Jimmy Carter’s Dangerous End Game With Hamas

 While former US President Jimmy Carter’s upcoming visit with Hamas terror chief Khaled Mashaal has received mixed reviews among Israeli government officials, he gets a total thumbs down from those who recognizes the evil and Hamas represents to not only Israel, but the entire Middle East.

 

Likud chairman and opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu said he would not meet with Carter, who is in Israel today (Sunday, 4/13), while President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak (Labor), Minister of Industry and Trade Eli Yishai (Shas) and Member of Knesset (MK) Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beitenu) said they will meet with the former US president.

 

After his Sunday afternoon arrival, Carter will meet with Peres that evening. A spokesman for the Israeli president cited their “shared past” and Peres’ admiration for Carter’s role in advancing peace between Egypt and Israel for the meeting. Monday’s itinerary include a visit to Sderot, a meeting with Barak and a speech at an event sponsored by the left-wing Israeli daily Haaretz.

 

Tuesday, Carter is off to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and his colleagues. Before departing for Damascus to meet with the exiled Hamas leader, Carter will share his views with Yishai and Lieberman.  Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni blamed conflicting schedules for not meeting with the former president.

 

The US State Department said it informed Carter of its opposition to his meeting with Mashaal. “We counseled against it,” said State Department spokesman Sean McCormick. “US government policy is that Hamas is a terrorist organization and we don’t believe it is in the interest of our policy or in the interest of peace to have such a meeting,” he said.

 

Of course Carter, in his what we’ve come to expect from the mouth of whom I consider the worst President in U.S. history said, “This is a study mission and our purpose is not to negotiate but to support and provide momentum for current efforts to secure peace in the Middle East,” read a statement from the Carter Center.

 

Carter said he feels “quite at ease,” meeting with the Hamas militants over the objections of Washington because the Palestinian group is essential to a future peace with Israel.

.The State Department, including the secretary, Condoleezza Rice, criticized Carter’s plans to talk in Syria this week with exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in the first public contact in two years between a prominent American figure and the group. Carter said he had not heard the objections directly, although a State Department spokesman said earlier that a senior official from the department had called the former president.

“I feel quite at ease in doing this,” Carter said. “I think there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that, if Israel is ever going to find peace with justice concerning the relationship with their next-door neighbors, the Palestinians, that Hamas will have to be included in the process.”

Although he said the meeting would not be a negotiation, he outlined distinct goals.

“I think that it’s very important that at least someone meet with the Hamas leaders to express their views, to ascertain what flexibility they have, to try to induce them to stop all attacks against innocent civilians in Israel and to cooperate with the Fatah as a group that unites the Palestinians, maybe to get them to agree to a cease-fire - things of this kind,” he said. The State Department says it advised Carter twice against meeting representatives of Hamas, which Washington considers a terrorist organization.

“I find it hard to understand what is going to be gained by having discussions with Hamas about peace when Hamas is, in fact, the impediment to peace,” Rice said Friday, after reports of the planned meeting surfaced.

Carter said he’d be meeting Syrians, Egyptians, Jordanians, Saudi Arabians and others “who might have to play a crucial role in any future peace agreement that involves the Middle East.” Asked whether it was right to meet a group that has not renounced violence or recognized Israel’s right to exist, he said, “Well, you can’t always get prerequisites adopted by other people before you even talk to them.”

Pressure to drop the meeting has come from his own party. Democratic Reps. Artur Davis of Alabama, Shelley Berkley of Nevada, Adam Schiff of California and Adam Smith of Washington state wrote a letter to Carter saying the meeting could confer legitimacy on a group that embraces violence.

Several Jewish groups in America have also expressed their opposition to Carter’s meeting and have called on the current Presidential candidates to decry Carter’s meeting. One such group, The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) said Sunday that Sens. Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama should speak out against Carter’s possible plans to visit with Hamas terror chief Khaled Meshal in Syria.

“It is unacceptable that a former American president would choose to dignify and legitimize Hamas leader Khaled Meshal with a visit. Hamas is a designated terrorist organization that denies Israel’s right to exist, kidnaps Israeli soldiers, fires rockets on Israeli towns, is responsible for the deaths of American citizens and celebrated in the streets of Gaza after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Meshal has even called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ‘courageous’ for denying the Holocaust,” said RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks.

“As presidential contenders who have pledged to protect America and stand with our ally, Israel, we urge Senators Clinton, McCain and Obama to speak out forcefully against former President Carter’s possible meeting with Khaled Meshal and to ask him not to have this meeting,” said Brooks.

Carter has by and large ignored these type warnings by simply stating, “I’ve been meeting with Hamas leaders for years.”  We must remember that Carter is the disastrous former American president whose misguided policies in the Middle East, specifically his abandonment of the shah of Iran, led to the Iranian Islamic revolution in 1979, predictably sparking off worldwide Iranian-backed Shia terrorism and in response, rival Saudi-backed Sunni terrorism, the results of which are continuing to be felt around the world today.

And just in case anyone needs reminding what a terrible threat Hamas is to Israel and Hamas’ relationship with America’s enemies, a new intelligence estimate puts its armed fighting force in the Gaza strip now at about 20,000 soldiers including many who trained in Syria and Iran. It’s a hell of a lot of guns for a piece of land roughly the size of Brooklyn and Queens combined, with a much smaller population. Every day Hamas looks less like a “terrorist group” and more like a terror army.

With former presidents like Jimmy Carter who work hard to give credibility to terrorists and do everything possible to help America’s enemies and harm Western civilization, terrorists of the world can save their money on propaganda - from the likes of Jimmy Carter it comes for free.

The more scarier thought  is that Carter’s actions may be the face of a coming Obama or Clinton Presidency who both have hinted at a similar “willingness” to open up with the enemies of Israel and the United States in hopes that “dialogue” will change an opinion that is nearly 6,000 years old.

The Arab world’s hatred of Israel is not new nor is it without Biblical roots nor is it without prophetic significance for the end times we live in today. Ezekiel called the Arab world’s attitude an “ancient hatred,” that has sought to destroy Israel since the says of Esau, Ishmael and Amalek. The last great conflict to grip the world, which will bring about the deaths of possibly several billion people, will be that of the Antichrist.  The Antichrist will be heralded as one who has solved the “Jewish problem,” yet in his evil mind, the solution to that “problem,” will be the same solution as Adolph Hitler desired, namely the annihilation of every Jew on the Planet. The Antichrist’s efforts will reach their highest point at the Battle of Armageddon, and he will come close to completing his goal, only being stopped by the brightness of the Lord’s coming which will take place at that very time!

 

 

 

The way the world is being prepared for the advent of the Antichrist involves the rise of Islam. A great part of the Muslim world is situated in the Middle East and controls some 60 percent of the world’s oil reserves. Despite the fact that hundreds of billions of dollars go into their coffers every year, the Muslim nations of the Middle East are grossly poor. At the time of this writing, there are about 300 million Muslims in Middle East countries, with about 1.2 billion Muslims existing worldwide. Despite the billions of oil dollars flowing into their economies, those same Muslim countries we speak of steadily grow poorer. Only a tiny few profit from the oil billions, and these few are obscenely rich.

 

 

 

The powers that be in the Muslim world desire that the masses of Muslims remain poor – dirt poor, even agonizingly poor. They then claim, and they constantly claim, that it is the United States that is the cause of this poverty, using these claims as recruiting tools for human bombers who are willing to give up their pitiful lives in order to kill the “infidels.” It does not take a genius or Rhodes Scholar to understand the two enemies of the Muslim world are the United States AND Israel, whom they term the “Great Satan,” and “Little Satan,” respectively.

 

 

 

The Muslims hate the Jews for many and varied reasons, but perhaps the greatest reason is their claim that Ishmael is the true son of Abraham, not Isaac. As a result, they want every Jew dead, and they want to possess every square inch of the tiny land of Israel. Let the reader consider this startling fact. The land area of Israel comprises about one-tenth (1/10th) of one percent of the entirety of the land of the Middle East. All the rest of the Middle East (99.9%) is controlled by Arabs and Muslims, but yet they still want that tiny spit of land called, “ISRAEL.” Why?

 

 

 

The truth is they really don’t know themselves, but the Bible does know! It’s called an “ancient hatred,” rooted in the hearts of the seed of Ishmael toward the seed of Isaac. Israel, according to the Bible, claims to be the chosen people of God, while the Muslims, who refer to their god as “Allah,” claim the same thing through Ishmael.

Ezekiel 35:3-5 -And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate. [4] I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. [5] Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

Incidentally the name “Allah,” comes from one of the ancient Babylonian idols, and was selected somewhat at random by Mohammed. The goal of the Muslims is NOT land! This is the greatest lie and deception the enemy has shrouded the minds of the modern news media and even many in the church with in these last days. The Muslims want to annihilate every Jew and confiscate the tiny land of Israel for their own.  We must understand that Muslims as a people are not the enemy but the RELIGION of Islam that has instilled this hatred in their hearts IS! It’s Islam that creates all the bad attitudes and problems as billions of Muslims seeks to please Allah by fighting against those Islam calls the “infidels,” and “pigs” i.e. the Jews and the Christians. Because of Islam, they lose their lives fighting for Allah in hopes that this will get them to paradise. Because of Islam, there is no forgiveness in the heart of Muslims – either to others or to themselves. The word “love,” is not found on one page of the Muslim’s “holy book,” the Koran.

It is a blatantly false idea that the current conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and even the current Middle East war between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, is caused by Israel refusing to give the Palestinians their own particular homeland within the borders of the State of Israel. The true cause of the conflict is that the terror group Hamas wants, as does all of Islam, every Jew dead and the entirety of the Land of Israel in their possession. This is a war friend, make no mistake about! Furthermore, it’s not a war fought with just bullets and tanks, but a spiritual war between the forces of the spirit realm controlling Islam and the forces of heaven which under gird those who believe in Christ! People like Jimmy Carter as well as all those who embrace his failed idea that “dialogue” will help the situation do not grasp this is a RELIGIOUS and SPIRITUAL conflict, not a political one. And the stupidity of a former President from Georgia will never change that.

 

The Pearl of Great Price-This Week’s Spirit Journal

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This week’s Spirit Journal was written by my beautiful wife Lisa who had a powerful experience with God a few weeks ago. An experience so powerful she wrote it down in the pages of one of the most poweful works of writing she has ever done I believe. If you have doubts today of God’s love for you and His purpose to redeem, not destroy, then read this journal and embrace the Cross of Christ. We are the pearl at Great Price and as such He has paid with His precious blood to redeem us from the field of sin!

Read the journal and be blessed today!

A Glorious Easter Message - The Lamb of God

As we commemorate the Christian celebration of the Lord’s Resurrection this 2008 Easter season Satan has launched one of his greatest attacks on the church concerning the message of the Cross of Christ. Apostasy very seldom gets into the blood stream of the church from the outside; that’s why Satan fights his best war on the INSIDE to woo the church away from its real source of power - the BLOOD OF JESUS and the power in what He accomplished for us at the Cross. Passover is a prophetic type of this great victory we have been given THROUGH CHRIST - the PASSOVER LAMB, sacrificed for US - over sin, the flesh, the world - AND SATAN. The blood of the Lamb of Deliverance is our only defense against the enemy of our soul. That is why he constantly seeks to move our faith to something other than that which will destroy his power in our lives!It was the Passover sacrifice that delivered Israel from the power of Pharaoh so that her people would never again serve Egypt. It is the CROSS, of which the Passover was a prophetic type, that delivers us from the power of Satan and slavery to the corruption of the world. Never forget that. It was not the miracles that got Pharaoh to loose his grip on the children of Israel - but the BLOOD! Realizing this today, Satan rages war against those who turn to the cross just as Pharaoh did against Israel when he saw he was losing his power over them. Like the Passover did in type, the cross brings judgment upon the evil of the world, but delivers those who embrace it from the world. The sacrifice of the Lamb has always been the main point of conflict in eternity and it will always be the point of conflict in future events yet to take place upon planet Earth and in heaven. But the LAMB of GOD is the LAMB OF DELIVERANCE AND HE HAS PREVAILED AND WILL PREVAIL FOR ALL ETERNITY! The Lamb of God has come to TAKE AWAY the SIN OF THE WORLD. Christ took away the penalty of death over us through His great sacrifice and broke the power of sin by conquering every foe of darkness that would seek to bring the child of God into bondage.

Col. 2:13-14
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; [14] Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

The feast of Passover is the celebration and retelling of the great story of how God redeemed the Jewish nation from enslavement in Egypt, a type of the believer’s redemption from sin through Christ and Him crucified, was  given to the Jews while they were still in Egypt.

 

The first Passover in Egypt centered around the Passover lamb, which was sacrificed and its blood put over the doorposts as a sign of faith and protection from that which the Lord would do in the killing of the firstborn of all who. The great promise of Exodus 12:10 - “when I see the Blood, I will pass over you,” is the hallmark promise of what this writer believes to be Israel’s greatest feast on her calendar - the beginning of months, the Feast of Passover. When we came to Christ, who brought us out of Egypt through His precious blood, we experienced a “first of months,” or beginning spiritually as we became new creatures in Christ Jesus!

 

Exodus 12:1-3
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, [2] This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. [3] Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:2 Cor. 5:17-21
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. [18] And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation

 

Exodus 12:13-14
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. [14] And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

 

The blood on the door posts was to be a token to all Israel that God would pass over those who placed their faith in the slain Lamb from which the blood came. It was a powerful prophetic eternal picture of the coming Crucifixion years into the future when Heaven’s glorious Lamb shed His blood for the sins of all mankind. Holy Spirit through Paul declares that Jesus Christ is our sacrificial Lamb.

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A Season of Danger, Peril and Prayer-Purim March 20, 2008

The following is an excerpt from our newest journal: A Season of Danger, a Season of Peril and a Season of Prayer

Much of history throughout the centuries has a singular noteworthy characteristic, unnoticed by many along the way. The most significant historical events have most often coincided with feasts of the Lord and when looked at more closely, we see amazing and thought provoking relationships between the events and the feasts themselves. Such is the case of Purim

This current conflict in Iraq began on March 18, 2003, five years ago today as we write this journal; the date of March 18, 2003 was significant in that it was the night the Jewish Feast of Purim began in 2003. Purim is the annual celebration of the great deliverance of the Jewish people in the days of Queen Esther, as recorded in the Book of Esther in the Bible.  Was it just a coincidence that Esther was queen in the very region close to where Saddam Hussein once ruled and now a madman in Persia threatens Israel’s destruction and jihad against every single Jewish man, woman, boy or girl? 

Is it just a coincidence that the wicked Haman who sought to destroy the Jews in that day exhibits in the scriptures similar qualities to the former Iraqi dictator today or the current Iranian one? I was in northern Wisconsin selling portraits the night the war began in 2003. I remember the days leading up to the war there was much delay, yet it became an eerie coincidence the first bombs dropped on Baghdad the night of the 2003 Feast of Purim?

Five years later the United States continues to be involved in a conflict in the land of tremendous prophetic significance and an ever increasing conflict with Iran looms soon this writer believes. The upcoming elections of 2008 frame this conflict between two parties who have significantly different viewpoints on how to handle our enemies. For me, the answer is simple. Which candidate will best protect Israel at all costs against Islamic Jihadism and Palestinian terrorism? It’s a terrible indictment to witness the growing anti-Semitism in the world today. History is replete with witnesses to the indictment of the times the Jewish people have been delivered to the mercy of the merciless as they were in the days of Esther and Mordecai. Not much has changed today in 2008 as Israel sits in a neighborhood of Arab nations seeking her destruction, especially Syria to her north and Iran to her east.

On top of Iran and Syria, the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah continue to send suicide bombers and Hassam rockets into Israeli cities, killing civilians and caring less if the entire region is plunged into terrible bloodshed. Yet one enemy who is now gone is the late Sadaam Hussein who fired over 100 scud missiles in 1991 during the first Gulf War. For this writer, the war in Iraq if nothing else removed one of Israel’s most bitter enemies and in that vein it will always be worth the cost and lives. Our hearts do not take the loss of any soldier killed in combat lightly.

We honor our brave troops and thank those who stood in the gap during this time in both American and Jewish history. Most Christians don’t pause to think twice what would have taken place during the summer of 2006 had Israel been faced with fighting Hezbollah AND Iraq. Israel for the first time in her history was pushed to the edge with a terrorist group backed by Iran. Had Sadaam still been alive let this writer assure you he would have interfered with the war and brought even greater bloodshed to Jewish lives.

On the more immediate issue, the Palestinian “issue” is NOT about land, it’s about the Arab desire, driven by the ideology of Islam, for total annihilation of every single Jewish person on the face of the earth.

In reality, this issue over the West Bank hides an even greater war in the world today between the forces of Islam and those who know Jesus Christ as Lord. Islam means “submission,” however, it is not the type submission where the follower falls into the graces of the one he is submitting to. If the “convert” fails to submit, Islam calls for the convert’s death. As long as there are Christians in this world, there will be an eternal war between the lineage of Esau (the Arab, Muslim world) and the lineage of Jacob (Israel).

In this setting found in the book of Esther, Haman, an ancestor of the Islamic/Ishamael/Edomite line, had set a trap for the entire Jewish race.  The gauntlet laid down by the king of Shushan was one that would mean the total annihilation of the Jewish race if Haman had been allowed to carry out his demonic plan.

On February 12^th a top terrorist named Imad Mugniyah was eliminated in Syria, stirring up an uproar in Jihadist circles worldwide. The Hezbollah leadership is accusing Israel of this and has promised serious retaliation. Some Israeli analysts predict that as soon as the 40 days of mourning for Mugniyah are over, It would not surprise this writer a bit if Hezbollah sought to turn Galilee and the Israeli landscape into a battle zone again as it did in the summer of 2006. This Islamic 40 day mourning period will end on the 20th of March, strategically coinciding with the Feast of Purim, which will conclude on March 23^rd

With Iran’s unchecked nuclear ambitions and threats that Israel would be “wiped off the map,” and with deteriorating security on all sides including an increasing threat of a war with Hamas and/or Hezbollah, or perhaps both, this Purim seems all too real with the increasing dangers and open threats against the world’s only Jewish state.

When talking about Purim, one must understand in detail the Book of Esther, which documents the deliverance of the people of Israel from great danger and near annihilation during the Jewish month of Adar. Purim is one of Israel’s most important feasts in this writer’s opinion simply because it speaks of the need for fervent prayer and sustained travail for the nation of Israel against her enemies unlike any other feast on her religious and civil calendar.

Still reeling from the recent terror attack in the heart of Jerusalem a little over a week ago now which left 8 bible students ages 15 to 18 dead and 11 wounded, Israel’s plight continues to be more desperate each day as her enemies become more brazen and their threats more specific and pronounced. We as the church of the Living God must grasp the prophetic season we live and continue to intercede, travail and pray like never before for Israel’s protection and God’s higher purpose in the Middle East region. 

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A Storm Is Coming

I was up late Friday night into Saturday morning watching news reports of a tornado that ripped through downtown Atlanta Friday night about 10 PM damaging parts of the Georgia Dome where the SEC Basketball tourney was taking place and injuring 27 people, 2 seriously. This was the first time EVER that a tornado touched down in downtown Atlanta, my hometown and my favorite city in the entire world. To put it plainly, it’s home and always will be.

Preliminary reports are still unclear as to whether the storm was an actual tornado or straight line winds. Either way, the damage made Atlanta “look like a war zone,” according to Atlanta news media outlets. Downtown skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta had glass blown out by winds that some weather observers say could have reached close to hurricane force.

One bystander who was involved in the storm commented, “most did not get any warning this type storm was brewing,” making this writer pause and think a second of coming events upon Planet Earth in the very near future.  

I’ve been a weather enthusiast since I’ve been a child studying severe storms and warning mechanisms through the years forecasters have used to do just what this bystander said they did not get in Atlanta moments before this storm struck. I know people and for the most part even if there had been a warning that conditions were ripe for this type weather those warnings would have for the most part been ignored and thousands would have still gathered into the Georgia Dome to watch the SEC Basketball tourney which was going on at the time when these winds ripped through Georgia’s capital city and my hometown.

Watching the scenes of this storm reminded me of the 1975 Governor’s Mansion tornado, a storm this writer and his family actually went through. I remember as a 10 year old child listening to the sounds of tin from an industrial park ten miles away from my dad’s church falling onto the church’s parking lot. Those memories never leave you even 33 years later. 

I know even when bad weather threatens Knoxville where we live and I tell my own family now that bad weather is brewing I’m usually laughed off or ignored for the most part. I have a feeling that my kids probably even laugh inwardly at their old man making such a big deal about the possibility that serious weather is coming and we need to be alert and ready to move to a safe place in our home if need be at a moment’s notice. Many times my concerns about the weather seem unnecessary when storm systems may weaken while other times they come sweeping through with damage and confirm my concerns.

Because I follow the weather I’m very seldom caught unaware of coming storms. It’s just my nature and hobby to study such and keep abreast of what is taking place weather wise. I have been doing this since I was a child. I guess the 1975 event did something to me but I love the weather and storms and learning more about their power and paths.  My family’s lethargy and even amusement at my hobby and keeping abreast at such bothers me at times for sure. But one fact remains. Whether one is keeping abreast of what is going on or, as my family, lethargic and unconcerned about the brewing storm – the storm still comes. And friend – no matter whether one has not received and grasped the warnings, or heard the warnings and just ignored them or blown them off – a STORM IS COMING!  This storm is called the Great Tribulation and it is coming upon Planet Earth. The United States government will not stop it; no president will stop it; no UN measures will stop it; no unbelieving preacher will stop it; no godless denomination will stop it; no apostate church will stop it; it is coming because the Word of God says it will come! (Matthew 24:10-13, 21)  Jesus declared this time of history that is yet future but very soon on the world’s prophetic horizon, will be worse than any time of Earth’s prior history, as well as being worse than any time in Earth’s future history.

Let me state it again. Distant rumblings of thunder and the warnings from God’s Word SCREAM to us that conditions in the world right now are signaling that a storm of unprecedented proportion is brewing on the prophetic horizon and will sweep over this earth just as this tornado went through Atlanta.  It may be true that most in Atlanta Friday night did not have any warning a storm like this was brewing but that only speaks to the sudden nature of how weather-related destruction can hit. I state again that had people received a warning that such conditions were brewing it would not have changed their plans.

Most would have STILL gone to the basketball tourney and screamed and hollered for their favorite team despite the danger of death brewed outside. Such is the nature of a fallen race and especially a nation which has lost its way with God here in America. No matter whether warning was given or not – the storm still HIT! And no matter whether people hear the warning or not – the STORM that is coming upon Planet Earth WILL and IS COMING and will TAKE PLACE! The Apostle Paul said that when the world cries “peace and safety” then SUDDEN destruction shall come upon this earth as birth pangs come upon a woman. No matter how much godless politicians promise “change” to the nation and the world should they get elected let this writer assure the reader that the change that is coming is not the change being promised.

The change that is ahead will be an increase of earthquakes, violent tornadoes, hurricanes, pestilences, wars and rumor of wars, famines, drought, fires and a continued upheaval and shaking of Planet Earth in general (Romans 8). The Bible has given warning and though the voices of preachers who have spoken those warnings have gotten fewer and fewer there are still SOME giving warning to this very hour that a STORM IS COMING.  I pray friend that you know the only anchor that will be sure during this time of terrible calamity that is coming upon the Earth and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s getting late neighbor and the warnings are being screamed that the church age is coming to an end, the rapture is about to take place and the curtain about to rise upon Earth’s darkest hour. The rise of the Antichrist looms as does the stage being set for the Great Tribulation period where nearly 3 billion people may very well die.

Friend, take heed to the warning and if you don’t know the Lord today, hear the Holy Spirit through this writer to make things right with God, be born again, repent, believe the gospel and be saved before it is eternally too late.  

Barrack Obama, Jeremiah Wright And America’s Crisis of True Faith

Barrack Obama, Jeremiah Wright and America’s Crisis of Faith The last 48 hours has been probably Barrack Obama’s worst nightmare as his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has caused a firestorm that may wind up engulfing Obama’s campaign. Wright’s recent tirade against America behind his Chicago pulpit at the Trinity United Church of Christ underscores a growing identity problem in America as to what is true Christianity and the brand of Christianity this idiot preaches from behind his pulpit. 

Let this writer make it clear that anyone with half a brain can listen to 5 seconds to what Wright said on March 9 and realize this man is not a Christian, he does NOT know the Lord and needs to be born again and meet the Lord Jesus Christ. In addition, with his evident hatred of America and communion with anti-Semitic leader Louis Farrakhan, it surprises this writer why Mr. Wright even wants to live here.

The reason is simple. Only in America can stupidity and moronic ideas like that poised by Rev. Wright freely be spoken. If he got up in a Saudi pulpit, or an Iranian pulpit, or even a Libyan pulpit, and said these type statements against the religion of Islam as he did against whites and America in general, Mr. Wright’s tongue would not be functioning to say these things simply because Mr. Wright would probably wind up losing his life. However, because he lives in a free nation where freedom of speech is one of our fundamental rights granted to us by the constitution and paid for by the blood of those in the military Mr. Wright blasphemes and rails against, Mr. Wright, and other morons just like him can spew their hatred and stupidity without having to be afraid of these type things happening.  

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday denounced inflammatory remarks from his pastor, who has railed against the United States and accused the country of bringing on the Sept. 11 attacks by spreading terrorism.  Obama called the statements appearing on television and the Internet “completely unacceptable and inexcusable” in a Fox News interview and said they didn’t reflect the kinds of sermons he had heard from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright while attending services at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Those terms are understatements if you ask me, which if your reading this blog I guess in a way you are. Obama, a member of the church since the early 1990s, said he would have quit Trinity had such statements been “the repeated tenor of the church. … I wouldn’t feel comfortable there.”Earlier Friday, Obama responded by posting a blog about his relationship with Wright and Trinity on the Huffington Post. Wright brought Obama to Christianity, officiated at his wedding, baptized his daughters and inspired the title of his book, “The Audacity of Hope.” 

Obama wrote that he’s looked to Wright for spiritual advice, not political guidance, and he’s been pained and angered to learn of some of his pastor’s comments for which he had not been present.  “I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies,” Obama said in his blog posting. “I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Reverend Wright that are at issue.” In a sermon on the Sunday after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Wright suggested the United States brought on the attacks. “We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” Wright said. “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” 

In a 2003 sermon, he said blacks should condemn the United States. “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.” He also gave a sermon in December comparing Obama to Jesus, promoting his candidacy and criticizing his rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton. “Barack knows what it means to be a black man to be living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people,” Wright told a cheering congregation. “Hillary can never know that. Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger.” 

Obama told MSNBC that he would not repudiate Wright as a man, describing him as “like an uncle” who says something that he disagrees with and must speak out against. He also said he expects his political opponents will use video of the sermons to attack him as the campaign goes on. Questions about Obama’s religious beliefs have dogged him throughout his candidacy. He’s had to fight against false Internet rumors suggesting he’s really a Muslim intent on destroying the United States, and now his pastor’s words uttered nearly seven years ago have become an issue.Obama wrote on the Huffington Post that he never heard Wright say any of the statements, but he acknowledged that they have raised legitimate questions about the nature of his relationship with the pastor and the church.

He wrote that he joined Wright’s church nearly 20 years ago, familiar with the pastor’s background as a former Marine and respected biblical scholar who lectured at seminaries across the country. “Reverend Wright preached the gospel of Jesus, a gospel on which I base my life,” he wrote. “And the sermons I heard him preach always related to our obligation to love God and one another, to work on behalf of the poor and to seek justice at every turn.” I would respond to Mr. Obama’s comments by asking a simple question. Are the comments heard on Sunday the gospel of Jesus? ABSOLUTELY NOT! However, for an American church who gets their gospel from Oprah Winfrey and Rick Warren and Joel Osteen, such a statement would make perfect sense to this writer that Obama would believe that is the gospel. 

He said Wright’s controversial statements first came to his attention at the beginning of his presidential campaign last year, and he condemned them. Because of his long and deep ties to the 6,000-member congregation church, Obama said he decided not to leave. “With Reverend Wright’s retirement and the ascension of my new pastor, Rev. Otis Moss III, Michelle and I look forward to continuing a relationship with a church that has done so much good,” he wrote.  And that is the other rub of this issue. A “church that has done so much GOOD,” is the reason he gives for staying at a place where an Anti-Semite and American hater gets up each week and spews his hatred without rebuke from the black community or any black leader who, had this been a white man behind a pulpit saying these things about the black community would have had marches and threats to burn the building down. 

Also Friday, the United Church of Christ issued a 1,400-word statement defending Wright and his “flagship” congregation. The statement lauded Wright’s church for its community service and work to nurture youth and the pastor for speaking out against homophobia and sexism in the black community.  Mr. Wright, and I am deliberately not calling him a Reverend because he is a disgrace to the ministry, does not just hold racist views against whites but also holds great contempt for the nation of Israel: “The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.”

Those are the babblings of a fool who needs to be born again and meet Jesus, Israel’s Jewish Messiah and the Savior of the World. I do not seek to link Mr. Wright’s sentiments with those of Barrack Obama who late Friday evening refuted Mr. Wright’s statements and said he was not present in person when these things were said, adding had he heard these things on a persistent basis in person he would have quit the church. That’s a real stretch considering Wright married Obama to his wife Michelle, baptized his children, and gave him the title of Obama’s book “The Audacity of Hope.”  Obama defended Wright however to Fox News Friday night to a degree saying Wright talked a great deal about Jesus, God and helping the poor many times in the past since he and his wife Michelle joined the church in 1991-1992.

That is the rub of the condition of the American Church. If a preacher mentions Jesus once or twice then spews out racist hatred, arrogant anti-America and anti-Semitic rhetoric on a regular basis as Wright has done then he is looked on as a “Christian” minister. Let this writer say this without blinking and with all surety some will take issue with this. No Christian minister who TRULY knows the Lord Jesus Christ would say the things Mr. Wright said about America and Israel and have this history of making these separatist and racist remarks. If this brand of the Christian faith is what most Americans believe is true Christianity then friend we have a serious problem and a severe crisis of faith in this nation. The FOOL has said in his heart, “there is no God.”

The great Apostle Peter further declared that perverse and foolish men who “wrestle” the scriptures like Mr. Wright seems to do on a regular basis do so to their own destruction and the destruction to those who listen to such and embrace them. Wright is not the only black pastor who has shown this type of arrogance and in reality his own stupidity in recent times. The Rev. Joseph Lowery embarrassed himself and the entire black community in 2005 during the funeral of Corretta Scott King accusing President Bush, who was sitting right behind Lowery on the stage with his wife Laura, of lying to the nation about weapons of mass destruction and being a racist because of the government’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

Lowery actually received a standing ovation when he remarked before four U.S. Presidents in attendance: “We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we know that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance; poverty abounds. For war billions more but no more for the poor.” Only in America would such stupid, offensive, classless, tasteless, and moronic remarks get a standing ovation.  Only in America would a minister disrespect the President of the United States who took time out of his schedule to attend the funeral of Mrs. King out of respect for Mrs. King and the Civil Rights Movement only to have to sit and listen to Lowery and former President Jimmy Carter slur his name and administration without blushing.

This service that should have been to honor Ms. King and the legacy of her husband, but instead in this writer’s opinion Lowery along with the other black leaders present that day embarrassed the black community and insulted the intelligence of millions who know better.  This type of disrespect for government and leaders in America is a sign friend we continue to rapidly descend into the last of the last days and the foretold apostasy of both the church and the world. The Apostle Jude warned that men would become grumblers and speak against dignitaries without respect for authority in the last days: Jude 8: “yet in the same way these men,….defile the flesh, and reject authority.” Jude 16: These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak ARROGANTLY, flattering people for the sake of gaining advantage.”

What Mr. Wright said is not new nor is it anything different than the hard left in this nation that seeks to put the blame of 9-11-2001 not on Islamic terrorism but on America itself. This is the question I’ll end this blog with. Are we to believe Mr. Obama that in twenty years of sitting in this church never saw Mr. Wright’s connection to Louis Farrakhan? He never saw or realized the connection between Wright and the Libyan government; He never one time heard the same type diatribe Americans listened to on Friday in 20 years of sermons?

I’m going to give Obama the benefit of the doubt – for now. If it is determined he knew these things and even was in attendance while such things were being said and still supported Wright and his church then Mr. Obama’s worst nightmare has taken place and friend to be frank this has all the earmarks of destroying a once high-octane campaign that seemed unbeatable 3 weeks ago.  Part of this blog contains news information from Yahoo News, copyright, 2008.