Friday, March 22, 2013

PREVIEW? FORERUNNER? TEST?


    The president of the strongest nation on earth, a Western nation, paid his first visit to Israel, this week. For the entirety of his first term he did everything but refuse Netanyahu's phone calls. He visited every major Islamic country in the Middle East, bowing deeply in their leaders' presence, required by Muslims when approaching one of higher rank or greater respect. He did all this without taking his non-muslim wife.

    This time around, he appeared at Passover time, charming the Prime Minister and bringing him almost to tears, as he praised his son for his bravery. There was no mention of Pre-1967 borders, although the official White House website still boasts a map of the region that reflects those borders.

    He snubbed the Knesset in favor of what was called a 'hand-picked' crowd of college students, for his next major speech. Here he challenged them with a Saul Alinksy quote about the need of every society to hold their leadership accountable for what they [the citizens] want. It reflects the policy of governance from the ground, up.

    Then he went to Gaza, where he told those folks they need to 'get over it!' The 'it' is there condition for peace: Israel's abandonment of the "occupied territories.' This turn of events shocked the entire world! It enraged Hamas and it's fellow-travellors, caused Israel to wonder and the world to begin thinking in terms of a possible Peace Settlement in the Region.

    At the same time, the Western World was celebrating the installation of a new Pope! A pope from the Western Hemisphere, of Italian ancestry, who is a Jesuit! President John Adams wrote that no group was more deserving of hell, than Jesuits. What was his problem? Simple: Jesuits are committed, by oath, to the domination of Catholicism over the religious beliefs of the entire world!

    So...here we have a Western Political Leader charming the Israelis, offering the only viable alternative to the stale-mate that is The Palestinian Situation and a Western Pope charming the entire world with his magnanimous personality and commitment to the down-trodden and disaffected.

    Sound familiar?  I'm not prophesying the end of the world! However, it is very interesting and gives us a glimpse of how really easy it will be for a Western World Leader to be embraced by Israel, with the promise of bringing peace to Jerusalem. It also shows how easy the world will be accepting of a False Religious Leader, who comes on the scene during the Great Tribulation.

    One of the things Jesus told us, when He was here, is how the world will never see it [the end] coming, but how believers will be able to read the events and not be caught napping. One wonders if this isn't God showing His people just how easy it will be. Or....?

    One last interesting note: Our newest CIA Director was Jesuit-trained, as was the President of the E.U., while the Chaplain of the House of Representatives is a Jesuit priest.  Add to that St. Malacy's prophecy and, well you get the idea.   I'm just saying. 

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