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It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists. Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite tv dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a Burger King burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blindth the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barrack Obama/His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barrack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a “freeman” whimper.

So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set “fair” maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.
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U.S. military bases in South Korea have been put on high alert for the second time in three years as a precaution after North Korea announced Wednesday that it was withdrawing from the 1953 armistice that ended the fighting in the Korean War.

U.S. forces have served in some ways as a tripwire between the North and the South since the end of that conflict. The alert status, however, requires a series of important decisions for U.S. commanders.

William Nash, a retired major general who commanded the 1st Armored Division and later served as the U.N. civil administrator for Kosovo, said the commander of U.S. forces in South Korea was going through war plans and making sure nonessential personnel on bases were being evacuated.

“First of all, you gather all the essential people,” Mr. Nash said, “Leaves and passes are probably restricted. You go through all the contingency plans and procedures. Obviously with the families in Korea, you have to review the noncombatant evacuation process. Review your war plans and your deployment orders. Meanwhile, you have a lot of folks going through the process of checking vehicles and weapons for serviceability. If there is deferred maintenance, you are working through the end of the night to finish that up.”

A duty officer for United States Forces Korea, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press, told The Washington Times that the base was on Watch Condition 2, the second highest level of alert. Watchcon 2 means that a greater amount of surveillance activity will be targeted at North Korea, particularly if the North Koreans continue to test missiles. The U.S. put its forces in Korea on the same alert status when North Korea first tested a nuclear device in 2006.

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My radio guest on May 16 was John McTernan, author of God’s Final Warning to America and As America Has Done to Israel. (As America Has Done to Israel will be on my Web site in the next few days.) Since 1987, John has tracked judgment on America when we abuse the unborn, look the other way at the radical gay agenda, and cause any kind of harm to God’s covenant land of Israel. Some have “issues” with this. I am not sure why since there is a biblical illustration for each category. Ever heard of Sodom and Gomorrah?

Right now America is torn in two, and the more Obama pushes the division of Israel, the more division there will be in our country. It has far surpassed the clever little red state-blue state illustration of a few years ago. Now it is hard-core secular humanist liberalism vs. traditional values and biblical values’ people butting heads. Just this rampant division in our country is judgment. We cannot all get along! The chasm of division grows more each day!

America is trillions of dollars in debt. More than 60% of the country is experiencing a drought. Two million houses are in foreclosure. Read Deuteronomy 28 to see how God dealt with a rebellious Israel. Why would He do less to a rebellious America?

Recently Homeland Security declared millions of good people “right-wing extremists.” Janet Napolitano has now pulled that position paper due to the outcry. Nonetheless, very good people were called evil with overtones of Isaiah 5:20 at play. Let’s be honest and say this kind of labeling was going on long before the Obama administration came to power but now it is on fast-forward.

Dr. James Dobson stated that “America is awash in evil.” He also stated in WorldNetDaily on May 14, 2009, “There is utter evil coming out of the U.S. Congress.” Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) has been reporting on the “pedophile protection act” being promoted by Congress. He states, “If we don’t have another awakening, I’m not sure what’s left (of America).” Dobson concurs and says that the threat to religious rights “keeps me awake at night.”

Under certain circumstances, names for Jesus or symbols of Jesus must be covered up as ordered by the Obama administration. If any prayer is to be used in any service or ceremony, it must be approved and likely will be stricken out. There is almost unbelievable news that our Pentagon is burning Bibles. Do we even have a right to expect God’s favor on America?

Thankfully some Christian leaders and pastors are speaking up and risking all, but for the most part, the church is asleep. A nation is only as strong as her churches are strong. A passage was given to Israel that can be applied to our day, which reads,

“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, then turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land” (II Chronicles 7:14).

The verse is not directed at the devil’s crowd! The responsibility for turning around the direction of a country falls heavily on people of faith.

Unfortunately many churches today don’t want to preach about judgment. They are spiritually anesthetized. They have not been taught to fear the Lord but rather, that God is all about love because that makes people come to church. Many pastors and ministry leaders would never put a big part of the blame on America’s demise onto the church! They’re into church growth and don’t make waves or people won’t return next week. Praise needs to be extended to pastors and church leaders who are holding to truth, who are telling the truth, and who are warning of serious judgment occurring now and in the future.

This past spring, “America’s pastor,” Rick Warren, reversed himself on California’s “Proposition 8.” He ultimately apologized to the gay community for his endorsement of it. And we expect God’s blessing when “America’s pastor” does this? I realize many reading this do not consider Rick their pastor, but let’s be honest, many do. America’s “other pastor” is Joel Osteen who said on Larry King that he’s just glad Obama “loves the Lord.” Why the sugar-coating? Why not tell the inconvenient truth?

We have reached a point where we can only pray that God would have mercy in His judgment on America, and that He would send an outpouring of His Spirit to help beat back the rampant evil of our times. Perhaps right now our only focus should be on evangelism before the Ark door shuts once again. Maybe it is too late for petitions and pleading with Congress to do things right. Maybe our focus should be eternal, not earthly. But once an individual or a nation gives up, the slide can be at rapid pace and no one wants to see that. The Bible doesn’t tell Christians to be “salt and light” just up to a certain point in history and then quit!

Thus I would exhort you to press on and speak up for righteousness, for “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people” (Proverbs 14:34).
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Many of us watched Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and his “shuttle diplomacy,” then secretaries of state under Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, and Bush 2 work for peace between Israel and her blood-vowed enemies. We have, in some cases, become numb to the astonishing fact that here we are, just where God’s prophetic Word says the end-times generation will be. Israel is at the center of fears that thermonuclear war might be triggered at any moment. The world of diplomacy is crying “peace and safety,” the very thing that will bring Antichrist to the forefront and destruction that will surely follow.

To reiterate, we’ve become so used to talk of war and peace stemming from the hatreds surrounding Israel that even we who “watch” can have a sometimes ho-hum attitude about these truly prophetic developments. This commentary, then, is meant for the edification of and exhortation to the Christian who is doing what Jesus told us to do:

“What I say unto one, I say unto all. Watch” (Mark 13:37).

As important as that order to be watchful given by our Lord is, another is even more important. We all – including yours truly — have on occasion been guilty of being so immersed in “watching” that we have taken our spiritual eyes, even if briefly, off of the supreme purpose of being here on this planet at this most exciting time in human history.

What is that purpose of preeminence? Jesus gave the marching orders in the following:

“And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Amen” (Matthew 28:18-19).

Jesus’ words just before His ascension are recorded in the gospel of Mark as:

“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).

Jesus’ words of instruction to His disciples were further recorded in the Gospel of Luke:

“And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem” (Luke 24:47).

What is the gospel that Jesus ordered all who name His name down through the centuries to proclaim? Many of us have known from our childhood that gospel message in its most straightforward form, although the words we memorized might not have sunken in until later in life. It is found in the fourth Gospel, the Gospel of John:

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

We who are royal ambassadors in this foreign land called planet earth must never take our concentration off of the preeminent mission God has assigned each of us. We are to witness to the whole world of hell-bound people the message that Jesus Christ is the only Way, Truth, and Eternal Life, and that not one person ever goes to be with God the Father except through His Son, Jesus.

Eschatology, the study of end things, is most important, and, tragically, woefully ignored by most seminaries, pastors, and people in the pews of America. But, things to come, given us through God’s prophetic Word, must always surround the nucleus of the primary mission – getting the gospel to the whole world. Prophecy cannot be consummated, we are told by the Lord himself until the gospel has been preached into the whole world:

“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Matthew 24:14).

There will be those who will want to argue that Jesus was talking about a different gospel. He wasn’t, and I’ll just leave it at that, without debate. Sowing the seed that Jesus alone saves the soul is our preeminent duty as we sojourn upon this fallen sphere.

John was told about the link of Bible prophecy to the all-important personage at the heart of the gospel message. The angel of God came to the old prophet, who went prostrate on his face before the angel:

“And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy” (Revelation 19:10).

Let us who call Jesus our Savior and Lord never stop watching Israel, the humanistic peace overtures that portend destruction, and all other signals of His any-moment coming for us in the Rapture.

But, let us never stop witnessing to the redemption and reconciliation found only through the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. We want as many souls as possible to meet the Lord in the air at that rapturous event.
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Good morning, my name is Pastor Adam Gislason with Great Adventure Ministries and it’s my great honor and privilege to be with you here again this morning filling in for your new pastor as he and his family are away this weekend attending a funeral.

Well, it hardly seems possible that its been almost three months since I was here last preaching on the subject of “Discerning The Times” for those of you who were here last March as we discussed, among many other things, all that was going on with the Global Economic Crisis, all that was going on with America, all that was going on with Israel and all that was going on with False Teachings and Movements in the church.

And it’s amazing to me as I stand before you today on this Memorial Day weekend in 2009, almost three months later, to think about all that’s happened with the Global Economic Crisis, to think about all that’s happened with America, to think about all that’s happened with Israel and to think about all that’s happened with False Teachings and Movements in the church.

False teaching continues to be alive and well in many churches today. The truth is under attack like never before and current events as they relate to Bible prophecy are accelerating with incredible speed, all pointing to this-that Jesus Christ could be coming back soon.

With all that is going on in our world today economically, politically and biblically-you can’t help but to think that we could very well be in the last days-that we could very well be the generation that sees events such as the rapture of the true church, the seven year tribulation and the second coming of Jesus Christ in bodily form back to the earth to set up His 1,000 year millennial kingdom that will eventually lead to the end of the earth and the beginning of a new heaven and a new earth described in Revelation 21-that’s what the Bible says. This world will not go on forever.

Quite frankly these are frightening times for those who don’t know the Lord. They are days filled with fear, days filled with doom and gloom. But for the Christian who’s truly faithful to the Lord’s command, who’s hope is in Him, these are exciting times because all of these things that are happening are all pointing to the return of Christ.

Now I’m not a prophet, I don’t claim to be a prophet, I am not the son of a prophet, but I do happen to work for a non-profit organization. I am not here to predict when the rapture will happen, when Jesus is coming back or when the world will end.

God could certainly hit the pause button or kick the can down the road if you will and time could go on past our generation and even future generations to come because afterall, it’s ultimately up to God and only He knows when all these events will take place. Many people through the years have thought that they were in the last days. In fact, even the disciples thought Jesus was going to come back in their life time and many since then have thought the same thing.

The bottomline is I don’t really know-none of us do. But I do know this-that we are closer than any other generation has ever been to seeing the second coming of Jesus Christ. These are exciting times folks if you are here today and you are Christian. And if your not, they are frightening times.

But I’m not here today to preach a message of doom and gloom. In fact, I am here today to preach a message hope. A message of edification. A message that will hopefully build you up and give you the strength to keep facing tomorrow no matter what comes, no matter what trial or tribulation comes your way-because make no mistake about it, unless Jesus comes back today, tomorrow will come. And personally I think we are in for some hard times ahead in America that we have never seen before as Christians.

From the Global Economic Crisis, to bail out after bail out, to ponzi scheme after ponzi scheme, to the most liberal president the United States has ever known, to the pressure on Israel to create a two-state solution, to Iran wanting to wipe both Israel and America off the face of the earth-I believe we are in for some hard times ahead.

And so today on this Memorial Day 2009, with all that’s going on in our world, it may be wise for us to take time to remember all that the Lord has done in the past. Because as we remember all that the Lord has done in past, it gives us great hope for the present and for the future-that the Lord is control of all that is going on-that He is not sitting on His throne in heaven wondering what’s going to happen next.

If you have your Bibles, please turn with me Exodus 12:1-42 (click here to read).

Each year, we set aside time to remember some of the important dates of our American history. Taking time to remember is nothing new and as we just read, it’s a practice that goes as far back as the Bible.

How many of you here this morning know the history of Memorial Day?

It occurred to me a few years ago that many of us who call ourselves “Americans” have absolutely no idea why Memorial Day even exists or the history behind it. Many of us “Americans” associate Memorial Day with a three day weekend, having BBQ’s or refer to it as a day that kicks off the summer. It’s a day that goes by for many of us each year without taking time to remember.

Memorial Day actually started many years ago and there are actually two different stories as to how it got started:

(1) In April 1863, in Columbus, Mississippi after decorating the graves of her two sons who served during the Civil War as Confederate soldiers, an elderly woman also decorated two mounds at the corner of the cemetery. An observer asked, “What are you doing? Those are the graves of two Union soldiers.” Her reply was, “I know. I also know that somewhere in the North, a mother or a young wife mourns for them as we do for ours.” This lady and a few others set in motion what became known as Memorial Day.

(2) The custom of placing flowers on the graves of the war began on May 5, 1866 in Waterloo, New York and Waterloo has been recognized by Congress as the official birthplace of Memorial Day. In 1868, General John A. Logan, then president of the Grand Army of the Republic, declared that May 30th would be a day to “decorate with flowers the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion.” After World War I, the day was set aside to honor all of the American wars and the custom was extended to pay homage to deceased relatives and friends, both military and civilian.

Memorial Day is a day then to remember and honor those who have given their lives in the service of this country. We have freedom today because of brave soldiers who didn’t mind dying for a country they loved.

Personally, I think we take both Memorial Day and our Christian heritage for granted. And when we as a people start taking things for granted, those things that were once important to us or somebody before us, soon get forgotten.

We too often as Christians take for granted that we are free from the penalty of sin today because a man named Jesus a little over 2000 years ago once became one of us and gave His life for us so that we could have ours spared.

We too often take for granted that in the Revolutionary War 33,000 soldiers died, in the War of 1812 7,000 soldiers died, in the Mexican War 13,000 perished, during the Civil War 980,000 men died, in the Spanish-American War 4,000 died, in World War I 320,000 U.S. soldiers gave their lives, in World War II 1,078,000 died, in the Korean War 157,000 soldiers perished, during the Vietnam War 111,000 of our men died, in the Gulf War there were 700 and to date in Iraq there have been 4,218 deaths for a total of 2,707,918 U.S. soldiers who have died over the past two centuries fighting for our country’s freedom. That’s right, our freedom-my freedom and your freedom.

Jesus said in John 15:13, “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”

I suspect that if we could really grasp the fact the God sent His one and only Son to die for us on a cross that our worship on Sunday mornings would go from mundane to memorial.

Memorials remind us of the present. You see without what Jesus did in the past, we would have no present. Taking time to remember the past propels us into the present. As we look back on what Jesus has done for us it gives us courage and faith to trust Him for our needs today. And let me tell you something-the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is not some limp-wrist weakling. Our God is a strong city and our prayer life is the meter that tests how strong we believe our God is.

So many of us live so defeated in the present because we fail to remember the past. The festival described in Exodus was a command from the Lord for the Israelites to do once a year so that they would remember how awesome their God was in both the past and present.

I hope none of you are here because you have to be or because your parents drag you here every Sunday. If that’s the case, you might as well stay home. Sunday mornings are not designed for people that have to be here, Sunday mornings are not designed to be seeker friendly, Sunday mornings are designed for believers who have had their lives transformed by the power of the cross who want to be here because they remember what Christ did for them. You see because of what Jesus has done in the past makes our present worth living. Deuteronomy 6:12 says, “Be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.”

Memorials remind us of the future. Deuteronomy 1:30 says, “The Lord your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as He did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes.” Nehemiah in chapter 9 is praying about the work of rebuilding the wall and how they are under attack. In his prayer he retells the story to the Lord of how He took them out of Egypt for a purpose.

And as Nehemiah closes his prayer he is so confident that the Lord will see them through because of the covenant (promise) that the Lord made to Israel in the past. It gave Nehemiah great hope in the future. And just as Nehemiah remembered that His God kept His Word, we too can believe in the same way. We often need a memorial to remind us of the promise of God to never forsake us. Jesus didn’t save us to leave us out to dry! He didn’t teach us how to swim so that we would sink!

The late Paul Harvey tells a story that sums up how we should be thankful for what has been done for us. Paul Harvey said it was gratitude that prompted an old man to visit an old broken pier on the eastern seacoast of Florida. Every Friday night, until his death in 1973, he would return, walking slowly and slightly stooped with a large bucket of shrimp. The sea gulls would flock to this old man and he would feed them from his bucket.

Many years before, in October 1942, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker was on a mission in a B-17 to deliver an important message to General Douglas MacArthur in New Guinea. But there was an unexpected detour, which would hurl Captain Eddie into the most harrowing adventure of his life.

Somewhere over the South Pacific the Flying Fortress became lost beyond the reach of radio. Fuel ran dangerously low, so the men ditched their plane in the ocean. For nearly a month Captain Eddie and his companions would fight the water, the weather and the scorching sun. They spent many sleepless nights recoiling as giant sharks rammed their rafts. The largest raft was nine by five. The biggest sharks were ten feet long.

But of all their enemies at sea, one proved most formidable-starvation. Eight days out, their rations were long gone or destroyed by the salt water. It would take a miracle to sustain them. And a miracle occurred. In Captain Eddie’s own words, Captain William Cherry (Cherry) who was the B-17 pilot read the service that afternoon and we finished with a prayer for deliverance and a hymn of praise. There was some talk, but it tapered off in the oppressive heat. With my hat pulled down over my eyes to keep out some of the glare, I dozed off.

Then something landed on my head. I knew that it was a sea gull. I don’t know how I knew, I just knew. Everyone else knew too. No one said a word, but peering out from under my hat brim without moving my head, I could see the expression on their faces. They were staring at that gull. The gull meant food, if I could catch it. And the rest as they say, is history. Captain Eddie caught the gull, its flesh was eaten and intestines were used for bait to catch fish. The survivors were sustained and their hopes renewed because a lone sea gull who was uncharacteristically hundreds of miles from land, offered itself as a sacrifice.

The blood of many fine soldiers paid for the freedom that we have today, just as the blood of the tiny lamb of the Passover paid for the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israelites. A price has to be paid for freedom and life and that price is the death of another. Someone or something has to die in order that we might live.

Our country’s soldiers died that we might have a life of freedom and Jesus died that we might have life eternal. In the story of the Passover, the blood of a lamb was marked on the doorposts and this caused the destroyer to pass over the households that were marked, thus granting them life. This represented the cross of Jesus Christ upon which the very Lamb of God would give His own life that we might live forever in God’s kingdom.

Our soldiers died for our country’s freedom and Jesus died for our spiritual freedom In John 8:36 Jesus said, “If the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” In John 10:10 Jesus said, “I have come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.”

Jesus paid for our spiritual freedom and gave us a crown in heaven when He died on the cross. There is no freedom without the shedding of blood. We should never forget our many soldiers who died for our freedom here in America and most importantly we must never forget our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave His own life on a cross that we might have eternal life. Amen.

Please carve time out of your schedules today to pray that the God of Israel would bless the meetings today, tomorrow and Wednesday between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, Defense Secretary Gates, and Congressional leaders. Given the high stakes in the epicenter, please pray that the Lord’s will would be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Yes, it appears a diplomatic train wreck is coming between the U.S. and Israel in the not-too-distant future given that Netanyahu understands Iran’s leaders are part of an apocalyptic, genocidal death cult and believe it is their God-given mission to annihilate Judeo-Christian civilization as we know it, and the American President and his team clearly do not. [Example: Gen. James Jones, President Obama's national security advisor -- appearing on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopolous" last week -- referred to "Israel's preoccupation with Iran as an existential threat." That's a curious choice of words to the rise of a Nazi-esque regime in Iran.]

• “Nothing is impossible with God.” (Luke 1:37).
• “The king’s heart is like channels of water in the and of the Lord; He turns it wherever He wishes.” (Proverbs 21:1)
• “Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.” (Psalm 121:4)
• “O Israel, trust in the Lord; He is their help and their shield….The Lord has been mindful of us; He will bless us; He will bless the house of Israel.” (Psalm 115:9,12)
• “Those who trust in the Lord are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people from this time forth and forever.” (Psalm 125:1-2)
• “For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His habitation. ‘This is My resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it. I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her needy with bread. Her priests also I will clothe with salvation, and her godly ones will sing aloud for joy.” (Psalm 132:13-16)
• “I know that You [Lord] can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.” (Job 42:2)

“Let your heart not be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.”

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Last week a new government report was released warning of the deteriorating financial condition of the nation’s two largest social safety nets: Social Security and Medicare. Thanks to the deepening global economic crisis, these two entitlement time bombs are now set to explode even sooner than originally predicted.

In my latest book, “Bankruptcy of Our Nation,” I detail the challenges facing America due to our failing entitlement programs. As of last year, the federal government projected that by 2017, Social Security would begin paying out more in benefits than it generates in revenues. Last week’s report shifts this date back one year, to 2016. Even more startling is the report’s finding that the Social Security trust fund itself will be entirely depleted by 2037. This is four years earlier than the last year’s projected depletion date of 2041.

As for Medicare, the outlook is even more bleak. According to this year’s report, Medicare will spend more on benefits than it takes in from tax revenues in 2009. And 2017, the Medicare Trust fund will be entirely depleted – two years earlier than last year’s projection of 2019.

To understand the full extent of America’s entitlement problem, one must have a basic understanding of America’s changing demographics.

According to U.S. government birth records, officially recorded since 1910, there are around 78 million Baby Boomers alive today. Each of these 78 million Americans have paid large amounts into government entitlement programs, most often through payroll deductions. Until now, these 78 million Baby Boomers have been funding the entitlement system for the current retirees.

But last year the story began to change as the first wave of 3.2 million Boomers turned 62. Each of them will be eligible under the current government standards to apply for early retirement benefits and to receive a monthly Social Security check for the rest of their lives. Instead of paying into the system, they will begin taking from the system. Later, in 2011, as this first wave begins turning 65, these citizens will become eligible for subsidized health care benefits under the Medicare system. Finally, in 2012, those of the 3.2 million early Boomers who opted not to take early retirement benefits will reach age 66 and will qualify for their full share of Social Security benefits. It is highly likely that a large majority of retiring boomers will take the early retirement option due to the perceived weakness in the Social Security system. And this first wave is just the beginning.

Over the course of the next two decades, the remainder of the 78 million Baby Boomers – or 10,000 people every single day – will retire and become financial and medical dependents of current U.S. taxpayers. They will all retire, and will all demand their fair share of the entitlement pie which includes an assortment of benefits, including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

These three entitlement programs currently make up more than 40 percent of the federal government’s annual budget. And this percentage is expected to increase dramatically as Baby Boomers begin taking from the system instead of giving into it.

So what does all of this mean to you as a taxpaying citizen of the United States of America? Well, I wish I had better news. The harsh truth is your nation is bankrupt. America has mortgaged its future and has sought to delay paying the bill for as long as possible. Unfortunately, a combination of poor monetary and fiscal policies, coupled with an entitlement-crazed generation, has led our nation to the precipice of disaster. And the fruit of this noxious combination will be tasted in just a few short years.

If all this sounds like it is going to cost the U.S. government a lot of money, you would be wrong. The enormous bill created by this entitlement crisis is going to fall squarely upon U.S. taxpayers. Hard-working, taxpaying citizens are going to foot the bill for the retirement and medical benefits for the largest group of senior citizens in American history.

Finally, to fully understand the financial pain that these broken entitlement programs will inflict upon our nation, consider the reality of our unfunded obligations. Many citizens are now aware that America has an unprecedented total national debt of $11 trillion. But you may be shocked to learn that this amount does not reflect what the federal government has promised to pay millions of Americans in entitlement benefits down the road. Those future obligations put our real debt figure at nearly $60 trillion – a staggering sum that is about as large as the total household net worth of the entire United States.

Ironically, America’s failed entitlement programs, created by politicians under the guise of aiding our nation’s citizens, will instead impoverish our children and grandchildren. While our leaders in Washington continue blindly down the path of excessive spending, they are adding astronomical debt loads to America’s economic burden. As the various entitlement systems collapse, big government’s answer will be predictable: massive tax hikes and more money printing. History is merciful in telling us where this will lead.

So what are you doing to protect yourself and your family from the greatest debtor nation in world history?

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From today until May 17, approximately 150 of the most influential members of the world’s elite will be meeting behind closed doors at a hotel in Greece. They are called the Bilderberg Group or the “Bilderbergers,” and you have probably never heard of them.

The group, co-founded by Prince Bernard of the Netherlands, has been meeting in secret every year since 1954. This year, says the British broadsheet The Times, they are meeting at the Nafsika Astir Palace in Vouliagmeni.

The individuals at the meeting come from such power houses as Google and the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Senate and European royalty. Governments, the banking industry, big oil, media and even the world of academia are amongst the Bilderberg ranks.

Those reportedly in attendance at last year’s conference in Virginia include former U.S. senator Tom Daschle; Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner and his predecessor Henry M. Paulson; former U.S. secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice; Microsoft executive Craig Mundie; senior Wall Street Journal editor Paul Gigot; World Bank President Robert Zoellick and Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

There is no official list of who’s who in Bilderberg and there are no press conferences about the meetings. This is because the group operates under the “Chatham House Rule,” and no details of what goes on inside are released to the press.

This secrecy has led to many claims that the Bilderberg Group are the world’s real “kingmakers,” and, some even suggest, behind the global financial crisis.

There are also rumors concerning Bilderberg’s 2008 conference in Virginia, claiming that the recent U.S. presidential election was decided upon in a secret meeting between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, courtesy of Bilderberg.

Those involved in Bilderberg reject such claims outright, arguing that the forum offers a chance for world leaders to discuss international affairs openly and honestly.

Former British cabinet minister, Lord Denis Healey, who was one of the founders of the group, branded assumptions of world domination as “crap!” and said that the group’s aims were much purer.

In an interview to journalist Jon Ronson of the Guardian, Healey said: “Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn’t go on forever fighting one another for nothing and killing people and rendering millions homeless. So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing.”

Veteran Bilderberg-watcher Daniel Estulin says that the big topic on the agenda for this year is the global depression.

Estulin quotes sources connected to the group as saying that the group is looking at two options, “either a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline, and poverty… or an intense-but-shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency.”

As the BBC’s Jonathan Duffy noted in 2004, the air of mystery has fueled the increasingly popular conspiracy theory that the Bilderberg meetings are where decisions affecting the entire world are made.

“No reporters are invited in and while confidential minutes of meetings are taken, names are not noted,” Duffy wrote. “In the void created by such aloofness, an extraordinary conspiracy theory has grown up around the group that alleges the fate of the world is largely decided by Bilderberg.”

Recently, mainstream press coverage of the Bilderberg meeting has grown, largely due to the internet. This year’s conference may have been covered by British broadsheets, but don’t expect to see any coverage from U.S. news outlets such as The Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post – they will most likely be at the conference.

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Prime Minister Netanyahu’s meeting with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 19 is simply the tradewind of a perfect storm; no matter how they smile for the cameras. The likelihood of Obama supporting an attack on Iran or Netanyahu’s quid pro quo benchmarks for a Palestinian mythological state is less than zero.

Obama’s secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, does not like Netanyahu. The Clintons did everything possible to marginalize him, and more, during his last term as prime minister. President Bill Clinton made some very unflattering remarks about him in the presence of Aaron David Miller, a Middle East negotiator. The White House spokesman at the time was Joe Lockhart, who described Netanyahu in an interview as…

“One of the most obnoxious individuals you’re going to come into – just a liar and a cheat. He could open his mouth and you could have no confidence that anything that came out of it was the truth.”

President Obama believes a Palestinian state will defuse most of the Middle East hostility issues. He has expressed support for speedy action since his first days in office.

The fact that the Palestinians refuse to recognize Israel as a Jewish state makes it impossible for Jews in Israel to recognize a Palestinian state. A greater proportion of Palestinians consider the destruction of the Jewish state a far greater priority than creating a state of their own.

Netanyahu supports a three-track peace process in which the Palestinians’ willingness to support the rule of law would come before economic considerations or land for peace. A Palestinian state with airspace, an Army and one that can make treaties with other Arab, Jew-hating states such as Syria, Iran, and Libya will never happen. Netanyahu would never support the Palestinians having an army, airspace, or the right to establish treaties with Arab states hostile to Israel. Netanyahu considers a Palestinian state without preconditions a “Hail Mary” pass. He believes the Palestinians and the majority of the Arab world hold to a “you stole our house” belief system, and will never be satisfied with a few “rooms.” He would prefer moving the ball down the field gradually.

Obama’s June 4th message of reconciliation to the Arab world is no coincidence. His Liberal Left and European allies are demanding a tough love policy which blames Israel for the region’s problems, and the quicker the U.S. distances itself from Israel, the more rapidly bridges can be built in the Islamic world. This is similar to the appeasement policies of the 1930s in Europe.

Obama made his feelings about the Likud Party, chaired by Netanyahu, quite plain during the election when he said,

“I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt an unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel that you’re anti-Israel and that can’t be the measure of our friendship with Israel.”

The president has invited leaders of Egypt and the Palestinian Authority to Washington in May and June. He has already met with King Abdullah II at the White House where he signaled he may be ready to put pressure on Netanyahu:

“I agree that we cannot talk forever; that at some point steps have to be taken so that people can see progress on the ground…and that will be something that we will expect to take place in the coming months.”

Obama indicated he might be prepared to link Israel’s behavior during the peace process with the considerable aid the U.S. gives to Israel. He said that what the U.S. can do regarding the Palestinian/Israeli peacemaking efforts is to create the conditions and atmosphere and provide the help and assistance that facilitates an agreement.

Obama, the most popular president since Franklin Roosevelt, does not fear American Jewry; 80 percent supported him and also contributed more than 50 percent of the Democratic campaign funding.

Netanyahu was not invited to meet during the AIPAC conference at which he wanted to speak. President Shimon Peres was welcomed with a media black-out when he met with Obama on May 5 while in Washington for the AIPAC meeting. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has clearly articulated the administration’s belief that it must link American efforts to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons to Israeli efforts toward establishing a Palestinian state. Netanyahu completely rejects this, and it will be a key issue during his talks with President Obama.

Thirteen years ago in 1996, Prime Minister Netanyahu said that a nuclear Iran would be the greatest danger the world would face. He warned that nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran would have dire consequences.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden hold similar views to Emanuel. National Security Advisor General James Jones recently assured a European foreign minister that, unlike Bush, Obama would be “forceful” with Israel. Even more shocking is the announcement from an assistant secretary of state, calling for Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

When I recommended Benjamin Netanyahu to Prime Minister Menachem Begin for his first government appointment in 1982, I clearly saw a man with moral clarity. He had zero tolerance for terror after the death of his older brother, Yonathan, was killed in Uganda during Operation Entebbe on July 4, 1976.

The chances of a love-fest on Tuesday are less than zero. It appears that the only diplomatic meal served will be barbecued Jew…no matter how sweet the appetizer.

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