Prophe-Zine, Issue # 15 March 15, 1996 Credits.......... Statement of Faith......... & Other stuff......... Raymond Gano..........Welcome to Issue # 15 Tim West....... Why Do We Do It Todd Standberg .....The Pre-tribulation Rapture Rudy Brinkman .......The Peaceprocess From A Biblical View William F. Dankenbring... The New World Order In Bible Prophecy! (Long) Justin W. Gramm........Things Happening When Israel Became a Nation Prophe-Zine News Bites..... Assorted Authors and News Services Publication Cycle Notice: Prophe-Zine will be published (up loaded), on the 1st and the15th of each month. (bi-weelkly) Prophe-Zine is freely distributed to the major on-line services, BBSs, and to the Internet. You can also get back issues at Prophe-Zine's web site. Address: http://www.best.com/~ray673/pzhome.html The Editor of Prophe-Zine can be reached by sending e-mail to: ray673@best.com. Please write the Editor if you are interested in receiving guidelines for submission to Prophe-Zine Statement of Faith THE PURPOSE of Prophe-Zine is to carry out the command of the Lord Christ Jesus, recorded in Matthew 28:19: "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations" Prophe-Zine is a Christian publication grounded in the deity of Christ and the inerrancy of Scripture. The major intent of the editors is first, the giving out the message of the Gospel, "For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures," 1 Cor. 15:3-4. The Editor of Prophe-Zine holds to a strictly literal and inerrant Bible interpretation, salvation through Christ alone, a soon pre-tribulation Rapture of all believers and the establishment of a thousand-year kingdom on earth. The evangelism of the unbelievers and the exhortation of the believers take precedence over all other activities of this ministry. Prophe-Zine may not agree with some of the authors and their beliefs, but Prophe-Zine believes that we must endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit (In other words agree to disagree), so Prophe-Zine feels that it must give equal time to other biblically based doctrines in all fairness. Eph 4:3 Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. The Legal Stuff About Prophe-Zine Prophe-Zine Copyright © 1996 Raymond B Gano All rights reserved. Please ask for permission before reproducing or reprinting specific articles and/or graphics, since some of the individual works appearing in Prophe-Zine are copyrighted works belonging to their respective authors or artists and are used here with their permission. 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This is a special issue because this is the one year issue of Prophe-Zine.(YEA ...PZ is 1 year old) The Lord has been good to me and the trials many. But through all things he has pulled me through and tempered my metal. So I profess that the Lord is good and DOES bless those who love Him and serve Him. This year has been a VERY busy year with all that has been happening. All the elections all over the world, Jerusalem and the bombs and her 3000th year birthday. China is flexing their muscles with Taiwan, and the US has sent a carrier fleet there, China has stated that they might bomb LA if the US gets involved. The Terrorist Bill in Congress and this is also the blue print for the Philippines anti-crime / terrorist bill. So a lot is going on and a lot has happened, heck we are not even in the 2nd quarter of this year yet. Quiet a roller coaster ride heh? I have also gotten a lot of feed back regarding a Prophe-Zine camp out / Get -together. I am looking at camping in the area of Sierra National Forest, some where near the middle of California. So those of you who live in NV, AZ, can join in if you like. If anyone has any ideas of where to camp, please let me know. Once again, I want to remind all of you that I have a daily mail list where I send out news that I deem important. I keep an eye on Israel, politics, NWO, ect. I take much of the news from the newsgroups, media and newsletters and the many newlists I belong to. One last thing. Please pray for the United States of America (USA). This is where I call home if some of you have not guessed by now. Anyways in the last few days I have sent to you information regarding a VERY draconian / police state law that is b eing regarded. This is called the Anti-Terrorist Bill. You can go to Thomas on the www and download the bill and read it. It has 4 bill numbers HR 1710, HR 2710, HR 2703 and HR 2768. All of these are the Anti-Terrorist bill in one flavor or another. They are ALL EVIL and if passed will create a police state in the land that the rest of the world looks to for leadership, liberty and freedom. (Well, we have dropped the ball on that big time). Please pray for this nation of mine, because if the USA finally falls under the heavy hand of tyranny, how soon will it be before the rest of the world follows? We are, in my opinion, the last bastions of liberty and freedom. If this bill passes, our nation will become a police state and the hope of the world will be lost. I know that what I say is very arrogant, but I am a patriot at heart and I believe that this land of ours is a land in which our founding fathers chose to serve God. We are the only nation which has God as our Cornterstone written in our Constitution. Because of this, God has blessed us greatly. But we have turned our backs on our Lord and chosen sin instead. From this choice you can see the results....Crime, Death, Abortion, broken families, drugs, sexual preversion, ect ,ect, ect. We as a nation need to once more seek the face of our loving God. So once again, please pray that the people of the land turn their hearts and souls to God again. No king but King Jesus!!!! Ray Prophe-Zine ************************ Why Do We Do It By: Tim West timwes19@telalink.net I have many hobbies. Some I actively pursue. Some I dream of getting back to; like netting a four pound Rainbow Trout with a # 12 Elk Hair Caddis on the upper Madison, just below Quake Lake. Reading the latest issue of Prophe-Zine seems to be one of my newest hobbies. Though I have been studying prophecy and world events for most of my adult life, most who read this publication are probably light years beyond me in their knowledge and grasp of prophecy. I would not be so presumptuous as to try to teach or shed light on the subject. But I would like to offer something to think about ,from maybe a different point of view. I can remember as a young child seeing the movie" A thief in the night " at church, and hearing the pastor ( well Intentioned I hope) telling the audience Jesus was coming so soon that we probably would not be around to see the year 1975. Wow! I'll never get the chance to drive, I'll never be able to get married, never have children, never have a career, never graduate high school. 1975 has come and gone long ago and I've done all of the above. How many times have I talked to friends about what was happening in the world and how "this was it, the end is really coming now, can you believe the American people voted for that guy?" If the time of Christ's return seemed close in years past, how much closer can it be today. If the apostles believed Jesus would return for them before thier death 1900 years ago, has God forgotten us? Did something happen that we missed out on? Are we interpreting this whole prophecy thing wrong. Or is God giving us every opportunity to evangelize and to get to know him now because he love us so much. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness,but is patient toward you,not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9 NAS Christ could return today or he could return in one hundred years. The reality is that only the Father knows when, but we can know and discern the seasons. Anyone who ever invests in the stock market will watch the market reports, almost religiously, searching for the right time to buy or sell. If our treasure is in heaven and not on this earth, if we long to spend eternity with our Savior, we should be looking for the signs of his return and sharing them with others. This world is not our home. I'm shocked as I "surf the net" and see all of the differing viewpoints on prophecy and endtimes. But the thing that really hurts is the way that Christians treat one another over the subject of prophecy. I find very little love and effort to live peacufully with one another, but find people trying to rudely prove that thier opinion is correct, and the rest of us have missed the boat. Don't get me wrong. I love a good debate and conversation. The editor of this publication can verify that, but I strive to search for common ground and lift up Jesus. At the risk of over simplifying; the only thing I know that is absolutly true is that Jesus is the son of God, He lived a perfect life, died for my sins, rose from the grave to defeat death and give me eternal life and that someday He is coming for me so that I will be with Him Forever. Everything else I'm still just trying to understand. . Post trib, Pre trib, Mid Trib or Pan Trib, we will never all agree on one until it's happened. And I think some will still want to argue! The late Dr. Walter Martin said (tongue in cheek) that the half hour of silence in Rev. 8:1 was set aside so all of the prophecy teachers could get their notes straight. Our view of prophecy won't get us to heaven. I guess all I'm really trying to say is, Jesus Is coming soon, whenever that may be. He will come when He is ready. Our Responsiblity remains the same. To tell others about his love for them, to love God and know Him better each day and to love others as we love ourselves.(ouch) Even if they use a different translation than us or don't agree with our view of the rapture. Its easy to love the sinner who's lost. But we hate our brother because his hair is too long, listens to loud music or praises the Lord a little differently than we do. To me, prophecy is a hobbie. Maybe even a passion, but there's not going to be a test in heaven to see if I was right. But God is watching to see if I am loving others as my self and my works will be tested. We can stock up on weapons before they are outlawed, buy ammo and food, even build bomb shelters, but if we miss Jesus and what he wants for our lives, none of the above will do us any good. So go ahead and study prophecy, debate until your heart's content, but don't miss the boat because you are too busy studying the tides! Editor Note: Tim lives in Tennessee with his wife Tess and son Timmy. I have known Tim sence the 9th Grade ( I am 35 now) He is really good with a flyfishing pole and is the one person I atttribute my creating Prophe-Zine too. *********************** The Pre-tribulation Rapture By: Todd Standberg The rapture is an event that will take place sometime in the near future. Jesus will come in the air, catch up his Church from the earth, and then return to heaven with the Church. In 1 Thes. 4:13-18 we are given a clear description of the rapture. "the dead in Christ will rise, then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord." The time of the rapture was not given by Paul here. We have to look elsewhere to find it. From the word of God and from sound judgment, I hope to prove the reality of the pre-tribulation rapture. Scriptural Evidence for the Pre-tribulation Rapture * "Ye Know Neither the Day nor the Hour" (Mat 25:13) Vs 1260 days, (Rev 12:6) When we search the scriptures and read the passages describing the return of Christ, we run into what appears to be a conflict. Verses like Mat 25:13 say that Jesus will return at an unknown time, while others give us a precise time. Revelation mentions his return will occur 1260 days after the Antichrist stands in the temple of God and declares himself to be God. This event will take place at the mid point of the seven years tribulation. When the Jews flee into the wilderness, they know that all they have to do is wait out those 1260 days. There is no way you can apply "neither the day nor the hour" to this situation. The only way for these two view points to be true, there needs to be two separate events transpiring here, the Rapture before the tribulation and his return to earth seven years later. * The Marriage Supper of the Lamb In Luke 12:36 it states that when Christ returns, he will be returning from a wedding. In Rev 19:7-8 we read about the marriage itself. Before the marriage takes place, there is the marriage supper. According to Jewish custom, (1) First the marriage contract is drawn up, often including a dowry. This parallels the act of faith we use when we trust Jesus to be our savior. The dowry is his life, which was use to purchase us. (2) When the time comes for the wedding to take place, the groom goes to the bride's house unannounced, she comes out to meet him, and they both return to his father's house. This is an exact correlation of the events according to the pre-trib scenario. Jesus the groom comes down to earth, stopping short of actually touching the earth. The Church next rises into the air to meet Jesus. Finally, both return to his father's house (heaven). The marriage supper will take place during the seven year tribulation. The Jewish feast, according to custom, would last seven days. This prophetically matches the seven year length of the tribulation. (3) After the marriage supper, the bride and groom are presented to the world as man and wife. This matches the time when Jesus returns to earth with the Church. (Rev 19:14) * The People of the Millennium If Christ was to comes back after the tribulation, rapture all the saints, and slay all the ungodly. Who then will populate the Millennium? The pre-trib view point can account for this post-trib problem. The Church is raptured out before the tribulation. A vast number of souls are saved during this 7 year time frame. Those that make it through the tribulation go into the millennium, while the unsaved are cast into to hell. * The Big Flip In the pre-trib scenario, we will rise to meet the Lord in the air. We then will go to heaven and abide there seven years. At the end of the seven years, Christ comes down to earth, defeats the Antichrist, and cleanses the temple. In a post-trib rapture we would rise in the air meet the Lord, then do a 180 and come back down to earth. It states in REV 1:7 that Christ will appear out of the clouds and come down to earth. It says in Zech. 14:4 his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives. If he's already headed our way, why would we need to be caught up? * "Come up Hither" In Rev 4:1 where it says "come up hither," many pre-trib writers sight this as a prophetic reference to the rapture of the Church. Rev 1 through 3 is the Church Age. After the shout to "come up hither" in Rev 4:1, the Church is not mentioned in scripture at all. The attention of scripture switches from the Church to the Jews living in Israel. * Armies in Fine Linen When Jesus returns, Rev 19:14, there is an army that follows him riding on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. In Rev 19:8 we are told the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. If the saints of God are returning with Christ, to wage war on the Antichrist, then you can not have a post-trib rapture. * The Time of Jacob's Trouble In a number of places the Bible refers to the tribulation as a time of trouble for the Jews. The phrase "Jacob's trouble" pertains to the descendants of Jacob. In Jeremiah 30:7 it tells that this time of trouble will come just before the Lord returns to save his people. The final week of Daniel's 70th week is yet to take place. An angel told Daniel that 70 weeks "are determined unto thy people."(Dan 9:24) No mention is made in scripture, that the tribulation is going to be a time of testing for Christians. To place the Christian Church dispensation into the same time frame as the seven year Jewish dispensation, as the Post-tribbers do, raises one good question. Can two dispensations transpire at the same time? In the past, God has only dealt with only one at a time. Having both present during the tribulation, would have to be an exception. * He That is Taken Out of the Way (2 Thes. 2:7) Before the Antichrist can be relieved, Paul said that a he must be taken out of the way. The "he" that must be removed according to 2 Thes. 2:7, is widely thought to be the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has been promised to never leave the Church, and without the working of the Holy spirit remaining earth, no one could be saved during the tribulation. The removal of the Church, which is indwelt by the Holy Ghost, would seem the best explanation for this dilemma. The working of the Holy Spirit could go on during the tribulation, but his effect would be diminished because of the missing Church. * War or Rapture When Jesus returns at the end of the tribulation, he will be coming for battle. For those who believe in a post-trib rapture, it would be a strange thing to meet your groom just as he's rushing into battle. The contrast between war and rapture occurring together is a difficult thing to imagine, especially since they transpire at the same moment. * The Five Foolish Virgins The wedding story that Jesus gave in Mat 25:2-13 tells of the rapture of the Church and how some will not be ready. Jesus clearly states that a group of people will miss out on some event, and will cry out to God to let them into the place where he resides (heaven). Although some try to put this parable in a post-trib context, it doesn't fit very well. The ones left behind in a post-trib rapture, will be fighting against God or hiding from him, not begging him to rapture them also. * "God Hath not Appointed us to Wrath"(1 Thes 5:9) In Thes. Paul assured us that God has not appointed his people to wrath. The wrath is plainly God's wrath that will be poured out during the tribulation. Pre-trib believers cite this as meaning, Christians will be removed from the earth. Post-trib believers tell a different story. They describe this as meaning God will protect Christians during the tribulation, and pour this wrath out on the unbelievers. This idea runs against the statement made in Rev 13:7, where the Antichrist is given power to make war with the saints and to over come them. A post-trib view would make God's promise of protection from wrath into a lie. In years past, it was possible to think of protection from Guns and swords. Today when the battles are fought with nuclear and chemical weapons, it's not possible to expect protection from these types of forces. When Nagasaki, Japan was bombed during W.W.II, the bomb exploded over a Catholic church. Everyone died that was in the center of the explosion, both Christian and non-Christians. The only way to validly interpret God's promise of protection from wrath, is the bodily removal of the Church from this world. * The Salt of the Earth Jesus said we are the salt of the earth. If the believers where to suddenly be removed, the earth would be plunged into spiritual darkness. The Antichrist would have a free hand to control the world. * God Takes an Inventory In Rev 7:3 an angel descends to earth and seals the servants of God. Two bits of information are given about this sealing that highly disclaims a post-trib viewpoint. The first item is the number of people sealed 144,000. The second one is that all those who are sealed are all from the twelve tribes of Israel. For the events in Rev 7:3-8 to be true, in a post-trib way, either the Church has turned against God or God has turned against the Church. A post-tribber could write a thousand word commentary why the Church doesn't need to be sealed. Instead of trying to argue why we are not mentioned or sealed, a pre-trib proponent could just say, "We're already in heaven." * Noah and Lot as Examples The tribulation period is compared to the times of Noah and Lot by Jesus in Luke 17:28. Most people argue over what time frame Jesus was talking about hear pre-trib or post-trib, and miss an important point. The two things that the Noah and Lot examples have in common are the removal of the righteous and the judgment of the unbelievers. From these two accounts, we see that God prefers to remove this own when danger is involved. Common Sense Reason for Believing in the Pre-tribulation Rapture * The World Test One may to check the soundness of a doctrine is, see how the world reacts to it. One time a company put out a questionnaire that was used to screen prospective employees. One of the questions was "do you believe in the rapture?" If you answered yes, your chances of getting hired would not be good. Some Internet sites do not allow for the topics of Rapture or Second Coming. They do allow topics like sex, gay, and drugs. The only time the news media reports something on the rapture, is when someone has set a date and was wrong. * That Old Time Religion It used to be a natural rule of thumb when one was visiting a church or listening to a preacher, if the church or the preacher taught the rapture doctrine, it was logical to think they also believed in repentance, prayer, And the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It was also true the churches that were on fire for God worshipped out of storefronts. Today many of those storefront churches have moved into marble palaces and have strayed from their principle doctrines. * Birds of a Feather Flock Together When I look at all the groups that teach false doctrine and are highly focused on end time events, I can not find any that support the rapture theory. You have organizations like the Jehovah's Witnesses that teach a false gospel and are heavily into Bible prophecy. Why then don't Jehovah's Witnesses teach a false doctrine that would be right up their ally? Could it be the demonic forces that influence this group know something that Christians opposed to the rapture doesn't. The list of prophetically minded cults that don't accept the idea of a rapture goes on and on, here are some more: the Mormons, The Worldwide Church of God, The Moonies, and leaders like Jim Jones or David Koresh. * The Church Would Rebuke the Antichrist If the Antichrist came to power with the Church still here, I do not see how he could operate. When Hitler was fighting to take over England, a number of Christians where praying for victory. Hitler made mistake after mistake, and England out performed its enemy at every stage of the conflict. It is difficult to measure the actual impact of intercessory prayer in physical warfare. Little is known of how great a role praying saints played in the defeat of Nazi Germany. If the Church was to reside on earth during the tribulation, I am sure she would give the Antichrist fits. In Rev 11:3 the two witnesses give the Antichrist enough headaches alone. Millions of Christian, who know their Bible well, would recognize the man of sin and pray fire down on his head. A post-trib view would have to plan on the Church just rolling over and playing dead, the whole seven years. There is one thing we should all remember. It is not so important to figure out every little riddle of prophecy. Whether we know the Antichrist's mother's maiden name isn't the primary goal. Knowing Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and having your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life, this should be our number one priority. The jailer asked Paul, "what must I do to be saved?" The answer was, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved."(Acts 16:30-31) ***************************** The Peace process From A Biblical View by: Rudy Brinkman rudy@aktueel.iwg.nl Before reading this study: please read Isaiah 11:1-16. Isaiah's Prophecy In the past years there are a lot of people who are really concerned about the peace-process and where it is leading to. To quote a author I know: "It is really almost hard to believe that a country that is 1/600th part of the world is of such importance to so many people". The death of Rabin will be a reason for the Israeli government to speed up the peace-process, and especially Peres will work hard. Many think he is the 'brain' behind it all. Lots of Christians are filled with fear. They think Israel is doing the wrong thing by giving up their country for 'peace' with the Palestinian and Arabs. The orthodox Jews also are concerned about what is going on. It was the reason why Rabin was shot, remember... I myself was also convinced that what Israel is doing now -- land for peace -- is wrong. The reason I believed this to be so is that they are giving away God's country, not theirs. Perhaps we forget things like that. Do the Israeli's living in Israel, at this moment, have a Biblical right to do so? I know (Christian) people, who, if they here me ask this, would be happy to kill me! But the Bible is very clear: The Jewish people who are living in Israel these days do not have a right to the country. They are non-believers. They try to rebuild the country by themselves. See Isaiah 9:9-20. They are not turning to the Lord God and that is why He will not redeem them. See Isaiah 10:10-21, Jeremiah 31:31-33, etc. The Jewish people, as a nation, do _not_ live according to the Holy Law, nor do they acknowledge God. They will be put aside until they repent and turn back to God. That the State of Israel is (re)founded in 1948 is a sign that God is still working on His plan. It is a sign of what is going to happen. It is proof for the fact that God is alive! And I'm also not saying that Israel isn't the chosen people of God! They are, and will be forever. They have been put aside, according to the letter of Romans, ch. 11. What Is Going To Happen If we read Isaiah 11 careful we can see that some things _have_ to happen: A. Jesus will return and be King over Israel (see also Rev. 19:6-9); B. Than _He_ will gather His chosen people from earth to Israel. The second (b) gives a 'problem'. Many believe that what is happening at this moment, the coming back of the Jews to Israel, is the fulfillment of the biblical prophecy concerning the return of the Jewish People to Israel. This is _impossible_ ! What is happening and is going to happen has been written in Isaiah 9:9-20 This can only lead to one conclusion: Israel will be scattered again or be driven out of the country. This is a scriptural way of thinking. Israel will be driven out of the country again and flee to the mountains or the caves "over the Jordan" (how about Petra, in Jordan?). See Matthew 24! It happened before, when the Romans came to destroy Jerusalem. The Christians, knowing the words of the Lord, fled to Petra and the mountains. They were saved. The non-believers not... Flavius Josephus wrote that 1,1 million Jews died by the destruction of Jerusalem and about 79.000 were sold as slaves. The Jews that will flee from the armies of the anti-Christ (Rev. 13, the Beast will lead a war against the Holy) will be brought back to the land by the Lord Jesus (see Rev. 14, the 144.000. This cannot be Christians, as some say, because they will be with Jesus long before that - 2 Thes. 4). This Israel, that has accepted the Lord Jesus as their King, will then make war with the Philistines (see Isaiah 11:14 !!) and other occupiers of their country. WHO ARE THE PHILISTINES? There we have a problem: the Philistines aren't in Israel anymore... At least, that's what we think.. If this were true than this prophecy in Isaiah could not be fulfilled. And the Word of God would not speak the truth! Many have claimed that the Palestinians -- who have made a false peace with Israel -- are, in fact, the Philistines. Many churches, especially in Europe, deny this. But, if we watch closely to the words of this prophecy we can see (I'm sorry, I can't show the map I've drawn) that the Palestinians claim the territory which have been prophesied in the Scripture! The Gaza-strip was the territory were the Philistines lived. The West-bank isn't! But the Scripture says it _will be_ !! The Palestinian's claim this territory and say that they have the oldest rights to Gaza-strip and the West-bank. If they are _not_ the Philistines, how can they claim this territory then? There can be only one conclusion: the Palestine's _are_ the Philistines. "It is clear that the name Palestine has a historical relation to the Philistines as we know from the Bible" <1 Israel's political leaders are happy to give away the Gaza-strip. Rabin said on September 3, 1992: "Israel can't get rid of the Gaza-strip, even if we want to. Egypt doesn't want it back. As far as I'm concerned, it will sink into the sea" <2 Well, as we can see: Israel doesn't want it. They don't want the Palestinians in thier country and they are happy to give them their "own" territory. Not knowing that this is fulfillment of the biblical prophecy! The Future Is Near! As believers, Christians and orthodox Jews, we resist the concept of "land for peace". Yes, we even kill for it. But it _has_ to happen. The Scripture says that the LORD will bring back Israel to its country. This is not said about the Philistines/Palestine's. That is why King Jesus, with His army of believing Jews, will come and drive them away. Before this happens they have to be in the country. They are now.... The peace-process is a process without God's blessing. But it _has_ to happen. The Palestine's/Philistines have to be in this place, because of the prophecy given by Isaiah. It is a sign. The Jewish state in 1948.. The return of the Palestinians.. What's next? How long will it take before Jesus will return? I think it is much, much closer than we think! Sources: Bible-translations: Staten-vertaling, King James, American Standard Version (Medema Computer Bijbel, SeedMaster Computer Bible). + Scofield notes 1917, Matthew Henry Concise Commentary. Qoutes <1, 2 from: "Gaza was altijd de kern van Palestijnse onrust" A. Kuiper, Israel Magazine, Nov. 93. -- If you are interested in our DUTCH newsletter: Please write to -- -- Bijbel Aktueel, P.O. Box 113, 9800 AC Zuidhorn, The Netherlands. -- *********************** The Oklahoma City Bombing, Militias, And -- The New World Order In Bible Prophecy! By: William F. Dankenbring of Triumph Prophetic Ministries What is the significance of the sudden growth of many thousands of heavily armed militias in the United States, and the terror bombing of a Federal building in Oklahoma City? What are the four kingdoms of Daniel 7? What about the four chariots of Zechariah 6? And the strange "Beast" of Revelation 13 and 17? Where do all these fit into Bible prophecy for the "end times"? Are these prophecies and events related to the New World Order we hear about more and more? It's high time we took the blinders off, roused ourselves from sleep, and opened our eyes and our minds to a new look at these shocking events, and these amazing pivotal prophecies of the Word of God! We hear a lot about the "New World Order" these days. Former president George Bush spoke of it often during his presidency. President Bill Clinton seems to be doing everything in his power to augment and usher in the "New World Order," by pushing for the passage of the NAFTA trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, and then for the WTO (World Trade Organization) treaty which will effectively nullify much of American sovereignty insofar as trade, business and international commerce are concerned. In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing tragedy, Clinton is now hell-bent on strengthening the FBI in relation to what he called "domestic terrorism," and in the same breath went on to condemn right-wing "militias" which have sprouted up all around the United States -- some estimated 86 separate militias with an average of 4-5,000 members (some more than 20,000), totaling roughly 3-4 million men (and women) under arms, to protect their homes, and families, and local interests, from any and all oppression, foreign or home-grown. It appears that President Clinton, not to mention his predecessor, is minded to drag the United States people, kicking and screaming, into the "New World Order," whether they like it or not! The majority of Americans were negative to the NAFTA agreement, and the WTO legislation, but Congress and the Administration forced it through on a "quick track" despite protests and opposition. Many Americans are fed up with the legalization of abortion, the abuse and misuse of Federal power-- such as the Randy Weaver incident in Idaho, where federal agents assaulted his home in the wilderness under color of authority, under trumped up charges, of which he was later found innocent. During the Federal raid, Weaver's 14 year old boy was shot in the back and killed, and his wife was shot by a Federal agent (sniper) as she stood in front of the stove holding their baby. The attorney for Weaver feels the Federal agents responsible should be charged with murder -- but who is going to bring charges? Two years ago to the very day of the Oklahoma bombing, in which over 156 men and women, including 15 or more innocent children and babies, were killed by an extremist right-wing militant, the Federal government again abused its power in assaulting a religious compound of the Branch Dividians in Waco, Texas, despite the fact that they had lost the element of surprise, and allegations of child abuse had been previously investigated and thrown out, and allegations of illegal firearms proved to be mere suspicions without any proof whatsoever. The Branch Dividians had been legally purchasing firearms. Nevertheless, the BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms), viciously attacked the compound as in a military operation, and lost four agents in the initial attack. They came on illegally, on the basis of a falsified "search warrant," and did not even attempt to serve the warrant peaceably -- but like gang-busters, proud and full of bravado, weapons drawn and firing away, they met their nemesis in a fire-fight that erupted, as the Branch Dividians defended themselves, their little children, wives and families. Apparently, the man primarily responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing was distraught and enraged over the terrible abuse of power of the Federal government at Waco, and so exacted his own brand of revenge, and now refuses to talk to authorities, except to claim that he is a "prisoner of war." What Does the Future Hold? What do these events presage for the future? I have written in previous articles that very possibly we are going to see "Civil War" in America and modern day "Israel," because of the extremism and diverging interests of the American people, and their government. Many Americans no longer feel represented by the Federal government. They feel oppressed, abused, overtaxed, and forced to go a way they do not want to go -- viz a viz abortion, plunge in morals, growth in immorality, the welfare system, reverse discrimination due to "affirmative action" laws, etc. Many feel the United States has reached a time similar to the years preceding the American Revolution, and the Boston Tea Party, when American colonists rejected British taxation without representation, and the overweening authoritarianism of King George and his ministers of state. The anger was fanned into flames and burned in the American Revolution. Is America soon to face a Second Revolution -- with various "patriotic" groups and militias fighting the regular Federal government which insists on dragging the people -kicking and screaming -- into the New World Order, and new internati onal Mega-State? The date of the Oklahoma City bombing was also the anniversary of the "shot heard round the world" at Concord, Massachusetts, which began the Revolutionary War. Although it is difficult to predict the future, even with an understanding of Biblical prophecy, we can look at trends and history, and try to formulate conclusions in line with Biblical prophecy. First of all, we know that God judges those nations which rebel against Him and reject His covenant (Lev. 26; Deut. 28). The United States Constitution was largely based on the laws of God -- the Torah -- but now governmental decrees and judicial decisions are virtually doing away with increasing portions of the original Constitution through "re-interpretation." The Constitution nowhere permits abortion, but socio-engineering New Worlders and their surrogates have legalized "abortion on demand." The Constitution nowhere legalized sodomy and "gay rights," but modern social-engineers have caved in to the "gay lobby" and now "sexual orientation" is considered nothing more than a '"choice" -- not a matter of wickedness versus righteousness. Economically, the United States is some $17 trillion in debt, and in recent weeks the Federal government has let the dollar plummet in value. Critics charge that President Clinton is changing the U.S. dollar into the American "peso," by his actions, the bail-out of the Mexican quagmire economy, and by failing to support the dollar in international exchange. A few years ago a group of American economic leaders researched the path the U.S. was and is following, and predicted "Bankruptcy" by the year 1995 -- this very year! The year is far from over yet -- and it could still happen. But whether the economic "Armageddon" occurs this year, or next, or the year after, the fact remains that the American economy is in dire straits -- and there is a lot of pessimism about the future. Although the stock market is currently "higher than a kite," soaring over 4,000, many feel that this is merely the last run-up before the balloon is pricked and the bubble bursts, sending the economy into a crater of gargantuan proportions. Already this year and last, the bond market has cratered, losing over $1 trillion dollars, a crash equal to the stock market collapse in October 1987, eight years ago! Says one economic analyst: "But while I knew the dollar would fall, I have been shocked by the total inaction of the U.S. government. In fact, the Clinton administration spent ten times more to support the Mexico peso than they did to support our own U.S. dollar! "This is criminal negligence. It has driven the dollar even lower than the sorry U.S. fundamentals would have dropped it. "The dollar is now in a death plunge with the ground. It is an enormous crisis for the U.S. economy and for you" (The Wall Street Underground, vol. 2, no. 1). What many fear is that if the economy crashes, and riots break out in the streets, or the Federal government declares virtual "war" on the militias in many states, that our nation could suffer the ravages of self-destruction -- internal internecine warfare-- such as the bloody "Civil War" of 130 years ago, the most bloody war in American history, where Americans fought Americans, brother against brother, leading to the greatest bloodbath in North American history. Could it happen again? Could economic and social upheavals lead to the imposition of "martial law" and bring about an American "police state," with FBI, BATF, and other police agencies taking the place of the Nazi storm troopers, SS, and "brown shirts" (legalized "thugs" who helped solidify Hitler's rise to power by beating up on "dissidents," Jews, Communists, and all who were accused of disloyalty!)? Coming -- a World Super Mega-State Exactly how it is going to happen, we don't know, but we do know that in the days ahead of us the world is going to be brought for a time into one huge mega-state world empire, which the Bible calls "Babylon the Great" (Rev. 17-18). It will be a great commercial-based trading empire (Rev. 18). It will also be a world military juggernaut (Rev. 13:1-5). People will exclaim, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?" (Rev. 13:4). But what "beast" is this? It is described as having "seven heads and ten horns" (v. 1), "and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name" (same verse). It is a "composite creature." It has the body of a leopard, the feet or claws of a bear, the mouth of a lion -- and serves the "dragon," that is, the devil himself, Satan (Rev. 12:9 compared to Rev. 13:2). This world empire is prophesied to continue for 42 months, or 3 and 1/2 years (Rev. 13:5). Its leadership will blaspheme the name of God, institute a paganized one world religion embracing all religions on earth except the true religion of Almighty God, and will "make war with the saints" and will "overcome them" (v.7). It will rule for a time over "every tribe, tongue, and nation" (same verse). What is this great "beast"? In Revelation 17, we read, "The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel" (v.8). This beast will be ridden by a "woman" -- a great apostate false church or religious combine (picturing the reunification of Protestants, Catholics, and other religions under the Pope at Rome -- see Rev. 17:1-7). This final world empire will be composed of "seven heads." John explains, "Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains [nations] on which the woman sits. . . The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to perdition. The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for ONE HOUR as kings with the beast. These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings" (Rev. 17:9-14). These seven "mountains" then are seven nations that the woman -- the world' s false religious system of paganized idolatry -- sits upon. That is, she is the religion of the seven-- the religious system that stems from ancient Babylon. These seven may be understood both in a historical sense, and an end-time contemporary sense. Historically, there were SEVEN KINGDOMS that ruled the world after the Flood. They were: 1) Nimrod's Babylon (Gen. 10:8-12), 2) Egypt in the days of Joseph till the Exodus -- the "Middle Kingdom"; 3) the Assyrian Empire, which took the northern kingdom of Israel captive in 718-721 B.C.); 4) the Babylonian Empire, which took Judah captive in 604, 597, and 586 B.C.); 5) the Medo-Persian Empire 539-334 B.C.); 6) the Greco-Madeconian Empire (334-31 B.C.); and 7) the Roman Empire (31 B.C. to 476 A.D.). The "eighth" head is of the "seven." It is the head which is yet to arise, as the final "New World Order." But it is really nothing new at all. Hitler called his "Third Reich" also "The New World Order." It will be patterned after the former seven heads, particularly the "Roman Empire." It will be worldwide in scope, with its head centered no doubt in Europe. It is called prophetically, the "King of the north" in the prophecies of Daniel referring to the end time (see Dan. 11:31-45). In a final end-time contemporaneous sense, these seven heads or mountains (nations) could very well refer to the permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations-- currently five in number -- United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China. However, Japan and Germany are campaigning and lobbying very hard to be added to the Security Council. If and when they succeed, the United Nation's Security Council will number SEVEN HEADS ! Who are the "ten horns"? These will be ten nations with military resources which will be used as the military arm of the Beast. These could well be the nations of NATO, or a final version of NATO, the strongest military alliance in the world at this time. A "horn" represents military power -- horns "push" and "gore" other nations, or beasts. This beast, having ten horns, has supreme military power in the world. This beast must therefore include the armed forces and nuclear weapons of the United States -- as well as Britain and France! For a time, even Russia apparently will be a part of this end-time "union," or world "system," before breaking away and later attacking the system for the wrongs done to her by the system, together with the millions of Asia (Rev. 9:13-18, especially verses 15-16). Notice! Russia and her allies will eventually attack the "Beast" with a 200,000,000 man army, and one third of mankind will die in the ensuing "Gotterdamerung," or "battle of the twilight of the gods." That means some two billion human beings will die in the pitched battles around the world between the opposing forces (compare also Dan. 11:44). But we are getting ahead of the story. What major world powers will comprise this end-time "Beast" or "New World Order" Kingdom? The Four Beasts of Daniel The prophet Daniel had a strange vision. He said, "I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the FOUR WINDS of heaven were stirring up the Great Sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, each different from the other. The first was like a LION, and had EAGLE'S WINGS. I watched till its wings [air power] were plucked off; and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it. And suddenly another beast, a second, like a BEAR.It was raised up on one side, and had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. And they said, 'Arise, devour much flesh! ' "After this I looked, and there was another, like a LEOPARD, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it. After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a FOURTH BEAST, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the RESIDUE [mankind] with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots. And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words" (Dan. 7:1-8). Notice! These four "beasts" are connected with the FOUR WINDS of heaven (v.2). These are END-TIME KINGDOMS! You probably have read that these were the Babylonian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman Empires. Not true! Notice again! In verses 9-10 Daniel describes God's Throne of judgment, in the last days. In verse 1 1, we read: "I watched then because of the sound of the pompous words which the horn was speaking [the end-time Antichrist was right then mouthing off!]; I watched till the BEAST [the fourth beast of Daniel 7] was SLAIN, and its body destroyed and given to the burning flame." Compare this with Rev. 19:19-20: "And I saw the BEAST, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make WAR against Him who sat on the horse [Christ the Messiah] and against His army. Then the BEAST was captured, and with him the false prophet [a charismatic end-time religious world leader] . . . These two were cast alive into the LAKE OF FIRE burning with brimstone." Daniel is describing this same event! Then Daniel goes on: "As for the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time" (Dan. 7:: 12). The "rest of the beasts" described here refers to the one like a lion, a bear, and a leopard -- the other three beasts described in this chapter! Since they are still in existence, even after the fourth beast is slain, this PROVES beyond question that these four beasts of Daniel 7 all co-exist DURING THE END TIME! They were not the ancient successive world ruling kingdoms of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome! They are four kingdoms in the earth today, each one connected with one of the four winds of heaven. Who are they? Zechariah's Four Chariots To further explain this end-time prophecy, turn to Zechariah chapter 6. In the New King James Version we read: "Then I turned and raised my eyes and looked, and behold, FOUR CHARIOTS [like the four beasts] were coming from between two mountains, and the mountains were mountains of bronze. With the first chariot were RED HORSES, with the second chariot BLACK HORSES, with the third chariot WHITE HORSES, and with the fourth chariot DAPPLED HORSES -- strong steeds. Then I answered and said to the angel who talked with me, 'What are these, my lord?' And the angel answered and said to me, 'These are four spirits of heaven, who go out from their station before the Lord of all the earth. The one with the BLACK horses is going to the NORTH country [the "king of the north"!], the white are going after them, and the dappled are going toward the south country.' Then the strong steeds went out, eager to go, that they might walk to and fro throughout the earth. And He said, 'Go, walk to and fro throughout the earth.' So they walked to and fro throughout the earth. And He called to me, and spoke to me, saying, 'See, those who go toward the north country have given rest to My Spirit in the north country"' (Zech. 6:1-8). Does this strange prophecy connect with the four beasts of Daniel 7? Notice, they are also connected with "four spirits" or four "winds" of heaven (v.5). Let's read this passage in the Jewish Tanakh: "The horses of the first chariot were bay [red], the horses of the second chariot were black; the horses of the third chariot were white, and the horses of the four chariot were spotteddappled." The angel told Zechariah, "Those are the FOUR WINDS OF HEAVEN coming out after presenting themselves to the Lord of all the earth. The one with the BLACK horses is going out to the region of the NORTH; the white ones have gone out to what is to the WEST of them; the spotted ones have gone out to the region of the SOUTH; and the dappled ones have gone out ...." Why does the Tanakh say the white horses went out to the "WEST"? The King James says only that they went out after the black horses, which went to the north. The marginal reading in the Tanakh says, "Cf. 'ahor, 'west,' Isa. 9:11. Emendation yields 'the region of the west."' The Companion Bible, also, in a marginal comment on verse 6, concerning the white horses going 'after them," says, "after them: or, to the west of them" (p. 1986). Concerning the phrase, "the dappled ones have gone out ....", the Tanakh has a footnote, here, which reads, "Emendation yields 'the bay ones will go out to the REGION OF THE EAST." Thus these four chariots and horses are connected with the four regions of the earth -- north, west, south and east! In expounding this passage, the Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Critical, Experimental Commentary says: "6. The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country Babylon.... 'The black horses' go to Babylon, primarily to represent the awful desolation with which Darius [a type of Christ] visited it in the fifth year of his reign"' (p.677). The black horses, and north country, then, are connected with the "north wind" -- or Babylon! Today, that kingdom is centered in Europe! The commentary continues, "and the grisled go forth toward the south -- i.e., TO EGYPT, the other great foe of God's people." Certainly, the land of the "south" means south of Palestine, or Judea, and would include Africa, led primarily by Egypt! What about the "red" horses, then, which went to the EAST, according to the Tanakh? In the eastern hemisphere lies the kingdoms of RUSSIA and CHINA -- the preponderance of the continent of ASIA! The color of "red" reminds us unequivocally of Russia, the "Reds," "red flag" of Communism, the "Red Square" in Moscow, the red star on Soviet military equipment, the red hammer and sickle of the Russian flag. Red is connected with Russia. Thus the red horses and chariot are connected with Russia and China -- the "Communist" nations ! Russia is also connected with the "bear" sign -- the "Russian Bear," is a common term used to refer to the Russian military forces. This red horse then represents the same world power as the bear of Daniel 7. The black horse identifies with Babylon-Europe and Assyria-Germany. Germany is the land of the Iron chancellor Bismark, the iron cross, the black cross, the Nazi symbolism, the black uniforms of the Nazi storm troopers and the Waffen S.S. and Gestapo -- the color of Germany and Babylon is "black." The "spotted" or "dappled" horses are connected with the "king of the south" -- Egypt and her allies. This corresponds with the 'spotted" leopard beast of Daniel 7 -- the beast of the southern kingdom, Africa! This kingdom figures prominently in the last days as attacking the "king of the north." We read, "At the TIME OF THE END the king of the South shall ATTACK him; and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter the countries, overwhelm them, and pass through. . . He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape" (Dan. 11:40-42). What, then, about the white horses that went westward? What kingdom do they represent? Since we have identified the kingdoms of the north, south, and east, what is the kingdom of the west? Obviously, the white horses that went west are connected with the great world kingdom that lies in the western hemisphere! Since the red horses are Russia and China, the bear of Daniel 7; the grisled horses represent Egypt and the Arabs, the leopard of Daniel 7; and the black horses are Assyria-Babylon (modern Europe), representing the nondescript terrible beast of Daniel 7; then the white horses must represent the remaining western kingdom of Daniel 7 -- the "lion" like kingdom with eagle's wings. What great nation or group of nations in the WEST are "lion" hearted, and have "eagle's wings"? This can be none other than the United States of America and Britain and the Anglo-Saxon nations -- the English speaking nations which dominate the Western hemisphere and Western Europe! There are over 3,000,000 Jews in America, and God compares "Judah" to "a lion's whelp" who "lies down as a lion, and as a lion, who shall rouse him?" (Gen. 49:9). Of Joseph, Jacob prophesied, "The archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and hated him. But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob (from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel)" (Gen. 49:23-24). The two sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, were to inherit the "birthright promises" of vast lands and natural resources in the earth (Gen. 48:12-20; 49:25-26). Balaam prophesied of Israel, which includes the dominant sons of Joseph, "They shall devour enemy nations, crush their bones, and smash their arrows. They crouch, they lie down like a lion. Like the king of beasts, who dare rouse them?" (Num. 24:8-9). The United States has been like a strong "lion" during the 20th century. It has the world's most powerful air force symbolized by "eagle's wings." It was the difference in victory in World War I, World War II, led the western coalition against Iraq in the Gulf War, stopped the advance of Communism in Korea, and fought for years in Vietnam, finally pulling out in 1975, after more than ten years of bitter conflict. No nation has been more lion-like, both in prestige, and power, in the twentieth century than the United States. Although it is a mixed population, with many Gentiles living within its borders, it is the end-time tribe of Joseph -- the tribe of Ephraim -- and Britain is primarily the descendants of Manasseh, Joseph's older son. The two sons together have dominated the earth for the past two centuries -- Britain in the 19th century, and America in the 20th century. This chariot of white horses -- this first kingdom of Daniel 7 -- represents the Anglo-Saxon nations of America and Britain and their fellows. The color "white," itself, symbolizes righteousness (Rev. 19:8), and many of the wars our people have been engaged in have been "righteous wars" in the defense of freedom, liberty, and democracy. But our righteousness, unfortunately, has become as filthy rags in God's sight (Isa. 1:2-10; Isa. 64:6). God has now removed His protection from us, because we have forsaken Him and transgressed His immutable laws (see Leviticus 26 and Deut. 28). God's judgments are coming upon us! God thunders, "And end! the end has come upon the four corners of the land. Now the end has come upon you, and I will send My anger against you; I will JUDGE you according to your ways, and I will repay you for all your abominations. My eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity; but I will repay your ways, and your abominations will be in your midst; then you shall know that I am the LORD!" (Ezek. 7:2-4). Downfall of the Mighty The Scriptures are filled with warnings to Israel to repent and turn to God, before it is too late. The prophecies of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel all warn us to repent, and get right with God, or we will self-destruct, and be invaded, and taken captive by foreigners. How does this tie in with the New World Order? Many have imagined that a massive nuclear strike from Europe will see the demise of the United States. Herbert Armstrong predicted this for forty years, but it never happened. Since his death, Garner Ted Armstrong, Roderick Meredith, and Gerald Flurry, all are still predicting the same thing -- a union of ten nations in Europe, which will launch a secret attack and annihilate America and Britain! But does this make real sense? The end-time Beast is described as a world-wide governing kingdom -- not just "Europe." Europe does not have a military by itself anywhere nearly strong enough to do the job -- nor does it have near the nuclear capacity the United States has. Russia does -- but these "prophets" do not look at Russia as launching such an attack, but Europe! It seems to me such a theory is utter nonsense. Besides, if hundreds or thousands of nuclear bombs rained down on the United States, the whole country would be ruined by radioactive poisoning and radiation for 24,000 years or longer. The Chernobyl disaster in Russia has rendered thousands of acres, hundreds of square miles, of Russia uninhabitable. Think what devastation hundreds or thousands of nuclear bombs would do if they struck America? The whole North American continent could not be lived in for multiple thousands of years. Thus it would remain a desolation all during the Millennium of Christ! Does that make any sense? Of course not! Rather, as Abraham Lincoln once said, the only way for the United States to be conquered, is for it to be conquered from within. We can be taken over by a totalitarian, police-state type of Gentile government from within our own borders if we are not vigilant and alert and on guard! And let's face it -- our people have been sound asleep, blissfully unaware of their peril, trusting their government to take care of them, enjoying the "good life," and stubbornly turning their back on the moral and spiritual laws of heaven. Jeremiah writes, "The Lord was like an enemy, He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds. . . In His burning indignation He has spurned the king and the priest. The Lord has spurned His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces into the hand of the ENEMY" (Lam. 2:5-7). How will God do this? He will give us over to our enemies. But judging from the evidence, many of our enemies are our own rulers and leaders -- those who will sell, carry or cart us off into economic and physical slavery! Our nations are now tied in to the New World Order, and its rules and regulationsand this will turn into dire slavery, as we are forced to compete with workers earning $1-4 a day in manufacturing and selling products around the world. When America's economy plummets into the gutter, foreigners will pick up the pieces, as "debt" owed to them. They and their allies in the American government, will use America's military power for their own diabolical purposes, to further implement the New World Order. Many Americans will be captives within their own land, with many others carted off to Germany and Egypt to work for foreigners (Isa. 27:13). When God's judgments come upon our fair lands, one third will die of pestilence -- disease epidemics and famine (Ezek. 5:12). After this weakens our nations to the point of extreme distress and weakness, enemies -- whether domestic forces or foreign military, in the service of the New World Order -- will destroy another third of the population who will not submit to volunteer slavery (same verse). The remaining third will be enslaved, shackle, and serve as labor for the forces of the New World Order. Before the final battles are fought, and the final treason is committed, there may well be a number of nuclear weapons exploded here and there as "object lessons" which will kill millions (perhaps New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago, or wherever the "enemy" determines, in order to minimize any resistance. However, it is very possible the United States could fall, and succumb to the New World Order, voluntarily, betrayed by its leaders who may have positions of high responsibility in the "New Order." Ezekiel describes it this way: "They have blown the trumpet and made everyone ready, but no one goes to battle; for My wrath is on all their multitude. The sword is outside, and the pestilence and famine within. Whoever is in the field will die by the sword; and whoever is in the city, famine and pestilence will devour him. Those who SURVIVE will escape and be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each for his iniquity. Every hand will be feeble, and every knee will be as weak as water. They will be girded with sackcloth; horror will cover them; shame will be on every face, baldness on all their heads. They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be like refuse; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the WRATH of the LORD; they will not satisfy their souls, nor fill their stomachs, because it became their stumbling block of iniquity" (Ezek. 7:14-19). God says the process is occurring right under our noses-we are stealthily, surreptitiously, being taken over and enslaved. The loss of our freedoms and liberties is gradual -one at a time, so we don't notice it. Freedom of assembly has been curtailed, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure have been emasculated in the new anti-drug laws, freedom of speech is in great danger since the bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma City, freedom of religion will no doubt be the last freedom to "go." By then it will be too late -- if it isn't already. "Aliens have devoured his strength" The prophet Hosea warns, "Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake unturned [half-baked, cooked on one side and not on the other]. ALIENS HAVE DEVOURED HIS STRENGTH, but he does not know it. Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him, yet he does not know it" (Hos. 7:8-9). Gradually, Ephraim and modern Israel is being sucked into the vortex of the Octopus of the New World Order. Before the majority of the people wake up, it will be a "fait accompli." The people are duped by false religion. God says, '"Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin, they have become for him altars for sinning. I have written for him the great things of My law, but they were considered a strange thing" (Hosea 8:11-12). Because of our sins, and our blindness, we are almost already completely taken over by the forces, overt and covert, of the agents of the New World Order -- believe it or not! A vast nuclear attack from Europe would be neither necessary nor productive for the forces of the New World Order -- they have no desire to contaminate the land with radioactive nuclear isotopes for the next 24,000 years. Rather, they intend to plunder and rape the land of all its natural resources, and even inhabit the best of the land for themselves. Therefore a massive nuclear strike, such as is posited by Gerald Flurry, Ted Armstrong, and Roderick Meredith is neither warranted nor helpful. Do you think the men behind the New World Order want to make the whole world one vast Chernobyl? But as God warns, ALIENS in our very midst are in the process of devouring our true strength, and subverting our military forces, and weakening and destabilizing us, so that we will be food for the fodder of the United Nations/New World Order end-time Mega-World-Empire. The prophet Ezekiel provides a real insight into affairs in our modern nations of the House of Israel -- particularly America, Britain, and the English-speaking nations. We have traveled far down the road of Socialism, and our leaders -called "princes" in the Scriptures -- have led the people astray. Says Almighty God through the prophet: "There is a CONSPIRACY of her princes within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her. Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. Her officials within her are like WOLVES tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain. Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations [interpretations of Scripture and false teachings]. They say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says' -when the LORD has not spoken. The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the alien, denying them justice. "I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall [strengthen the country, economically, militarily, spiritually] and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none. So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD" (Ezekiel 22:25-31, NIV). Corruption in Very High Places God is disgusted with the national leaders of the United States, Britain, and the modern nations of Israel. He looks down upon the men running for President in the United States, and doesn't see a good, decent man among them! In the current President, He sees a man who smoked pot and used cocaine while Attorney General and Governor of Arkansas, while playing with his girlfriends. In fact, the U.S. media has done an incredible job of covering up the sexcapades and skeletons in the closet of the U.S.'s "first couple," Bill and Hillary Clinton. Contrast their non-reporting on the Vince Foster murder and cover-up, and Whitewatergate affair, with the hatchet-job the press did on former President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal. In a shocking article in the London Sunday Telegraph, however, it was charged that Bill Clinton used both marijuana and cocaine routinely while Attorney General and Governor of Arkansas The writer says the allegations of regular usage of these drugs during his rise to political prominence in Arkansas were made in a series of exclusive interviews, some of the stories describing wild behavior at night clubs and private parties. A variety of witnesses interviewed by the newspaper claim his drug habit stretched well into his political career, while he was part of the law enforcement machinery that gave stiff sentences to drug felons. The paper asked, "And if the President once had a major drug habit, when did it end? 1986? 1990? 1994? ..."(Sunday Telegraph, July 17,1994). Mrs. Jane Parks, manager of Vantage Point, an upscale apartment complex in Little Rock, Arkansas, was in a room next to Roger Clinton's room, separated only by a thin wall. Following the mysterious murder of her husband, Jerry Parks, she decided to speak out about the goings on at the apartment of the then Governor's younger brother. She could over hear conversations in the next apartment, could clearly distinguish Bill Clinton's voice, as he chatted about the quality of the marijuana he and his brother were smoking. Governor Clinton, then in his second term of office, was a frequent visitor in the apartment. She could hear them talking about the cocaine as they passed it back and forth. When Roger finally moved out, she found drug paraphernalia in the kitchen drawer, and cocaine spilt on the furniture. It was not uncommon for the brothers to be joined by young women during these trysts, sharing the drugs, who on occasion had sex with both the men. Other tenants frequently complained to Mrs. Parks about the rowdy behavior in room B107. Another resident of the apartment complex says, "Bill had his girlfriends in there. You could hear them through the walls. Some of them looked like very young girls to me. Mrs. Parks' husband Jerry was a former police officer and then branch manager of a private security firm in Little Rock. Fearing difficulties for his wife in her capacity as apartment manager, he conducted his own surveillance of Roger's apartment, writing down names, dates, and detailed accounts of who was coming and going. He stored the handwritten file in their bedroom dresser. By a quirk of fate, in 1992 when he had set up his own security firm, he was awarded the security contract for the Clinton-Gore Presidential campaign headquarters in Little Rock. In early 1993, when he was not paid immediately, he made repeated calls to the White House demanding payment. The money finally arrived in July. But just a few days later his secret file was stolen from the dresser in his bedroom in a sophisticated burglary, in which the telephone wires were cut to disable the high-tech alarm system. The file was the only item stolen. Soon after the burglary, Jerry Parks received two phone calls which his wife says left him in a state of paranoia,popping valium, and taking his pistol with him everywhere, even to collect mail at the end of the driveway. Two months later, he was shot several times at short range at a suburban intersection in Little Rock. The perpetrators were never caught by the police, and the murder remains unsolved. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Obviously, God Almighty is not pleased with this kind of leadership and conduct on the part of the President of the United States ! The "Butcher of Waco" and the Abortion Holocaust At the present time, pro-life anti-abortionists are the primary target of Bill Clinton's onslaught to attack Christians and traditional-minded people. When a second abortionist was murdered in Florida, the Administration of Bill Clinton went on a "feeding frenzy" to terminate the "pro life" movement, pushing through draconian new laws against freedom of assembly, denying people the right to even gather and pray in front of abortion clinics. Janet Reno, who has been dubbed the "Butcher of Waco," because of her ordering the incendiary attack on the Branch Dividian compound which resulted in the deaths of over 80 innocent people, never convicted of any crimes, including children, has suggested that the pro-life movement is one giant conspiracy. She and the government now equate pro-lifers who kneel and pray before abortion clinics as "terrorists." Pro-lifers point out that in the battle against abortion, the abortionists are winning. The body count is 2 abortionists versus 37 million aborted babies. Writes Don McAlvany of this paradox, "Does something seem wrong here? The people praying outside are called the 'criminals' and can be jailed, fined, and have their property seized under new racketeering statutes and other laws, while the people doing the killing of babies inside are called the 'honest law abiding citizens' and are protected by federal government Marshals. Shades of Nazi Germany! And most Americans can't see anything wrong with that!" (The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor August 1994, p. 19). No wonder God says, "I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none." None of our leaders could stand before God. They are leading the way into the Satan-inspired New World Order, with greedy and cheerful abandon. The Octopus This final composite World Empire is described as the "fourth beast" in Daniel 7. It is a huge octopus with far-reaching arms and tentacles. It will devour the whole earth ! Now notice again carefully this "fourth beast" of Daniel. It will have ten horns (Dan. 7:20), and will be "exceedingly dreadful" and exceedingly warlike and destructive (v. l9). It will even persecute and wage war on true Christians, the "saints" (Dan. 7:21). It is the same as the beast of Revelation 13, which also has "ten horns (Rev. 13:1). But now notice carefully: This beast has the characteristics of the other three beasts of Daniel 7 -- the body of the leopard, the feet and claws of the bear, and the mouth of the lion! (v.2). Thus it is evident that this last undescript beast has taken on the characteristics of the other three beasts -- the Bear -- Russia, Lion -- United States and Britain, the leopard -- Egypt and the Arab states. Yet this final Beast corresponds to the BLACK horse of Europe -- the "Fourth Beast," or what Hitler would have called "The FOURTH REICH." Somehow, it will absorb and ruleover-- at least for a time -- the other three beasts, as they are incorporated into its structure and power! Thus this fourth Beast -- the New World Order -- will include by force if necessary the characteristics of the other three beasts of Daniel 7. It will utilize the powers of the United States, Russia, and Egypt and Arab nations. What other international body could do this today besides the UNITED NATIONS? The United States has already brought itself under the rulership of the United Nations insofar as UNESCO and many UN operations are concerned. The United States presently allows UN troops from Germany, Russia, and many other nations to TRAIN at American military bases, often in conjunction and cooperation with American forces, troops, and performing join maneuvers and interdiction operations, including simulated attacks on civilian "terrorists," and "dissenters." Although these operations seldom if ever make the evening news, newspapers or television news, various patriotic publications keep an eye on them and report the truth, week by week, keeping the watchful public informed. The rest, the vast majority, unfortunately, are asleep at the switch, and don't even realize what is happening! There can be no doubt that the United States and the ten tribes of Israel, which long ago wandered to the west, and established nations in Western Europe and North America, have become part of a worldwide Babylonish system, and are now in the process of becoming absorbed into a modern world super-statewhich the Bible refers to as "Babylon the Great," with virtually no resistance! Although we are "Israel," we are also part of modern BABYLON THE GREAT! Although there could well be vast resistance by patriots and others in the United States, before the final deed in done and accomplished, depending on the strength and fortitude of the growing militia movement across the country, their resistance will be too little and too late, and amount to merely a last ditch attempt and last gasp at freedom, before the final juggernaut of the New World Order and its legions of mercenaries and troops overwhelm the resistance and bring the country into the New World Order of the elite international bankers, politicians, and globalists who think they have the answers for everything that ails this planet. Little do most of the American and British leaders who are cooperating in the takeover by the New World Order realize that their own aims and dreams are to be suborned and subverted by treasonous traitors, and that eventually a master politician will seize control of the reins of power. A master politician, the Antichrist, who is in the service of Satan the devil, will subvert the whole process. He, as the representative of Satan the devil, plans to rule the world in a tyrannical, brutal global police state one last time, before his own end comes (Rev. 12:9-17; 20:1-4). Who will this leader, who opposes all that is good and decent, be? Could it be an American? The Coming "Antichrist" Biblical prophecy compares this end-time ruler and his empire to the Roman Empire of Jesus' time. The Roman Empire, was WEST of Judea, and believe it or not was largely ISRAELITE in origin. The original founders of Rome were refugees from the Israelite city of ancient Troy. The Etruscan Empire, which dominated part of Italy in ancient times, was actually established by the "lost ten tribes" of Israel. Many Israelites of the Tribes of Dan Joseph, and Simeon dwelt in Rome and were powerful rulers. At time the Jews themselves comprised 10 percent of the population of the Empire. Although the Roman Empire had much Israelite influence in it, nevertheless it was characterized as a "Beast," and some of its more notorious leaders were anti-types of the end-time "Beast" or "Antichrist." Such infamous emperors as Nero, Caligula, were undoubtedly "antichrists" of their own time and epoch. Is the United States, today, part of MODERN ROME? The mercantile capital of the world, today, is New York City -- a veritable "Babylon" by anyone's standards. The city of London,also, is a mercantile and banking "Babylon" -- the world's banking headquarters of the earth. Evens the queen of England must receive permission to enter the "city of London" from the lord mayor. Many of us, in the past, have thought that the United States -- since it is Ephraim, the dominant tribe of Israel must be conquered in a great military campaign, in order for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled. But we have overlooked a more distressing and likely possibility -- that we have already been conquered stealthily from within during the past fifty years since World War Il in a gradual process of subtle changes on top of changes. Since the United States the world's greatest '"Superpower," today, what would be more logical than for Satan the devil to take it over from within, and use it as the keystone of his own end-time "Babylon the Great"? Along these lines, consider the following: "When Clinton came into office in 1992, the balance of trade deficit was under $70 billion, and falling. By 1994 it had more than doubled, to over $150 billion. An all-time record high. Until 1995, that is: this year, the World bank projects the U.S. deficit will hit $200 billion.... "Today, as a direct result of America's dollar plunging in value, the U.S. imports 50 times more than it did in 1965, when its dollar was strong. The more the dollar falls, the deeper in debt America becomes, and the more staggering her import load grows" (TWSU, p.6). How will this affect our country? William Jefferson Clinton is no dummy. He knows what he is doing. Says The Wall Street Underground: "The collapse of the dollar is a watershed event. It was engineered and carried out by that great liberal hero, Bill Clinton. No other president before him would have let the dollar collapse like this. They would have done everything in their power to stop its destructive consequences. "Not Clinton. He saw the 30% collapse of the Mexican peso as a catastrophic event. It had to be stopped, he said. He even rifled the U.S. Treasury to give the Mexicans tens of billions to support the peso. "But Clinton has totally ignored the 40% fall of the U.S. dollar. He even pushed it lower. It makes you wonder what country Bill Clinton is president of. I'll tell you: He is president of the new world order. In that order America is impoverished, as Clinton converts the wealth of the productive members of society to the nonproductive.... "Clinton is no fool. He knows his dollar policy will not help the U.S. But it will hasten his dream of a ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT, that he and his friends control. By facing constant market strife and uncertainty, the world in time will accept a ONE-WORLD CURRENCY. Sounds far-fetched? Well, consider that it's getting closer to reality in Europe by the day" (TWSU, p. 12). Makes you stop and think, doesn't it? William Clinton is clearly a strong contender in the rush to create a New World Order. As President of the strongest military power on earth, Clinton has been making all the right moves to emasculate American sovereignty, to weaken her independent military, and to make her part of the New World Order. The Spell of Blindness Britain also is rushing headlong to join the New World Order. The government of Prime Minister John Major seems intent on hitching its wagon with the European Economic Union. However, voices are now being raised to question the move and its sanity. In The Daily Telegraph, Niall Ferguson (Fellow and Tutor in Modem History, Jesus College, Oxford), wrote: "The point about the EC's federal structure is not that it gives Britain international influence, but that it negates Britain's international influence. This has been apparent in the case of the wars in former Yugoslavia. The common foreign policy which emerged in response to Serbian and later Croatian attempts to partition Bosnia has been a wretched advertisement for the EC. "Some warn we could become a third-rank power on the periphery of Europe. The best reply to that is: good, let us take the risk, but let us at least determine our own destiny. Once, four centuries ago, we were a third-rank power on the periphery of Europe. We had the option of being absorbed into the European Union of the Habsburgs. We rejected that option and went on, over the next 300 years, to rule the most extensive Empire the world has ever seen" (April 9, 1994). Although the push for Britain to join the European Community is very strong, another voice raised in protest is that of Christopher Booker in The Sunday Telegraph (May 1, 1994). Booker writes: "Britain today is like a kingdom in an old fairy tale that has been placed under a terrible spell. At an Institute of Directors' conference on Tuesday I saw thousands of businessmen who were stumbling around in a fog, semi-paralysed because they know this thing that has them in its thrall is insane, but unable to imagine that there could be any way out . . . It is the same spell that has reduced all our politicians to gibbering impotence, and that has alienated the Government from millions of its formerly loyal supporters. . . ". . . there is only one way out of this claustrophobic nightmare and that is simply to escape from it altogether.... "When we have done so we shall look back and see just what a sham of painted cardboard this monster was. Suddenly we British see the chance to be ourselves again, living freely once more in the fresh air of a real world. It will be one of the greatest instruments of liberation our country has known." But the forces propelling America and Britain into the structure and form of the New World Order are strong, powerful, wealthy, and have been working at their plot for decades. They now sense that the fruition of their aims is near. The year 2000 could very well see the complete immersion of the Western World into the new "Roman Empire." What does this mean for America, Britain, and the nations of modern Israel? Does Civil War Lie Ahead? Will the attempt to merge our nations into a New World Government be met with "Civil War"? Will American patriots fight against this powerful statist movement? The prophet Zechariah tells us: "Open your doors, O Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars. Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the mighty trees are ruined. Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has come down. There is the sound of wailing shepherds! For their glory is in ruins. There is the sound of roaring lions [Americans, British, and Jewish people -- and all modern Israel!]! For the pride of Jordan is in ruins. "Thus says the LORD my God. 'Feed the flock for slaughter, whose owners slaughter them and feel no guilt; those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD I am rich'; and their [own] shepherds do not pity them. For I will no longer pity theinhabitants of the land,' says the LORD. 'But indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor's hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the land [Civil War!], and I will not deliver them from their hand" (Zech. 11:1-6). Does this describe the movement toward martial law and a police state within the United States and modern Israel during these last days? Does this describe the treacherous sellout and betrayal of American and British sovereignty by the rich and powerful, politicians and potentates, presidents and prime ministers? What Should We Do in These Perilous Times? As for our people and our nations, God thunders to us individually and nationally, to COME OUT of this wicked, evilish, diabolical Babylonish world-mega-state system and to be no part of it! God declares, "COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, LEST YOU SHARE IN HER SINS, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities" (Rev. 18:4-5). The apostle Paul declares: '"Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: 'I will dwell in them, And walk among them, I will be their God. And they shall be My people.' 'COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM, And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.' 'I will be a Father to you. And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty"' (IICor. 6:14-18). Sooner or later, our people must wake up, and repent, and come out of this Babylonish mess, or else suffer the wrath of Almighty God, when He punishes the system with His divine plagues and furious strokes. The sooner we come to our senses, and repent, the less severe our ultimate punishment will be! The New World Order is fast approaching. As Christians, we cannot stop it, we cannot stop the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Rather, we should realize that this is God's Judgment upon our nations, and wayward, sinning, stubborn and disobedient peoples, and that it must come to pass. We must stand aside from armed conflict, and pray more earnestly, that God's Kingdom -His TRUE Kingdom -- will come, and come quickly, and that we may be accounted worthy ourselves to ESCAPE the hellishness that Satan is planning to wreak upon planet earth, before his time is up! (Luke 21:34-36). The New World Order is rapidly developing all around us, sending out shoots, and strong ensnaring vines. We must be doubly careful and vigilant. Many are already asleep. What about you? Do you see what is happening, right before our very eyes? Or are you duped by some false prophetic scenario? May God help us all to WAKE UP! For a FREE one-year subscription to "PROPHECY FLASH" magazine, E-MAIL your name and address to: 102647.712@compuserve.com OR TPM8579551@aol.com If you prefer, write to: Triumph Prophetic Ministries P.O. Box 292 Altadena, CA 91003 U.S.A. Be sure to visit Triumph's World Wide Web HOME PAGE at: http://www.register.com/triumph Our website contains an array of information and services for the discerning Christian -- be sure to visit us soon! *************************** Things Happening When Israel Became a Nation By: Justin W. Gramm sienar@ix.netcom.com We can all agree that Israel is God's Prophetic Timepiece. I am also sure that most would agree that when Israel became a nation, it signalled the beginning of the end. So, it should not be a leap of faith to assume that events happening at the time Israel became a nation may also have impacts on End-Time events. So, here is a cursory list of events unfolding at the same time Israel was being reborn. Please note that my comments are simply my remarks about possible connections and not predictions. They are simply my personal musings on what these events may mean. I leave it up to you, the reader, to decide what it all means. 1930's ------- } Credit Cards Born (This signals the beginning of America's forthcoming debt problem. Also a forerunner of Smartcards and possibly leading to the mark.) 1945 ------- } United Nations Officially Formed (The tool to make Israel a nation. Also a tool for the New World Order.) 1946 ------- } First Radar Astronomy Observation (Possible tie in to the UFO & New Age phenomena.) } ENIAC (Computers are necessary for tracking all transactions, and a possible electronic implanted mark.) } National Mental Health Act (Anything Psychologists do is bad in my opinion....) } Social Security Administration (Helps to bring our country into debt, and to eventually promote euthanasia as opposed to spending millions on Health Care.) 1947 ------- } First "Modern Day" UFO Sighting -Kenneth Arnold, Mt.Rainier, Washington State, June 24, 1947. (Will the anti-christ be an "alien"?) } CIA Formed (No clue. Interesting though.) } Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran (Brought about "new" Bible translations. It is interesting to note that while these "new" translations claim enlightenment gleaned from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the scrolls themselves do not contain any writings associated with the New Testament. Also, the scrolls do not contain any mention or concept of the Trinity.) (Source: Microsoft Encarta '95, Dead Sea Scrolls article.) } Holography -Dennis Grabor, a British physicist develops theory for holography. (Could the mark be holographic? Otherwise, no clue.) } Israel becomes a nation (The signal of the beginning of the end.) } Marshall Plan (Helping to rebuild and revive "Rome.") } National Security Council (Unknown, but also interesting.) } Transistor (Necessary development for modern computers to track all transactions.) 1948 ------- } Cybernetics (Possible connection to the mark being "in" the hand.) } GATT General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (Forerunner of future one-world market.) } Information Theory (Methods of transmitting vast amounts of information explored. This would be necessary for tracking transactions and peoples' movements.) } OAS - Organization of American States (Another forerunner of future one-world market and government.) 1950's ------- } Databases - Early experiments in database theory and technology. (You've gotta put all that data from tracking all those transactions and keeping track of all those people somewhere...) } Credit Cards in general use. (The debt ball is rolling downhill, the eventual mark is gaining acceptance.) I'm sure there is probably even more things than this that I missed during my search. These are the things I came up with while browsing my Microsoft Encarta '95 CD-ROM for an hour or so. (The CD is also my source for all dates & items listed.) It seems quite clear to me that most of these events were helping to usher in the age of the anti-christ. I unfortunately do not have the time to conduct a more thorough search. If anyone out there has the time, they may want to dig a little deeper, and see what else was going on. And, of course, share those results with the rest of us. (On a completely unrelated topic, the term "anti-christ" is intentionally absent of capital letters. So are any mentions of satan, the devil, or any names of lucifer. This is just my own personal "strike back" at the enemy, however slight it may be. Just showing a little disrespect. Please feel free to join in, by only capitalizing His Name, not satan's.) *************************** Prophe-Zine's News Bites Newsletter Review The Elijah Report By: Ray Gano Being the Editor of Prophe-Zine, I have to do A LOT of reading and keeping up on what is going on in the world. One of the ways that I do this is through subscriptions to magazines and newsletters. Once again, I have come across a GREAT newsletter. This is put out by a fellow brother in the Lord, Norm Franz. I was introduce to Norm through Terry Cook, who often has articles appearing in Norm's newsletter, The Elijah Report. Norm is Founder and Director of the Institute of Prophetic Study in Ft. Collins, CO. He is also the Editor and Publisher of the Elijah Report. The Elijah Report is a great resource to anyone who is a "Watchman" in these days. Norm is a former political and monetary economist, loan officer, investment company president. His news letter deals majorly with the New World Order and Global Economics. I have been very impressed with his newsletter regarding the monetary issues of the coming world government and his great insight into today's economics. In fact, in Norm's latest issue one of his many great articles was titled "Commercial Babylon Exposed...Debt at Critical Mass" INCREDIBLE article!!! So, if you are a student of Bible Prophecy and are looking for a newsletter that has its finger on the pulse of Global Economics, you have to get the Elijah Report. To get the Elijah Report send $29.00 to: The Elijah Report 2100 W. Drake Rd. Ste.# 115 Ft. Collins, Colorado 80526 Phone# : 970 - 490-1543 Fax# : 970 - 490-1543 When you do subscribe, tell them you saw it in Prophe-Zine. ++++++++++++++++++ Attention Colorado Residents!!! The "Spirit of Elijah Prophecy Conference" is coming your way! The study of Bible Prophecy is a great hobby of mine. I call it a hobby because me being a Christian I am not commissioned by my Lord to go out and spread the Gospel and Study Bible Prophecy. (See Mt 28: 19-20) Thus it being a hobby. Being a student of Bible Prophecy, I am always on the hunt for the newest books, newsletters and videos. I also enjoy going to Prophecy Seminars. If you live in the Ft. Collins area, great news, you have a big Bible Prophecy seminar coming your way being sponsored by The Institute of Prophetic Study. This will be taking place on April 2, 3, 4th, 1996. The following is the list of speakers who will be in attendance. Terry Cook: Author of "The Mark of The New World Order" Norm Franz: Director of Institute of Prophetic Study. Editor and publisher of The Elijah Report. Henry Gruver: Called by God to walk and pray down spiritual strongholds in more than 100 cities. Gary Kah: Author of "Enroute to Global Occupation"and "Demonic Roots of Globalism" Ralph Messer: Founder and leader of "Simchat Torah" and who is dedicated to the exposition of the Hebrew Scriptures. Paul Schell: Host of the Daily Television program "Prepare For War" in the Denver, CO area. Conference fees are $50.00 per person and $90 per Couple. These fees include 3 days and 3 nights of the conference and also includes the Passover meal on April 3rd. If you live in the Colorado area or would like more info about attending the "Spirit of Elijah Prophecy Conference", call 970-490-1543. They can also give you information about hotel registration. If you know of any seminars or speakers coming to your area, and if you let me know ahead of time, I will let the readers of Prophe-Zine know. I need about a month and a half leeway time. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ National Police Force??? The following is a verbatim transcript of an article appearing in the Chicago Tribune, Tuesday, March 5, 1996. It was located in section 1 on page 3. House plans to overhaul CIA unveiled By Michael Killian-Tribune Staff Writer WASHINGTON- Legislation to break up the Central Intelligence Agency and create a separate, covert, all-spy U.S. Clandestine Service was unveiled Monday by the head of the House Intelligence Committee. The measure, part of a package that would completely overhaul the nation's civilian and military intelligence apparatus, follows a year-long House study of U.S. spying methods prompted by the Aldrich Ames spy scandal and **other troubles**. (Which would THOSE be?-EP) Last Friday, a presidential commission on American intelligence led by former Defense Secretary Harold Brown issued a report calling for a wide array of modest reforms. One would give the director of intelligence a stronger voice in White House national security deliberations. But the Brown Commission changes are minor compared with the sweeping recommendations of the bill introduced by Intelligence Committee chairman Larry Combest (R-Texas). The House measure would not only elevate the intelligence director's status in White House councils but would also give him veto power over military appointments to intelligence posts. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Arlen Specter has complained that the presidential commission's proposals are too weak. Specter, joined by the committee's ranking (I think RANK is a better word, don't YOU?-EP) Democrat, Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, said the civilian director of central intelligence should have control of the military spying budget. The Combest bill also would merge the National Security Agency and its global electronic surveillance network with the satellite-operating National Reconnaissance Office and other military agencies. The Brown Commission concluded that the U.S. faces many threats in a "dangerous world," but its proposals basically leave the current structure of the U.S. intelligence community intact. (It was commie before, it's commie now.-EP) Combest agreed that the country faced complex dangers, with the end of the cold war, "U.S. national security interests are less threatened than at any time since 1940." He said this comparative lull provides an opportunity to undertake a major redesign of the intelligence community, which he complained had grown into "an ad hoc structure of..many disparate agencies that have been self-serving." The CIA's cloak-and-dagger Directorate of Operations has been faulted as an "old boys network" that tolerated Ames and lied about using a Guatemalan agent who murdered a U.S. citizen. The NRO, whose director and deputy director were fired last week, was attacked for building a $300 million office complex and hiding away billions (with a B!-EP) in taxpayer dollars without Congress' knowledge. Under Combest's House measure, the CIA would become mostly an analysis and management agency. The Directorate of Operations would be taken from it and merged with the covert units of most other agencies that conduct espionage. These would form the new Clandestine Service wholly answerable to the director of central intelligence. ++++++++++++++++++++++ -- WANTED -- JESUS CHRIST by the FBI, NEA, ADL, IRS, FDA, OSHA, etc WANTED by the FBI for teaching that there is a higher power and authority than the government. WANTED by the FDA for turning water into wine without a license. WANTED by the EPA for feeding a crowd of 5000 in the wilderness without a permit. WANTED by the AMA for practicing medicine without a license. WANTED by the NEA for teaching without certification. WANTED by the ADL for calling the Pharisees the children of hell. WANTED by the IRS for failing to report income. WANTED by the NAACP for teaching people to work and depend on GOD rather than the welfare dole. WANTED by NOW for never having a woman as an apostle. WANTED by the FEDERAL RESERVE for driving the money changers out of the Temple. WANTED by the Abortion Rights League for saying that whoever harms children it is better that they were never born. WANTED by the U.S. Judicial System for refusing to swear an oath or bear witness against Himself. WANTED by the Human Rights Bureau for condemning all other religions as false by announcing that no one can get to the Father except through Him. WANTED DEAD --- BOUNTY OFFERED 30 Pieces of Silver in the form of welfare benefits, government pensions, IRS exemptions, Witness Protection. +++++++++++++++++++++++ Editor Note: I was sent this from one of the many news lists I belong to. I find this interesting because so many christians will loose thier head during the trib. In Reveations it states "I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of G-d, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." Revelation 20:5 -- Ray, Prophe-Zine -- GUILLOTINE PROPOSED AS MEANS OF EXECUTION IN GEORGIA Georgia lawmaker Doug Teper (Democrat) has proposed a bill to replace the state's electric chair with the guillotine. Teper's reasoning? It would allow for death-row inmates as organ donors, he says, since the "Blade makes a clean cut and leaves vital organs intact." In 1995, a move to replace the electric chair with lethal injection (poisoning) failed in Georgia's assembly because legislators feared that prisoners could argue for a new sentencing hearing if the state changed the law. The Guillotine, invented by the French Dr. Guillotine, was mainly used in the 18th and 19th century and chops off a person's head. It hasn't been used for decades in any country in the world. ++++++++++++++++++++++ When The State Religion Police Comes To Visit Sun, 3 Mar 1996 11:51:46 -0600 By: Washington Weekly ++++++++++++++++ Editor Note: I have gotten some hate email and other mail asking me how I can support Pat Buchannan. Many of these people quote the typical 5 words that are going around in the popular press. "He said this...insert 5 words here" and base it all on fact. Would we do this with our Lord? Well many do...famous line is "Well Jesus said a eye for an eye" and "the Bible is the bloodiest book around". These statement are all drawn because of a lack of knowledge in the Bible, thus many people quote second hand info. I know that when the secular world does that, it gets me very mad. Well I find it very interesting that many Christians get up in arms about this abuse of the Bible, and yet when it comes to another person or situation, they do not take the time to do some digging and to see if the facts are strait. Well here is a official press release that I got from the Buchannan Head Quarters..... -- Ray PZ -- Anti-Semitism...Setting the Record Straight From: Official Pat Buchanan Internet Campaign Headquarters This is an Official Buchanan for President Press Release - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - For Immediate Release: March 1, 1996 Pat Buchanan- Setting the Record Straight on Anti-Semitism Pat Buchanan has always favored a strong, independent state of Israel. He has been a lifelong friend to the Jewish people, both individually and collectively speaking. In 1973, as a special assistant to President Nixon, he strongly supported the decision to aid the Israelis with a massive airlift that saved the country in the Yom Kippur War. In 1976, he supported the Israeli raid on Entebbe, and in 1981 he supported the Begin government's attack on the Baghdad nuclear reactor. In 1986, he was instrumental in getting Natan Sharanski released from the Gulag at the urging of his wife Avital. His columns throughout his 20 years as a columnist contain numerous affirmations of his view that the U.S. has a "moral commitment - to guarantee the security and survival of the Israeli state," (as he told Human Events editor Allan Ryskind in 1992), and not a single reference that can remotely be considered anti-Semitic. Why, then, the charges? The charges of anti-Semitism are based on political disputes; stands that Mr. Buchanan has taken over the years which have angered some columnists, lobbyists, and pundits. They are rooted, in part, in disagreements about the direction of American foreign policy, and have nothing to do with supposed expressions of racist or anti-Semitic sentiment by Mr. Buchanan. Some of these stands include: * His support of the "land for peace" policy in the Middle East, which is now the official policy of the Israeli government. * His early opposition to a U.S. commitment to re-establish the Emir of Kuwait because it would put American lives at stake in a conflict that he believed was not in America's vital interest. Actually, Buchanan favored deterring Saddam Hussein's aggression in Saudi Arabia. * His defense of John Demjanjuk, a retired Cleveland auto worker, against the charge that he was "Ivan the Terrible," the Treblinka Death Camp guard responsible for the mass murder of Jews. Despite deportation by the U.S. Justice Department on the basis of evidence falsified by the Soviet KGB, the Israeli Supreme Court subsequently ruled that it was a case of mistaken identity, which Buchanan had maintained all along. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Quote-Unquote In the past six months, anonymous sources have distributed "documentation" of the charges of anti-Semitism, quoting Mr. Buchanan's past columns and public statements. These quotations -- clearly taken out of context and given the most malicious interpretation possible -- represent a transparent effort to misrepresent Pat Buchanan on issues relating to the Jewish people, Israel, and racial minorities. The following refutation of some of the more outrageous charges (in quotes) should help to set the record straight. 1."Buchanan told Elie Wiesel that President Reagan must not surrender to 'Jewish pressure' against visiting a German cemetery where SS men were buried." * This story was originally broadcast on NBC by Marvin Kalb, soon before President Reagan made a controversial visit to Bitburg cemetery in 1985. Kalb reported that Buchanan had been observed writing, "over and over again," "succumbing to the pressure of the Jews." The alleged source of the story later told the New York Times that Kalb was mistaken about the notation, and that "This is a complete flap over nothing. . . Any criticism of Mr. Buchanan based on his notes is a bum rap." Kalb later apologized for the report. 2."In a 1977 column Buchanan called Hitler an 'individual of great courage' who possessed 'extraordinary gifts.'" * The excerpted phrases are intended to leave the impression that the column was a tribute to Adolf Hitler. In reality, the column was, in large part, an account of historian John Toland's widely-acclaimed biography of Hitler. A characterization of Toland's depiction of Hitler, reads, "Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the Great War, a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him." In the same column Buchanan writes that "Hitler was marching along the road toward a New Order where Western civilization would not survive." Far from an endorsement of Hitler, the column warned of making the same mistake with Mao Tse-tun and Taiwan in 1977 that deluded western leaders made with Hitler and Czechoslovakia in the `30s. 3. "In an interview in Present Tense magazine, Buchanan stated that 'if my friends in the Jewish community feel Pat Buchanan, a traditionalist Catholic, owes some kind of apology for the record of the Holy Father during World War II, they can wait, because it's not going to be forthcoming." * The context of the comment was the demand by Bronx Rabbi Avraham Weiss for the Catholic Church to expel Carmelite nuns from their convent at Auschwitz, on the grounds that their presence there was an insult to Jewish sensibilities, since Pope Pius XII and the Church were allegedly complicit in the Holocaust. Weiss actually invaded the convent at Auschwitz to protest the nuns' presence. The Boston Herald wrote in defense of Weiss' actions, saying "The coldness of it was numbing: On the spot where one-quarter of European Jewry was martyred, the church that for 1,000 years had done so much to feed anti-Semitism intended to set up shop." Pat Buchanan wrote a column defending the Catholic Church and Pope Pius XII against the slur (which had its origins in Rolf Hochhuth's fictional play "The Deputy" in 1963), and pointing out that the contemporary testimony of Jewish leaders contradicted the charges, in fact praising Pius XII for saving Jewish lives. 4. "On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States." * Early in the Gulf crisis, before the big buildup of U.S. ground troops in the Gulf, some columnists in the U.S. and Israeli officials were clamoring for an early strike against the Iraq. According to a contemporary account in the New York Times "Many Israeli politicians, academic experts an citizens are growing nervous, and in some cases angry, after concluding that the United States wants a political solution and is not looking for a military confrontation in the Persian Gulf. "If the United States doesn't solve the problem now," Prime Minister Shamir's chief of staff was quoted, "Then, they'll have to fly the Marines back here again." Many military experts agreed that such an action would risk a disaster. It was in this context that the remark was made. It was close to a month after the comment was made -- without objection from any quarter -- when A.M. Rosenthal made the first public accusation of anti-Semitism against Mr. Buchanan. 5. "In 1987 Buchanan lobbied to stop deportation of Karl Linnas, accused of Nazi atrocities in Estonia." *Buchanan's objection to the summary deportation of Karl Linnas to the Soviet Union -- where he had been tried in absentia and sentenced to death in 1962 -- was not that a Nazi war criminal ought not to be deported and executed, but that Linnas' deportation was based on a trial in the Soviet Union where no U.S. standards of justice applied. That judgment was seconded at the time by the Washington Post, which opined that "a true and disturbing question remains whether justice by accepted American standards was done in this case, where a human life - never mind what kind of a human he may have been -- is on the line," 6. "On March 2, 1992, at a campaign rally in Marietta, Georgia, where Rabbi Avi Weiss called out, 'Your anti-Semitism makes America last,' Buchanan shot back, "This rally is of Americans, for Americans and for the good 'ol USA, my friends," * The comment, as reported by columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak at the time, was not directed to the Jewish protesters, but part of the campaign speech. "It is doubtful Buchanan is talking to the protesters -- an impression confirmed by reporters on the scene who did not question the candidate about it after the incident," they wrote. 7. "In 1990, before the Gulf War, Buchanan wrote that if the US went to war, 'the fighting would be done by kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzales and Leroy Brown," The National Review commented that 'There is no way to read that sentence without concluding that Pat Buchanan was suggesting that American Jews manage to avoid personal military exposure even while advancing military policies they (uniquely?) engender." * Read in context, it is clear that Mr. Buchanan is making reference to an editorial in the Economist magazine that urged, "Mr. Bush must go to war and that "the civilized world must win this fight." Buchanan was making the point that the casualties would be American, not British. The quote from National Review's William F. Buckley, Jr., is based on his incorrect implication that the column mentioning "McAllister Murphy, Gonzales and Leroy Brown" was in the same piece that listed A.M. Rosenthal, Richard Perle, Charles Krauthammer and Henry Kissinger as supporters of an early strike against Saddam. In fact, that column addressed another issue, the looming split among conservatives on the issue of the Gulf War. It is clear from these examples that the intent of the accusers has been to twist the truth. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - On Patrick Buchanan and anti-Semitism "As a Jew, I never felt any hostility from Buchanan on that score, never heard him make a disparaging remark about Jews, never noticed any difference in the way he treats Jews and non-Jews," -Michael Kinsley, co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" "Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in. Very few journalists joined in. What happened was, when he entered the presidential politics, then he entered a new level of criticism and attack on him." -Robert Novak, syndicated columnist "I've known [Pat] now for twenty-five years. We have agreed on almost nothing, starting with Richard Nixon . . , there's not a scintilla of evidence in all I've known about Pat that he is anti-Semitic . . , This is an attempt to say that if you disagree with Israel on a matter of policy, you can be called anti-Semitic..." -Jack Germond, Baltimore Sun columnist "No true Christian can carry within his heart hatred for any of God's children . . . I am as aware as any other Christian that our Savior was Jewish, His mother was Jewish. The Apostles were Jewish. The first martyrs were Jewish...So no true Christian, in my judgment, can be an anti-Semite." - Pat Buchanan, comment to a Christian magazine, 1992 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Selected Quotations from columns by Patrick J, Buchanan *On the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, 6/25/82 "Politically, mankind suffered no irreversible loss with the sweeping of the PLO from the international chess board. As virulently anti-American as it was anti-Israeli, the PLO has been a Soviet cat's-paw, the linchpin of international terror, the base camp for the worst elements on earth, afriend to every enemy of the United States from the Sandinistas in Nicaragua to Idi Amin in Uganda." *On the state of Israel, 1983 "Israel remains a tough, resourceful, energetic nation, an offspring of the West . . . whose current struggle merits sympathy and support." *On the Israeli strike against Iraqi nuclear reactor, 6/11/81 "From a security perspective, the Israelis' preemptive strike against the Iraqi nuclear reactor outside Baghdad was timely and crucial. ...Given the implacable hatred of Baghdad for Israel-- the nation is referred to only as "The Zionist Entity" -- the prospect, indeed, the probability of atomic weapons in Iraqi hands, was one with which the Israelis literally could not live. ...righteous United States condemnation of Israel, a small sliver of land with three major cities, rings hollow. How, for example, would we expect President Reagan and Secretary of State Haigto act if weapons-grade material were being fed into a Soviet-built Cuban reactor, with Castro declaring: 'This one is for the Yankees. ...what Israeli could go to sleep secure with revanchist Palestinians a few miles away nursing their hatred of the 'Zionist imperialists' who destroyed their homeland and drove their fathers and mothers into refugee camps?" *On the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights, 12/17/85 "It would not be at all unreasonable if the Israelis came to the conclusion that their survival, more than ever, depends upon themselves alone. If a majority in that country have arrived at such a conclusion, it is natural to seek security in geography and guns, not treaties and talk. ...The militants -- Syria, Libya, Iraq, the military wing of the PLO -- will settle for nothing less than eradication of the "Zionist entity" from the Arab world. Within Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, there are millions more for whom the humbling and destruction of the Jewish state is a nightly dream. Even the "moderate" governments in the region -- Egypt, for example -- could probably not survive a permanent peace which left East Jerusalem under Israeli control." *On former Prime Minister Rabin, 9/17/93 "...the statesman who brought peace after a half century of fighting for Israel's place in the sun." ========================================================= Official Pat Buchanan Internet Campaign Headquarters Linda T. Muller - lmuller@iquest.com - Web Author http://www.buchanan.org or call 1-800-GO PAT GO Buchanan for President Headquarters 6862 Elm Street, Suite 210, McLean, VA 22101 40