Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is a flat cake not turned over (that is, soggy on top). Foreigners sap his strength, but he does not realize it. His hair is sprinkled with grey, but he does not notice." I guess they are all too busy talking to notice. Opinions, opinions! They never end! Only a complete fool would suggest that Islam is a peaceful religion. And who was this designed to fool? Well, it certainly hasn’t fooled Islam! They’ve been indoctrinated to hate Westerners, and Americans in particular, and they are amazed that with all the evidence today, that anyone would believe that Islam wants peace. Jihad means ‘holy war’ – it doesn’t mean holy peace!

Originally, the dreamers in Washington believed that it was just a few terrorists who were plotting against the West and committing terrorist acts. Now we have whole nations rising up against each other. The whole world has sensed the emerging turmoil, and the dangers of despots suitably arming themselves with dangerous weapons. Currently, the main focus is on nuclear weapons. All the other weapons of mass destruction, like biological and chemical weapons, seemed to have moved out of focus. Yet these silent killers are the most insidious of all. They are easily manufactured and easily concealed. And the possibility of disease epidemics is very real, and they can emerge with frightening speed. The last thing that America wants is a disease epidemic. And this is precisely what God has predicted. God speaks of two entities that are not flesh and blood, but are powerful rulers of the heavenly realms. They are called Death and Hades (Grave), and are mentioned by name in Rev 6:8 (and note the capitalization to indicate names). They are already active and plotting to marshal their forces and to bring havoc to Ephraim: Hos 13:12 "The guilt of Ephraim is stored up, his sins are kept on record. ¹³ Pains as 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. ¹⁴ I will ransom them from the power of the GRAVE; I will redeem them from DEATH. Where, O DEATH, are your PLAGUES? Where, O GRAVE, is your DESTRUCTION? I will have no compassion, ¹⁵ even though he thrives among his brothers. An east wind from the LORD will come, blowing in from the desert; his spring will fail and his well dry up. His storehouse will be plundered of all its treasures." So we learn a little bit more about DEATH and GRAVE (or Hades). Both are consummate masters of their art, and one has expertise over PLAGUES. When God speaks of these two creatures, He’s not kidding around! They are dangerous, destructive rulers and they live in the unseen realm. Like all the rulers of the spirit realm, they are always active and plotting the destruction of God’s people Israel, but they don’t dare advance beyond what God will allow – at least not up until now. The threat of the abyss is always present (Luke 8:30), and this is the punishment of any of them who defy God’s instructions. They continually complain to God about His people Israel and the blessings He has heaped upon them. They whine and complain at the inequity of the rest of the world – not because they care about the welfare of their own people, but because they can’t elevate them as a formidable force against God’s people. Satan’s brood, by their very nature, are like rabid animals who live like pigs and it’s almost impossible to elevate them to the strength necessary to destroy the Western nations (which Satan and his rulers know are the Tribes of Israel).

The above verses quoted from the Book of Hosea speak of a woman in childbirth preparing for delivery but nothing happens. And it’s a reference to Ephraim! We’ve covered all this in other articles, so we’ll be brief. It’s actually a reference to a nation being born in one day, and it’s a woman that gives birth to this nation. Isa 66:8-10 "Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labour than she gives birth to her children. ⁹ Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?" says the LORD. "Do I close up the womb when I bring to delivery?" says your God. ¹⁰ "Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice greatly with her, all you who mourn over her." This is clearly not the case with Ephraim who doesn’t even come to the opening of the womb. When Zion or Jerusalem is in labour, she will be delivered. Not so Ephraim!

I don’t even need to suggest the overwhelming force necessary to establish a nation in a single day, because is should be obvious to all. But the Holy Land, the whole country, will be cleared in a single day of Satan’s brood, and the death and destruction will be horrific! And no quarter will be given! Meanwhile in Ephraim, Death and Destruction will be advancing their cause and there will be no delivery! God’s attention will be on Judah, and He will ensure that His servants complete this task: Zech 12:1-9 "This is the word of the LORD concerning Israel. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the spirit of man within him, declares: ² "I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the SURROUNDING PEOPLES reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. ³ On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable Rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. ⁴ On that day I will strike every HORSE with panic and its RIDER with madness (a reference to the four horsemen of the Apocalypse – Rev 6:1-8)," declares the LORD. "I will keep a watchful eye over the House of Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations. ⁵ Then the leaders of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the LORD Almighty is their God.’ ⁶ "On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume right and left ALL THE SURROUNDING PEOPLES, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place. ⁷ "The LORD will save the dwellings of Judah first, so that the honor of the house of David and of Jerusalem's inhabitants may not be greater than that of Judah. ⁸ On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the Angel of the LORD going before them. ⁹ On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem."

None of this augers well for Ephraim or Europe for that matter. But to be perfectly honest, does Ephraim or Europe share God’s views on how to deal with His enemies? Is there any possible chance that they might step up to the plate and start consuming the nations that surround the Holy Land? What dreamers they are! They want to bring them peace! They want to strengthen them and prosper them, and make them an even more formidable foe against the House of Judah (Israelis). If this isn’t enough, they continue to forcefully urge the Israelis to hand over more and more land. And now they want Jerusalem handed over as well! Can you imagine any circumstance more detestable to God?

So of course there will be no delivery for Ephraim! As a matter of fact, Washington is rapidly becoming the enemy of God’s servants merely by their conduct. And this will reach its zenith when the Democrats seize power. If you think Ephraim is silly and easily deceived now, just watch the crazy Democrats. The Democrats are the grand masters of political correctness, affirmative action, multiculturalism, and every other type of insanity that now pervades the nation of Ephraim. They are lying deceivers and flip-floppers and they care nothing for anything except their own self-interest. Remember Bubba’s classic lies at his impeachment hearings? Can you recall the Camp David Accords where he was willing to give away the entire Holy Land and Jerusalem to boot, just to show his magnificence as a negotiator and to suck up to Yasser Arafat? He actually proved that the Palestinians didn’t want peace at any cost, but he was too stupid to realize it. Now he’s joined Jimmy Carter as roaming lovers of the most detestable nations on earth. Both men were colossal failures as presidents, but now they are most vocal about giving advice to the incumbent President. Remember Carter’s botched hostage crisis rescue in Iran? Remember Bubba Clinton’s retort to the bombing of the embassies in Africa and the USS Cole? He scared the hell out of a few chickens in Afghanistan with a couple of missiles and then forgot all about it. He’d done enough he reckoned. In hindsight of course, he now claims it’s all President Bush’s fault that Bin Laden is still alive. Sudan actually offered to hand over Bin Laden, but Clinton refused.

Did you see Clinton’s glandular response to interviewer Chris Wallace on Fox News (Oct, 2006) to these issues? He was really spitting venom! The presenter should have made the last question: ‘Have you seen much of Monica Lewinsky lately?’ That would really have him foaming at the mouth! Guilty people always seem to forget just how vulnerable they are!

And this brings us back to the big split-up between Samaria and Judah in the days of Jeroboam, when he alienated all ten Tribes against God’s Holy City. And consequently, they paid the price either with their lives or slavery. Now the ten Tribes are at it again, but this time they are not just prepared to sacrifice the Holy City, they want to give it to God’s enemies! Samaria of course, is the collective name for all the Ten Tribes. And God concludes the passage quoted above from the Book of Hosea with these words: Hos 13:16 – 14:1 "The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open. ¹ Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God. Your sins have been your downfall!"

Indeed Ephraim will eventually return to God and their ancestral homeland. Highways and signposts will be set up to receive them, but not until they have suffered the consequences of their sins against God. These consequences will yield a time of death and destruction unparalleled in human history. A time of such monstrous cruelty that it defies the imagination. The truth is that Satan and his demons have manipulative control over everyone who doesn’t have God’s Holy Spirit. Every human being is susceptible to his manipulation, and he is the master of lies and distortion. Those who live by every word of God and who have God’s Holy Spirit should not succumb to it. Sadly, many of those who do have God’s Holy Spirit have so diminished it that it has flamed out. Their lamps went out when they refused to believe God, choosing to believe only lying, deceptive men. Men who introduced destructive doctrine to weaken them, and who only desired to enhance their own image. They twisted and perverted everything with stories they had made up (2Pet 2:3) and their destruction awaits them.

But what of the rest of the House of Israel who have no knowledge of God and have never even heard of God’s Holy Spirit as a lamp in their lives to illuminate the pathways? People who have never had any desire to live by God’s Word – how will they fare?

God’s Word imparts knowledge and understanding as a bulwark to Satan’s influence. The hearers of God’s Word must also be doers of God’s Word. The Spirit of God is with those who listen to Him, and the option exists for the Spirit of God to be in them. God has made it clear that the House of Israel will be the recipient of God’s Holy Spirit at a later time when He will pour it out upon them – that is, the remnant that survive and who return to their ancestral homeland. Rom 9:27-28 "Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved. ²⁸ For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality."

The Apostles and Prophets of old knew and understood what to expect at the end of the age and the finality of everything that is written, and duly reported it. How odd it is that they saw it all so clearly, yet those today who are living in it are unable to believe what they are seeing.

Paul added more: Rom 11:26 "I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. ²⁶ And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. ²⁷ And this is my Covenant with them when I take away their sins." So we are presently waiting for the full number of Gentiles to come in – TO THE NATIONS OF ISRAEL! And they are almost there! For America, it only requires the floodgates south of the border to be thrown open, and there will be enough Gentiles for the purpose. How determined the Democrats are to fulfill this prophecy! Do the Democrats understand the history of these people they are so willing to admit? The historic evil of these people rank with the most evil degenerates on earth. Human sacrifice, cannibalism, exquisite tortures, and the murderous slaughter of their neighbours of the same race are historically evident for all to see. Don’t believe the apologists who try to mask these atrocities. Even today there is photographic evidence of human sacrifices being ritually conducted on mountains throughout South America in the last few years. Any sign of a drought is enough to start the human sacrifices to appease the gods. I actually have pictorial evidence of these human sacrifices and they are not pretty!

And one other thing needs to be emphasized: ‘For the Lord will carry out His sentence with speed and finality’. So who is God speaking about? Paul was quoting from Isa 10:22-23. Lo and behold, this chapter speaks of the Assyrian destruction of Ephraim’s rule of Samaria, and the inevitable captivity that resulted. Paul understood that these were lessons for us on whom the fulfillment of the age has come (1Cor 10:11). And just to recap on ancient history, the Assyrian Empire straddled right across the center of the Middle East. The Babylonian Empire engulfed it and took over their terrority (and this is where the prophecies of Daniel begin). Then the Medo-Persian Empire engulfed Babylon and took over their territory – and literally swamped the entire Middle East with their power and influence – until Alexander came along, and the rest is history.

So Paul was illuminating the message of Isaiah chapter 10 for us all. And pertinent to the subject matter at hand is this verse: Isa 10:17 "The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; in a single day it will burn and consume his THORNS and his BRIERS." And which thorns and briers would these be? This is speaking the inhabitants of the Babylonian territory from Lebanon to Persia (Iran), the whole block of nations. It’s patently obvious that these are the nations that are currently dictating the Muslim agenda at the present time. So who are their thorns and briers? These are their pesky protégés presently occupying the Holy Land – the Muslim scum who have no right to be there. These will be consumed in a single day of slaughter and with a ferocity that will overwhelm the world. As we can see, The Light of Israel will give the order for this attack, and hopefully the House of Israel in far distant lands will get some hope and enlightenment from The Light of Israel – whom they never knew! How could they possibly know The Light of Israel if they were never able to recognize His enemies? And it’s His enemies who will consume you, O House of Israel, and then you will have plenty to think about. Perhaps then a few rays of light might illuminate your pathways to righteous obedience to God. But at the present time no one is holding their breath!

Thankfully, God has chosen a few enlightened ones to accompany the House of Israel into captivity. These are the people who received God’s Holy Spirit and lived in obedience to God Laws. They began their spiritual journey in the Worldwide Church of God and did indeed receive God’s Holy Spirit. And with commiserations for all the other churches, God only raised up one shepherd over this little flock of the Church that Christ built, and God actually named him in the Bible through a parable. But this is the subject matter of another article, which can be found in the Q&A section of our website. So these few saints (a saint is someone who has God’s Holy Spirit), probably numbering about 7,000, will have an important role to play in the rescue of the House of Israel. But first they must be prepared to give their lives as Jesus did. They must remember their pledge at baptism as they face the Great Tribulation.

For the rest of the House of Israel, they must come to the realization of why the disaster has befallen them. And they’ll begin to do this when they divest themselves of the stupidity of political correctness, multiculturalism, and all the other mad nonsense by which they’ve been besotted. Then they might come to the realization of where their salvation lies. They’ll come to the realization that salvation means something more than the silly teachings of this world’s churches. Then their hope will be to be rescued while they still live, or to be resurrected after giving their lives for their friends (a point made by Jesus: John 15:13 "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command.") They must follow the Lord Christ!

For the present, they must be obedient to God if the Holy Spirit is to be with them in the holocaust they now face. After a short time of about two years, they’ll start receiving a little help. This will follow the prophesied famine of God’s Word (Amos 8:11-12) and after that time, they will start to understand what has happened and why. God’s Holy Spirit will impart this knowledge, and the Spirit will be with them, though not yet in them (this principle can be understood from John 14:17). It will be a physical realization