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Patriots, World Citizens, or Pilgrims?
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September
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O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet?
Jeremiah 47:6

Manipulation of choices

Wars and rumours of wars!  In today's language ...  sabre rattling, war mongering, rhetoric, with great acts of destruction!

The dust may have settled in downtown Manhattan, but a new dust storm is brewing over Central Asia.  This current war begins with a shaky alliance between the moderate "Christian" West and moderate (or moderated) Islamic States, targeting the networks of hidden Islamic fundamentalists who count it the highest honour to die for Allah and his cause.  In spite of the tragic circumstances spiralling towards this ill defined, impending showdown, I feel I must share my grief  in regards to the 11th of September infernos, for the nearly six thousand funerals of the passengers and crew, the fire-fighters and police, and the incinerated victims of the three buildings plus; along with their bereaved loved ones and families (updated ...  the final official death figure was half this amount).

I also must be careful here how I speak about our nations leaders as scripture reveals it is wrong to despise government and speak evil of dignities.  Also, many people in New Zealand are still very appreciative the way the Lord used the USA to save our land from a Japanese invasion in WW2 (our boys were busy in North Africa giving Britain a helping hand).  Nor do I believe America is just about to be destroyed by fire over night, as some say.  The Bible says ...  "Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha."  There still remains in America a righteous seed I am pleased to say.

However, what can't be ignored is George Bush's speech the other week, in regards to threatening would-be fence sitting nations at this crucial time. Because here he also took away a persons right to neutrality when he said, "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."

Some choice really Mr. President!  Because if you or anyone else tries to place people in a political straight jacket because they may not go along with the status quo, I find I have no alternative than to say I am neither for you and your retaliatory campaign as much as I am neither for the terrorists, or any terrorists, for that matter!

Where does that leave me and thousands of others, worldwide, who are totally anti terrorist and totally against using your B 52s to bomb thousands of innocents out of existence, who may not see things your way or go along with any act of terror?  A bit ironic really!  Especially when some individuals choose not to be a product of CNN, the BBC, or the NWO propaganda machine in general.  Instead, choose to try and look rationally at the whole picture, from a biblical, historical, factual and balanced view point.  I can now see here shades of what happened in Germany in the 1930's when their Fuhrer made national demand to follow him unconditionally.

One does not need to delve far to ask, "who are the terrorists?"  The misguided, cornered, fanatical Moslem extremists?  Or civilized, sophisticated Jezebel, under the banner of the stars and stripes? Couldn't both parties be as equally as guilty as the other?  Two extremes at the base of the Illuminati pyramid, being manipulated to line up with the apex capstone, by the central invisible government.  Namely, the symbol which is on every US dollar note, symbolically giving the nod for the New World Order.  Which George Bush Senior made both public and official at the launch of the Gulf War.

A modern day Babylon the Great?

When you think of the dual meaning behind the occultic Phoenix bird (which is paraded as a bald eagle on the Masonic emblems of the US) rising from the ashes of Fallen Babylon's symbol of world dominance through trade, there is a similarity between the "Twin Towers" and the "Twin Wings" of this mystical eagle, with its lofty glare from the heights of the heavens?  Reminiscent of Isaiah 47:

"And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever."

As far as The Plan goes (that's the satanic plot for global totalitarianism) ...  both wings of Babylon are equally as important for balance and achievement.  It doesn't matter if this eagle's stance is to the left or to the right, east or the west, as it will use both sides (lawlessness or controlled anarchy, capitalism or communism, catholicism or protestantism, and so on) working for the same means to achieve its goals of world tyranny.  When two opposites are at your disposal, it is easy to play one off against the other, while simultaneously offering a false solution down the middle, such as peace and safety at a great cost!  Even at the cost of truth!  Even World Government!  Masquerading under the New Age catch phrase ...  "Globalism".

As well as being the only nation to use the A-bomb, choosing large civilianized targets; this great Nation, who invented indiscriminate carpet bombing (first used at Casino, Italy); burned out inhabitant after inhabitant by incendiary bombing in Germany, Japan, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq; and cluster bombed civilians in Serbia and Kosovo.  Not failing to mention "the Road to Basra" holocaust in the early nineties.  Also, it is her who murders millions of unborn babies a year, and has a "Christian" president who has given his approval to use experimentation on their little discarded carcasses.  It is this nation who is the largest exporter of pornography, violence, and occultic induced games and movies as entertainment, worldwide.

America!!  Why should God bless her?  Where Hollywood and Broadway strut their stuff, corrupting a captivated world into the new morality for the 21st century, "we can have heaven and decadence together!"

America!!  Why should God bless you?  Who prays to the false god of Abraham, Mohammed, and Jesus Christ.  And embraces false religions in order to be approved and admired by everyone.  In order to keep her iffy acquaintances happy and held together as an ally.  Whether it's Saudi Arabia's repressive monarchy, or Pakistan's military rule.

America!!  Why should God bless a nation given over to blaspheming, bad language, promiscuity, queers, new agers, as well as the red carpet treatment for terrorists at the White House.  Not to forget to mention the CIA funded Contras, death squads, and underhanded covert operations in other regions of the globe.

At this stage, your civilians had not been victims of terrorist madness.  Unlike Israel or Britain, whom you condemned for using force against "woman and children" bombers (although both countries are themselves guilty of using terrorism in times past).  But it is okay for you to use the same tactics as the IDF or the SAS.

You can use as many prayer services as you like, with great sacrifice, endorsed by as many celebrities as you foster, making reference to God as much as you can, to conjure up your false new idealism's; but the end will not be blessing and prosperity.  Unless this nation, from the White House to the man in the street, fall on their faces in the streets, with great shame and remorse, calling out to the Holy One of Israel, it will have to face the divine consequences very shortly.  September the 11th being a wake-up call.

Yes, you can pray all you like, and lead the way as a "fuzzy" world role-leader, audaciously ignoring the Holy scriptures:

Proverbs 15:8. " The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight."

But your end will ultimately be woe upon woe.  For it is not an hour of wingdings and celebration, promoting lawlessness and perversion.  It is not an hour of proving a point and retaliation. Nor is it an hour of throwing out your past biblical landmarks for the sake of unity and reconciling with pagan gods of old.  It is an hour of repentance and remorse.  Of watching and fasting.

If an extra season of prosperity is permitted, it will be only on the grounds of a few still clinging to your landmark of old.   In other words ...  the only thing preserving you from complete destruction ...  a God fearing faithful remnant!  Did not God spare Sodom because of a preserved few?

Truth is fallen in the streets

While the majority are being seduced away with the lie, in a false sense of loyalty and drunk patriotism  ...  "you are being a good patriot if you comply with surrendering your freedoms and fulfilling the duty of your country"!

Christian, if you are truly a Bible believer; meaning you are only a temporary pilgrim down here, where heaven is your home, and where your citizenship belongs; then your allegiance is to Christ first, before anything or anyone else.  Which means you obey governments only to the point they do not contradict God's commandments.  Only honouring their good deeds, and praying for them.  With the purpose God may honour your request, granting secular leaders divine inspiration and wisdom, in order for a nation to remain in peace, so the gospel may not be hindered in the land.

The second lie ...  "by being a "good patriot" you will follow your "inspired" leaders to global conformity, as good "world citizens", in order to save our "beloved" planet from destruction"!

Anyone not compliant to the above notion could be viewed as a hindrance to human advancement, and the goodwill of the international community in general.  Even appearing in the same league as a "terrorist", because of your non-compliant attitude towards globalism.  Although being poles apart, selected similarities will be exploited and distorted so the finger will be pointed, in the end, at you ...  the Christian "Fundamentalist" (dum de dum dum!!).  With the help of Bill Clinton's adopted catch phrase "zero tolerance".

Already the two sides are being bandied together.  So if you take God's word, the Holy Bible, for what it says, without retraction, you will be branded along side the extremists.

Two choices

Who are the extremists?  Those who ignore God's word and take on the system by force or fervour.  Here they are:

Right wing militants (believers of "biblical" fascism)
Anti-Semites (those who have a wrong interpretation of geographical Israel, the Jews, or despise them for being the Old Testament chosen people)
Neo-nazis (black and Jew bashers)
Militia cells (those who think they have a right to challenge, even overthrow the existing regime)
White supremacists (those who use violence to purge their land off anyone whose skin is not white)
Identity Movement followers (in the UK - British Israelites, or in the US - advocators of the above.  I have already been lumped here by a "brother in the Lord" - please view)
Anti-global protesters (those that will boycott "officialdom" and run riot in the streets)
Reconstructionists (those who are "vision" and "prophecy" obsessed  - not satisfied with what God is doing now and trying to make the future happen themselves)
Kingdom Now advocates (those who believe it is their "Christian" mandate to infiltrate society and christianize it through political and social persuasion and legislation)
Conspiracy nutters (who make predictions without facts, or live off presumption - e.g. the Y2K scenario and the Jupiter effect)
Religious paranoids (who see evil lurking behind every group that is not theirs)
Fanatics (who will go to the end to destroy everything outside their belief system, even themselves)
Anarchists (satanists in disguise)
Religious extremists (whether cultist, "Christian", Hindu, Moslem - the slot to be filled by the system for those who believe emphatically their Bible is the very word of God)

Following is how true followers of Jesus can be branded alongside extremists and be treated as an outcast, even hunted, although there is a major contrast.  If a person is a true follower of Jesus and word based, there is, in actuality, no connection whatsoever:

The Moslem extremist 
(takes the Koran seriously):
Fanatical (follows his religion unconditionally)
Motivated by unadulterated hate and compulsion
Hating your enemies
Complete surrender to a God who demands blood
Martyrdom - suicide (taking out innocents with you)
Ushered into Paradise (for killing others besides yourself)
An "awaiting harem of virgins" as bait 
Heaven based on works, penance, and flagellation
Hell is for Westerners, Americans and Jews
Forced conversion through the sword or enforced laws
Is a warrior for the cause
Nations must be controlled by conquest
Enforcing civil law and restrictions
Enacting Holy Jihad
By force
Looks to Mecca
Infidels eradicated by its religious followers
Allah purging so-called enemies of Islam
Working underground by a network of secret cells
The bible believer 
(interpreted as an extremist as he takes the Bible seriously):
Zealous (presents no answers outside God's)
Motivated by perfect love which casts out all fear
Loving your enemies
Complete surrender to God the Creator who shed His blood on our behalf
Martyrdom - dying for Christ (and laying down your life for others)
Ushered into Paradise (through natural death or being killed)
An awaiting wedding feast - one bride, one bridegroom 
Heaven not based works, but confessing Christ and denying self
Hell is for Christ rejecters
Conversion through a personal conviction of sin, righteousness and judgement
Is a witness for the kingdom
Glad tidings proclaimed in order for individuals to choose life above death
Being as harmless as doves and as gentle as lambs, outside politics
Bearing peace
By choice
Looks to the New Jerusalem
Reconciling nonbelievers back to their Maker
Christ rejecters judged by God Himself
Meeting together for 'family' support outside institutional religion
It always comes back to choosing between 'the wisdom of the world' and 'the old rugged cross'.

Contrasts between two prophets:

Osama Bin Laden:
A false prophet
His followers will perish with him in their sins
Uses the sword
Advocates war
Hate and eradicate your enemy
Kills and destroys 
Includes women and children as targets 
Possession by force
The world by conquest
Infiltrating infidel nations
Pilgrimage to Mecca a necessity
Fighting for his cause
Advocates suicide
The Lord Jesus Christ:
The Prophet (Heb. 1:2)
To day shalt thou be with me in paradise (Lk.. 23:43) 
They that take the sword shall perish with the sword (Matt. 26:52)
Do violence to no man (Lk. 3:14)

Love and forgive your enemy (Rom. 12:20) 
Came to give life, and life more abundantly (Jn. 10:10)
Suffer the little children to come unto me (Mark 10:4)
The meek shall inherit (Ps. 37:11) 
Crucified unto the world (Gal. 6:14)
Being the salt and the light of the world (Matt. 5: 13-14)
My kingdom is not of this world (Jn.. 18:36) 
His servants do not fight (Jn. 18:36)
He lays down his life for his friends (Jn. 15:13

The good news for any Moslem fundamentalist or member of  Al-Qaeda (or Hamas or Hezbollah for that matter), there is hope and salvation for them if they truly repent and call out to Jesus Christ for mercy.

One of the greatest witnesses of all time for Jesus was previously a religious fanatic called Saul of Tarsus, who not only hunted Christians down but destroyed them according to his testimony in Galatians 1:13:

"For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:"

Just like the Gestapo he did not think twice of raiding their private homes and dragging them off to condemnation ...  Acts 8:3.

In the first century he led a campaign of terror against Christians across the Middle East until his miraculous conversion while on the road to Damascus.  Here his fanaticism was turned to zeal, as Saul who was now Paul, and was living for Christ and His cause alone.

There is hope for the terrorist. But it will take deep remorse for his wicked deeds, and taking hold of the forgiveness of God with a total heart.

Without Christ - predicament

The terrorist's dilemma ...  He is being surrounded and cornered as the Global noose tightens around his neck.  He will have to fight to the death or be flushed out of his hole like vermin.  There is only one alternative, and it is the wisest thing anyone could choose ...  renounce his ways and turn to Jesus!

It is now official!  The line has been drawn!  From the leader of the most powerful nation on earth ...  you are either in one camp or the other.  This could be the Lord separating the sheep from the goats.  Those who slide into mass degradation and godlessness, or those who stand on the rock of God's word. There will no longer be a middle ground.  And God may use our (would-be) enemies to bring it about.

The Western dilemma ...  America succumbing to a foreign religion whose sacred book gives licence to kill anyone outside their religion.  Coercing these nations to be friendly co-operates, or suffer the consequences.  What backlash will this political and economic blackmail eventually bear on the US?  Not failing to mention the dilemma of the Moslems, who have to backtrack from their book to look respectable to the West renouncing all forms of terrorism they may have reiterated in times past.

The Middle Eastern dilemma ...  Moslem nations divided.  Not knowing what to do with Israel.  But needing America for trading or aiding against a threatening, "brotherly" Moslem neighbour.  F'instance, Sunni and Shi'ite Moslems at loggerheads with each other.

The Russian dilemma ...  Russia is broke so it has to skip to the West's tune in order to be propped up with funding.  It also has to please its Moslem southern neighbours for its safety and well being.  At the same time keep the largest nation on earth, China (the awakening Dragon), along its longest border, at bay.

The British dilemma ...  the UK has to join up with her former foes on Mainland Europe, neglecting her Commonwealth, or it is apparently doomed.  It also has to try and be neutral when it comes to the ME situation.  Although it was behind the Belfour Declaration, its own landscape is now dotted with mosques and its cities filled with "racial" tension.  Such a price for the commodity of oil.

The Jewish dilemma ...  Israel needs America for finance and arms on the condition it pursues peace with its enemies who are out to wipe it off the face of the earth.  It also receives the worlds top religious leader (the Pope) as "Holy" Father, to plead religious reconciliation in the "Holy" City,  which it officially does not recognize as the capital of Israel.  America is being pressured by the Moslem states for more leanness if it wants the pleasure of better co-operation in its war against Moslem terrorists.  The cost ...  the expense of American protection over the Jewish State.  This places more pressure on Sharon to mellow his hard-line attitude as the events unfold.

The Vatican's dilemma: ... The Pope who just recently made public and official there is no salvation outside of the Church of Rome. However, on the other hand kisses the Koran, prays in a mosque, and says Allah is the same God as the Christians.  This is because for international PR purposes (and because politics is expedient) he is forced to, in order to win the Moslem world to her fold.  At the same time, making friends with the Moslem enemy; Israel.

New Zealand's dilemma ...  It is against the law to advertise for a Christian flatmate or worker.  However, there is provision to advertise for Moslem slaughtermen. On the other hand NZ prays to God through Jesus Christ at the opening of Parliament, but literally faces Mecca (abattoir killings) in order to keep its major trade with the Middle East.

The lukewarm Christians dilemma ...  Jesus said you are either for Him or against Him, and the friendship of the world is enmity with God. While the world places an olive leaf in the Christian's hand and says, "come, lie with me."

So basically everyone has to moderate, as the Pope has, in order to fit the queue and buy the spin. As mentioned, even the Jews received this man to their capital (although he does not see their right to it), and allowed him to sit on his throne just outside Jerusalem, as the world's top religious leader/figure (Year 2000 - and a prelude to the biggie in 2 Thessalonians 2:4), after being nearly wiped out of existence by the blessing of his church, over the centuries.

However, today is the day to moderate!  Compromise!  Renouncing extremism and fundamentalism of any kind!  Letting your boundaries down!  And having no set defining line.  All for the purpose of standing as one; absent from the word of God.  Therefore, anyone living for the Holy Bible, with an undivided heart and unwilling to recant, will be seen as dangerous and extreme, and be viewed as not belonging to this world, or a least a hindrance to world "progress".  Already Russian President Vladimir Putin in a visit to Germany since September the 11th, has called for an international response to eradicate religious extremists.  The question that needs to be asked ...  apart from suicidal fanatics, who are the religious extremists?

Double standards as the norm

No George!  Bible believers condemn terrorism and intimidation of all kinds, whether from the Mid East, the right wing militants, any militia, or the federal government.

We are told by the media it is un-American to question George W. Bush's policies in regards to the September the 11th aftermath.  Of course Bin Laden is guilty one way or the other.  But if George can attack unspecified targets with weapons of mass destruction, it is apparently okay, even if he does not present proof of the supposed perpetrators, till after the damage is done and the lose of life revealed.  And like Kosovo; the evidence though flimsy and shallow; where photos of a few scattered dozen graves and selected testimonies, are adequate proof to confirm the previous accusations of mass genocide against the Albanians of Kosovo.  Where the targeted dug-in army remains totally intact after weeks of one of the greatest aerial bombardments in history, only to be sent home because their ally the Russians tell them to, after a deal has been brokered with Washington and Moscow over the fate of  two small Moslem enclaves ...

"We'll let you have a free hand in Chechnya, if you take your hands off Serbia's claim to Kosovo"!  "Oh, and to save face, we'll let you have the privilege of riding into the capital (Pristina) first, as part of the international colourful liberating army, ahead of Nato.  But remember ...  on what terms!"

Oh, what heights of hypocrisy and double dealing!  The Serbs have to leave their traditional homeland because it is overrun by Moslems, or else!  Where China has a free hand in Tibet using suppression and brutality at its worst, with only verbal condemnation of purging thousands of its unarmed civilians protesting in its capital's square.  Where is the Community of Nations armed coalition against this invader and bully?

"We can't afford to upset a prospective chief world trader!"  "But appease them with our latest missile technology (who will sell it to our enemies)!"  "And, besides ...  there's no oil up there in the Himalayas!"

As if the US of A would never dream of handing California and Texas back to the original owners; Mexico, of whom it took by force.  It took until 1913 to release the Apache Nation from concentration camps (they were double-crossed by the promise of farms, for a stinky cattle train deportation instead) thinking they would eventually die off with TB.

But if Iraq invades shifty Kuwait for poaching their oil, by angled under border drilling, and interfering with the regions trade; look out!  It's a balancing act all the way!  Like breaking up a powerful "Christian" country in the West (Yugoslavia) because it tips the balance of power.  Justifying breaking up a powerful Moslem country in the East (Indonesia), keeping a happy equilibrium.  Basically because they dared to defy globalism.  Fairs fair!  Attack a rogue "Christian" country in Europe (namely Serbia), then it's not prejudice to attack a rogue Moslem country in Asia (namely Afghanistan).  So if it's not wrong to starve an extremist country in West Asia (Iraq), then why is it wrong to starve an extremist country in East Asia (North Korea), when they won't toe the line?

If rogue (terrorist) "states" (notice, they don't call them nations) will not comply politically after sanctions and economical strangulation, then military intervention (being pummelled into subjection) is all that is left!  They've termed it "Collateral Damage" because it sounds so much nicer than "wanton destruction and murder", as if it is some political, natural occurrence the populace has to live with, and put up with, from hereon!  Moreover, is it mere coincidence the movie of the same name was released on the eve of 911?

Yeah ...  we get the message Uncle Sam!!  Oh, and let's not forget the twenty million who have died of aids up to this point in time.  This is now largely accepted about a vaccination procedure going strangely wrong in Third World countries, like "forbidden" Africa.  Whether it was deliberately spiked or contaminated through incompetence, shouldn't someone be responsible?

Choosing the narrow way

Of course Christians are not called to bear arms, or endorse it, but to love, pray, and forgive their enemies.  So bible believers stay out of politics and war, as well as their 'fun and games'.  There is a war on another front.  A spiritual front.  Where the evil forces of darkness are invisible but real, and can only be discerned in the spirit.  The unseen forces (spirits) chief objective ...  the complete destruction of man!  Where religion (representing peace) is a front and politics (representing war) is the means.  And working together, justifies their cause and are instrumental in bringing it about.  Causing madmen to do the most insane things against fellow man.  Whether crudely or sophisticatedly, ignorantly or intelligently, in war or in subterfuge.  Even in the name of God.

It is a spiritual battle all the way home.  To Paradise that is!  For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ!

It's such a great salvation; we need to preserve it with all we have, keeping our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.  Presenting Christ's gospel as the only answer to man. Where the mere preaching of the cross is seen as mere foolishness to those who don't believe.

Here is some wonderful news ...  "When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him."

Who's willing to be part of this standard?  And be viewed as a fool for Christ?

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Some alternate Links:

Although some of the material below maybe be written for wrong reasons (I will let you work this out) you will find facts that are obscured in the Western media and need to be considered.  However, if you want to remain a one-eyed Westerner then don't read the following:

The Myth of Surgical Bombing in the Gulf War

The Road to Basra - the Highway of Death

Iraqi Oasis

US 'supported anti-left terror in Italy'

  7/10/01.  Updated last 31/7/06 NZ. 

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