End Times News and Gospel Message 4 May 14

David Chase Taylor reported on April 30, 2014 that next week that First Lady Michelle Obama will travel to Nashville, Tennessee, in order to make a cameo appearance on the hit television show “Nashville” (2012) which is filmed on location in The Volunteer State. Her cameo is subsequently scheduled to air on May 7, 2014 in the episode entitled “All or Nothing With Me.”

It is during her visit to Tennessee that Mrs. Obama may be targeted by the CIA in a made-for-TV terror event that will accidentally be “caught on camera”. Similar to terror attacks, Hollywood productions include actors, explosives and video footage, making Obama’s television appearance a lucrative state-sponsored terror target.

Aside from the fact that the Michelle Obama and a country music are polar opposites, the television appearance by Obama is slated to take place at Fort Campbell, a U.S. Army and Air Force Base installation located astride the Kentucky-Tennessee border between Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Clarksville, Tennessee.

Therefore, there is the real possibility of a so-called “domestic terrorist” (i.e., patriot) based assassination-like attack on Mrs. Obama. Interestingly, the date of Obama’s visit to Fort Campbell has suspiciously not been disclosed by the White House, leading to further speculation that an elaborate made-for-TV assassination event may be planned.

In order to bring unprecedented media attention to Mrs. Obama as well as provide a timely motive for a race-based attack on her life, it was reported on April 24, 2014, that Michelle Obama met with 100 heirs and heiresses at White House, an obvious diss on blue collar Americans.

That same day, it was also reported that a 10-year-old girl gave Mrs. Obama her unemployed father’s résumé, another staged incident to show Americans that Michelle Obama is out of touch with the current economic state of the country.

Also on April 24, 2014, Kazuyuki Hamada, a member of the upper house of Japan’s parliament revealed that President Obama cheats on Michele and that their looming divorce is ‘an open secret’. Aside from drawing unprecedented attention to Michelle, the report was designed to show that the Obamas have no respect for the sanctity of marriage or the White House.

A day later on April 25, 2014, a bill passed the California State Assembly with unanimous bipartisan support which would require that California schools to teach students about the racial significance of Barack Obama’s presidency, which of course also includes his wife Michelle.

Four days later on April 29, 2014, a report disclosed that Michelle Obama’s recent 2-day hotel stay in China costs $222,000, a propaganda report designed to provide a timely motive for an attack on the First Lady who is careless with taxpayer funds.

Needless to say, most if not all of the aforementioned reports were published with the goal of bringing unprecedented media attention to Mrs. Obama just prior to an attack on her person. What form this attack will take is not known, but a sniper-like attack is the most likely.

Military Base Attacks Trending
Prior to a high-profile terror attack on a U.S. military base, the American public must be led to believe though fabricated headlines and staged events that yes, it can happen. As evidenced, military base terror is currently at an unprecedented level and may commence with a terror attack on First Lady Michelle Obama at Fort Campbell.

The Supreme Fascists

A decision from the U.S. Supreme Court means the federal government now has an open door to “detain as a threat to national security anyone viewed as a troublemaker,” critics of the high court’s ruling said.

The high court by its own order this week refused to review an appellate-level decision that says the president and U.S. military can arrest and indefinitely detain individuals.

Officials with William J. Olson, P.C., a firm that filed an amicus brief asking the court to step in, noted that not a single justice dissented from the denial of certiorari.

“The court ducked, having no appetite to confront both political parties in order to protect the citizens from military detention,” the legal team said. “The government has won, creating a tragic moment for the people – and what will someday be viewed as an embarrassment for the court.”

The controversial provision of NDAA authorizes the military, under presidential authority, to arrest, kidnap, detain without trial and hold indefinitely American citizens thought to “represent an enduring security threat to the United States.”

Journalist Chris Hedges was among the plaintiffs charging the law could be used to target journalists who report on terror-related issues.

A friend-of-the-court brief submitted in the case stated: “The central question now before this court is whether the federal judiciary will stand idly by while Congress and the president establish the legal framework for the establishment of a police state and the subjugation of the American citizenry through the threat of indefinite military arrest and detention, without the right to counsel, the right to confront one’s accusers, or the right to trial.”

The 2014 NDAA was fast-tracked through the U.S. Senate, with no time for discussion or amendments, while most Americans were distracted by the scandal surrounding A&E’s troubles with “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson.

Eighty-five of 100 senators voted in favor of the new version of the NDAA, which had already been quietly passed by the House of Representatives.

Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and others filed a lawsuit in 2012 against the Obama administration to challenge the legality of an earlier version of the NDAA.

It is Section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA, and its successors, that drew a lawsuit by Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Jennifer Bolen, Noam Chomsky, Alex O’Brien, Kai Warg All, Brigitta Jonsottir and the group U.S. Day of Rage. Many of the plaintiffs are authors or reporters who stated that the threat of indefinite detention by the U.S. military already had altered their activities.

“It’s clearly unconstitutional,” Hedges said of the bill. “It is a huge and egregious assault against our democracy. It overturns over 200 years of law, which has kept the military out of domestic policing.”

Hedges is a former foreign correspondent for the New York Times and was part of a team of reporters awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism.

The friend-of-the-court brief warned the precedent “leaves American citizens vulnerable to arrest and detention, without the protection of the Bill of Rights, under either the plaintiff’s or the government’s theory of the case.

“The judiciary must not await subsequent litigation to resolve this issue, as the nature of military detention is that American citizens then would have no adequate legal remedy,” the brief explained.

“Once again, the U.S. Supreme Court has shown itself to be an advocate for the government, no matter how illegal its action, rather than a champion of the Constitution and, by extension, the American people,” said John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute.

“No matter what the Obama administration may say to the contrary, actions speak louder than words, and history shows that the U.S. government is not averse to locking up its own citizens for its own purposes. What the NDAA does is open the door for the government to detain as a threat to national security anyone viewed as a troublemaker.

“According to government guidelines for identifying domestic extremists – a word used interchangeably with terrorists, that technically applies to anyone exercising their First Amendment rights in order to criticize the government,” he said.

It’s not like rounding up innocent U.S. citizens and stuffing them into prison camps hasn’t already happened.

In WWII the government rounded up thousands of Japanese Americans and locked them up, under the approval of the high court in its Korematsu v. United States decision.

The newest authorizes the president to use “all necessary and appropriate force” to jail those “suspected” of helping terrorists.

The Obama administration had claimed in court that the NDAA does not apply to American citizens, but Rutherford attorneys said the language of the law “is so unconstitutionally broad and vague as to open the door to arrest and indefinite detentions for speech and political activity that might be critical of the government.”

The law specifically allows for the arrests of those who “associate” or “substantially support” terror groups.

“These terms, however, are not defined in the statute, and the government itself is unable to say who exactly is subject to indefinite detention based upon these terms, leaving them open to wide ranging interpretations which threaten those engaging in legitimate First Amendment activities,” Rutherford officials reported.

The 100th anniversary of Jehovah's Witnesses' prediction that history would end in 1914 presents an opportunity for leading members of the group to faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior, a Southern Baptist expert on Christian sects and cults said.

Christians' "first task" in sharing the Gospel with Jehovah's Witnesses is helping them "put [their official publications] away and then deal with the Bible alone," Robert Stewart, professor of philosophy and theology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, told Baptist Press. "What we need is evidence -- evidence that the Watchtower Society [Jehovah's Witnesses' central organization] has been wrong."

The anniversary of a failed prediction may be an opportunity to present such evidence to approximately eight million Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide, Stewart said.

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus is not equal to God the Father, but the first created being. They deny the Trinity, envision the Holy Spirit as merely a force and believe that salvation comes through a strict moral code and commitment to the Watchtower Society. They use the New World Translation of Scripture, a version that alters the meaning of key passages on Christ's deity like John 1:1.

Founded by Charles Taze Russell in the late 19th century, the Watchtower Society initially taught that the invisible, spiritual presence of Jesus returned to earth in 1874. The battle of Armageddon would follow in 1914, they said, ending human history and overthrowing the kingdom of the world.

An "anointed class" of 144,000 people would go to heaven as spirits without bodies after they died, Jehovah's Witnesses said. A secondary group of saved people would live forever in paradise on earth following Armageddon.

"We consider it an established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the Kingdom of God, will be accomplished by the end of A.D. 1914," Russell said.

An 1894 Jehovah's Witness publication added, "Our readers are writing to know if there may not be a mistake in the 1914 date. They say that they do not see how present conditions can last so long under the strain. We see no reason for changing the figures -- nor could we change them if we would. They are, we believe, God's dates not ours."

But before 1914 ended, the Watchtower Society began to change its prediction -- first to 1918, then 1925. The year 1914 in fact was the beginning of Christ's invisible, spiritual presence on earth rather than the end of history, they said, a revision from the previous date of 1874 for the invisible presence. Also, 1914 marked the beginning of the "last generation" before Armageddon, the Watchtower Society said.

By 1924, the Watchtower Society felt confident enough to announce, "The year 1925 is a date definitely and clearly marked in the Scriptures, even more clearly than that of 1914."

A prediction that the "1914 generation" was history's last also had to be modified. First, the Watchtower Society said those alive "with understanding" in 1914 would live to see the end of history. Later it said babies born in 1914 were the ones who would see the end. Finally, it said the "generation of 1914" meant only that the end of history would come a relatively short time after 1914 compared with the thousands of years in human history that elapsed previously.

The failed predictions were a serious matter, Stewart said, in part because they ruined people's lives.

"In their official resources that they use to train their leadership, they've encouraged their people to do things like sell their homes and quit their jobs so that they can spend more time out going door to door, because after all the world is going to come to an end," he said of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Even more importantly, the false doctrine leads its adherents to eternal separation from God in hell, Stewart said. He recommended several tactics for sharing the Gospel with Jehovah's Witnesses. Among them:

-- Without affirming the content of their faith, commend their religious commitment in order to build goodwill.

-- Communicate facts about wrong predictions of the Watchtower Society. This will help Jehovah's Witnesses begin to question their sources of religious authority.

-- Point them to Internet resources like Watchman Fellowship (www.watchman.org), a group that focuses on ministry to new religious groups, cults and the New Age movement. Reading material online that is critical of their faith prevents Jehovah's Witnesses from getting in trouble with their leaders for having critical books or tracts lying around, Stewart said.

-- Explain salvation by grace through faith in Jesus -- who is fully God and fully human.

In the same vein, the North American Mission Board's 4truth.net website presents a detailed account of Jehovah's Witnesses' beliefs and recommends Bible passages to use in explaining that Jesus is a member of the Trinity, co-equal with God the Father.

"Although Jesus is never recorded as coming right out and saying, 'I am God,' his actions and claims spoke very loud," the NAMB material stated. "He accepted worship (see Matthew 14:25-33; 28:8-10; John 9:35-38). Yet he knew worship was for God alone (see Matthew 4:8-10 [quoting Deuteronomy 6:13]). His disciples also recognized worship was for God alone (see Luke 4:7-8; Acts 10:25-26; Revelation 19:10). Yet they worshipped him (see Matthew 14:25-33; 28:8-10; Hebrews 1:6). In addition, he claimed to have authority over the Sabbath day that God had instituted (see Matthew 12:1-8), something it would seem was reserved for God alone. Finally, he taught with an authority that none of the prophets claimed. The prophets would say, 'Thus says the Lord ...' Jesus, on the other hand, said, 'Truly, truly, I say to you.'"

A kind and informed witness to Jehovah's Witnesses on the 100th anniversary of the famous 1914 prediction could change their eternal destiny, NAMB said in the material. Stewart added that believers who invite Jehovah's Witnesses into their homes should be skilled in both Christian theology and Jehovah's Witness theology.

"Jehovah's Witnesses are very sincere about their beliefs and well-versed in them. When they come to your door, invite them in. Be cordial and patient. Remember Peter's instruction 'but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence' (1 Peter 3:15)," the NAMB material stated.

"Unfortunately, most of the Christians that Jehovah’s Witnesses encounter are unprepared and become extremely defensive and unpleasant with them. This just encourages the Jehovah’s Witnesses to believe they are on the correct path. Why would they change unless someone soundly shows them their error? That someone may be you. Dare to be different by having a response, which is both biblically sound and loving."

Mt. Zion Israel

I received the following articles from my good friend Barry Chamish. Barry is a veteran of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). (Watchman comment: The Roman Catholic Church (RCC) believes that the RCC has replaced the Jews in God's covenants hence the church owns the Holy Sites in Israel.  This doctrine is called Replacement Theology.)   

Christian leaders reportedly pressured Israel to turn over control of Mount Zion in Jerusalem during a clandestine meeting of senior city officials.

The meeting took place Tuesday in the office of Attorney Amnon Merhav, the director-general of the Jerusalem municipality. It was attended by officials from the Prime Minister s Office, President s Office, Tourism Ministry, Police, Kotel Rabbi's Office, and more.

During the meeting, representatives of Christian groups in the capital pushed Jerusalem leaders to give the Catholic Church control over the Mount Zion area that includes the Hall of the Last Supper. There have been reports that Israel's government is planning to turn the building in question over to the Vatican prior to the Pope's expected visit in May.

Pope Francis is expected to visit Israel and to lead a service in the Hall of the Last Supper.

                                                                                                             

BLINDERS by BARRY CHAMISH

Jonathan Pollard

Talking with my good friend, Tova, about The Transfer Agreement, the horrid agreement between the Labor Zionists and the Nazis to slaughter, their mostly, religious Jewish opposition, (in Hebrew watch: http://www.baba-mail.co.il/content.aspx?emailid=28040,) I spoke of the blinders of the religious Europeans of the 40's, when, somehow, we stumbled upon the abuse of one Jonathan Pollard. To my deep disappointment, she bought into the Patriot Jonathan crapola, a complicated but typical blinder.  She spouted the baloney that Pollard turned down his own freedom because it meant freeing Arab terrorists.     I asked, "After 30 years behind bars, he would turn down freedom for some principle irrelevant to him? Like he couldn't renounce the deal once he was free?"
Tova got the obvious. Those who manipulate the blinders use marriage for leverage; we think of Yigal Amir, Rabin's "assassin," who got a wacko Russian wife and child for keeping his mouth shut. Pollard never divorced his first wife, but, nonetheless, "married" just as wacky "Esther," anyway and she divided his house and sanity:

According to a member of the US Parole Commission, Jonathan Pollard, now in his 29th year in a US jail on charges of spying for Israel, has waived a planned parole hearing. The move comes the same day that as US offered to release Pollard was revealed, in exchange for the release of over 400 Israeli-held Arab terrorists, including arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti. Further, Israel would obligate itself to a partial construction freeze in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem , in a move to save the failing peace talks. Pollard's refusal to attend the hearing was reportedly meant to express his opposition to the deal that would set Arab terrorists free. 

       (Reprinted from the HaAretz daily newspaper March 1997)

Molly Pollard, Jonathan's mother, is an elderly sick woman with three heart attacks behind her. Her husband, Dr. Morris Pollard, takes her from place to place in a wheelchair. She is eighty two years old, weak, and her voice is barely audible. There is only one thing that she really wants, to meet her son Jonathan one more time. Eleven years have elapsed since that Thursday, November 21, 1985, when her son was captured outside of the Israel Embassy in Washington and was accused of spying for the State of Israel. On her last birthday, as told by daughter Carol, she sat opposite me and waited. Every time the phone rang she said to those around her in a voice full of hope, "Maybe it's Jonathan".

But Jonathan Pollard refuses to speak to his parents. His last conversation with them was a year ago. By telephone, he announced to them that since they refuse to the line of action that his new wife, Esther proposes, he is therefore severing his connection with them and is not willing to see them again. Molly Pollard says in a depressed voice: "We are broken-hearted. We don't blame him. He's been in jail for so long that everything must be forgiven for him. But it is such a pity that that wicked woman, who calls herself Jonathan's wife, made it her aim in life to disconnect our son from us."In actual fact, he severed all his connections with the outside world, except for his wife Esther, who is currently his only channel to the outside world. Dr. Morris Pollard: "In retrospect I now understand that from the start she tried to dismantle our family. She and actions are making my son's release much more difficult. It is convenient for her to have him inside (prison), it gives her publicity. It's as if Jonathan doesn't have enough problems as it is, then comes this woman and complicated things even more."  

The Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma State Capitol 

I believe the following story is a definite indication that we are approaching the "End Times".

In January the Satanic Temple announced plans to erect a monument glorifying the Dark Lord on the front lawn of the Oklahoma Statehouse. An Indiegogo campaign was launched with what seemed like a somewhat lofty goal of $20,000, but by the time donations ended almost $30,000 had been raised. Now an artist trained in classical sculpture is toiling away in New York, crafting a Baphomet figure sitting beneath a pentagram and flanked by two children gazing upward in loyalty. When it is finished, it will be cast in bronze and, the Satanists hope, eventually displayed in Oklahoma.

The statue is a direct response to the state's installation of a Ten Commandments monument outside the Capitol in 2012. State Representative Mike Ritze paid for the controversial statue with his own money, and therefore it was considered a donation and OK to place on government property. Following that line of reasoning, the Satanic Temple submitted a formal application for their monument.

As Trait Thompson of the Oklahoma Capitol Preservation Commission said “Individuals and groups are free to apply to place a monument or statue or artwork.” The applications are then approved or rejected by the Commission. Unfortunately, the state has placed a halt on issuing permits for any other monuments until a lawsuit filed by the ACLU against Ritze’s Commandments monument is settled.

Nonetheless, the Satanists are building this thing, and I was offered an early peek at the work in progress by Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves. Greaves told me he has received numerous threats from people who want to attack the sculpture, but that he “wouldn’t expect these outraged and nearly insensible reactionaries to actually know how to assault a bronze monument without severely hurting themselves in the process.” Still, he’s not taking any chances. The Temple is building a mold of the sculpture so they can pop these things out like evil, terribly expensive action figures whenever they need a new one.

“Depending on our insurance policy,” Greaves said, “we may be able to cast two from the destruction of one, expediting our arrival to the next battleground.”

The Temple estimates that the monument will be finished in a few months. Once it’s done, they plan to put it in front of the Oklahoma Statehouse regardless of the the Capitol Preservation Commission’s ongoing battle against the ACLU. They feel this should be allowed because their application was submitted before all the hullabaloo over Ritze’s monument.

“After all,” Greaves told me, “the Ten Commandments still stand at the State Capitol. We are fully willing to place our monument at the Capitol, even while the ACLU suit is fought, with the understanding that a judgment against the Ten Commandments will have ramifications for our monument as well, likely resulting in the removal of both.”

The Baphomet, which will stand seven feet tall and be a testament to the glory of the Angel of the Bottomless Pit, would be placed directly beside the sculpture glorifying the laws given to Moses by the Christian God. The idea of a Satanic monument sitting on government property in Oklahoma—which is like the Bible Belt's Bible Belt—seems a bit far-fetched, but Greaves says that "there has been quite a bit of discussion among legal scholars who recognize how difficult it would actually be for Oklahoma to turn us down… Constitutional law is quite clear on this issue: The state can’t discriminate against viewpoints. If they’ve opened the door for one, they’ve opened it for all.”

Ryan Kiesel from the Oklahoma ACLU seems to agree. He said “If, at the end of the day, the Ten Commandments monument is allowed to remain on the Capitol grounds with its overtly Christian message, then the Satanic Temple’s proposal can’t be rejected because it is of a different religious viewpoint.”

When the monument is finished, the Baphomet will rest on the block beneath the pentagram. His lap will serve as a seat for children.

One popular argument being used against the Temple’s monument is that it doesn’t have “any historical significance for the State of Oklahoma,” as State Representative Paul Wesselhoft said in January. “The only reason why the Ten Commandments qualified,” he continued, “is because at the Capitol, what we do is we make laws. We are lawmakers. Well, one of the earliest laws we have are the Ten Commandments.” This, it is important to remember, was said by a current democratically elected member of the legislature.

Greaves told me that “the idea that the Ten Commandments are foundational to US or Oklahoman law is absurd and obscene… I would argue that the message behind our monument speaks more directly to the formation of US Constitutional values than the Ten Commandments possibly could. It especially does so when it stands directly beside the Ten Commandments, as it affirms no one religion enjoys legal preference.”

Regardless of what happens at the statehouse, the Temple is charging ahead with the monument. And if it doesn’t end up in Oklahoma City and the Ten Commandments are forced to be removed, the Satanists will try to find a home for the Baphomet in another deserving state. Texas, for instance, has had a monument of the Ten Commandments sitting on its capitol grounds for 40 years. As Greaves put it, “There are no shortage of public locations across the US where religious monuments await a contrasting voice.”

The king rejoices in your strength, LORD. How great is his joy in the victories you give! — Psalm 21:1

Imagine for a moment that you have gone for hike on a nice summer morning. The sun is out, the sky is clear, and you set out on your path. Now imagine that during the hike, you make a wrong turn and become lost. Morning has turned to noon and the sun is blaring. Your water is long gone, your mouth is parched, and your strength is waning. Finally, you find your way back to civilization and make a beeline for the nearest source of water. “Thank you, Lord!” you say as you gulp down the water. Water never tasted that good!

Now contrast that experience with one that we encounter almost every day. Water is all around us – from the sink, the water dispenser, in fancy bottles. Water now comes in dozens of flavors and can be fortified with vitamins. And you know what? Most people take it completely for granted. Big deal, water is everywhere.

Isn’t it ironic? The more we have of something, the less we appreciate it. When we lack something and then we receive it — even if it’s only a small amount — we overflow with gratitude. But when we have something in abundance, our tendency is to overlook the blessings.

In Psalm 21, King David modeled just the opposite approach. The psalm begins, “The king rejoices in your strength, LORD. How great is his joy in the victories you give!” David was king, which meant that he had everything and anything that he could ever want. Wealth was his. Honor was his. Victory was his. But what did David say? It’s all from the Lord. David rejoiced in the blessings that came from God. He didn’t take a single one for granted nor did he think that he was the source of his blessings. David understood that all his gifts and strength were from the Lord, and he was so very grateful.

The Sages teach that during a certain period in David’s reign, 100 people died prematurely each day. The spiritual source was eventually uncovered and the Sages prescribed a remedy: Every person was commanded to say 100 blessings a day – or 100 expressions of gratitude. The decree went into effect, and the plague stopped immediately. Ever since then, it has been the Jewish custom to recite at least 100 blessings a day. We are careful to maintain a state of gratitude, lest we find ourselves cut off from our blessings.

Take the 100 blessing challenge. Can you find 100 things to be grateful about today? Everything, from the food we eat, to our physical abilities, to the people in our lives, is a blessing from God. Let’s bless and be blessed.

The Christian Church in China is growing by leaps and bounds, capturing the attention of the country’s Communist Party leaders, who are alarmed at the rapid rise in sheer numbers of Christ followers.

A survey by Tea Leaf Nation of the Asian country’s social media platform, Weibo, found that Chinese censors are permitting more Christian-themed tweets on the site – a Chinese version of Twitter.

According to a study released last week, this has resulted in more than 18 million mentions of “Jesus” on Weibo versus only 4 million mentions of Chinese President Xi Jinping. State-run newspapers, in contrast, write almost daily about Jinping and rarely ever mention Jesus.

The research also revealed that "Christian congregation" appeared on Weibo more than 41 million times, while "Communist Party" generated just 5.3 million mentions.

A search on the site for the word "Bible" yielded 17 million results. Receiving fewer than 60,000 mentions was "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung," a collection of writings and speeches by former Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong, referred to by the West as "The Little Red Book."

To stymy the rampant growth and explosion of popularity for the Christian faith in China, particularly in the eastern province of Zhejiang, Communist officials are reportedly waging a “demolition campaign” against churches in the country’s most Christian regions by ordering a dozen to be destroyed, though these plans have been denied by Chinese leaders.

Feng Zhili, chairman of Zhejiang’s ethnic and religious affairs committee, said in a recent speech that Christianity’s growth has been “too excessive and too haphazard,” hinting at Communist Party discomfort with the rapid growth of Christian congregations in what is already considered China’s most Christian region.

Wenzhou, a rich port city that houses a large Christian community, is considered to be the “Jerusalem of the East,” with estimates of over one million practicing Protestants living among Wenzhou’s nine million residents.

Activists assert that churches in Zhejiang are currently facing either demolition or having their crosses removed. Demands have reportedly been made on other churches to appear “less conspicuous” by turning their lights off at night.

Last week, thousands of Christians gathered in solidarity to form a “human shield” around Sanjiang Church in Wenzhou as demolition was announced for that structure due to "unsafe" building codes. Despite attempts to stop the government it has gone ahead with the demolition and pictures posted online show various parts of the church structure now being torn down.

The demolition of Sanjiang church will “definitely further erode the little remaining trust between millions of Chinese Christians and the Chinese government,” commented  Mr Fu, president of the Texas-based group China Aid.

As Communist government leaders continue to exercise their muscle in an attempt to hinder the growth of churches they view as a threat, frequently cited “charges” are made by Chinese officials ordering church demolitions, including "illegal occupation of land", "illegal business operation" and "illegal construction."

The South China Morning Post reports that Taishun, Wencheng and Ruian churches in Zhejiang have also been served demolition orders, as have churches in Hebei and Shandong provinces, according to other reports.

Church and religious leaders are taking action this week via a petition they are circulating, accusing officials of "gross interference" in religious freedoms, despite China's constitution officially guaranteeing its citizens freedom of religion.

As an official atheist state, China is only offers formal recognition to five religions: Buddhism, Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism and Taoism. Among the Communist Party’s more than 85 million members, religious beliefs are officially discouraged, though some within the Party view and support religion as a means for maintaining social stability.

"We call on to the Zhejiang government to immediately terminate its "Cross and Church Demolition" campaign," the petition states.

"Christianity has been practiced in China for more than 1,000 years and has become a part of society. The sudden government order... represents a gross interference in the beliefs and practices of worshippers."

Since an electronic version of the petition began circulating, more than 300 religious leaders had signed it within 24 hours, said Zheng Leguo, one of the petition's authors and the preacher of Sanjiang church.

As a long-standing critic of the Communist Party's control of religion, Mr. Zheng wrote in a 2011 essay, "The Chinese law does not flagrantly state that it wants to 'wipe out religions.' Yet, in its intention to stunt the growth [of religion], the government has to take more covert means of disturbances or more pompous-sounding legal charges to restrict religious organizations."

While the petition’s authors are not intending to form an anti-government "movement," they do plan on continuing their campaign through "non-violent" means, Mr. Zheng explained, adding, "We hope the government will understand our appeal and will not criminalize us."

The Christian community in China – congregants and leaders alike – is taking a courageous and passionate stand to protect and defend its right to worship freely. Are Christians in other nations of the world as eager to preserve their own God-given liberties, which are being systematically stripped away, day by day?

In a recent interview Fenggang Yang, a leading expert on religion in China, said he believed the Asian country could overtake Brazil, Mexico and the United States to become the world’s most numerous Christian congregation by 2030.
However, Prof. Yang warned that Chinese Christians should brace themselves for growing interference as the Communist Party fought to stunt the Church’s growth.

“History has proved and will prove again with this case that another church revival will happen after this new wave of persecution.”

China recently sold DF-21 missiles like these to Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia became the first Middle East nation to publicly exhibit its nuclear-capable missiles. The long-range, liquid propellant DF-3 ballistic missile (NATO designated CSS-2), purchased from China, was displayed for the first time at a Saudi military parade Tuesday, April 29, in the eastern military town of Hafar Al-Batin, at the junction of the Saudi-Kuwaiti-Iraqi borders.

The DF-3 has a range of 2,650 km and carries a payload of 2,150 kg. It is equipped with a single nuclear warhead with a 1-3 Mega Ton yield.

Watched by a wide array of Saudi defense and military dignitaries, headed by Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister Salman bin Abdulaziz, the parade marked the end of the large-scale “Abdullah’s Sword” military war game.

Conspicuous on the saluting stand was the Pakistani Chief of Staff Gen. Raheel Sharif alongside eminent visitors, including King Hamad of Bahrain and Sheikh Muhammad bin Zayed, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi.

This event signifies that the Middle East is in the throes of a nuclear arms race in the wake of the Iranian program.

1. The oil kingdom was saying loud and clear that it has obtained nuclear missiles and is ready to use them in the event of an armed conflict with Iran.

2. The message for Washington was that Riyadh adheres to its adamant objections to the comprehensive accord for resolving the Iranian nuclear question which is racing toward its finale with the six world powers led by the US. The Saudis share Israel’s conviction that this pact - far from dismantling Iran’s nuclear capacity - will seal the Islamic Republic's elevation to the status of nuclear power. The result will be a Middle East war in which the Saudis will play a major part.

3. The participation of the nuclear DF-3 missiles in the “Abdullah’s Sword” exercise signified Riyadh’s estimate that the coming conflict will see the use of nuclear weapons.

4. By showing off their old Chinese missiles, the Saudis intimated that they had acquired the more advanced generation of this weapon, which they are keeping under wraps.

Saudi officials negotiated the purchase of Dong-Feng 21 (DF-21), whose range is shorter, 1,700 km, but more precise and effective in view of its terminal radar guidance system. The West has no information about when the new Chinese missiles were delivered to Saudi Arabia.

5. The presence of the top Pakistani soldier at the parade of military and nuclear hardware was meant as corroboration of Pakistan’s active role as the source of the Saudi nuclear arsenal.

6. Hence, the Saudis no longer rely on the American nuclear umbrella. They are developing their own nuclear strike force with the help of China and Pakistan.

The video below is very interesting, the third largest corporation in the world is now a Private Military Corporation (PMC)! Unfortunately a 30 second commercial precedes the video. 

 

Personally, I believe, Eric Prince who appears in the video is lying about his corporation's (Blackwater USA) casualties. The second video is about 4 of his contractors who were slaughtered in Fallujah, Iraq when I was deployed to Iraq. He can claim technically that none of his employees have been killed because he sold his corporation and his new company and he are based in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Prince is a Roman Catholic convert and I believe a Jesuit agent. His Wikepedia biography is the third link below.

http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/vnkqb8/call-of-duty--unannounced-title-superpower-for-hire-trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bln0q8E5onE


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince

This is how the GERD will look when it is finished

An artist's rendering of The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is pictured above. 

I hope that it’s clear to you that time is ticking away towards disaster, and not just any disaster. It will be the biggest disaster in the history of world, rivaled only by Noah’s Flood. It will sweep the world and leave billions dead. Those who survive the initial devastation will face a brutal struggle for existence without the necessary skills to survive.

In the midst of this cataclysm, a man will step forward who will provide a solution. He will eventually claim to be god, but we will know him as the Antichrist. He will rebuild civilization in his own diabolical image, and this New World Order (NWO) will seek to kill and destroy all who name the name of Christ.

Gog and Magog are coming in the near future. I have written on Egypt in Bible previously but I thought we should re-visit the prophecy in chapter 19 of Isaiah.

Isaiah 19

That prophecy talks about civil war in Egypt, the rise of a brutal dictator and something completely unusual – the drying up of the Nile River. Isaiah goes on to describe Egypt turning towards God in the aftermath of these terrible events – describing Egypt as ‘my people’.

What is the most obvious signpost for this event?

Construction of the GERD is proceeding rapidly

The drying up of the Nile River.

It is true that there are many other signs described in Isaiah 19, but Egypt has known civil war and oppression for thousands of years – and even Christianity. But, the Nile River has never dried up.

How is such a thing possible?

Well, a dam is the only way to make that happen, short of an earthquake so massive that it diverts the longest river in the world. Such an earthquake is possible, and there is a promise of one in Israel at the coming of Gog and Magog. But, an earthquake in Israel doesn’t mean that there will be one in Africa, so we’re left with the building of a dam.

Well, Ethiopia is building one, and it will be completed and functional in 2017. 2017 is important because it is a jubilee for God’s “Chosen People” in Israel. So 2017 could be a huge disaster year. 

The GERD will sit near major earthquake fault lines 

We know Jubilees are very important to Israel. For example,

1917 – The Balfour Declaration

1967 – The Jews re-captured Jeruslaem

2017 - ??????

Do you believe in coincidences? I don’t, and you shouldn’t either. Egypt has a divine appointment with God that will culminate in the Egyptian people returning to Jesus Christ/Yeshua.

The GERD

The dam in question is the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD in Ethiopia. That dam will sit on the Blue Nile which supplies two thirds of the water running through the Nile River itself. Cut off the Blue Nile, and the Nile will fall to a third of its original volume. And, if there’s a serious drought in Africa Egypt will be totally devastated. Are you starting to see how this might work out?

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam starts generating electricity in 2015. This means that it must start filling up next year – even though the completion date is 2017. Ethiopia claims that it plans to fill the reservoir over the course of three years (or more). But, that reservoir will hold the equivalent of the entire water flow of all of the Nile River for a year. This means that the flow of the Blue Nile will almost be cut in half… for three years.

Moreover, the GERD and other Ethiopian dams will sit near major earthquake fault lines. If the dams collapse Egypt will be hit with a devastating tsunami like flood!  

The point that you need to take away from this is that Bible prophecy is quickly moving ahead, and time is running out for those of you seeking to prepare for what is coming. Do you know Yeshua Hamaschiach/Jesus Christ as your personal savior and Messiah?