Bible Believers' Newsletter #539
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
Our contributing author in this issue of the Newsletter is acclaimed Russian writer and dissident the late Brother Aleksandr Isayevich (Isaac) Solzhenitsyn. Last Sunday this great man of God went to his reward aged 89. This Nobel Prize-winning author chronicled Soviet repression and exposed the Judaeo-Communist gulag or labor camp system in which many millions of nominal Christians perished, and where he was imprisoned from 1945 to 1952. He has argued that the Jewish version of Tsarist Russia is untruthful (like their version of German history). It did not have the same violent tendencies as the Soviet Union. For instance, in Solzhenitsyn's view, Imperial Russia did not practise censorship; political prisoners were not forced into labour camps, and in Tsarist Russia numbered only one ten-thousandth of those in the Soviet Union; the Tsar's secret service was only present in the three largest cities, and not at all in the army. The violence of the Judaeo-Communist regime was in no way comparable to the lesser violence of the Tsars.
In "Two Hundred Years Together" which is not available in English, Solzhenitsyn discusses The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and frequently refers to Jews as "the yeast of the Revolution." Hiding Behind Auschwitz is a paper that puts the case that The Protocols of Zion is a genuine document. The Protocols of Zion Toolkit puts the strongest arguments why the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is a forgery, and why they are WRONG.
We present an address delivered on June 8, 1978 at Harvard University Class Day Afternoon Exercises. You will be blessed by the wisdom and Spiritual insight of this man who trod the "strait and narrow path," which is God's way, and recognize his life's focus was on truth parsed through God's unfailing Word. If you have familiarized yourself with The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion you will recognize how, without naming them, Solzhenitsyn describes their unfailing materialization throughout the last century in the conquest of East and West. As Brother Branham revealed, Laodicea means "people's rights" or godless Judaeo-Communism God has raised up to destroy the apostate church as He raised Nebuchadnezzar to destroy apostate Judah and sent Titus to destroy the Temple, demonstrating once and for all time that the Law was nailed to Cross when Israel sacrificed the real Lamb of God. Unlike Jesus Messiah, the Law will never revive.
Solzhenitsyn explains how our (once) Christian civilization is doomed to Judaeo-Communism, having deserted its Shield and Strong Tower of His Spirit and Word for flesh and the world. So we see why God sent Brother Branham, the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation 10:7 to restore the apostolic faith, finish the mystery of God, and call His elect out from Rome and her harlot daughters into the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God lest "there be no flesh saved" for the translation. Or as Solzhenitsyn says, "No one on earth has any other way left but—upward".
May the Lord bless you richly as you read this profound address which illustrates how The Protocols of Zion are building Lucifer's earthbound kingdom, and the Holy Scriptures are building the heaven-born Kingdom of God.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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Acts of War
July 29, 2008 – "The war between the United States and Iran is on. American taxpayer dollars are being used, with the permission of Congress, to fund activities that result in Iranians being killed and wounded, and Iranian property destroyed. This wanton violation of a nation's sovereignty would not be tolerated if the tables were turned and Americans were being subjected to Iranian-funded covert actions that took the lives of Americans, on American soil, and destroyed American property and livelihood. Many Americans remain unaware of what is transpiring abroad in their name. Many of those who are cognizant of these activities are supportive of them, an outgrowth of misguided sentiment which holds Iran accountable for a list of grievances used by the US government to justify the ongoing global war on terror."
Much of the information behind this is being promulgated by Israel, which has a vested interest in seeing Iran neutralized as a potential threat. But Israel is joined by another source, even more puzzling in terms of its broad-based acceptance in the world of American journalism: the Mujahadeen-e Khalk, or MEK, an Iranian opposition group sworn to overthrow the theocracy in Tehran. The CIA today provides material support to the actions of the MEK inside Iran. . . the agency's backing constitutes nothing less than an act of war on the part of the United States against Iran. Full story: truthout.org truthout.org
Comment: The 'hidden hand' of America's puppetmaster, 'the City of London.' Their CIA and media lies are legitimizing yet another act of US aggression.
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Zimbabwe sets Pace for US$
Fannie and Freddie hold 2.5 percent of capital against their "investments" and 0.45 percent against their investment "guarantees." The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) guarantees all American bank deposits up to $US100,000 and up to $US250,000 in certain US retirement accounts. The FDIC has $US52.8 Billion in "reserve" to cover TRILLIONS of US Dollar bank deposits. As of June 2008, the FDIC insured 8,471 US banking institutions which had total deposits of $US8,575 TRILLION. NOW do you feel reassured? The FDIC's "reserve" is a whopping 0.62 percent. . .
"The obligations Fannie and Freddie have outstanding, something in the order of $US5 TRILLION, are so large that there would be a worldwide financial catastrophe should they default. The financial system would seize up." So said former St. Louis Fed President William Poole in a recent interview. . . Many banks have balance sheets stuffed full of this paper. They face huge losses, which some can't survive. They and other investors, such as foreign central banks, then dump the GSE paper". . . see if US interest rates start to climb in the secondary market. That is likely to be the first signal that foreign holders of US Treasuries are starting to actually sell! . . were foreign buying of US Dollars to end, not only would the US current account deficit stand unfunded but the US Dollar would stand naked. The US Dollar could crash! . .
Full story: The Privateer, Early August, 2008 #609
Comment: Authorities in Zimbabwe last week released a new 100 billion dollar bank note. By Sunday it was not enough even to buy a scarce loaf of bread. Three days later America's George II signed H.R. 3221, the "Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008," which will shortly make Americans envious of Zimbabwe's 2.2 million percent p.a. rate of inflation. The proposed Euro-Atlantic Treaty Organisation (EATO) between Russia, the EU and an unenthusiastic USA would replace NATO and end the US Empire. Since the 'hidden hand' plans for Russia to remain an independent federation and as Israel's paymaster is about to become a bankrupt, we may anticipate the US to obstruct the proposal by goading Iran to war (as she did Japan) along with Russia (Daniel 11:40; Ezekiel 38:1-5, 15-16), which will invade and brief occupy the US mainland after Los Angeles sinks beneath the Pacific accompanied by the US dollar, sending the whole world into the arms of Rome and the International Banksters of 'the City of London'.
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A World Split Apart
By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Opening Remarks:
I am sincerely happy to be here with you on this occasion and to become personally acquainted with this old and most prestigious University. My congratulations and very best wishes to all of today's graduates.
Harvard's motto is "Veritas." Many of you have already found out and others will find out in the course of their lives that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit. And even while it eludes us, the illusion still lingers of knowing it and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth is seldom pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter. There is some bitterness in my speech today, too. But I want to stress that it comes not from an adversary but from a friend.
Three years ago in the United States I said certain things which at that time appeared unacceptable. Today, however, many people agree with what I then said. . .
A World Split Apart
The split in today's world is perceptible even to a hasty glance. Any of our contemporaries readily identifies two world powers, each of them already capable of entirely destroying the other. However, understanding of the split often is limited to this political conception, to the illusion that danger may be abolished through successful diplomatic negotiations or by achieving a balance of armed forces. The truth is that the split is a much profounder and a more alienating one, that the rifts are more than one can see at first glance. This deep manifold split bears the danger of manifold disaster for all of us, in accordance with the ancient truth that a Kingdom—in this case, our Earth—divided against itself cannot stand.
Contemporary Worlds
There is the concept of the Third World: thus, we already have three worlds. Undoubtedly, however, the number is even greater; we are just too far away to see. Any ancient deeply rooted autonomous culture, especially if it is spread on a wide part of the earth's surface, constitutes an autonomous world, full of riddles and surprises to Western thinking. As a minimum, we must include in this category China, India, the Muslim world and Africa, if indeed we accept the approximation of viewing the latter two as compact units. For one thousand years Russia has belonged to such a category, although Western thinking systematically committed the mistake of denying its autonomous character and therefore never understood it, just as today the West does not understand Russia in communist captivity. It may be that in the past years Japan has increasingly become a distant part of the West, I am no judge here; but as to Israel, for instance, it seems to me that it stands apart from the Western world in that its state system is fundamentally linked to religion.
How short a time ago, relatively, the small new European world was easily seizing colonies everywhere, not only without anticipating any real resistance, but also usually despising any possible values in the conquered peoples' approach to life. On the face of it, it was an overwhelming success, there were no geographic frontiers to it. Western society expanded in a triumph of human independence and power. And all of a sudden in the twentieth century came the discovery of its fragility and friability. We now see that the conquests proved to be short lived and precarious, and this in turn points to defects in the Western view of the world which led to these conquests. Relations with the former colonial world now have turned into their opposite and the Western world often goes to extremes of obsequiousness, but it is difficult yet to estimate the total size of the bill which former colonial countries will present to the West, and it is difficult to predict whether the surrender not only of its last colonies, but of everything it owns will be sufficient for the West to foot the bill.
Convergence
But the blindness of superiority continues in spite of all and upholds the belief that vast regions everywhere on our planet should develop and mature to the level of present day Western systems which in theory are the best and in practice the most attractive. There is this belief that all those other worlds are only being temporarily prevented by wicked governments or by heavy crises or by their own barbarity or incomprehension from taking the way of Western pluralistic democracy and from adopting the Western way of life. Countries are judged on the merit of their progress in this direction. However, it is a conception which developed out of Western incomprehension of the essence of other worlds, out of the mistake of measuring them all with a Western yardstick. The real picture of our planet's development is quite different.
Anguish about our divided world gave birth to the theory of convergence between leading Western countries and the Soviet Union. It is a soothing theory which overlooks the fact that these worlds are not at all developing into similarity; neither one can be transformed into the other without the use of violence. Besides, convergence inevitably means acceptance of the other side's defects, too, and this is hardly desirable.
If I were today addressing an audience in my country, examining the overall pattern of the world's rifts I would have concentrated on the East's calamities. But since my forced exile in the West has now lasted four years and since my audience is a Western one, I think it may be of greater interest to concentrate on certain aspects of the West in our days, such as I see them.
A Decline in Courage. . .
may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society. Of course there are many courageous individuals but they have no determining influence on public life. Political and intellectual bureaucrats show depression, passivity and perplexity in their actions and in their statements and even more so in theoretical reflections to explain how realistic, reasonable as well as intellectually and even morally warranted it is to base state policies on weakness and cowardice. And decline in courage is ironically emphasized by occasional explosions of anger and inflexibility on the part of the same bureaucrats when dealing with weak governments and weak countries, not supported by anyone, or with currents which cannot offer any resistance. But they get tongue-tied and paralyzed when they deal with powerful governments and threatening forces, with aggressors and international terrorists.
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
Well-Being
When the modern Western States were created, the following principle was proclaimed: governments are meant to serve man, and man lives to be free to pursue happiness. (See, for example, the American Declaration). Now at last during past decades technical and social progress has permitted the realization of such aspirations: the welfare state. Every citizen has been granted the desired freedom and material goods in such quantity and of such quality as to guarantee in theory the achievement of happiness, in the morally inferior sense which has come into being during those same decades. In the process, however, one psychological detail has been overlooked: the constant desire to have still more things and a still better life and the struggle to obtain them imprints many Western faces with worry and even depression, though it is customary to conceal such feelings. Active and tense competition permeates all human thoughts without opening a way to free spiritual development. The individual's independence from many types of state pressure has been guaranteed; the majority of people have been granted well-being to an extent their fathers and grandfathers could not even dream about; it has become possible to raise young people according to these ideals, leading them to physical splendor, happiness, possession of material goods, money and leisure, to an almost unlimited freedom of enjoyment. So who should now renounce all this, why and for what should one risk one's precious life in defense of common values, and particularly in such nebulous cases when the security of one's nation must be defended in a distant country?
Even biology knows that habitual extreme safety and well-being are not advantageous for a living organism. Today, well-being in the life of Western society has begun to reveal its pernicious mask.
Legalistic Life
Western society has given itself the organization best suited to its purposes, based, I would say, on the letter of the law. The limits of human rights and righteousness are determined by a system of laws; such limits are very broad. People in the West have acquired considerable skill in using, interpreting and manipulating law, even though laws tend to be too complicated for an average person to understand without the help of an expert. Any conflict is solved according to the letter of the law and this is considered to be the supreme solution. If one is right from a legal point of view, nothing more is required, nobody may mention that one could still not be entirely right, and urge self-restraint, a willingness to renounce such legal rights, sacrifice and selfless risk: it would sound simply absurd. One almost never sees voluntary self-restraint. Everybody operates at the extreme limit of those legal frames. An oil company is legally blameless when it purchases an invention of a new type of energy in order to prevent its use. A food product manufacturer is legally blameless when he poisons his produce to make it last longer: after all, people are free not to buy it.
I have spent all my life under a communist regime and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high level of human possibilities. The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relations, there is an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses.
And it will be simply impossible to stand through the trials of this threatening century with only the support of a legalistic structure.
The Direction of Freedom
In today's Western society, the inequality has been revealed of freedom for good deeds and freedom for evil deeds. A statesman who wants to achieve something important and highly constructive for his country has to move cautiously and even timidly; there are thousands of hasty and irresponsible critics around him, parliament and the press keep rebuffing him. As he moves ahead, he has to prove that every single step of his is well-founded and absolutely flawless. Actually an outstanding and particularly gifted person who has unusual and unexpected initiatives in mind hardly gets a chance to assert himself; from the very beginning, dozens of traps will be set out for him. Thus mediocrity triumphs with the excuse of restrictions imposed by democracy.
It is feasible and easy everywhere to undermine administrative power and, in fact, it has been drastically weakened in all Western countries. The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals. It is time, in the West, to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such as, for example, misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, motion pictures full of pornography, crime and horror. It is considered to be part of freedom and theoretically counter-balanced by the young people's right not to look or not to accept. Life organized legalistically has thus shown its inability to defend itself against the corrosion of evil.
And what shall we say about the dark realm of criminality as such? Legal frames (especially in the United States) are broad enough to encourage not only individual freedom but also certain individual crimes. The culprit can go unpunished or obtain undeserved leniency with the support of thousands of public defenders. When a government starts an earnest fight against terrorism, public opinion immediately accuses it of violating the terrorists' civil rights. There are many such cases.
Such a tilt of freedom in the direction of evil has come about gradually but it was evidently born primarily out of a humanistic and benevolent concept according to which there is no evil inherent to human nature; the world belongs to mankind and all the defects of life are caused by wrong social systems which must be corrected. Strangely enough, though the best social conditions have been achieved in the West, there still is criminality and there even is considerably more of it than in the pauper and lawless Soviet society. (There is a huge number of prisoners in our camps which are termed criminals, but most of them never committed any crime; they merely tried to defend themselves against a lawless state resorting to means outside of a legal framework).
The Direction of the Press
The press too, of course, enjoys the widest freedom. (I shall be using the word press to include all media). But what sort of use does it make of this freedom?
Here again, the main concern is not to infringe the letter of the law. There is no moral responsibility for deformation or disproportion. What sort of responsibility does a journalist have to his readers, or to history? If they have misled public opinion or the government by inaccurate information or wrong conclusions, do we know of any cases of public recognition and rectification of such mistakes by the same journalist or the same newspaper? No, it does not happen, because it would damage sales. A nation may be the victim of such a mistake, but the journalist always gets away with it. One may safely assume that he will start writing the opposite with renewed self-assurance.
Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay on in the readers' memory. How many hasty, immature, superficial and misleading judgments are expressed every day, confusing readers, without any verification. The press can both simulate public opinion and miseducate it. Thus we may see terrorists heroized, or secret matters, pertaining to one's nation's defense, publicly revealed, or we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under the slogan: "everyone is entitled to know everything." But this is a false slogan, characteristic of a false era: people also have the right not to know, and it is a much more valuable one. The right not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk. A person who works and leads a meaningful life does not need this excessive burdening flow of information.
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the 20th century and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. In-depth analysis of a problem is anathema to the press. It stops at sensational formulas.
Such as it is, however, the press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? In the communist East a journalist is frankly appointed as a state official. But who has granted Western journalists their power, for how long a time and with what prerogatives?
There is yet another surprise for someone coming from the East where the press is rigorously unified: one gradually discovers a common trend of preferences within the Western press as a whole. It is a fashion; there are generally accepted patterns of judgment and there may be common corporate interests, the sum effect being not competition but unification. Enormous freedom exists for the press, but not for the readership because newspapers mostly give enough stress and emphasis to those opinions which do not too openly contradict their own and the general trend.
A Fashion in Thinking
Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day. There is no open violence such as in the East; however, a selection dictated by fashion and the need to match mass standards frequently prevent independent-minded people from giving their contribution to public life. There is a dangerous tendency to form a herd, shutting off successful development. I have received letters in America from highly intelligent persons, maybe a teacher in a faraway small college who could do much for the renewal and salvation of his country, but his country cannot hear him because the media are not interested in him. This gives birth to strong mass prejudices, blindness, which is most dangerous in our dynamic era. There is, for instance, a self-deluding interpretation of the contemporary world situation. It works as a sort of petrified armor around people's minds. Human voices from 17 countries of Eastern Europe and Eastern Asia cannot pierce it. It will only be broken by the pitiless crowbar of events.
I have mentioned a few trends of Western life which surprise and shock a new arrival to this world. The purpose and scope of this speech will not allow me to continue such a review, to look into the influence of these Western characteristics on important aspects on [the] nation's life, such as elementary education, advanced education in [?...]
Socialism
It is almost universally recognized that the West shows all the world a way to successful economic development, even though in the past years it has been strongly disturbed by chaotic inflation. However, many people living in the West are dissatisfied with their own society. They despise it or accuse it of not being up to the level of maturity attained by mankind. A number of such critics turn to socialism, which is a false and dangerous current.
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death. Shafarevich's book was published in France almost two years ago and so far no one has been found to refute it. It will shortly be published in English in the United States.
Not a Model
But should someone ask me whether I would indicate the West such as it is today as a model to my country, frankly I would have to answer negatively. No, I could not recommend your society in its present state as an ideal for the transformation of ours. Through intense suffering our country has now achieved a spiritual development of such intensity that the Western system in its present state of spiritual exhaustion does not look attractive. Even those characteristics of your life which I have just mentioned are extremely saddening.
A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger. Six decades for our people and three decades for the people of Eastern Europe; during that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper and more interesting characters than those produced by standardized Western well-being. Therefore if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. It is true, no doubt, that a society cannot remain in an abyss of lawlessness, as is the case in our country. But it is also demeaning for it to elect such mechanical legalistic smoothness as you have. After the suffering of decades of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor and by intolerable music.
All this is visible to observers from all the worlds of our planet. The Western way of life is less and less likely to become the leading model.
There are meaningful warnings that history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.
But the fight for our planet, physical and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is not a vague matter of the future; it has already started. The forces of Evil have begun their decisive offensive, you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?
Shortsightedness
Very well known representatives of your society, such as George Kennan [US Ambassador to the USSR whose writings inspired the foolish Truman Doctrine and the US foreign policy of "containing" the Soviet Union], say: we cannot apply moral criteria to politics. Thus we mix good and evil, right and wrong and make space for the absolute triumph of absolute Evil in the world. On the contrary, only moral criteria can help the West against communism's well planned world strategy. There are no other criteria. Practical or occasional considerations of any kind will inevitably be swept away by strategy. After a certain level of the problem has been reached, legalistic thinking induces paralysis; it prevents one from seeing the size and meaning of events.
In spite of the abundance of information, or maybe because of it, the West has difficulties in understanding reality such as it is. There have been naive predictions by some American experts who believed that Angola would become the Soviet Union's Vietnam or that Cuban expeditions in Africa would best be stopped by special US courtesy to Cuba. Kennan's advice to his own country—to begin unilateral disarmament—belongs to the same category. If you only knew how the youngest of the Moscow Old Square officials laugh at your political wizards! [The Old Square in Moscow ('Staraya Ploshchad') is the place where the [headquarters] of the Central Committee of the CPSU are located; it is the real name of what in the West is conventionally referred to as "the Kremlin"]. As to Fidel Castro, he frankly scorns the United States, sending his troops to distant adventures from his country right next to yours.
However, the most cruel mistake occurred with the failure to understand the Vietnam War. Some people sincerely wanted all wars to stop just as soon as possible; others believed that there should be room for national, or communist, self-determination in Vietnam, or in Cambodia, as we see today with particular clarity. But members of the US anti-war movement wound up being involved in the betrayal of Far Eastern nations, in a genocide and in the suffering today imposed on 30 million people there. Do those convinced pacifists hear the moans coming from there? Do they understand their responsibility today? Or do they prefer not to hear? The American Intelligentsia lost its [nerve] and as a consequence thereof danger has come much closer to the United States. But there is no awareness of this. Your shortsighted politicians who signed the hasty Vietnam capitulation seemingly gave America a carefree breathing pause; however, a hundredfold Vietnam now looms over you. That small Vietnam had been a warning and an occasion to mobilize the nation's courage. But if a full-fledged America suffered a real defeat from a small communist half-country, how can the West hope to stand firm in the future?
I have had occasion already to say that in the 20th century democracy has not won any major war without help and protection from a powerful continental ally whose philosophy and ideology it did not question. In World War II against Hitler, instead of winning that war with its own forces, which would certainly have been sufficient, Western democracy grew and cultivated another enemy who would prove worse and more powerful yet, as Hitler never had so many resources and so many people, nor did he offer any attractive ideas, or have such a large number of supporters in the West—a potential fifth column—as the Soviet Union. At present, some Western voices already have spoken of obtaining protection from a third power against aggression in the next world conflict, if there is one; in this case the shield would be China. But I would not wish such an outcome to any country in the world. First of all, it is again a doomed alliance with Evil; also, it would grant the United States a respite, but when at a later date China with its billion people would turn around armed with American weapons, America itself would fall prey to a genocide similar to the one perpetrated in Cambodia in our days.
Loss of Willpower
And yet—no weapons, no matter how powerful, can help the West until it overcomes its loss of willpower. In a state of psychological weakness, weapons become a burden for the capitulating side. To defend oneself, one must also be ready to die; there is little such readiness in a society raised in the cult of material well-being. Nothing is left, then, but concessions, attempts to gain time and betrayal. Thus at the shameful Belgrade conference free Western diplomats in their weakness surrendered the line where enslaved members of Helsinki Watchgroups are sacrificing their lives.
Western thinking has become conservative: the world situation should stay as it is at any cost, there should be no changes. This debilitating dream of a status quo is the symptom of a society which has come to the end of its development. But one must be blind in order not to see that oceans no longer belong to the West, while land under its domination keeps shrinking. The two so-called world wars (they were by far not on a world scale, not yet) have meant internal self-destruction of the small, progressive West which has thus prepared its own end. The next war (which does not have to be an atomic one and I do not believe it will) may well bury Western civilization forever.
Facing such a danger, with such historical values in your past, at such a high level of realization of freedom and apparently of devotion to freedom, how is it possible to lose to such an extent the will to defend oneself?
Humanism and its Consequences
How has this unfavorable relation of forces come about? How did the West decline from its triumphal march to its present sickness? Have there been fatal turns and losses of direction in its development? It does not seem so. The West kept advancing socially in accordance with its proclaimed intentions, with the help of brilliant technological progress. And all of a sudden it found itself in its present state of weakness.
This means that the mistake must be at the root, at the very basis of human thinking in the past centuries. I refer to the prevailing Western view of the world which was first born during the Renaissance and found its political expression from the period of the Enlightenment. It became the basis for government and social science and could be defined as rationalistic humanism or humanistic autonomy: the proclaimed and enforced autonomy of man from any higher force above him. It could also be called anthropocentricity, with man seen as the center of everything that exists.
The turn introduced by the Renaissance evidently was inevitable historically. The Middle Ages had come to a natural end by exhaustion, becoming an intolerable despotic repression of man's physical nature in favor of the spiritual one. Then, however, we turned our backs upon the Spirit and embraced all that is material with excessive and unwarranted zeal. This new way of thinking, which had imposed on us its guidance, did not admit the existence of intrinsic evil in man nor did it see any higher task than the attainment of happiness on earth. It based modern Western civilization on the dangerous trend to worship man and his material needs. Everything beyond physical well-being and accumulation of material goods, all other human requirements and characteristics of a subtler and higher nature, were left outside the area of attention of state and social systems, as if human life did not have any superior sense. That provided access for evil, of which in our days there is a free and constant flow. Merely freedom does not in the least solve all the problems of human life and it even adds a number of new ones.
However, in early democracies, as in American democracy at the time of its birth, all individual human rights were granted because man is God's creature. That is, freedom was given to the individual conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility. Such was the heritage of the preceding thousand years. Two hundred or even fifty years ago, it would have seemed quite impossible, in America, that an individual could be granted boundless freedom simply for the satisfaction of his instincts or whims. Subsequently, however, all such limitations were discarded everywhere in the West; a total liberation occurred from the moral heritage of Christian centuries with their great reserves of mercy and sacrifice. State systems were becoming increasingly and totally materialistic. The West ended up by truly enforcing human rights, sometimes even excessively, but man's sense of responsibility to God and society grew dimmer and dimmer. In the past decades, the legalistically selfish aspect of Western approach and thinking has reached its final dimension and the world wound up in a harsh spiritual crisis and a political impasse. All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the Twentieth century's moral poverty which no one could imagine even as late as in the Nineteenth Century.
An Unexpected Kinship
As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation at first by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say in 1844 that "communism is naturalized humanism."
This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorship; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. (This is typical of the Enlightenment in the Eighteenth Century and of Marxism). Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.
The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism, radicalism had to surrender to socialism and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. When they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.
Before the Turn
I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness.
To such consciousness, man is the touchstone in judging and evaluating everything on earth. Imperfect man, who is never free of pride, self-interest, envy, vanity, and dozens of other defects. We are now experiencing the consequences of mistakes which had not been noticed at the beginning of the journey. On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the real crisis. The split in the world is less terrible than the similarity of the disease plaguing its main sections.
If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature. It cannot unrestrained enjoyment of everyday life. It cannot be the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then cheerfully get the most out of them. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become an experience of moral growth, so that one may leave life a better human being than one started it. It is imperative to review the table of widespread human values. Its present incorrectness is astounding. It is not possible that assessment of the President's performance be reduced to the question of how much money one makes or of unlimited availability of gasoline. Only voluntary, inspired self-restraint can raise man above the world stream of materialism.
It would be retrogression to attach oneself today to the ossified formulas of the Enlightenment. Social dogmatism leaves us completely helpless in front of the trials of our times.
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction. We cannot avoid revising the fundamental definitions of human life and human society. Is it true that man is above everything? Is there no Superior Spirit above him? Is it right that man's life and society's activities have to be determined by material expansion in the first place? Is it permissible to promote such expansion to the detriment of our spiritual integrity?
If the world has not come to its end, it has approached a major turn in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It will exact from us a spiritual upsurge, we shall have to rise to a new height of vision, to a new level of life where our physical nature will not be cursed as in the Middle Ages, but, even more importantly, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon as in the Modern era.
This ascension will be similar to climbing onto the next anthropologic stage. No one on earth has any other way left but—upward. nl539.htm
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Fear not, nor be Perplexed, the Lord will be with You
Bible Believers' Newsletter #538
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for your fellowship in God's unchanging Word.
In our previous Newsletter we exposed the foundation of lies upon which Satan has built his kingdom called "civilization." Aside from the old lies of religion, democracy and the tooth fairy, we now have Pearl Harbor, the murder of JFK, the Apollo Moon Landing, LBJ's Gulf of Tonkin "incident" to fully involve the US in Vietnam, his coverup of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, Big Pharma, the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11 and the Babylonian statutory reserve banking scan whereby banks make 60% on deposits for which they pay you 3% interest.
In our current affairs section this week we broach current lies like man-made climate change and carbon trading, bio-fuels, the price of oil, the holocaust and "free trade" scams designed to impoverish, control, depopulate and enslave the mass of world population to a small elite.
News items we chose not to print portray "civilization" in the terminus of this final Gentile world empire degenerate to the point of barbarism. The greatest nation since Israel has sunk to amoral impotence: kidnapping and torturing innocent men and boys as a fig leaf to cover her lying justification for unprovoked wars of imperial aggression to loot the resources of defenseless nations; even training Mexican police in the black "art" of torture. But the US is a colony of 'the City' which employed the Big Lie of a holocaust to cover her atrocities and martial ineptitude in World War I, the Big Lie of a holocaust to cover the genocide of scores of millions of Christians between the wars in Jewish-controlled Soviet Russia, and the Big Lie of a holocaust to cover Allied atrocities in World War II. Further disclosure of CIA lies regarding the mythical nuclear programs of Iraq and Iran, revelations of US complicity in the slaughter of 100,000 North Koreans in the Korean War and plans to test poison gases in Queensland were also victims of the editor's pen.
In studying this Newsletter, please follow the links in the news items and reference the Scripture in our main article — your Life may depend on it.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
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Geostrategic Effects of Revisionism: the Iranian Lesson
June 5, 2008 – The energy crisis is causing worry. However, Iran, which possesses huge reserves of oil and gas, wishes to exploit them better, with our help, and sell us the products, a procedure that would lead to a marked softening of worldwide petrol, diesel, fuel oil and gas prices. A good many nations have an eye on this great potential wealth and would be apt to respond favourably to Tehran's business proposals. But the United States has decreed the boycott of Iran and, up to now, the world's policeman has generally been obeyed. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can make all the proposals he likes: he still finds himself considered a criminal. His request for a collaboration that would let him fully re-equip the country's drilling, production and processing operations is refused. He goes so far as to suggest that countries using the single European currency pay in euros and no longer in dollars, but to no avail. People turn their back to him. Some threaten him. Even the Pope refuses to receive him. In many countries, his embassies and diplomatic staff are deprived of contact with the local authorities and foreign delegations; they have ended up with pariah status. One may well ask oneself where such radical behaviour towards the Iranians ever originated and why the international community acts so obviously against its own economic interests.
Three grounds are usually brought up to explain this policy of boycott and open hostility: 1) the Iranian president is perhaps trying to arm his country with nuclear weapons; 2) it seems he wants to exterminate the Jews in Israel; 3) he holds the extermination of the European Jews during the Second World War to be a myth. The first two grounds do not make much sense; only the third is serious and, for that reason, instructive.
In reply to the first ground, it's fitting to observe that if Ahmadinejad's accusers possessed the slightest evidence that Iran was trying to acquire nuclear weapons, such evidence would long since have been brandished before the world; however, up to now, they have supplied no real evidence and, in any case, if Iran had a nuclear bomb at her disposal, she could not launch it towards a geographic zone populated by as many Palestinians as Jews; her bomb would kill or maim both populations without distinction.
The second ground rests on the absurd manipulation of a text. Ahmadinejad has had and continues to have ascribed to him an incendiary statement according to which the Jewish State is to be "wiped off the map," words taken to mean the extermination of the Jews in Israel. Actually, he'd merely repeated in 2005 Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 declaration that "the regime [in Persian, "rezhime"] occupying Al Qods [Jerusalem]" would one day "vanish from the page of time". Ahmadinejad took care to spell out his phrase by specifying that, if all the inhabitants of the land of Palestine—Moslems, Jews and Christians—had the right one day to vote freely and opt for a regime of their choice, the Zionist regime would disappear from Palestine just as, for example, the Communist regime disappeared from Russia. The Western media, as a whole, have reported neither the exact wording nor the explanation.
The third ground is the true one: if the Iranian president causes so much fear, it's owing to his revisionism. He has wielded the sole weapon that can deeply worry the Jewish State and its ally, the United States. He possesses what I've called the poor man's atomic weapon. In the findings of historical revisionism he effectively holds a "device of mass destruction" that would kill no-one but could neutralise Israel's number one political weapon: the Great Lie of the alleged Nazi gas chambers and the alleged genocide of Europe's Jews. Raised in the religion of "the Holocaust," the peoples of North America and Europe generally believe in this Great Lie and see Ahmadinejad as a heretic; thus they dare not defend any policy of rapprochement with Iran, or call for a lifting of the boycott, although therein lies the only chance of seeing their energy costs decrease. (Emphasis ours - Ed). Doubtless some of these peoples' leaders desire an understanding with Iran, but they back away at the prospect of being criticised as accomplices of the new Satan, of the "denier", the "negationist" who "kills the Jews once again by denying their death".
The news of the international "Holocaust" conference in Tehran (December 11th – 12th 2006) rang out like a warning shot. By no means reserved to revisionists, that conference was open to all. Confrontation of opposing views was allowed, and it took place. The rout of the antirevisionists was dramatic. And President Ahmadinejad, already fully apprised of revisionist argumentation, was thus able to restate that "the Holocaust" was a myth. Bush, Blair, Chirac, who know nothing of revisionism, responded by making a terrible fuss. As for the Israelis, they are aware of the Jewish authors' utter inability to answer revisionist arguments on the scientific level; they now uphold their Great Lie only with Elie Wiesel-style fake testimony or cinematic guff in the manner of Claude Lanzmann, when they don't resort to novels, drama or even sham museum exhibitions like those at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem or the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington; they have therefore seized the occasion to draw up a bill in the Knesset that would let the State of Israel demand that any revisionist, wherever in the world he might be, be delivered to its own courts! When there's no proof to show, the cudgel is used (As on the author, Professor Robert Faurisson PhD pictured at left - Ed).
The Zionists and their friends are getting more and more alarmed at the diffusion of revisionism over the Internet. They make many attempts, cynical or veiled, to strengthen Internet censorship but, up to today at any rate, they have not yet achieved their aims. Throughout the Western world repression of revisionism is worsening, but it's all a waste of effort so far. The holocaustic propaganda and Shoah Business grow ever more deafening, but henceforth they tend to annoy or tire people.
Revisionism has long been an intellectual adventure, experienced by a certain number of academics, researchers and various other persons ready to sacrifice their lives or their tranquillity for the defence of historical truth, and of justice. Today, revisionism is becoming, on the international plane, a noticeable bone of contention; it is asserted by some and violently denounced by others, and is present even in certain political or economic altercations. It is destined to play no small role in the endless crisis in the Middle East as well as in the current energy crisis. For the powerful, it will constitute a threat and, for others, a way out. In any case, the times when revisionism could be treated with contempt or quite simply ignored are decidedly past. . . Full story: ziopedia.org.
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Polar Race
July 28, 2008 – "Northern governments and oil companies have never salivated to quite the same extent over the Arctic, which becomes all the more hospitable to them as the ice melts . . . If one were a cynic, one would say that in this instance it is altogether to Ottawa's advantage to drag its feet in the fight against greenhouse gases . . ."
Four hundred and twelve billion barrels of oil. A third of the planet's proven reserves. That's what the depths of the Arctic contain, according to the US Geological Survey's most recent evaluation. One may count on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to take advantage of the opportunity to reassert Canada's "unquestionable" sovereignty over the North—and to reduce the debate over the development of the circumpolar world to a war of flags and icebreakers. . . . Full story: truthout.org
Comment: The speculation-driven skyrocketing price of petroleum is a crisis orchestrated not only through the Amsterdam spot market, where hundreds of "paper barrels" of oil are bought and sold for every actual barrel produced, but also here at home through collusion of governments with the British Imperial ('City of London' - Ed) energy/raw materials cartel over the past two decades or more. Our continent and surrounding waters contain some of the world's greatest deposits of oil and gas, literally oceans of it, while hundreds if not thousands of on and offshore oil wells have been drilled and just capped, in order to create an artificial shortage.
Oil is now being produced in this country for $5 per barrel. In a briefing on 7th May 2008, Mike Yeager, Chief Executive of BHP Billiton's Petroleum Sector said, "We're right now sitting at $5 [production price per barrel] . . . That's how we're able to contribute these extraordinary returns and extraordinary margins to our corporation–something we're very, very pleased with . . . In the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and in Western Australia, we pay very, very small royalties. We keep the majority of the barrels ourselves. . . So, we keep all the upside. If these barrels were in Algeria or some other place in the world, then you'd be sharing that upside with the Government."
Numerous experts . . . have repeatedly stated that Australia's natural gas deposits are so huge that Australia could soon be the second or third largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the world, "another Qatar. . . In terms of offshore frontier basins [i.e. prospective oil fields] Australia has the largest spread and largest variety of any country in the world. There is little doubt that Australia has barely scratched the surface in terms of petroleum exploration." This crisis has been orchestrated . . . In 1985, Australia produced 96% of its crude oil needs through domestic production and had a small net surplus in 2000. . . (cecaust.com.au).
Producing nations sell oil for a pittance, but with Rockefeller's world parity oil pricing—pump price is currently up 1,300%. In the US, Rockefeller legislation shut down Alaskan production and chokes production at the well head. Because politicians in the controlled political parties of our Hegelian sham democracies dare not call it treason, we are forced to contribute to the cost of funding Lucifer's totalitarian one world government, massive world depopulation and a return to serfdom.
Has the cost of oil rocketed to such heights because the Federal Reserve needs to sustain demand for the US dollar? What is the link between oil, the Federal Reserve and the hoax of man-made "global warming"/"climate change"? Why are hedge funds and speculators in commodities placing such a high price on oil, since consumption has been in decline and producing nations are pumping more than is being consumed such that the world is awash with oil?
Is the oil price hike by hedge funds and other speculators intended to inflame opposition to innocent Islam in order to gain support for the "hot" stage of World War III? Contrary to claims by US President George W. Bush, increased demand from India and China has not been the cause of rising food prices. Professor Gallagher's report to the British government states "The basket of food prices examined in the study rose by 140% between 2002 and this February. The report estimates that higher energy and fertilizer prices accounted for an increase of only 15%, while biofuels have been responsible for a 75% jump over that period" which has left 100 million more people without enough to eat. . .
The Big Lie only works to the point where the population being propagandized is not feeling the direct impact and negative consequences on a personal level in their daily lives and have to act in order to survive. The US would do well to remember how President Roosevelt deliberately provoked Japan to attack America by withholding oil. The next time a US president overplays his hand the United States will be destroyed.
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WTO Talks Collapse amidst Developing Countries' Reluctance to Sacrifice Food Security
July 29, 2008 – "Despite trade ministers' hopes for a last-minute deal, World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations collapsed yet again today, and observers at the talks in Geneva say that the failure is not surprising, given the reluctance of India and other developing nations to sacrifice food security measures in the wake of the recent global spike in food prices."
At a time when many countries are seeking to reduce dependence on troubled economies in the US and Europe, and as fears of a global recession loom, many nations are questioning the development gains to be achieved from trade liberalization. The projected gains from the Doha Round offer developing countries very little in potential gains. According to World Bank modeling, developing country benefits would be just 16 percent of total world gains, or 0.16 per cent of GDP. This works out to less than a penny per day per capita in the developing world. Poverty reduction—which in itself would be very limited—would reach only 2.5 million people. Full story: cepr.net
Comment: Ungrateful wretches! Don't they know that pennies make pounds? Let them eat biofuel!
By the grace of God the failure of these one-sided negotiations will ward off misery and death for millions otherwise forced off the land by imports, becoming factory fodder or victims of famine. Free Trade is a death wish to any nation.
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Democracy
George II and his comrades are fighting undeclared wars of aggression with your taxes and the blood of your sons to fulfil the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. This is the inspiration behind the oppression and aggression of the US, Britain, Australia and other colonies of 'the City' designed to force democracy and universal suffrage out of the barrel of a gun:
"When we have accomplished our coup d'etat we shall say then to the various peoples: 'Everything has gone terribly badly, all have been worn out with suffering. We are destroying the causes of your torment—nationalities, frontiers, differences of coinages. You are at liberty, of course, to pronounce sentence upon us, but can it possibly be a just one if it is confirmed by you before you make any trial of what we are offering you' . . . then will the mob exalt us and bear us up in their hands in a unanimous triumph of hopes and expectations. Voting, which we have made the instrument which will set us on the throne of the world by teaching even the very smallest units of members of the human race to vote by means of meetings and agreements by groups, will then have served its purposes and will play its part then for the last time by a unanimity of desire to make close acquaintance with us before condemning us."
"TO SECURE THIS WE MUST HAVE EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF CLASSES AND QUALIFICATIONS, in order to establish an absolute majority, which cannot be got from the educated propertied classes. In this way, by inculcating in all a sense of self-importance, we shall destroy among the GOYIM the importance of the family and its educational value and remove the possibility of individual minds splitting off; for the mob, handled by us, will not let them come to the front nor even give them a hearing; it is accustomed to listen to us only who pay it for obedience and attention. In this way we shall create a blind, mighty force which will never be in a position to move in any direction without the guidance of our agents set at its head by us as leaders of the mob. The people will submit to this regime because it will know that upon these leaders will depend its earnings, gratifications and the receipt of all kinds of benefits". Full story: Protocol 10:4-5
Comment: (La Vieille France (21 October, 1920, No. 195) published an extremely important Russian document in which the following passage occurs: "There is a striking analogy between the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the discourse of the Rabbi Reichhorn, pronounced in Prague in 1869 over the tomb of the Grand Rabbi Simeon-ben-Ihuda, and published by Readcliffe, who paid with his life for the divulgation. Sonol, who had taken Readcliffe to hear Reichhorn, was killed in a duel some time afterwards. The general ideas formulated by the Rabbi are found fully developed in the Protocols," (which were published about 35 years later).
"La Vieille France (10 March, 1921, No. 214) gives the version of this funeral oration which was published in La Russie Juive. It is perfectly clear that the funeral oration and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion come from one and the same mint. Both are prophetic; and the power which made the prophecies has been able to bring about their fulfillment. There can no longer be any doubt as to whose is the power which is disturbing the world, creating World Unrest, and at the same time reaping all of the profits. Jewry is enslaving all Christian peoples of the earth. There IS a Jew World Plot and it now stands finally and completely unmasked)":
"6. By the ceaseless praise of DEMOCRATIC RULE we shall divide the Christians into political parties, we shall destroy the unity of their nations, we shall sow discord everywhere. Reduced to impotence, they will bow before the LAW of OUR BANK, always united, and always devoted to our Cause."
"7. We shall force the Christians into wars by exploiting their pride and their stupidity. They will massacre each other, and clear the ground for us to put our people into" . . . Full story: the7thfire.com).
Dr. Richard N. Gardner, professor of Law and International Organisation at Columbia University, and former deputy Assistant Secretary of State for international organisations during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. . . is specific about the key role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in creating the world state: "We are embarked on an ambitious negotiation for the reform of the international monetary system, aimed at phasing out the dollar standard. . .
The accomplishment of those objectives will inevitably require a revitalization of the IMF, which will be given unprecedented powers to create new international reserves and to influence national decisions on exchange rates and on the domestic monetary and fiscal policies."
A rigid international credit monopoly, international control of the basic raw materials of the world, and an international economic system — the multinational corporations are paving the way—are essential for the establishment of the World State. (Eric D. Butler, Censored History, 1976).
The power to create financial credit is the power to control all forms of economic activity, including the media. Once the nature of this power is grasped, and how present methods of credit creation generate increasing debt, heavier taxation and accelerating inflation, the nexus between International Finance and International Communism can be readily seen."
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The Carbon Trading Scam
"Just as the United States Treasury and central bankers are trying to save us from the excesses of securitised debt obligations, the Australian government, herded along by economist Ross Garnaut, is preparing to save us from the perils of climate change with . . . securitised debt obligations (carbon emission permits)" (The Australian Financial Review, July 16, 2008).
Out of the frying pan into the fire according to the strategy of The Protocols, via our Hegelian sham democratic system and the great power of the Press: "We must compel the governments of the goyim to take action in the direction favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly promoted by us through the means of that so-called "Great Power"—THE PRESS, WHICH, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS THAT MAY BE DISREGARDED, IS ALREADY ENTIRELY IN OUR HANDS."
"In a word, to sum up our system of keeping the governments of the goyim in Europe in check, we shall show our strength to one of them by terrorist attempts and to all, if we allow the possibility of a general rising against us, we shall respond with the guns of America or China or Japan" (Protocol 7). . . "we shall create a blind, mighty force which will never be in a position to move in any direction without the guidance of our agents set at its head by us as leaders of the mob. The people will submit to this regime because it will know that upon these leaders will depend its earnings, gratifications and the receipt of all kinds of benefits" (Protocol 10).
But who is Professor Ross Garnaut, and why would the Australian government commission him to palm this thimble and pea scheme of unscientific lies peddled by Sir Nicholas Stern and former Vice President Al Gore on the nation? Why indeed? Professor Garnaut, now PM Kevin Rudd's chief kommissar and propagandist, was his boss when they were posted to China. Is their first loyalty is to 'the City'? Professor Garnaut is a member of Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, an Illuminati 'front' organization.
Fellow traveler 'Climate Change' Minister Penny Wong said, "We have a very strong self interest in tackling climate change. We're a hot and dry country. We have a strong self interest in adapting now, adjusting to the new world order. We've got a strong self interest in an effective global regime and part of that is doing the right thing at home".
Professor Garnaut revealed the true Trilateral agenda in The Australian Financial Review: "Banks and other financial innovators can score from developing products such as options and derivatives for emissions trading [this kind of gambling created and will ensure the longevity of the global financial meltdown - Ed]. . . Climate change and the emissions trading scheme present challenges for business, but also opportunities for the financial services sector. . ." [As set forth in the Protocols—with no effect on the weather - Ed] (July 15, 2008, p. 6). The article proceeds to discuss who can profit from Australian businesses going under as a result of this underhand sleight to intelligence and speculates how an exchange of paper permits can possibly affect Earth's weather.
Scientists: Climate change is a scam and you'll be paying for it!
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Volcanic Activity
Several days ago, a volcano near the coast of Chile that had been dormant for 9,000 years erupted spectacularly, hurling liquefied metals and lightning many miles into the sky. The results, which you see here, are called a 'dirty thunderstorm,' and are quite rare. Nobody is certain what causes them, but according to National Geographic it's believed to be 'the result of rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in the plume colliding to produce static charges—just as ice particles collide to create charge in regular thunderstorms . . . Full story: blogspot.com.
Comment: As reported in Newsletter #527 it came to life on May 2, 2008. In its latest eruption, it spewed debris twenty miles up into the atmosphere. . . Photography by National Geographic Magazine. There have been further eruptions in Ecuador and Montserrat a 6.8 earthquake in Japan, and a 5.4 earthquake in California east of Los Angeles.
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Fear not, nor be Perplexed, the Lord will be with You
Numbers 24:15-25, "The revelation of Balaam the son of Beor, the revelation of a man whose eyes are open: the revelation of him who hears the Words of God, who perceives the knowledge of the most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance but having his eyes open:'
"I shall see Him, but not now: I observe Him, but not nearby. A Star shall come out of Jacob, a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, which shall crush Moab from one end of the country to the other and destroy all the sons of confusion. Edom too shall become a possession and Seir a conquered territory; and Israel shall do valiantly."
"One with dominion shall come out of Jacob and kill the survivors of the cities. Then Balaam looked on Amalek and took up his discourse: Amalek was the first of the nations to resist Israel at their entrance into the Promised Land (Exodus 17:8); but his posterity shall perish for ever. And he looked on the Kenites and proceeded with his discourse, Your home is of lasting duration, and your nest is set in the rock. Nevertheless the Kenite shall be destroyed but not until Assyria carries Israel away captive (Isaiah 10:5). And he concluded his discourse, saying, Alas, who shall live when God appoints Assyria to destroy Israel? Ships shall come from the coasts of Cyprus; then they shall oppress both Assyria (Balaam's homeland)and Eber, and Cyprus shall also come to destruction. And Balaam rose up, and went back to his place: and Balak also went his way".
Back in the days of Moses—even before Israel had crossed the river Jordan, Balaam prophesied the future devastation and carrying away of her Northern kingdom. His vision reaches beyond the Babylonian and Medo-Persian histories to a faint glimpse of Alexander, and behind him the Roman world power, which will oppress or humble Eber, his own race and that of Israel, unto the consummation.
Numbers 24 foretells the eventual destruction of all kingdoms that come against Israel, for to resist Israel in her covenant service to God is to come against God. The Promised Land for Spiritual Israel is the baptism with the Holy Spirit which places us in Christ. The destruction of all heathen powers foretold at the end of Numbers 24 will take place after Israel enters her rest in Jesus Messiah. This is called "the battle of that great day of God Almighty" from which there will be no survivors.
Armageddon, or the "mount of Meggido" is derived from the Heb. root gadad, which means "to cut off" or slaughter.
Revelation 16:16, "And they (i.e. this trinity of unclean spirits—Fascism, Nazism and Communism that come out of the mouth of the dragon (Rome), the beast (her once Protestant image), and the false prophet (or pope) between the Sixth and Seventh Vials), gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." That is, to the place of slaughter.
As "that great and dreadful day of the Lord" may well dawn before another circuit of the Sun it is appropriate we direct our attention to Scriptures concerning the climax of the Gentile dispensation. Today we will review Joel's prophecy given a century and a half before the dissolution of the Northern kingdom. It covers "the times of the Gentiles" (Luke 21:24) that began with Judah's defeat almost a century and a half after Israel's people were resettled throughout the Assyrian empire and where they remain to this day. It takes us to "the day of the Lord" which will commence with the first resurrection and manifestation of the Sons of God in Daniel's Seventieth Week, Israel's one day of salvation, the destruction of the enemies of God and His people, and the restoration of the kingdom under Jesus Messiah in the Millennium.
The Lord will be glorified in the remnant of Israel and bestow upon them far higher favours than their fathers enjoyed. This promise becomes more and more closely allied to the hope of Jesus Messiah, which is the solid basis of all other hopes of Israel's future and glorious destiny.
The greatness of God's judgment upon Israel is expressed in the first three verses in which he calls upon the aged men to cast their minds back through living memory to see whether they are able to find a parallel to the chastisements Joel will foretell; judgments that would not be forgotten in the ages to come: "Tell these things to your children, and they to their children, and their children to the generation [of Gentiles] after them" (Joel 1:3; Acts 2:39).
That which the Palmerworm (or chewing locust) has left the (swarming) Locust has eaten; and what the swarming locust has left the Cankerworm (or crawling locust) has eaten; and what the cankerworm has left the Caterpillar (or consuming locust) has eaten." The same insect in four stages of its development (emblematic of Satan) devoured the faith of the fig tree (Matthew 21:18-20) to a dry stump of unbelief, causing Israel to crucify her own Messiah. On the day of Pentecost, Gentile [proselytes to Yahwism] were graft into the root, and before the Lord can restore Israel to the faith He must take us home for the Wedding Supper in the Sky and in this present generation reconfirm His New Covenant with an elect remnant of Israel through the ministry of two Hebrew prophets (Matthew 24:31-34; Zechariah 4; Revelation 11).
The same metaphor that is employed to illustrate how the anti-Christ spirit led Israel into apostasy is engaged to describe how he has devastated Christian faith riding the four horses of the Apocalypse through seven Church Ages, destroying by organization, denomination and false doctrine until he is incarnate in the pope. Like Israel, the Gentiles end in apostasy (Romans 11:32), but a remnant must be restored for the rapture which is why He sent William Branham (1906-1965), the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6, Matthew 17:11 and Revelation 10:7.
Israel, represented as a young wife who has lost Jehovah her husband, is rendered as dead as the barren fig tree Jesus cursed. And as the natural types the Spiritual, the plagues lay waste not just the source of pleasure for drunkards but the whole economy. The essential elements of sacrifice—wheat emblematic of the revealed Word, wine, signifying stimulation of revelation, and oil, representative of the Holy Spirit, are not available. The priests cannot minister, and the whole nation is called to a fast and pray.
The intensity of Israel's mourning illustrates the magnitude of God's judgment. The priests and the people are called upon to acknowledge the chastisement and return to the Lord who has sent it. Their rebellion and his judgments have persisted over 2,500 years and the nation is now well into the third millennial day since 780BC of which it was foretold God will raise up Israel to live in His approval (Hosea 6:1-2). So Joel's prophecy is set in the closing hours of the Gentile dispensation—the present hour in which we live. "Woe, for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand. It comes as a day of destruction from the Almighty" (Joel 1:15). Even the beasts are groaning and travailing in pain in anticipation of the manifestation of the Sons of God and redemption (Joel 1:18-20; Romans 8:19-23).
Joel 2:1-11 explains more fully the misery coming upon our world—a harbinger of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. He commands Israel's priests to signal an alarm from the mountain of His holiness. It types Israel's Supernatural Seventh and Great Trumpet, signaling the end of the Gentile dispensation and calling blood Israelites to return to the Land of the Covenant for redemption in Daniel's Seventieth Week (Isaiah 27:13, Matthew 24:31; Revelation 11:15).
Joel 2:32, "And it shall come to pass, that everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said; and those who are saved will be the remnant [144,000] whom the Lord has called".
Obadiah 15-18, "For the day of the Lord's vengeance will soon fall upon all the goiim [without the Seal of God—including, of course, the non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews]. As you have done to Israel, it shall be done to you: your deeds will come back upon your own head. For as Israel has drunk My cup of punishment upon My holy mountain, all the goiim round about will drink it, too: yes, they will drink continually and swallow down and will disappear from history. Those who escape will be in mount Zion, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall take possession of their heritage. The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph [the ten tribes] a flame, and the house of Esau [the non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews] stubble, and Israel shall set them ablaze and consume them; and the house of Esau shall not have a single survivor. THUS SAITH THE LORD".
Joel 2:2, "A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dense darkness, like morning gray that spreads upon the mountains, there comes a great and powerful people; the likes of them have not been seen of old, nor will they again be seen throughout the years of all generations".
Four terms are employed to emphasize the intensity of this darkness; naturally and spiritually it is darker than the plague of Egypt (Exodus 10:22) and the judgment upon Sinai (Deuteronomy 4:11) and is described in Isaiah 34:1-8; Zephaniah 1:14-18; Zechariah 14:6-7; Matthew 24:29; II Thessalonians 2:1-12 and Revelation 6:12-17. Naturally its suddenness will envelop the world at the opening of the Sixth Seal; spiritually its descent has taken millennia so that men have become accustomed to darkness believing it to be Light (Matthew 24:36-39; John 3:19). God sent Brother Branham to introduce the second or 'parousia' Coming of the Man who could turn on the Light of revelation for His end-time Bride (Isaiah 42:1-7; Matthew 4:12-17; Zechariah 14:7; Matthew 24:27). The foolish virgin have recognized His prophet and preach the "letter" of his Message but do not discern the Light (Matthew 25:8-13).
Like a concertina the events of Daniel's Seventieth Week are compressed, which is why in pulpit teaching or preaching one may expound a verse or two at length, or perhaps only half a verse. We are studying the time of Daniel 12:1, where Christ "stands up" and commences His reign over Israel, heralding the climax of the tribulation signaled by the appearance of the Roman ensigns on the mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem. Daniel 9:26, "unto the end of the war [between Rome and Israel] desolations are determined" in the Great Tribulation. Now General Jesus stands on the mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem which is occupied by Rome (Matthew 24:15-34). This signifies the unseen 'parousia' Coming of Israel's King Jesus Messiah with "the great and powerful people" of Joel's vision.
Revelation 19:11-16, You should insert your name here, because John represents Christ's end-time Bride. We know this is so for John was forbidden to write the mystery of the Seven Thunders and the Book was sealed until the days of the Voice of the Seventh Angel, William Branham, so this revelation is intended exclusively for Christ's end- time Bride (Revelation 10:4, 7; Daniel 12:4, 9): "I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems with a Name inscribed which no one knows, but he who has the revelation. The robe in which He is clad has been dipped in the blood [of His enemies], and the Name by which He is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven [called, "chosen before the foundation of the world," and "faithful to the Word" by their choosing], dressed in finest linen, white and clean, followed Him upon white horses. From His mouth issues a sharp sword with which to smite the goiim: and He will rule them with a rod of iron: and He treads the winepress of the furious wrath of God the Almighty. And His Name is inscribed on His robe and on His thigh, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS" (Hebrews 7:1-3; Isaiah 66:15-16; Psalm 97).
Brother Branham said, "Satan knows that if the people get the TRUE REVELATION of the TRUE CHURCH and what she is, what she stands for and that SHE CAN DO THE GREATER WORKS, she will be an invincible army. If they get a true revelation of the two spirits within the framework of the Christian church, and by God's Spirit discern and withstand the antichrist spirit, Satan will be powerless before her. He will be as definitely thwarted today as when Christ withstood his every effort to gain power over Him in the desert. Yes, Satan hates revelation. But we love it. With true revelation in our lives, the gates of hell cannot prevail against us, but we will prevail over them" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, 15:3).
When Jesus spoke of the greater works, he was facing the mount of Olives. Mark 11:22-23, "Have faith in God. For I assure you, That whoever says to this mountain, Be taken up and cast into the sea; and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass; it will be done for him".
Joel 2:6-7, 10-11, "Before this mighty army there is universal anguish: all faces grow pale with consternation, and no ordinary weapons can stop their advance . . . The earth quakes before their face, and the heavens tremble: the Sun and the Moon are darkened, and the stars lose their brightness. The Lord thunders His voice [seven times] before His army (Revelation 10:1-7): for His advancing host is mighty: he that obeys His commands is invincible. The day of the Lord is great and terrible; and who can endure it"?
Joel has described the opening of the Sixth Seal at the Seventh Trump and the pouring out of the Seventh Vial with the sinking of Los Angeles and the division of the mount of Olives causing the destruction of the Dome of the Rock. This is the time of the latter rain when man and God become one in the manifestation of the Sons of God as explained in Newsletters #532, #533, and #534.
Joel 2:12-17 declares the Message of the Lord to Israel: even now, although the wrath of God is so clearly revealed that men may see His day coming simply by listening to the news, still He finds it necessary to say, "turn unto Me." In the day of the Lord grace and mercy end and Jesus will sit in judgment upon Israel and all of her foes (Daniel 7:9-12). The ultimate result of the judgment will be the regeneration of "all Israel," all 144,000 of them (Joel 2:32; Romans 11:26; Revelation 7:1-8; 14:1-5), and the punishment of the goiim as the enemies of His people and the vast majority of Israelites who have been untrue to Him.
The priests are commanded to call a solemn assembly of all Israel, from the aged men to the sucking babes. Fortunately the Bridegroom is exempt and will steal away His waiting Bride to the Wedding Supper in the sky. Joel 2:17, "Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and [turning toward the Holy of Holies] let them say, Spare Your people, O Lord, and make not Your heritage a reproach. Don't allow them to be disgraced by the taunts of the goiim who say, 'Where is their God? How weak and helpless He must be!'"
Joel was prophesying in 800BC when Solomon's Temple was yet standing. The porch was in fact a tower in front of the Sanctuary, before which stood the brazen altar of sacrifice. The space between the porch and the altar became an inner part of the court of the priests, and seems to have been a place of prayer for the priests. Here 78 years before Joel's prophecy Zechariah stood when the Spirit of the Lord came upon him and he rebuked the people for forsaking the Lord, whereupon they stoned him (II Chronicles 24:20-21; Matthew 23:35). Here two hundred years later, when they ought to have been worshipping God, twenty-five idolatrous priests turned their backs to the Holy of Holies and worshipped the sun (Ezekiel 8:16).
As in Joel's day, Israel was the kingdom of Jehovah in a special sense so "the day" for Israel as God's people would be the epoch of their perfect and glorious deliverance from all of their enemies; "the day" is when Jehovah sits in judgment upon all His foes, and when Israel's prosperity begins. . . Spiritually. Joel sees them on the one hand measured by judgments, but on the other hand averting them by their penitence, so that actually these judgments fall upon the heathen alone, while Israel and Judah are redeemed and glorified.
Joel's plea with Israel to honor their Covenant responsibility in verses 15-17, is matched by his assurance in verses 18-32 that God will honour His Covenant obligations to His servant nation. In recognition of the contrition of the remnant of Israel God will destroy the invaders led by Russia, "the king of the North" (Isaiah 60:5; Ezekiel 38-39; Daniel 11:40), and send rain to cause the land to produce in abundance. The institutions of state have been restored in the land of Israel together with agriculture able to provide the elements necessary to serve the sacrificial worship prescribed by the Old Covenant.
Joel 2:28-32 "And it shall come to pass after this natural restoration that I will pour out My Spirit upon all mankind; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out My spirit."
Like most prophecies of the Scripture Joel's have a compound meaning. Throughout "those days," the two thousand years of the Gentile dispensation, the Lord has poured out His Spirit in grace upon all of Adam's race without respect of persons, whether Israelite or Gentile, bond or free, male or female, in fulfilment of Moses' wish (Numbers 11:29; Galatians 3:28). However, this outpouring in the day of judgment following the close of the Gentile dispensation is the "latter rain" that will empower Christ's end-time Bride to manifest that they are the invincible army of Christ's Bride and to change in the atoms. It will be the "former rain" of the ministry of two prophets anointed with the Spirit that was upon Moses and Elijah which will restore the understanding of the Covenant Israel has forsaken (Romans 9:27) and expound the shadows and types of the Old Testament to place the nation in the history of the past two thousand years for the remnant to recognize their day and its Message as Brother Branham's ministry restored the apostolic faith to Christ's end-time Bride in the repetition of our "former rain, and placed the Church Ages in the context of history by revealing the Seven Seals.
The outpouring of the Spirit after the opening of the Sixth Seal will also fall upon sinners to bring the mass of this world, the enemy of God and of His people, to damnation (Matthew 5:45; Hebrews 6:8; Revelation 22:11).
Joel 2:30-32, "The day of the Lord will be introduced by terrible signs in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke from which there is safety only in Zion and in Jerusalem. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass, that everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and those who are saved will be the remnant [144,000] whom the Lord has called".
To call on the Name of the Lord is to confess Him as Redeemer. The Lord is calling those whom He foreknew as believers. Only these elect and none else will receive a complete deliverance, so the number will be small. In order to call upon the Name of the Lord they will require a clear revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ as kinsman Redeemer by the present Truth.
These will not be local "Jews," but Israelites who will be called to remove to Zion from their homes in the Muslim world and elsewhere for communion with the Lord through his prophets and for redemption (Isaiah 6:10-13; 11:11; 27:13; Jeremiah 3:12, 18; 16:15; 23:8; 31:8; Micah 5:3). Israel's deliverance will be in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, not without. There the 144,000 will individually testify of the Lord Jesus Christ in the place where His blood was shed and receive martyrdom at the hands of Rome and the self-styled Jews (Revelation 6:11; 14:12-13).
Joel 3:1, "After the "those days" [of the Gentile dispensation and after the Seventh Trump] I will restore the blood descendants of Israel and Judah to the land of Israel. (This is when the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem ends – Joel 3:7). I will gather the armies of the goiim [led by Jew-controlled Russia] to the valley where "God Judges," and punish them there because they have scattered My people and My heritage among the nations and divided My land." Historically the conquerors of Israel and Judah plundered their wealth and sold prisoners of war as slaves, choosing no one above another as though all alike were worthless, selling a girl for an evening's revelry, and a boy for a night's debauch. In 1948 the United Nations of the Edomite Jew's 'City of London' divided Israel, evicting its Hebrew and Arab inhabitants.
Joel 3:7-8 were fulfilled by Alexander the Great and his successors, under whom many Israelite captives were liberated and restored to their own land, while various parts of Philistia and Phoenecia were brought under the rule of the province of Judea. "What have you to do with Me?" inquires the Lord of the Serpent's seed peoples of Tyre, Sidon and the coasts, whom He accounts as aliens (Joel 3:4).
The day of the Lord is designed to deliver the 144,000 by means of the judgment of the goiim and the consummation of life on earth in Armageddon. The imagery for the battle is provided by the great deliverance which God gave to Jehoshaphat when ("the sons of confusion") Ammon, Moab and Edom came against him. Jehoshaphat, whose name means 'God has Judged,' appealed to the Lord, who turned their swords one against the other. And they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah (or blessing) for there they blessed the Lord (II Chronicles 20). The only "valley of Jehoshaphat" is the valley of Kedron encircling Jerusalem on the East that was the common burial place for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
We have heard the Lord's accusation and the sentence, now comes its swift execution:
Joel 3:9-14, "Proclaim this among the nations. Sanctify for a holy war, Israel; arouse your mighty men, let all the fighting men draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am a warrior."
Now the nations are summoned to gather speedily as if they were about to accomplish a victory over Israel, while in reality they are rushing to their own destruction: "Hasten and come, all you nations from every side, gather yourselves to the valley of Jehoshaphat."
"And now, O Lord, bring down your warriors!" And the Lord responds:
"Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I judge all the nations round about."
"Thrust in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in and tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of God's Judgment".
The total overthrow of the commonwealth and the annihilation of its political existence as punishment for Israel's sins notwithstanding, the day of the Lord will come upon the heathen and the Lord will not cast off His people. A remnant 144,000 will be redeemed in whom He will be glorified. The enemies of the Lord are to be cut down like ripe wheat, and trodden under like grapes in the winepress, which will over flow with blood, emblematic of their wickedness (Isaiah 34:6; 63:1-6; Revelation 14:14-20; 17:14 – 18:24; 19:13).
Brother Branham said, "At this very time, the antichrist covenant that the Jews have made with Rome will be broken. Rome and her allies then send their troops to destroy all the God-fearing, Word-abiding Jews." (i.e. Israelites - Ed).
"But as they come against the city to destroy it, there will appear in the heavens the sign of the ('parousia' - Ed) coming of the Son of Man with His mighty armies to destroy them who have been destroying the earth. With the enemy repulsed, Jesus then comes and presents Himself (by revelation - Ed) to the 144,000. Having seen His mighty acts of salvation, they have come to know His power. But also seeing His wounds and knowing that they had rejected Him even to that moment, causes them to cry out in the agony of terror and fear, even as did their brethren of old when they stood before Joseph, being sore afraid that they would be killed. But as Joseph said, "Don't be angry with yourselves. It is all right. God was in it all. He did it to preserve life." Even so will Jesus speak peace and love to them" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 41).
"This is not the Rapture. This is when He comes to take over His rightful place as World Ruler. This is when those who have pierced Him with their creeds and denominational doctrines shall mourn, and all the people shall wail in terror because of Him Who is the Word."
"This is the revelation story of Zechariah 12:9-14 prophesied over 2500 years ago. It is just about to take place. Listen: "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced. . ." Now, when is the Gospel returning to the Jews? When the day of the Gentiles is finished. The Gospel is ready to go back to the Jews. Oh, if I could just tell you something that is about to happen right in this our day. This great thing that is about to happen will carry over to Revelation 11 and pick up those two witnesses, those two prophets, Moses and Elijah, turning the Gospel back to the Jews. We're ready for it. Everything is in order. As the Jews brought the Message to the Gentiles, even so the Gentiles will take it right back to the Jews, and the Rapture will come."
(Brother Branham is speaking of Christ's 'parousia' Coming to Israel in the office of Son of Man and Judge–unseen by mortal eye. He is NOT coming to the so-called "Jews" who are "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world" (Ephesians 2:12; Joel 3:4, 19; Isaiah 34; 63:1-6). We are now beyond the first half of Daniel's Seventieth Week.
As the Lord God told king Jehoshaphat, "You will not need to fight in this battle: just hold your position, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be perplexed; tomorrow go out before them, and the Lord will be with you" (II Chronicles 20:17). The battle is the Lord's. He will smite the goiim sinners with the sharp sword of the Word as confirmed by the conclusion of Joel's prophecy which is hyperbole referring to the Millennium where the kingdom is restored to Israel under the reign of Jesus Messiah and His elect goiim Queen).
"Now, remember what we have read in Revelation and Zechariah. Both come right after the tribulation. The Church of the First-born does not go through the tribulation" (ibid p. 36:5 - 37.1). nl538.htm
Homework: Please review Realization of Joel and Notes on Joel, Chapters 1 - 2
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In our previous Newsletter we exposed the foundation of lies upon which Satan has built his kingdom called "civilization." Aside from the old lies of religion, democracy and the tooth fairy, we now have Pearl Harbor, the murder of JFK, the Apollo Moon Landing, LBJ's Gulf of Tonkin "incident" to fully involve the US in Vietnam, his coverup of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, Big Pharma, the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11 and the Babylonian statutory reserve banking scan whereby banks make 60% on deposits for which they pay you 3% interest.
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News items we chose not to print portray "civilization" in the terminus of this final Gentile world empire degenerate to the point of barbarism. The greatest nation since Israel has sunk to amoral impotence: kidnapping and torturing innocent men and boys as a fig leaf to cover her lying justification for unprovoked wars of imperial aggression to loot the resources of defenseless nations; even training Mexican police in the black "art" of torture. But the US is a colony of 'the City' which employed the Big Lie of a holocaust to cover her atrocities and martial ineptitude in World War I, the Big Lie of a holocaust to cover the genocide of scores of millions of Christians between the wars in Jewish-controlled Soviet Russia, and the Big Lie of a holocaust to cover Allied atrocities in World War II. Further disclosure of CIA lies regarding the mythical nuclear programs of Iraq and Iran, revelations of US complicity in the slaughter of 100,000 North Koreans in the Korean War and plans to test poison gases in Queensland were also victims of the editor's pen.
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Geostrategic Effects of Revisionism: the Iranian Lesson
June 5, 2008 – The energy crisis is causing worry. However, Iran, which possesses huge reserves of oil and gas, wishes to exploit them better, with our help, and sell us the products, a procedure that would lead to a marked softening of worldwide petrol, diesel, fuel oil and gas prices. A good many nations have an eye on this great potential wealth and would be apt to respond favourably to Tehran's business proposals. But the United States has decreed the boycott of Iran and, up to now, the world's policeman has generally been obeyed. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can make all the proposals he likes: he still finds himself considered a criminal. His request for a collaboration that would let him fully re-equip the country's drilling, production and processing operations is refused. He goes so far as to suggest that countries using the single European currency pay in euros and no longer in dollars, but to no avail. People turn their back to him. Some threaten him. Even the Pope refuses to receive him. In many countries, his embassies and diplomatic staff are deprived of contact with the local authorities and foreign delegations; they have ended up with pariah status. One may well ask oneself where such radical behaviour towards the Iranians ever originated and why the international community acts so obviously against its own economic interests.
Three grounds are usually brought up to explain this policy of boycott and open hostility: 1) the Iranian president is perhaps trying to arm his country with nuclear weapons; 2) it seems he wants to exterminate the Jews in Israel; 3) he holds the extermination of the European Jews during the Second World War to be a myth. The first two grounds do not make much sense; only the third is serious and, for that reason, instructive.
In reply to the first ground, it's fitting to observe that if Ahmadinejad's accusers possessed the slightest evidence that Iran was trying to acquire nuclear weapons, such evidence would long since have been brandished before the world; however, up to now, they have supplied no real evidence and, in any case, if Iran had a nuclear bomb at her disposal, she could not launch it towards a geographic zone populated by as many Palestinians as Jews; her bomb would kill or maim both populations without distinction.
The second ground rests on the absurd manipulation of a text. Ahmadinejad has had and continues to have ascribed to him an incendiary statement according to which the Jewish State is to be "wiped off the map," words taken to mean the extermination of the Jews in Israel. Actually, he'd merely repeated in 2005 Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 declaration that "the regime [in Persian, "rezhime"] occupying Al Qods [Jerusalem]" would one day "vanish from the page of time". Ahmadinejad took care to spell out his phrase by specifying that, if all the inhabitants of the land of Palestine—Moslems, Jews and Christians—had the right one day to vote freely and opt for a regime of their choice, the Zionist regime would disappear from Palestine just as, for example, the Communist regime disappeared from Russia. The Western media, as a whole, have reported neither the exact wording nor the explanation.
The third ground is the true one: if the Iranian president causes so much fear, it's owing to his revisionism. He has wielded the sole weapon that can deeply worry the Jewish State and its ally, the United States. He possesses what I've called the poor man's atomic weapon. In the findings of historical revisionism he effectively holds a "device of mass destruction" that would kill no-one but could neutralise Israel's number one political weapon: the Great Lie of the alleged Nazi gas chambers and the alleged genocide of Europe's Jews. Raised in the religion of "the Holocaust," the peoples of North America and Europe generally believe in this Great Lie and see Ahmadinejad as a heretic; thus they dare not defend any policy of rapprochement with Iran, or call for a lifting of the boycott, although therein lies the only chance of seeing their energy costs decrease. (Emphasis ours - Ed). Doubtless some of these peoples' leaders desire an understanding with Iran, but they back away at the prospect of being criticised as accomplices of the new Satan, of the "denier", the "negationist" who "kills the Jews once again by denying their death".
The news of the international "Holocaust" conference in Tehran (December 11th – 12th 2006) rang out like a warning shot. By no means reserved to revisionists, that conference was open to all. Confrontation of opposing views was allowed, and it took place. The rout of the antirevisionists was dramatic. And President Ahmadinejad, already fully apprised of revisionist argumentation, was thus able to restate that "the Holocaust" was a myth. Bush, Blair, Chirac, who know nothing of revisionism, responded by making a terrible fuss. As for the Israelis, they are aware of the Jewish authors' utter inability to answer revisionist arguments on the scientific level; they now uphold their Great Lie only with Elie Wiesel-style fake testimony or cinematic guff in the manner of Claude Lanzmann, when they don't resort to novels, drama or even sham museum exhibitions like those at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem or the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington; they have therefore seized the occasion to draw up a bill in the Knesset that would let the State of Israel demand that any revisionist, wherever in the world he might be, be delivered to its own courts! When there's no proof to show, the cudgel is used (As on the author, Professor Robert Faurisson PhD pictured at left - Ed).
The Zionists and their friends are getting more and more alarmed at the diffusion of revisionism over the Internet. They make many attempts, cynical or veiled, to strengthen Internet censorship but, up to today at any rate, they have not yet achieved their aims. Throughout the Western world repression of revisionism is worsening, but it's all a waste of effort so far. The holocaustic propaganda and Shoah Business grow ever more deafening, but henceforth they tend to annoy or tire people.
Revisionism has long been an intellectual adventure, experienced by a certain number of academics, researchers and various other persons ready to sacrifice their lives or their tranquillity for the defence of historical truth, and of justice. Today, revisionism is becoming, on the international plane, a noticeable bone of contention; it is asserted by some and violently denounced by others, and is present even in certain political or economic altercations. It is destined to play no small role in the endless crisis in the Middle East as well as in the current energy crisis. For the powerful, it will constitute a threat and, for others, a way out. In any case, the times when revisionism could be treated with contempt or quite simply ignored are decidedly past. . . Full story: ziopedia.org.
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Polar Race
July 28, 2008 – "Northern governments and oil companies have never salivated to quite the same extent over the Arctic, which becomes all the more hospitable to them as the ice melts . . . If one were a cynic, one would say that in this instance it is altogether to Ottawa's advantage to drag its feet in the fight against greenhouse gases . . ."
Four hundred and twelve billion barrels of oil. A third of the planet's proven reserves. That's what the depths of the Arctic contain, according to the US Geological Survey's most recent evaluation. One may count on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to take advantage of the opportunity to reassert Canada's "unquestionable" sovereignty over the North—and to reduce the debate over the development of the circumpolar world to a war of flags and icebreakers. . . . Full story: truthout.org
Comment: The speculation-driven skyrocketing price of petroleum is a crisis orchestrated not only through the Amsterdam spot market, where hundreds of "paper barrels" of oil are bought and sold for every actual barrel produced, but also here at home through collusion of governments with the British Imperial ('City of London' - Ed) energy/raw materials cartel over the past two decades or more. Our continent and surrounding waters contain some of the world's greatest deposits of oil and gas, literally oceans of it, while hundreds if not thousands of on and offshore oil wells have been drilled and just capped, in order to create an artificial shortage.
Oil is now being produced in this country for $5 per barrel. In a briefing on 7th May 2008, Mike Yeager, Chief Executive of BHP Billiton's Petroleum Sector said, "We're right now sitting at $5 [production price per barrel] . . . That's how we're able to contribute these extraordinary returns and extraordinary margins to our corporation–something we're very, very pleased with . . . In the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and in Western Australia, we pay very, very small royalties. We keep the majority of the barrels ourselves. . . So, we keep all the upside. If these barrels were in Algeria or some other place in the world, then you'd be sharing that upside with the Government."
Numerous experts . . . have repeatedly stated that Australia's natural gas deposits are so huge that Australia could soon be the second or third largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the world, "another Qatar. . . In terms of offshore frontier basins [i.e. prospective oil fields] Australia has the largest spread and largest variety of any country in the world. There is little doubt that Australia has barely scratched the surface in terms of petroleum exploration." This crisis has been orchestrated . . . In 1985, Australia produced 96% of its crude oil needs through domestic production and had a small net surplus in 2000. . . (cecaust.com.au).
Producing nations sell oil for a pittance, but with Rockefeller's world parity oil pricing—pump price is currently up 1,300%. In the US, Rockefeller legislation shut down Alaskan production and chokes production at the well head. Because politicians in the controlled political parties of our Hegelian sham democracies dare not call it treason, we are forced to contribute to the cost of funding Lucifer's totalitarian one world government, massive world depopulation and a return to serfdom.
Has the cost of oil rocketed to such heights because the Federal Reserve needs to sustain demand for the US dollar? What is the link between oil, the Federal Reserve and the hoax of man-made "global warming"/"climate change"? Why are hedge funds and speculators in commodities placing such a high price on oil, since consumption has been in decline and producing nations are pumping more than is being consumed such that the world is awash with oil?
Is the oil price hike by hedge funds and other speculators intended to inflame opposition to innocent Islam in order to gain support for the "hot" stage of World War III? Contrary to claims by US President George W. Bush, increased demand from India and China has not been the cause of rising food prices. Professor Gallagher's report to the British government states "The basket of food prices examined in the study rose by 140% between 2002 and this February. The report estimates that higher energy and fertilizer prices accounted for an increase of only 15%, while biofuels have been responsible for a 75% jump over that period" which has left 100 million more people without enough to eat. . .
The Big Lie only works to the point where the population being propagandized is not feeling the direct impact and negative consequences on a personal level in their daily lives and have to act in order to survive. The US would do well to remember how President Roosevelt deliberately provoked Japan to attack America by withholding oil. The next time a US president overplays his hand the United States will be destroyed.
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WTO Talks Collapse amidst Developing Countries' Reluctance to Sacrifice Food Security
July 29, 2008 – "Despite trade ministers' hopes for a last-minute deal, World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations collapsed yet again today, and observers at the talks in Geneva say that the failure is not surprising, given the reluctance of India and other developing nations to sacrifice food security measures in the wake of the recent global spike in food prices."
At a time when many countries are seeking to reduce dependence on troubled economies in the US and Europe, and as fears of a global recession loom, many nations are questioning the development gains to be achieved from trade liberalization. The projected gains from the Doha Round offer developing countries very little in potential gains. According to World Bank modeling, developing country benefits would be just 16 percent of total world gains, or 0.16 per cent of GDP. This works out to less than a penny per day per capita in the developing world. Poverty reduction—which in itself would be very limited—would reach only 2.5 million people. Full story: cepr.net
Comment: Ungrateful wretches! Don't they know that pennies make pounds? Let them eat biofuel!
By the grace of God the failure of these one-sided negotiations will ward off misery and death for millions otherwise forced off the land by imports, becoming factory fodder or victims of famine. Free Trade is a death wish to any nation.
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Democracy
George II and his comrades are fighting undeclared wars of aggression with your taxes and the blood of your sons to fulfil the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. This is the inspiration behind the oppression and aggression of the US, Britain, Australia and other colonies of 'the City' designed to force democracy and universal suffrage out of the barrel of a gun:
"When we have accomplished our coup d'etat we shall say then to the various peoples: 'Everything has gone terribly badly, all have been worn out with suffering. We are destroying the causes of your torment—nationalities, frontiers, differences of coinages. You are at liberty, of course, to pronounce sentence upon us, but can it possibly be a just one if it is confirmed by you before you make any trial of what we are offering you' . . . then will the mob exalt us and bear us up in their hands in a unanimous triumph of hopes and expectations. Voting, which we have made the instrument which will set us on the throne of the world by teaching even the very smallest units of members of the human race to vote by means of meetings and agreements by groups, will then have served its purposes and will play its part then for the last time by a unanimity of desire to make close acquaintance with us before condemning us."
"TO SECURE THIS WE MUST HAVE EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF CLASSES AND QUALIFICATIONS, in order to establish an absolute majority, which cannot be got from the educated propertied classes. In this way, by inculcating in all a sense of self-importance, we shall destroy among the GOYIM the importance of the family and its educational value and remove the possibility of individual minds splitting off; for the mob, handled by us, will not let them come to the front nor even give them a hearing; it is accustomed to listen to us only who pay it for obedience and attention. In this way we shall create a blind, mighty force which will never be in a position to move in any direction without the guidance of our agents set at its head by us as leaders of the mob. The people will submit to this regime because it will know that upon these leaders will depend its earnings, gratifications and the receipt of all kinds of benefits". Full story: Protocol 10:4-5
Comment: (La Vieille France (21 October, 1920, No. 195) published an extremely important Russian document in which the following passage occurs: "There is a striking analogy between the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the discourse of the Rabbi Reichhorn, pronounced in Prague in 1869 over the tomb of the Grand Rabbi Simeon-ben-Ihuda, and published by Readcliffe, who paid with his life for the divulgation. Sonol, who had taken Readcliffe to hear Reichhorn, was killed in a duel some time afterwards. The general ideas formulated by the Rabbi are found fully developed in the Protocols," (which were published about 35 years later).
"La Vieille France (10 March, 1921, No. 214) gives the version of this funeral oration which was published in La Russie Juive. It is perfectly clear that the funeral oration and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion come from one and the same mint. Both are prophetic; and the power which made the prophecies has been able to bring about their fulfillment. There can no longer be any doubt as to whose is the power which is disturbing the world, creating World Unrest, and at the same time reaping all of the profits. Jewry is enslaving all Christian peoples of the earth. There IS a Jew World Plot and it now stands finally and completely unmasked)":
"6. By the ceaseless praise of DEMOCRATIC RULE we shall divide the Christians into political parties, we shall destroy the unity of their nations, we shall sow discord everywhere. Reduced to impotence, they will bow before the LAW of OUR BANK, always united, and always devoted to our Cause."
"7. We shall force the Christians into wars by exploiting their pride and their stupidity. They will massacre each other, and clear the ground for us to put our people into" . . . Full story: the7thfire.com).
Dr. Richard N. Gardner, professor of Law and International Organisation at Columbia University, and former deputy Assistant Secretary of State for international organisations during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. . . is specific about the key role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in creating the world state: "We are embarked on an ambitious negotiation for the reform of the international monetary system, aimed at phasing out the dollar standard. . .
The accomplishment of those objectives will inevitably require a revitalization of the IMF, which will be given unprecedented powers to create new international reserves and to influence national decisions on exchange rates and on the domestic monetary and fiscal policies."
A rigid international credit monopoly, international control of the basic raw materials of the world, and an international economic system — the multinational corporations are paving the way—are essential for the establishment of the World State. (Eric D. Butler, Censored History, 1976).
The power to create financial credit is the power to control all forms of economic activity, including the media. Once the nature of this power is grasped, and how present methods of credit creation generate increasing debt, heavier taxation and accelerating inflation, the nexus between International Finance and International Communism can be readily seen."
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The Carbon Trading Scam
"Just as the United States Treasury and central bankers are trying to save us from the excesses of securitised debt obligations, the Australian government, herded along by economist Ross Garnaut, is preparing to save us from the perils of climate change with . . . securitised debt obligations (carbon emission permits)" (The Australian Financial Review, July 16, 2008).
Out of the frying pan into the fire according to the strategy of The Protocols, via our Hegelian sham democratic system and the great power of the Press: "We must compel the governments of the goyim to take action in the direction favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly promoted by us through the means of that so-called "Great Power"—THE PRESS, WHICH, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS THAT MAY BE DISREGARDED, IS ALREADY ENTIRELY IN OUR HANDS."
"In a word, to sum up our system of keeping the governments of the goyim in Europe in check, we shall show our strength to one of them by terrorist attempts and to all, if we allow the possibility of a general rising against us, we shall respond with the guns of America or China or Japan" (Protocol 7). . . "we shall create a blind, mighty force which will never be in a position to move in any direction without the guidance of our agents set at its head by us as leaders of the mob. The people will submit to this regime because it will know that upon these leaders will depend its earnings, gratifications and the receipt of all kinds of benefits" (Protocol 10).
But who is Professor Ross Garnaut, and why would the Australian government commission him to palm this thimble and pea scheme of unscientific lies peddled by Sir Nicholas Stern and former Vice President Al Gore on the nation? Why indeed? Professor Garnaut, now PM Kevin Rudd's chief kommissar and propagandist, was his boss when they were posted to China. Is their first loyalty is to 'the City'? Professor Garnaut is a member of Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, an Illuminati 'front' organization.
Fellow traveler 'Climate Change' Minister Penny Wong said, "We have a very strong self interest in tackling climate change. We're a hot and dry country. We have a strong self interest in adapting now, adjusting to the new world order. We've got a strong self interest in an effective global regime and part of that is doing the right thing at home".
Professor Garnaut revealed the true Trilateral agenda in The Australian Financial Review: "Banks and other financial innovators can score from developing products such as options and derivatives for emissions trading [this kind of gambling created and will ensure the longevity of the global financial meltdown - Ed]. . . Climate change and the emissions trading scheme present challenges for business, but also opportunities for the financial services sector. . ." [As set forth in the Protocols—with no effect on the weather - Ed] (July 15, 2008, p. 6). The article proceeds to discuss who can profit from Australian businesses going under as a result of this underhand sleight to intelligence and speculates how an exchange of paper permits can possibly affect Earth's weather.
Scientists: Climate change is a scam and you'll be paying for it!
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Volcanic Activity
Several days ago, a volcano near the coast of Chile that had been dormant for 9,000 years erupted spectacularly, hurling liquefied metals and lightning many miles into the sky. The results, which you see here, are called a 'dirty thunderstorm,' and are quite rare. Nobody is certain what causes them, but according to National Geographic it's believed to be 'the result of rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in the plume colliding to produce static charges—just as ice particles collide to create charge in regular thunderstorms . . . Full story: blogspot.com.
Comment: As reported in Newsletter #527 it came to life on May 2, 2008. In its latest eruption, it spewed debris twenty miles up into the atmosphere. . . Photography by National Geographic Magazine. There have been further eruptions in Ecuador and Montserrat a 6.8 earthquake in Japan, and a 5.4 earthquake in California east of Los Angeles.
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Fear not, nor be Perplexed, the Lord will be with You
Numbers 24:15-25, "The revelation of Balaam the son of Beor, the revelation of a man whose eyes are open: the revelation of him who hears the Words of God, who perceives the knowledge of the most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance but having his eyes open:'
"I shall see Him, but not now: I observe Him, but not nearby. A Star shall come out of Jacob, a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, which shall crush Moab from one end of the country to the other and destroy all the sons of confusion. Edom too shall become a possession and Seir a conquered territory; and Israel shall do valiantly."
"One with dominion shall come out of Jacob and kill the survivors of the cities. Then Balaam looked on Amalek and took up his discourse: Amalek was the first of the nations to resist Israel at their entrance into the Promised Land (Exodus 17:8); but his posterity shall perish for ever. And he looked on the Kenites and proceeded with his discourse, Your home is of lasting duration, and your nest is set in the rock. Nevertheless the Kenite shall be destroyed but not until Assyria carries Israel away captive (Isaiah 10:5). And he concluded his discourse, saying, Alas, who shall live when God appoints Assyria to destroy Israel? Ships shall come from the coasts of Cyprus; then they shall oppress both Assyria (Balaam's homeland)and Eber, and Cyprus shall also come to destruction. And Balaam rose up, and went back to his place: and Balak also went his way".
Back in the days of Moses—even before Israel had crossed the river Jordan, Balaam prophesied the future devastation and carrying away of her Northern kingdom. His vision reaches beyond the Babylonian and Medo-Persian histories to a faint glimpse of Alexander, and behind him the Roman world power, which will oppress or humble Eber, his own race and that of Israel, unto the consummation.
Numbers 24 foretells the eventual destruction of all kingdoms that come against Israel, for to resist Israel in her covenant service to God is to come against God. The Promised Land for Spiritual Israel is the baptism with the Holy Spirit which places us in Christ. The destruction of all heathen powers foretold at the end of Numbers 24 will take place after Israel enters her rest in Jesus Messiah. This is called "the battle of that great day of God Almighty" from which there will be no survivors.
Armageddon, or the "mount of Meggido" is derived from the Heb. root gadad, which means "to cut off" or slaughter.
Revelation 16:16, "And they (i.e. this trinity of unclean spirits—Fascism, Nazism and Communism that come out of the mouth of the dragon (Rome), the beast (her once Protestant image), and the false prophet (or pope) between the Sixth and Seventh Vials), gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." That is, to the place of slaughter.
As "that great and dreadful day of the Lord" may well dawn before another circuit of the Sun it is appropriate we direct our attention to Scriptures concerning the climax of the Gentile dispensation. Today we will review Joel's prophecy given a century and a half before the dissolution of the Northern kingdom. It covers "the times of the Gentiles" (Luke 21:24) that began with Judah's defeat almost a century and a half after Israel's people were resettled throughout the Assyrian empire and where they remain to this day. It takes us to "the day of the Lord" which will commence with the first resurrection and manifestation of the Sons of God in Daniel's Seventieth Week, Israel's one day of salvation, the destruction of the enemies of God and His people, and the restoration of the kingdom under Jesus Messiah in the Millennium.
The Lord will be glorified in the remnant of Israel and bestow upon them far higher favours than their fathers enjoyed. This promise becomes more and more closely allied to the hope of Jesus Messiah, which is the solid basis of all other hopes of Israel's future and glorious destiny.
The greatness of God's judgment upon Israel is expressed in the first three verses in which he calls upon the aged men to cast their minds back through living memory to see whether they are able to find a parallel to the chastisements Joel will foretell; judgments that would not be forgotten in the ages to come: "Tell these things to your children, and they to their children, and their children to the generation [of Gentiles] after them" (Joel 1:3; Acts 2:39).
That which the Palmerworm (or chewing locust) has left the (swarming) Locust has eaten; and what the swarming locust has left the Cankerworm (or crawling locust) has eaten; and what the cankerworm has left the Caterpillar (or consuming locust) has eaten." The same insect in four stages of its development (emblematic of Satan) devoured the faith of the fig tree (Matthew 21:18-20) to a dry stump of unbelief, causing Israel to crucify her own Messiah. On the day of Pentecost, Gentile [proselytes to Yahwism] were graft into the root, and before the Lord can restore Israel to the faith He must take us home for the Wedding Supper in the Sky and in this present generation reconfirm His New Covenant with an elect remnant of Israel through the ministry of two Hebrew prophets (Matthew 24:31-34; Zechariah 4; Revelation 11).
The same metaphor that is employed to illustrate how the anti-Christ spirit led Israel into apostasy is engaged to describe how he has devastated Christian faith riding the four horses of the Apocalypse through seven Church Ages, destroying by organization, denomination and false doctrine until he is incarnate in the pope. Like Israel, the Gentiles end in apostasy (Romans 11:32), but a remnant must be restored for the rapture which is why He sent William Branham (1906-1965), the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6, Matthew 17:11 and Revelation 10:7.
Israel, represented as a young wife who has lost Jehovah her husband, is rendered as dead as the barren fig tree Jesus cursed. And as the natural types the Spiritual, the plagues lay waste not just the source of pleasure for drunkards but the whole economy. The essential elements of sacrifice—wheat emblematic of the revealed Word, wine, signifying stimulation of revelation, and oil, representative of the Holy Spirit, are not available. The priests cannot minister, and the whole nation is called to a fast and pray.
The intensity of Israel's mourning illustrates the magnitude of God's judgment. The priests and the people are called upon to acknowledge the chastisement and return to the Lord who has sent it. Their rebellion and his judgments have persisted over 2,500 years and the nation is now well into the third millennial day since 780BC of which it was foretold God will raise up Israel to live in His approval (Hosea 6:1-2). So Joel's prophecy is set in the closing hours of the Gentile dispensation—the present hour in which we live. "Woe, for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand. It comes as a day of destruction from the Almighty" (Joel 1:15). Even the beasts are groaning and travailing in pain in anticipation of the manifestation of the Sons of God and redemption (Joel 1:18-20; Romans 8:19-23).
Joel 2:1-11 explains more fully the misery coming upon our world—a harbinger of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. He commands Israel's priests to signal an alarm from the mountain of His holiness. It types Israel's Supernatural Seventh and Great Trumpet, signaling the end of the Gentile dispensation and calling blood Israelites to return to the Land of the Covenant for redemption in Daniel's Seventieth Week (Isaiah 27:13, Matthew 24:31; Revelation 11:15).
Joel 2:32, "And it shall come to pass, that everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said; and those who are saved will be the remnant [144,000] whom the Lord has called".
Obadiah 15-18, "For the day of the Lord's vengeance will soon fall upon all the goiim [without the Seal of God—including, of course, the non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews]. As you have done to Israel, it shall be done to you: your deeds will come back upon your own head. For as Israel has drunk My cup of punishment upon My holy mountain, all the goiim round about will drink it, too: yes, they will drink continually and swallow down and will disappear from history. Those who escape will be in mount Zion, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall take possession of their heritage. The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph [the ten tribes] a flame, and the house of Esau [the non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews] stubble, and Israel shall set them ablaze and consume them; and the house of Esau shall not have a single survivor. THUS SAITH THE LORD".
Joel 2:2, "A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dense darkness, like morning gray that spreads upon the mountains, there comes a great and powerful people; the likes of them have not been seen of old, nor will they again be seen throughout the years of all generations".
Four terms are employed to emphasize the intensity of this darkness; naturally and spiritually it is darker than the plague of Egypt (Exodus 10:22) and the judgment upon Sinai (Deuteronomy 4:11) and is described in Isaiah 34:1-8; Zephaniah 1:14-18; Zechariah 14:6-7; Matthew 24:29; II Thessalonians 2:1-12 and Revelation 6:12-17. Naturally its suddenness will envelop the world at the opening of the Sixth Seal; spiritually its descent has taken millennia so that men have become accustomed to darkness believing it to be Light (Matthew 24:36-39; John 3:19). God sent Brother Branham to introduce the second or 'parousia' Coming of the Man who could turn on the Light of revelation for His end-time Bride (Isaiah 42:1-7; Matthew 4:12-17; Zechariah 14:7; Matthew 24:27). The foolish virgin have recognized His prophet and preach the "letter" of his Message but do not discern the Light (Matthew 25:8-13).
Like a concertina the events of Daniel's Seventieth Week are compressed, which is why in pulpit teaching or preaching one may expound a verse or two at length, or perhaps only half a verse. We are studying the time of Daniel 12:1, where Christ "stands up" and commences His reign over Israel, heralding the climax of the tribulation signaled by the appearance of the Roman ensigns on the mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem. Daniel 9:26, "unto the end of the war [between Rome and Israel] desolations are determined" in the Great Tribulation. Now General Jesus stands on the mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem which is occupied by Rome (Matthew 24:15-34). This signifies the unseen 'parousia' Coming of Israel's King Jesus Messiah with "the great and powerful people" of Joel's vision.
Revelation 19:11-16, You should insert your name here, because John represents Christ's end-time Bride. We know this is so for John was forbidden to write the mystery of the Seven Thunders and the Book was sealed until the days of the Voice of the Seventh Angel, William Branham, so this revelation is intended exclusively for Christ's end- time Bride (Revelation 10:4, 7; Daniel 12:4, 9): "I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems with a Name inscribed which no one knows, but he who has the revelation. The robe in which He is clad has been dipped in the blood [of His enemies], and the Name by which He is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven [called, "chosen before the foundation of the world," and "faithful to the Word" by their choosing], dressed in finest linen, white and clean, followed Him upon white horses. From His mouth issues a sharp sword with which to smite the goiim: and He will rule them with a rod of iron: and He treads the winepress of the furious wrath of God the Almighty. And His Name is inscribed on His robe and on His thigh, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS" (Hebrews 7:1-3; Isaiah 66:15-16; Psalm 97).
Brother Branham said, "Satan knows that if the people get the TRUE REVELATION of the TRUE CHURCH and what she is, what she stands for and that SHE CAN DO THE GREATER WORKS, she will be an invincible army. If they get a true revelation of the two spirits within the framework of the Christian church, and by God's Spirit discern and withstand the antichrist spirit, Satan will be powerless before her. He will be as definitely thwarted today as when Christ withstood his every effort to gain power over Him in the desert. Yes, Satan hates revelation. But we love it. With true revelation in our lives, the gates of hell cannot prevail against us, but we will prevail over them" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, 15:3).
When Jesus spoke of the greater works, he was facing the mount of Olives. Mark 11:22-23, "Have faith in God. For I assure you, That whoever says to this mountain, Be taken up and cast into the sea; and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass; it will be done for him".
Joel 2:6-7, 10-11, "Before this mighty army there is universal anguish: all faces grow pale with consternation, and no ordinary weapons can stop their advance . . . The earth quakes before their face, and the heavens tremble: the Sun and the Moon are darkened, and the stars lose their brightness. The Lord thunders His voice [seven times] before His army (Revelation 10:1-7): for His advancing host is mighty: he that obeys His commands is invincible. The day of the Lord is great and terrible; and who can endure it"?
Joel has described the opening of the Sixth Seal at the Seventh Trump and the pouring out of the Seventh Vial with the sinking of Los Angeles and the division of the mount of Olives causing the destruction of the Dome of the Rock. This is the time of the latter rain when man and God become one in the manifestation of the Sons of God as explained in Newsletters #532, #533, and #534.
Joel 2:12-17 declares the Message of the Lord to Israel: even now, although the wrath of God is so clearly revealed that men may see His day coming simply by listening to the news, still He finds it necessary to say, "turn unto Me." In the day of the Lord grace and mercy end and Jesus will sit in judgment upon Israel and all of her foes (Daniel 7:9-12). The ultimate result of the judgment will be the regeneration of "all Israel," all 144,000 of them (Joel 2:32; Romans 11:26; Revelation 7:1-8; 14:1-5), and the punishment of the goiim as the enemies of His people and the vast majority of Israelites who have been untrue to Him.
The priests are commanded to call a solemn assembly of all Israel, from the aged men to the sucking babes. Fortunately the Bridegroom is exempt and will steal away His waiting Bride to the Wedding Supper in the sky. Joel 2:17, "Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and [turning toward the Holy of Holies] let them say, Spare Your people, O Lord, and make not Your heritage a reproach. Don't allow them to be disgraced by the taunts of the goiim who say, 'Where is their God? How weak and helpless He must be!'"
Joel was prophesying in 800BC when Solomon's Temple was yet standing. The porch was in fact a tower in front of the Sanctuary, before which stood the brazen altar of sacrifice. The space between the porch and the altar became an inner part of the court of the priests, and seems to have been a place of prayer for the priests. Here 78 years before Joel's prophecy Zechariah stood when the Spirit of the Lord came upon him and he rebuked the people for forsaking the Lord, whereupon they stoned him (II Chronicles 24:20-21; Matthew 23:35). Here two hundred years later, when they ought to have been worshipping God, twenty-five idolatrous priests turned their backs to the Holy of Holies and worshipped the sun (Ezekiel 8:16).
As in Joel's day, Israel was the kingdom of Jehovah in a special sense so "the day" for Israel as God's people would be the epoch of their perfect and glorious deliverance from all of their enemies; "the day" is when Jehovah sits in judgment upon all His foes, and when Israel's prosperity begins. . . Spiritually. Joel sees them on the one hand measured by judgments, but on the other hand averting them by their penitence, so that actually these judgments fall upon the heathen alone, while Israel and Judah are redeemed and glorified.
Joel's plea with Israel to honor their Covenant responsibility in verses 15-17, is matched by his assurance in verses 18-32 that God will honour His Covenant obligations to His servant nation. In recognition of the contrition of the remnant of Israel God will destroy the invaders led by Russia, "the king of the North" (Isaiah 60:5; Ezekiel 38-39; Daniel 11:40), and send rain to cause the land to produce in abundance. The institutions of state have been restored in the land of Israel together with agriculture able to provide the elements necessary to serve the sacrificial worship prescribed by the Old Covenant.
Joel 2:28-32 "And it shall come to pass after this natural restoration that I will pour out My Spirit upon all mankind; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out My spirit."
Like most prophecies of the Scripture Joel's have a compound meaning. Throughout "those days," the two thousand years of the Gentile dispensation, the Lord has poured out His Spirit in grace upon all of Adam's race without respect of persons, whether Israelite or Gentile, bond or free, male or female, in fulfilment of Moses' wish (Numbers 11:29; Galatians 3:28). However, this outpouring in the day of judgment following the close of the Gentile dispensation is the "latter rain" that will empower Christ's end-time Bride to manifest that they are the invincible army of Christ's Bride and to change in the atoms. It will be the "former rain" of the ministry of two prophets anointed with the Spirit that was upon Moses and Elijah which will restore the understanding of the Covenant Israel has forsaken (Romans 9:27) and expound the shadows and types of the Old Testament to place the nation in the history of the past two thousand years for the remnant to recognize their day and its Message as Brother Branham's ministry restored the apostolic faith to Christ's end-time Bride in the repetition of our "former rain, and placed the Church Ages in the context of history by revealing the Seven Seals.
The outpouring of the Spirit after the opening of the Sixth Seal will also fall upon sinners to bring the mass of this world, the enemy of God and of His people, to damnation (Matthew 5:45; Hebrews 6:8; Revelation 22:11).
Joel 2:30-32, "The day of the Lord will be introduced by terrible signs in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke from which there is safety only in Zion and in Jerusalem. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass, that everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and those who are saved will be the remnant [144,000] whom the Lord has called".
To call on the Name of the Lord is to confess Him as Redeemer. The Lord is calling those whom He foreknew as believers. Only these elect and none else will receive a complete deliverance, so the number will be small. In order to call upon the Name of the Lord they will require a clear revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ as kinsman Redeemer by the present Truth.
These will not be local "Jews," but Israelites who will be called to remove to Zion from their homes in the Muslim world and elsewhere for communion with the Lord through his prophets and for redemption (Isaiah 6:10-13; 11:11; 27:13; Jeremiah 3:12, 18; 16:15; 23:8; 31:8; Micah 5:3). Israel's deliverance will be in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, not without. There the 144,000 will individually testify of the Lord Jesus Christ in the place where His blood was shed and receive martyrdom at the hands of Rome and the self-styled Jews (Revelation 6:11; 14:12-13).
Joel 3:1, "After the "those days" [of the Gentile dispensation and after the Seventh Trump] I will restore the blood descendants of Israel and Judah to the land of Israel. (This is when the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem ends – Joel 3:7). I will gather the armies of the goiim [led by Jew-controlled Russia] to the valley where "God Judges," and punish them there because they have scattered My people and My heritage among the nations and divided My land." Historically the conquerors of Israel and Judah plundered their wealth and sold prisoners of war as slaves, choosing no one above another as though all alike were worthless, selling a girl for an evening's revelry, and a boy for a night's debauch. In 1948 the United Nations of the Edomite Jew's 'City of London' divided Israel, evicting its Hebrew and Arab inhabitants.
Joel 3:7-8 were fulfilled by Alexander the Great and his successors, under whom many Israelite captives were liberated and restored to their own land, while various parts of Philistia and Phoenecia were brought under the rule of the province of Judea. "What have you to do with Me?" inquires the Lord of the Serpent's seed peoples of Tyre, Sidon and the coasts, whom He accounts as aliens (Joel 3:4).
The day of the Lord is designed to deliver the 144,000 by means of the judgment of the goiim and the consummation of life on earth in Armageddon. The imagery for the battle is provided by the great deliverance which God gave to Jehoshaphat when ("the sons of confusion") Ammon, Moab and Edom came against him. Jehoshaphat, whose name means 'God has Judged,' appealed to the Lord, who turned their swords one against the other. And they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah (or blessing) for there they blessed the Lord (II Chronicles 20). The only "valley of Jehoshaphat" is the valley of Kedron encircling Jerusalem on the East that was the common burial place for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
We have heard the Lord's accusation and the sentence, now comes its swift execution:
Joel 3:9-14, "Proclaim this among the nations. Sanctify for a holy war, Israel; arouse your mighty men, let all the fighting men draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am a warrior."
Now the nations are summoned to gather speedily as if they were about to accomplish a victory over Israel, while in reality they are rushing to their own destruction: "Hasten and come, all you nations from every side, gather yourselves to the valley of Jehoshaphat."
"And now, O Lord, bring down your warriors!" And the Lord responds:
"Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I judge all the nations round about."
"Thrust in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in and tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of God's Judgment".
The total overthrow of the commonwealth and the annihilation of its political existence as punishment for Israel's sins notwithstanding, the day of the Lord will come upon the heathen and the Lord will not cast off His people. A remnant 144,000 will be redeemed in whom He will be glorified. The enemies of the Lord are to be cut down like ripe wheat, and trodden under like grapes in the winepress, which will over flow with blood, emblematic of their wickedness (Isaiah 34:6; 63:1-6; Revelation 14:14-20; 17:14 – 18:24; 19:13).
Brother Branham said, "At this very time, the antichrist covenant that the Jews have made with Rome will be broken. Rome and her allies then send their troops to destroy all the God-fearing, Word-abiding Jews." (i.e. Israelites - Ed).
"But as they come against the city to destroy it, there will appear in the heavens the sign of the ('parousia' - Ed) coming of the Son of Man with His mighty armies to destroy them who have been destroying the earth. With the enemy repulsed, Jesus then comes and presents Himself (by revelation - Ed) to the 144,000. Having seen His mighty acts of salvation, they have come to know His power. But also seeing His wounds and knowing that they had rejected Him even to that moment, causes them to cry out in the agony of terror and fear, even as did their brethren of old when they stood before Joseph, being sore afraid that they would be killed. But as Joseph said, "Don't be angry with yourselves. It is all right. God was in it all. He did it to preserve life." Even so will Jesus speak peace and love to them" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 41).
"This is not the Rapture. This is when He comes to take over His rightful place as World Ruler. This is when those who have pierced Him with their creeds and denominational doctrines shall mourn, and all the people shall wail in terror because of Him Who is the Word."
"This is the revelation story of Zechariah 12:9-14 prophesied over 2500 years ago. It is just about to take place. Listen: "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced. . ." Now, when is the Gospel returning to the Jews? When the day of the Gentiles is finished. The Gospel is ready to go back to the Jews. Oh, if I could just tell you something that is about to happen right in this our day. This great thing that is about to happen will carry over to Revelation 11 and pick up those two witnesses, those two prophets, Moses and Elijah, turning the Gospel back to the Jews. We're ready for it. Everything is in order. As the Jews brought the Message to the Gentiles, even so the Gentiles will take it right back to the Jews, and the Rapture will come."
(Brother Branham is speaking of Christ's 'parousia' Coming to Israel in the office of Son of Man and Judge–unseen by mortal eye. He is NOT coming to the so-called "Jews" who are "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world" (Ephesians 2:12; Joel 3:4, 19; Isaiah 34; 63:1-6). We are now beyond the first half of Daniel's Seventieth Week.
As the Lord God told king Jehoshaphat, "You will not need to fight in this battle: just hold your position, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be perplexed; tomorrow go out before them, and the Lord will be with you" (II Chronicles 20:17). The battle is the Lord's. He will smite the goiim sinners with the sharp sword of the Word as confirmed by the conclusion of Joel's prophecy which is hyperbole referring to the Millennium where the kingdom is restored to Israel under the reign of Jesus Messiah and His elect goiim Queen).
"Now, remember what we have read in Revelation and Zechariah. Both come right after the tribulation. The Church of the First-born does not go through the tribulation" (ibid p. 36:5 - 37.1). nl538.htm
Homework: Please review Realization of Joel and Notes on Joel, Chapters 1 - 2
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Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations in other countries. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.
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