The War from Terrorists and How to Win It By C. L. Chapman [Originally written in the before Barrack Obama came on the scene. He has epitomized the enemy of our State from within and is the personification of the evil that has led much of our populace captive. His totalitarian stance on Socialism for the US, and embrace of Islam while claiming to be Christian punctuates these assertions.] The Dimensions The United States is being attacked from three foes, two of them from outside her borders, and the other from within. In spite of the tendencies for us to forget the attacks and plots against us from outside, and our obliviousness regarding the enemy‘s activities within, the United States can still win this war. Chapter One Enemy One The first enemy is our current oldest one, as an active enemy. The resistance from the Communists, which has been going on since before WWII, has weakened toward the U. S. directly in recent years. For many years, especially just after WWII and until after the Korean Conflict and the Viet Nam war, the Communists were very much our enemies on military, economic, social as well as political fronts. Since the mid-eighties Communism has been receding as far as the U. S. conflict is concerned. The turning point came about the time President Reagan told the Russians to tear down the Berlin Wall. That was the beginning of the end for Russian Communism, and they were then the strongest source. Cuba is still playing the ―Spoon‖ on the world by continuing to stir up Communism in Latin and South America. The North Korean Communist government has been rattling sabers with new nuclear threats for the past few months. The U. S. is very quiet about the Latin American Communist activities, and up to now has held off North Korean plea for personal attention by ignoring them and displaying second–hand scorn. Communism has failed miserably around the world, and everyone has had an opportunity to see what a failure it is. There are a few who want to push it over onto everyone else so that these promoters may become wheels of power and wealth. To assist these leaders, somehow the peoples in some countries seem to believe the propaganda that their government owes them something. If there is any shortage of jobs or crops or other income, the government should take up the slack and feed the masses. There seems to be an international assault on personal responsibility. When this happens, the doctrines of Communism flourish, and so do those who would promote them. Here is a list of Communist terror groups [21 of them]: 2 Revolutionary People‘s Struggle, Revolutionary Organization 17 November, Revolutionary Nuclei, Alex Boncayao Brigade, Sendero Luminoso, and New People‘s Army, Army for the Liberation of Rwanda – (AKA) Interahamwe, Former Armed Forces, First of October Antifascist Resistance Group, - (AKA) Grupo de Resistencia Anti-Fascista, Continuity Irish Republican Army – (AKA) Continuity Army Council, Orange Volunteers, Red hand Defenders, Revolutionary United Front, Black Star, Anarchist Faction for Overthrow, Red Brigades-Combatant Communist Party, Revolutionary Proletarian Nucleus, Jerusalem Warriors, The Pentagon Gang, Japanese Red Army, Allied Democratic Forces, The Lord‘s Resistance Army As you can easily discern from the titles of the Communist terrorist groups, they like to relate themselves to revolutionaries or remain loyal to the term ―people’s.‖ It makes them sound just, noble and very hero-like. But, I ask: ―From whom are these people trying to revolt?‖ Indeed, some countries have despotic rulers from which the people should revolt, but most of those despotic rulers are already Communist or at least leftist. A second question arises: ―Will Communism improve the lot of the people, any people?‖ Because Communism has at least influenced many of the poorer countries and it has already shown its failures around the world, what makes people think it will work? Most likely any improvement caused by Communism in any government will be nonexistent, and short-lived if there should be any improvement. Castro has made inroads into Central and Latin America to promote Communism. So, too, the Chinese are propping up the North Koreans to carry on their threats, directed mostly toward the U. S. and our allies—although it is not clear where China may profit from any conflict between the U. S. and North Korea. Maybe they know that eventually the U. S. will tire of the noise and simply snuff out the North Korean leadership. China may be using the North Korean nuclear hubbub to divert attention away from their efforts to gain Taiwan. Also China may be setting up North Korea to see how far they can push the West—and what gain there may be in it for them. Without China, North Korea would have been only another proof of the economic failure of Communism. It is a certainty that the Communists would still like to overthrow the U. S. Because the U. S. has such military dominance, the only overt means the Communists 3 have are economic and political. North Korea‘s recent showing off of it latest missile technology has not even caused a raised eyebrow from the West. So far we haven‘t seen much outward violence from them. Their camps of imprisoned citizens have recently come to light, and they have become talking points with and about the North Koreans. There is still another aspect of this enemy—the Communists. The Russian Communists started operations against the U.S. and the world while they were still a military threat, and some of these operations are still going on. One such operation is UNESCO, being supported and sponsored by European Nations, mostly France. It is headquartered in France and has much influence in France, Germany and much of the European community, as well as around the world. President Reagan dropped the U. S. membership to UNESCO back in the ‗80‘s. According to their declared purpose, they are to help the survival of Earth by overseeing parcels of land and water in cooperating nations by assuring that these parcels are maintained unsettled and unspoiled by us humans. Many American sites are still on the UNESCO watch list. Many people do not like the idea of the U. S. re-joining UNESCO, fearing that we will turn over these sites for UNESCO monitoring to keep people out—all people for any reason. The bigger fear is that some sites that are presently the homes and businesses of American citizens will be added to the sites overseen by UNESCO on the pretense of saving some minute life form from extinction. This may not sound bad to the casual reader because of the environmentalists‘ propaganda about these endangered species. And indeed it would be bad to end the existence of something we see and appreciate. But the environmentalists are so out of touch that they are attempting to bring back from near extinction some really useless and harmful creatures, one of which is the bole weevil. These environmentalists claim, for instance, that is southeast Missouri there are something like 250,000 plants and animals that are completely unique to that part of the world. Further, they claim that the farmers in that region are endangering those creatures. The fear is that UNESCO would make the human landowners, proprietors, and residents of that area leave and never come back. The U. S. government cannot legally enact nor enforce such a law. But an international UNESCO armed force could enforce such an international law and shoot to kill to keep U. S. citizens out of the places they used to call home. Because here in October of ‘03 the U. S. did re-join UNESCO, we will just have to see how it goes. The corruption and anti-western attitudes of the ‘80‘s are allegedly cleaned out so now the U. S. is once again part of that world community. Another close ally of UNESCO is a group called Green Peace. They are the group that fights against the use of nuclear energy, even in peace time. They are allegedly pacifists and have poured millions of dollars into their activities to obstruct development of nuclear energy. The political party they function through is the Green Party. One of their friends and ally is called the Sierra Club, which obstructs the use of any energy (except of course their own luxurious vehicles and elegant homes). They obstruct development of the potential oil abundance in northern Alaska. They have been a pain to progress all over the nation, off-shore drilling, oil development in any area they can think of, and for any reason they can think of. They pay no attention to the facts that new technology is being used to protect the environment and wildlife in the oil industries 4 today. Never mind that it makes the U. S. vulnerable to its enemies in the Middle East. They are pleased that the U. S is weakened in at least that part of the American lifestyle. The Sierra Club has resisted laws that would allow logging in our wilderness areas and the nurturing of the wilderness areas by controlled burning of brush and spraying of parasites. This ban that they have helped maintain against common sense maintenance of the wild has set the stage for massive wild fires, the most expensive of which have just been brought under control in California. In those fires, at least 20 human lives were lost, thousands more lost their homes and businesses, costing billions of dollars in damages. The land has truly been ravaged and likely the landscape will never return to its former condition. It will take centuries to redevelop itself. The Sierra Club spokesman said that because they distrust the logging industry so much that they would rather have the fires than involvement from the loggers. In other words, ―If we can‘t have it our way, we‘ll have no wilderness at all!!‖ We call men who say that of a woman crazy: ―If I can‘t have her, no one can have her.‖ So he kills the woman. That is exactly the Sierra Club attitude. ―If we cannot have our way, then let the woods burn up!‖ There are still other Communist inspired and Communist leaning organizations that play along to weaken the U. S. Some of these others will be revealed later in connection with enemy three. Chapter Two Enemy Two It doesn‘t take any imagination or extra intelligence to come to the conclusion that Islam has declared war on the United States and Israel. The Islamic terrorist attacks have come from several quarters for more than two decades and the targets have varied from ships (both civilian and navy), aircraft and buildings (both commercial and military). So far there have been almost 4000 U. S. fatalities. President Reagan bombed Libya and stopped the open attacks from that quarter and President Bush I launched a war against Saddam Hussein of Iraq in the early ‗90‘s and stopped Iraqi aggression into Kuwait. For more than a decade Hussein failed to live up to the treaty terms of his surrender. Meanwhile the attacks against us continued. President Clinton shot the Monica missiles at a medical laboratory and killed several innocent bystanders (for which the U. S. is being sued) in reaction to American Embassy bombings in Africa and in order to get his sex scandal off the front page of the news. President Bush II launched military responses against Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan for the WTC attack of 9/11/01, and followed that by shutting down Saddam Hussein of Iraq to eliminate the threat of the use of WMD‘S from that quarter. It isn‘t popular to be politically incorrect, but to remain aloof from facts and deny that Islam has declared war on us and that Islam is an evil religion is to play into the enemy‘s hands. Those who have already acknowledged either fact have been criticized by the media and celebrities as being politically incorrect, as well as being called insulting names for coming to any such conclusion. The reality is that the Muslim 5 religion is an evil one, in spite of what they and others say of them. It is plain as day. The speeches of peace and tolerance that come from some of the Muslims and their friends are whispers that would hardly be heard in a private conversation as compared with the roar of their violent, cruel and senseless attacks on civilized people around the world— mostly aimed at Israelis and Americans. The facts are clear that the message of hate and destruction of other than Muslim societies comes from the mosques and Islamic schools, clerics, teachers, politicians and parents. The whole Muslim religion and culture are based on hate. They can‘t even get along with one another. To survey terrorist organizations and look at their targets, often other Muslims are the target, especially those governments that, although Muslim, are not run by extreme Muslim clerics. The Muslim radicals want to overthrow even Muslim civil governments in order to establish their own radical Islamic state. Here in November of ‘03, al Qaeda has bombed their home support country, Saudi Arabia. There are more than one billion Muslims in the world, most of whom are Muslim because the choice they have is either be Muslim or cease living. Simply put, they are peoples of nations that were taken over violently. There is no point in discussing anything with Muslims because they have a very consistent double-standard. I saw Jennifer Griffin of Fox News interviewing a member of Hamas on TV. She asked him something about feeling guilty about targeting Jewish women and children for murder. The Hamas member, with only his eyes showing through the mule blanket wrapped around his head to hide his identity said, ―It is a matter of honor to kill every Jew we can.‖ Imagine that, hiding behind a mule blanket while using the word ―honor‖ in connection with sneak homicide bomb attacks against women, children and other unarmed civilians. That is typical behavior because the Muslims consistently target women, children and unarmed civilians and do it proudly while screaming foul when their Hamas, Hezbollah or Islamic Jehad members are slain, and really howl when their civilians are killed as collateral fatalities while Israelis aim at those Hamas, Hezbollah or Islamic Jehad people. The most convincing bit of behavior that indicates the evil of the religion is the lack of condemnation from other Muslims who claim to be peace-loving. In Christian circles when a Christian does or says something absurd, wrong or heretical, every Christian who knows about the incident condemns that act or statement (and often the person who did or said it) with no delay. Most Christians do enough independent thinking to not follow one another blindly. Decisions made by so-called Christian denominations have been criticized by Christians from other denominations, as well as many within the controversial denomination. Currently one denomination is splitting over a decision in and by their leadership. While practicing homosexuality is condemned by Scriptures, one modernized church has accepted, not only a gay pastor, but they have promoted him to bishop. That denomination is split over the issue and most other denominations are completely repulsed by it. The Muslims are not so. They will not and do not criticize one another. It may be that the Muslims do not really understand the difference between right and wrong. They certainly act as if they don‘t. To Muslims life is cheap and the pain and suffering in life are facts that merit neither sympathy nor complaint. According to the sixth pillar of 6 Islam, violence is encouraged as a means of making others into Muslims or killing the ―infidels.‖ The Muslims celebrate their hate and disregard for human life by rendering as much death and pain as they can muster. This is their objective, their goal, their calling! Hate and Murder! Can there be any doubt after seeing broadcasts of Muslims rejoicing after 9/11? Can there be any doubt when we observe the attitude of hate for the U. S. even after the U. S. has destroyed the horror chambers of torture, rape and murder by the Hussein regime? Is there any doubt when Muslims aim their hate and destruction against civilians, women, children, and the aged – anyone with blood that will flow? Look at the people in Iraq. Some of those people would rather have Saddam back than have the coalition there, even when it is obvious that the coalition is there attempting to help the people. Some excuse the continued resistance as a reaction to the fear that Saddam is not dead and will return to punish those who cooperate with the coalition. At this point anyone with an IQ would hop on the bandwagon to make sure that he and his friends do not come back in any form. Many of the problem people in Iraq are foreigners who have sneaked into the country just in order to fight the Americans. They have come from Pakistan, Syria, Iran, Jordan and as far away as Egypt. Are these Muslims friendly, peace-loving folks? No. Their religion and their religious leaders encourage such mindless activity. Furthermore, the Iraqi people turn on neither the foreigners nor native supporters of Saddam to finish them off and get on with nation repair. Why? It is obvious that the tenets of hate, and the absolute selfishness that accompanies such hate, run through the entire religion and its culture. Many of the Iraqis are so blinded by hate that they are not even routing out the foreigners who are coming into their country to continue the war, which makes it harder for all Iraqis. Some are so blinded by hate that they sabotage the accomplishments made by the coalition on their infrastructure, doing without water, electricity or prosperity for their nation. Hate has blinded the whole Muslim world. As one Jew said, ―There will be attacks from the Palestinians as long as the Palestinians hate the Jews more than they love their own children.‖ For Muslims, lying is an art form. The Palestinian leadership, as well as the Saudis, (and frankly practically all of the other Muslim leaders) have often spoken one thing and followed up with actions other than what they indicated with their lips. This habit has been well documented for several years. Their whole line of propaganda of peace and tolerance is in contradiction to their actions. They try to cover the issue of the hate with other terms: Freedom, Liberty, Rights, Choices and other noble sounding terms. It may be a hint of connection among our three enemies because of the use of the term Freedom. You will hear these Muslim martyrs and Muslim murders of innocent victims of the civilized world call themselves ―Freedom Fighters.‖ Oh, that‘s really a special title to dub themselves with. It makes them sound so good and noble. But the question is this: ―From whom or from what are they aspiring to be free?‖ And ―How does an Israeli or an American play any role in keeping these puffs of nothingness captive?‖ This is a particularly poignant question because the same rhetoric of hate for Israel resounds from the Arab world and from other countries on opposite hemispheres from the Middle East. Why do Philippine Muslims hate the Jews? Why do Europeans hate them? 7 The answer apparently rests in the tenets of Islam—Hate the Jews for Hate‘s sake and hate the Americans for the Jew‘s sake. Allegedly the Palestinians hate the Jews because they want a homeland of their own and the Israelis are preventing them from having it. Why must the Palestinians have that particular block of land? The Israelis have come back to their land from all over the world (mostly Europe) and have lived there for a little more than half a century. They have developed the area, made homes, businesses and established a way of life for themselves. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Muslims were there in the Middle East all those centuries and have developed nothing. They could have already settled in the area while the Jews were out of the way. They didn‘t. Several countries offered the Palestinians and Arafat refuge, but each time Arafat wanted to take over the host country‘s government and they had to be expelled. So they did nothing with any land they ever occupied except cause trouble for their host and neighbors. They created nothing except a mass crop of hatred. Now they allegedly want a homeland. The worst part of the whole mess is that a recent poll revealed that 85% of the Palestinians want Israel extinct even if the Palestinians had their own homeland. These Muslims from the Middle East could have done something to help themselves. But, no, they have to bilk the foreigners out of world class money so their leaders can have their wealth, teach hate, and sell the populace AK 47‘s and handgrenades! There has been enough oil money to make everyone the Asia Minor wealthy. But the only rich people are the rulers of the various countries. This oil money is the source for much of the military equipment that is in the hands of the violent Muslims around the world. That is one good reason the U. S. should be free from the need of foreign oil. The Saudis haven‘t done quite so badly, nor have the Kuwaitis. Their leaders are filthy rich, but the people do have some prosperity. But in Iraq, Iran, and some other Muslim countries, all they want to do is raise homicide bombers and support the continued murder of civilized people around the world while aiming at Americans and Jews. They may not have a home, food, or clothing, but they have the wherewithal to build a bomb and shoot a rifle. That‘s stupid! That‘s hate! That‘s Islamic! That‘s satanic! Their ambition is to overthrow the world and have a one-world religion—Islam! They have attacked us in our own land. They have no real excuse other than their desire to take over. Some of our leaders have asked why they hate us, but there is no real excuse for such hate. There are six ―Pillars of Religion‖ in Islam. That means there are six ―Must Do‘s‖ for each good Muslim to accomplish. Number six regards the ―jihad‖ (holy war) to participate in. That means they are to fight against anything that they consider an aggression against them. For a Muslim, that could be anything. ―I don‘t like glasses, so anyone who wears glasses is an enemy, and so is everyone who has a friend that wears glasses.‖ Of course the example is a little extreme, but the rationale that a source of Rrated entertainment or trader in a taboo or other could be seriously called an enemy, thus a target. Crutch One: Jealousy has been bandied around as an excuse for the Muslim hate for the U. S. That doesn‘t wash for two reasons: The Muslims could simply be doing for themselves much as the civilized world has done for themselves. But because of the 8 backwardness of Islam, there has been no social, economic, scientific or any other type of progress in their culture. All they want to do is to kill, and those are the only skills they try to cultivate. The second reason that jealousy is not a real excuse is also obvious: We, in all of our wealth, have shared much of that wealth with many nations, including the Muslim ones. We‘ve been giving to our political enemies in foreign aid for generations now. In event of natural disasters the U. S. is always there with any kind of assistance needed: Food, Clothing, Shelter, or any other need. In spite of such generosity, the hate and disrespect continues. They turn on us and vote against us most of the time in the resolutions in both the U. N. and NATO. And now these Muslims even want us, as well as the Israelis, dead! Crutch Two: The less publicized excuse for Islamic hate of the U. S. is the base lifestyle of Americans. The Muslims see the television broadcasts and movies and think it is the real us. This excuse doesn‘t really wash, either. Many movies are based on impossibilities and have purely mindless plots. Anyone that could think this is the real us has to be demented. Besides, many of the so-called Islamic leaders were educated in the U. S and know us better than that. Yet, this seems to be a very plausible excuse in view of Pillar Six. The real answers to the mystery of their hate are obvious. One reason the Muslims hate us predicates on the fact that they hate the Jews, and they hate us for supporting and allying ourselves with the Jews. Their religious war has been declared on us by a religion that espouses consistent hate. Their ambition is to have one religion in the world—theirs. Another reason why the U. S. is hated, especially the likes of the Conservative President, is because of the threat we present to most of the rest of the world. Most of the governments of the world oppress their people one way or another. The rulers use might and intimidation to control their peoples. Many have and use prisons or death squads or dismemberment or family-member appropriation or some other artful means of restraint to keep mouths shut and curtail ambitions of new governments. When these diabolical types of rulers see the benefits offered to people by the freedoms presented by the U. S., they feel the heat of the potential that their people may want such freedoms, too. They, in response to their fear, make excuses to defame us, accuse us, and generally bad-mouth us to their people, as well as to other people around the neighborhood. This does not excuse these diabolical leaders, nor does it explain the attitude of the leaders of some of the European Union—France, Germany, Belgium, etc. France and her former life-threatening friends from Germany have hopped into bed with one another trying to hog up control of the E. U. and think that bucking against the U. S. may enhance their chances of succeeding. Put this together with the monetary profit gained from past relations with Iraq and the hope of renewed gains from any such new relations, they put as much garbage as they can in front of the U. S. Besides, Europe is overrun with Muslims. Everyone knows of Muslim skullduggery that has been going on in Europe, but none of the European nations has the nerve or the means to stand against them, even if they had the will to do so. 9 Chapter Three Our Response Meanwhile, what can we do to protect ourselves? Since 9/11 we have developed the Department of Homeland Security, with new cooperation between agencies from local law and civil authorities all the way to the Attorney General, and federal law enforcement agencies, including those with international connections. We also have a system to publish the level of threat of attack and the awareness of it. Already in two years since 9/11/01 there have been more than a hundred attacks thwarted in the stages before perpetration. In spite of all that we‘ve done and may possibly do, many people do not believe that we can completely stop another attack on our homeland. They say it‘s just a matter of time until the Muslims do it again. And it is certain that they will at least try again, sooner or later. There have been several lists of terrorist organizations compiled by various departments of the United States Government that are targeting the United States. All of them fall into one of two groups: Communist or Muslim. The vast majority of them are Muslim, and all of them that target Israel and the U. S. directly are Muslim. Here is the list of Muslim terrorist groups [44 of them]: Al-Ittihad al-Islami, Al-Wafa Al-Igatha al-Islamia Asbat al-Ansar Al Qaeda, Darkazanli Company, Hamas, Abu Nidal Organization, Mujahidin of Iran, The PLO, Hezbollah (Islamic Jihad), Al-Jihad, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, The Palestine Islamic Jihad, Harakat ul-Ansar, Harakat ul-Mujahidin, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Aby Sayyaf Group, Qibla and People Against Gangsterism and Drugs, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, Revolutionary People‘s Liberation Party/front, 10 Morzanist Patriotic Front, Jamaat ul-Fuqra, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Jemaah Islamiah, Fatah Faction, (this last one Yasser Arafat‘s private little hit-group). Salafist Group for Call and Combat, Islamic Army of Aden, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Makhtab al-Khidmat, Al-Hamati Sweets Bakeries, Al-Nur Honey Center, Al-Rashid Trust, Al-Shifa Honey Press for Industry and Commerce, Jaysh-e-Mohammed, Jamiat al- Ta‘awun al-Islamiyya, Lashkar-e-Tayyabe – (AKA) Army of the Righteous Al-Ma‘unah, Jayshullah, Turkkish Hizballah, Islamic Renewal and Reform Organization, Jamiat ul-Mujahideen, Harakat ul Jihad I Islam, So we have several foreign countries and political entities within other countries that want the U. S. and Israel to become extinct—most are Muslim but some are Communists. Chapter Four One Possible Scenario Because the violence was started by Muslim aggression on several occasions, it seems that it would be a simple matter of determining that Islam is evil and go on the old warpath against the religion, its culture and its people. They have started it and we could end it. A few well placed smart bombs would certainly put fear into the terrorists‘ hearts. When they realize that we have the military might to have these terrorists lose the lives, their loved ones‘ lives, and that of all their property could suddenly become a heap of ashes, they may change their minds about us. After all, they were probably forced into Islam to begin with! 11 The first place to hit would be their mosques. These are the places where hate is preached as if it were a noble thing. These are also the places for the planning of the skullduggery and the place for arming the perpetrators of the skullduggery. If it were timed right, all the perpetrators, planners and their families could go up with a single bomb. That should slow down the expressions of hate, or at least render them a little less capable of carrying out their plans. It would sure plant some respect (even if fear based) into their attitudes toward the Americans. If the mosque-bombing did not completely stop the attacks, flattening some large population centers should do the trick. Of course that would mean population centers around the world, in case some group from Malaysia should voice some objection. But . . . Before this could ever happen, several unlikely things would need to occur. First our political leaders would have to have a mandate from the people to ever even speak of such activities. Before that could happen, the people would need to see clearly how evil Islam is and come to the conclusion that Muslims should be destroyed as if they were rabid dogs. Assuming that the vast majority of the American people suddenly came to the realization that Islam is evil, how many American would need to die at the hands of the Muslims before the latter conclusion could be reached? There are about one and one-third billion Muslims in the world (1,333,000,000+/). If they attacked us and brought us to the above mental state, probably half of us would be dead. Half of 350 million (350,000,000) Americans and 6 million (6,000,000) Jews would leave 175 (175,000,000) and 3 million (3,000,000) Jews. Many of the half remaining alive would be women, children and incapacitated. Let‘s say 80% of them fell into this category. That would leave 36 million Americans and about half a million Jews to do all the fighting. Is the military destruction of all those Muslims possible at that rate? Every fighting adult American or Israeli would have to account for the death of more than 750 Muslims, give or take a few. With our military might, that is quite doable. At this same moment in history would be the typical time for the Communists to suddenly decide they need some of us, too. The odds would change. It‘s not too terribly important how many Communists there are in the world. Most of them are too broke to arm themselves and then travel to where they could do more than a trifle. But let‘s suppose that there it would become necessary to have every available fighting American and Israeli would have to kill about 1000 Communists or Muslims before we could be left alone. This, too, is quite doable, given the available military technology. However . . . . 12 The plausibility of the above is so far removed from what anyone wants that it is realistically unthinkable. Not even the most radical Americans or Israelis would want such a solution. Americans and Jews are not that uncivilized. The Muslims, like the Nazis, apparently are up to such barbarity, but we are not. That is one reason it will never happen the way the scenario presents the possible events. We are not made of that kind of metal. Thank God! (And I am not saying that lightly.) Even if decent people were to be pushed far enough to have thoughts like those in the above section, there are those who would never cooperate with the drastic measures mentioned. They would not cooperate with these measures, not because they are too civilized, but because they would rather either capitulate with the enemies or be in control themselves. In other words, they are too political to cooperate with someone of a different political affiliation then they themselves are. Chapter Five Enemy Three This brings up the topic of the third enemy of the U. S. The third enemy, the one from within, is as ruthless as either of the other two—the Muslims or the Communists. Their lust is for control of the government or factions within the government, or at least a slice of control of American culture. The motive may be money, or popularity, or feeling fulfilled or important, but the drive is so strong it has obscured facts and conditions that are apparent to everyone except them. The inside enemy is much like Communism, being in many aspects a derivative of it, depending on both degree and one‘s perspective. These people want to control the U.S. and many are so anxious to take control that they are blinded by their lust for power. When their side has the control, they are somewhat satisfied with conditions, but when they are not in control, they are almost comical in a pathetic sort of way. Having control comes first in their priorities. Although they claim to be Americans, they rejoice if America suffers when they are not in control. They want economic failures, natural disasters, and military defeats to pervade the news so that they may be able to criticize those who are in control. They think that by continually criticizing those in control, they can convince the voters to put them back in control. So who are these ―Freedom Fighters‖ that are neither necessarily Muslim nor Communist? Who are these who want to stuff the ballot boxes in their favor, legally or not? They are the Liberals. The Liberals are the direct offspring of the Communists, and some are Communists. Many of the objectives and means to their ends are the same. The Liberals are the most dangerous of the three enemies of the United States at this particular time. Many people do not know what Liberals do or what Liberalism is. Until this is made clear, some people will still vote to restore and to keep Liberals in political office. 13 During the hottest part of the cold war, the Communists set out to undermine the U. S. in every way possible. They spied on us, infiltrated us and became part of us with their doctrines and propaganda. They organized, populated, supported and produced in America several organizations (some already mentioned), labor unions, the Sierra Club, Green Peace (Green Party), and others. When materialism came along to distract the Americans, the Communists placed their indoctrinators in key positions: Educators in every level, Media (printed and broadcast), Clergy (both independent and in many denominations), Politicians in as many levels as possible—all spreading the doctrines of so-called equality, redistribution of property and wealth, socialism, and of course, Anti-Semitic and Anti-Christian theology and philosophy. Exactly what is a Liberal? There are two principle types of Liberals: One The obvious type of Liberal is the person who will say anything or will do anything to gain or maintain political power. Saying anything includes bold-faced lies, slanders, accusations, threats, character assassination, and empty promises of anything that someone who supports them may desire. Doing anything may include making empty promises, payoffs, coercions, and literal murder. Two The less obvious type of Liberal is divided into two sub-types: A Type Two A: These Liberals are dangerous because they vote. They are the people who either believe the promises of the people in Type One, or they have extreme hate for Conservatism and so they support Liberals and Liberlaism. B Type Two B: These Liberals are every bit as dangerous as the others because they vote, too. These Liberals are those who do not necessarily believe the promises of the Type Ones, nor do they necessarily believe the promises of the opposition. These people may not even hate as extremely as others, but they vote Liberal because they are party members, loyal to the party (usually Democrat, or Green, but not always) regardless of what the issues are or where their party or its members stands on issues. The political stance that separates the Liberal from the Conservative varies, but it basically pivots on the size and quality of government. The Liberals like big government, which means high taxes and much governmental control of private lives through permits, fees, taxation, laws and regulations. They prefer control by means of socialism and the old welfare state role of government. They tend to lean against nuclear energy, use of natural resources such as trees and petroleum, and they present and believe a lot of hype about global warming, air and water pollution and many other things that they think man is using up too fast. Conservatism is the opposite, holding for less governmental controls, more private interaction without regulations, and lower taxes. Most Conservatives are antiabortion and most support the responsible use of natural resources. They believe the U. S. 14 should be free of the need for foreign oil or anything else that will make the U. S. beholden to foreigners. Chapter Six God‘s View of Liberalism Paul of the New Testament of the Bible fame describes the moral stance of Liberalism better then anyone I know. It is the Liberal position to do away with any acknowledgement of God in society, especially where political authority can do away with the reflection of God in our society. These are the schools, and the praying in school issue and the display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings. So the attack of the Liberals against God and the knowledge of God is quite evident these days. Romans 1:19-32: 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness, 19 ¶ because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it unto them. 20 For from the creation of the world the invisible things of Him are clearly seen, being understood through the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. Because God has created everything, including all of nature and the people who live in it, ordinary man has no excuse to not believe in and acknowledge God. All one with some reasoning ability need do is question the origin and purpose of everything, and the only reasonable answer that comes up is ―God.‖ The concepts of some evolutionary process that started from some accident is completely mindless. 21 For when they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God, nor were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools [this points to the stark blindness of the Liberals and their outlook], 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things [this alludes to the environmentalists‘ preferences for the survival of some unknown, unseen, and possibly imagined form of life over the health, and prosperity of humans]. They refused to give God His place, so He turned them over to their own devices: Idolatry, self-willed self worship, and the accompanying perversions. 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves [Here lies gay rights]. 25 They changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen [Now they have elevated themselves above God Himself]. 15 Lesbianism was evidently one of the early awards of their perversion, and this led directly to abortions as quickly as science and technology developed it. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature. Male homosexuality was not to be overlooked. Thus they received to themselves the things they wanted so badly. Their god awarded them with AIDS. They received it, but not from God; it was from the god of this world. Before AIDS, it was nobody‘s business what immoral and wicked things the homos engaged in or practiced. Since AIDS, it‘s everybody‘s business because the gays need tax dollars for AIDS research! 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men, working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense for their error which was meet. Liberals‘ desire to be rid of God became evident on two fronts: Atheism on the religious front and Separation of Church and State on the political front. The cat wants a sand box to cover something nasty; the atheist wants to do away with God to find peace in spite of something nasty; and the politicians want freedom from the responsibility to God to keep from answering for legislation that is nasty. Chapter Seven WWIII, A Spiritual War Nationally So God allowed them to go on their little trip: Unrighteousness; Fornication; Wickedness; Lusts for things; Malevolence; Jealousies; Murder (political and literal); Hateful and bitter arguments; Lies and manipulations; Evil speculations; Sneaks; Gossipers and slanderers; Plotters against God and His followers; Unforgiving and full of revenge; Proud; Egotistical and self-centered and selfindulging; Inventors of evil things, substances, programs and devices; Rebellious children; Dense, stubborn and stupid; Frauds, thieves and cheats; Self-indulged completely; Insatiable, always wanting and never full; and Hard-hearted and cruel. The one term Paul uses throws so much light on the turn of today‘s cultural events: ―Without natural affection.‖ That attitude alone accounts for the wide acceptance of the untruths of evolution as taught in the school systems. If one would stop and think of themselves and everyone they may love as being the result of an accident with no real source, or no real destination, or no real purpose and their natural affection amounts to the attitude toward a plant or animal, evolution would sink into the realm of nonsense immediately. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not proper, 16 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity. They are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, spiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affections, implacable, unmerciful. So all of the Liberals and their entire voting block fall into this category of lawless, Godless and hopeless humanity simply because they cling together in their evil culture. 32 And knowing the judgment of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but have pleasure in those who do them. The Liberals are the groupies who have special interests, each group avowing support for the Type A Liberal who promises them their goal or dream. The agenda they share relates to the list that I referred to in the description of Communists in the first section of this document. Here is the list, thanks to Geoff Metcalf and references from the John Birch Society. The list first appeared in The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen in 1958. The list was read into the Congressional Record in the House of Representatives on January 10, 1963 as ―Current Communist Goals‖ by A. S. Herlong, Jr. from Florida per Mrs. Patricia Nordman, publisher of the DeLong Courier. Read over the list and you can readily see how far the Communists came on their way to taking over the United States. As you read, you will also see the parallel between what the Communists‘ goals were then and the rhetoric and ambitions of the Liberals of today. 1. U. S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. 2. U. S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. 3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament (by) the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. 4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. 5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites. 6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. 7. Grant recognition to Red China. Admission of Red China to the U. N. 8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev‘s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U. N. 9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress. 10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U. N. 17 11. Promote the U. N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U. N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.) 12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. 13. Do away with all loyalty oaths. 14. Continue giving Russia access to the U. S. Patent Office. 15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. 16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. 17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teacher associations. Put the party line in textbooks. 18. Gain control of all student newspapers. 19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs of organizations [which] are under Communist attack. 20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions. 21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to ―eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.‖ 23. Control art critics and directors at art museums. ―Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.‖ 24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them ―censorship‖ and a violation of free speech and free press. 25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures radio and TV. 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as ―normal, natural, healthy.‖ 27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with ―social‖ religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity [which] does not need a ―religious crutch.‖ 28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of ―separation of church and state.‖ 29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. 30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the ―common man.‖ 18 31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the grounds that it was only a minor part of the ―big picture.‖ Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. 32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of culture— education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. 33. Eliminate all laws or procedures [which] interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus. 34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. 36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. 37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. 38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders [which] no one but psychiatrists can understand (or treat). 39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. 40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. 41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudice, mental blocks and retarding of children to repressive influence of parents. 42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems. 43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government. 44. Internationalize the Panama Canal. 45. Repeal the Connally [reservation] so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike. Any person who has been awake politically for the last three quarters of a century can quickly see the progress the Communists have made in their achievement of completing the goals on this list. There are some lapses in the completion of the agenda but not many. The first three items never developed, at least to any extent that the Communists could claim victory for. The next six were accomplished. Number eleven is currently one of the main talking points for the Liberal candidates for the democratic presidential nomination. Number sixteen certainly looks like a smashing success for the Communists: The Democratic Party with their current swing to the left sure appears to be more Communist than American. So it goes that the vast majority of the remaining goals are, for the most part, accomplished. 19 An Aside The Connally Reservation is part of the UN charter regarding ―International Law‖ (which in reality is non-existent outside the maritime law), and the World Court and their jurisdiction. The International Community desires that all legal matters, both foreign and domestic, fall under the World Court jurisdiction, thus impacting personal freedoms and rights guaranteed by our Constitution. Although some treaties and bargains negotiated by our executive branch of government limit personal rights and privileges guaranteed under the Constitution, the Connally Reservation limits the jurisdiction of the World Court and so-called international law by adding six words to the UN charter: ―As determined by the United States.‖ This creates a small (and fragile, depending on the mood and whim of the Senate) buffer between U. S. citizens and the World Court. This whole issue brings up the need to resurrect the Bricker Amendment and passing it. The Bricker Amendment would make all foreign treaties and bargains subject to the Constitution, not the opinion or convenience of a President or his (or her) representative(s). The Bricker Amendment failed to pass in ‘54 by a single vote, due to the efforts of President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles. The U. S. still stands against World Court membership. Former President Jimmy Carter single handedly gave the Panama Canal away. The Liberals are in a rush to get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan before the people are ready for self-governing. The FBI is still intact, but it has certainly been assaulted by the media and unqualified leadership in it. There has certainly been an impact on their efficiency due to leftists within the organization. Though not mentioned above, the State Department and CIA are infiltrated and saturated with leftist types to such an extent that conservative or Republican policies and goals are routinely undermined. The crux of the matter is that the Communists have changed their names, whether their constituents know it or not. They started out as Communists in the post WWII era. In the ‗70‘s they dubbed themselves ―Progressive Democrats.‖ After that, in the 80‘s, they became Liberal Democrats. Now they call themselves just plain Liberals. The Communists/ Liberals have cultivated special interest groups that support the main core of their vile stance. Communism/ Liberalism pointed to homosexuality and have presented it as normal and healthy. Currently some children TV programs and networks are cultivating homosexuality as a normal lifestyle for some. Homosexuals support liberalism because it assures them of their immoral lifestyle with open acceptance in society. That also allows them to get aid for AIDS. The gay/lesbian groupies said their lifestyle was nobody‘s business until AIDS came along. Now they want federal money for AIDS research. NOW (National Organization of Women) supports liberalism because of the promise of abortion rights and the guarantee of equal (or more) rights and privileges than anyone else. Millions of dollars are spent on abortions every year, and NOW is there to support this evil practice. The environmentalists support liberalism because they get funding to push their agenda of protecting nature from human infringement (they hold that man should cease to exist in deference to some single-celled organism in a bog some place). No doubt they are glad that the U. S. is once again part of UNESCO. These are the folks whose PACS have impacted the EPA to make some of their most foolish regulations. The unions and labor groups are one means whereby the Liberals get many votes and much money. As a compulsory union member, I do not understand why the unions support Liberalism because I would rather keep my money. I do not like to support 20 someone who raises my taxes. Big government only restricts productivity at the workplace. Workers‘ benefits are such that the unions cannot pressure government for more worker-benefit regulations. At this point unions are running on empty because there is really no place to take their members, no new promises to make and realistically keep. The ploy goes on and on. Each group supports the liberal cause based on the assurance that their own goals will be met. If a group gets stiffed by the leader, nothing will be said because of the silent support they owe. When Bill Clinton was President, he promised that the Liberals would be taken care of and he saw to it. He opened up abortion rights to more abortions at taxpayer expense, and liberated the gays in the military. (He also raised taxes.) When it came time for the philandering Bill Clinton to explain why he had used and abused so many women, NOW was silent. Had a Conservative done the same things he had done, they would have gone to absolute war over the incidents. The media joined NOW in the silence, and no one ever took Bill or Hillary to account for his indiscretions. That‘s the way it worked through his administration for the bombings in Serbia, in Africa, and Afghanistan, scandal after scandal and scandal— Vince Foster, FBI-gate, Travel-gate, Whitewater, Jennifer, Juanita, Paula, Kathleen and the afore mentioned Monica, and so on and on. When Bill Clinton was caught with Monica in the Oval Office and he lied to Congress about it, those were impeachable offenses. The Democrats surrounded him from the impeachment and the Liberal press and media demonized the Conservatives who wanted to uphold the Constitution and impeach the President. So the Liberals all came down on the same side on the issue—protect each other at all costs. Most of the Liberals are Democrats or Green Party, but some are Republicans. All are supportive of the Liberal agenda, knowingly or not. Just this last week the Congress passed legislation for medical benefits in the Medicare System. Although Republicans control both houses, enough of them voted with this Liberal Bill to pass it. Those Liberals who opposed the bill at first said it wasn‘t enough (wanting more free drugs for the elderly, all at government expense); then they changed their story to the bill being too expensive and will bankrupt Medicare (which is much closer to the truth of the matter). AARP supported the bill as being a starting place and better then nothing. The real reasons the Liberals opposed the drug bill are (1) because a Conservative Administration will get credit for passing it and (2) because the Liberals will no longer be able to promise something to the elderly for their voting support. These causes will make it harder for one of the Liberals to be elected President in the ‗04 elections. These same reasons are the same reasons it passed, plus the fact that if the bill were delayed significantly, Liberals may be the authors, and the bill would certainly be more expensive under their watch then under the Conservative one. 21 Chapter Eight The Base of the Base It is from the era of materialism (the ‗50‘s and ‗60‘s), wealth gathering and Communist indoctrination in the U. S. that so many Liberals got into the media news, slanting it toward a favorable view of the Communists, Liberalism and Socialism while slandering Conservatives and supporters of free Americans and their ways as often as possible. The entertainment celebrities took up the rhetoric to bring even more of the Communist doctrines to the fore without using the term ―Communist.‖ That‘s why they use the term Liberal. The clergy got into the act by teaching the new gospel of a mystic and mythical religious experience (or not) rather than the real message like the Bible presents—lifechanging when received. Many of the Liberal ministers equated the Bible to Aesop‘s Fables. Some embraced the New Age movement, endorsing and teaching the religions of the East. The Educators latched onto the pseudo-science of evolution and Liberal psychology to put more doubt into the minds of the populace regarding any divine purpose, salvation, hope or calling. If people are the product of some cosmic accident back in time, then none of us are worth a toot. The message of evolution is so empty that the lives and loves, whether human or animal, actually amount to zero. Morality also would mean zero—no sin, no moral responsibility, no judgment, no penalty, no need for life to begin with. So life, love and happiness are all an overblown dream and we‘re all better off dead, and soon will be! The Communist indoctrination was to take place in a steady stream until the Communists could out elect us and dominate us by the ballot box. It may have worked except that mainstream Communism sunk into the sea of oblivion. But the seed they sowed during their day has brought forth the concepts of Anti-God, Anti-American, open-mindedness, political correctness, secular humanism, universal personal rights advocacy in numerous categories, socialistic, wealth-redistribution, universal freedom from personal responsibility, privilege without responsibility, fetus and baby murders, freedom of speech for me and none for you doctrine, and the non-offence in public displays for those in the correct circles while the majority have to sacrifice what they think is right, pleasing and / or proper. It is the Liberal line to excuse the terrorists because they are of a different religion, different cultures, homeless, poor, uneducated and should be accepted, understood, sympathized with and supported. They are the ones to supply the ―Crutches‖ mentioned earlier. Never mind that they want us dead—we just want to understand them! The Liberals are the folks who yield to the claim of the enemy combatant prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for rights under our constitution when they were fighting against us and our constitution. They complain because they are being held 22 without right to counsel or without being charged. Look at it this way, they could be dead! They are the folks who insist on teaching evolution as a proven science, giving it the rank as ―Theory,‖ when in actuality it is not a theory. It is only a far-from-proven hypothesis. It is the Liberals who insisted that there should be no prayer in the schools. Now the schools are filled with gunfire. What a trade-off! Now education standards and expectations are so low that many high school graduates cannot read, write or use math. It is because the main interest of many educators is obtaining the Average Daily Attendance funds obtained from the government. After all, the school may need a new gym or football field! If we don‘t entertain the children and keep them in school they may never graduate! Never mind that students who do not want to be in school for anything else but the benefit of the athletics and extra curricular activities continually make trouble in the classroom and inhibit the learning of the real students! That‘s what the Liberal agenda is in education. Get the graduate so ―dummed down‖ that they have to live on some sort of welfare and they, in return, will have to support the Liberal-run government that has been so generous with them. They are the crowd who insisted that a woman may murder her fetus legally, and deny a judgeship to anyone who disagrees, regardless of how honorable that person and his or her record may be. Abortion clinics and doctors make big dollars and these people do not want to see the money-flow slow down. Some of these pro-choice folks are or were Catholics, who are avowed antiabortion advocates. Many politicians have overturned their own personal religious preference for the benefit of being pro-choice for political favor with the voting block. How sincere could a politician‘s religion have been if it were so easily traded off for the sake of a few votes? It is no wonder Jesus is still on the cross to these merely religious but empty people. Liberals are the same folks who grabbed the ideas of abortion so quickly when they could make abortion legal and now refuse to hear the untold stories of living victims of abortions who have found out how wrong they were. Many people who obtained abortions years ago have found out there are permanent side effects: Sterility, Breast Cancer, Psychological Disturbances, and Loss of Interest in Sex. NOW is not saying a word in support of these women, victims of the societal evolution to their enslaving and victimizing freedom! Liberals are the people who make such laws as abortion rights have become from a judge‘s bench rather than from legislation where the people have some voice in the matter. So ultimately the Constitution was skirted to create the abortion laws. The Liberals do not want the question of abortion rights vs right-to-life proposition brought before a vote of the people for fear of the outcome. Decent people could overturn the courts mandates. This isn‘t the only case where Liberals skirted the Constitution. In New Jersey in the ‘02 elections, a senator who was running for re-election got himself into too much hot water and withdrew from the race after the time that a replacement candidate could be legally drafted. No matter! The democratic legislature drafted an obsolete former senator to run in place of the resignee. The Republicans screamed foul, but the Liberal U. S. 23 Supreme Court would not overturn the obviously illegal means of keeping a Democrat in the Senate. The Liberals want free speech except when it comes to the Judeo-Christian Divinities and resultant relationships, and the allusion to Their message—unless of course someone uses Them in some array of profanity. Then it is all right. No Ten Commandments in Federal or State buildings. No prayer in school or school-sponsored events. Eastern religions (including Islam) are okay. Profanity and nudity, lust and violence are okay, murder and mayhem are acceptable – but no Jehovah, no Jesus Christ, no Bible, no portions of Scripture. But if someone screams obscenities in public using those terms, that, too, is okay! You would never hear the end of it if someone said, ―Allah damn you!‖ or ―Mohammad!‖ in profanity. Yet, isn‘t it strange that when a disaster happens, these same Liberals actually make a pretense of calling on God for comfort and relief! They often mention prayers for the bereaved, yet they habitually slap at the concept of a God Who will actually answer a prayer! Maybe that‘s God‘s new role on earth—emergency token supplier relief and comfort! He may not be God, but when we need Him, to Whom should we turn when in view of the public? It won‘t be Allah or Mohammad. Right now as I write this there are Liberal forces in the United States that are creating wars against the fabric and ideals of the Family in the United States. A few nights ago former Vice President and former Democratic Presidential Candidate Al Gore, democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer were in full support of an Anti-God, Anti-American, anti-family gay/lesbian rally. The tone was violent. Anyone that thought they were going to stop these homosexuals from re-aligning the definition of family would be destroyed! Within the last week there have been two ―Hate Bush‖ meetings: One in California sponsored by and attended by principally celebrity wives; and one in Florida, attended by some people who cling to the alleged theft of the 2K elections. The Hollywood Bush-haters want to find some way to get Bush out of office, and the relics in Florida want to ensure that the RNC doesn‘t steal the ‘04 election. At least the title of their meetings shows some measure of honesty. However, they do not realize that the hate that they are so proud of has blinded them to so many obvious facts—facts that would undo their political stand if acknowledged. It is the Liberal crowd that wants to have a one-world government, assuming that they will be the ones in control. The U. S. Supreme Court is making rulings considering the courts in the world community. The Clinton Gore administration continually submitted to the will of the U. N., even when it was not in the best interests of the U. S. Clinton sent troops into Bosnia and Kosovo, allegedly for a year and a half, and they are still there doing the work of the U. N. LBJ was planning on our astronauts planting a U. N. flag on the moon when they landed on it. The whole project was American--the finances, the work, the technology and the personnel—but one-world-governmentminded LBJ wanted to set the U. S. aside for the benefit of the U. N. Speaking of LBJ, he and other Liberal Presidents as far back as FDR and as far forward as Jimmy Carter, spent billions of dollars to fight poverty. All that money was wasted because poverty is still here and thriving (If poverty can thrive!). Welfare does not stamp out statistically high poverty; it enables it. Poverty is not caused as much by economic hard times and lack of employment as it is by bad decisions. The decision to 24 quit school, to buy the unnecessarily sporty car, to quit a job for the benefit of a whim, or to keep a low-paying job for the benefit of the environment or people on that job, to relocate to a new environment without the promise of a job, or to refuse to relocate to a new environment if promised a job, or a myriad of other wrong decisions. It could be the personal habit-choices: Using alcohol or drugs, doing something unethical or illegal, getting involved with the wrong types of people. These cause more poverty than mere hard times economically. But it is the Liberals who put up government programs to enable and allow people to make these stupid choices and prosper through them, and to continue to make more of these stupid decisions, and bear children to maintain the family pattern of stupidity. Communist Goal number 29 is the main focal point of Liberal ambitions. They must attack and subvert the Constitution of the United States. Freedom of Speech is constantly bombarded with the double-standard previously alluded to. Not much notice is given to assemblies or printed matter, except the dumming down of the populace to a non-reading level. One of the main points of the Constitution that is under constant attack us the Right to Bear Arms. Using the façade of lowering the crime rate, the Liberals want to eliminate private ownership of guns. There have already many gun-control laws passed, but enforcement is rare. But are the Liberals satisfied? No. They want more laws passed, and still more laws passed until suddenly, some day, THE law banning private ownership of guns will be passed and then they will see to it that that law will be strictly enforced. Their objective is to gain the position of absolute power over the people. If people no longer have guns, the Liberals could take the government over by force. Is this concept far-fetched? When one of the candidates for the Democratic Party‘s Presidential Nomination criticizes the current administration for military action without the ―consent of the U. N.,‖ you can see the long-term goal of a one-world government dominated by the U. N. You can also imagine what would happen if the U. S. military were under the command of some EU general! More drastically, can you imagine what would happen if local, state and / or federal law enforcement personnel should ever be people of international origin under the guise of the U. N. The only way this could be carried out is if there were no guns for self-defense. And justly so. The American Freedom Fighters (both civilian and military) who have fought and many of whom have perished setting up and maintaining a free nation would be remembered and civil war would certainly follow. Chapter Nine Cultural Tangles One of the best-known weapons of the liberals is political correctness. Folks can‘t call someone what they are any more. People have to address one another with respect! A Black person is not a Black person: He or she is African American. Really? 25 Suppose that person and his ancestors came from Jamaica? Someone of Hispanic descent should be addressed as a Mexican American. Even if the person is from Puerto Rico? Why should a Black person be called Goal number 29 is the main focal point of Communist ambitions. They must attack and subvert the Constitution of the United States. Freedom of Speech is constantly bombarded with the double-standard previously alluded to. Not much notice is given to assemblies or printed matter, except the dumming down of the populace to a non-reading level. One of the main points of the Constitution that is under constant attack us the Right to Bear Arms. Using the façade of lowering the crime rate, the Liberals want to eliminate private ownership of guns. There have already many gun-control laws passed, but enforcement is rare. But are the Liberals satisfied? No. They want more laws passed, and still more laws passed until suddenly, some day, THE law banning private ownership of guns will be passed and then they will see to it that that law will be strictly enforced. Their objective is to gain the position of absolute power over the people. If people no longer have guns, the Liberals could take the government over by force. an African American? How can he or she be from Africa and America at the same time? Why can‘t he or she simply be an American? Likewise the Hispanic: Why can‘t that person simply be an American? It is the Liberal that wants to be so equal in rhetoric but so divided and superior in attitude. It is the Liberal crowd who keeps racial records of who goes to school and where, who spends more time in the slammer, who votes in certain patterns and who has certain socio-economic standards—and why! They are the same Liberal politicians, media and celebrities who harp so about political correctness regarding religion. (The only exception to this is Christianity. Christianity and Christians can be made fun of and become the brunt of jokes.) If one could openly speak of the evils of Islam without being booed off the planet, more of their history and facts about their beliefs and practices could be openly examined. There are currently nine democratic candidates seeking the nomination from their party to run against the President in ‘04. These people are falling all over themselves to see who can go further left than the others, who can promise the most, and to see who can say the most outlandish things about the President. They have accused him of everything from power failures, hurricanes, bombings, economic instability (although things started down in the Clinton years and are currently getting better), to mismanagement in Iraq and if anything else is negative they lay that to him, too. No one anywhere is complaining about anything any one of these Liberals is saying, regardless of how low and mean-spirited (that‘s the Liberal term used to attack Republicans in the Clinton years). Yet when someone, anyone who is a Conservative, says anything controversial, these same men want people fired for their remarks. Three of them asked for Rush Limbaugh‘s job because he accused the local media and the NFL of racial bias. Limbaugh made no racial slur. The accusation was against the NFL and the media. Yet these Liberals wanted Limbaugh fired for saying what he did. What happened to freedom of speech? They certainly practice it, truth or lie, they practice it. A highly decorated Lt. General in the U. S. Army has made some remarks that allege the same things that I am writing about here. He said them while in uniform and in front of Christians. He said the war we are engaged in right now is spiritual and the enemy is Satan. These Liberals want him removed from his position for making those remarks. I wonder what they would say if any of them ever read this article or something 26 like it. They have their freedom of speech. Why can‘t others who do not agree with them also have freedom of speech? It is so ironic that these same Liberal anti-god groupies who want the U. S. to lose the war and desire so much for the Muslims and / or Communists to take us over are the same ones who would be outlawed by any Muslim or Communist government that would take over if they could. This is the proof of the blindness that is caused by their hate for the President. Their hate is so strong that they are oblivious to their own demise if it were not for the American way. If it were not for the American way and either the Communists or the Muslims actually took over our country, the ACLU would be immediately dissolved, along with NOW and the vast majority of the Democratic leadership—all for being either anti-god (anti-any-god, real or imagined!) or too outspoken and over-bearing about it. Censorship would immediately end the film and TV careers of many supporters of these Muslim or Communists governments. The Liberals tend to believe any god is as good as another. Whether a god is named Jehovah, Allah, Buddha, Molech, Ashteroth or Mammon should make no difference. Allow me to point to one significant difference between Jehovah and the Allah. Jesus said that by their fruit you should know them. Look at the fruit. Neither Jesus nor His true followers ever set out to harm someone in the name of God, meaning Jehovah. John said that God is Love. In contrast, Allah endorses, encourages and thrives on the violence perpetrated by his followers. If it were not for their violence and terrorist tactics to either convert or kill, there would be no Islam. Of course there were the crusades of the days of yore. These misled phonies were promoting a religion, a church, not the message of God! That amounts to the same things the Muslims are doing now. The Catholic Church was so far out of touch with God and their means was so vile, none of those activities could be called Christian! And that movement ended. We moved past the crusades. Today‘s Christians condemn the crusades as evil, just as Muslims, Communists and Liberals should condemn their terrorism as evil. But none of these latter folks are doing any self-examination at all. I dare anyone anywhere to show me where Allah has held any teaching of love, compassion or forgiveness, especially with any evidence of sacrifice to back it up. From what I‘ve studied of the Muslims, Allah may accept someone to live forever if that person has done enough good works (whatever that may mean!) and if Allah then wants to save that person. It‘s all made up in advance and there is no way to know how Allah may think of a particular person. Throughout history the Muslims (they used to be Moslems) were and are aggressive warriors. Most of their conquests have come by military victory. The choices they have given their conquests have been ―Be Muslim or be dead.‖ Some of the voice may be saying ―Peace,‖ but their actions speak much louder and those actions shout ―Hate.‖ Of all the wars going on at this present time on Planet Earth, every one of them are Muslim or Communist, the vast majority of them being the former! If it were not for armed take-over, not many people would be Muslim. 27 But the Liberals continually complain about how the poor Muslims are treated, even the ones who have been caught trying to do us harm. Are their civil rights being violated? Maybe we should give them Israel and then we can just get along. The Liberals continually attack Conservatives, especially the President by casting doubt about his honesty, integrity or motives. The media and the democratic presidential candidates have had a constant barrage of propaganda and inferences about the President, Vice President, the Cabinet and the President‘s staff. News media from the networks, along with Hollywood and Broadway celebrities have joined the democratic politicians in going to great lengths to smear, defame and accuse the administration of wrong-doing. Bush has been accused of starting the wars with the terrorists, blamed for the recent power grid failure and accused of causing the blast of the U. N. headquarters in Baghdad. To hear them tell it Clinton-Gore would have had this whole mess all fixed without any delay. If you will recall, much of the war by terror was done on the Clinton-Gore watch and nothing was done except the firing of the previously mentioned Monica missiles. Clinton did nothing and he could have and he should have. But not one Liberal media or celebrity asked for an accounting from the C-G administration. Oh, I almost forgot about the Bosnia-Herzegovina Easter Sunday church bombings that killed 2000 civilians while Clinton‘s Secretary of State Albright and General Wesley Clark (one of the nine democratic candidates previously mentioned) were running the peace-keepers in the Bosnia. Meanwhile, Marine barracks were bombed, the World Trade Center was bombed, ships were bombed, planes were shot down, soldiers were ambushed; most of which came on the C-G watch and not an eyebrow was raised. Osama went free, even when he could have been dealt with. If Monica had not been involved with Clinton, he would never have fired a missile of any kind at any one. But because of his irresponsibility, selfseeking and self-indulging, and being caught, he had to get his excesses off the front page of the news. He fired some missiles and accomplished zero against terrorism! On several occasions he could have captured OSL, but he refused to act. OSL paid back his kindness with the attack on 9/11/01. Just after the Trade Center Towers fell, Senator Hillary Clinton screamed, ―What did Bush know and when did he know it?‖ After her free pass from any real scrutiny by the press, as well as her unfaithful husband‘s, she, like the Liberal she is, had the gall to question anyone! Again, even after the question, she was given a free pass by the Liberal media. No one in the media or anyone else has ever asked her or her husband what he knew and when he knew it regarding any attack during his administration. The story goes on and on how the Liberals cover for each other—the press, electronic media, celebrities, all allowing other liberals to do and say what they want without a challenge. Then if someone does ask a question to challenge a liberal‘s statement or deed, the person and the question are accused of being part of a right wing conspiracy. The Liberals still claim that the RWC stole the 2000 election for Bush. No one will mention how many times and by whom those hanging chads were counted and recounted in Florida. Nor will anyone be reminded that the count, even when counted by Liberals of the media, always showed that Bush won Florida (much thanks to Janet Reno and Elion Gonzales). There were a total of seven counts of those Florida ballots. 28 The Liberal judges will not take up the argument that a state has the right to have the Ten Commandments displayed in a public building, but they will give gays the right to practice their immorality in private, overturning a state law that forbad it. Two of the Supreme Court Justices (Ginsburg and O‘Conner) have said the decision regarding the homosexual activities in private was not a constitutional one, but was based on precedence in foreign courts. Just how Liberal and un-American can anyone or a policy be, especially from the perspective of a U. S. Supreme Court Justice? The judges declared that a woman has the right to murder her fetus with impunity because she has equal rights, or the right to protect her own body from harm. That takes the ultimate right from the fetus, a right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These judges may call it abortion rights, or freedom of choice or some other fancy and moral title, but according to God‘s Word, He does not accept that as a technical difference from passing an offspring through the fire to Moloch. Right under this outrage is the materialism that has come to the rank of idolatry in this nation. Americans have become so accustomed to automation, entertainment, and status that many children are abandoned by both parents while they seek the wherewithal to possess the niceties of life. Some parents have abandoned their children to enter a life of escape by drugs and alcohol. Either way, the child or children are abandoned. Even though these materialistic or drug-ridden people may abandon their children in favor of a babysitter or daycare, nothing can replace the love and bond of a real caring and loving parent. It takes more than cleanliness and a bowl of cereal or soup a couple or three times a day to rear a child. Babysitters may raise a child, but only a real parent (birth or adoptive) can rear a child. Rearing includes love, bonding, teaching (moral and ethical as well as academic) and spiritual upbringing. No daycare or babysitter can replace a parent. No machine, convenience or status, no drug, alcohol or other escape from the pressures or realities of life can make the trade-off worth it. It amounts to child sacrifice no matter what you call it. Look at the direct results: Crime has increased and immorality has become more prevalent. Parents have lost out on not only parenting, but have been entertained to the point of complete ignorance. They are entertained by unfunny comedy, mindless plots, endless chase scenes, lust and over-sexuality (including homosexual), non-musical music, illogical pseudo science and general neglect of anything of importance. People‘s ignorance is profound when an adult doesn‘t know what the fifth-amendment is, or who ―Slick Willie‖ refers to, or thinks Chicago is a state, or doesn‘t know how many states there are in the U. S., or can‘t name any of the democratic candidates for nomination to the presidency of the United States, or thinks that there is no sense in keeping up with political issues because this is not an election year, or thinks they can vote for the man or woman running for an office without knowing what those issues are, and so forth. It‘s not just the public people who are so ignorant: When a space explorer mission was taking pictures of Mars, one Liberal congress-woman wanted to know if the camera could pick up the sight of the American flag that was put there earlier. There could be several pages of proof of the ignorance that pervades our society (and in this case, Congress!). All of this is the direct result of materialism, and the ensuing child abandonment. 29 Chapter Ten A Real-life Example of the Result of Liberalism Liberalism is bad policy for anyone. Look at California and their Liberal politics for these recent years. This is where Liberal policies and illegal immigration have met and the mushroom-shaped cloud has arisen. California has adopted the Liberal policy of embracing and caring for the illegal immigrants to a point that legal Americans are leaving the state because they cannot afford the terrible tax burden. The Liberal populace not only knowingly plays host to these illegal immigrants, but outgoing recalled governor Gray Davis signed a bill for illegals to get driver‘s licenses. The INS or other agencies will not be allowed to use driver‘s license information to pick up illegal aliens or outlaws if the bill goes through as planned. So essentially the illegals will be free citizens completely! In Oregon it is illegal for law enforcement to even ask a suspect if he or she is an illegal immigrant. That‘s ridiculous! And guess what the pollsters use to identify voters from non-voters in California elections? You got it! Driver‘s licenses! So an illegal alien can go get a driver‘s license, an INS agent could watch over one shoulder and a U. S. Marshall could look over the other shoulder while he signs the papers, and neither can touch the illegal alien even if he uses a photo from a post office wall for identification. Then he can go vote! That‘s the rationale of liberalism, and it‘s killing California. These illegal immigrants are not citizens, do not pay income taxes, cannot (or should not be able to) vote, yet they have hospitalization and education and other benefits like Americans do. The state is some $38 Billion in debt, its credit is ruined, and it faces bankruptcy. Now the state has recalled its Liberal governor and has replaced him with a moderate Republican. And who is complaining? LIBERALS!! They are claiming that it isn‘t right for a politician to have to look over his shoulder while he does his job, fearing the wrath of a recalling population. No, they would rather have a completely free hand and run the government without accountability. That is why conditions got so bad in California. This was the 32nd time recall had been tried in California, and the first time it worked. The governor had a 30 something percent range on his approval rating, and more than half of the people voted for recall. The Liberals tried to spin it that anyone in office regardless of who they were could be recalled because of bad economic times and civil unrest regarding the poor economic conditions. The President might be next! The President, even in spite of continual Liberal Bush-bashing, still has a 50 % plus approval rating. He hasn‘t signed any really stupid energy bills. Most of the people blame the former governor for California‘s problems, but the bigger problem is the Liberal philosophy of the voting public that elected the Liberal governor, the Liberal legislature, and toleration of the Liberal laws! These Liberals are so eager for a return to national power that they not only want economic setbacks in the markets to make the Conservative President to look bad, but they rejoice with the Muslims when Americans are killed in Iraq. They manifest a love for soup lines in the U. S. and body-bags with U.S. troops in them. They want any failure possible so they can blame the President. They document every little negative thing they 30 can either find or imagine to slander the current administration with. Even when the President does something patriotic and courageous, the Liberals accuse him of photo ops and hypocrisy. Just a few days ago a memo from a Democratic Senator on the Intelligence Committee was leaked. On it were some plans on pending investigations that were not designed to find and correct Intelligence problems, but to unseat the President. The Dems on the Intelligence Committee were playing partisan politics with their positions when the safety and wellbeing of the United States should predominate. That‘s blind ambition and blind hate to lay aside the welfare of the whole U. S. for the benefit of subverting the President. The Liberals would ally themselves with either the Communists or the Muslims to make war on this administration because they hate the President so badly. In December of ‘03, some celebrities and the wives of celebrities held a ―Hate Bush‖ rally in Hollywood. They were aiming to plan further how to unseat Bush as President. The Liberal hate, like the Muslim hate, has blinded them to the obvious: Their own lifestyle would also end if the U. S. were ever actually defeated by these foreign radicals. An Aside: This article is very hard to write because almost daily something is done or said by one party or another that confirms what I am writing. The scandals, lies, accusations and allegations from Liberals, as well as the mounting documentation of the failure of the character, principal, morality, integrity, honesty, and stark feasibility of their philosophy mount faster than I can easily record. There are many documents that explain the political scene better than I have here. But I know of none who present the Scriptures and God’s view as I have and will do. Please continue. Chapter Eleven Our Geographic Enemies Besides the enemy of political correctness and its Liberal supporters to deal with, we have a geographic problem: Unprotected borders. These open borders not only make our safety questionable, but the condition endangers our life-style, culture and language. If one cannot attack us with a bomb, by simply increasing the crime rate or introducing undesirable traits into our present culture is another, quieter, but deadly, attack on Americanism. It tends to be liberalism that makes even our borders into problems that are so out of control. Anyone can find entry into the U. S. from any direction with little probability of being caught. And if one should be caught, most likely (unless loaded down with something dangerous on their person) the guilty will only be returned to where they came from so they can try again later. On a radio talk show one law enforcement officer cited that anyone apprehended getting into (or trying to get into) the U. S. illegally is instructed to report themselves by filling out a form and mailing it later. Then the person or persons are allowed to go about 31 their business (Yes, in this country) on the assumption that the illegal person or persons will follow the instructions, fill out the card and mail it in! Wow! Terrorists could (and have) come into the U. S. legally with papers obtained from our embassy in Saudi Arabia. This does not include the use of forged or illegal documents that would allow terrorist entry into the U. S. from other sources. Most of the problems relating to defense and law enforcement have been exacerbated by liberal policies from the White House, Congress and the Courts, all of which have been controlled by liberals for most of the time for half a century. The current administration is the first time for many years that the Presidency and both houses of congress have been in Republican control, and yet some of the Republicans are even Liberal! So we have practically no border protection, two forces of enemies seeking us harm from outside (Islam and Communism), one set of enemies from within (Liberalism) to help either one or both of the outside forces, all trying to make the U.S. and its citizenry dead—or at least controlled. What can we do to keep out the guys in the black hats (or turbans)? Practically nothing. The scene grows dark indeed. Shall we despair? Shall we seek and find the old panic button? Shall we capitulate? Shall we all buy Korans and enroll in Mosque-school? Maybe we should buy a copy of the Communist Manifesto and get a hammer and cycle tattoo. Shall we all do the lemming thing—mass suicide? Chapter Twelve But Wait, There‘s Another Perspective This whole dilemma is nothing new. Oh, it may be new for you and me, but others have gone through this same type of threat before—without a sweat or a scratch. And surprising enough, today‘s threat comes from some of the same folks that threatened others before. Let‘s just take a quick look at one page of the record. King Jehoshaphat was one of the good Kings of Judah (needless to say that was in contrast to some who were not good in any stretch of the imagination). He had cleaned up the idolatry and removed the places of pagan worship, and had generally done what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The record we want to examine starts in the first part of the 20th chapter of II Chronicles. Jehoshaphat got some bad news: The children of Moab and Ammon and some other guys in black turbans were coming to make war with Jehoshaphat and the Children of Judah. 1 It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, and with them others besides the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. 2 Then there came some who told Jehoshaphat, saying, "There comes a great multitude against you from beyond the sea on this side of Syria; and behold, they are in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi." 32 Hearing the message must have made Jehoshaphat feel a little like many U. S. citizens feel today in view of the Muslim-Communist-Liberal threat. But he responded to the problem a little differently than most Americans do: He sought the LORD. Furthermore, he used his position as King and committed the nation to a fast. He also summoned the nation to seek the LORD with him. And he prayed. He reminded the LORD Who He was (as if God might have forgotten exactly Who He was), and how great He was, and that no one could do anything against Him. 3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. 4 And Judah gathered themselves together to ask help of the LORD; even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD. 5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court, 6 and said, "O LORD God of our fathers, are You not God in heaven? And don‘t You rule over all the kingdoms of the heathen? And in Your hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand You? He continued to remind the LORD of the past relationship when God had delivered the land to the Children of Israel as He had promised to the seed of Abraham, God‘s friend forever. Really, Jehoshaphat was reminding himself of all these facts and was using that information to settle himself down in the midst of the looming doom that was making its presence known. You see, Jehoshaphat knew deep down that God would see to keep His promise to His friend Abraham. That happens to be one of the prominent resolutions of Jehovah—to keep His word to Abraham. That‘s what keeps Israel afloat today, God keeping His promise to Abraham. Jehoshaphat told the LORD that those Children lived in that land and that they had built a sanctuary in His name. Then came the plea: Will You help us in our plight? The same people whom You spared by us have arisen up against us. Then subtly Jehoshaphat continued to entwine the LORD into the factor by planting ―Your possession that You have given to us to inherit.‖ It was all true, and it was boosting Jehoshaphat‘s and the people‘s confidence. An Aside It may be of interest to see who these enemies were. Moab and Ammon were each peoples descended from Lot. Lot was Abraham’s nephew, the same one who lived in Sodom, the city of sin that the angels destroyed. After Lot left Sodom and his wife looked back and changed to the block of salt, he lived alone with his two daughters. The daughters, thinking they were the only living people on earth decided to have children by the only man they knew—Lot. They got him drunk and had him sire each of them a child. One son by the older daughter was Moab, the other was Ammon by the younger daughter. While Isaac and Israel (Jacob) and Esau were growing up and later the Children of Israel went into Egyptian captivity, both Moab and Ammon became nations of people. When Israel came out of Egypt, the LORD would not let them go into either nation because of their kinship. 33 Mt Seir was the homeland of Edom, who were the descendants of Edom, otherwise known as Esau, Israel’s twin brother. The LORD also refused to allow the Children of Israel to invade them for the same kinship reason. In Jehoshaphat’s day, and into this present day, any relationship between these peoples is not a consideration, especially from the perspective of the aggressive kin. 7 Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the seed of Abraham, Your friend for ever? 8 And they dwelled therein, and have built You a sanctuary therein for Your name, saying, 9 `If, when evil comes upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house and in Your presence (for Your name is in this house), and cry to You in our affliction, then You will hear and help.' 10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom You would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and not destroyed them" 11 behold, I say, how they reward us by coming to cast us out of Your possession, which You have given us to inherit. After placing the LORD squarely in the middle of the conflict, Jehoshaphat asks the LORD to come against the enemy because the Children of Judah are too weak. The whole congregation stood in place with Jehoshaphat in his prayer. 12 O our God, will You not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us, neither know we what to do; but our eyes are upon You." 13 And all Judah stood before the LORD with their little ones, their wives, and their children. Then the LORD did a strange thing. He moved on a priest to speak for Him. ―Listen all of you and the king, the LORD says to you, ‗Don‘t be afraid because this isn‘t your fight, but MINE!‘‖ An Aside Jahaziel is not a common name among the Judean population, but there had been others. This one was five generations from Asaph who was one of the psalmists of King David’s time. If he was the same person as any of the other Jahaziels, he would have been very old indeed. The LORD used a still small voice to speak to Elijah. He used a thundering voice to speak to Moses and the Children of Israel. He used conversational tones to speak to the followers on the road to Emmaus. And here He used a Levite in the congregation much like He uses the modern day prophets and deliverers of messages in unknown tongues. But none of the messages regardless of how He presented it got a better response from the hearers. Like His voice has always been received, it was welcome, refreshing and absolutely delivering. It was also specific! 34 Jehovah continued and gave specific instructions: ―Go against them tomorrow. You will find them by a certain creek by Ziz Cliff by the Wilderness of Jeruel. You don‘t need to fight. Put yourself in formation, and stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you. Don‘t have fear. Tomorrow you go and the LORD will be with you.‖ 14 Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the middle of the congregation. 15 And he said, "Hearken you, all Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you King Jehoshaphat! Thus says the LORD to you: `Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's. 16 Tomorrow you go down against them. Behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz, and you shall find them at the end of the brook, before the Wilderness of Jeruel. 17 You shall not need to fight in this battle. Set yourselves, stand you still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem.' Fear not, nor be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, for the LORD will be with you." Jehoshaphat and the people were so glad to hear this that they fell down and worshipped the LORD. They believed what the LORD spoke through this previously unknown priest. Then the rejoicing followed. 18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshiping the LORD. 19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high. The next day the king told his people to believe the LORD and be established and to believe His prophets and prosper. He arranged the people and set singers to Jehovah out in front of the army to praise the beauty of holiness. As the singers sang and praised, the LORD established ambushes against the invaders. The nature of the ambushes was to cause strife between the factions of the enemy. Notice that these were not men of Jehoshaphat‘s army. Whether they were angels or demons, I don‘t know, but they certainly caused friction between camps and strife erupted. First Ammon and Moab attacked the forces from Mount Seir, and then they turned on each other. By the time Jehoshaphat and his army got there, the enemy troops were all dead and ready for looting. 20 And they rose early in the morning and went forth into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Hear me, O Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the LORD your God; so shall you be established. Believe His prophets; so shall you prosper." 21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD who should praise the beauty of holiness as they went out before the army, and to say, "Praise the LORD, for His mercy endures for ever." 22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were smitten. 23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir utterly to slay and destroy them; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another. 24 And when Judah came toward the watchtower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped. 25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil from them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies and precious jewels, 35 which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away; and they were three days in gathering the spoil, it was so much. An Aside The term “Ambushers” has introduced a concept that reveals a tactical God. The scribe doesn’t throw any additional light on the nature of the ambushers by indicating if they were angels that were assigned to do battle against the satanic spiritual forces that were urging the enemies to war or if they were enemy spirits that were recruited to undermine the efforts of the three armies. The LORD has used lying spirits to do His bidding on other occasions, and He could have done that here (I Kings 22:20-23). It was not evidently any of Jehoshaphat’s army that He used to ambush these three armies, and judging from the results, it wasn’t the direct work any one or more of God’s angels. I tend to believe the LORD turned these armies over to some of their own evil spirits who unleashed venom onto their hosts. This looting process must have been beyond imagination. It took three days to spoil the dead soldiers. On day four the army assembled in a valley they name ―Blessing‖ (named that because there they blessed the LORD). Then they went home with rejoicing and singing. All the other neighboring countries were so impressed with Jehovah‘s type of warfare that they left Jehoshaphat alone the rest of his reign. 26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the Valley of Berachah that is, Blessing, for there they blessed the LORD. Therefore the name of the same place was called The Valley of Berachah unto this day. 27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat at the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies. 28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD. 29 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel. 30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his God gave him rest round about. Chapter Thirteen So What? Oh, yeah, I hear you thinking, ―That‘s good for an old story from the Old Testament when God was doing miracles for the Jews, but today, in our situation . . . .‖ Now hear this: There are only three major differences between what Jehoshaphat and Judah faced then and what we U. S. Believers face now. First look how alike the situations are: Multiple nations coming against two—the Muslim world of one and onethird billion people united against Israel and the United States (300 million people 36 combined). The Coalition forces from the Iraqi war are in some danger, but they are not the prime targets like the U. S. and Israel. The Muslims serve a god of hate (they call him Allah, but we know who he really is—Satan, the father of lies and hate) while we (the Israelis and the Americans) have espoused the one true living God, Jehovah. The Muslims are the aggressors, and very dishonorable ones at that, targeting the innocent in sneak attacks in the name of Allah. The Communists likewise have come (and some have gone already) from several directions. The old outspoken enemy that has lost most of its clout is Russia, of former USSR fame. The remaining Communist enemies are Cuba, some of Latin America, China and North Korea. The new Communists are the remnants of the Communist operatives and their allies—UNESCO, Green Peace, and many Liberals and their organizations in general, and the EU governments of France, Germany, Luxemburg and Belgium. These EU governments are all economic, political and philosophical enemies who hate us although we were their dear friends just half a century ago (the WWII era). They tend to support the terrorists, but are not terrorists themselves. Do not be fooled: They are our enemies and do and will rejoice when we lose. These terrorists (and their supporters) come from several quarters against us and no one can say just where they are. Well, almost no one knows. God does. And just like with Jehoshaphat‘s situation, God will point out exactly where the enemy is and when he will be there. The trick is to listen to His directions. Furthermore, the same God Who keeps His promises to Abraham will continue to keep his Word to both us as believers in His Son, Jesus Christ, and, hence the spiritual Seed of Abraham, and to the Jews as the physical seed of Abraham. He worked miracles for Jehoshaphat then (and many other times from the deliverance from Egypt to the periods of Joshua and the conquest of the inhabitants of their promised land, time after time, to the victories of the various judges, to the great miracles of the prophets, especially Elijah and Elisha, to the wonderful adventures of King David, especially over Goliath, to the very advent, life and redemptive ministry of Christ) and He will work miracles for us now. He is the same today, yesterday and forever (Heb. 13: 8). He changes not (Mal. 3: 6). He watches over His Word to perform it (Isa. 45: 23; 55: 11; Jer. 1: 11). We are His and He knows how to keep us from all harm and to supply our every need (Phil. 4:13 and 19). How dare we doubt His Faithfulness! Am I proposing to do away with the military and its technology? No, absolutely not. Am I proposing the throwing away our need of astute, wise and courageous political leadership? Again, No, absolutely not. What I am proposing is that as many American Believers as will to get involved in this warfare on the spiritual level and uphold out nation both politically and militarily. Upholding our political leadership and military will enhance both, alerting and leading our side, deterring and undermining the enemy‘s side. The Believers‘ position in the LORD during all this warfare is one of absolute dominance and victory. To sit aside and do nothing or to continue to play the milk-toast, goody-two-shoes role in the traditional religious sense will not cut it either. This is a warfare for the very existence of our nation and if we Believers do not fulfill our obligation as victorious and unconquered—even unconquerable—warriors, the USA will sink into the abyss of nothingness under the control of Liberalism. 37 In order to function as warriors, however, we must understand the war. I‘ve shown you the enemies and how like enemies have been dealt with. Next you will see your position in the ranks of the Believer. Chapter Fourteen The Relationships As previously pointed out, Lot was Abraham‘s nephew. Esau was Abraham‘s grandson--direct linage. Ammon and Moab were distanced further from Abraham than was Esau (Edom, Mt. Seir). The groups that were more closely akin to each other turned against the one that was more distant. In parallel, the Communists and Muslims are closer allied together and of more distant kin to Americans than are the Liberals. As a matter of fact, many Liberals are American, so there is a definite kinship. These Liberals may have gotten much of their start and current support from Communists and Communist organizations and programs, but the evil force they now represent are very near and dear to some of the American populace. Just as surely as Ammon and Moab turned against Edom, Communism and Islam will turn against the Liberals. Islam has rigid rules of conduct in their lands. They would not tolerate the lifestyle of those same celebrities who welcome their religion into the U. S. Any anti-god person or immoral lifestyle Islam would (and do) attack. That would end the ACLU, NOW, many Liberal politicians, media people, gays and gay-rights advocates, as well as abortion rights advocates, and the supporters of such people and their policies. The Communists would not tolerate free-lance irresponsible thinkers like the Liberals. Communists have one line of propaganda—theirs, and will not tolerate the diversity of Liberalism. One would either support the line of the government or shut up— or else. As a matter of fact, Islam would not tolerate Communism once the U. S. was defeated and out of their way. Islam wants to be the top dog in the world. Then the Communists would not accept the Muslims as permanent friends, either, so the alliance (if any) would dissolve once the U. S. was dispatched. So right now, America as a nation and its rebellious attitude toward God is the basis for America being its own worst enemy. Eventually, whether the U. S. comes to its senses or not, these two forces that hate us, Communism and Islam, will go at each other. That is their nature and they will do it sooner or later. The differences are these: One: Jehoshaphat and the Children of Judah were not Children of God. They were servants. They had servants‘ promises and servants‘ relationship with Jehovah based on the Old Testament Law—the law of sin and death, as Paul calls it (Romans 8:2). 38 We Believers, although a popular minority, are Children of God, born again of His Spirit, washed in His Blood, by which we are redeemed. We have better promises than they of the Old Testament did (Hebrews 8: 6). The Old Testament followers of God were servants: We are children. Second, Jehovah told Jehoshaphat to not fight because the battle was God‘s. In contrast and more important to understand, the Lord commissioned us, the Believers, to resist and war against the activities of the enemy. Not only has Paul indicated that we are to wrestle against the enemy, but James said to resist the enemy and he would flee (in terror) from us (James 4: 7). Jesus, in His commission to us, gave us the authority to use His Name and that authority was unlimited. John recorded the statements of Jesus regarding the unity between Himself and His Followers and the authority that he issued to us. John 14: 12 Verily, verily I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he shall do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to My Father. What works did Jesus do? He raised the dead. He healed the sick. He opened blinded eyes and opened stopped ears. He cleansed the lepers. He comforted the lost, forgave the sinner, and on and on and on . . . . Because He went to the Father, we are to do these same things. Outrageous? No! He said it! 13 And whatever you shall ask [demand] in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. What are the limitations on ―Whatever‖? Anything falls into that category. Anything that needs doing, He said He would do in His Name. Why? All will be for the Father‘s glory. What a benefactor that makes the Believer who receives these promises. Jesus so emphasized this that He repeated it in the next verse. 14 If you shall ask [demand] anything in My name, I will do it. Remember, this is like the blank check with a signature already on it! Demand that the check be cashed for whatever you have put in the open blanks! 15: 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you shall ask [demand] what you will, and it shall be done unto you. Is this a lesson on memorization? No. Jesus is laying down a principle that says: God sent His Word to perform as He desires. And His Word will not return to Him fruitless! First, if we know God‘s will by His Word, we will pray to that end. Second, if we use His very Words in our prayers, the enemy cannot block the answer and the Father won‘t block the answer! 39 In verse 23 and 24 the promises are repeated and with an accompanying reason: That your joy may be full. 23 And in that day you shall ask [demand] Me nothing. Verily, verily I say unto you, whatsoever you shall ask [demand] the Father in My name, He will give it to you. 24 Hitherto you have asked [demanded] nothing in My name. Ask [demand] and you shall receive, that your joy may be full. Then Jesus makes you more independent. You are to pray directly to the Father. You do not pray to Him, His mother, His disciples, His apostles, nor anyone else. The prayer is to be directed to the Father. Why? Because He, the Father of Glory, loves you Himself! What more reason does one need? 26 In that day you shall ask [demand] in My name, and I do not say to you that I will pray the Father for you; 27 for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came out from God. And He prayed for all of us who have ever received eternal life through Him. 16: 1 These words spoke Jesus and lifted up His eyes to Heaven and said, "Father, the hour is come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, 2 as You have given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. Mark adds emphasis to the nature of the authority in Mark 16: 16-18 where Jesus prophecied what would be some of the benefits of using his Name. This promise is either all up or all down. The believer is saved and the disbeliever is lost period. More interestingly, the promises that are for the believer are outstanding! First, the believer shall be saved. Then he or she will have these signs follow them: They shall cast out demons in His name; They shall speak in new [unknown] tongues; They shall take up serpents; If they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; and They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. No wonder David picked up five stones when he faced Goliath—but he used only one! Only one was all he needed. These are daily miracles that every believer should manifest as needed. 15 And He said to them, "Go you into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. 40 16 He who believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he who believes not shall be damned. 17 And these signs shall follow those who believe: In My name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Notice the wording of what Jesus said. He told us to ―demand‖ in His Name as if something that was due to us, even though He was speaking of the Father. He never told us to pray to or beg of Him or of the Father. Especially important is the relationship He revealed regarding the follower and the Father and His love for the follower. The bottom line is that we are to do the acting in His Name and He would back it up! I encourage you to read and study John chapters 14 through 16 to see the promises and relationship among the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and the Believer. The third difference is really the most significant, significant enough to be a major problem. Jehoshaphat was the king of the nation. He had already cleaned up much of the idolatry and evil practiced in the land. He, as king, was in the position to use his authority to call for a prayer and fast. The Liberal influences in U. S. government have clambered for and gotten support of an old doctrine barely mentioned in a political letter. They have insisted on a separating of the church from the state, claiming that the doctrine is constitutional. Although it is not found in the constitution, there is no provision in the constitution for an office holder to make or urge a call on God, either. No one in the U. S. government has the legal authority to call the nation to prayer or fasting, nor have they ever. Any prayer or fasting or resisting of the enemy or wrestling against the powers that have come against the U. S. will have to be done by those of us who are spiritually prepared to engage the enemy on scriptural terms and bold enough to volunteer to actually do it. Chapter Fifteen A Viable Threat to the U.S. As hinted before, the doctrine of separation of church and state casts a very dark shadow on the temperament of the American people to repent and turn their attention to the LORD. While there is absolutely no doubt that the LORD will take up for us, His redeemed ones, and will grant us our victory over these insurgents against humanity, the question arises regarding the form of the nation when the dust settles. There are masses of U. S. citizens who have no knowledge of God, and know it. There are masses more who think they know God but are self deceived. And there are masses who know God but do not know Him on a life-changing, victorious, functional basis. None of these folks will be involved in any spiritual warfare against the enemies unless they are on the enemies‘ side, knowingly or not. The doctrine of separation of church and state has been so emphasized that it does not mean that the state will not sponsor or promote a religion as it is stated in the 41 Constitution. It now means the government promotes a freedom from religion—any religion or sign thereof, especially Christianity or derivatives of it. In other words, the effort to stamp out any reference to religion has turned into a promotion of the religion of atheism. ―Under God‖ in the pledge of allegiance is being attacked. ―In God we Trust‖ will soon be removed from our currency. If left up to the Liberals, the President‘s Oath of Office will be done with his hand on a dictionary. Unfortunately the vast majority of these acts of separation of church and state are aimed at Christians and the Bible. Since 9/11, Liberals have successfully placed the teaching of Islam and the Koran into many public schools. Meanwhile, elementary students in public schools are not allowed to tell other students that Jesus loves them. So it is obvious that the point of the spear is aimed at Christians and the Bible. Chapter Sixteen What is God‘s opinion? Do not misunderstand me. We believers live by the Grace of God and we are not subject to the Old Testament Law that was given to the Jews. But in the presentation of that law, God expressed His opinion regarding various standards and people‘s failure to adhere to those standards. The penalties were often just as harsh then on the Jews as Islam is on people today. This is a brief look at some standards that are relevant to us and this predicament for the U. S. Deuteronomy 17:14-20: 14 ¶ "When you are come unto the land which the LORD your God gives you, and shall possess it and shall dwell therein, and shall say, `I will set a king over me like all the nations that are about me,' 15 you shall in any wise set him king over you whom the LORD your God shall choose. One from among your brethren shall you set as king over you; you may not set a stranger over you, who is not your brother. 16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to the end that he should multiply horses, forasmuch as the LORD has said to you, `You shall henceforth return no more that way.' 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 18 "And it shall be, when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book from that which is before the priests the Levites. 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them, 20 that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel. Let‘s break this passage down to see exactly what the LORD thinks of civil government. From the outset He is directing His attention to only one King Who fulfilled 42 all of these things—King Jesus. But the LORD expressed what He wanted in civil servants that were to lead the people. First, God was to select the ruler. We have elections and sometimes we have a godly man and sometimes not, mostly not. Trusting that God selects some of these men and women is difficult. But Romans 8: 28 gives us hope in realizing that all things are worked out in His good for the believers. Second, the leader was to be from among the people, not a foreigner. That is like our own constitution. There is no disagreement in principle there. However, there is a disagreement in practice. The leader should be of the people to the extent that he or she is not above the law. Look at the outlandish things President Bill Clinton did: He had sexual relations with an intern in the Oval Office. That wasn‘t bad enough. He lied to congress about it. The first offense was worthy of dismissal. Any civilian CEO would have been fired for that indiscretion alone. Then Clinton lied to Congress about it and that was strictly against the law, and an obvious impeachable offense. Many people had already been sent to prison for the exact same crime, and were in jail at the time of Clinton‘s lies to Congress. But the Democrats surrounded Clinton and protected him from impeachment. That made the whole Democratic Party as guilty of the crimes as Clinton had been. Clinton was from the people and promptly placed himself above the people and their law. This was beneath God‘s standard. Third, the ruler should not rely on military strength to rule the people. Our constitution goes along with that because the people are protected from the use of the military against us. We have a mighty military force, but it is to be used for our protection only. Next, the leader is not to have several wives, mainly because they turn his eyes from following the LORD. The leader is not to make himself rich while ruling. That is one of the biggest failures in American politics—virtually every political office offers its holder opportunity for great wealth, legally or illegally. Many politicians go into office a person of the people but soon become so rich that they lose sight of who they once were. Then certainly the LORD does not expect a separation between Himself, His Word and the ruler. Anyone who knows anything of the Scriptures or history knows that without exception every earthly king over the Jews wrecked these guidelines that the LORD established. The first king was Saul who led the people and was not so bad until God 43 selected his successor. Saul‘s successor was not Saul‘s son or daughter, nor any other relative. Saul got high minded and when the prophet told him what the LORD wanted, Saul got to where he wouldn‘t do it. When the LORD selected David to replace Saul, Saul first got jealous and then got hostile. The hostility turned to attempted murder, multiple counts. It even turned to calling on witches (which God forbade in other Scriptures). David was the ―man after God‘s own heart‖ (I Sam. 13: 14). Although David was said to be a man after God‘s own heart, he had his moments of weakness, too. He was involved with many women, one of which was an adulterous relationship that led to abuse of power and the murder of her husband. Solomon reigned after David and he became very rich—what we would call today filthy rich. And he certainly had more than his share of women! Rehoboam and Jeraboam followed Solomon and they abused their positions terribly, and so did most of the kings after that. After the nation split, the kings of both the nation of Israel and nation of Judah were more often than not bad kings. Israel was the first to go. Nine and one-half tribes fell and were led into captivity, and they were never allowed to return. Judah lasted a few more generations before they, too, were dragged into captivity. After some years they were allowed to return to the land and re-establish a kingdom for the Messiah to be born in. In Judah there were times of returning to the LORD, but each time the unfaithfulness soon returned. The unfaithfulness took several forms: Idol worship (including burnt offering of children), witchcraft, abandonment of the Law, the Prophets, and generally everything listed in Deuteronomy 18:10-12. These are the things practiced by the people who had owned the land before the Jews came out of Egypt, and these are the reasons they were put aside. 10- 12 There shall not be found among you any one who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or who uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all who do these things are an abomination unto the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you. Saul had used the Witch of Endor as a source for information and it was the last straw to cause his ouster as king (I Sam. 28). But the nation wasn‘t hurt by it. David had his bouts with lust, adultery and murder, and again, the nation wasn‘t hurt too badly by it. Solomon, in spite of his over-sexuality and heavy taxation that made him rich, was blessed by the LORD. Rehoboam and Jeraboam abused their positions more, and the nation was just beginning to hurt from a spiritual standpoint by those abuses. What was going on to determine the future and downfall of each nation (Judah and Israel) were the things on the list—child sacrifice, idolatry, witchcraft, necromancy and such like. As the people began to practice these things and the king usually went right along with the people (if he wasn‘t in the lead!), then the nation began to suffer. King Jehoshaphat cleaned out the places of idolatry and had put an end to these abominations. And he and the nation were blessed for it. But it would be only a generation or two before the whole process of unfaithfulness started again. 44 One of the last kings of Judah was Josiah. He accidentally found a copy of the law and saw how far afield of God‘s ways the nation had come. He repented and led the nation to repent, much like Jehoshaphat had done. Josiah led the people to hold a Passover Feast like none before since leaving Egypt. There seemed to be a real sense of renewal in the LORD. But the LORD knew better. He promised that Josiah would not see the nation turn away from the LORD again. And he didn‘t. Josiah died in battle not long after that Passover and the nation went right back to their sinful ways and almost as quickly into captivity. Chapter Seventeen The Crux of the Matter Why am I bringing all this to your attention? There is one hangnail on this calculation of the situation of that the United States is in that puts the United States in real danger. Does the U. S have witchcraft and fortune tellers? In almost every newspaper in America you may find and read the horoscope. Palm readers thrive across the nation. All sorts of prophets abound, most of them false. Spiritualists con their art in tight circles in every large city. Can God not forgive all these things? Yes, He can. Will He? Maybe. Probably. But there is still one thing that the culture in America has adopted that God said He would not forgive. II Kings 24: 4 says He will not pardon the shedding of innocent blood. Regardless of the number of doctors, judges and philosophers who say life doesn‘t start until some point after conception, the fact remains that even a zygote is alive. If it were not alive, abortion would not have to kill it—regardless of whether it is a zygote, embryo or fetus. The resultant murder of that life is something that the LORD will not forgive on a national level. An Aside: There are several points that can be made to indicate the similarities between child-sacrifice to Moloch and modern abortion. Some have already been alluded to when discussing materialism and the abandoning of a child or children to day care or babysitters. The parent is abrogating her or his responsibility to the nurture, love, bonding, education and socialization of the child in favor of “things.” “Things” has then taken over the role of something sacrificed to or for, an idol, whether materialism, drugs, alcohol or any other escape. When someone believes the Liberal position that life doesn’t start until some vague point of time while the fetus is changing his or her shape into a recognizable human being and terminates that life, God’s plan has been tampered with. God has made it clear that at least some lives were viewed as individuals before their birth. He told Rebekah that there were two nations within her as she carried Isaac and Esau before their birth (Genesis25: 20-24). 45 20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah for a wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister of Laban the Syrian. 21 And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it be so, why am I thus?" And she went to inquire of the LORD. 23 And the LORD said unto her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from your body; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people, and the elder shall serve the younger." 24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. There is no indication here at what stage of development the children were in, but it was evidently well before their delivery. John Baptist was only six month older than Jesus. Right after Jesus was conceived, Mary went to visit Elizabeth. Upon seeing Mary, newly pregnant with Jesus, John recognized Him and leaped within Elizabeth’s womb. Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and she identified Mary and the fruit of her womb. According to Scripture Jesus was born just like the rest of us except for the miraculous conception. That means that anyone is an individual within a couple of days of conception. John was in his sixth month of development and had the good sense to recognize the Messiah when the Messiah was only a day or two at most after conception. Where does that put the idea that human life begins in the second or third trimester of fetal development? It puts the concept into the light as ridiculous, where it should have been all along! 39 ¶ And Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah, 40 and entered into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth. 41 And it came to pass, when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, that the babe [John] leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 And she spoke out with a loud voice and said, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb [Jesus]. 43 And why is it granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 For lo, as soon as the voice of your salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. This may be new to some readers, but God doesn’t make any distinction between the great and the small. That is, He made known to Rebekah that her children would become nations and that the elder would serve the younger. He also made known to Zacharias, John’s father, and in all probability Elizabeth as well, that John was going to be a special someone, too. Others in Scripture were prophesied of prior to their birth, not just these. Because God is no respecter of persons, if He plans for one, He plans for another whether He makes it known to someone or not. So it is logical that if someone had 46 terminated Isaac, Esau, John or Jesus by an abortion, or as a sacrifice to Moloch, God’s plan would have been aborted also. Human beings do not have that right! Individuals who have had abortions may come to the LORD through the Grace of Jesus and receive eternal life, become a new creation in Him and thus be forgiven of the sin of abortion (and any and all other sins). However, as long as the abortion rights are upheld by the laws of this land, this land is in trouble in the sight of the LORD. Chapter Eighteen Why We May Win? This war is a battle on two levels: Personal as every believer engages the enemy on a daily basis; and National as the Body of Believers engages the enemy on a worldwide basis. There are abundant Scriptures that indicate our personal and individual success and victory. Some of the verses are in the upcoming section on Actually Winning. We have also seen reasons that the Father may not allow the U. S. to win this war from the terrorists—corruption, vice, materialism, worldliness, idolatry and especially abortion. But there is still another side to this coin. How can God allow the likes of such hate-mongers as Communists, Muslim and Liberals to win anything? The one hang-up that would cause the Father to close down the U. S as we know it would also tip the scales away from our opponents. Abortion. Yes, abortion. The Communists from time to time have practiced genocide, and it is from the Liberal/Socialist Communism that the concept of abortion that rights have sprung. So the Communists have no real claim to civility regarding life, especially the lives of the unborn. However, although the Communists are still a threat, they are not the threat the Muslims are right now. But, do the Muslims practice abortion? In their own special way, you bet they do! Here‘s how. A woman gives birth. She and sire teach the kid ―HATE!‖ They send the kid to school and there he or she learns ―HATE!‖ They take him or her to mosque where he or she gets lessons in ―HATE!‖ The kid socializes with other kids who practice and play ―HATE!‖ Their political leaders lure the kid from birth woman and sire to go perpetrate ―HATE!‖ on some Jew or American (or someone else handy!) and voila! Suicide/homicide bomber! The kid could be in his or her twenties in years, but destined from and by birth woman and sire, mosque, school and culture for abortion. Chapter Nineteen Actually Winning There is no doubt that we believers will have our victory over all three of these evil fronts, Islam, Communism and Liberalism. We have our personal promises of life 47 and victory abundantly in Scriptures. The book of Romans alone has sufficient Word to keep us from doubting: 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: "For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. This passage (and many others) indicates the Father‘s relationship of love with us as believers is above conquest. There should be no doubt that we are more than conquerors and no fray from the enemy will do us harm. Look at the so-called separators: Tribulation, Distress, Nakedness, Peril or Sword. These comprise many of life‘s most stressful problems. These are prevalent in the lives of the lost. Trials, hopelessness, hardship, poverty, crimes and war take many lives prematurely. But not ours because even if we die, we win! And examine the list of devises that cannot separate us from God‘s love: Death, or Life, two contradicting and ultimately unavoidable entities in everyone‘s experience. Principalities and Powers, the enemy‘s own or heaven‘s own spiritual authorities cannot do any harm to us either. The list goes on with other extreme examples that exclude everything between them: Present circumstances or future ones; high or low factors, or any creature not otherwise on the extreme lists! So, individually, believers are on the inside looking out. The world can serve what it will to the public at large, but we are out of the weather and out of harm‘s way. Regarding the rest of the United States and her people, there is room for some anxiety. That portion of our populace who are Liberal is certainly in for a shock if they do not alter their course of life. This is one of the fronts that believers need to intercede about—not only out-voting liberalism, but reaching the Liberals with the Truth. There may yet be hope for the general public and America as we know it. II Chronicles 7:14 says, ―If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.‖ This nation is often referred to as a Christian Nation, which means that we as a populace could be considered to be called by God‘s Name. Poles indicate that many still consider God as important to their lives. So it follows that the promise pertains to those who acknowledge God and who will call out to Him for salvation for themselves and the nation. Even for this to happen on a large scale may not save the country, but it will sure save those individuals who hear and respond to God‘s call! Not only are you to humble yourself and pray, you are to seek His Face. This part is accomplished when you call on Jesus to save you. Turning from your wicked ways (idolatry, child sacrifice) is the last 48 step to prepare to prepare. If enough people will do this (get saved, and get involved with the Lord of their salvation) America as a nation can yet be saved. The one thing that everyone over the age of 18 years can and should do: Vote out liberalism—Democrat, Green or Republican—the supporter of child sacrifice, gluttony for power, lying and deceit, promoter of idolatry. Get these people out of political office whether President, Representative, Senator, federal or state, judges or elected official, get them out of government. They are all the enemies of decent and honest people. It takes time to study the issues and to figure out how the candidates relate to those issues. Voting records, rhetoric and debates must be carefully examined in order to see if the promises are genuine or smoke screens. Candidates who flip-flop or are vague on the issues cannot be trusted because most likely a large part of their stance is based on lies. Many choices come down to the choices between someone evil and someone more evil. Vote your best in a case like that. Chapter Twenty ―My People,‖ Paul and the Enemy There is a surprising parallel between the position of Jehoshaphat (although he was a king but servant of the Lord) and the believer (the Lord‘s son or daughter who is in fellowship with the Father) who is about to go into a spiritual battle as described in what Paul wrote about our warfare in Ephesians. Paul reaches the bone of the matter for our discussion in chapter six, verse ten. You, the Believer, are to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Paul has spent the lion share of Ephesians in preparing the individual for donning the full armor of God. We must stand against the wiles of the devil, and for this composition that means the Muslims, Communism, and Liberalism. That means we are to engage the enemies on the level of their origin rather than on the level of their manifestation. In the prophecies in Scripture, Daniel and John both report seeing visions of the multi-headed, multi-horned creatures with wings, toothy mouths, and the like (Dan. 7:4, 5, 6, 7 & 8; Dan. 8; Dan 11: 40; Rev. 4:12; Rev 13 and 14). When these creatures did their various activities in their realms, human experience changed on earth, new governments and new psychological attitudes and sociological patterns evolved and life on earth changed, usually for the worse. These visions and their subjects were much alike even though separated by several centuries. Why? Daniel and John saw creatures that were not figments of their imaginations. They were insights into the spiritual realm where such creatures were manifested, and these resembled the cultures and events on earth because they caused them. The hate generated from these Muslim, Communist and Liberal enemies of ours is not solely from the human heart. This hate is originated from spiritual forces that are determined to snuff out the knowledge of God, His Son and the message of hope and 49 salvation by Them. The hate is generated by these unseen spiritual forces described by Daniel and John. The reason the hate exudes from the hearts of the Muslims, Communists and Liberals is because these satanic spirits live and thrive in those hearts. That is why the spiritual forces must be bound up and cast out. Otherwise someone will have to die— us or them! This is why this is a spiritual war. Chapter Twenty-one The Spiritual Enemy The spiritual war with its spiritual blindness and deafness on the one side and its obvious truth and power on the other can be successfully dealt with on a spiritual level only. Reason falls on deaf ears, truth is unobserved by blind eyes, concessions only strengthen the enemy and the outpouring of Liberal lies only obscure real means and delay any resolution of conflicts. Are we to understand our enemy as the Liberals have so long desired? Yes, absolutely, but to understand them on a spiritual level and face the fact that Liberals are the enemy as much as Communism and Islam are. None of these factions can be bargained with, or compromised with or appeased—they must be defeated. Paul revealed the strategic formation of the Enemy in Ephesians 6: 12: 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Notice the four levels of Satan‘s force (hereafter the Four): Principalities (domain of rulers, of which Satan is chief prince); Powers (or Authorities); World Rulers of Darkness (Regional Rulers that carry out the plans and desires of those rulers over them); and Spiritual Wickedness in High Places (in the Greek text, simply put ―Spirituals‖). Satan is not mentioned here because he is already dispatched. Jesus took care of him and all we need to do is rely on what Christ has already done for our victory. That is another whole topic unto itself. Paul doesn‘t mention demons, either, much for the same reason. We have been given full authority over them and to expect us to go to war with minute beings that we are supposed to dominate completely already is redundant. Each believer is supposed to 50 have already removed any demon that is in his way. Those four levels of the satanic kingdom are what Paul was talking about in the call to wrestle against in Ephesians. Paul is specifically instructing us to engage the enemy, the Four. He further instructs us to prepare for the encounter. Once we do that, the actual battle will follow, and so will our victory as the Holy Spirit leads. Satan himself is called the ―god of this world‖ (II Corinthians 4:4), and Prince of the Power of the Air (Ephesians 2:2). What other principalities he has assigned to other evil spirits is open for discussion. We know the Scriptures mention the Prince of Persia that wrestled against the angel Michael (Daniel 10:13). There are many other princes mentioned in both Ezekiel and Daniel that are spiritual beings rather than earthly royalty. The Prince of Persia, for instance, has always had sway in that part of the world. He uses the same tactics now as he did thousands of years ago. Nothing much has changed—a little modernization, but the same old religious and cultural bondage of darkness remain. This is one of the dudes Paul told us to wrestle against. The boundaries between the territories and duties of these Principalities are vague, and could shift considerably geographically. The boundaries are not even necessarily geographical, but more religious, political and cultural conditions, attitudes and philosophies. The Powers level comprises of those evil spirits that enforce the dogmas and commands of the princes. No doubt these are the ones responsible for mass political and religious movements, demonstrations and attitudes. This is also the realm most likely responsible for poverty, ignorance, superstition, the application and administration of mass hate and attitudes linked to these conditions. For instance, Nazism in Germany was soundly defeated in WWII half century ago, but the Nazi Power was not at that time obliterated. Hence, Neo-Nazism is raising its ugly head again in Germany. That is yet another reason for the German hatred of the Americans. Those evil world leaders that admired Nazism (Edi Amin and Saddam Hussein, for instance) turned out to be as despicable as Hitler was in their own evil way. World Rulers are the manipulators of parties and groups of people, and possibly these are the ones responsible for natural disasters (floods, earthquakes, drought, pests, etc.). In spite of the ending of Communism in the USSR, and the government in Russia, the Russian people still cannot learn to prosper for the most part. Its World Ruler keeps a lid on any success of the people. That needs to change. The people need the liberty to hear and receive the Gospel and live in His prosperity. Spiritual Wickedness in High Places covers the rest of the range—from deceiving groups of people to afflictions by demons in people‘s lives. Did you ever hear of an area where injustice or crime is embraced by local politicians and others in authority, civil or economic, then to have it all corrected by outside forces, just to have it happen over and over again? A crooked police force cannot be straightened out by merely replacing the personnel involved. The Wickedness in High Places simply recruits more dishonest policemen. Most likely these layers of Satan‘s force overlap, sometimes allowing Powers to deal with individuals and local issues. This would account for parties and groups to be so readily swayed into a course of error. 51 It isn‘t all that important on how the duties and responsibilities are divided. But the point is to realize that these spiritual entities exist. That is why Paul said we are to wrestle against them. Chapter Twenty-two Readying for the War Paul said that we are to wrestle against the enemy on every spiritual level (not flesh and blood): Principalities, Powers, Rulers of Darkness, and Spiritual Wickedness in High Places. People are not the enemy. The enemies are the spiritual forces that are urging, using and abusing the people. 10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Paul instructed us to don the armor: Truth on your loins, Breastplate of Righteousness on your chest, Feet wearing the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace, Clutching high the Shield of Faith, Helmet of Salvation on the head, The Sword of the Spirit (Word of God), Prayer on the Lips, And Alertness 13 Therefore, take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and, having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girded about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace. 16 Above all, take the shield of faith, wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. Paul warns us in verse 13: Put on the whole armor (not only a part of it) so that we may be able to withstand and to stand (as victors!). That means we will be attacked in 52 retaliation when we launch our attack on the enemy. So when you get involved, and you must, expect that the enemy will seek to exploit a weak spot in you. When he looks for a weak spot, disappoint him. Put on the whole armor! Your middle, your soft tissue areas, is to be protected by ―Truth‖—the truth of God‘s Word. You are to feed daily on the Word, learning it, trusting it, meditating on it, allowing the Truth to guide your attitudes and thought processes. Your chest and heart areas are to be protected by the Breastplate of Righteousness, which is personified in you by the Person of Jesus Christ, Who is your righteousness and thus you become the Righteousness of God in Him. Don the Shoes of the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace. This empowers you to go anywhere at any time and to launch an attack on the enemy by delivering the Gospel of Peace to the people under the domination of the spiritual force you are attacking. You may delegate messengers to present the Word of Life by Jesus Christ to these people and that will set them free of that spiritual force, their former master. At the Name of Jesus every knee will bow, and your insistence on the delivery of the Word to the people has to be met. You may not go physically, but you can certainly go spiritually! And the damage to the enemy that you can do will astound you. Hold high the Shield of Faith to defuse the threats, accusations and abuses of the enemy. This is an aspect of the Word of God, not only to know the Truth, but to be able to warfare in the Truth, knowing that greater is He Who is in you that he who is in the world. There are many Scriptures to let you to know that nothing the enemy can do to you and yours can touch you. This topic is voluminous so will be limited to just this. Your faith and its shield is based on what God has said to and about you, who you are in Him, and what you can be, what you can have and what you can do. Put on the Helmet of Salvation which is the part of you that actually engages the Word of God in your life. The head suggests the center of activity—thus led by your recreated spirit to a path of conquest over sin, sickness and the world—and in this case over our enemies as well. In close connection with the Helmet of Salvation is the use of the Sword of the Spirit, which is yet another aspect of God‘s Word. This is the first of the armor that suggests activity rather than protection. So the Word of God not only protects you, but now you are empowered to apply its point to the enemy. James said to resist the enemy and he would flee in terror from you. This is the instrument that makes that feasible! The Word of God gives you authority over every phase of the enemy. Use it! Finally Paul mentions prayer specifically. The whole warfare is done through avenues of prayer. To blindly pray a general prayer to bless a people because they are not our enemy is not wise, lacking any sign of sufficiency. Coming up, you will see points made on how Jesus prayed in His combat against the animate and inanimate. He is the One Whose model we follow. Chapter Twenty-three 53 A Look at the Status I want to show you one thing that is so obvious that only the most un-astute would overlook it. This needs to be verbalized plainly so that there is no misunderstanding. The main war from Islam is directed at Jehovah. The main instigator is Satan. That‘s simple, so far! Satan snowed Mohammad into thinking that the messages he heard came from God. Mohammad believed it, so Satan called his messenger Allah. The only way these followers of Allah can attack Jehovah is through His people—the Jews (for Abraham‘s benefit) and Christians, God‘s children. There is little friction between Islam and the European Union. The EU has capitulated because they (for the most part) do not know a real living God. The most broadcast outspoken hate is aimed at Christians and Jews. If Buddhists, Hindus or less violent Muslims get in their way to control a given area, the hate is re-directed for the area and for the given problem. The main reason the U. S. and Jews are hated is because of Jehovah being our principle God. Because Jehovah is a loving God, and we are following Him to show His love and light to the world, the lost world is threatened by the fact that the temporal governments could fall and their leaders would no longer be leaders. Aggression would cease. That is why these world leaders portray the U. S. as threatening, villainous and evil to the peoples of the world. Chapter Twenty-four The Nature of God and His Ordinances and Warfare Everyone who knows anything of God knows that He is Spirit. The Father, as Spirit, speaks to us through our spirits, thus making His Word a spiritual message. So, just to make sure everyone is up to speed on this topic, Paul‘s message about spiritual warfare is a spiritual message. Everything Paul has said to do, one does in the spirit. You and I will never see the helmet of salvation, the shield of faith, nor the sword of the spirit. Even though the sword of the spirit is the Word of God, and all of us have Bibles, the Word of God, as Paul means it, is not synonymous with the Bible. The Bible contains the sword of the spirit, but the two are different. The cold hard facts show us that the church that Paul addresses and the church seen with our eyes are two different entities. The church Paul mentions is the Body of Christ, the victorious, universally united people of God, some of whom may be members of the visible church, who have become members of His body through regeneration by faith through grace, redeemed by His blood and possessors of eternal life. The church that we see is a pitiful, split, fragmented assortment of bodies, each claiming by unwritten documentation to have an almost unique monopoly on the truth of God‘s Word, God‘s blessing, and God‘s Own means to the end. Some of late have abandoned the written Word of God in preference to their own foolish ideas of social advancement and acceptance. Some groups are forsaking the written Word in deference to the roles of so-called prophets and apostles. What folly! 54 No one should set aside the Word of God for any reason—not even, indeed especially, at the word of some prophet or apostle! Keep the Word of God before you in all things and if there is something not clear, use your recreated spirit and glean out the spiritual truths by the Holy Spirit. The reason for the seen church‘s condition is due to the fact of the spirituality of God‘s Word in the first place. While many people will admit that regeneration or salvation (if they believe in it) is spiritual, most folks do not realize that the ordinances of the church are spiritual, too. Baptism is spiritual—not being a mere dunking or sprinkling of a believer combined with a formula of words. Of course the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is completely spiritual, just as salvation is, but many people who may believe in salvation do not accept the baptism in the Holy Spirit as something valid for today. Baptism in water is spiritual because it engages water‘s position as witness to the believer‘s identity in Christ on earth (I John 5: 8). Communion (the Lord‘s Supper) is also spiritual, the bread and fruit of the vine neither being only symbolic of the Lord‘s body and His blood, nor becoming physically His body and His blood. The bread and the fruit of the vine are His body and His blood spiritually, thus having full effect on the spirit of the believer who partakes. Church membership, too, is spiritual. No signing of a document or a church register will join you to the church. It may join you to a seen church, but only the Father can join you to the real church, Christ‘s Body. Because the Word and Its message is spiritual and most everyone in the seen church tries to understand it with the natural mind, splits and confusion become predominate—churches on every corner seemingly, all vying with each other for position in the community. Having said all this, we look again at what Paul wrote in Ephesians six. We are to acknowledge our power and might in the Lord by the spirit. We are to don the whole armor of God in the spirit. And thus, we will be able to stand in the spirit against the wiles of our enemy. 10 ¶ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. We are to wrestle against those spiritual forces of the enemy at all levels. All of these actions are spiritual. That is why Paul does not tell you exactly how to wrestle against those forces. The fact that nowhere in Scripture will anyone find an exact formula on how to baptize, how to hold a communion service, or how to get someone membership into the church reinforces my contention that baptism, communion and church membership are all spiritual activities. So too is the wrestling against the Four. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. We are not wrestling against people. The people of Islam, the populace under the rule of Communism and the general public who support Liberalism are not the enemies. We are to out-vote the latter, but to wish them direct harm or death is not a valid way to 55 attack them. We attack these forces mostly by opening the eyes and ears of the populace to the identity of the spiritual enemies and loosing their ability to respond to the Word of Life that we send to them spiritually. How then do you wrestle against these forces? Paul doesn‘t tell you here. The warfare is spiritual and Paul is not specific in his instruction on ―How.‖ This puts the responsibility squarely on the Holy Spirit and the believer‘s relationship with Him to show and tell how to wrestle. There are several ways of doing it. Paul only mentions that he wants you to pray for him. Obviously the wrestling comes in some sort of prayer. We call it intercession, and some call it combative prayer (or simply spiritual warfare). No matter what you call it, it has to be a prayer in your recreated spirit as guided by the Holy Spirit. That is why there has to be the preparation for the combat. Again, this is the reason for the blessing of being able to pray in the spirit in unknown tongues (Jude 20). When we engage the unseen enemy, only the Holy Spirit can guide us because only He knows where the enemy is and what he is up to. 13 Therefore, take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and, having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girded about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace. 16 Above all, take the shield of faith, wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. Here is the list again: Truth on your loins, Breastplate of Righteousness on your chest, Feet wearing the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace, Clutching high the Shield of Faith, Helmet of Salvation on the head, The Sword of the Spirit (Word of God), Prayer on the Lips, And Alertness Your Loins, your vital psychological self, are to be engulfed and fortified with Truth, God‘s Word. Your Viscera, the spiritual vital health and life support organs, are to be protected by Breastplate of Righteousness, Christ being our Righteousness, making us the very personification of the Righteousness of God in Christ. Your Feet are to be shod with the spiritual Word of the Gospel of Peace, even when you are barefoot physically. Thus you are universally mobile to intercede anywhere, any time, to anyone, in any language by the Holy Spirit. You are to use the Shield of Faith batting away the lies and accusations of the charges against you, your Lord, and your faith in Him from the enemy. Faith is believing beyond doubt what God has said—again, the living relationship with the Word of God. 56 You are to know who and what you are in your spiritual head where it is protected by the Helmet of Salvation. Having donned the Helmet of Salvation, you are receptive to spiritual revelations that are needed in your ministry and warfare. You are to wield the Word of God as a great spiritual sword, pushing back the enemy, and his control of circumstances that trap people in ignorance, corruption, disgrace, filth, sin, sickness and poverty. You are to pray using all kinds of prayer—spiritual warfare, visitation, intercession, supplication, praise, and worship. You are to be alert, aware of what is taking place around you, your immediate surroundings and the world, economic and political current topics, as well as the spiritual realm, with the warfare and spiritual needs of various parties. These are the reasons Paul said we are more than conquerors. If we do not get involved, how can we conquer? The Father has given you the wherewithal to prepare for the battle, and has assured you of the victory, all you need to do is as He has instructed. Chapter Twenty-five Jesus as Combatant Against the Enemy Jesus, above all others, understood the nature of the spirit world. How did He wrestle and overcome the enemy? By merely speaking to him (them), He in His divine authority, spoke and everyone listened, and obeyed. Furthermore, He commissioned us to use His Name and He extended through us His authority. In Matthew 18 Jesus spoke these words to His disciples: ―Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.‖ Jesus‘ adventure in the wilderness when He was fasting and contending with Satan should shed some light on the spirit realm as we know it today, as well as how to combat the enemy. Notice that Jesus spoke directly to the enemy. When Satan challenged Jesus on some point, Jesus did not point, jump, yell, threaten or wave His arms—He spoke. When He spoke, He used His Father‘s Word and Its authority to validate His message. He didn‘t name-drop, use psychology, use sophisticated logic—He simply quoted to the enemy what God‘s Word said about the topic. There is no indication that either Jesus or Satan had any emotions involved with their confrontation. Matthew 4: 1-11: 1 ¶ Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He afterward hungered. 3 And when the tempter came to Him, he said, "If You be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread." 4 But He answered and said, "It is written: `Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" 5 Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, and set Him on a pinnacle of the temple, and 57 6 said unto Him, "If You be the Son of God, cast yourself down. For it is written: `He shall give His angels charge concerning you; and in their hands they shall bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.'" 7 Jesus said unto him, "It is written again: `You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'" 8 Again, the devil took Him up onto an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, 9 and said unto Him, "All these things will I give you if you will fall down and worship me." 10 Then said Jesus unto him, "Get you hence, Satan! For it is written: `You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.'" 11 Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered unto Him. First, according to Luke‘s account of this event (Luke 4), Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit, just as you and I are to be. He was led by the spirit (Jesus‘ recreated spirit) into the wilderness. Second, we know the Word and how to use it, not being led astray by errant verses and applying the Word to situations as warranted by the circumstances and the leading of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was there without eating for forty days. It was at that time when Jesus was hungry that Satan sought to try Him with the idea of food—and a subtle test of His identity. ―If you be the Son of God, turn the stones into bread.‖ Matthew‘s version of the event is a little different than Luke‘s (different sequence of temptations, and an addition on the ending). So we look at Matthew 4: 3, 4: 3 And when the tempter came to Him, he said, "If you be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread." Jesus presented the way to war against the enemy by using the pattern of the Word: ―It is written . . .‖ and He put Satan away the first time. 4 But He answered and said, "It is written: `Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" It isn‘t too hard to see the message Jesus was presenting to the enemy. ―I am Who I say I am, and that is the Living Word of God. And as the Living Word of God, I am the means whereby men may have true life.‖ Satan didn‘t like the message and tried the trickery of self-destruction. This is a common means used by Liberals today, getting someone to commit political (or actual) suicide. 5 Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, and set Him on a pinnacle of the temple, and 6 said to Him, "If you be the Son of God, cast yourself down. For it is written: `He shall give His angels charge concerning you; and in their hands they shall bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.'" 7 Jesus said to him, "It is written again: `You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'" Again, there was the not-so-subtle challenge to Jesus‘ identity, adding Scripture this time to increase the temptation. Jesus saw through the ploy and smacked Satan again with another Scripture: ―You shall not tempt the Lord your God.‖ This further identified the enemy that he was not God indeed; Jehovah was still Lord! 58 Satan took Jesus to a high mountain and displayed the kingdoms of the world. Satan offered Jesus all the power (or authority) of these kingdoms and their glory if He would worship him. 8 Again, the devil took Him up onto an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, 9 and said to Him, "All these things will I give you if you will fall down and worship me." Now this was insulting, but Jesus never let on. Jesus, the King of Glory in fact, was here on a mission and Satan offered Him what already belonged to Jesus in fact and the glory of it all (and the glory being mostly negative because of all the worldliness, vice, sin and corruption in those kingdoms) if Jesus would do Satan‘s bidding. What a deal! Jesus could have what He already owned, purge it, and rule it if He would stoop to such a demeaning and revolting act! Satan really must have been self-duped to come up with such nonsense. (Sounds like Satan was thinking like a Liberal. Furthermore, Satan must have hoped Jesus was thinking like a Liberal, too!) Maybe Jesus did let on, after all. He did tell Satan where to go, but He was polite in it! And the trump once again was the Word: It is written. 10 Then said Jesus to him, "Get you hence, Satan! For it is written: `You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.'" 11 Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered unto Him. This pattern of warfare is valid daily for every believer because Satan or a demon (and often more than one) continually tempts us. First, as Jesus did, know who we are in Him. We are members of His body. We are one with Him in spirit. We know this for a fact and we act on it. Jesus continued to use His Verbal authority in His ministry. He cast out demons by speaking to them while healing various people (Matt. 8:16; Mark 1: 34). He also exercised His authority over nature. He cursed an unproductive fig tree and extended the use of His authority to His disciples. 18 ¶ Now in the morning as He returned into the city, He hungered. 19 And when He saw a fig tree by the wayside, He came to it and found nothing thereon, but leaves only. And He said to it, "Let no fruit grow on you henceforward for ever." And immediately the fig tree withered away. 20 And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How soon has the fig tree withered away!" 21 Jesus answered and said to them, "Verily I say unto you, if you have faith and doubt not, you shall not only do this that is done to the fig tree, but also if you shall say unto this mountain, `Be you removed and be you cast into the sea,' it shall be done. 22 And all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive." Mark 11 also corroborates this event. There is a mention that the tree‘s withering worked from the roots upward. In other words, the roots died first and the evidence that the tree was dead started in the roots. When Jesus continued talking, relating the manifestation of authority over a single tree to a mountain being cast into the sea, He stipulated the need of faith with the absence of doubt. In typology, mountains and hills refer to nations, authorities, cultures, rules, 59 kingdoms, generations or communities. There are several Scriptures that personify Mountains to a point of being spoken to and prophesied about as if they were somebody—people or God (Ps. 72: 3; 114: 4; Isa. 2: 3,4; 40: 4; 52: 7; 55: 12; Eze. 36: 1; Dan. 2: 35, 44, 45; Rev. 17: 9-11; and others). An Aside on Faith: Because we are children of God by faith, faith is our recreated nature. Doubt is of the enemy. So our having faith is not the question. The question is whether we use our faith or not. Let me point out one thing to you, if you are one who doubts that you have faith. When you first heard about Jesus, that He was crucified, died, rose from the dead, conquered death, hell and the grave, and He offered you free salvation as a gift, and you believed that enough that you accepted Him as your Savior and committed your life to Him, that took as much faith on your part as it took for the Father to create the worlds by Jesus, and Jesus to have the faith to come and make His sacrifice for you. You see, the faith itself came from the Lord, and for you to say you have limited faith is saying Jesus and the Father have limited faith. That’s why the unsaved man who needed healing for his son asked Jesus to help his unbelief (Mark 9: 14-29). You are saved. You have faith. You have the faith of Jesus by the Father through the Holy Spirit Who indwells you. It is all one big lump of faith that pervades the spirit by which we are the body of Christ! So look at II Corinthians 10: 1 ¶ Now I, Paul, myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ--I, who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you-2 I beseech you that when I am present I need not be bold with that confidence with which I have in mind to be bold against some, who think of us as though we walked according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds, 5 casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ, 6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. Paul is pointing out once more that we are not fighting a fleshly battle, but a war in the spirit. The weapons of our warfare are not merely spiritual, but they are mighty— powerful, all-conquering. They are strong enough to pull down the strongholds of Satan. And according to what Jesus said, it doesn‘t matter if the stronghold is a single nonproducing fig tree or a jungle covered mountain of evil society! So then when we come against a group or culture that is contrary to God—any size or shape, we have the weapons, authority and power to cast that group down. It is up to us then to engage the enemy when we see and recognize him, or them. Jesus spoke directly to Satan, calling him by name. Satan had to obey Jesus‘ command. He had spoken directly to the tree and it had to obey His command. Matthew 8:23-27 documents that He rebuked the winds and the sea to calm a storm. He spoke to 60 the leper commanding him to be clean and the leprosy had to leave the man (Matt. 8:3, 4). All of these had to obey His command, from Satan himself to the leprosy, to the winds and sea, to a mountain, or to the tree. And he has to obey our command in Jesus‘ Name as well. Look at the 14th through 16th chapters of John. Fourteen, verses 12, and 13: 12 ¶ Verily, verily I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he shall do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to My Father. 13 And whatever you shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. For the word ―ask‖ in verse 13, remember that it means ―demand,‖ like demanding money when cashing a check. That‘s why He stipulated the use of His Name, suggesting a signature of authorization. The demand is not necessarily addressed to anyone in particular—not the Father, for Him to do; not to Jesus, for Him to do. The demand comes in the Name of Jesus to any addressee, whether person or thing, singular or plural. John chapter 15, verse seven and eight: 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 Herein is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be My disciples. If you are Christ‘s, and if His Word lives within you, whatever you ask will be done. This is important because this is the means whereby anyone can develop real and thriving faith: Implant the Word within you. First, realize that by being regenerated by faith (being saved at all) comes by the use of faith. But even being born again is by God‘s Word (I Peter 1: 23). You learn to depend on and thrive on the promises of God by meditating on them as alludes to in the 119th Psalm and Joshua 1: 8. This topic is a Bible lesson itself and I won‘t go further with it right now. Back to John, this time at chapter 16, verses 23 through 27: 23 ¶ And in that day you shall ask Me nothing. Verily, verily I say to you, whatever you shall ask the Father in My name, He will give it to you. 24 Hitherto you have asked nothing in My name. Ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full. 25 "These things have I spoken to you in proverbs; but the time comes when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father. 26 In that day you shall ask in My name, and I say not unto you that I will pray the Father for you; 27 for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came out from God. Here Jesus not only engages His Name in the affairs of our demands in prayer, but He is putting the Father in it, too. He is saying that when you ask or demand in Jesus‘ Name, the Father Himself is backing up the claim. Even if we could run Jesus‘ bank account dry, the Father will make up the balance! That amounts to some kind of prayer power! 61 A check from a bank account can be made out for any amount in the account and paid to the payee on the check. The check must be signed by the person who owns the bank account. Jesus is the signer on the check and there is no limit on the amount in the account. Now the Father Himself is guaranteeing the payout. Jesus has given us the authority to use His Name. When we use the Name of Jesus whether addressing a demon, Satan, any of the Four, or a mountain, those beings must obey. James said to resist the enemy and he would flee from you (James 4: 7). He didn‘t elaborate the point, but it is clearly our duty to resist the enemy. Chapter Twenty-six The World of Spirits In the prophecies of Daniel and John there are direct allusions to the forces in the spirit world. Daniel refers to the Prince of Persia, Kings of the North and South, and the struggle between factions in the spirit realm (Dan. 7: 17, 24; 8:20; 11:5 and Rev. 16: 12; and 17:12). Some teach that these kings of the north and south of Daniel are natural kingdoms, but if you examine the Scriptures closely you will find that believing that is quite a stretch of the imagination. At one point God‘s messenger to Daniel was delayed three weeks because of the conflict between the messenger and the Prince of Persia (Dan. 10: 10-14). In Daniel‘s prophecies he mentions wars between the kings of the North and South. These two are spiritual kings in Satan‘s domain, just as the Prince of Persia is a member of his domain. I point out these things to you to let you know that there are spiritual beings with which we are involved whether we want to be or not and whether we know it or not. They are there! Chapter Twenty-seven The Spiritual Condition of Man Isaiah prophesied that the people in Israel would see a great light. That light was Jesus. How did these people see Jesus? They had to have seen Him with spiritual eyes. No they were not yet born again, but their spirits were evidently conscious enough to see. (Death does not mean non-existent: It means separated.) Many saw that great light. Jesus referred to those who did not see Him as having eyes, they did not see and having ears, they did not hear (Mark 8: 18). 62 In Revelation, John accused whole churches of being out of touch with themselves because they were dead, wretched, miserable, poor, naked and blind (Rev. 3: 1; 17). You see, there are spiritual conditions today of people who are functioning physically, but are not at all in the same spiritual shape that the body appears to be in. What can be done for these who have eyes and ears that do not do their jobs? These folks are dead—spiritually dead. What to do? Wake them! The greater work than Jesus did that we are to do involves everything that Christ did. That includes raising the dead. Paul refers to awakening the dead (Eph. 5: 14). Who besides the believers can do that? Therefore he says: "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light." Jesus has commissioned us to do these greater works than He did, and He displayed how to go about it. We do as He did. We speak to trees, to mountains, to storms. We heal blind eyes and stopped up ears—we speak to dead people and awaken them to the Gospel. When we speak to mountains, as indicated earlier, we speak to nations and factions of people. So we should awaken nations of people to alert them of salvation by Christ. This is in addition to warring against the enemy of the Four. Chapter Twenty-eight Assurance of the Status Quo In II Kings chapter six there is a documentation of military spying, as well as revelation of spiritual international activities. The situation centers around the prophet Elisha. It seems that the LORD was allowing Elisha to know what was going on in the King of Syria‘s planning sessions. Verse ten indicates it was a habitual thing. II Kings: 6: 8 ¶ Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, "In such and such a place shall be my camp." 9 And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, "Beware that you pass not such a place, for thither the Syrians are coming down." 10 And the king of Israel sent to the place of which the man of God told him and warned him, and saved himself there, not once nor twice. The King of Syria thought there was a spy and inquired about it. Someone told the King about Elisha. The king didn‘t like the prospect of having someone know his secrets, and he wanted to know where Elisha was. It was told him where he was. So the King delegated a force to go get Elisha. 63 11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled by this thing; and he called his servants and said unto them, "Will you not show me which of us is for the king of Israel?" 12 And one of his servants said, "None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber." 13 And he said, "Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him." And it was told him, saying, "Behold, he is in Dothan." 14 Therefore sent he thither horses and chariots and a great host, and they came by night and compassed the city about. Typical of the enemy, the King of Syria‘s force surrounded Elisha in the dark of night. Elisha‘s servant woke the next morning and reached for the panic button! Elisha tried to calm his servant down. "Fear not, for they that are with us are more than they that are with them." No doubt the servant thought, ―Us two against all of them? Elisha can‘t count for beans!‖ There is no record of what the servant felt or thought, but whatever he said or felt led Elisha to pray for him. "LORD, I pray You, open his eyes, that he may see." When the servant saw, he saw indeed! The LORD opened his eyes to the wonders of the great military might of Jehovah. He saw that the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. 15 And when the servant of the man of God had risen early and gone forth, behold, a host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?" 16 And he answered, "Fear not, for they that are with us are more than they that are with them." 17 And Elisha prayed and said, "LORD, I pray You, open his eyes, that he may see." And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. When the enemy approached Elisha, Elisha promptly took them into custody by praying that they all become blind. He thus led them to Samaria, prayed again that they would see, had them fed and sent them home from there. 18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD and said, "Smite this people, I pray You, with blindness." And He smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. 19 And Elisha said unto them, "This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek." But he led them to Samaria. 20 And it came to pass, when they had come into Samaria, that Elisha said, "LORD, open the eyes of these men that they may see." And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria. 21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha when he saw them, "My father, shall I smite them? Shall I smite them?" 22 And he answered, "You shall not smite them. Would you smite those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them that they may eat and drink and go to their master." 23 And he prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel. 64 You see, there are still more for us then there are for them. Besides, Jehovah, the Father, plus one is more than a majority! Chapter Twenty-nine Our Final Authority In Matthew 18:18, 19 Jesus presented to His one of the great prayer promises in the Word of God: ―Again [He must have said it at last once before] I say to you, that if two of you shall agree on earth concerning anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father Who is in Heaven.‖ What kind of a promise is that!!! Where are the limits? What are the extenuating circumstances? Whatever any two shall agree to on earth, it has to happen according by the Everlasting Father! Praise the Lord. How can anyone doubt our victory through anything in view of that promise! 18 Verily I say unto you, whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven; and so whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven. 19 ―Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth concerning anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in Heaven.‖ If you and I come together (not necessarily physically, but spiritually only) and we here on earth bind up these organizations as they ply their hate across the globe, they will be bound in the spiritual realm from whence they get their strength and motivation. Al Qaeda, Hamas, Abu Nidal Organization, Mujahidin of Iran, The PLO, Hezbollah (Islamic Jihad), Al-Jihad, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, The Palestine Islamic Jihad, Harakat ul-Ansar, Harakat ul-Mujahidin, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Revolutionary People‘s Struggle (Communist), Revolutionary Organization 17 November (Communist), Revolutionary Nuclei (Communist), Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, 65 Aby Sayyaf Group, Alex Boncayao Brigade (Communist), Sendero Luminoso (Communist), New People‘s Army (Communist), Qibla and People Against Gangsterism and Drugs, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, Revolutionary People‘s Liberation Party/front, Morzanist Patriotic Front, Jamaat ul-Fuqra, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (Two not on the CDI list) Jemaah Islamiah and Fatah Faction As we attack the spiritual powers that create, promote and sponsor these terrorist groups with their own devices of hate, terror, murder, bombs, dishonor, jealousy, the lies, confusion, frustration and general failure, the satanic forces literally turn on the perpetrators or attempted perpetrators and causes mayhem on themselves. In Jesus‘ Name the spiritual forces must obey us and work on our behalf as we command these things to happen to the enemies. The Father gets involved on our behalf and reveals secrets and the plots that they want to perform on us. Others that need binding have foreign targets. Some foreign governments that are target are these: Algeria by Armed Islamic Group, and by The Salafist Group for Call and Combat, Chile by Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front (Communist) Colombia by National Liberation Army (ELN) (Cuba Supported), by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) (Cuba Supported), and and by United self-Defense Forces/group of Colombia (AUC) Egypt by Al-Gama‘a al-Islamiyya Georgia by Zviadists India by Al-Ummah Israel by Kach and Kahane Chai Japan by Aum-Supreme Truth, by Chukaku-Ha, and and by Japanese Red Army Lebanon by `Asbat al-Ansar 66 Northern Ireland by Continuity Irish Republican Army, by Irish Republican Army, by Loyalist Volunteer Force, by Orange Volunteers, by Real IRA, and and by Red Hand Volunteers Peru by Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement Rwanda by Army for the Liberation of Rwanda Sierra Leone by Revolutionary United Front Spain by Basque Fatherland and Liberty, and by First of October Antifascist Resistance Group Sri Lanka by Liberation Tigers of Tamil, by World Tamil Association, by World Tamil Movement, and and by Federation of associations of Canadian Tamils Turkey by Kurdistan Workers Party All of Latin and South America are in a struggle against Socialism and Cuba‘s (Castro‘s) Communism, with a continual shifting of powers and civil unrest. This goes from southern Mexico to the tip of South America. Much of Africa are being pushed and pulled by both Communism and Islam and the powers are constantly shifting around from nation to nation and faction to faction. In all of these areas, especially in both of the latter two conflicts, millions of people are suffering and need deliverance. Spiritual deliverance must come first or any material or physical aid will be non-productive. The people who live in the countries involved are for the most part completely blind to the Gospel and these terrorists are exploiting, abusing and torturing them. They need our intercession and God‘s deliverance. It is the nature of intercession that is often lacking. Intercession in this case is not simply imploring the Lord to do such-and-such. The truth of the matter has often overlooked: Jesus told us to bind and to loosen. He told us to command things to happen in His name. WE ARE TO DO WHAT HE SAID, not ask Him to do for us what He said we should do. It is our responsibility to do what he said. It is not His responsibility to do what He told us to do! 67 Signs that should follow every believer are things that happen by using the Name of Jesus: Cast out demons, Speak in new tongues, Take up serpents, Be healthy in spite of imbibing poison, and Lay hands on and heal the sick. Mark 16: 16: He who believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieves shall be condemned. 17 And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. If a believer can cast out a demon, he or she can cast out any demon. If we are able to do that, we can certainly impact the princes and powers that Paul told us to wrestle against. When we have donned the whole armor of God, when we come forth against the powers that affect those terrorist groups (any and all) we are coming forth in the Name that is above all names—the LORD JESUS CHRST. To that name every knee will bow, and we are to enforce it. The same principle carries on in the warfare against the Four. Using Afghanistan as an example, we know that the Prince of the Principality has been strong in the past. He had persecuted Believers who have come to do missionary work there, he has passed laws to prevent the erosion of Islam, and he has kept the people poor and foisted on them the hate necessary to keep them isolated. This prince has been attacked before and as you agree with me here, we will launch another attack on him. As you see the typical pattern of a spiritual attack, you and others can attack again, or attack other princes in other parts of the world. First we direct our words against the prince of Afghanistan in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We command you, Prince of Afghanistan, to relinquish hold on the people. Let those people go in the Name of Jesus. We cast down your spirit of hate, spirit of war mongering, spirit of poverty, spirit of sickness, spirit of want, the spirit of the lust for power. We cast down the spirit of Islam and its colleagues of hate, murder, torture, suffering, hunger and thirst. We throw down your whole kingdom, you foul spirit of oppression and lack. We wreck your weapon of warfare and division in Jesus Name. We sow within your satanic operation confusion, self deception, errors, and frustration. We delegate ambushers to work within your midst and to subvert your goals, ambitions, desires and spoil your whole agenda. We ruin your communication so that your lies are believed by the wrong people and the populace sees you for who you are—a liar, slave-master, tyrant, over-bearing, greedy and full of corruption, lust and deceit. 68 Further, we loose peace; we loose sight so the people will see the light of Truth and thereby be free. We loose hearing so the people can hear the Word of God and the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We delegate messengers to take the Word of Life to the people and set them free by it and Life Eternal is outpoured into the people of Afghanistan. We loose healing for the nation and for its people, and restoration, and success in new life. And we speak to the spirits of the people of Afghanistan to indeed hear and respond to the Gospel, accepting Jesus as your Savior. We release you from Islam and give you your victory over your former master Allah and empower you to rely on Jehovah as your God and Jesus as your Redeemer. We open your eyes to the Truth of God’s Word that you become nourished by it and grow into the full knowledge of who and what you are in Him. We break the bonds of your captivity and set you free to worship Him Who Reigns on High and in your hearts as you come to realize Who has delivered you from the power of death, hell and the grave. We thank you Father for granting our prayer for these people and giving us the privilege of setting them free in Your Name. We ask all these things in Jesus’ Name and thank You for backing us up in it, in Jesus’ Name. We cast down, therefore, the Al Qaeda, its works, its objectives, its missions, its message, its goals and purposes, and we command everything they put their hands to do to fail, to fail miserably, and any ill results to come down on their own heads, just like Haman! We bind every foul spirit involved in Al Qaeda from the smallest demon of lying to the Prince that instigated the organization and we commend you to your own fruit of lies, error, self-destruction, incompetence, and loss. We plant and loose ambushers amongst you to undo you at every turn you try to make. Your enemies shall own your gates and destroy your walls. Further, we loose the Gospel of Peace in the people, both the target people and those who are the perpetrators of the attempted evil and we set those people free to accept the message as truth, accept Jesus as Savior and live their lives according to His standard—prosperously, healthily, peacefully, happily, and that they voice their loyalty to Jesus and spread that Word of Life from mouth to ear across the multitudes. And we delegate messengers to present the Word of Life to these parties for acceptance. And we speak to the parties to hear and accept the Gospel and come out of Islam in Jesus’ Name. We command these things in Jesus’ Name, So Be It. Conclusion 69 The difficulty in writing this document has already been brought to your attention. Already I have spent much time rewriting because circumstances have changed so rapidly. I written only a little at a time and it has taken six or seven months so far to get to this point. For instance I first mentioned the status of California and the Liberals there long before the recall of Gray Davis and the election of Arnold Swartzeneger. After the vote, I returned to that section and edited in the new information. I wish I hadn‘t done it because the evolution of conditions is worth the contrast of before with after. The evolution of circumstances elsewhere reveals further the truth of what this document is all about. This includes the conditions among the Muslims. I mentioned the conditions of the blindness of the Iraqis by their not joining the coalition forces in the deliverance of their country, and not resisting the foreign insurgents. Their blindness and their other lost spiritual conditions were (and area) the topics of prayer. Last week in Iraq there were two demonstrations against the violence against the coalition. Yes, Iraqi people showing support for the coalition and their (our) efforts for Iraq. This past weekend, Saddam Hussein was captured, alive and meekly, and further proof of what I have said in this book were broadcast around the world. The answer to our prayer regarding Saddam‘s capture couldn‘t have been more excellent. The capture brought forth responses from world leaders that revealed their real state of mind. For instance, the French, Russians, and Germans were cold and artificial, as expected. The Muslim—Arab leaders were very subdued because if they show enthusiasm their own people may rise up against them. If the Muslim—Arab leaders show too little support for the capture, their own people may rise up against them. Yes, the Muslim—Arab leaders are revealing their fear of liberty for their people, just as I said. Now the media are saying the exact same thing. The bottom line is that the Lord is answering prayer and the need is that many more believers get involved in this spiritual war that is attempting to divide our country and turn us over to despots. I do not know when I‘ll quit writing in this document. I‘ve presented the plan and am still sure it works, but there are things happening almost daily that reinforce what the document says. You pray about what you‘ve read here and respond to the Lord‘s leading for you and yours. Praise the LORD!!!
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