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The Islamic Invasion
I learned long ago that "sometimes the dragon wins." This statement is
often accompanied by a sketch of a dragon cleaning its teeth with the
sword of St. George. The implication is that the forces of evil sometimes
win over the forces of good, what we know as the correct path of life. The
Bible even associates a dragon with Satan .
(Rev 12:9 NKJV) So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of
old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was
cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Is there any connection between "sometimes the dragon wins" and Satan?
I think there is a lot. The correct path is determined by moral, ethical
and spiritual standards and values. Satan’s path is the antithesis of
these values. Disturbingly, Godly priorities in values and dedication seem
to be some of the standards the English speaking peoples of the world and
Israel have chosen to ignore in the last sixty years or so. Why has this
happened, and what is its impact on the future of our nations?
The loss of our moral and spiritual standards has impacted this country
in ways that are still not clearly seen by most of our citizens. There can
be many, many repercussions of the loss of these standards and values, but
the consequence I want to discuss today is the threat of Islamic assault
on the countries of Israel, the USA, Russia, Europe, and many other target
countries.
America’s founding fathers were a very God-oriented group of people.
One need only read the Declaration of Independence or the Federalist
Papers to be convinced of that. References to our Creator’s guidance in
the conduct of the revolution and design of our constitution are made in
both documents, especially in the Federalist Papers. Let me quote a
statement by James Madison:
"The real wonder is that so many difficulties (in the planning of the
revolution and constitution) should have been surmounted, and surmounted
with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as it must have been
unexpected. It is impossible for any man of candor to reflect on this
circumstance without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for
the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a finger of the
Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our
relief in the critical stages of the revolution."
Historically, American school children have been taught the final
clause of Patrick Henry’s patriotic speech to the House in 1775. It is no
longer taught in the politically correct environment of today’s schools,
but let me give you the last two paragraphs of his presentation:
. . . . we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who
presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to
fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone;
it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no
election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to
retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and
slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the
plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it,
sir, let it come.
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry,
Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The
next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of
resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we
here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life
so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains
and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may
take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Yes, God blessed our forefathers with a ready recognition of the hand
of God in the blessings this country received in its formative years. But
that is not to say that all of our forefathers lived a perfect life.
Thomas Jefferson made the following statement:
"When I consider that God is just, I fear for my country."
Yes, God blessed this country. And, our God-given leaders recognized
it.
Why did God bless this country? Could it be because our country
recognized only the one true God and recognized moral right from wrong ?
Yes, it worshiped Him in many ways. There were Catholics and many kinds of
Protestants then too. Not everyone was God-fearing and not everyone
worshiped God the same way, and not everyone lived a Christian life, but
many did, especially many of our founding fathers. Bible study was common.
Hebrew was a required subject in the universities. Why does this matter?
Because God can tolerate error but can not tolerate the worship of other
gods. Our Father is a jealous God. Let’s read a few scriptures which state
that.
(Exo 20:5-6 NASB) "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I,
the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of
those who hate Me, {6} but showing loving kindness to thousands, to
those who love Me and keep My commandments.
(Exo 34:14 NASB) --for you shall not worship any other god, for the
LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God–
(Deu 4:24 NASB) "For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous
God.
(Deu 6:15 NASB) for the LORD your God in the midst of you is a
jealous God; otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled
against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.
Yes, He tells us that if we worship other gods, He will wipe us off the
face of the earth.
And what happened to both Israel and Judah?
(Jer 3:6-8 NASB) Then the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the
king, "Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every
high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there. {7}
"And I thought, 'After she has done all these things, she will return to
Me'; but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
{8} "And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had
sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous
sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.
Jeremiah is not describing physical harlotry. He is describing
spiritual harlotry, the worshiping of other gods.
But what does this have to do with us? We don’t worship other gods, do
we? Yes, some churches will tell you that if you don’t believe
everything , every detail, they believe, that you are worshiping
Satan. But that is illogical, a point of vanity, and an attempt to keep
you in their immediate flock, intolerant of and isolated from the rest of
the flock of Christ. Why do I say that? Anyone who fellowships with a very
small flock must face the reality that their very small flock does not
contain the 144,000 saints referred to in Revelation. Where do the rest
come from? Obviously from other flocks, other flocks who may err but who
are dedicated to obeying the Bible as they understand it. Remember, it is
the individual who is being judged, not the church or individual flock.
That does not imply we should feel free to join other flocks whose
doctrines violate the ten commandments or other Biblical truths.
You may be asking yourself, "What does all this have to do with the
loss of Godly standards in America?" My point is that America is now being
assailed and invaded by an ungodly religion that our forefathers seldom
had to face. Our forefathers all believed in a Judeo-Christian God. We now
face another god, a god who deceptively tells us he is the same god
Christians and Jews worship, i.e., the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; a
god who claims to be for peace but who is for war; a god who claims to
believe in Jesus Christ but considers Him as only a prophet, not the Son
of God; a god who believes that once a land is populated by his believers,
it can never return to believers of the true God. Yes, I am talking about
Islam and its god Allah, a name derived from that of the Arab moon god.
You may ask, "How can that be so?" Former President Bush and former PM
Tony Blair have stated that Islam is a religion of love and peace.
President Bush even had an ecumenical worship service in which he invited
a Moslem cleric to speak. He even permitted the White House and the State
Department to be used for breaking the Ramadan fast. President Bush did
not and perhaps still does not understand the threat the religion of Islam
holds for our country. He had his eyes focused on the political value of
patronizing Islamic nations. Nevertheless, many Americans do not
understand that threat either. But these leaders are not the only ones to
be deceived.
Following President Bush’s statements and after the September 11th
attacks, 34,000 Americans converted to Islam, according to the Council of
American-Islamic Relations. Though I tend to doubt the accuracy of such
statements by pro-Islamic organizations, many Americans do seem to be
attracted to Islam.
In another occasion when an Egyptian Medical Doctor was invited to
Boston’s Trinity Church to explain Islam, (according to him) the whole
church burst into tears after hearing the words of Allah. One man said to
him "You are just like us, no you are better than us." Another woman
passed him a note that said, "Forgive us our past and for our present.
Keep proselytizing to us." The Egyptian doctor then allegedly held a
meeting with the governor of Massachusetts regarding the introduction of
Islam into the school curriculum.
Various American schools from Junior High to University level are
teaching Islam to their students, not just as another subject in
philosophy but where the students must take on Muslim names, learn how to
pray to Allah, memorize 25 Islamic terms and 20 Islamic Proverbs and the
Five Pillars of Faith, and study 10 Islamic prophets and disciples. It is
unlawful to even mention Christian subjects or allow Christian prayer in
public schools, but in California students are now required to study
Islam. They are taught that everything regarding Islam is miraculous and
wonderful and very positive while Christianity is shown in a negative
light. Christianity is described by the Salem witch hunts and the
inquisition and the crusades. Of course the study of Islam does not
include its wars, massacres, and its cruelties against Christians and
Jews. Neither do they teach the way Muslims treat women and children, or
the cutting off of hands or feet or tongues or heads for the violation of
Muslim tenets of faith.
Here are some points made in an 2006 World Net Daily article about
Muslim penetration into our school system:
Islam is being taught in the nation's public schools as a religion to
be embraced because "organized Islamists have gained control of textbook
content," according to an organization that analyzes textbooks.
The American Textbook Council has concluded that the situation is the
consequence of "the interplay of determined Islamic political activists,
textbook editors, and multi-culturally minded social studies curriculum
planners."
It has gone so far that correcting the situation now becomes a
problem, because "educational publishers and educational organizations
have bought into claims propounded by Islamists – and have themselves
become agents of misinformation."
Indeed, Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes even has repeatedly
expressed concern about the "privileging of Islam in the United States"
and warns the stakes go well beyond 7th-grade texts.
WND recently reported on a case in Oregon, where parent Kendalee
Garner objected to having her son being taught Islam, including the
memorization of the "Five Pillars" of Islam and dressing up as a Muslim.
That episode followed a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision not to
review a lower court's ruling that a similar class requirement in the
Byron Union School District in California, where students were
instructed to "become Muslims" was "cultural education."
WND also has reported that a man arrested as a terror suspect for
allegedly trying to transport $340,000 from a group tied to Libyan
leader Moammar Gadhafi, and who reputedly had connections to Osama bin
Laden, helped write the "Religious Expression in Public Schools"
guidelines issued by President Clinton during his tenure in office.
"Textbook editors seem not to recognize that a school-related Islamic
agenda in the U.S. uses multi-culturalism as a device to guarantee a
purely favorable and uncritical view of all things Muslim. At extremes,
the report suggested, multiculturalism contributes to a form of
peaceable cultural jihad meant to discredit or 'problematize' European
civilization in favor of non-Western cultures," he wrote.
"Passages of religious propaganda have been devised by individuals or
groups that seek to use the public schools for spreading their own
sectarian doctrines and for recruiting converts. In various cases,
publishers evidently have accepted material from religious pressure
groups and have put the material into textbooks, even though it is laden
with blatant preaching, miracle-mongering and fake 'history,'"
Listed as a consultant is "Shabbir Mansuri, Founding Director,
Council on Islamic Education (CIE), Fountain Valley, California."
The CIE is "a conspicuous Muslim outfit that evidently specializes in
inducing schoolbook-writers to sanitize and eulogize Islam, to retail
Muslim religious claims as facts, to retail Muslim woo-woo as history,
and to depict Islam as an amicable religion that resembles, and is
compatible with, Judaism and Christianity."
Other criticism came from the report's concerns over why Muslims so
often don't get along with neighbors. "Looking at Algeria, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Indonesia, and the Philippines, for example, where religious
wars are being conducted today against infidels, this proposition is
more than plausible.,...."
In the California case that was litigated, Edward White III, of the
Thomas More Law Center wondered, "Would it have been 'just cultural
education' if students were in simulated baptisms, wearing a crucifix,
having taken the name of St. John and with praise banners saying 'Praise
be to Jesus Christ' on classroom walls?"
From Nyssa, Ore., where one parent raised objections to the Islamic
teachings, Supt. Don Grotting, said the text includes assignments for
students to learn the "Five Pillars" and study Ramadan.
Grotting acknowledged to WND that textbooks do "take a slant" on some
issues, because publishers "are wanting to sell a textbook that is
meeting the needs of the state and federal mandates."
"Today, Christmas and Nativity scenes are outlawed while Clinton's
nominee, U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton, approved 'Islam: A
Simulation' where children learn to become Muslim, recite the Quran,
fast for Ramadan and pray to Allah including this prayer: 'In the name
of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of
Creation, The Compassionate, the Merciful, King of Judgment-day! You
alone we worship, and to You alone we pray for help, Guide us to the
straight path,'" wrote Jen Shroder, on her BlessedCause.org website.
"America does not comprehend Muslim resolve to make America Islam,"
Shroder wrote. "Suicide bombers have already demonstrated their
willingness to kill and die for it."
Here are eleven tenets of Islamic faith. Are these alleged tenets true?
Let me give you some quotes from the Nobel Quran in the English
Language, printed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Some of these verse numbers
may vary by a few verses in different translations.
1. No religion other than Islam shall be accepted! Quran # 3:19
and 3:85.
2. The Jews and Christians were commanded to believe in Muhammad
and his message, i.e., the Quran. Quran verse 4:47
3. For those (Jews and Christians) who refuse to believe in Muhammad
and his message, i.e., the Quran, they are considered as disbelievers!
Their final abode is hell. Quran verses 5:72, 5:73, 9:30.
4. Consequently, the Muslims are commanded not to befriend the
Jews and Christians!
Quran verses 3:28, 3:118, 5:51.
5. Muslims are commanded to wage jihad against Jews and
Christians!
Quran verse 2:216,
6. Muslims are commanded to prepare themselves before going to
battle with Jews and Christians. Quran verse 8:60
7. Muhammad was commanded to urge the Muslims to fight the Jews
and Christians! Quran verses 8:65 and 9:38,39,41.
8. Muslims are commanded to pursue the Jews and Christians! Quran verse
4:104.
9. Muhammad was commanded to strive hard against the
disbelievers (Jews and Christians). Consequently, he commanded his
followers to do the same!
Quran verses 9:73, 66:9.
10. Muslims are commanded to fight the Jews and Christians!
Quran verses 2:193, 2:244, 4:74, 4:84, 8:39,9:29, 9:123, 61:4.
11. Muslims are commanded to kill, smite, and slaughter the Jews
and Christians (for not embracing Islam)! Quran verses 2:191, 8:12,13,67,
9:5, 47:4.
I would recommend you read these Ayahs and Hadiths. After you read
them, ask yourself, "Is Islam a religion of tolerance and peace, or war
and bigotry and bloodshed?"
If you can not believe that Islam is truly inhuman, let me read a news
article to you entitled, "Sudanese Slave Boys Freed."
Eighty five black Sudanese boy slaves were recently freed from Arab
masters through the mediation of the Arab-Dinka Peace Committee at
Warawar, Southern Sudan. The freed slaves were documented by an
international team of researchers. The freed slave boys were among the
tens of thousands of black women and children who had been enslaved by
Sudanese government-sponsored militias during two decades of civil war.
All of the boys reported that they were forced to work without pay, and
were frequently beaten and subjected to racial insults. Over 80% of the
boys reported that they had been forced to practice Islam against their
will, while 18% claimed they had been raped by their masters or by their
masters’ friends and relatives. One 14-year-old boy, Mawien Garang,
explained that his master forced him to serve another man as a male
prostitute. 65% of the slaves reported that they had witnessed the
execution of other Black Africans during slave raids or while in
captivity. The Islamist Government of Sudan has long sponsored slave
raiding in Southern Sudan as an instrument of a declared jihad against
the Black, non-Muslim communities that have resisted the imposition of
Arab-dominated, Islamic rule. As a result of a U.S. supported cease-fire
in Southern Sudan, the Khartoum government has recently suspended slave
raiding there. But it has revived the practice against the Black African
tribes of Darfur in western Sudan. Since the outbreak of civil war in
1983, the Government of Sudan has implemented genocidal policies against
Black African tribes, resulting in the death of over two million
civilians, the displacement of over five million and the enslavement of
tens of thousands of women and children. Even the usually very pro-Arab
U.S. State Department has threatened economic sanctions.
Now compare Islam with Christianity, which states:
(Mat 5:9 ) "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called
sons of God.
Which religion follows the true God?
Some of the following is drawn from an opinion piece on this subject
written by a friend of mine, Dean Wheelock:
The western world does not realize that Islam is more than a religion,
it is a system that includes politics, social intercourse and national
life. It is not appropriate for a Muslim to live in a non-Muslim country
without doing everything possible to change that country into a Muslim
country. A Muslim’s duty is not toward the country but to Islam and their
fellow Muslims. That is why US Muslims felt more affinity for the Taliban
and Bin-Laden than with the victims of the World Trade Center. Islam is
not humiliated and defeated by invitations to the White House to pray and
break the Ramadan fast. It is not humiliated by equating terrorist murders
of Israelis with Israelis building in their own land, i.e. the
settlements.
While the United States conducts a war against terrorists in far-off
nations, at the incredible cost of billions of dollars, Israel is in a war
for its very existence. With the exception of the United States and
Micronesia and Kiribati, two small Pacific Island countries, and to a more
limited degree Britain, Canada and Australia, the whole world stands
against the tiny nation of Israel [it’s the size of Lake Michigan] in
their struggle against the Moslem hoards that not only surround them, but
live among them.
This is more than just a war against terrorism, although the enemy uses
terror as one of its chief weapons. This is a war between the children of
Israel and the children of Ishmael and Esau. For this reason, we cannot
expect them to live together in peace until the Prince of Peace
comes to bring that precious commodity to all the earth.
It would behoove all the nations of the earth to read the book of
Genesis where God tells Abraham that He will make a great nation of his
descendants. Let’s turn to Gen 12:1-3.
(Gen 12:1-3 NASB) Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go forth from your
country, And from your relatives And from your father's house, To the
land which I will show you; {2} And I will make you a great nation, And
I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a
blessing; {3} And I will bless those who bless you, And the
one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the
earth shall be blessed."
The surest way for a national leader to bring destruction to his/her
country is to oppose Israel in their struggle to live free in their own
God-given land. Recent year’s hurricanes may offer proof of that. The
surest way for a national leader to bring blessing upon his nation and his
people is to bless the nation of Israel, for the promise of blessings
comes through the descendants of Isaac, the son of promise, not Ishmael,
the son of the slave woman. Let’s turn to Heb 11.
(Heb 11:8-10 NASB) By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by
going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he
went out, not knowing where he was going. {9} By faith he lived as an
alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in
tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;
{10} for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose
architect and builder is God.
Ishmael and Esau were never promised the land of Israel. Rather,
Ishmael has possessed his own land for thousands of years. It consists of
all Arabia; a vast land with much wealth from their oil reserves. In
reality, Ishmael has little to complain about. Since he was never offered
the status of "Chosen People," he was thereby never forced into captivity
for disobedience. In my mind, this penalty of disobedience, i.e.
captivity, is a definite threat to the United States especially if the
United States is in fact the end-time home of any of the lost ten tribes.
According to Scripture, the land of Israel was and is to be the
permanent possession of the sons of Jacob (Ya’acov or Israel). Since the
time of the Exodus, there has always been a sizable contingent of Jews
living in the land. The descendants of Jacob, who dwelt in the Diaspora,
began returning to the Promised Land over a century ago. Subsequently, in
the year 1948, the modern day nation of Israel was formed.
The United States has always been a friend of Israel, although
sometimes we have been a perfidious friend. It began when President Harry
S. Truman went against the wishes of his own State Department and
supported the right of the Jews to establish the state of Israel. At least
part of his reason for doing this was because his old-time Jewish friend
and business partner, Eddie Jacobson came to the White House in 1948 and
asked President Truman to meet with Zionist leader Chaim Weizman. As a
result of this meeting, Truman agreed to support the establishment of the
Jewish state of Israel.
From the end of World War II (1945) through the 1990s, the United
States has continued to be one of the most physically blessed nations on
the face of the earth. During this time, for the most part, the US has
been a strong supporter of Israel, although there have been times when
both nations have failed in their friendship.
Under President Jimmy Carter, the United States began wandering down
the path of pressing Israel to give up land they had rightfully conquered
in war and had reclaimed, for an elusive promise of peace with their Arab
neighbors (even though the United Nations recognizes the right of nations
to keep territory won in conflict). Interestingly, the land that Israel
conquered during the 1967 and 1973 wars was all land that had been
promised to the children of Israel from very ancient times even including
the UN mandate of 1947-48.
(Gen 15:18 NASB) On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram,
saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of
Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:
The territory promised to the descendants of Abraham extends all the
way from the Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates River in northern Syria
and Iraq. It does not, however, include the lands of Arabia or Iran
(Persia):
(Deu 11:24 NASB) "Every place on which the sole of your foot shall
tread shall be yours; your border shall be from the wilderness to
Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western
sea.
The Promised Land includes much of modern day Lebanon, Jordan, and
Syria, plus a portion of Iraq. In addition, it also includes the Sinai
peninsula, which under a President Carter-sponsored agreement, was given
to Egypt.
Since the Promised Land encompasses such a vast territory, it must also
include the so-called "West Bank," for this is territory that was always
held by ancient Israel. Even after the division of the Monarchy, following
the death of Solomon, the northern portion of the West Bank was part of
the House of Israel (until their captivity by the Assyrians). Meanwhile,
the House of Judah (Judea in Jesus’ or Yeshua’s time) had permanent
control of the southern portion of the "West Bank." The only portion of
land currently under dispute with the Palestinians that was never securely
in the hands of the children of Israel is the Gaza Strip, and the previous
Israeli prime minister retreated from it -- with the backing of most of
the world. But the transfer of Sinai to Egypt makes this transfer
militarily dangerous, partly due to the tunneling of arms across the
border.
(Josh 15:47 NKJV) Ashdod with its towns and villages, Gaza with its
towns and villages; as far as the Brook of Egypt and the Great Sea with
its coastline.
(Judg 1:18 NKJV) Also Judah took Gaza with its territory, Ashkelon
with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.
Yes, the tribe of Judah, the tribe from whom most of today’s Jews
derive, owned the territory of Gaza and Ashkelon and Ekron. And it’s the
previous Prime Minister of today’s Israel who gave it to the so-called
Palestinians, apparently to satisfy world opinion.
But now, even the United States is pressing Israel to give up their God
given heritage to a people who were never entitled to it. Most of the
Palestinians, who claim to be refugees, migrated to Israel because of the
prosperity of the Jewish people. They came to find work and now want to
claim it as their own country. To bring it closer to home, it would be as
though the Mexican nationals in the United States would begin to say that
California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas should be given to them to
establish a new nation that never before existed, rather than agreeing to
live peaceably in the US the way most of them currently do. This analogy
is very appropriate, since much of that US territory was, at one time, in
the hands of Mexico and was taken by the United States as a result of
conquest.
The situation in Israel is much the same. When the British left
‘Palestine’ in 1948 and all the surrounding Arab nations attacked Israel,
the ‘West Bank’ fell into the hands of the nation of Jordan, and Gaza was
taken by Egypt. There never was a ‘Palestinian’ state, or even a
Palestinian people. In fact, there was no outcry by the Palestinian Arabs
for an independent nation until after Israel took control of those areas.
Prior to 1967 the Palestinians considered themselves Jordanians and
Egyptians (depending on where they lived). Yet today, Jordan and Egypt lay
no claim to those areas. Like it or not, the truth of the matter is that
the Palestinian people want land that is not theirs, and the nations of
the world have supported them in their effort to get it. If nothing else,
it is a violation of the tenth commandment, the desire to take what is not
yours.
People often question just how Israel or any country can successfully
protect themselves from suicide or homicide bombers. These bombers think
that they do God a service and hence are assured an immediate ticket to
heaven by their act. Israel has tried every human means to make peace with
the so-called Palestinians short of transporting them out.
The Oslo Agreements started their efforts to come to a peace agreement
with the Muslim Palestinians. But now, after thousands of Jewish dead,
thousands maimed, injured and bereaved, Jewish self-respect diminished,
all the world now against the Jewish people, Islamic terror treated with
sympathy, the State of Israel seriously endangered, not to mention the
thousands of dead Palestinians and much superfluous suffering on both
sides, the stability of the whole world threatened, Biblical principles
abused, Israelite nations belittled, Israel is looking for something
better to provide their protection. The Oslo Agreements did not work
because the Palestinians wanted them only as a vehicle to destroy Israel,
not for permanent peace.
Israel has built a fence and concrete wall to protect themselves
against these bombers. The United Nations and the World Court have
condemned this wall but so far, in the areas where it has been built, it
has successfully prevented the entry of suicide bombers. But fences and
walls have been tried in the past and it was only a matter of time before
a way was found to penetrate them. In our day of accurately guided
missiles, penetration again occurs. Christ was not just referring to
friends and family when He predicted this in:
(John 16:2-3 NKJV) "They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the
time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God
service. {3} "And these things they will do to you because they have not
known the Father nor Me.
The US was also faced with this phenomenon by the Kamakazi attacks on
the US fleet off Okinawa in the closing days of World War II. Kamakazis
were planes full of explosives whose pilots were determined to fly the
plane into a ship as a suicide sacrifice to their emperor-god. It resulted
in the biggest loss of US ships in all the war.
In the case of Arab suicide bombers, the British knew how to stop them.
About 1900, the British , who owned Egypt and Sudan, were attacked by
Sudanese suicide bombers who also thought their entrance to heaven was
assured by their suicides. The British, knowing that Islam believed that
any contact with swine would block them from going to heaven, picked up
the body parts of the bomber, wrapped them in pig skin, and delivered them
to a mosque. The suicide bombing stopped immediately.
The British also used the same approach in Saudi Arabia when Muslims
were destroying trains by planting bombs under the tracks. In this case
the British swabbed the tracks with lard. In both examples, the solution
lay in combating terrorism with their own religion.
What is the solution? In my opinion, the solution is the physical
removal of all so-called Palestinians back to their original Muslim land
of Jordan. Transporting these unwanted and troublesome populations could
be done successfully in the same way as Germans were evacuated from
Czechoslovakia, Turks from Bulgaria, German-loving Chechnians from Russian
Chechnia in the 1940s, and similar transfers of population that has taken
place in recent times. God promises to do this very thing in Ezekiel 35,
Isaiah 11:14, and Obadiah 18. Let’s read these short scriptures, but as we
read them consider whether God might use the current differences between
Hamas and the Palestinian Authority to accomplish His ends.
(Ezek 35 NASB) Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying, {2}
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
{3} and say to it, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you,
Mount Seir, And I will stretch out My hand against you, And I will make
you a desolation and a waste. {4} "I will lay waste your cities, And you
will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD. {5}
"Because you have had everlasting enmity and have delivered the sons of
Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at
the time of the punishment of the end, {6} therefore, as I live,
"declares the Lord GOD," I will give you over to bloodshed, and
bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore
bloodshed will pursue you. {7} "And I will make Mount Seir a waste and a
desolation, and I will cut off from it the one who passes through and
returns. {8} "And I will fill its mountains with its slain; on your
hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain by the
sword will fall. {9} "I will make you an everlasting desolation, and
your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the
LORD. {10} "Because you have said, 'These two nations and these two
lands will be mine, and we will possess them,' although the LORD was
there, {11} therefore, as I live, "declares the Lord GOD," I will deal
with you according to your anger and according to your envy which you
showed because of your hatred against them; so I will make Myself known
among them when I judge you. {12} "Then you will know that I, the LORD,
have heard all your revilings which you have spoken against the
mountains of Israel saying, 'They are laid desolate; they are given to
us for food.' {13} "And you have spoken arrogantly against Me and have
multiplied your words against Me; I have heard." {14} 'Thus says the
Lord GOD, "As all the earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation. {15}
"As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it
was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be a desolation, O Mount
Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD."'
[See "The Palestinians" sermon for a
detailed explanation of these events.]
(Isa 11:14 NASB) And they will swoop down on the slopes of the
Philistines on the west; Together they will plunder the sons of the
east; They will possess Edom and Moab; And the sons of Ammon will be
subject to them.
(Oba 1:18 NASB) "Then the house of Jacob will be a fire And
the house of Joseph [Manasseh and Ephraim] a flame; But the house of
Esau will be as stubble. And they will set them on fire and consume
them, So that there will be no survivor of the house of Esau," For the
LORD has spoken.
There are some who believe that the Beast that comes from the Earth in
Revelation is Islam. Islam is a form of religion that takes over the
government in every nation that it swallows up. Turkey has recently
returned to having an Islamic government and so is breaking up the ties
they’ve had with Israel. Indonesia is in constant turmoil as Islam fights
Christianity. Russia is attacked by Muslims from Chechnia. The killing of
over 300 Russian school children and the downing of two Russian passenger
aircraft are examples, though both are repeats of the Palestinian massacre
at the Jewish school in Ma’alot in 1974, the PLO wave of airline
highjackings in the 1970s, and the World Trade Center (WTC) airline
terrorism of 2001. Thankfully, the Munich Olympics massacre has not been
repeated yet. Africa is riddled with wars between Islam and Animists, and
Islam and Christians. The fifty year long confrontation between
nuclear-armed Pakistan and nuclear-armed India was reignited by Islamic
terrorists who attacked the Indian Parliament and the Indian hotel in
Mombai. The Philippines fights a prolonged battle against Islamic
guerrillas in its southern islands. Israel is being attacked by Islam,
not just the Palestinians as many assume. The WTC was attacked on Sept 11
by Islamists. Saudi Arabia, our supposed ally, has been financially
supporting terrorist schools and terrorist families. It is no accident
that 15 of the 19 hijackers who attacked the WTC and the Pentagon were
Saudis. We are fighting a political war but the other side is fighting a
religious war whether we want to believe that or not. Martyrdom to them
means "dying to kill." It is time for complacent Christians to understand
the evil of Islam. If we do not believe it, we are either naive or
fence-sitting. 1400 years of Islam, where they have spread from the
Atlantic Ocean to Indonesia and at one time to as far north as central
France and the gates of Vienna, should have taught us that Islam is
dedicated to taking over the world.
Each time the US or Israel begins to succeed militarily, the terrorist
Muslims want to negotiate a settlement. Each time a settlement is
negotiated the terrorists renege on their agreement, and demand more
concessions. They have learned that both the US and Israel are now willing
to give them God-given Israeli land, other conquered lands, and military
victory for the possibility of a negotiated peace. The Islamic Al-Qaeda
has extended its targets world wide but the highest priority targets
nowadays are the Israel-supporting US (the "great satan", as they call
us), the hated Jews, and Israel itself.
But still the US continues giving Egypt $2 billion a year under the
Carter plan to maintain and update its military. Who is Egypt’s enemy
other than Israel?
One of the greatest on-going dangers to the United States is the porous
United States border with Mexico and Canada. No one knows exactly how many
Muslims have entered the US illegally but estimates are in the hundreds
and thousands. Of 100 illegal aliens captured near Wilcox, Arizona on June
13, 2004, 53 of them were males of Middle Eastern decent. Those avoiding
capture are free to move throughout the US and become extremely dangerous,
unknown terrorists. Yes, many Muslims living in the US are peaceful, but
for how long? With the Koran requiring Muslim believers to kill infidels,
many otherwise peaceful Muslims could be forced to destroy whoever is
critical of them. Prophesies such as Gen 16:11-12 scream to be heard.
(Gen 16:11-12 NKJV) And the Angel of the LORD said to her [Hagar]:
"Behold, you are with child, And you shall bear a son. You shall call
his name Ishmael, Because the LORD has heard your affliction. {12} He
shall be a wild man; His hand shall be against every man, And every
man's hand against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his
brethren."
But instead of being its former, praying nation, the US is moving
toward more and more immorality; immorality in the form of brazen
homosexuality, abortion, taking God and His word from public places, and
shameless violation of the Commandments. The hand of judgment is stayed by
a praying Christian nation but instead of praying, this nation is now
occupied by legal demands for more freedom to do almost any ungodly act,
ignoring the danger posed by an estimated six million US Muslims who might
be coerced into attacking American citizens and facilities in the most
vicious and inhuman ways.
On the surface, the future looks bleak. Can scripture give us any
encouraging information about the destiny of Islam? Yes. Let me close
this sermon by reading some encouraging scriptures. Notice the Islamic
nations that are named in these scriptures.
(Ezek 32:18-30 NKJV) "Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt,
And cast them down to the depths of the earth, Her and the daughters of
the famous nations, With those who go down to the Pit: {19} 'Whom
do you surpass in beauty? Go down, be placed with the uncircumcised.'
{20} "They shall fall in the midst of those slain by the sword; She is
delivered to the sword, Drawing her and all her multitudes. {21} The
strong among the mighty Shall speak to him out of the midst of hell With
those who help him: 'They have gone down, They lie with the
uncircumcised, slain by the sword.' {22} "Assyria is there, and
all her company, With their graves all around her, All of them slain,
fallen by the sword. {23} Her graves are set in the recesses of the
Pit, And her company is all around her grave, All of them slain,
fallen by the sword, Who caused terror in the land of the living. {24}
"There is Elam and all her multitude, All around her grave,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword, Who have gone down uncircumcised
to the lower parts of the earth, Who caused their terror in the land of
the living; Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the
Pit. {25} They have set her bed in the midst of the slain, With all
her multitude, With her graves all around it, All of them uncircumcised,
slain by the sword; Though their terror was caused In the land of the
living, Yet they bear their shame With those who go down to the Pit;
It was put in the midst of the slain. {26} "There are Meshech and
Tubal and all their multitudes, With all their graves around it,
All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, Though they caused their
terror in the land of the living. {27} They do not lie with the mighty
Who are fallen of the uncircumcised, Who have gone down to hell
with their weapons of war; They have laid their swords under their
heads, But their iniquities will be on their bones, Because of the
terror of the mighty in the land of the living. {28} Yes, you shall be
broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, And lie with those slain by
the sword. {29} "There is Edom, Her kings and all her princes,
Who despite their might Are laid beside those slain by the sword; They
shall lie with the uncircumcised, And with those who go down to the
Pit. {30} There are the princes of the north, All of them, and all
the Sidonians, Who have gone down with the slain In shame at the
terror which they caused by their might; They lie uncircumcised with
those slain by the sword, And bear their shame with those who go down
to the Pit.
Seven Islamic nations destined for the Pit: Egypt, Assyria (which
includes Iraq, Syria, eastern Turkey), Elam (on the border of Iraq and
Iran), Meshech and Tubal (eastern Turkey, Chechnya, Armenia, and in the
Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia), Edom (the so-called Palestinians),
and Sidon (Lebanon). The Pit is a prison in the ground, often used as a
rock-hewn burying place or grave. The Hebrew word is H953. bowr, bore; a
pit hole also one used as a cistern or prison. In other scriptures the
Hebrew word Sheol, meaning the grave, is translated "the Pit."
Psalm 83 prophesies some the anti-Israel statements heard by these
nations today.
Psa 83 NKJV) Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And
do not be still, O God! {2} For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And
those who hate You have lifted up their head. {3} They have taken crafty
counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your
sheltered ones. {4} They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off
from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
{5} For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a
confederacy against You: {6} The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab
and the Hagrites; {7} Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the
inhabitants of Tyre; {8} Assyria also has joined with them; They have
helped the children of Lot. Selah {9} Deal with them as with Midian, As
with Sisera, As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon, {10} Who perished at En
Dor, Who became as refuse on the earth. {11} Make their nobles like Oreb
and like Zeeb, Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, {12} Who
said, "Let us take for ourselves The pastures of God for a
possession." {13} O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like
the chaff before the wind! {14} As the fire burns the woods, And as the
flame sets the mountains on fire, {15} So pursue them with Your tempest,
And frighten them with Your storm. {16} Fill their faces with shame,
That they may seek Your name, O LORD. {17} Let them be confounded and
dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish, {18} That
they may know that You, whose name alone is the LORD, Are the Most High
over all the earth.
(Ezek 30:2-8 NKJV) "Son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord
GOD: "Wail, 'Woe to the day!' {3} For the day is near, Even the day of
the LORD is near; It will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles.
{4} The sword shall come upon Egypt, And great anguish shall be in
Ethiopia, When the slain fall in Egypt, And they take away her wealth,
And her foundations are broken down. {5} "Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, all
the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall
fall with them by the sword." {6} 'Thus says the LORD: "Those who uphold
Egypt shall fall, And the pride of her power shall come down. From
Migdol to Syene Those within her shall fall by the sword," Says the Lord
GOD. {7} "They shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate countries,
And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste.
{8} Then they will know that I am the LORD, When I have set a fire in
Egypt And all her helpers are destroyed.
But with the destruction of Israel’s Muslim enemies, what will become
of greater Israel? Will they be totally destroyed too? No, scripture seems
to tell us greater Israel, that is the descendants of all the tribes of
Israel will be seriously threatened with extinction, but that they will
survive. Let’s look at some encouraging scriptures.
(Gen 12:3 NKJV) I will bless those who bless you [speaking to Abram,
the father of all the Israeli tribes], And I will curse him who curses
you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
Does this promise to Abram imply that the United States will either
defend Israel from the serious threat of nuclear attack from Iran by
attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities, or succumb to nuclear attack itself?
The answer may be evidenced in Amos 9 where Israelites are destined to
live in a secure land, unlike the Jews recently forcibly removed from Gaza
and the settlements and from praying on the Temple Mount.
(Amos 9:15 NKJV) I will plant them in their land, And no longer shall
they be pulled up From the land I have given them," Says the LORD your
God.
(Psa 121 NKJV) I will lift up my eyes to the hills; From whence comes
my help? {2} My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth. {3}
He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not
slumber. {4} Behold, He who keeps Israel Shall neither slumber nor
sleep. {5} The LORD is your keeper; The LORD is your shade at
your right hand. {6} The sun shall not strike you by day, Nor the moon
by night. {7} The LORD shall preserve you from all evil; He shall
preserve your soul. {8} The LORD shall preserve your going out and your
coming in From this time forth, and even forevermore.
And how will He do that?
(Joel 2:11 NKJV) The LORD gives voice before His army, For His camp
is very great; For strong is the One who executes His word. For the day
of the LORD is great and very terrible; Who can endure it?
And who will His army fight? Who will He defend?
(Jer 18:7-11 NKJV) "The instant I speak concerning a nation and
concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, {8}
"if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will
relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. {9} "And the
instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build
and to plant it, {10} "if it does evil in My sight so that it does not
obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said
I would benefit it. {11} "Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I
am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. Return now
every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good."'
"
So, the Eternal beseeches people to change from their evil ways and
turn to righteousness so He will not have to destroy them.
(Zep 2:3-5 NKJV) Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth, Who have
upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that
you will be hidden In the day of the Lord's anger. {4} For Gaza shall be
forsaken, And Ashkelon desolate; They shall drive out Ashdod at noonday,
And Ekron shall be uprooted. {5} Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast,
The nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O
Canaan, land of the Philistines: "I will destroy you; So there shall be
no inhabitant."
Will some heed His warning? Obviously some have and some will, for here
is the destiny of the righteous.
(Rev 20:4 NKJV) And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment
was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been
beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not
worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their
foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for
a thousand years.
(Isa 2:3 NKJV) Many people shall come and say, "Come, and let us go
up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He
will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths." For out of Zion
shall go forth the law, And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
People everywhere will have the opportunity to learn His way of life by
obeying His law, His instructions. The law shall be taught from Jerusalem
by Christ.
(Isa 45:17 NKJV) But Israel shall be saved by the LORD With an
everlasting salvation; You shall not be ashamed or disgraced Forever
and ever.
Yes, all these Muslim nations and places will be defeated for what they
have done to Israel and the Israelites, but Israel, including all of its
tribes, shall endure forever and ever.
Sermon given by
Wayne Bedwell
February 28,
2009
Copyright 2009,
Wayne Bedwell
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