The Fall of the American Empire - Who is to Blame?

Following after the trends of the Old Roman Empire; America, the greatest Empire in all history is also about to fall. The warning signs are in every facet of government and society. It is coming like a full throttled freight train without any brakes. So, the questions some might ask after the train derails is: "Where does the fault lie?" "Where did we go wrong?" "Why didn't we see it coming?" "Why were we not warned?" There are many factors to take into account.

Where does the fault lie? - Overall we can say every citizen is at fault. Here are some takes on where to place blame; although mind you, I share in the blame as much as any, so this is not to single any one individual out.

1. The government has become so corrupt in that it refuses to do the will of the people and it makes laws that are repulsive to the constitution. The politicians have allowed lobbyists to control their way of thinking for political and monetary gain.
2. The voters overall keep reelecting these politicians who have even proved they are corrupt. If the politician stands for immoral values, but promises more money in the pocketbook, the voter will generally vote the pocketbook over immorality.
3. The ACLU and other anti-God organizations who have set their agenda to rid America of any mention of the God. These groups are full of deception and will do anything to remove God from society. How does God feel about America, whom He has blessed throughout its history wanting to remove Him from the nation? We are about to find out, because the anti-God people have almost succeeded.
4. The Christians who have allowed it all to happen without challenge. We have allowed the enemy to walk all over the values that our previous generations have died for. We have failed to band as a people to humble ourselves, and pray, and seek God's face, and turn from our wicked ways; so God would hear from heaven, and forgive our sins, and heal our land. We have been too busy listening to the lies of the enemy and not the Words of God. We have been too busy seeking the same things the world desires and not what God desires. We have not sought to build up our treasures in heaven, but here on earth. We have been too busy playing and not praying. We have let the enemy creep in like a flood and we have compromised with the enemy with gutlessness.

Why didn't we see it coming? Where did we go wrong? Why were we not warned? I believe we can answer these questions ourselves. I believe we did see it coming and we were warned many times, but we could not resist prosperity and ignored the warnings.

Is it too late to turn things around? No, but the need to convince 300,000,000 million people who are divided on everything and every issue to be like minded; I do not see that happening. I do not see the Churches giving up programs and entertainment services to assemble together and humble ourselves and pray and turn off the stuff in our lives, and to call out to God as a people. Is it too late? Being realisticly, YES.

The Tree of Mamre: Jack Webb Lectures Obama

The Tree of Mamre: Jack Webb Lectures Obama

The Antichrist - How shall we know him?

For a fact, no one can know who the Antichrist really is until he makes the seven year peace treaty with Israel. Yet, the Bible gives many clues of what to watch for. One thing the Bible is very clear on is that we are not to judge another. Over the past years, several individuals of high standing have been singled out as a candidate for the Antichrist which did not pan out as predicted. To say that an individual is the Antichrist reflex on that person's character, and only God can know what is in a person's heart. Therefore we strongly urge you not to judge another, but simply and cautiously keep watch for an individual who seems to develop traits pointed out in the Bible pertaining to the characteristics of the Antichrist. Now let us look at some of those characteristics to lookout for. The Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation are the two major sources for detail characteristics about the man who shall and who does become the Antichrist.

Daniel chapter 2 describes four kingdoms. The fourth kingdom is the one whereby the Antichrist manifest himself as beast of Revelation chapter 13. This fourth kingdom is depicted as having legs of iron with ten toes partly of iron and partly of clay. These ten toes of iron and clay shall mingle themselves with the seed of men, but shall not cleave to one another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. This is an illustration of two forms of last day type governments. The clay represents communism, and the iron represents fascism.

Chapter 7 of Daniel tells of four beast. The last beast regards to the Antichrist and is described as dreadful, terrible and exceedingly strong, different from the other three beast and it had ten horns (or ten kings). A little horn rose up from among the ten and plucked up three of the first ten. The little horn had eyes of a man and spoke very great things (verse 20), and his look was more stout (e.g. chief, great, master, lord, captain) than his fellows. He shall devour the whole earth and tread it down. He shall speak great words against God, change times & laws, and wear down the saints for 3 1/2 years.

Daniel chapter 8 gives us another picture of this Antichrist. Here he is a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences. His power is mighty, but it is not his power, but Satan's. He shall destroy, prosper, and destroy the mighty and the holy people. Craft (e.g. deceit, guile, false, subtle) will prosper from him, he will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many through peace.

Daniel chapter 9 tells about the seven year peace treaty he will make with the nation of Israel. In the middle of the seven years or 3 1/2 years, he will cause the sacrifice to cease and cause abominations.

Daniel chapter 11 discusses a vile person takes the fourth kingdom peaceably and with flatteries. This chapter verifies much of what is mentioned in the preceding chapters with added details. He shall not honor the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women. He shall magnify himself above all.

The Book of Revelation chapter 6 depicts the first mention of Antichrist coming on the scene. He is announced by the opening of the first seal, which shows a rider on a white horse who has a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he goes forth conquering, and to conquer. The fact that he was given a crown illustrates someone in authority. That he has only a bow without arrows to conquer with, possibly means he is a great speaker and a deceiver as shown to be in Daniel.

Revelation chapter 13 symbolizes him as a beast arising out of the sea having seven heads and ten crowns. One of his heads was wounded as to death and the deadly wound was healed and the world wondered after the beast. He is given Satan's power and Satan's great authority. He speaks great things, blasphemes against God as verified in the Book of Daniel, and power is given him for forty two months, which is in the middle of the seven year peace treaty made with Israel.

Finally in Revelation chapter 17 reveals a woman sitting upon a scarlet colored beast, full of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. This woman appears to be Rome since it is the city that sits on seven mountains and she is drunken with blood of the martyrs of Jesus. Further information and verification may be found in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 regarding the "man of sin".

Summary: The Antichrist will come into power through deception and by speaking marvelous things. He seeks to change laws and times. He shall overpower those who oppose him (the saints and the mighty). He forms a type of government that makes ten other kings want to make him their dictator. He is a master deceiver with flatteries and words and magnifies himself in his heart. He comes in speaking peace and makes a seven years peace treaty with Israel. In the middle of the seven years, he receives a deadly wound to the head and comes back to life and is probably inhibited by Satan himself like the serpent was in the third chapter of the Book of Genesis.

These are merely a few of the details we can glean from the Books of Daniel and Revelation regarding the Antichrist. I would suggest you do a study of these two books for yourself and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal more.

The First Six Month's Accomplishments

This posting contains some of the more controversial issues regarding America's New President's First Six Months' Accomplishments.

How about you - what are your thoughts - and what do you believe the second 6-months hold? Leave your comments.

1. Offended the Queen of England.
2. Bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.
3. Praised the Marxist Daniel Ortega.
4. Kissed Socialist Hugo Chavez on the cheek.
5. Endorsed the Socialist Evo Morales of Bolivia.
6. Sided with Hugo Chavez and Communist Fidel Castro against Honduras.
7. Announced we would meet with Iranians with no pre-conditions while they're building their nuclear weapons.
8. Gave away billions to AIG also without pre-conditions.
9. Expanded the bailouts.
10. Insulted everyone who has ever loved a Special Olympian.
11. Doubled our national debt.
12. Announced the termination of our new missile defense system the day after North Korea launched an ICBM.
13. Released information on U.S. intelligence gathering despite urgings of his own CIA director and the prior four CIA directors.
14. Accepted without comment that five of his cabinet members cheated on their taxes and two other nominees withdrew after they couldn't take the heat.
15. Appointed a Homeland Security Chief who identified military veterans and abortion opponents as "dangers to the nation."
16. Ordered that the word "terrorism" no longer be used and instead refers to such acts as "man made disasters."
17. Circled the globe to publicly apologize for America's world leadership.
18. Told the Mexican president that the violence in their country was because of us.
19. Politicized the census by moving it into the White House from the Department of Commerce.
20. Appointed as Attorney General the man who orchestrated the forced removal and expulsion to Cuba of a 9-year-old whose mother died trying to bring him to freedom in the United States.
21. Salutes as heroes three Navy SEALS who took down three terrorists who threatened one American life and the next day announces members of the Bush administration may stand trial for "torturing" three 9/11 terrorists by pouring water up their noses.
22. Low altitude photo shoot of Air Force One over New York City that frightened thousands of New Yorkers.
23. Sent his National Defense Advisor to Europe to assure them that the US will no longer treat Israel in a special manner and they might be on their own with the Muslims.
24. Praised Jimmy Carter's trip to Gaza where he sided with terrorist Hamas against Israel.
25. Nationalized General Motors and Chrysler while turning shareholder control over to the unions and freezing out retired investors who owned their bonds. Committed unlimited taxpayer billions in the process.
26. Passed a huge energy tax in the House that will make American industry even less competitive while costing homeowners thousands per year.
27. Announced nationalized health care "reform" that will strip seniors of their Medicare, cut pay of physicians, increase taxes yet another $1 trillion, and put everyone on rationed care with government bureaucrats deciding who gets care and who doesn't.

Bloomberg: Daschle says, "Health care reform will not be pain free.
Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them," while former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm says seniors have "a duty to die."

If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that the President, Senators and Congressmen have their own special gold plated health care plan which is guaranteed the remainder of their lives and they are not subject to this new law if they pass it.

This would not be so bad if these instances were not documented, but much of it has been reported even by the liberal press. While I have always been a registered independent, I am a Christian first. My first duty is to God, then my family, then the state, my job or whatever I deem most important in my life following God and family. Therefore for me, the moral issues of the day far outweigh the economic issues that seem to be on the front line of most of our focus.

How do you feel? Don't forget to leave your comment.

Health Care - Why the big rush?

After twenty plus years of waiting and wanting to push through a Health Care bill, why did the executive branch desire to pass this bill with such an act of urgency? Isn't this the same urgency that was delivered to Congress and Senate members on the housing crisis and the $950 billion stimulus bill. Did this not duplicate the need for passing these bills so quickly that congress was unable to read the incredible amount of pages outlining the bills? A larger question might be, what's the big rush?

Let us look at the big picture realistically. Do we believe that the 950 page Stimulus bill was written overnight with thousands of restrictions and allowances for hundreds of various projects with defining variances pertaining to who is eligible? The same goes for the vital Health Care bill. For the last six months, almost on a daily basis, there has been some new urgency like Bailouts, Gitmo, Auto takeovers, Tarp and Fairness Doctrines played out in the news as a dire necessity that needs fixing to keep our unstable society afloat. But, what really is the big picture?

What I see from a longer range perspective of what America will look like in the very near future if allowed to progress at the pace we are going is no longer Capitalism, but Fascism. To see what Fascism is and how it develops we need only to look to Italy in the 1920's and 30's when Benito Mussolini took over and became Italy's powerful dictator.

A Fascist movement generally declares the nation faces a profound crisis and thus forecasts the urgent necessity for transformation of policies. It also engages in doing away with ethics of a constitution which leads to its abolishment. After two years in power, Mussolini had abolished the political party system and set his fascist czars in place to oversee the various services previously controlled by legislation. He established censorship of all press and media that disagreed with his policies and removed civil liberties and freedoms from much of the establishments. He changed Italy from a coalition type government to a Fascist state and took the nation from democracy to dictatorship through his charisma and strong arm tactics.

One notable item of Fascism is the movement to cleanse and purify past ethnicity mistakes made by former leaders such as mixing of races or successful business ventures. Fascism sets out to make radical changes through deceptive social means. One such example - Nazi Germany's killing of the Jews. Fascists reject economic and religion ideologies that go against their political life and beliefs.

Today is much different than in the 1920's and 30's. Modern technology offers dictators many options to control and survey their citizenry. If a Mussolini type of dictatorship were to emerge today, his first option on the table would be to eliminate the media followed by extermination of the one group that poses his biggest threat; Christianity.

This is of course, merely speculation regarding the purpose for urgency of various mandates and pending legislation. Only time and careful observation will tell us what is looming on the horizon. As Jesus instructed His disciples - keep watching, for it shall come upon the earth as a snare and catch those not watching unaware. So I say to you, I say to all - keep watching.

What's Next In Bible Prophecy?

How much longer do we have before the tribulation period? The Bible declares no one knows the day nor the hour, yet it also discloses that we can know the times and the seasons. With that in mind, I will attempt to present some time allotted scenarios for future Bible prophecies as we see them rapidly unfolding as of this writing.

A couple of important details to guide us through any thought of a timeline must first be confronted. The first is that the Church is not subjected to wrath, meaning the Church must be gone before God's wrath occurs. Scriptures justifying this are the following:

• Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. (Romans 5:9)


• ...for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience (not so for the saints). (Ephesians 5:6)


• ...even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. (1 Thessalonians 1:10)


• For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:9)

The second detail regards that when the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled. This can also be expressed as the time when the age of the dispensation of grace comes to an end. Again, justifying Scriptures follow:

• ...Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)


• For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. (Romans 11:25)

Will these two things happen simultaneously? Perhaps and probably. The tribulation period has always been expressed as a seven year period. The peace treaty pact made by Israel with the man, who becomes the Anti-Christ, is also a seven year period. That means that the Church, who is not subject to wrath cannot be on earth at the time the wrath of God occurs. That brings us to another interesting Scripture (event) presented in Ezekiel chapters 38 & 39 that line up with the happenings of the wrath of God and the fullness of the Gentiles.

Ezekiel 38 & 39 predict an invasion of Israel by several nations that are named such as Persia (Iran), Libya, Ethiopia among others, lead by Gog from the north country. Most scholars believe that Gog is Russia and rightly so. Russia is supplying arms to many of these Middle-east nations who are also anti-Israel.

One important prediction mentioned in chapter 38 is that Israel will be living in peace when the invasion takes place. Also, it seems that the invasion stems from not only a hatred of Israel, but economic reasons because verse 38:13 suggest that they have invaded Israel to take a spoil of silver, gold, cattle and goods.

It seems this invasion takes place when God pours out His wrath upon them and also upon the whole earth as v. 20 states: ..."all creatures and all men shall shake at My presence." The mountains shall be thrown down and every wall shall fall to the ground. This must be the beginning of the wrath of God. If that is so, then the Rapture would have had to taken place before this event if the Church is not to be subjected to the wrath of God.

If we look at verse 39:7-8 of Ezekiel, we find that God does indeed go back to His chosen people Israel with this statement: V.7 -"So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel." V.8 -"Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God; this is the day whereof I have spoken."

The two details (wrath of God & fullness of the Gentiles) seem to be fulfilled right here at this time period and in addition; this time period also seems to line up with another Scripture in Revelation 6:14-17: V.14 -"...every mountain and island were moved out of there places." V.15 -"...every man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;" V.16 - "And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of the wrath of the Lamb:" V.17 -"For the day of His wrath is come; and who is able to stand?"

The very next thing to happen after mention of God's wrath in Revelation 6:17 is the sealing of the 144,000 Jews in their foreheads Revelation 7:1-8. These verses are followed by a seeming verification that the saints are no longer on the earth at the time of wrath. A description of the Raptured saints dressed and arrayed in white robes is found in Revelation 7:9-17.

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Where are we in all this? Most scholars believe the Church will be Raptured out at Revelation 4:1, which mentions a voice like a trumpet telling John the Revelator to "come up hither". The reasoning is that the Church is no longer mentioned after chapter 3 of Revelation. I like that analogy and hope it is true, but from a realistic viewpoint, there is to large of a period of time from chapter 4:1 unto the sealing of the 144,000 Jewish believers. I do not think there will be a lengthy period of time for the transfer from the times of the Gentile unto the time of God returning back to His chosen people, the Jew.

The wrath of God occurs at the sixth seal. That means there are five other seals to go through before reaching the sixth seal. Each seal looks to take some time to fulfill. If we look at the seals from chapter 6:1 (the first seal)we find that there is a rider on a white horse who has a bow and a crown, and comes forth conquering and to conquer. Evidently, since this rider has a bow but no arrows, he therefore must be able to conquer with his words. Since he has a crown, he must be some type of a ruler. This seems to line up with the book of Daniel's description of the Anti-Christ which we will look at later.

The second rider (seal) is on a red horse and power is given to him to take peace from the earth. The third rider is on a black horse and it seems as this represents a time of famine. The fourth rider (seal) is named Death and is seated upon a pale horse. Hell followed him and power was given them over the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword, hunger, death and the beast of the earth. The fifth seal refers to those saints who have already died and cry out for God to avenge those who martyred them, which God assures He will do when the full number of saints are martyred as they. That take us to the sixth seal which we have already alluded to earlier.

What is the time period as of this posting? The next big sign I see is a somewhat deceiving peace treaty between Israel, the Palestinians and perhaps other Arab states that looks as though they are living in real peace. That will pave the way for the prediction from Ezekiel 38-39 to happen.

Although Ezekiel 38-39 declares that God did it, the man who becomes the Anti-Christ will perhaps claim that he was the one who prevented and destroyed those in the Russian invasion of Israel. That may well give him the necessary ammunition to make the seven year peace treaty with Israel. With the Church gone, he is free to do anything he desires with the large percentage of people showing him favor in the polls.