New Article: Pacifist, Patriot, or Pilgrim
Greetings,
The memories of Vietnam and
the great men I served with in the Army back in the 60's are
always with me. In 1966, after finishing armored recon
scout training at Fort Knox, I was expecting orders to a
combat unit in Vietnam with my friends, but received an OCS
(officer candidate school) assignment for Fort Lee, the
Army's logistics center. I went from certain combat with a
cavalry unit to a logistics officer. When I finally made
it to Vietnam I was assigned to Headquarters Area Command in
Saigon, arriving during the Tet offensive of 1968. I lived
with guilt for ten years that some of my recon friends were
killed or wounded while I was relatively safe after the Tet
offensive was crushed by American military power.
Being a
commissioned officer helped to lessen the guilt, but it was
a difficult and confusing time in my life. Here is a link
to a rather raw, gut-wrenching, and heart-breaking story
about the life of one recon scout assigned to the 25th
Infantry Division in Vietnam, including his riveting
experiences during the times of the Tet offensive. This
story has been preserved in the Library of Congress. After
reading his testimony, I just wanted to lay down and weep
for this man, and for men on both sides who experienced the
political deception which always places men in harm's way
with all of its death and destruction. War among the
nations is ugly, brutal, and bloody. Moreover, there should
be no romance and self-righteous glory in the wars nations
wage against one another. That is only found in the movies
and in delusional political-religious teachings. His
testimony reminded me why I had such guilt and why I love
all veterans whether they served in combat positions or
not. When it comes to courage, bravery, and sacrifice, even
when done in ignorance of scriptural truth, I don't belong
in the same room with these men. Now please take the time
to read this man's story.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp-stories/loc.natlib.afc2001001.24410/transcript?ID=mv0001
For those of you who have
read Phil's story and are now back to this article, welcome
back. Do you recall his account of the ambush and massacre
of an American infantry company at a place called Hoc Mon?
When I read his story, flashbacks of a conversation I had in
Saigon after the Tet offensive with an old friend came into
my mind. My friend's name is Larry, who I grew up with back
in the 60's in a small Iowa town. He and I went into
military service about the same time and he was already in
Vietnam when I arrived in February of 1968 as Tet was still
very much in progress, with the capital of Saigon as one of
the main objectives of the communists. After things calmed
down, Larry and I found each others location in country
and he came to see me in Saigon and related his story to
me. To be honest, the forty years which have passed dimmed
much of that conversation, but when I read Phil's chilling
account of the Tet battles like Hoc Mon, and that he was in
Cu Chi with the 25th Infantry Division, I began
to wonder whether Larry's testimony to me was in any way
connected to Phil's. I was beginning to realize this was
not just a coincidence, that something of eternal value was
happening to me and Larry.
Upon returning home from
Vietnam, Larry and I served together as the CO and XO,
respectively, of an infantry reserve company for two years,
but then went in different directions and, sadly, we lost
touch with each other for thirty years. Larry continued
with his military career in the Army Reserves and retired as
a Lieutenant Colonel while I left the military after five
years and went into the family business. The day came,
however, when he and I were reunited and now we treasure the
times when we get together and regret that we allowed so
many years to pass. After reading Phil's story as a recon
scout, and remembering that Larry's testimony to me in
Saigon seemed to parallel that of Phil's, I contacted Larry
and asked him to also read it, which he did.
Larry then told me that
"some" of Phil's story and the timing of the Hoc Mon ambush
of an infantry company didn't seem to fit with what he
experienced with the 25th Infantry Division in Cu Chi, but
that could probably be explained by the fog of war and the
faded recollections from the passing of forty years. In
spite of this, Larry told me that Charlie Company, 9th
Manchu Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, which was ambushed
and massacred at Hoc Mon, whose dead bodies Phil saw, was
his company and that he was the XO or executive officer. He
knew them, they were his friends. He had lived through many
battles with them, some of which he began to share with me
over the phone. He said Hoc Mon was one of the single worst
losses of men by ambush during the Vietnam war. As he
shared this my emotions almost overwhelmed me. I wanted to
weep as he was describing to me what he went through. I now
remembered more clearly our time together in Saigon and why
I think so highly of Larry, as I then began to wonder what
God's purpose was in this story.
Then Larry told me that he
was not there the day his friends were ambushed. He had
received orders for the customary week long furlough that he
would use to get married in Hawaii. The very day he landed
back in Saigon, not knowing that I had arrived in the
city, his unit was ambushed at Hoc Mon and he could only
listen to the radio relay exchanges, knowing his men were
being torn apart by enemy fire and he could do nothing to
help, nor be with them. Saigon was less than thirty miles
from Hoc Mon. My heart sank as I listened to my dear friend
relive those forty year old memories. Like many veterans
who survived when their friends were killed and wounded,
Larry has asked the same tough questions and wondered if God
had spared his life for a greater purpose in these last
days. All I know is this....the God of Israel is working in
the life of my longtime friend.
I have written this Vietnam
story to show that Larry and I, like most professing
Christians then in America, were not pacifists,
protesters, or draft dodgers, but young patriots who forty
years ago went off to war to serve what we thought was "God
and Country". As I now understand things, we all were
deceived and ignorant of scriptural truth concerning war and
the evil work of fallen angels among the nations, and
followed the path set for us by our father's generation that
served in World War II. To make it plain and simple, I
was not a true Christian, even though my "dog tags" had the
name "Protestant" engraved upon them. My father's
generation, strangely enough, found German Christians
fighting against their German-American Christian cousins who
had earlier immigrated and settled in my home town in Iowa.
Something was terribly wrong with the Christian doctrines of
Hitler's Germany that caused the German people to join with
the Emperor worshipping cult of Japan in a war against their
Christian brothers in England and America. No one could or
even tried to explain this religious confusion to me as I
remember growing up around the returning war veterans from
Europe and Asia.
Now today, another
generation of professing Christian men are engaged in the
War on Terror against Islamic insanity with rumors of
nuclear war filling the airwaves at Fox News and CNN. My
memories of being a patriotic soldier during a time of
war are surfacing in my mind even more than before the 2004
Presidential race when Vietnam was front and center between
Bush and Kerry. My aging cousins, also Vietnam
veterans, and friends like Larry who lived though the war
period with me, have become after thirty years of
separation very important people in my life. When we gather
together during the year, we talk about those turbulent days
when America was being torn apart by politicians and
religious hirelings opposing and accusing each for political
gain, as we compare that with today's disgusting
political-religious rhetoric over Iraq and Iran.
My two cousins and Larry,
all three purple-heart recipients, and most of my other
family members and friends might not yet agree with or
understand what I am saying about the prophetic scriptures
of the last days. And I'm sure they are
inwardly troubled and mystified by my public stance that the
American political-religious-military system is really
the final form of the prophesied Roman/Babylon world
system led by the fallen angels who hate God and all men.
Whatever happens, I will always be their friend. All I
have done and will continue to do is plead with them to read
the scriptures for themselves and to know how much I love
them. Remember, it is the fallen angels who instruct
men in the art of war-making, and God wants us to understand
that and turn from their evil seductions. Everyone of
us where born and raised to consider ourselves part of
America's political-religious-military-economic system, and
through our own pride and ignorance of the scriptures, were
blinded to the simple truth of the bloody cross and second
coming of Jesus Christ, when the nations will, as Isaiah
said...learn war no more, Isaiah 2:1-4. The day I saw
in my heart the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ, high and
lifted up, far above the counterfeit glory of all nations,
was the same day I knew I wanted to follow only him and his
ways.
Do you agree with me there's something unique
about America's declared War on Terror when compared
to others of this generation from World War I
through Vietnam? What's the distinction? The War on Terror
is a war for world-wide religious dominion and seen by many
on both sides as the fulfillment of their understanding of
prophecy! Many Islamic religious leaders have declared war
against the West and Israel in a quest for world dominion
that their god, Allah, has promised for them in the last
days. As in the recent Palestinian case of the Hamas
victory over Fatah, they are even fighting among themselves
over which sect of Islam will be predominant, for they do
not agree on how they can win this holy war against Israel
and America.
Some of Islam's leaders want to make a comprehensive
peace covenant with the West over Israel, not because of a
new-found love for the Jews and Christians, but to seduce
them into thinking Islam is capable of reforming itself and
joining with other religions in the 21st century. Then,
once Israel's guard is down and while they slumber, Islamic
armies will invade and conquer. Which side of Islam will
prevail and when? Will Iran, Syria, and now Gaza, need
regime changes first? And what part will
Russia, America's long time rival and fellow Little Horn of
Daniel's visions, play in this hoped for peace covenant?
These are the main questions, are they not? Just remember
this, Islamic religious leaders have their own set of "last
days" prophecies that eerily parallel those in the book of
Revelation and Daniel, only in their version they win.
Is our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, surprised by this or
has he allowed this Islamic scourge to happen as "part" of
his judgment on the Western nations for rejecting and then
redefining the doctrines of Jesus Christ for their own self
or national interest? "What doctrines"...some of you are
asking? Don't you remember Constantine and Augustine of the
fourth century, decked out in their sheepskin coats
masquerading as Christian leaders, and the heresies they
brought into the Christendom of their day...namely, the
"just" war doctrine for Christians and the denial of a
literal, personal one-thousand year rule of Jesus Christ on
the Earth with the fallen angels imprisoned? And don't
forget the abominable and bloody rampage of the European
Crusaders, all in the name of Jesus.
My Christian cousins in Germany continued the heresy of
Constantine when they followed Hitler, bringing to the world
the worst bloodbath in history. There is much more blood to
be spilled before this heresy runs its course. The "just"
war doctrine for Christians was then and is now one of the
primary signs of a false or deceived Christian. Whatever
happened to the old gospel message of..."pick up your cross
and follow me...love your enemies...behold, I send you forth
as sheep in the midst of wolves...be harmless as doves...and
my kingdom is not of this world...watch for my coming and
pray always that you may be accounted worthy to escape the
wrath of God that is coming upon all that dwell upon the
Earth"...and last but not least, when Jesus was about to
take his last breath on the cross said..."Father, forgive
them for they know not what they do"?
Even though many Islamic political leaders of nations
have not "officially" joined with their religious leaders in
declaring war on Christians and the West, as they have
Israel and the Jews since 1948, most of their populations
delight in the bloodbath their insane suicide bombers are
inflicting on Israel and the Western powers. Can the
so-called moderate or peace-leaning leaders of Islam ever
convince their hate-filled masses that a political peace
treaty with Israel and America is the best way to proceed to
eventually make the entire world an Islamic Empire? That is
the million dollar question is it not?
This religious war declared upon Israel by the "dominion"
minded madmen of Islam is bringing all the nations to World
War III and then Armageddon. It seems to be at the door,
don't you think? Will a comprehensive Peace Covenant for
the Middle East be arranged before World War III breaks
out, when Russia leads the successful invasion of Israel?
Yes! Please read my article "The Judgment Chronicles"
posted on our web site for all the details. We professing
Christians need to ask ourselves some important questions
as we soberly consider what is happening around us. To
which Kingdom do we belong? Are we called to be patriotic
soldiers of the carnal sword or pilgrim-like sheep? How are
we to fight, if at all? Are the extreme pacifists among us
right? Or have they misapplied what Jesus commands for
his individual followers to do, when they insist that men in
government who don't know Jesus and his teachings, do the
same?
No, I am not a traditional
pacifist, for many of them have their heads in the sand and
refuse to fight the fight of faith for the truth of the
prophetic scriptures. To them, the imminent triumphant
return of the Lord Jesus Christ is not what they are looking
and longing for. Christian pacifism without real
sacrificial love for one's enemies, and faith in the
imminent second coming of Jesus produces nothing but fear of
people, and then communal isolation and extreme separatism.
Christians should be pilgrims or travelers seeking out and
witnessing among the lost people, calling all men to
repentance before Jesus returns in judgment. Some of my
pacifist friends have ignored or rejected that there is
coming a day when Jesus will return in the clouds or
atmosphere and resurrect the living and dead believers, then
take us to Heaven to prepare us for the Battle of Armageddon
seven years later, when armies from all nations (including
apostate Christians within them) unite to make war, not
against each other, but against the armies of Heaven led by
Jesus Christ. Most pacifists in America need to wake up,
get out of their communes, and cry out with broken hearts to
the people around them, including the militant patriots who
have distorted the teachings of Jesus.
It is astounding and shocking for me when I think the day
is coming on Earth when false "ecumenical and dominion"
minded Christian patriots will not only join with, but
lead the nations to actually make war against
the "resurrected" Christians returning from Heaven with
Jesus, obviously thinking they are an extraterrestrial force
coming to take "dominion" of the Earth away from them. How
ironic is that? Think all of this over for a moment and let
it sink down into your heart. If you know the Lord ask him
to confirm what I have just said. Read your Bible.
My friends, Armageddon is a real blood and guts battle,
albeit short and one-sided, and we know who wins! This
is one of many reasons I have joined the Lord's Army and
look for his return to glorify my earthly body as he already
has my heart, and take me to Heaven, Revelation 19. The
Battle of Armageddon is the only "just" blood-letting war
for Christians, and even then it is restricted to those
already resurrected and glorified in Heaven, who no longer
suffer from the deceptive and unjust carnal nature we still
possess in these sinful bodies. Know this also that wars
among men and nations between the first and second coming of
Jesus should not be confused with the "just" wars of
Israel directed by God to destroy the unredeemable "giants"
and their cities that occupied the land God promised to
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This was the land that would see
the birth of the Jewish Messiah.
For when Jesus came down from Heaven to save Israel from
their sin nature, the wrath and final judgment of God upon
the Gentile nations was postponed until the second coming of
Jesus, thereby giving us Gentiles an opportunity to join
with those natural Jews who embraced Jesus Christ as the
Jewish Messiah. Armageddon is a "just" war because it is
the Lord Jesus himself performing the judgment and making
war against his enemies. The Jesus I know is not an
effeminate wimp or a cowering coward, but a resurrected and
holy God/Man who is patient with all men, hoping that in his
long-suffering patience and goodness toward all mankind,
they will see his love and turn from their sin nature and
fallen angel masters.
Read and listen now in your heart to the words of John's
vision as he describes, in two separate chapters, the
military battle at Armageddon, quickly followed by the
gathering and execution of all civilians who took on their
head or hand the loyalty Mark of the Beast or Antichrist.
Pay close attention to the work and ministry of the angels
who will soon become very public as these visions of John
become reality on the Earth:
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Revelation 19:11-21:
"And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and
he (Jesus Christ) that sat upon him was called Faithful and
True, and in righteousness he doth "judge and make war"
(Jesus is not a pacifist). His eyes were as a flame of
fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name
written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was
clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is
called The Word of God. And the armies (previously
raptured
and resurrected saints) which were "in" heaven followed him
upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he
should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod
of iron (for one-thousand years): and he treadeth the
winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And
he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING
OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a
loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of
heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper
of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh (real blood and
guts) of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of
mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on
them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both
small and great. And I saw the beast (last American
President), and the kings of the earth, and their armies,
gathered together to make war against him that sat on the
horse, and against his army (thinking extraterrestrials are
invading). And the beast was taken, and with him the false
prophet (last Pope) that wrought miracles before him, with
which he deceived them that had received the mark of the
beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were
cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And
the remnant (remaining civilians from all nations) were
slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which
sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were
filled with their flesh."
Revelation 14:6-20:
"And I saw (so will the people on earth when this is
fulfilled) another angel fly (proclaimed by President and
Pope to be aliens) in the midst of heaven, having the
everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth,
and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying
with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour
of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and
earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters (this mighty
spectacle in the skies will bring a news "alert" from Fox News
as their cameras record the world-wide event). And there
followed another angel, saying, Babylon (America) is fallen, is
fallen (when the 7th bowl angel sounds), that great city,
because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of
her fornication (ecumenical religion, adultery, legalized
abortion, homosexual acceptance, love of self and money, and the
militant pride of patriotism). And the third angel followed
them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast
(President of Babylon) and his image, and receive his mark in
his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine
of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into
the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire
and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the
presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth
up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who
worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the
mark of his name (again this angel's glorious appearance will be
"breaking" news on CNN).
Click Here is the patience (don't make war while waiting for
Armageddon) of the saints (those who become Christians during
this period): here are they that keep the commandments of God,
and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying
unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their
labours; and their works do follow them.
And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud
one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden
crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came
out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on
the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come
for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he
that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the
earth was reaped (armies of nations killed).
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven,
he also having a sharp sickle. And another angel came out from
the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry
to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp
sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth
(civilians from all nations with mark of the beast); for her
grapes are fully ripe. And the angel thrust in his sickle into
the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into
the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was
trodden without the city (Jerusalem), and blood (real blood and
guts my friends) came out of the winepress, even unto the horse
bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs."
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Do you remember the warning of Jesus recorded in MaThew
7:21-23 and again in 25:31-46? He said many would be gathered
by his angels to stand before him when he returns in victorious
glory, professing to be his followers and boasting about all
their good works. These are the same civilians, the grapes on
the vine, of John's vision who earlier thought Jesus Christ was
an invading army from another world or planet, and supported
their sons who patriotically took up arms and went to Israel to
fight the great battle to save mankind and his dominion over the
Earth. Now they stand condemned before the King of kings having
just witnessed the death of their sons in the military. It is
my understanding that all of these same professing Christians
will have the loyalty Mark of the President on their hands or
foreheads while they are swearing to be the Lord's disciples.
I have a feeling Jesus will say unto them something like
this..."what is that mark on you? You heard my two Jewish
prophets for forty-two months warning you about the
Russian/Islamic invasion of Israel, the President and Pope's
lies about extraterrestrials coming to take dominion, and not to
take their mark of loyalty. You rejoiced when they were
killed without mercy in Jerusalem, sending gifts to one another
in celebration. I loved you then so much I even sent my holy
angels to visibly appear to all of you, pleading with you to
refuse the mark and follow me, the true Messiah, and not the
American President of modern day Babylon, who the Pope said was
the Son of God. And now you stand before me holding forth your
religious works that glorified yourselves and your false
Messiah, who I have thrown alive into the Lake of Fire with his
friend, the Pope. Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting
fire. I never knew you, for you never confessed or desired to
be saved from your inherent sin nature that separated you from
your God who loved you. You wanted a free pass into my Heaven,
but not deliverance from the sins that are now sending you to
Hell."
Does that what I just wrote trouble you in any way? Good,
for it troubles me too that any of my friends and
family might hear those words of condemnation from the mouth
of the Lord Jesus Christ. It hurts deep in my heart, for I
want all of them to be with Jesus when he comes. Many
Christians are upset with me for teaching that America is
Babylon, and not the Christian nation, the city on the hill
they want it to be. I want you to know that I
understand how emotionally painful it is for you to
believe America is Babylon the Great of Revelation 18, who
is to be destroyed by the fire from God's holy angels, a
giant earthquake, and the tidal waves of death, Revelation
18:7-10, 21, 16:18-20, Jeremiah 51:41-43. Please read the
article "Babylon's Final Fall" posted on our web site.
After knowing the truth about America for almost thirty
years it still is a hard pill to swallow. My carnal mind
rebels at such a thought, always pulling me back into
thinking like the professing Christian Army officer I used
to be. This is especially true when the madmen of Islam
perform their evil deeds by killing women and children and
boast of ruling the world, beginning in Jerusalem after they
exterminated all its Jews. It will help you to remember
what I said earlier about Constantine and Augustine and how
they merged Christendom with the pagan Roman Empire which
Daniel's visions describe as a brute beast. This sinister
merger was seen by John over two-hundred years before the
rise of Constantine. John's visions in the
Revelation clearly add that this same Roman Empire is now
wearing sheepskin suits to "look" like the Lamb of God, the
Lord Jesus Christ, but speaks and acts like the dragon who
is Satan with all of his fallen angels, Revelation 13. I
know in my heart that America was born out of rebellion in
1776 as Babylon the Great, the final form of the
sheepskin wearing Roman Empire, the Little Horn of Daniel's
vision that plucked up by the roots the three sheepskin clad
colonial powers of England, France, and Spain, to become the
colossal giant it is today, Daniel 7, Revelation 13. Some
of you are now asking...Jack, do you mean that God has
revealed this to you? That's exactly what I am saying!
Those who are reading this and have not yet surrendered to
the Lord Jesus are probably thinking I have forgotten to
take my medications for saying such a thing. Many of you
who profess to be Christians are about to hurl accusations
that I am a false prophet for saying..."God told me America
is Babylon the Great, the final form of the Roman Empire".
Before you email me or tell others I have become
delusional please ask yourself some simple questions. How
did you receive your knowledge about and faith in the triune
Godhead (Trinity), the deity and humanity of Jesus, the
atoning shed blood, bodily resurrection, and second
coming of Jesus Christ? Who told you to repent and receive
the free gift of the Holy Spirit for power over sin and the
creation of a new heart within you? Who has declared to you
that you are now called to be a pilgrim and stranger among
the lost souls controlled by this world system?
Some of you are saying you read it in the Bible, while
others heard it in a Sunday morning sermon or on
television. That's not good enough my friends. Let's be
honest here. If you are saved and reconciled to God right
now it is only because the God of Israel has personally
called and chosen you, and you answered his call. It is
God, the Holy Spirit, who spoke to you my friends and shared
with you the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ. If we deny
that, we are still in our sins, and following a religion of
men who are not sure who God is and what he has to say, and
leaving ourselves wide open for the tantalizing and
arousing religious lies of the "ecumenical and emerging"
Antichrist and his false prophets who say..."we have the
sure word from God that Jesus cannot return until we take
dominion upon the Earth and that time is now."
Who can deny this work of the Holy Spirit when Jesus himself
said..."my sheep hear my voice...and when he, the Spirit of
Truth is come, he will guide you into all truth...and he
will show you things to come"? It is God revealing to me
and you the identity of Babylon the Great and the
political-religious-economic-military mystery surrounding
it. The Holy Spirit's voice in the scriptures resonating in
my heart confirmed my salvation in Jesus Christ, Romans
8:1-23. This is the same voice that told me America is
Babylon the Great which came out of the divided Roman
Empire. It is the same voice that warned me about
the Christianized doctrines of militant patriotism (the
pride of this life), the prosperity and psychology gospels
which unleash the love of money and self (lusts of the eyes
and flesh), all of which are at the core of the sin nature
Jesus wants to save us from, 1 John 2:16.
Those who teach and hold to these false doctrines are
keeping alive within themselves the very things which need
to be crucified. If these dear souls, who God yet
loves, could only see these doctrines as the very nails
that penetrated the hands and feet of our Lord Jesus Christ,
they would be filled with Godly sorrow that brings true
repentance and salvation from sin and Hell.
The carnal, confident, and popular appeal of the false
prophets of...mystical and contemplative prayer, self-love
psycho-babble, dominion patriotism, and seed-faith
prosperity, and the huge following they have amassed,
fulfills the words of Jesus when he said..."Take heed that
ye be not deceived, for many false prophets shall come in my
name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye
not therefore after them", Luke 21:8.
Many of these false prophets also claim to be "little
gods" and boldly declare that..."Jesus is indeed the Christ,
but so are we". On that coming dark day recorded in
Revelation 13:3, when a professing Christian President, who
has brought peace to the Middle East, rises from the dead
after suffering an assassin's mortal blow, and then declares
himself to be God, people like Paul and Jan Crouch,
Kenneth Copeland, Fred , Benny Hinn, Creflo
Dollar, Robert Schuller, and Joyce Meyer, if still alive and
unrepentant, will be moved to tears by this man who has
finally realized, as they have, that man can indeed become a
god. Don't be counted among them!
As I said many times, I served five years as a commissioned
officer in the United States Army and was born and raised to
be a proud Christian patriot, but I was never sure that
Jesus is alive and speaking in this world today, let alone
to me. He was not real to me! I followed the lead of my
parents and friends until I tossed it all out the window
after returning from Vietnam, and became an atheist. Ten
years later, when Jesus personally delivered and rescued me
from my sin nature, he told me from his teachings that I was
now a citizen of Heaven sent as a pilgrim ambassador of
reconciliation to all men whose path I crossed. He also
told me that all (including Islamic) nations, with their
religious-political systems and institutions, are under the
manipulative control of Satan and his fallen angels, until
Jesus returns in power and glory to put them in Hell. I
write this statement concerning fallen angels and the
nations purposely in almost every letter or article for it
needs to be repeated often and without compromise. For
angels, both good and evil, have a prominent role in the
fulfillment of biblical prophecies, and will appear publicly
to be seen and heard by all the world.
Western civilization, with its ecumenical,
sacramental, contemplative, mystical, money, emergent, and
militant minded Christian religious system, is now and will
be the seat of Satan's world-wide
political-religious-military kingdom that all nations will
follow. You know this means that Islam will not be
victorious in these last days and rule all of the nations as
they are now attempting to accomplish. As a matter of fact,
it will be the archangel, Michael, and his army of
angels that will utterly destroy Islam's armies who, in
alliance with Russia, have successfully invaded and occupy
Israel starting a nuclear World War III, Daniel 11:40-
12:1. God will allow Israel to be defeated militarily
because its leaders have rejected the Lord Jesus Christ as
their Messiah and trusted in the American government for
survival against their Islamic enemies. But Russia and
Islam's success will be short-lived, for the Gentiles from
Rome (America and Europe) will once again rule over all of
Israel, including Jerusalem. For Michael and his angels
will rain down "supernatural" fire upon the enemies
of Israel who are celebrating their victory,
thereby stopping the nuclear destruction of all mankind and
making the God of Israel known to people in many nations,
Ezekiel 38:22-23, MaThew 24:22. This all takes place
during Daniel's 70th Week of seven years.
Because America and Europe, led by the President and
Pope, were not targeted by Michael's fire they will
mistakenly think the heavenly powers want them to rule the
world and establish the Kingdom of Heaven's headquarters in
Jerusalem. The defeated Jews will not be
allowed re-entrance into their new Temple. And because of
the testimony of the two Jewish prophets against the
President and Pope and for Jesus and his coming, all Jews
will be hated and persecuted by all nations Revelation 7,
11. China and the other kings of the East will agree with
the vision and plans of the President and Pope, Revelation
16:12-14 Every person on Earth will now know for sure there
is someone or something "out there" in outer space, either
angels or extraterrestrials who have supernaturally
destroyed America and Europe's rivals and adversaries, and
now must be taken into consideration. Therefore, it will be
the false Christians that produce the Antichrist and False
Prophet that deceive the entire world, not Islam, as many
teach today. John saw all of this in his visions of the
churches of Pergamos and Thyatira of Revelation 2, where he
describes the heretical Papal, Constantinian, and
Augustinian deceptions (Nicolatanes, Balaam, Jezebel) into
Christendom, which are the very roots of most professing
Christians in America and the West today.
Remember, there are two kingdoms operating on the Earth
today, the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of Man under
the leadership of Satan and the fallen angels. Heaven's
kingdom is here spiritually, not institutionally or
politically, through the ministry of the holy angels and the
ministry of God, the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God
is working his good in the lives of born again Christians,
and bringing conviction of sin and need for salvation upon
the people for whom Jesus died. However, this Kingdom
of Heaven is despised and hated by the fallen angels and
they are always working to discredit, distort, and destroy
the truth of the Kingdom of Heaven.
As I have suggested in other articles, try to think of
Satan's political-religious-economic-military Kingdom of
Man in this generation as a mutated two-headed snake or
serpent. One head represents dictators, like Syria's Assad
and Iran's Ahmadineajad, who are hate-filled men of
unspeakable brutality as they adore and glorify
brainwashed children who strap bombs to their bodies to kill
innocent women and children. The other head, much more
appealing, is represented by republic-styled democracies
with political-religious institutions of liberty promoting
the pursuit of riches and happiness that comes from wealth.
Satan, who created and controls both heads of the snake, has
had them battling against each other for a long time. His
ultimate purpose is to keep people deceived by thinking that
one head is representative of the Kingdom of Heaven from
God and the other head is from Hell. You need to know this,
otherwise you will not be able to see the sinister "angel of
light" that is the power behind America's "city on the hill"
concept that is offered and presented as the light of God to
all nations.
Satan also loves war and wants to kill as many as he can,
for he hates all people, especially born again followers of
Jesus Christ. He wants to fill Hell with the lost souls
he's deceived. Do we really want to join in this horrible
carnage now, or do we, as citizens and ambassadors from the
Kingdom of Heaven, expose Satan and his lies, and call
people to the bloody cross of Jesus, while we wait for his
righteous and perfect judgment at his return? Jesus said to
pick up our cross and follow him, and "until he returns" be
harmless as doves! We are to truly love our enemies trapped
in their sin natures, even those who attempt to injure or
kill us, and offer them forgiveness until Jesus returns.
This is nonviolence not pacifism. This is the call of a
true pilgrim. Followers of Jesus are carriers of the bloody
cross until the judgments of Armageddon cover the land. For
by the time Armageddon arrives all of humanity will have
decided to take the Mark of the Beast or not. Those who
take the patriotic mark will be the ones opposing the return
of Jesus, and they all will be warned in advance by the
Jewish prophets, evangelists, and the holy angels
themselves, not to follow the Antichrist, so
their condemnation and bloody execution should not come as a
surprise to anyone.
In conclusion, when I think of America, I try to distinguish
America the land, rivers, mountains and America the people,
from America the political-religious system. The land and
people I love and want God to bless and cry out with many
who say..."God Bless America". America, the Constantinian
and Augustinian political-religious system, I cannot agree
with, for it is designed by fallen angels to deceive and
lure people away from the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, to follow
the Kingdom of Man. The choice before all who read this is
now plainly clear. Do you want to be a extreme pacifist, a
blind militant patriot, or a regenerated pilgrim and
stranger on the Earth until the second coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ? Listen to the inspired words recorded by
Peter:
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1 Peter 2:9-17:
"But ye (those natural Jews and Gentiles who have
been saved in all generations) are a chosen generation, a
royal priesthood, an holy nation (that will rule with Jesus
on the Earth for one-thousand years from Jerusalem), a
peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of
him who hath called you out of darkness (spiritually
separated from Kingdom of Man led by fallen angels) into his
marvelous light; Which in time past were not a people
(beginning with Abraham), but are now the people of God:
which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as "strangers and pilgrims",
abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that,
whereas they speak against you as evildoers (twist our
words, call us traitors and politically incorrect), they may
by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in
the day of visitation. Submit yourselves to every ordinance
of man for the Lord's sake (unless it contradicts doctrines
of Jesus): whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto
governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the
punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do
well. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye
may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: As free,
and not using your liberty for a cloche of maliciousness, but
as the servants of God. Honor (consider highly valuable
and giving great respect for the souls of people for whom
Jesus loved and died) all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear
God. Honor the king (desiring for him to be saved, while
rejecting his or any man's sinful behavior)."
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Remember, the combined power of the precious blood and
second coming of Jesus Christ is the "only" permanent
solution to the death and destruction that men inflict upon
one another to the hideous delight of their fallen angel
masters. The God who created and loves you wants you to
experience sorrow of a Godly kind that works repentance unto
the salvation of your heart, mind, and body, 2 Corinthians
7:10. He will replace your genuine sorrow with his joy!
Then you will desire to obey the God of Israel because you
love him, knowing that he first loved you and sent his Son
to save you from your sins and the bondage of the fallen
angels.
Your eternal friend,
Jack
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4 Aug 2007
From the Webmaster
Dear Jack,
Thank you very much for your article. I
now have a better understanding of how the devil is working in our
world. I listen to a preacher almost every night and he explains
these these things very much like you do, but your viewpoint makes
it very clear and I agree with you ten thousand percent. When I
look at how our veterans are being treated on TV plus in jail, and
how Paris Hilton and the other, so called, stars are treated, I
realize that it's just a matter of time. It's not if, it's when.
Now I know why the preacher is saying that you can't save the world,
it's because the devil loves war and the world is controlled by the
devil.
I sure did a lot of reading tonight, I
actually had to wear my glasses to read for such a long time. I'm a
disabled veteran and I've been very close to death too many times,
but one time a loud voice came to me, not to my ears, and said,
"There's a reason that you're alive." I was laying on the bottom of
a cliff at that time, bleeding and in a lot of pain. I was an
atheist then too and remained an atheist for many years afterward,
but I have found the Lord about twenty years ago and his presence
has grown stronger in me every day. When you pick up the newspaper
and then pick up the Bible, the say the same thing, except the Bible
is more accurate and not biased.
Jack, I live in a garage, I have no money,
and I many times have to lay down for two years at a time, and yet I
go places that only the rich can afford and these trips have been
chosen for me, not by me. This is why I am writing,
"Why God Sent Me to the
North Pole."
Thank you very much and have a nice day.
I have placed your letter on my website and
have many links to your site.
Thanks again,
Jeff Dyrek. Webmaster
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