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Home appliances will soon start taking their orders over the internet from a central utility manager under government control.  By installing in-home boxes the size of cable television receivers, utility managers can set electricity consumption rates for districts, neighborhoods, and houses.  Using software being developed by IBM, instructions can be remotely given to command thermostats to change settings, or shut down HVAC’s completely.  Touted will be the advantages of saving energy and the ability to switch to renewable sources as they come online, and customizing homes to occupant preferences.  For instance, rooms will automatically adjust lighting to match the identity profile of the person entering the room (which also means your whereabouts can be tracked at all times).

This illusion of control will be the trade off for surrendering all of it.  When the green evangelists begin requiring worship as a condition to receive power from mother earth, a person won’t be able to turn on so much as a light without complying.  How soon power utilities will be used as a political state tool is arguable, but the technology will be implemented soon.  Companies like IBM stand to make a fortune in Smart Energy Technology (SET).  President Obama’s stimulus package contains 10 billion for SET, and that does not include the future sales and service of all the equipment that will be required for homes and entire power grids.  Further guaranteeing windfall profits, this equipment will be required by federal law.

At the rate the Federal Reserve is printing money China is concerned that the resulting inflation will significantly erode their wealth.  China happens to be the world’s largest holder of US dollar financial assets, and is looking at a transitional index of all currencies to take place at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).  Once all nations set their reserves to that index system, sovereign reserves would eventually be replaced by the new IMF reserves.

With the whole world eventually relying on this IMF standard a new world currency could be issued to replace all others.  According to an official at the People’s Bank of China, the only thing missing in the scheme is a man of “extraordinary political vision and courage” to bring the process about.¹  According to the Bible, It may not be a long wait before he appears.

This extraordinary man of fantastic political and diplomatic skills was foretold about in the book of Daniel (Dan 7:8).  He will be an economic genius and be adapt at solving the world’s financial crisis. He is referred to as the Beast in the book of Revelation, and will receive his power from Satan, the dragon, who will require all the world to worship him in order to use his new currency (Rev 13:4).

It will not be printed, but imprinted in the right hand or forehead.  All who refuse this mark will be unable to buy or sell, and will be hunted for extermination.  All who do trade in this coming new currency, or take the mark, will suffer eternal damnation and torment with fire and brimstone forever (Rev 14:10-11).

^1. Jamil Anderlini, “China calls for new reserve currency,” Financial Times, FT.com, March 23, 2009. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7851925a-17a2-11de-8c9d-0000779fd2ac.html

Annihilation America - The Wall Street Journal reports that Russian professor Igor Panarin cites “mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation” as the weight under which the United States will collapse in 2010.  Panarin also observes that while optimism remains high that President-elect Barack Obama “can work miracles,” it will become clear by spring that he is unable to do so.  States will begin fending for themselves as the Federal government implodes, dragging anyone who doesn’t cut ties with it down also, and seceding territories will become targets of other nations for takeover.

¹

^1. Divided States Map, The Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2008. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html,

In a stunning blow to national sovereignty, and national security, the Supreme Court ruled this week that captured alien combatants, in this case terrorists, are entitled to Constitutional rights. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy rationalized his decision by explaining “the laws of the Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.”¹ What’s extraordinary is that a Supreme Court Justice could correctly understand that the founders intended for the protections of our Constitution to endure, but could no longer comprehend they were written to apply to American citizens and not to enemy soldiers sworn to our annihilation.

The decision will certainly cause harm to Americans, and dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia put it best when, explaining his opposition to the ruling from the bench, said it: “Will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.”² While tragic, the infidelity is not entirely new. Placing unarmed citizens in harms way only continues a disgraceful trend of the Supreme Court in weakening this country. It started when the Justices began abandoning the Constitution in favor of their own convoluted reasoning, and accelerated when they found it vogue to enforce the laws of other nations on Americans.

In 2003, Justice Anthony Kennedy consulted the European Court of Human Rights in deciding that homosexuals had a right to sodomy.³ Later, speaking at Georgetown Law School, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor endorsed citation of foreign law in deciding cases by claiming it, in effect, was a valuable undertaking necessary in a “search for a more peaceful world.”⁴ Despite the fact that nowhere in our Constitution is the Supreme Court of the United States of American instructed to subordinate our Constitution to the opinions of foreign nationals, much less are they given the duty of finding the key to world peace, Justices have been tripping over their robes in making sure that the Constitution does not remain in force.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg opined in 2005 that it was her duty to disabuse Americans of the idea of: “The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions,” for the intolerable reason that this idea “has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification,” she said.⁵ This notion shares a certain kinship with the word “impeachment,” but the treason continues unabated. At the least, she should have been told to warm up the notion of looking beyond our boarders (though it be hard to find any firm ones) for her paycheck.

As despicable as this betrayal is, there is no chance that it will be arrested. The Supremes’ dereliction of duty is necessary. Bible prophecy buffs have struggled to identify American in end time events, and their quest was predicated on the assumption that such a superpower would be somewhere noted as a key player. But there is a reason she is unrecognizable in the scriptures. America must be annihilated as a super power as Bible prophecy plays out. It will be absorbed into a Union of Americas to compete the European Union, or nuked into whimpering subsistence; in any event, it will be of no consequence. In the future, Russia will join with Arab nations in attacking Israel (Eze 38; 39), something it was prevented from doing so long as American remained a superpower, and had a semblance of morality, or rather remained a superpower because of it. That is changing fast.

Notes:

^1. Robert Barnes, “Justices Say Detainees Can Seek Release,” Washington Post, June 13, 2008.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008

/06/12/AR2008061201695.html?hpid=topnews

^2. Ibid.

^3. Joan Biskupic,”Supreme Court citing more foreign cases,” USA Today, July 7, 2003.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-07-07-foreign-usat_x.htm

^4. Steven G. Calabresi,Stephanie Dotson Simdahl, “The Supreme Court and Foreign Sources of Law: Two Hundred Years of Practice and the Juvenile Death Penalty Decision,”

Social Science Research Network, Aprl, 2005.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=700176

^5. Dave Eberhart, “Justice Ginsburg: Supreme Court Considers Foreign Laws, Not Just Constitution,” Newsmax, April 3, 2005.

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/4/3/82551.shtml

Fatal rattlesnake bites were not so common in the decades prior to 2002. Steve Curry, director of medical toxicology at Banner Poison Control Center, Phoenix, Arizona, can only remember five bite fatalities during that period. That has all changed. Since 2002, there have been five deaths from rattlesnake bites in Arizona, and the symptoms from the bites have intensified dramatically. The symptoms include pain, nausea, diarrhea, dry mouth, swelling of mouth and throat, and difficulty in breathing. Victims go into shock and die within minutes.

So far, no one knows why the bites have become so lethal. All that Jeffery Brent, clinical professor of medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, knows is that this “is a brand new phenomenon.”¹ Perhaps this phenomenon is a foreshadowing of things to come.

The increasing ferocity of beasts is a phenomenon associated with end-time prophecy; particularly the period of seven years known as the Tribulation, or time of Jacob’s Trouble. It is during that time that the Four Horseman symbolically ride through the first half of the period dispensing death and destruction from wars, famine, and disease. And it is the fourth, and last, horseman that carries this extra lethal power of marshaling the beats of the earth:

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. (Rev 6:8; emphasis added)

At a time when killer bees are on the rise, and the more docile European bee is vanishing, these rattlesnakes seem to be part of a developing trend. Are the beasts of the earth being prepared?

Notes:

^1. Amanda Lee Myers, “Rattlesnake attacks spur severe reactions: Experts see a new phenomenon,” Dailynews.com, May 24, 2008. http://www.dailynews.com/search/

ci_9373276?IADID=Search-www.dailynews.com-www.dailynews.com

The British Humanists Association is championing new regulations set to go into effect next month in England which will contain stricter regulations for psychics and other spiritualists, including faith healers. The new regulations are designed to reflect European Union directives on fair trading and consumer protection against fraud. The affected spiritualists are complaining that the burden of proof will be shifted by the laws from prosecutors proving guilt to the accused proving innocence.

The Humanists occupy themselves with “campaigns against religion and supernatural beliefs,”¹ and one could wonder what future EU compliances will dictate further regulations on faith claims from churches where the Christian gospel is preached. There are, after all, some very impressive claims made that might prove hard to support in an EU court.

Exactly how would one prove, to the satisfaction of Humanists judges, that they are innocent of fraud when they claim to have a message that can save a human soul from Hell? The psychics in England are taking some ribbing about whether they should have seen this coming. One is tempted to ask: does the Church see what’s coming?

Notes:

^1. Steve Addison and Paul Casciato, “Psychics see big trouble over new laws,” Yahoo! News, April 18, 2008.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080418/od_nm/britain_psychic_

dc;_ylt=AifYpnlUnZ_nQoyPTmTuTeCs0NUE

The first jackboot of Global Warming fanaticism hit the floor down under when Australian professor Barry Walters revealed plans for penalizing people who refused to circumscribe their lives by the doomsday theory of global warming. As is usually the case when political factions can’t win the day with facts, they campaign to force their views through punitive taxation coupled with special exemptions for extraordinary compliance. Thus Walter’s $800 annual carbon tax per child for families who surpassed the states two-child limit could be offset by carbon credits earned from voluntary sterilization.¹

Since the Walters leak last December global warming faithful have been scrambling for a microphone and an outrageous new proposal to make. While the competition has been fierce, it appears that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has pulled ahead of the pack by renewing his call for global carbon taxation, and adding new penalties for suspected global warmers.

The mayor pitched his worldwide carbon tax plan at the UN’s “Addressing Climate Change: the United Nations and the world at Work” conference. There were few surprises in his call for the UN to punitively tax countries, including America, to create an incentive for them to tow the global warming party line (he wants Americans to levy the tax on themselves, and then turn the revenues over to the UN). The other boot dropped, however, when Bloomberg began drawing parallels between suspected global warmers and terrorists.

Bloomberg likened suspected global warmers to terrorists as having “the same potentials of destroying the planet we live on.”² While the mayor used the tactic of place card switching, substituting the verb of global warming for the people actually in his cross hairs, his vociferous call to action against those who fail to subscribe to the theory of global warming must have been unmistakable to the crowd at the UN. Then Bloomberg got to the point in his discursive sophistry which was to declare hunting season on these enemies of the UN State. “We should go after terrorists every place in this world, find them and kill them, plain and simple,” said the rising master of double entendre.³ To make sure his double meaning was not lost, Bloomberg artfully avoided mentioning that the real terrorists are Muslim, and this no doubt gave the UN despots some villains they could finally draw sabers against.

Quick to lace up and jump on board with Bloomberg in the hunt for suspected warmers was airline mogul Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Atlantic Airways. Branson pledged the financial might of his Luftwaffe, to the tune of $25 million, for scientists to find a “solution” for heading off the impending environmental catastrophe.⁴

This search for a final solution seems to be an eerily recurring theme in the Green Reich, and Branson might be letting slip that he is poised for military maneuvers, of sorts. In what may be an effort to unleash his air force by official UN sanction, Branson hinted at the formation of a global UN situation room form where, presumably, targets could be assessed and air strikes could be launched. “We need a war room,” Branson told the UN attendees, who by that time must have set in rapt euphoria, listening to celebrities and members in United States government competing to find out who could click their heels the loudest. It will be interesting to see in the next round of fanaticism how heil they can go.

Notes:

^1. David Dansker, “‘Final Solution’ looms in Global Warming Madness,”TheNewsBeats.com, New Snippets FAB, December 20, 2007. http://www.laodiceannewsbeat.com/news/?p=70

^2. Benny Avni, “Mayor Compares Threat of Global Warming to Terrorism,” New York Sun, February 13, 2008.

http://www.nysun.com/article/71103

^3. Ibid.

^4. Ibid.

For the Global Warming faithful, technology and religious fervor are combining to provide new means for adulation. In order to reduce carbon emissions caused by jet travel, Prince Charles will attend the upcoming World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi via hologram. His three dimensional image will be beamed to the stage and deliver a five minute talk, thus marking a first for the royal family, and pleasing environmentalists.

Charles is not the first world figure to employ the technique of reduction and reanimation. Last year Al Gore made a holographic appearance at a Live Earth gathering at Whembley Stadium.

That the religious faithful of environmentalism readily receive their Icons in obvious simulation, at what amounts to their worship services, is telling for the condition of the world.

Technology and human behavior are showing Bible prophecy to be less a product of metaphysical language and symbolism, and more the literal word of God; explicitly detailing the future. Bible passages that were once wondered at with some perplexity now seem to specify circumstances and events that fallen religious man will easily acclimate to.

Prophecy speaks of two world leaders who are yet to come on the stage of human history and rule by both civil and religious authority. One of them will serve the other in capacity of prophet, magnifying him with miracles:

And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. (Rev 13:14)

His boss, identified as the Antichrist, will have survived an assassination attempt prompting this religious display. And just as members to the Green Reich are mandating their observances into law today, penalties will also be established for dissidents in the near future:

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. (Rev 13:15)

Many in Christendom allegorize these end-time prophecies found in The Revelation, or claim that they were fulfilled by the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 by the Romans. But the reality of unfolding world events continues to contradict that view. While no one knows the identity of the coming two leaders, the world is proving ready to follow them when they are finally revealed.

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At least six high-profile televangelists, who are also prosperity preachers, are now under investigation by Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa who is on the Senate Committee of Finance. They include Paula White, Kenneth Copeland, and Benny Hinn. So far, they have been asked to provide financial statements and records. The investigation was actually initiated by Ole Anthony who is the founder of Trinity Foundation, a watchdog organization for televangelists. ¹ Since it began in early November, Anthony has been joined by Lee Grady, editor of Charisma magazine in supporting the Senate investigation. The primary complaint of Anthony and Grady is essentially that these religious leaders earn too much money and live too comfortably, and this is hardly grounds for instigating and welcoming a congressional-led “reformation,” as Grady put it.²

We are living in an age where Constitutional safeguards are constantly being circumvented by state and federal laws (e.g. hate crime and hate speech legislation), and congress is rife with those who would jump at the chance to eviscerate Christian pulpits under cover of Christian “watchdogs.” This, and a few other things, should have come to Anthony’s mind beforehand.

While Anthony, Grady, and others may openly criticize various religious organizations that they disagree with, the fact that they do not approve of another’s free exercise of religion does not entitle them to prescribe religious conduct to them, and require it to be enforced. If they have broken no laws, are not in violation of tax codes, and comply with regulations governing their type of organizations; they should not be investigated by senators at the behest of individuals who find them distasteful, and who do not claim to have suffered at the hands of these organizations.

Even if they had real damages arising from fraud or other such offences, there are other recourses open to them within the law. But even senators miss this point.

Representatives should know better than to launch senatorial investigations into various religions and their leaders merely because some people disapprove of their religious expressions; expressions that they have deemed appropriate to their respective religions, and are supported in by their members. But Senators do err, and the free exercise clause might suffer under the weight of such spurious investigations of churches and synagogues that sap resources and consequently chill free exercise, and free speech.

This last concern, the right of the churches in America to preach against sin to the salvation of the sinner, is the gemstone many legislators have been constructing gear and tackle for, over several years now; with the design of seizing it away. Wayward actions like this one only gives them more leverage.

Anthony and Grady have allowed their personal dissatisfaction with apparently false Christian sects, or apostates, to cloud their judgment; thus making it hard for them to discern the times and appreciate the larger picture. This is a clearly a case where they should have sought to conquer evil with good, the good news of the gospel and real Christian doctrine rightly preached (or wrote about in columns, in papers, on in websites). In particular, Grady’s magazine Charisma is not without room for improvement in this area.

The gullible and the simple will be mislead and fooled by the charlatans and the cults until the end. We do no service to the gospel by endeavoring to outlaw those religions that we disagree with, or know to be false. A very wise man once said of a similar vane that we must suffer some abuse of the press to keep it free. Christians should be willing to suffer a little more for something much more important: the freedom to preach the gospel. This is not to say that we should suffer a false gospel for even one minute, but we are to confront it with the truth, and not with the arm of the law.

Notes:

^1. Lillian Kwon, “‘Prosperity’ Televangelists Probed for Possible Financial Misconduct,” The Christian Post, November 07, 2007.
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20071107/29989_%27Prosperity%27
_Televangelists_Probed_for_Possible_Financial_Misconduct.htm

^2. Lillian Kwon, “More Questions Raised in Probe of Preachers,”The Christian Post, December 04, 2007.
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20071204/30344
_More_Questions_Raised_in_Probe_of_Preachers.htm

A meteorite crashed down in Peru last weekend leaving hundreds of people sick who ventured near the crater. Witnesses reported seeing “fiery ball falling from the sky” before it landed in the remote area near the Bolivian border. So far, 200 people are reporting symptoms which include nausea and respiratory difficulties. The health department director for the area has attributed the cause of the illnesses to toxic fumes released from the crater which measures 66 feet wide by 16 feet deep.

Other experts are skeptical, and suggest the cause is the dust that was raised by the impact. Geologist Ursala Mervin, who has studied meteorites at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Massachusetts, indicated that if gas were present it would not have come from the meteorite, but instead from the earth; and in too small an amount to have any effect.

Photographs of the crater show a pool of water has accumulated in it, probably from rain, and there is local concern “that toxic fumes from the meteor are polluting water in the area.” So far eight doctors have been dispatched to tend to the sick, but there is no word on the water quality yet. There is word on a future such event that will bring catastrophic results:

And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. (Rev 8:10-11)

(story in Daily Mail)

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