Bible Prophecy Master Class, Part 1

Bible Prophecy Master Class, Part 1

di Alvin Mitchell

Cristianità Religione

Stagione 1

America...Hell's Angel Rides A Trojan Horse

Hell’s Angel On A Trojan Horse? ‘Don’t Shoot’ “The flight is 50 miles out…30 miles…10 miles, do you still want us to uphold the ‘don’t shoot’ order?” The young man dutifully reporting to Vice President Dick Cheney, asked him that question, as the plane that took off from Boston, heading west bound for L. A., returned, flew east past the Pentagon, did a sharp u-turn, and, slammed into the Pentagon building from the East, unchallenged, in what should have been the most secure, most heavily defended airspace on the face of this planet! A Pretext for War The end of the Vietnam War and the end of the Cold War saw a major shake-up of American war-related industries. That shakeup forced some to close their doors, or, to revamp—meaning others could survive only through mergers or acquisitions—or, by finding other uses and markets for their livelihoods. Aircraft manufacturer McDonnell Douglas is a prime example. Douglas’s insistence and focus on building and selling into a war-driven economy, left it with no market for its primarily military-oriented planes, in an era of perceived ‘peace’. Rival Boeing, whose emphasis for many years had been commercial, enhanced its survival by its acquisition of Douglas. A representative from Rockwell International appeared once in a news interview, in which he discussed how his company would survive in part by making an otherwise strictly military technology available to the private sector. Out of that decision grew our current gps tracking systems, including the satellite units commonly used today by heavy trucking companies (and other industries, including law enforcement) to communicate with, dispatch and control their drivers. Rockwell provided much needed information and technology that contributed in one way or the other to our current information age and cell phone viability. Thus, Rockwell was one of those well-known, top-tier players (you might say) who found a way to survive. These were several of the lucky ones. Long story short, lucrative sources of income—inclusive of fuels, weapons, vehicles of all types and, living accommodations—that produced many an American wealthy ‘fat-cat,’ the overwhelming majority of them white, was drying up. With military downsizing and base closings worldwide (mid ‘80s through the early ‘90s), the war industry was hemorrhaging money, while Uncle Sam, ostensibly, was saving. There had to be a remedy. The only real solution was…gulp!…war! War, however, needs a stimulus, or a pretext—somebody to fight, and, a fighting reason (somebody to blame, in order to induce the general public to bend willingly to the demand for the sacrifice and the blood of their sons and daughters upon the altars of greed!). With the Korean War not officially over, but, somewhere on the backburner out of sight (tensions high; threats looming during the early ‘80s), the Vietnam war books closed, and the Cold War chapter ended (as of ’91, or so), the war plate from which the industry feasted was empty, the military’s war menu shredded. The war industry faced certain starvation. With nothing on the plate, you don’t build, therefore, you have nothing to sell. No selling means no income.

America "On The Brink of Armageddon"

Operation Able Archer Sometime around November 1983, NATO conducted a primarily paper only exercise code named Able Archer. During this time, the U.S. came dangerously close to being hit by USSR nuclear weapons, at least twice. This exercise is (or, was) documented in detail in an online video dubbed 1983: The Brink of Armageddon. Only a few pieces of communications equipment were ever deployed during the whole of the exercise, as communications (an annual, routine procedural exercise) was the chief concern of NATO at that time. Knowing that the Russians would be and in fact were closely monitoring and listening in, as they always did whenever NATO conducted such joint mock operations, they made it as realistic as they possibly could. Unbeknown to NATO officials, however, the Russians were in a dangerously different frame of mind on this occasion. Out of kelter with normal protocol, a nervous Soviet Kremlin led by KGB Chief Andropov watched as usual, only this time weighing, regarding and taking every word they heard seriously—always waiting anxiously in virtual hope that German spy Rainer Rupp, code name Topaz would bring them word of an imminent nuke attack. In keeping with Soviet doctrine and determination never to be the first to shoot, in response to even the slightest fear realized, the USSR had prepared on the other hand, and were well able to return the favor. Throughout the innocence of an otherwise fictitious event, the Kremlin kept a trembling finger poised over the button that could unleash an all-out counteroffensive that would have obliterated the United States (CIA operatives were quite able to keep tabs on much of Russia’s activities and equipment positions and such but were hopelessly unaware of and therefore unable to gauge fully the extent of the Soviet mental state, or, the depth of their paranoia). Thus, when the allies concluded the exercise with a celebration to mark its success, they did so unwittingly on a Russian holiday. Big mistake! What they did not know was that all the while, the Soviets—during those cold war years—had prepared and nervously guarded an actual retaliatory barrage of over three hundred missiles. Some of these were squadrons of MIRVs, each having 10 individual warheads, each warhead targeted on a particular American city (although the Russian mole had reported to the Soviets that no such attack was forthcoming by NATO; the exercise called for deployment and launch of a mock 350 missiles). The Kremlin mindset stipulated that if the U.S. were going to assault them militarily with nukes, it would likely be on the eve of some holiday, when people were relaxed, out celebrating. 11/03/83 was the eve of Revolution Day in Russia, hence they anxiously anticipated a U.S. attack. Herein lay the root of Soviet paranoia. The missiles targeting us are said to have been “…very, very precise”, each having the power and explosive force of 150 of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima. “The devastation,” per Soviet analysis from officials interviewed after the 1991 Soviet collapse, “would have been total”. This, according to the report, was the second time or one of several Russian misinterpretations and/or equipment malfunctions during the exercise that brought the world to the “…verge of Armageddon”.

America's Achilles Heel & HEMP

HEMP: The Venomous Fangs Arthur Holly Compton: The Manhattan Project The threat-within-the-threat was actually discovered before the threat itself (deployed in 1945). Back of twenty-five to thirty years ago, exposure to this inner threat and its ensuing impact would have been much less of a cause for concern. Today, however, marks a brand-new chapter, in a nation heavily dependent upon both the crutches of electricity and sophisticated electronics. This other half, if not the ‘better half’, of the nuclear threat officially established in 1945, is called Compton Effect, or Compton scattering. In 1923, a physicist named Arthur Holly Compton stumbled onto the discovery of this phenomenon named in his honor independent of any work leading directly to the development of the atomic or nuclear bomb (although years later in 1941, he would chair a committee of the National Academy of Sciences commissioned to explore atomic energy in search of any application which might have military implications and ramifications. Together with physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, it was he who was instrumental in the launch of The Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bomb.). The work for which Mr. Compton is best known won him the Nobel Prize. This work centered on the strange reaction achieved when bombarding atoms, having low atomic numbers and weights, with streams of photons from high-energy electromagnetism in the range of X-rays and gamma rays. It seems that whenever these energetic packets of light particles strike atoms of the aforementioned type, they do so at the point of the loosely held electrons in the atoms’ outermost shells and rings (that, is where the chemical bonding of everything matter in the universe takes place). When the photon strikes the electron, it does so as when one marble strikes another on a tabletop. During this contact, an energy transfer takes place so that the photon gives up some of its energy. Hereby, the tiny electron becomes saturated with energy—more than it can handle so that it cannot remain in its orbit—or, super-charged. The excessive excitement and a recoil throws the electron out of its orbit, driving it away from the atom at a speed near that of the light, with which it was struck. This phenomenon is the driving force behind that which will in all likelihood spell the doom of Babylon the Great—God’s justifiable pseudonym of choice for the United States of America. Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) While it was neither observed nor understood with the dropping of the first two atomic bombs on the Japanese in 1945, Compton scattering (or, recoil) is an inevitable occurrence that accompanies any nuclear explosion. This was first confirmed accidentally in 1958 and in 1962, during high altitude hydrogen bomb explosions over the Pacific Ocean (there were ten total; all were the so-called exo-atmospheric tests, in that the blasts occurred in outer space, outside the earth’s atmosphere).

America's Achilles' Heel & Pandora's Box

Pandora’s Box: How to kill the Superpower In light of today’s awe-inspiring wartime killing technologies, it only seems logical and reasonable to interpret the one-hour time frame within which the greatest man-made political, economic, and military force man has ever known is projected to collapse, as a literal possibility. One said, it seems rational enough, but is it? If indeed the U.S. is in God’s economy the only possible shoe that fits the foot of Babylon the Great, as it most assuredly appears to be, is it really sensible to believe that even God can bring down so great, so awesome a world force and military power, so widely dispersed a people as we, in only one hour? I mean, us—the United States of America(!)? How utterly absurd, right (After all, are we not a Christian nation and people, in God’s eyes—to say nothing of our own?)? Granted, many awesome weapons of mass destruction have surfaced since the turn of the 20th century—the most horrifying, for even an industrious power like the U.S., being the hydrogen atomic/nuclear bombs, and nuclear-tipped ICBMs (more horrific than this weapon itself is the fact that they are becoming ever more accessible to unstable, hostile, concerns with their ‘eye on America’, and that, not for good. And yet, there is a greater, more alarming evil than either of these lurking in the wings, as we shall see!). One or several nuclear bursts within the shores of the contiguous states can do a lot of damage, but, would that be enough to bring down such an institution (as will be shown by the section on Operation Able Archer (p. 170) in light of their understanding of how the U.S. would most likely launch a pre-emptive first strike against them, the Russians have no intention of ever attempting such a feat with only a handful of their 6000 or so nuke warheads)? How many would it take, and is a conventional nuclear offensive even likely, given the high probability of “mutually assured destruction,” in retaliation? (Again, for a chilling perspective of what will likely transpire in the future, based upon what almost happened in the past, fast-forward to the ‘Able Archer’ article; also, remember that by God’s design, Babylon is to be sacked while relatively strong, and the going for her and the world around her is reasonably good; not while she is weak and vulnerable to the point of being powerless.) But, one may well be wondering, is it not always possible, that an enemy force from offshore could, at some point, invade the land to take it by force? And, of course, one cannot but respond with a resounding, yes!—highly unlikely though that may be; after all, whatever its faults and weakness, it is still no less the most powerful nation on the planet (so, if a nuke attack within the confines of its normal usage is unseemly, so is this.). Without doubt, God Himself could do the unthinkable, directly and virtually without effort. But, is that His preferred method? Although He places Himself squarely at the helm, the unseen Hand guiding and delivering the judgment which will eventually grip her loins, dragging her, without a fight—pearls, pedestal; prowess and power—down into the dusts, sands and ashes of an everlasting destruction, the evidence suggests otherwise. The ultimate cause will be God; the immediate cause will be the nations.

America's Achilles' Heel

So, we have seen and we have established, on multiple fronts, the identity of Babylon the Great. We now understand how and why she has nothing to do with Babylon, Iraq, nor is she in any wise related to the mystery figure unveiled in chapter 17. All that having been settled, then, the question looming before us at this hour is “how”(?). How is it that Almighty God plans to bring down this end times beast of a nation, in under 1 hour, at the hands of her closest allies and trading partners? If she is essential to Israel’s survival now, what happens when she is pulverized? And so, it is with these questions dogging our minds that we commence our journey through this last section of the study of the Book of the Revelation thusly: Plan A & Plan B Think. Imagine! You are God. Concurrent with the return of your people from a two-thousand-year slumber, exiled in foreign lands, You have implemented PLAN A, making provision that assured the rise of a strong nation, the most powerful on the planet, as promised—per your specification, her seed having been planted as early as the 1600s. Reminiscent of the dangerous days of Haman and the Assyrians, and, the Romans under Titus, this strong nation will be essential to the survival and preservation of your people, once they are resettled. All that done, you have moved on now to PLAN B, in which a stern ultimatum has been issued: That nation, comparable to nothing in the known universe, the mightiest ever, must be destroyed. In spite of her professed “Christian” underpinnings, the fruits of this new nation’s impending destruction began to blossom and come to fruition soon after her planting—flourishing throughout the then coming 400(+) years. The total, irreversible, unstoppable, horrifying collapse of that high-profiled, prideful nation, from start to finish (4.5 centuries or so in the making), must be, can and will be confined to the space of 1 hour. How would You, accomplish that?

Secret Societies in the shaping of America!

Secret Societies “For our struggle is not with flesh and blood. Rather our warfare is…centered ultimately in the realm of the demonic…” (Ephesians 6:10-20). There is that among us at this late hour—constrained and restrained though it is—which may easily represent the ultimate physical manifestation of this reality. So much so is this true that, far, far too many of America’s churches, seminaries and Bible schools amount to something on the order of theological and spiritual deathtraps. Having been successfully infiltrated, they are heavily influenced and satanically guided, from behind the scenes, by these sinister, diabolical influences. Much of this demonic activity is manifested through secret societies, of which it is said that they ultimately control most other major institutions throughout all our local communities, including schools, financial institutions, industry, as well as politics, and our churches! Of all that ails America, it might well be argued that the most damning of influences come from the presences of, and in the operation of, the secret societies. According to some sources, they appear to contribute marvelously to her place in God’s eschatological timetable, on a sour note. It may be that these make and mark her eternally as Babylon the Great, more than anything else. Cecil Rhodes’ Federal World Government Occult, often highly secretive organizations featuring hidden agendas and secret knowledge that has to be kept from the public at all cost, the secret societies are said to be the (rich) folk who actually run and control not only America, but in one way or the other, the entire world. It is said that all have in general, one common goal: subjugation of all humanity under the rule of a One World Government System. This idea was originally suggested and proposed in the early days of the 1900s by a gentleman whose name was Cecil Rhodes—founder of the Rhodes Scholarship, by means of which he had hoped to facilitate his dream—and supported generously by writer H. G. Wells. Mr. Rhodes’ plan envisioned imposition of a Federal World Government, enforced jointly by the U. S. and the British Empire. George W. Bush, Sr. was recorded 91 years later, during an engagement on 9/11/1991, at which he spoke passionately about realizing in a “New World Order…the universal aspiration of mankind…peace and security, freedom and the rule of law” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byxeOG_pZ1o). This law he stated, would “…govern the conduct of nations”—thus indicating that Mr. Rhodes’ original initiative is very much alive, and in the works. The torch for that initiative is being hoisted and carried by the secret societies of today.

Billy Graham's View of America, etc.!

We’re a Secular Country “So, is this still a Christian country,” another Interviewer queried? To his credit, Billy Graham, openly in his own words and voice, does acknowledge in that conversation, “No, we’re not a Christian country; we’ve never been a Christian country. We’re a secular country, by our constitution…where Christians live…and have a voice, but, ah, we’re not a Christian country” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f68IgZruyNI). In so stating, a silver-haired Dr. Graham immediately affirms that all of today's top tier, well-known preachers (Including the likes of the late Adrian Rogers of Love Worth Finding, Southern Baptist preacher Dr. Robert Jeffress, the late D. James Kennedy of Corral Ridge Ministries, etc., etc.) who teach that America is and has always been Christian, are in fact liars. But, why? How could the best-known American voice for Christ make so damning an indictment? If that is true, and Mr. Graham is right—as indeed he is, by accounts and measures beyond his own testimony—then these men and others like them would know that. Thus, when they talk about Christian founding fathers, and such (most are said to have been ‘deists’—of the ones who were not deists, many if not most were the products and purveyors of a largely faulty, fruitless brand of Christianity), and, a “return to her roots”, what they are really saying is that they affirm and embrace all the evils perpetrated by those fathers upon Africans, Indians, Mexicans and others in the name of God, and, as such they long for a return to that time of unbridled hostility and bigotry. There never was, never has been, is not now, nor will there ever be a Christian America (These truths are affirmed by white commentator and writer Jim Wallis—among others—in his 1987 article titled “America’s Original Sin”, published in his magazine, Sojourners and by John MacArthur, who affirms unequivocally that the fathers were not Christians, per se, as rather they were ‘deists’.).

Pentacostal Teaching: Night with the King

Let the Pentecostals tell it, and this (at the time of this writing) new, soon-to-be-released movie, based upon the book by a pastor named Tommy Tenney, produced by Matt Crouch, son of Paul and Jan Crouche—owners and founders of TBN—is the greatest thing ever, for the Christian community, since canned soup, sliced bread or even the birth of the Christ Himself. But, is it? They herald it as being true to scripture. Is it—being largely fiction, by Mr. Tenney’s own admission, with key components of the story, including the overall thrust, being inaccurate (any and every false prophet one can ever hope to encounter will always claim that his point of view is the most scriptural of all!)? The day after the premiere (10/11/06) Jan Crouch praised and appraised it not as a movie but as a prophecy from God. Really? Esther is lauded in all the promotional hype and media bling as a young woman, chosen of God for her extraordinary role because of her faith. Huhn?! If there was any faith to speak of, how did the God of all the universe miss it, when evidently, He saw the whole thing(!)? Perhaps we should give Mr. Tenney credit for having the guts to admit publicly that his work, the book, is fictitious; might that also be an admission that the book is loaded with doctrinal error, as well? After all, the book and movie cannot be both fiction and true to scripture all at the same time.

American Churches: The Lamb's Bride or the Devil's Workshop? (Part 3)

Those Lying Holiness Preachers! The following is meant to convey some of the wrong doctrine coming out of the TBN and Daystar broadcast networks, which spiritually adversely, negatively affects the lives of, not just the 600,000,000 Pentecostals (they claim), but other truth seekers all around the world, daily, most of whom will rarely if ever get equal exposure to more wholesome Bible teaching, in light of the TBN/Daystar domination of the airwaves: The idea and theology espoused, embraced and spread by these types of theologians is such that, God is a Despiser of the underprivileged, and a Respecter only of the privileged; the successful; those who are the winners in the game of life. The reality is, nothing could be farther from the truth (as evinced by Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and the Old Testament prophets). These people, these Pentecostals, are all liars, and their teachings are lies (laced, of course, with truth). Yet, this, and similar doctrine, is spread as dogma and part of the gospel message, all around the world, daily, in the Name of Almighty God. The mainline denominations are also guilty of this same kind of exclusionist thinking. Cash-strapped ministries are a sign that God is not blessing, or God is not with the work of that ministry; the poor are a despicable sight, being spiritually challenged; God will not protect those who cannot afford to pay for that protection! Really? The fact is, in God’s eyes, the man who has little and is no less righteous, fearing God in the process, is much more to be desired than any who has great riches and yet lives un-righteously (Proverbs 15:16; 16:8, 19; 17:1; 19:1; Rev. 2:8-11; 3:7-8). Furthermore, it is God’s estimation that the man and/or ministry who takes upon himself to dishonor, demean, mock or belittle any individual, in any way, simply because that man, woman, or that child is poor, in the end reproaches his Maker, the one who made him (Proverbs 15:31; 17:5). Finally, it is God’s expectation that those who have, rather than looking down upon the poor with condescension, should take notice of him, with pity, i.e., by giving a helping hand. In so doing, the one showing mercy to the poor, actually lends to the Lord Himself; that is, God obligates Himself to the giver (it should be noted here that, giver is not merely one who gives so as to prompt God to respond in his favor. Actually, he is the one who is striving to do the will of God, walking with Him daily, ordering his steps and life accordingly, so that he has a ‘God’ kind of genuine concern for the less-fortunate.). He will repay him, for his kindness (Proverbs 19:17). The Psalmist says in song, “the man who considers the plight of the poor is blessed of the Lord, so that when his time of trouble comes, God will remember, and thereafter deliver him” (Psalm 41:1).

American Churches: The Lamb's Bride or the Devil's Workshop? (Part 2)

Para-church Organizations: Anti-God? Anti-Christ? Based upon one’s own personal experiences in churches (black and white), coupled with the experiences and observations of other great preachers/teachers, past and present (all across the U.S.), how can one then conclude as but that what we have here is a nation of churches not only out of touch with its Savior, but, is equally (perhaps unwittingly, to some extent) out of His favor (many of these today are large and prosperous beyond the average ancient preacher/pastor’s wildest dreams). Unthinkable? Remember that, by highlighting the seven churches of the Revelation in around 96 AD, and by singling out only two of the weakest and most obscure of that seven as faithful and therefore worthy of His notice, Christ our Lord basically blew off nearly 75% of the early churches (including the wealthiest and best educated of them) threatening them, warning them as ones being in grave danger of losing a salvation for which He had given His own life—and, of the 5 forming the 75%, 2 were actually guilty of doing everything right (up to a point; they were actually engaged in a kind of unholy alliance such that they effectively were subject to two masters—an unacceptable practice in the Lord’s economy.)! The epistles, written as corrective measures, not evangelism tools, also confirm that virtually all the early churches were in serious trouble, within a short period following the Lord’s resurrection and ascension. Christian Media As if all the aforementioned were not bad enough, there is the matter of the so-called para-church ministries, particularly those operating under the umbrellas of the Christian broadcast mediums of radio and television. While satan appears not only to be fully in charge of and in control of the two major television networks, he has more recently (as of about 10 years or so ago, @ 04/22/06) launched and introduced his latest successful attack on Biblical Christianity in the form of a campaign dubbed the KLOVE Broadcast Association (begun in 1982, somewhere in California. Please note that while the attack is on Biblical Christianity, as well as the traditional American styled brand, truthfully, Christianity as practiced by Americans might itself easily be construed as a running, on-going satanic attack upon the Biblical!). “Positive and uplifting” (they say of themselves) “...encouraging...,” in the name of God, this organization appears to have bought out and/or taken over Christian radio stations from coast to coast (Even worse, unconfirmed reports have it that TBN now owns KLOVE). Hence, the post they occupy is no small matter in the eyes of the Almighty. They are poised to affect the minds and very subtly poison the hearts of multitudes of people all over this country.

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