A Note of Introduction: If the Terrorist Attack on 9/11 was intended to be a wake-up call from the Lord to our nation, then it didn't do much good. Many churches had prayer services, but then returned to life as usual . There were short outbursts of national patriotism, and concerted efforts by our government to wage war against international terrorism. But once again apathy prevails in our nation--and especially indifference to God, the Holy One of Israel.
Terrorism is a powerful form of what the Bible calls "lawlessness." In teaching the church at Thessalonica about the end of the age we live in, the Apostle Paul talked about increasing lawlessness. He spoke of the coming of a great world leader whom the Bible calls the "man of lawlessness," a final treacherous antichrist. Paul spoke of "strong delusion", of signs and wonders, and "unrighteous deception."
"For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." (2 Thessalonians 2:7-12)
Until the rapture of the true church takes place, this final state of world affairs (which will precede the return of Jesus Christ to our planet), can not take place. But the signs that this could be soon are everywhere.
The spiritual state of the United States is now at an all-time low. Having tried and failed to successfully address the postmodern culture around us, many Christians have simply retreated to live in their gated-communities where they think they will be safe.
Meanwhile our nation is overdue for judgment. Such judgments have come down from God upon many nations in the past. The U.S. has no covenant with God, no special immunity before the living God who is both holy and just. An awakened church could stave off the inevitable ruin of our nation.
But suppose, in the wisdom of God we need another wake-up call--a bit stronger next time?
Emanuel Winston is a credible reporter on Israel and the Middle East. I met him over lunch in Jerusalem some years ago and felt privileged because the things he talked about had substance and relevance. I have no idea if the scenario he reports below can, or will, come to pass. But what if? Why Not? One does not have to agree with Mr. Winston to see the importance of perceiving the perilous times in which we live.
The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Jesus, asked that He would show them a sign from heaven. He answered and said to them, "When it is evening you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red'; "and in the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times. "A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah." And He left them and departed. (Matthew 16:1-4)
I also know that prayer changes things and that God is sovereign over all the affairs of men and nations. All sorts of bad things don't happen when Christians pray. There is no harm in praying for God's mercy and aid. In fact it is probably urgently needed now than we might suppose. C.S. Lewis said this about prayer,
When we are praying about the result, say, of a battle or a medical consultation, the thought will often cross our minds that, if we only knew it, the event is already decided one way or the other.
I believe this to be no good reason for ceasing our prayers. The event certainly has been decided. In a sense, it was decided before all the worlds.
But one of the things taken into account in deciding it, and therefore one of the things that really causes it to happen, may be this very prayer that we are now offering.
Thus, shocking as it may sound, I conclude that we can at noon become part causes of an event occurring at ten o'clock. There is no question whether an event has happened because of your prayer.
When the event you prayed for occurs, your prayer has always contributed to it.
When the opposite event occurs, your prayer has never been ignored; it has been considered and refused for your ultimate good and the good of the whole universe.
(Lambert Dolphin, 12/1/03)
WINSTON MID EAST ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
November 30, 2003
by Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst & commentator
Muslim Arabs, presumably connected to Al Qaeda, have issued a
proclamation which, in effect, tells the American government and
the people that they will implement a Mega-Attack in 3 American
cities. (1) It is not necessary to believe them as to specifics,
since they could attack even one city and achieve their desired
effect. Depending upon their weapon of choice, any city could
sustain in excess of 100,000 casualties. That weapon of choice,
could be an actual nuclear weapon - perhaps one of the Kegs, (suitcase
nukes) purchased from rogue Russian officers or the ever-growing
Russian Mafia. (2) The same could be said for Chemical or Biological
(3) materials, which might have come from Iraqi, Syrian or Iranian
stockpiles.
If there is what is called a "Mega-Attack" and thousands
or even hundreds of thousands of Americans die, the U.S. government
will be faced with a difficult choice. Since Terrorists cloak
themselves with anonymity, we probably won,t know which nation
or which of their Terrorists groups are responsible. America should
have issued a warning to all the Arab/Muslim nations, namely,
Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Libya, et al, that, IF America is,
indeed, hit again with a Mega-Attack, then all those nations,
capitals would be obliterated within hours. This would give them
a strong incentive to find their sleeper teams of Jihadists, or
prepare to disappear.
We Americans have only heard about the pathogens designed for
mass extinction of a city or a nation. Once it starts, we will
most likely be paralyzed with confusion. No doubt, martial law
will be declared, the laws of the Constitution pushed aside and
the U.S. Congress sequestered into a non-active body. (4) This
will not, however, stop terror inside our nation.
Perhaps we should recommend that the entire Muslim Arab Crescent
be warned that they would be eliminated, since there is no way
to separate the Islamists who fund and control the sleeper cells,
planted in America within all the other Muslims who seem to be
living peaceably - but, invariably cheer when America is successfully
attacked by their co-religionists.
The nations of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya have ignored
or participated with Terrorists for many years. We cannot democratize
nations who seems to prefer dictators nor can we wait dozens of
years, perhaps centuries for the Islamists to change their goals,
namely ridding the world of what they call infidels, (non-believers
in Islam). We have been at war with Islam - only we don,t seem
to know it -- or, at least, we don't want to acknowledge it..
Should a Mega-Attack occur on American soil, we cannot resort
to pin-point bombing on known targets with our intelligent missiles.
We will be required to completely eliminate the leaders in their
capitals and such missile fields and nuclear complexes so that
the heads of the snakes are removed. That will not guarantee future
safety but, it will cut off those who control and mastermind the
sleeper cells, allowed into America by the Arabist U.S. State
Department. The choice of living or dying en masse, is
a choice we must make before the fact.
Some will think this is a cruel and unfair judgment but they haven't
yet experienced a vast wipe-out of American citizens -- with the
exception of 9/11. Even that has fled our consciousness as an
act of brutal horror. Building memorials to the dead is something
that the Jews have done through the centuries but, it is no comfort
to the living who may be about to be slaughtered. The nations
of Arabs, Muslims and radical Islamists have taught their children
to be the future Terrorists and Shahids, (martyrs) for Islam.
If releasing deadly toxins into an American city is consistent
with these teachings and they have the technology to do so --
that is what they will do.
I have little doubt that we must go through a Mega-Attack, killing
massive numbers of Americans before we are motivated to act. Then
we must act with instant retaliation to bring those nations who
threatened our very existence back to the Stone Age where spears
and rocks will be the only weapons they have available.
Nuclear or radio-active dirty bombs, biological pathogens that
act as an incurable plague or Chemicals that sear the lungs and
kill with a single droplet will no longer be in their reach. We
do not have the manpower to police these nations as we are learning
in Iraq so, therefore, their leadership and military must be destroyed
in a single blow. Must we first experience death on a massive
scale before we are ready to act? They have warned us. What are
we waiting for?
FOLLOWING THE PROMISED MEGA-ATTACK PART 2
BLAMING SOMEONE -- ANYONE: THE JEWS
[THIS ARTICLE IS DIRECTED TO THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP & CHRISTIAN
FRIENDS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE]
We all expect a Mega-Attack by Muslim Terrorists. They promised
it. They mean what they say and they say what they mean. It doesn't
matter if the umbrella description is that of Al Qaeda or the
numerous Terrorist Nations and Terrorist proxies who shelter under
the one name, Al Qaeda. What matters is that Arab and non-Arab
Muslims have stated repeatedly that they are going to attack America,s
population centers with weapons that cause death in Mega proportions.
The World Trade Center's Twin Towers were destroyed and the Pentagon
was hit by 15 Saudis and 4 Egyptians who hijacked 3 planes simultaneously.
(Where was the 3rd plane intended to crash? The White House? Its
passengers prevented that and crashed it in Pennsylvania.)
The Arab propagandists tried to shift the blame to the Jews. They
tried to hide under the concept that Arab Muslims were too backward
to pull off such a well-coordinated attack. Therefore, according
to the Arab media, it must have been those clever Jews who had
manipulated the Saudi government and the Saudi Osama Bin Laden
supporters of multi-millionaire to billionaire. To this day the
ignorant Muslims in the streets believe what they were told, which
in their twisted religion is any lie a Muslim tells them must
be the truth.
They say, it must have been the Jews who manipulated the Egyptians
through Hosni Mubarak to join the plot. The propaganda, some pre-prepared,
some instant creations of the fertile Arab/Muslim mind, needed
someone to blame other than themselves for the heinous attacks
on America. Clearly, they feared a righteous backlash by the American
Super-Power - which did come eventually. First Afghanistan, then
Iraq with the President's pledge to War against Global Terrorism
making Iran and Syria very nervous. (5)
To a minor degree, the anti-Jewish propaganda worked among the
Arabs and such nations as France, Germany where there are swarms
of Muslim immigrants beginning to reach a critical mass,. As Hitler's
chief propagandist Goebbels said, "If the lie is big enough
and repeated often enough, it will be believed".
So now we are on the threshold of a promised Mega-Attack by Muslims
and various other Arab Terrorists. No doubt, their propaganda
mechanism is working overtime to evolve the best plan, not only
to kill Americans but to somehow shift the blame for their cruel
assaults onto the Jews and the Jewish State of Israel.
In case, anyone has forgotten, Saudi Arabia employed several American
PR firms to confuse and obfuscate the Saudi role in 9/11. Now,
add to that a second assignment for the PR firms, namely to pre-plan
a campaign to blame the Jews for the coming Mega-Attack. Under
the Logan Act, Americans who do this can be sent to jail for subversion.
Most certainly, the Jewish leadership in Israel, America and the
rest of the Diaspora will have no advance planning to meet or
pre-empt this propaganda - despite being alerted to the possibilities.
Surely, 2 or 3 weeks following the Mega-Attack, the Jewish leadership
will start to babble denials to the well thought out Muslim/Arab
charges.
The Arab/Muslim block in the U.N. will immediately call for an
investigation -- not of Arab nations who assisted in the planning
but of the Jewish State of Israel. Never mind that what they say
won't make sense or be able to withstand scrutiny. It will be
the Hitler/Goebbels proven policy that, "If the lie is big
enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed". But,
sadly, giving Jewish leadership a heads-up, is like telling a
3 year old: "Don't do it again."
They will have some meetings and expressions of concern. They
will establish a committee or two to study the matter. Those NOT
allowed to be members of this committee will probably be the activists
who forecast such problems and study solutions. Perhaps they,ll
employ a PR agency whose expertise is selling bourbon or diet
drinks or assisting politicians in running for office. In other
words, the Jewish leadership and organizations will do nothing
in advance or useful because they feel comfortable they can talk
their way out of trouble -- after the fact.
Leaders of the AJCs, ADL, UJCs, Federations - Take notice! The
Arab/Muslims will kill Americans and try to water down the inevitable
backlash by blaming the Jews. Their main theme will be: "If
it wasn't for Israel, we wouldn't have been forced to take the
desperate act of killing Americans." You will counter that
Islam is at war with America, with the intention of having the
Saudi brand of Islam, called Wahhabbism, or the Taliban view of
Islam take over the world. But, you will be too late. No one will
be listening. They'll be dead, dying, wounded or attending Mega-funerals
with furious Americans ready to blame anyone at whom authority
figures point their fingers. In desperation, you will assemble
a team of experts to counter their propaganda but, the first group
you choose will be amateurs -- in order to be politically acceptable
to all Jewish organizations. That translates into failure to solve
the problem.
Of course, a first string team of professionals could be already
assembled but, as quivering Jewish institutions, you will not
call them in until they push themselves to the forefront by necessity
as happened in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. We Jews just act too
late, too weakly and hope it will all go away by itself. It would
appear that only the non-Jewish Jews of the Left have the conviction
to join our enemies, de-Judaize Israel and generally show their
negative strength.
Perhaps, not surprisingly, the anti-Jewish newspaper HA'ARETZ,
well to the Left, has already started the effort to blame the
Jews of Israel for the anti-Semitism that is rising up in America
and Europe. In an article of November 28, by Eliahu Salpeter entitled:
"The Jewish World: a Collective Punishment" (6), tells
us that the new anti-Semitism starts with the Palestinian conflict.
Clearly, as a thumping Leftist, this writer and this Leftist paper
starts the ball rolling with a Mea Culpa, by blaming Israel for
the ramping up of anti-Semitism everywhere. He speaks of the poor,
Muslims in France being so angry at not being absorbed by the
French that they lash out at the Jews and Israel.
He further speaks of Muslim rage over what is happening in the
territories, of Judea, Samaria and Gaza under what he calls Israeli
occupation, and the tendency of Muslims to associate World Jewry
with the Jewish State. Here we read from a Jew hater (self-hater)
of the first order who is frothing at the mouth, trying to blame
his co-religionists for the anti-Semitism in Europe, Africa and,
for him, hopefully in America.
HA'ARETZ has always conveniently forgotten that the Jews are in
the territories, because the Arab Muslims waged six unsuccessful
wars to wipe out any vestige of Israel and all Jews therein. Those
Jews in the villages, towns and cities of Yesha (Judea, Shomron
and Aza) are Israel,s first line of defense for the Jews of Tel
Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem - because if those pioneering Jews of
Yesha are delegitimated or eliminated, then the Jews inside the
Green Line have no legitimacy either and are next on the list
for extermination.
Those familiar with the Dr. Seuss book about the Sneetches, recall
his parting line of the guy who took away all their money: "You
can't teach a Sneetch." How appropriately that applies to
today's Jewish self-anointed establishment!
References:
1. "Mega-Terror Menaces on Three Continents" DEBKA-file-DEBKA-Net-Weekly
Special Report Feb. 4, 2003 & "Al Qaeda Plans Something
Big" by Kevin Johnson USA Today 11/27/03
2. "Seven Terror Nukes Already in U.S." http:/www.maranatharevival.net/Andtherewillbterrors.htm
3. "Al Qaeda Prepares Bio-Terror for US & Israel"
DEBKA-Net-Weekly Jan. 4, 2003
4. "Gen. Tommy Franks: Martial Law will Replace Constitution
After Next Terror Attack" Newsmax.com 11/21/03
5. "Scapegoating Israel - Part 2" HonestReporting.com
September 21, 2001 & "Blaming Jews 101" by Prof.
Edward Alexander FrontPageMagazine.com Nov. 11, 2003
6. "The Jewish World/ A Collective Punishment" by Eliahu
Salpeter HA,ARETZ Nov. 28, 2003
Emanuel A. Winston is a research associate of the Freeman Center
For Strategic Studies.
Email: gwinston@interaccess.com
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