An Example Of "The Spirit of Antichrist"

During the three day expose' of George Soros on The Glenn Beck T.V. Program, Beck often urged viewers to "not take his word for it - do your own homework." Well, these days I don't have a whole lot of time to investigate as I should, but when I find a blogger who has done good research and commentary on the topic, I like to share it here at Talk Wisdom.

If you haven't seen the series on Soros, go here and view them all.

Next, read American Thinker: Soros, Beck, and the Holocaust
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Excerpt:

It will come as no surprise that Glenn Beck's broadcast biography of George Soros last week has triggered a vast brawl concerning his interpretation and treatment of the topic.


The uproar revolves around Beck's portrayal of Soros' role in the Holocaust. Beck repeats the widely known story concerning Soros' involvement in handing deportation orders to Jewish families on behalf of the Nazis. He emphasizes that Soros was only fourteen at the time and does not condemn the activity, asserting that the matter remains "between Soros and God."

I happen to have researched the episode in depth for my upcoming book, Death by Liberalism, and I can state here that Beck's narrative is completely accurate. His treatment of it is commendable, in particular his statement that no one has a right to judge the efforts of Jews to survive in Nazi-occupied Europe.

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Soros, Beck, and the Holocaust
posted by null at American Thinker - 9 hours ago
Should the "philanthropist" Soros' activities during the Holocaust be off-limits for discussion?

Mr. J.R. Dunn has done extensive homework on this issue while writing his book. The fact that he has presented such truth about Soros via his new book - well before Beck's three day T.V. presentation about Soros - lends great credibility to what Beck has reported.

The fact that Beck has used video excerpts of Soros' own words demonstrates that he is being truthful about the accusations against such an evil marketeer.

J.R. Dunn continues:

There's an aspect of Soros' behavior that has gone unexamined and virtually unmentioned: the complete disconnect between his activities as a businessman and his ambitions as a philanthropist. Soros has, at the very least, skirted financial regulations in most or all of the countries in which he has operated. He has done worse in France, Malaysia, and Thailand -- the French fined him millions, while the Southeast Asian states are reportedly very interested in speaking to him in private. He has caused enormous misery through his currency manipulations. He evidently feels no guilt concerning these matters, either.


Yet this same man professes to be the greatest living champion of the "open society," the bearer of the legacy of Karl Popper (one of the few liberty-loving political philosophers of the last century), and the architect of a true people's democracy, working together with his protégé, Barack Obama.


There's something terribly wrong here. This is not the way a benefactor of humanity actually behaves. It's as if Gandhi financed his independence movement through a network of casinos, or if Martin Luther King sat on the councils of Murder Incorporated. What can the explanation be?

Mr. Dunn shares what he thinks that the explanation might be. Perhaps he is correct, but maybe he isn't. Personally, I don't think the author got it right at the end of his essay.* Nonetheless, there can be no denial that Soros fancies himself as his own "god" and uses his billionaire status of wealth to inflict financial misery upon as many people in as many nations as he possibly can. This type of behavior is not the kind that any benevolent philanthropist would exhibit. This man is evil, sick, and a manipulative financial and political terrorist. He could be labeled as one of those who has the "spirit of Antichrist" [Note: note THE Antichrist] that Jesus warns us about. Those with such a "spirit" are "already in the world." No doubt in my mind that Soros, a self-admitted atheist, is one. The evidence is overwhelming.

1Jo 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.


1Jo 4:2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,


1Jo 4:3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

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Update:

* Apparently, one commentator at American Thinker agrees:

Posted by: conservativerose
Nov 15, 07:56 AM

I enjoyed Mr. Dunn's article until the last couple of paragraphs. No, Gyorgy Schwartz felt no remorse, is not and was not trying to correct some wrong he had done in the past. It is time for people to recognize that there are people who are purely evil. You don't justify being a mass murderer or rapist because your parents divorced when you were little, if that's the case, the world will be filled with people like that, without remorse, while justifying their actions through some traumatic events in their past. Everybody has trauma in their past, yet they don't turn into monsters.

God's Ultimate New World Order

This Week’s Television Broadcast
God's Ultimate New World Order Week of November 14, 2010
Writers, dreamers, and futurists have described "golden ages" and "utopias" of various sorts, to be brought about by the upward evolution of man to a perfect state. The true golden age, God's Millennium, will be brought about in spite of man, not because of him.

David Jeremiah.org: This Week's Television Broadcast - God's Ultimate New World Order

Have you ever really studied the words and lyrics of the familiar and beloved Christmas song, "Joy To The World?" In reality, most of the song has to do with Jesus' Second Coming and his reign over all the world during the Millennium!

Pastor Jeremiah mentions this fact in this week's television broadcast. When you hear what he has to say along with what the words in the song convey, you might agree that "Joy To The World" distinctly describes the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

Read the lyrics:

Joy To The World

Joy to the world! The Lord is come.
Let earth receive her King
Let every heart
Prepare Him room
And Saints and angels sing
And Saints and angels sing
And Saints and Saints and angels sing

Joy to the world, the Saviour reigns
Let Saints their songs employ
While fields and floods
Rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat, Repeat, the sounding joy

Joy to the world with truth and grace
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness
And wonders of His love
And wonders of His love

And wonders and wonders of His love

No more will sin and sorrow grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He'll come and make the blessings flow
Far as the curse was found,
Far as the curse was found,
Far as, far as the curse was found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
And gives to nations proof
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love;
And wonders of His love;
And wonders, wonders of His love.

Rejoice! Rejoice in the Most High,
While Israel spreads abroad
Like stars that glitter in the sky,
And ever worship God,
And ever worship God,
And ever, and ever worship God.


At the website where I found a copy of the lyrics, there are several paragraphs written which includes the idea that this song has more to do with Jesus' Second Coming than with his birth in Bethlehem.

The words and lyrics of the old Christmas carol "Joy to the World" were written in 1719 by Isaac Watts. The father of John Watts was a Non-conformist and so extreme were his views that he was imprisoned twice. His father's influence over Isaac was demonstrated when he choose to attend Non­conformist Academy at Stoke Newington in preference to a University. Watts was ordained as a Pastor of an Independent congregation.

"Joy to the World" is one of the best-known and best-loved of Christmas carols. It contains a message of joy and love replacing sin and sorrow. It may also be interpreted to be about life after the second coming of Christ. The hymn is significant for its widespread use throughout Christian denominations and for the musical stature of the people who created it.

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In late October, a new commentator arrived at this blog and chastised me in the comment section for my post against Obama entitled Talk Wisdom Reports - You Decide: White House Scandal to Break Soon?

Donna60 wrote:

donna60 said...
I understand that not everyone who calls themselves a Christian believes that the bible has to be obeyed. As a member of the "restoration movement." I cannot have any other authority on earth that supercedes scripture. That being said, no person who believes in and lays their hopes in the perfection and completeness of NT scripture, can trash-talk our president or any lawfully elected leader of our United States. Romans 13:1-2 "Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves."

1 Peter 2:17 "Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king."

October 28, 2010 8:21:00 AM PDT

You can follow the rest of the comments here.

Now, although Donna60 ended up veering a bit off topic, she certainly had a lot of good and correct things to say. However, I don't think that she handled her position about "governing authorities" in the biblical way.

For example. Paul points out that we have both a duty to obey governing authorities when they are following God's laws and not to obey when evil is being proposed by them. As Christian believers we have the duty to disobey when any leader is involved in immoral behavior or governing practices.

As Donna60 had pointed out, Paul DID instruct Christians in Rome to "be subject to the governing authorities" (Romans 13:1) and to pay their taxes. Those who disobey the state, he wrote, resist "the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves" (Romans 13:2).

The kind of "judgment" rendered could include the temporal kind (i.e. punishment while here on this earth); or, the eternal type (i.e. White Throne Judgment in eternity) at the culmination of all history.

However, what I think was sorely missing in Donna60's arguments in the comment thread is the fact that the Bible also demonstrates that unrighteous decrees are not to be obeyed. For example, recall that the Hebrew midwives feared God more than the king of Egypt so they disobeyed his murderous and absolutely cruel order to kill all newborn Hebrew boys. God blessed them for disobeying this evil leader's mandate and as a result, note what happened: "And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households for them" (Exodus 1:21).

When I read Donna60's reply, her belief that evil dictators like Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, and Mao "should be obeyed" shocked me! It was then that I realized that she was making a common mistake that Christians sometimes do (been there, done that!) while reading the Bible. She took one Bible verse (Romans 13:2) and applied it incorrectly to mean that in ALL instances, one should obey one's leader of the state. That is NOT what the Bible tells us!

I am currently reading a little booklet that has been given out by Coral Ridge Ministries called "Ten Truths About Christians and Politics." Truth #3 discusses that the Bible gives guidance for governments and citizens. The following excerpt gives specific Bible verses and commentary that upholds my position in this discussion:

Shortly after the resurrection and ascension of Jesus, Jewish authorities grew troubled at the growth of His followers and strictly instructed Peter and the other apostles against teaching about Christ. The apostles refused, telling the high priest, "We ought to obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29).

Along with the duty to disobey unrighteous commands, the Bible indicates that God's people have a duty to control political authorities who stray from God's moral standard. The Old Testament often recounts how the prophets confronted the Jewish monarchs with God's verdict upon their unrighteous behavior. The prophet Samuel announced God's judgment on Kin Saul for his disregard of God's word to him (1 Samuel 15:22-23). Elijah challenged wicked King Ahab over his Baal worship and was called the "troubler of Israel" for his effort (1 Kings 18:17). Nathan confronted David for his sin with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband, Uriah (2 Samuel 12).

Besides confronting evil and refusing to go along with it, there is another role outlined for the saints in both the Old and New Testament - to be "salt and light." God, through Jeremiah, told the Jewish exiles in Babylon to "seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace" (Jeremiah 29:7). The exiles were not to withdraw from their ungodly environment into a cultural enclave, but rather to seek its peace or shalom - a Hebrew term also translated as "welfare."

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Jesus calls his people to be like salt in their influence on the world around them (Matthew 5:13). Just as salt was used in first century Israel to flavor and preserve food or to cleanse wounds, Christ's followers are to bring the flavor of God's grace and the healing and preserving power of His Word into every area of life - including the world of politics.

It is important to remember that when salt is used to cleanse wounds, it stings! When Jesus calls us to be "salt" in this world, I'm sure that pointing out the fact that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" stings the heart, soul, mind and body of every person who then comes to the realization that his/her need to confess sin and repent (turn away) of them HURTS.

But the healing power of the Gospel is worth the initial pain brought to the minds of those who humble themselves before the cross of Christ at Calvary. Our pain is NOTHING compared to the pain and suffering that Christ endured for our sakes on that cross.

Being a Christian often means that not everyone is going to like you. In fact, Jesus warns us that many will hate you (us) because "they first hated Him."

We cannot shy away and shrink away from our Christian duty in the world of politics because people will hate us for speaking out against the evil, sin and death that is often imposed upon us by the unbelievers in this world. We are to stand up and share the truth!

Ephesians 6 instructs us on how to prepare ourselves for this type of spiritual battle. Whenever someone challenges me for my beliefs and how, when or why I share them at this blog I remember these verses:

Eph 6:6 not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,


Eph 6:7 with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men,

Ephesians 6 tells us to arm ourselves with:

* The belt of truth girded around your waist.

* The breastplate of righteousness.

* Shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace.

* Above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.

* And take the helmet of salvation.

* And the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

Prepared with such equipment we also need to be:


Eph 6:18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—


Eph 6:19 and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel,


Eph 6:20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

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The Greatest Stunt and Scam In American History?

Talk Wisdom Reports, You Decide. The question being asked within the video below: "Is Barack Obama a Saudi Muslim 'Plant' in the White House?" Could it be that we were set up by the Muslim world and perhaps the king of Saudi Arabia? Could this be why Obama bowed to the Saudi king in 2009?



Certainly explains the "bowing" incident to the Saudi king - doesn't it?

Hmmmm.....perhaps this is why the Fox News Channel allows Glenn Beck to go after George Soros, and all the socialists, Marxists, Communists etc. related to the ObaMAO administration on his daily television show. But have you noticed that Beck doesn't touch the subject of Obama's Muslim ties? Even when Beck did a mini-history on him, he skipped over Obama's obvious Muslim background while a child in Indonesia.

Why?

Could it be because the Fox News Channel is partially owned by Saudi investors?

I'm admittedly a bit lazy at the moment (strained muscle in my back doesn't help either) so I'm giving readers here an assignment. Find out if the Saudi king (and the investors at Fox News Channel) are Sunni Muslim or Shiite Muslim. Might be interesting to know. We know that these two sects within the Islam have been at each others throats for centuries. I'm also wondering if that American Born "radical cleric" [more specifically - RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORIST] Anwar al Awlaki is Sunni or Shiite?

As time goes by during this pResident's first term, only more questions, doubts, fears, and concerns come up about just who this guy REALLY is!

Taqiyya...anyone?

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What's Wrong?

In my mind...lots of happenings in the world today are wrong! This news roundup will express just some of the latest reasons why I, along with millions of other Americans, think that something is terribly wrong with our nation and the world.

The end times prophecy books that I have read and re-read over the past several months do explain why such events are happening. However, I often wonder about people who have no idea what is prophesied in the Bible. Those who may never have read the Bible and don't know about the 300 plus prophecies which have already been fulfilled in the life of Jesus Christ can't possibly discern the signs of the times. What do they think of the current trend towards a humanistic New World Order utopia that the puppetmasters here on earth are trying to set up?

The prophetic books of the Bible, like Ezekiel, Daniel, Jeremiah, and Revelation, are chock full of information, wisdom, and knowledge. How ironic it is that the current generation seems to be following every religion, trend, movement, political idea and/or leader that looks like they can solve their individual problems; only to be disappointed in the end when they wake up from the stupor and discover how wrong these particular beliefs are in practice! Hard lessons are to be learned when people trust in men rather than in God!

More than ever before in my lifetime, I am seeing a huge rise in ungodliness and the pursuit of worldly lusts. I don't even want to list them. Just watch the news for several nights in a row and you will witness what these worldly lusts are.

In Titus 2:12 Paul wrote, "Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soverly, righteously, and godly in the present age."

In Dr. David Jeremiah's study guide, Revealing the Mysteries of Heaven, he writes:

These are not theoretical ideas, they are actionable ideas -- hands-on goals to pursue. In the world we live in, anyone who is not "pursuing" and "denying" is going to get caught up in the things of this world.

Isn't that the truth! "Pursuing godliness and denying ungodliness" covers it all!

Dr. Jeremiah continues:

The connection between the pursuit of godliness and the return of Christ is everywhere in the New Testament. Not to see the value of the study of heaven is to miss a central theme of Scripture.

I have read such passages many times over the 20 plus years I have been reading and studying the Bible, but the fact that there is a connection between pursuing godliness and the return of Christ just jumped off the page at me today.

Unfortunately, I have seen compromise creep into the lives of some of the most conservative, godly Christian brothers and sisters that I know. This saddens me greatly. For example. A woman who was very involved with trying to keep a gay/straight alliance from our local high school (back in 2000) recently sent me an email of her "picks" for the election that occurred on November 2nd. She wrote that "Meg Whitman is pro-choice, but she is against partial birth abortion and thinks that parental notification for minors is necessary." For me, I just could not vote for Whitman, knowing that she is for the killing of babies in the womb. I COULD NOT COMPROMISE on that issue! I couldn't do it regarding Obama, in whom I disagreed on most issues back in 2008, nor could I do it regarding Whitman, even though I agreed with most of her other policies. As a result, we got liberal leftist Jerry Brown - who won by a substantial margin anyway. I didn't vote for Arnold when he ran and I never regretted that decision.

I know that some conservative voters might blame me (and other pro-life hold-outs who didn't vote for Whitman) for Brown's win. So be it. I'll take those lumps. But after re-reading Dr. Jeremiah's central ideas regarding pursuing godliness, I still do not regret my CA governor decision.

Dr. Jeremiah:

* 1 Corinthians 1:7-8 Being blameless (holy) when Christ returns.

* Colossians 3;4-5 Put to death unholy practices in light of Christ's return.

* 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 Having blameless (holy) hearts when Christ returns.

* 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Being blameless (sanctified) when Christ returns.

* 1 John 2:28 Not being ashamed at the time of His coming.

* 1 John 3:2-3 Purifying ourselves in light of Christ's appearing.

[B]eing tough-minded about godliness means making hard decisions about what we spend our lives doing in the present in light of our future with Christ.

Each day, when I look at my favorites reading list there are inevitably several blog posts with information that point towards end times prophecies. For example:

AS PRESIDENT OBAMA HITS ISRAEL AGAIN, CANADA’S PRIME MINISTER YET AGAIN PROVES HIMSELF TO BE THE MOST PRO-ISRAEL LEADER ON THE PLANET
posted by joelcrosenberg at Joel Rosenberg's Weblog - 1 hour ago
President Barack Obama sharply and unfairly criticized Israel yesterday while visiting Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country. While visiting mosques and meeting Muslim leaders and giving speeches a...

Two years ago, would any Christian American have ever thought that we would have a pResident of the United States that was so hostile and critical towards Israel?

1Ki 22:8
So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is still one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD; but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say such things!"

2Ch 18:7
So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is still one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD; but I hate him, because he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil. He is Micaiah the son of Imla." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say such things!"

Zec 2:8
For thus says the LORD of hosts: "He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.

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Despite Escalating Attacks on Christians… Obama Hails Indonesia As Example for World
posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 1 hour ago
Christians run for their lives in Ambon, Indonesia. (BBC) Barack Obama praised Muslim Indonesia as an example for the world during his speech today. The BBC reported: US President Barack Obama has held up ...

Would any Christian American have ever thought that the leader of our nation would ignore acts of violence purpetrated by radical Islam and act like socialist Hugo Chavez does by praising countries/peoples/regimes that are hostile towards those who believe in Jesus Christ?

Jhn 15:18
"If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

Jhn 15:25
"But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, 'They hated Me without a cause.'

Jhn 15:24
"If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father.

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Comrade Atkins Admits Communist Infiltration of Democratic Party

posted by Admin at New Zeal - 19 hours ago
This blog has long contended that the Communist Party USA and other Marxist groups have heavily infiltrated the Democratic Party. This has enabled the Communist Party to both influence Democratic Party po...

Obama A Little Too Interested In The Fact That Communists Are Part Of India’s Mainstream

posted by nicedeb at Nice Deb » Video: A Professor, a Priest, and Counsel Denounce as Discriminatory and Discreditable Notre Dame’s Treatment of Pro-Life Demonstrators - 19 hours ago
Just wondering…it seems a little weird that he would be singling out Communists the way he reportedly has, on more than one occasion during his trip to India: Via Weasel Zippers, and according to this repo...

Video: Glenn Beck on Soros the Puppet Master Part 1
posted by LonelyConservative (The Lonely Conservative) at Maggie's Notebook - 13 hours ago
Here's video of Glenn Beck's special segment on George Soros the "Puppet Master." Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Via Lonely Conservative ------------------------------ Maggie's Notebook

Are you watching Glenn Beck's latest exposure of the billionaire puppet master George Soros? If not, you need to so that you will be informed about just who is pulling the White House strings while at the same time demolishing what's left of the Democrat party.

See Romans 1




Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,


Rom 1:19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.


Rom 1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,


Rom 1:21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.


Rom 1:22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,


Rom 1:23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

Why Soros (an admitted atheist) is the way he is:


1Jo 2:18
Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.

Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;


Rom 1:29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,


Rom 1:30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,


Rom 1:31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful;


Rom 1:32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.

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Worst. Speaker. Ever… Pelosi Continues Her Disgusting Lies About Reducing Deficit

posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 13 hours ago
What an awful liar. Just when you thought you’d heard it all from this horrible person, she outdoes herself. Pelosi claimed in an editorial today at USA Today that she reduced the deficit, via HotAir. Acco...

See above Scriptures regarding Pelosi, too.

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The Sin of Tolerance
posted by Bill Muehlenberg at CultureWatch - 5 hours ago
Tolerance is all the rage today, and perhaps no other value is so trumpeted in modern Western culture than this one. It is the ultimate test of whether one is politically correct or not. But the modern not...

The misuse of the term "tolerance" today is just an excuse to dismiss sin. Jesus himself certainly didn't tolerate sin. For example, look at what he said regarding "offending little ones" -


Mat 18:6
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Mar 9:42
And whosoever shall offend one of [these] little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

Luk 17:2
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

That's quite harsh...wouldn't you agree? Crimes against children in our "tolerant" culture today have escalated beyond belief. Why? Matthew 6:19-23 helps explain:


Mat 6:19
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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Mat 6:20

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

Mat 6:21

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Mat 6:22
¶
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Mat 6:23

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great [is] that darkness!

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Back to Dr. Jeremiah's book.

Many people think studying the Scriptures concerning the return of the Lord and the inauguration of heaven is a waste of time. But it's not! If that were true, the authors of the New Testament would not have focused on it like they do. Remopve all the information about the future from the Bible and you remove about one-fourth of the book. Christ promised that He was going to return to earth, so we need to be tough-minded about that promise and live in light of it.

Peter said that scoffers would come in the last days and mock the promise of Christ's return (2 Peter 3:3-4). But men forget that God doesn't keep time like we do (2 Peter 3:8). All the prophecies in the Old Testament about Christ's first coming were fulfilled, and we can be sure the promises of His Second Coming will be as well.

C.S. Lewis wrote, "I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country which I shall not find until after my death. I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside. I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and help as many as I can, do the very same."

Here are some New Testament exhortations about the return of Christ:

* Philippians 3:20 Wait for Him eagerly.

* Titus 2:13 Watch for His coming.

* Hebrews 9:28 Eagerly wait for His coming.

* 2 Timothy 4:8 Love His appearing.

We need to be tough-minded about Christ's promise to return and not let the world lull us into apathy and ungodliness.

1Jo 2:12 I write to you, little children, Because your sins are forgiven you for His name's sake.


1Jo 2:13 I write to you, fathers, Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, Because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, Because you have known the Father.


1Jo 2:14 I have written to you, fathers, Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, Because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, And you have overcome the wicked one.


1Jo 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.


1Jo 2:16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.


1Jo 2:17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.



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Don't become confused. I'm not writing about agricultural-type fruit inspections!

One of my favorite Christian blog authors, Bill Muehlenberg of Australia, has written an excellent post called "The Desperate Need for Biblical Discernment" over at his Culture Watch blog.

Please share the link with your Christian brothers and sisters. The need for biblical discernment seems to be increasing exponentially as the years go by. Why? Because the warnings that Jesus Christ himself gave us in Matthew 7:15-23 are happening at such an alarming rate these days. The false prophets, false teachers, anti-christs, etc. are creeping into the churches unnoticed at times, and the people who are being duped by such charlatans need to be awakened and shown the Truth.

My comment there (in moderation at the moment):

Bill, you have the wonderful skill, the keen ability, and the spirit of a willing soul to write essays that are so important for the times that we live in today. How timely, how excellent, and how teachable is this article!

Our former church pastor used to tell the congregation to "call him out" if what he shares in any sermon is not Bible-based. We attended that church for about ten years. Suddenly, when the church as a whole wanted to do an in home Bible study on Rick Warren's "The Purpose Driven Life," I began to see the compromise creeping in. What stirred me to recognize it? The fact that Warren's video "welcome" and introduction to the book study course left out the fact of the need for confession of sin and repentance at the foot of the cross of Christ! Several other study leaders noticed this as well. When I raised my hand and shared my concern about this, the lecturer/leader organizer just shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'll look into it." Never heard anything back about this gross error in presenting how to be born again in Christ. So, since I was committed to being a leader I added what was missing to the prayer of salvation and during the six weeks of in home study, made sure that the people attending knew what was needed to be saved according to John 3.

I had recently contacted you via email about an error in judgment that was done by another pastor and church that we formerly attended. Thanks again for your great discernment and advice.

These are not frivolous problems or disagreements. They are huge! That's why we have the warnings in Scripture that you have pointed out here. Warnings to beware - directly from Jesus himself!

I love your last paragraph - especially the need for "vital fruit inspections." Can I borrow that great phrase for my blog post title today as I link to your essay?

God bless you Bill. Your Holy Spirit led discernment abilities shines through like a ray of light on this darkened world of sin, evil and death. I admire you greatly for your essays and articles that teach us well and bring Bible-based wisdom alive to Christians all around the world here at this blog!

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Culture Watch

MR. KANSAGRA: Thank you. Welcome, Mr. President, to India. As a fellow Kenyan...

Well, well, well! It appears that the Kerchner et al v. Obama et al POTUS eligibility case is not going to be so easily dismissed like so many other cases have (unfortunately) been through the "lack of standing" excuse.

Please see the latest post about the case:

Kerchner et al v Obama et al Petition for Writ of Certiorari Distributed to the U.S. Supreme Court Justices for Conference Scheduled for 23 Nov 2010
posted by cfkerchner at A Place to Ask Questions to Get the Right Answers - 2 hours ago
Kerchner et al v Obama et al Petition for Writ of Certiorari Distributed to the U.S. Supreme Court Justices for Conference Scheduled for 23 Nov 2010 See the new activity on the U.S. Supreme Court Docket at...

While reading the preceding blog post at "A Place to Ask Questions to Get the Right Answers," I followed a link to this big gem of information:

Scribd.com: Puzo1 - Document Collections

Also see Political Punch: Odd Little Moment at the CEO Meeting.

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The Collapse of the Global Financial Market

I finished reading Dr. David Jeremiah's book, "The Coming Economic Armageddon" this week. I think that every person - not only every Christian - should read this book!

In the latest T.V. installment, Dr. Jeremiah points out some very interesting details about the ancient city of Babylon as recorded in the Bible (and the tower of Babel that was being constructed) while he shares the ties that Saddam Hussein and our current sinful culture has with the emergence of the new Babylon. The coin [Note: see coin in Turning Point video - link below] created with Hussein and King Nebuchadnezzar gives proof to the fact that Hussein was intent on rebuilding Babylon.

After Saddam Hussein's demise and the huge victory of the U.S. military in Iraq, the work on rebuilding Babylon is continuing. Don Koenig of The Prophecy Years is quoted as saying in his piece "The Rebuilding of Babylon":

The only thing that is holding up the rebuilding of Babylon Iraq from emerging into a world class tourist center for the rich and famous is the violence in Iraq and the development of their oil. Some now think that Iraq has larger oil reserves than Saudi Arabia and by 2020-2030 Iraq could be [the] world's leading oil producer.

That statement coincides with what Dr. Jeremiah shares in this week's television broadcast. He states, among many other prophetic signs, that oil will be the "booty" that all the world will be going after which will ultimately lead to the battle of Armageddon.

The similarity between what happened in Nebuchadnezzar's time and what is prophesied in the Bible to happen in the end times is quite fascinating - and very scary if you are not a saved Christian.

You can watch yesterday's broadcast at the following link:

David Jeremiah.org: This Week’s Television Broadcast
The Collapse of the Global Financial Market Week of November 7, 2010

When we think of the world's great cities today, we think of New York, London, Tokyo, Rome, and others. But a city is coming in the future--an ancient city that has lain dormant for ages--that will dwarf today's world-class cities in opulence, commerce, finance, and sin.

The last chapter of Jeremiah's book gives us such hope that all of the previous chapters of doom and gloom melt in the warmth and light of the reality that will come when Jesus Christ returns to judge the world and create his kingdom on earth for 1,000 years in the Millennium.

Dr. Jeremiah gives solid advice as to how to prepare for what is coming. Most of all, we are instructed to prepare our hearts, minds, and souls for what will surely come to pass. We are instructed to do what really matters - evangelism. Share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with all who have "ears to hear what the Spirit says to the churches." Tell anyone willing to listen about why Christ died on the cross at Calvary and what that means for all who answer his question correctly (as Simon Peter did), "Who do you say that I am?"

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Daily Bible Study - Wayne Blank

The Prophetic Years

Fort Hood Jihad: One Year Later, Obama's Cover Up

On the one year anniversary of that radical Islamist terrorist murderer - Nidal Hassan - and his in cold blood execution of 13 slaughtered soldiers at Fort Hood, how disgusting it is to read that Obama has intentionally attempted to cover up the real story behind the jihad.

Atlas Shrugs: Fort Hood Jihad: One Year Later, Obama's Cover Up

Excerpt:

Fort Hood Jihad. It's a year since Major Hasan came out as a grand jihadi and slaughtered US soldiers in the largest attack on a military base on American soil in US history.

One year, and the Obama administration is still covering up the motivation behind the attack. Perhaps with the Republican force for good in Washington, we will now be able to sue the White House for information sought in a congressional investigation of last year’s rampage at the Texas military base in which 13 soldiers were killed.

So crippled has our military (and other branches of government) become by this self-imposed sharia (do not insult Islam!), that despite the staggering loss of US soldiers, the chief concern of Army chief Casey in the bloody aftermath of the Fort Hood jihad was that "speculation could potentially heighten backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers and what happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here."

That was the concern.

On the day of Major Hasan's mass slaughter of US troops at Fort Hood in the bloodiest act of war on a military base in US history, Major Muslim Hasan distributed Qurans and his card, calling infidels to convert to Islam before his jihad (posted at Atlas November 6, 2009 -- Major Hasan's Dawah before Jihad).

Hasan screamed "Allahu Akbar"!!! as he mowed down US soldiers at Fort Hood.

Obama has continued to withhold evidence in the Fort Hood jihadist attack and continues to shield the Muslim terrorist. Senators have been forced to sue the White House for information.

Continue reading HERE.

Liberalism is truly a mental disorder!! The Islamic terrorist murderer guns down 13 soldiers, including one unborn baby, so that is a total of 14 Americans, and the pResident in Chief's Army chief Casey thinks that it would be "an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here."

WHAT?????

That's just INSANE!

How crazy it is to see Hasan's business card which reads, "Behavioral Health, Mental Health, Life Skills" on it!! Perhaps such descriptions would be true of him if we understand what kind of "god" he follows - namely Satan!!

What's more, the stupid administration's reasoning behind keeping the information quiet about Hasan is even more ridiculous than anyone could ever imagine!

Excerpt:

Congressman John Carter back in April:

Yet the Obama Administration continues to deny the Fort Hood attack was terrorism, failed to grant the casualties the same status as that given casualties from the 2001 Pentagon attack, conspicuously omitted even mention of the words “radical Islamic terrorism” in the official DOD report on the shootings, and will not acknowledge the role of political-correctness in stifling whistleblower warnings of the impending attack.

Now the Administration is refusing to fully comply with a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee subpoena that the Pentagon share documents and witnesses concerning the incident.

Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Ranking Minority Member Susan Collins (R-MA) issued the subpoena after the Administration refused to provide those documents on the request of the committee.

The Administration bases their denial on the argument that releasing the information might endanger their prosecution of Major Nidal Hasan.

As a state judge who presided over murder trials for 20 years before coming to Congress, that’s ludicrous. Any prosecutor who can’t win a conviction against Hasan with literally dozens of eyewitnesses doesn’t need to be a prosecutor.

I agree with what commentator Richard 2 wrote:

Richard 2 said...
A lot of good people are leaving the military because it is becoming way too political, instead of being apolitical like the Constitution says too many decisions and promotions depend on who you support in DC and how much you support them. This perversion of our non political military is risking the safety of every citizen in the US.

Commentator Jane asks a good question:

jane said...
Can't the family of victims sue CAIR, MAS, etc. and the mosques, Imams, etc. that Hassan listened to for hate speech which resulted in the deaths of their loved ones? Where are their lawyers? Their family members were NOT in combat when they were killed.

And commentator Doug has an idea to remove the insanity that allowed such a rampage to occur in the first place:

Doug said...
Here's a revolutionary idea. The military needs to remove the weapons from lockup and allow soldiers to defend themselves. I know the concept of soldiers carrying a weapon will make your average liberal soil their panties. We've already seen how effective a "gun free" zone works. Let's try one that says "anybody to trying to maim or kill will have their brains splattered all over the wall".

Republican Congress...Let the investigations begin!!!

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Add-On

In the usual "Talk Wisdom Reports, You Decide" mode, here is a link to the latest "Ulsterman" post:

Newsflavor: White House Insider: Pelosi Willing to Help Take Obama Down

All is fair in politics and war?

To me, this doesn't necessarily make much sense (but what does with this radical Marxist adminstration??) if Pelosi is vying for the House minority leader (that lady never gives up and doesn't seem to know when or how to make a graceful exit.) PeLIARsi - America doesn't want you!!!

Blog News Roundup

Obviously, Obama and the clueless Dems didn't learn anything from the tsunami sweep-out of the House that WE THE PEOPLE brought upon their ill-fated, terrible, and downright dangerous policies, bills and actions!

Obama Says He Needs To Do A Better Job Persuading The Ignorant Masses
posted by nicedeb at Nice Deb » Obama Says He Needs To Do A Better Job Persuading The Ignorant Masses - 7 minutes ago
I’m almost positive he doesn’t even believe his own b.s., here, I think that, over the course of two years we were so busy and so focused on getting a bunch of stuff done that, we stopped paying attention ...

The liar-in-chief will NEVER admit failure on his part in putting forth terrible liberal leftist "progressive" policies that harmed our nation over the past two years! He will blame it all on anyone but who is really at fault - HIM!

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Flummoxed Again By "The Enemy of My Enemy..."
posted by William A. Jacobson at Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion - 30 minutes ago
Once again I have a seemingly unsolvable dilemma. If "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," which one of these guys has to be my friend? Via Breitbart TV

I could not believe that Obama called his political opponents "enemies." Has he ever used that term to describe Islamic terrorists?

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Unreal. Obama Admits Failure… On Message Not On Policy
posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 1 hour ago
This would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic. This is crazy. He just can’t admit his Keynesian economic plan was a complete disaster. What part of 9.6% unemployment rate does he not understand? The Politic...

FAIL. Unemployment Rate Stuck at 9.6% in October
posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 4 hours ago
Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression and possibly is the worst jobs president in US History. (Source: US Misery Index) They wanted to fundamentally change America. They did. ...

Again, Obama inability to be honest, trustworthy, humble and truthful shows what a facade this guy lives under!

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John Boehner: “There Seems to Be Some Denial On the Part of the President”
posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 6 hours ago
That’s putting it nicely… GOP Leader John Boehner told Diane Sawyer that Obama appears to be in some denial about the message that was sent by the American people. The Washington Post reported: Rep. John B...

Mr. Boehner is certainly being more polite than I would be regarding Obama's DENIAL of the reality of what the election meant!

World's Biggest Boomerang
posted by William A. Jacobson at Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion - 6 hours ago
Who knew that the gavel carried by Nancy Pelosi on her way to the Obamacare vote actually was a boomerang? And when it came back to hit them last Tuesday, it wiped those smiles right off their faces. --...

This title wins the prize for the best one I've seen today! LOL!!! What's worse, I just read on Fox News that PeLIARsi wants to run for House Minority Leader. Is she insane??? Yes...of course she is.

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Why Is Obama Going to India? [Update]

Did some brief research into the reason why Obama and a huge entourage (with expenses estimated to cost 200 million) is traveling to India. The first link contains a blog post with opinions about it. The second link is an article I found via the first link, and I have copied it in full here.

It is ironic to note that the author of the second article (posted in its entirety below) wants to stop NATO and is apparently against the "global military structure."

Sikhnet.com: Why Obama is Probably Going to India In the First Place.

Blog From Middle East

India: U.S. Completes Global Military Structure



Stop NATO , September 12, 2010


A September 8 report by a leading Canadian newspaper cited the Indian branch of the Deloitte consulting firm estimating the world’s second most populous nation plans to spend as much as $80 billion for its defense sector in the next five years.

It quoted an Indian journalist, Rahul Bedi, a contributor to Jane’s Defence Weekly, as stating "No one else is buying like India." [1]

Earlier this year the authoritative Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) disclosed that India had become the world’s second-largest importer of weapons from 2005-2009, "importing 7% of the world’s arms exports." Only China imported more weaponry, though that nation is slated to purchase less foreign arms, both aggregate and percentile, in the coming years and the largest foreign supplier of its weapons is a non-Western country, Russia.

During the five-year period mentioned above, Indian arms imports more than doubled from $1.04 billion in 2005 to $2.2 billion in 2009. Over the past 20 years Russia has been far and away the main provider of arms to India, as the Soviet Union had been in previous decades, though "The United States, currently India’s sixth-biggest arms supplier, seems likely to leapfrog to second position once New Delhi starts paying for a series of recent and ongoing acquisitions." [2]

Those contracts include $1.1 billion for C-130J Super Hercules transport planes, $2.4 billion for Globemaster airlifters and $2 billion for P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft. (A version of Boeing’s Poseidon reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare Multimission Maritime Aircraft modified for Indian use.)

Reports in both the Russian and Chinese press speculate that when U.S. President Barack Obama visits India in November he "may secure $5 billion worth of arms sales," a deal that "would make the US replace Russia as India’s biggest arms supplier" and "help India curb China’s rise." [3]

The unprecedented weapons transactions could include "Patriot air defence batteries and Boeing mid-air refueling tankers.

"Observers point out that the role of India’s biggest arms supplier is shifting from Russia to the United States." [4]

A Chinese news source added that Washington will also supply New Delhi with howitzers and that "the total cost of the deal may exceed $10 billion…."

The Economic Times of India disclosed in July that "talks are underway between Indian and US officials over a deal to sell 10 Boeing C-17 [Globemaster III] military transport aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF)."

Wang Mingzhi, a military strategist at the People’s Liberation Army Air Force Command College, warned "once India gets the C-17 transport aircraft, the mobility of its forces stationed along the border with China will be improved." [5]

The C-17 carries a payload of 164,900 pounds for 2,400 miles and 100,300 pounds for 4,000 miles without refueling.

In late August the U.S. signed a $170 million deal to supply India with 24 Harpoon Block II advanced air-to-surface anti-ship missiles.

This February the Wall Street Journal revealed that the Obama administration, with a renewed focus on the Asia-Pacific region, intends to massively increase arms sales to both India and its nuclear rival Pakistan. U.S. military sales to Pakistan have risen to $3 billion a year and are expected to nearly double in 2011.

As for its neighbor, "India is one of the largest buyers of foreign-made munitions, with a long shopping list which includes warships, fighter jets, tanks and other weapons. Its defense budget is $30 billion for the fiscal year ending March 31, a 70% increase from five years ago." [6]

In January U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates visited India and later in the month Washington secured a deal to sell India 145 U.S. howitzers for $647 million.

"The Obama administration is trying to persuade New Delhi to buy American jet fighters instead [of Russian ones], a shift White House officials say would lead to closer military and political relations between India and the U.S. It would also be a bonanza for U.S. defense contractors, and [the White House] has dispatched senior officials such as Mr. Gates to New Delhi to deliver the message that Washington hopes India will choose American defense firms for major purchases in the years ahead."

The Wall Street Journal quoted Tom Captain, vice chairman and Global and U.S. Aerospace & Defense director at Deloitte headquarters in New York, as claiming "For 2010 and 2011, India could well be the most important market in the world for defense contractors looking to make foreign military sales," where Russian equipment accounts for about 70 percent of that currently in use.

Referring to India’s plans to spend $10 billion for 126 multirole combat aircraft, Captain added: "That’s the biggest deal in the world right now. If it goes to an American firm, that would be the final nail in the coffin in terms of India shifting its allegiance from Russia to the U.S." [7]

Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen was in the Indian capital on July 22-23 and met with Defence Minister AK Antony, Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik and other military leaders. As a local news agency divulged, "Mullen’s visit comes at a time when both sides are looking at expanding defence cooperation across a swathe of areas.

"The visit also coincides with intensified lobbying for the $10 billion contract for 126 fighters for the Indian Air Force (IAF)." [8]

The White House is negotiating new export control agreements with India to assist American arms firms to sell more high-technology weapons to the Asian nation.

At the top of the list of U.S. objectives in expanding military ties with India are replacing Russia as the country’s main arms supplier and the concomitant supplanting of Russian political influence, further tightening an Asian NATO around China [9] and weakening the Shanghai Cooperation Organization [10], all to ensure unimpeded American presence and domination in Eurasia.

After the end of the Cold War and the fragmentation of the Soviet Union, the Pentagon was given free rein to operate worldwide, including in parts of the planet hitherto inaccessible to U.S. troops and bases.

U.S. European Command, through the expansion of NATO membership and graduated partnership programs, has secured the Defense Department a prevalent role in almost all of Europe and the South Caucasus.

Central Command has extended its role from the Middle East to Central Asia and further into South Asia and the Indian Ocean.

On October 1, 2002 U.S. Northern Command was established to oversee North America from Mexico’s southern border to the Arctic Ocean. Six years later U.S. Africa Command was launched to subordinate 53 nations on and off the coasts of the continent to American military and geopolitical strategy.

In the past decade the Pentagon has deployed troops, military equipment and ordnance – in some instances missiles – to new locations in Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region, the Middle East including the Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean, Central and South Asia, Northeast Africa and South America.

The final frontier is Asia from China to Iran, with those parts of it not covered by Central Command assigned to U.S. Pacific Command, the largest overseas military structure in the world. Its area of responsibility takes in India, China and 60 percent of the population of the Earth.

In the 1990s so-called neoconservatives and realists alike from Paul Wolfowitz to Zbigniew Brzezinski triumphed in the emergence of the U.S. as the first, uncontested and only international superpower – what its current head of state Barack Obama called the world’s sole military superpower in Oslo last December – and crafted plans to continue that unparalleled role into the indefinite future. What they agreed on was the need to guarantee that no other nation or group of nations rose to challenge American global supremacy, either on an international or a regional basis.

By regional was understood any part of the world. The most likely rivals would arise in Eurasia, the American geopoliticians warned. The ultimate nightmare for the imperial strategists was some version of what former Russian prime and foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov promoted as a strategic triangle of Russia, China and India.

An Indian commentary of approximately ten years ago described the U.S. counter-strategy as a policy of cultivating closer state-to-state relations with every nation in the world than any of those countries have with any other state, even their neighbors.

Thus the U.S. is arming India and Pakistan, regional military rivals possessing nuclear weapons outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regime, as it is deepening defense ties with other nations on both sides of local conflicts and disputes: Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, Greece and Turkey over Cyprus and the skies over the Aegean Sea, Croatia and Slovenia over the Adriatic coast, Serbia and Kosovo over the latter, recognized by almost two-thirds of United Nation member states as a province of the former, and so on.

As the American corporate consultant quoted earlier pointed out, the best way of transforming the foreign policy orientation of other countries and subordinating them to Washington’s global political agenda is by penetrating and gaining control over their armed forces.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Africa Command alone have provided the Pentagon mechanisms for initiating and consolidating bilateral military ties with over 100 of the world’s 192 nations (in the UN). NATO and AFRICOM have given the Pentagon a continent apiece. That is in addition to other, frequently older, military client states in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region.

By supplying arms to those nations and eliminating traditional rivals for that role, Washington is laying the groundwork for integrating most every country in the world into its military network. Weapons sales are followed by instruction, maintenance, upgrade and field training agreements, with U.S. military personnel assigned to the purchasing nations.

Regional and other multinational air, naval, interceptor missile, armored and ground combat exercises and war games are held to test weapons in live-fire and other maneuvers and to provide the U.S. opportunities for simulated warfare against potential rivals’ equipment, tactics and warfighting doctrine.

Pilots, soldiers, marines and sailors, including special forces, from military client nations are provided training in their own countries, in the U.S. and in third countries to ensure weapons, deployment, command, communication and combat interoperability with the Pentagon for global missions.

This July the Reuters news agency reported that U.S. arms sales abroad could surge from $37.8 billion to $50 billion next year, an increase of almost one-third.

Vice Admiral Jeffrey Wieringa, director of the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency – in charge of international financial and technical assistance, training and services and other military-to-military contacts – estimated a year ago "that weapons sales could reach a record $50 billion this year." [11]

He added that U.S. arms sales have expanded from $8 billion ten years ago to $37.8 for the fiscal year ending this September 30 "and they are likely to continue growing in coming years…."

"Among the biggest potential arms deals on the table now are huge fighter jet competitions in India and Brazil, various modernization programs for Saudi Arabia, and continuing support for arms sales to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Lebanon."

Wieringa was also cited applauding "a drive by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other departments to reform cumbersome U.S. export laws," thus opening the floodgates for U.S. weapons sales throughout the world. [12]

Four years ago the New York Times documented that "A total of $21 billion in arms sales agreements were signed from September 2005 to September 2006, compared with $10.6 billion in the previous year," according to Pentagon data. [13]

Nations that had never purchased American weaponry before and that only had negligible armed forces now offer lucrative prospects for American arms manufacturers. India is preeminent in the first category.

The weapons manufacturers’ wares are produced for – deadly – use and not for simple display, deterrence and (dubious) prestige.

Weapons sales are promoted through international arms shows and exhibitions, but more so through actual demonstrations. War games suit that purpose, but war itself does it to a greater degree.

The U.S. offered the world large-scale military hardware expositions in the three wars it launched in less than four years: Yugoslavia in 1999, Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.

The recent announcement that the U.S. will supply Saudi Arabia with a staggering $80 billion worth of arms in the next few years is paralleled by its plans to become India’s main arms provider.

Weapons transactions are inextricably connected with overall military integration, and since 2002 – immediately following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the Pentagon and its NATO allies moving into new military bases in that country, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – Washington began regular (annual) air, sea and land maneuvers with India of ever-increasing scope and intensity.

Last October 12-29 the U.S. Army participated in the latest and largest of Yudh Abhyas ("training for war") war games held since 2004 with its Indian counterpart. Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2009 featured 1,000 troops, the U.S.’s Javelin anti-tank missile system and the first deployment of American Stryker armored combat vehicles outside the Afghan and Iraqi theaters of war. The Strykers were tested against Indian T-90 tanks, "currently the most modern tank[s] in service with the Russian Ground Forces and Naval Infantry." [14]

The U.S. ambassador to India, Timothy Roemer, said of the military maneuvers: "The broadened and unprecedented scope of Yudh Abhyas stands as a testament to the growing people-to-people and military-to-military ties of the United States and India, one of the key pillars of the expanded U.S.-India strategic partnership." [15]

The Pentagon showcased both the Strykers and the Javelin third generation anti-tank guided missiles during the biggest-ever joint U.S.-Indian ground combat exercises and not without the desired effect.

An American press agency disclosed on September 3 that "Russia has traditionally been India’s largest arms supplier but following evidence of the capabilities of U.S. military equipment during joint exercises with the Indian army, navy and air force, the Indian army decided to purchase several hundred Javelin anti-tank guided missiles, demonstrated during the war games….The Javelins were deployed for Indian forces for the first time in the Yudh Abhyas 09 joint military exercise in Babina, the largest war game that the two armies have had." [16]

Last month the Times of India reported that "India will order a 'large’ number of the quite-expensive Javelin ATGM systems from the US.

"The deal for the man-portable, fire-and-forget Javelin ATGM systems will once again be a direct government-to-government one under the American foreign military sales (FMS) programme, without any global multi-vendor competition.

"While the exact number of Javelin systems India will induct is yet to be
decided, it could well run into thousands. The Army, after all, has a shortfall of around 44,000 ATGMs of different types…." [17]

In July the Raytheon Company announced that India is evaluating the Patriot ground-based anti-ballistic missile system for purchase and deployment and that the U.S. had provided New Delhi with "classified" material on it recently. Sales of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor missiles to India are reported to be on Barack Obama’s agenda during his November visit.

By acquiring them, India would join fellow Asia-Pacific nations Japan, South Korea and Taiwan as well as NATO members Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Greece and U.S. Middle East military clients Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Joseph Garrett, Raytheon vice president and deputy for Patriot programs, disclosed that "A number of exchanges have taken place between the government of India and the US and information has been given to India at the classified level."

Patriots were "successfully used during both Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom, Patriot’s manufacturer Raytheon has said." [18]

Seven consecutive years of Yudh Abhyas war games aren’t the only joint U.S.-Indian military exercises held each year of late. In fact they are full spectrum in their range.

Starting shortly after the end of the Cold War, Washington initiated joint Malabar naval exercises with India. Suspended after the latter’s nuclear tests in 1998, they resumed in 2002 and have grown in scale over the years.

Malabar 2002 included standard maritime maneuvers but also anti-submarine warfare exercises. The 2003 drills featured an American guided missile destroyer, a guided missile cruiser and a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine and two Indian guided missile frigates, a submarine and several aircraft which concentrated on anti-submarine warfare tactics.

2004 saw a continuation of anti-submarine drills and included a U.S. nuclear-powered fast attack submarine and anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft. The next year’s war games featured a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft supercarrier for the first time and included a 24-hour simulated "war at sea" with the two nations’ navies engaging in mock combat.

In 2006 an American expeditionary strike group (the USS Boxer Expeditionary Strike Group) consisting of over 6,500 U.S. Navy personnel, amphibious ships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines participated in the exercise for the first time. Also, with the inclusion of the Canadian navy the 2006 Malabar exercises expanded for the first time beyond the bilateral format of the preceding two years.

The next year was a watershed one in many respects. Malabar 2007 included 25 warships from five nations: In addition to the U.S. and India, participating countries were Australia, Japan and Singapore, at the time leading to suspicions of American plans to forge an Asian NATO.

The drills were held for the first time in the Bay of Bengal off India’s eastern coast, which further raised Chinese concerns, and extended into the Andaman Sea near the strategic Strait of Malacca.

The U.S. supplied 13 warships including the USS Nimitz nuclear supercarrier, the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, the USS Chicago nuclear submarine, two guided missile cruisers and six guided missile destroyers. Japan provided two destroyers, Singapore a frigate and Australia a frigate and a tanker.

Malabar 2008 returned to a bilateral context with the involvement of the USS Ronald Reagan Strike Group, a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine and a P-3 Orion anti-submarine plane.

4,000 personnel from three nations – the U.S., India and Japan – participated in last year’s exercise which included anti-submarine warfare, surface warfare, air defense and live-fire gunnery training drills.

Malabar 2010 was conducted in April with ships, submarines, aircraft and personnel from the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, among which were a nuclear fast attack submarine, two guided missile destroyers, a guided missile cruiser, a guided missile frigate, Sea Hawk helicopters, anti-submarine aircraft and Navy SEALS.

The Pentagon hasn’t been content to exercise its troops and weapons on India’s soil and off its coasts. Starting in 2004 the U.S. has also led annual air combat maneuvers called Cope India.

The first series of bilateral aerial warfare exercises tested U.S. state-of-the-art F-15 Eagle fighters against Russian-made MiG-21, MiG-27, MiG-29 and Sukhoi Su-30 opposite numbers along with French-made Mirage 200 fighters. The U.S. warplanes were consistently bested by their MiG-21 and Su-30 rivals.

The Cope India maneuvers, like comparable ones in Romania and elsewhere in Eastern Europe and the Red Flag air combat exercises in the U.S., provide the Pentagon an opportunity to engage and compete against advanced Russian military aircraft for use in real war scenarios in the future.

Cope India 2005 pitted American F-16 Fighting Falcons against India’s most advanced, largely Russian-produced, fighters in – for the first time in joint U.S.-Indian air exercises – a combat environment controlled by airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft.

The next year over 250 U.S. airmen stationed throughout the Pacific region accompanied F-16 Fighting Falcons to India for Cope India 2006. The F-16s were deployed against the most advanced fighter in the Indian Air Force’s arsenal, the Su-30 MKI (adapted from the Russian Su-30) as well as MiG-21, MiG-27, MiG-29 and Mirage 2000 fighters.

In 2008 an Indian Air Force contingent of eight Su-30 MKI fighters, two Russian-made in-flight refuellers, a Russian heavy lift transport aircraft and almost 250 airmen "winged their way halfway across the globe to the deserts of Nevada," to participate in an Exercise Red Flag, held three or four times a year in Nevada and Alaska and "acknowledged to be the most advanced and professionally challenging fighter exercise conducted anywhere in the world." [19]

The exercise marked several precedents: It included the largest single deployment of the Indian Air Force outside India. It was the first time that the air forces of nations not in NATO or those of major non-NATO allies – India and South Korea – participated in Red Flag air combat maneuvers. "It was also the first time that the SU30 MKI, a frontline combat aircraft of Russian design, made its appearance in the American skies and that too in a multi-national congregation." [20]

India was elevated to the status of an American strategic military ally, on the level of a NATO partner, on June 28, 2005 when U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Indian Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee signed the New Framework for the U.S.-India Defense Relationship, in effect a ten-year defense pact.

India has become the convergence point for the U.S.-led NATO bloc moving from the west into Central and South Asia and the expansion of an Asia-Pacific NATO growing from its Japan-Australia-South Korea-Taiwan nucleus to absorb the ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mongolia, New Zealand and the five former Soviet Central Asian republics – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – are to varying degrees being integrated into the structure as well.

India is also intended as a central locus for the U.S. global interceptor missile grid based on land and sea and in the air and space, linking deployments in Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, the South Caucasus and the Middle East to those in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and Alaska, including the latter’s Aleutian Islands.

Moving the Asian giant into the Pentagon’s column will not only affect the balance of forces in Asia but throughout the world.

1) Toronto Star, September 8, 2010
2) Business Standard, March 18, 2010
3) Global Times, July 13, 2010
http://world.globaltimes.cn/asia-pacific/2010-07/550830.html
4) Voice of Russia, July 11, 2010
http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/07/11/12033554.html
5) Global Times, July 13, 2010
6) Wall Street Journal, February 25, 2010
7) Ibid
8) Indo-Asian News Service, July 20, 2010
9) U.S. Expands Asian NATO To Contain And Confront China
Stop NATO, August 7, 2010
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/u-s-expands-asian
-nato-to-contain-and-confront-china
U.S. Expands Asian NATO Against China, Russia
Stop NATO, October 16, 2009
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/u-s-expands-asian
-nato-against-china-russia
Australian Military Buildup And The Rise Of Asian NATO
Stop NATO, May 6, 2009
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/australian-milita
ry-buildup-and-the-rise-of-asian-nato
10) The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Prospects For A Multipolar World
Stop NATO, May 21, 2009
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/150
11) Reuters, July 19, 2010
12) Ibid
13) New York Times, November 11, 2006
14) Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-90
15) Embassy of the United States, New Delhi, India, October 19, 2009
16) United Press International, September 3, 2010
17) Times of India, August 17, 2010
18) Raytheon Company
Asia Pulse Data Source
July 23, 2010
19) Indian Defence Review, Vol 25.3 July-September 10 2008
20) Ibid










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