We were in pretty rough seas in 2009 but governments of the world have given their citizens large dozes of sea sickness medication so  people are temporarily feeling better. Nevertheless, world Governments are about out of medicine and I think there could be at least fifteen more storms coming in 2010. Some of these storms certainly will rock your boat in 2010. Hold on tight to the anchor of your soul or you may fall overboard.

1. Europe may have an economic crises and a European Union crises due to unsustainable debt in European PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain).
2. The United States could go back into recession in the second half of 2010. Massive defaults on debt will soon follow.
   
3. A strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities and the aftermaths.
4. One or more major terrorist successes. Assassination of certain world leaders is even possible by domestic or foreign terrorists.
5. A war between Israel and Hezbollah or even a more widespread war involving much of the Middle East.
6. Catastrophic earthquake in America.
7. Unusual destruction from storms, floods etc.
8. Oil disruptions.
9. A run on fiet currencies.
10. Rebellion, riots and political change in America.
11. The total insanity in North Korea could bring a war.
12. A global trade war might come, driven by high unemployment in many nations in the world.
13. Russia forms a new union of nations that oppose the interests of the West.
14. Several top world Religions leaders die.
15. Some other unknown tidal wave that will surely rock your boat in 2010.

I guess you heard that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has said our federal national debt will be about $22 trillion by 2020. I think it will be many trillions higher than what they say but don’t confuse our government national debt with our government negative net worth. What we owe in debt and entitlements is now well over $70 trillion and is now increasing by $5 trillion a year.

The obligations we owe exceeds the whole gross domestic products of the world ten times over. People really have to be blind to the facts to think that we can ever repay these obligations in today’s dollars. So something radical has to be done. Entitlements like Social Security and Medicare have to be severely cut or the government will just have to print more money. If government cuts the entitlements it will mean old age poverty and health rationing and if  government prints more dollars to pay for the obligations the dollar will become rapidly worthless.

Our government knows these things about our entitlement debt. These pencil-neck geeks are not ignorant they probably are planing to save the day with both entitlements cuts and inflation. Nevertheless, such bureaucratic plans will fail because elected people still rule this nation. That could change very soon but that is the way it is now.

The health care bill is such a government high priority because health care is the largest part of future federal government budgets. Once government controls health care they will first try to control the cost by forcing cuts on health care providers. This will force many of them to stop taking Medicare and low ball insurance plans that pay only what the government pays. Then people in these programs will have a real problem finding a doctor so Government will then pass laws requiring all health providers to take their government set fee. Then the more expensive and best health care providers will go out of business and many good doctors will quit or retire. What remains will be a government run health care system like they have in Britain. There will be long waits to see mostly mediocre doctors most people will never ever get past seeing the nurse. The elderly, terminally ill and unproductive members of our society will be denied any expensive medical procedures or medications.

Government will intend to pay for Social Security by raising the age that you can retire and by raising the contributions that you and your employer put in. I also think they will want to limit cost of living increases. (They will probably want to give cost of living increases (of cooked inflation numbers) minus one percent). So if you live long enough after retirement you will slowly go into poverty.

I think government will probably want to keep the cooked official inflation at about 4 or 5 percent a year because they know if it goes higher it will completely shut down the economy making things worse. The actual inflation rate under their planning would be about 7 percent. So government pencil-necks might think that in about ten years the dollar would be worth about half of what it is today. Therefore, the debt obligations of the United States would be effectively cut in half in today’s dollars and cut to near 25 percent in just 20 years.

So will this “plan” to cut social costs and this inflation management “plan” work and will it keep the United States government from default? It could if it actually worked as planned but American people are not that passive and government debt will be much more than what the government is projecting. It always is.

Americans are a unruly bunch unlike the Brits. In order to pass this health bill and not have it ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court they probably should wait until this administration stacks the court with liberals. Right now it should not pass the constitutional test and even if it does it is very likely that there will be a political backlash in 2010 and 2012 that will repeal most of the health care reforms that they pass.

The health insurance companies are not going down without a fight and they have a very big lobby in Washington. The American people will soon  become enraged under any government run health care system and they will fire their elected officials.

There is also demographics to deal with. It will be almost impossible for government to pass anything that the baby boomers do not like. They have the votes. So real cuts in Social Security or other entitlements in the lifetime of the bulk of the “baby Boomers” is not a political reality.

So if we are going to live in reality we should know that on the government spending side there is not going to be any major cuts so everything will have to be done through inflation, but that is impossible without also bringing about a complete collapse of our system. Why? Because the debt number will be worse than the blind optimists or politician pleasing bureaucrats in government are conveying to their leaders.

The CBO says we will be 22 trillion in debt by 2020 but that is total nonsense. Their figures assume a growth rate in the future like what we had in the past but reality says that there is no way that there will be that kind of growth during the next decade. The policies of Obama have insured and will insure that there will  be little real growth for the next decade. Just look at the real world today; Every time there is good economic news oil prices go up and so does investor speculation creating new bubbles. Obama’s millions of green jobs are just not going to happen and every green job that is created will be at the expense of two jobs eliminated through higher energy prices and higher product costs. If the government would have allowed drilling when people were saying “drill here drill now” we would have much new oil and new gas coming to market in a few years. The liberals environmentalists are not allowing that to happen so any real growth will just be stymied by rising oil prices and more imbalances in foreign trade. If they pass CO2 laws that certainly will raise prices and slow growth for decades.

The government is also not telling you that by taking over Fannie and Freddie Mae and corporations like GM that they have put the taxpayers on the hook for what could be a trillion dollar loss. Banks also will not be required to write off there toxic real estate loans until 2012. Guess who will then bail out the banks?

Right now we are having a little growth due to a natural economic cycle, increased productivity, and the unprecedented huge government stimulus. With all this we should now be in a roaring economy by now but the recovery is so weak that many are predicting another recession next year. The stimulus nevertheless must end or the CBO deficit numbers are totally meaningless. But if the stimulus ends and If they allow the Bush tax cuts to expire it will certainly put us back into recession.  Besides that, housing has a long way to go before any recovery, commercial real estate is now crashing and many more banks will fail that hold these loans. There will be huge future bail outs that were not budgeted. The federal government has even passed a bill that put a few trillion dollar contingency fund on the books for the next bailout of financial institutions that are now too big to fail. Unemployment is going to stay high throughout the decade and government is going to continue paying 10 billion a month for unemployment benefits or see destructive riots. Federal tax revenues are also going to be far less than what they are projecting. Many states will have to be bailed out or else the states and local governments will have to raise their taxes. That would also make the economy weaker.  The CBO figures do not reflect all this, so government deficits are going to be much higher than projected.

So the actual national debt will be closer to 35 trillion by 2020 not the 22 trillion that is being advertised by CBO. Even my figures assume no new major wars and that Republicans gain control of government in 2012.

Having said that, I will still assume that there will be some growth in funds over the decade but I think any growth will be less than the actual inflation. I think growth in revenues will be less than 25 percent for the entire decade because of recessions.  Assuming there will only be 2.5 percent inflation in the decade due to recessions and surplus labor, the 35 trillion debt figure in 2020 is really 26.25 trillion in today’s dollars and that is the figure we should work with when doing the math. Higher inflation than what I project will allow our debts to be paid with dollars not worth as much but it will also raise the national debt that much more.

In 2020 the United States will owe 35 trillion dollars (26.25 trillion in today’s dollars). With a debt that large you would have to think that anyone taking such a risk to finance it would want more than just the inflation rate. Let’s use a very conservative figure and say investors will want a 6 percent return on U.S. treasuries in 2020 with the  massive debt risk we will be by then. That will mean our interest payment will come to .06 * 26,250,000,000,000 or 1.575 trillion in the year 2020 (in today’s dollars). Total federal tax revenue is 2.1 trillion dollars today. So just to pay the interest on the national debt in 2020 will take 75 percent of all federal income (compared to less than 10 percent today). With 75  percent of incoming going to pay interest on the national debt in 2020 the federal government would have to borrow about $2 trillion a year in today’s dollars just to continue government for another year. By 2025 we will have to borrow the entire budget for 2026. Lest you think that inflation will help these figures, they will not. If inflation goes above the 2.5 percent figure I used for the decade the interest rate and national debt will also go up accordingly.

Who will even lend this money to us in 2020 when they know by 2025 we would not even be able to make the interest payments on our national debt? It is clear that within ten years America will have to default or hyper-inflate making the dollar worthless but don’t expect the crises to come in 2020 either. It really could occur some years before that date. It will actually occur when it sinks in to those purchasing our debt that we are a huge credit risk. As soon as that reality hits the world we will be forced to default or hyper-inflate. Some think this could occur as soon as this year. Others think it will happen by 2012. It certainly will happen within the next ten years no matter who is elected to office.

By the way, We cannot change government and grow our way out of this debt crunch by cutting taxes because that would increase the national debt even more before we could even start to grow the economy. It took Reagan several years and trillions of dollars of increased debt to get us out of the Nixon Carter economic disaster. This time the creditors will raise interest rates and cause the debt crunch long before lower taxes could grow the economy and reduce the debt percentage on our GDP.

Here is more food for thought on the dire economic situation.

Iran and the solutions to Iran’s ability to produce nuclear weapons is the number one concern in the world other than an economic collapse but a military strike on Iran could also push the economy of the world over the edge or even start a world war that will rage from Israel to India and even beyond through terrorist related activity.

People who study the Iranian crises and those that study Bible prophecy have suggestions of how the Iranian crises may play out:

Some think that America or Israel will bomb Iran. That of course risks the scenario of an oil related economic crises and even a world war. It also would only delay Iran from getting nuclear weapons for a couple of years. Iran already has the nuclear knowledge and they will retain the knowledge in spite of any bombing. The only way to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons long term now by force would  be by an occupation of Iran. That is not likely. At least lets hope so, or welcomed to the start of world war III.

Others think we should turn up the heat by means of economic sanctions against Iran. Any rational thinking person should know that sanctions alone have never worked against nations run by tyrants and they are not going to work here either. China has oil agreements with Iran and Russia has strategic interests to keep Iran as an ally so Russia and China are not going to agree to any sanctions that would actually harm Iran. So, sanctions have zero chance of success and frankly I think everyone knows this. The pretense is just a facade being used as a delaying tactic to sideline those that want to bomb Iran yesterday.

Still others think we should do nothing and allow Iran to become a nuclear state thinking that Iran would then act responsibility. But the leaders of Iran have proven that they are irresponsible and quite frankly quite nuts. If Iran became nuclear all the nations around Iran would also become nuclear. Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt have flat out said they will develop nukes if Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons. All of Europe would be under the threat of a nuclear Iran and even the United States would be at risk from a nuclear EMP  attack or Iran sponsored nuclear terrorism. It also is not rational to believe that Israel could ever allow Iran to have nuclear weapons. So, obviously allowing Iran to possess nuclear weapons is not even within the realm of possibilities.

Obviously none of the above scenarios are an acceptable solution to solve the grave Iran nuclear weapons problem. So what is left? I have suggested on a earlier post that the solution could be an internal revolution in Iran to overthrow the Muslim theocracy and its appointed figure heads. Others then have suggested to me that this revolution is not going to happen because the tyrants have all the power. On Feb 11th we saw that the tyrants were able to stymie the opposition by filling the streets of Terran with the ten or twenty percent that still support the Islamic theocracy and also by trucking in hirelings from outside Terran to help suppress any opposition. The Western press was not allowed to see areas that were not under full control of the Islamics but in spite of what the Western media saw in Terran the Green Revolution in Iran is not dead.  There will be another day for the vast majority of Iranians that do not want a Islamic republic. What the Iranians really need is a catalyst for a revolution. Had there been pictures of people being run over by tanks there might have been a Revolution but the Mullah’s were careful  to not create martyrs on Feb 11th. They also did not allow free communications so the opposition had problems they did not anticipate so they lost round two to the Mullahs but there will be a round three. Either side could score a knockout in the next round or in any subsequent round because there are just too many unknowns for any prediction of outcome.

Anyway, short of a Iranian Revolution there is no good solution to the Iranian nuclear weapons program. America really cannot be heavily involved in any Iranian Revolution either because the people of Iran still remember the U.S. support of the Shaw. Even if the tyrants only have support from only ten percent of the people they are able today to keep the ninety percent in check. Its the same old story whenever tyrants rule and possess all the guns. They can control the sheeple with a small force. Unless the military rank and file turns against the Mullahs they will stay in power.  But, the prestigious and more highly paid Revolutionary Guard Corps are the threat that keeps the military under control.  This is a pattern with all tyrants they have top down control.  If anyone in the ranks dares to question anyone above them they risk getting killed or imprisoned. it is very effective control and it is active in Iran.

So again, what actions can we take against nations like Iran that are controlled by tyrants? We really cannot bomb Iran without risking dire consequences for the world and our over extended military already has more than enough fires to put out. So, maybe the United States needs to rethink its whole strategy for how to deal with nations run by tyrants?

When tyrants are in control the problem is usually not with the majority of the people of a nation. The problem is that the sheeple allowed tyrants to gain total control over them. So it does not make a whole lot of sense to war against people already oppressed by their bullies. The victims of the bullies should not be the enemy the bullies are the enemy. Therefore, we need to war against the tyrants of these nations. If we can eliminate the tyrants the oppressed people will gain control. So then the question in the case of Iran becomes how do we free the people of Iran from their tyrants?

I do not think it would be all that difficult if we used all of our high tech military capabilities and surveillance agencies effectively and give them the highest priority on this Iranian problem. We would strike only the head of this snake. That means we would not attempt to bomb the nuclear sites or the infrastructure of Iran or even the regular military. For if we did that we are going to kill many innocent people and instead of our actions bringing about an internal revolution against the tyrants there would be a war rally cry against the external invaders. So this operation must be done in top secret and carried out with surgical precision. We might take some lessons from how Israel gets their man. Here is how I think the operation could be carried out.

Operation Defang the Snake.

NATO would target the ruling mullahs, the puppet leaders, the Revolutionary Guard leaders and Revolutionary Guard military assets. For a number of months NATO would by every surveillance means possible follow and document the movements of all targets pre-determined to be hit. Their daily locations and habits would be plotted and recorded.   On a day known to only a very few with need to know NATO (mostly US forces) would hit their targets by every high tech means at there disposal. It would include massive use of U.S. Predators, cruise missiles, special forces etc. The entire operation to defang the snake would be completed in two or three days. There should be complete press black out on the entire operation. All communications in Iran should be blinded by EMP weapons or jamming. Even the Iranian people should not know what is happening in their country until the head of the snake is removed and defanged. After the defang operation is completed we would air drop green pamphlets in the cites telling the people that most of the tyrants that oppressed the Green Democratic Movement of Iran have been taken out by the Iranian resistance along with help of NATO allies of the Iranian people. It should tell all the Iranian people to take to the streets and overthrow any remaining oppressors and declare a secular Democratic Republic. At nearly the same time Iranian resistance leaders would be positioned by special forces in all the large cities and given the means to get out the message through electronic media.

As a side benefit just think of the fear this operation will put into other world tyrants and the high ranking supporters of  all such tyrants. It could be a new model to deal with nations run by tyrants in the future.

I know some teachers of Bible prophecy will say this revolution in Iran cannot happen because Iran comes with Russia against Israel in the Ezekiel war. It is true that Iran comes with Russia but looking at the almost feeble military of Russia today I think that the Gog war is still about two decades in the future. I am not talking about a fall of Islam in Iran as a result of this Iranian revolution but only that Iran will change into a modern secular run country until the time of the Gog war. If Iran’s nuclear facilities are bombed by Israel or America like some Bible prophecy teachers believe there simply is no way any time soon that Israel can be living in peace and security as described in Ezekiel before the Gog war. There will be no peace and safety while Iran is rebuilding its nuclear capabilities.

There really are only four options in my opinion.

1. The present leadership of Iran makes peace with Israel (that may happen when hell freezes over).

2. Iran is bombed and a more moderate government results and scraps the nuclear weapons program (But bombing is more likely to produce endless conflict).

3. Iran is bombed and is also occupied until near the time of the Gog war. (Who will occupy Iran? Certainly not us).

4. There is a internal revolution in Iran and a more moderate secular government scraps the nuclear weapons program for a peaceful nuclear program until the time of the Gog war.

In light of world events I think a Revolution in Iran seem to be the most likely scenario that answers how Israel can possibly be living in peace and security without fearing Iran if the Gog invasion actually takes place within the next twenty years like most Bible Prophecy teachers think.

There is one crises spot in the world that few dare speak about because they do not want to irk a fire breathing dragon. I am talking about China the once sleeping giant that is now economically devouring the world. While the whole world is mired in stagnation or depression the Chinese dragon is red hot. However, a deadly game of chicken will soon play out with the Chinese great red dragon when the world gets red hot over the Chinese driven unemployment.

The United States currently buys four times the amount of goods from China than China buys from the United States. This is not just a U.S. China imbalance it is happening all over the world and is one of the prime reasons for high unemployment all over the world. So as China moves its rice farmers to the cities to fill new factories the people in the rest of the world are losing their Jobs. Low wages in Chinese cities is still a better life for Chinese than they had in the country so the exodus to the cites for better living standards has become a stampede. China does not dare slow the transition because people are now conditioned to expect employment in the cities and rising wages. The huge expansion that has been going on at the rate of ten percent a year has to continue or there will be great social unrest.

In order to keep the expansion going the leaders of China have decided that they are not going to play by world free market rules. China is a true fascist state, everything in China is state controlled. The Chinese government is playing Chinese checkers with the world  but she wants to controls all the marbles. She keeps her currency way below true value in order to keep her products cheap and that makes it impossible for industries in other nations to compete. So they close up shop and build a brand new factory in China where they have endless cheap labor and do not have to pay benefits to their employees or worry about environmental laws. Therefore, they can undersell most products manufactured anywhere else in the world.

The workers of world are about fed up with losing their job to China. The only reason they keep buying the Chinese products is that Chinese goods is all they can afford on their unemployment benefits or welfare checks. The end result is more debt for nations that are subsidizing their people because their jobs departed to China.

This obviously cannot continue for many reasons. You cannot have a nation that hardly produces anything but consumes as if it had endless credit. Governments cannot keep paying out benefits when many nations are now very close to bankruptcy. Idol people without jobs do not pay taxes and they become an increasing drain on their governments. In addition, the government benefits given are not enough for people without jobs to have a decent quality of life so they are losing their homes and cars etc. Meanwhile, while family incomes fall the only thing they can afford to buy is more cheap Chinese goods.

So we have a bubble cycle. The Chinese make cheap products, they are increasingly employed but the world is increasingly unemployed. So the Chinese have to lend more and more money to the governments of the world so they can give it to their unemployed so the world can keep buying Chinese products. This bubble where governments continually owes more money to China should make their dollar fall against the Chinese currency and make Chinese goods more expensive and solve the imbalance problem. However, the Chinese government will not allow their currency to rise to achieve balance. Instead they hold ever increasing reserves of foreign debt.

It should be obvious that unrest from the unemployed in the world will soon turn all this into a Chinese game of chicken. The unemployed will soon force their governments to put tariffs on Chinese goods. Then of course China is going to want to take all the marbles home and if they do not get all the marbles they will turn over the economic game board.

It is obvious that this crises is going to play out because China is selfish and they will never have enough at the expense of others. When nations decide they must take action against China because China is not playing by the rules the Chinese will take the whole system down with them before losing face.

This very well could be the next world crises. A trade war with China or some economic action taken against China that gets totally out of control.  If China gets angry with the U.S. or believes the U.S. gravy train is coming to an end watch China move against Taiwan and even try to crash our dollar. With any economic bubble you either let the air out or it is gong to burst all at once. I think China’s leadership decisions will insure a burst.

But, on the other hand, if China does see the light and allows her currency to rise to the  full value needed to stop the imbalances. Expect everything in Wal-Mart to suddenly double and unemployment to soar in China. Of course that would mean inflation in the world and unrest in China because the Chinese are not going back to the rice patties now that Pandora’s box has been opened. This is also the reason why the Red Chinese leaders will not dare blink in this deadly game of chicken with the West.

How can there be any hope for America when many in America calling themselves Christians are also promoting and even embracing New Spirituality/New Age doctrines? We might expect that from unbelievers in America but we have people who claim to be Christians promoting and believing Satanic doctrines?

How did “Avatar” become the highest grossing move of all times without support from Christians in America? I know for a fact that “Christians”  support this blasphemous demonic move and tell others that they should see it because they liked it. Nevermind, that this film promotes New Age pantheism and is anti-Christ. Nevermind, that supporting these anti Christian movies just encourages others to make more of them.

Just throw in some eye candy or a little tickle of the ears and some “Christians” apparently will support the teachings of the Devil. They have no discernment and do not know the scriptures! Avatar is just the latest of many movies that distort and mock Christianity and promote demonic doctrines but New Age “Christians” are right there applauding in the new coliseums as the lions are set loose on true believers.

From Avatar and the Coming One World Religion on Lighthouse Trails website

Overall, the movie is strewn with ritualistic magic, communion with spirits, shamanism, and blatant idolatry as it conditions the audience to believe these pagan occult lies. In addition, the audience is led to sympathize with the Avatar and even ends up pulling for him as he is initiated into pagan rituals. Even the lead scientist becomes a pagan in the end, proclaiming that she is “with Eywa, she’s real,” and goes to be with her upon her death.

Given James Cameron’s track record of attacking Christianity, and specifically Christ’s resurrection in the roundly discredited documentary, The Lost Tomb of Jesus, it should not be surprising that he would write and direct a $300 million dollar propaganda piece that promotes the worship of nature and spirits.

Clearly, Hollywood has had a steady hand in turning America away from her conservative Christian roots to new age occult beliefs and practices. Pantheism appeals to the Hollywood crowd because it teaches that we are all God and that we need not be concerned about being obedient or accountable to a personal God who created the universe. However, it is not only Christ-rejecting directors who are seeking to get the world to embrace the worship of the earth under the guise of their imaginary Mother Earth Goddess; it is also the leader of the global warming movement himself, Al Gore.

With leading Hollywood directors and Washington political figures leading the way, America is quickly returning to the paganism that shrouded the world in spiritual darkness for millennia. May God help us heed the warning of the apostle Paul, found in Holy Scripture, who warned that the worship of nature in ancient times was the result of turning from the worship of the one true God who created nature in the first place:

No need for me to just pick only on Avatar the New Age paganism is now everywhere, It is even in the churches. How did the Twilight Series get so popular or the Harry Potter movies if American people do not want the occult? It is not just novels, there also are the “Christian” supported New Age teachings that are found in Books like “The Secret” and “A New Earth”. American Christians that watch Oprah makes her a big success and it does not seem to concern these New Age “Christians” in the least that Oprah promotes pagan doctrines that are contrary to true Christianity on her show.

Many of these same “Christians” also watch the TV prosperity teachers and attend their coliseums on Sunday where they throw truth to the lions for their own personal gain. Other New Age “Christians” go to Emergent Churches where they teach New Spirituality mysticism and make it acceptable by calling it contemplative prayer. They also subtly redefine Christian absolutes truths like sin, hell, and salvation to conform to politically correct universalism and pantheism.

Seems to me that “Christians” applauding the New Spirituality Movement are very ignorant of where this doctrine originated. Actually it originated with Satan in the garden and later became a religion in Babylon. The New Age version of this Babylonian religion was partly inspired by Alice Bailey and is now promoted by her many students. The New Spirituality Movement has become the new religious movement of hedonistic people that worship the created rather than the Creator.

Read what Ray Yongun has to say about this

In a manner of speaking, I consider Alice Bailey as an apostle of New Age occultism, and her writings as mystical revelations. She is telling the world the path it will be taking and how it is going to be done–in essence, a combined manifesto and blueprint. The fact that much of what she predicted has indeed actually happened gives even greater credence that her work really could be the design for the one Paul called “the son of perdition.”

Various church statements reflect Bailey’s dark prophecies that speak to the “revitalization” of the churches. Even now a recent Catholic dictionary states: “Current ideas about mysticism underscore that it is for the many, not just a chosen few.”11 An article in America, a national Catholic magazine, shows the result of this mysticism in regard to evangelization. The article, titled “Rethinking Mission in India,” states the spirit is active in Hinduism as much as Christianity and therefore both religions “are co-pilgrims on the way to fulfillment.” 12 The significance of this is clearly revealed in the following view from the same article:

Any claims to superiority are damaging. Religions need not be compared. All we are expected to do is to serve man by revealing to him the love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ.13

What is happening here is a complete turnaround regarding the meaning of evangelization. In truth, if you want to reveal to man the love of God, made manifest in Jesus Christ, you proclaim the blood of Christ for salvation! … [But] the view that Christianity is not the only religion that offers salvation fits the Merton/Nouwen notion of salvation rather than the one the apostles of the New Testament held.

Some day, and it could be soon, the Lord will allow the man of lawlessness to emerge. In the mean time, the world is opening its arms to wholly embrace a spirituality that will exist under the umbrella of mysticism. The correlating theme will be–we are all One. When the man of lawlessness does rise to power with a one-world economy and political base, he will seduce many into searching for their own Christ consciousness rather than the Messiah, Jesus Christ.

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Even many “Christians” claiming that they are following Bible prophecy are often really following New Age beliefs.

Dr. Hitchcock: All the 2012 hysteria can be traced back to José Arguelles back in 1987 when he came out with his book called The Mayan Factor.

He talked a lot about Harmonic Convergence at that time. After all, the real underpinnings of this whole 2012 phenomenon really is based in the New Age. In fact, this has been called by some “The New Age Eschatology” and the end time view of the whole New Age Movement. Just like the other religions of the world all have some view of how things are going to end. 2012 is from the New Age viewpoint.

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I hope this article will help Christians become very aware of two things.

First, much of Christianity in America is about one inch deep and that does not say much for the future of this nation no matter if the Left or Right is in charge running government.

Second, the world is being prepared for a New Age/New Spirituality Antichrist. The Antichrist will not be monotheistic.  He will honor the God of forces (Dan 11:38).  The lie of Satan from the beginning was that men can become like God. Thus the Antichrist will  claim to have evolved to fully contain the God force within himself.  In other words, the lie will be that God is a force and you become one with God when you attain Christ Consciousness.

So knowing these things any true Christian should stop applauding while other believers are being thrown to the lions in the new coliseums of the world.

I am sure Obama will spin his own scripted story of the state of the Union at his State of the Union Speech but the state of the Union is not going to be as stated by our lying politicians.

I think Americans should learn the real sorry state of the Union as painful as that news may be. The economy of the Union is not going to recover any time soon, in fact it is going to get much worse. The American economy is really going into an economic black hole. The link gives 20 darn good easy to understand reasons why we are not on the road to recovery.

In this second article Chuck Norris gives Obama and the state of the Union a grade of F. Norris points out at least twenty additional reasons why the State of the Union is on life support. I think most of what Norris points out in the article can be summarized in just one sentence. If Americans do not return to a Christian wordview and follow biblical principles and elect moral people there is no hope for America.

If that article does not get people’s attention Vox Day tells us about the Zombies that ate America.  The article is about the bankers that continue to rob the banks while they use a “no account system” that hides the fact that most of the banks are still going deeper in the red.

Now I also hear that government wants your 401K retirement account. That is the last great pool of wealth in America for government to tap. From the article it seems that Obama wants to make you use your 401K savings account to lend money to the U.S. Treasury.  Just think,… a national health plan like program for your retirement. I am sure you can trust our government to have the money for you when you retire. Gee…I wonder what happened to all the surplus money paid into the Social Security Trust Fund?

Here is food for thought… you can invest in treasury debt and get interest rates well below inflation and watch the value of your nest egg shrink each year. Or if the nation defaults on its debt or revalues the dollar you can lose almost everything all at once. It sounds like the perfect transfer of your wealth to government retirement system to me. That is the people you elected America!

If you read all those articles I think you should get the real picture about the real sorry state of the Union.  If  enough Americans actually learned about the state of their Union they might repent of their apathy and amorality and do something positive about it. If they do not, Amercians will soon be living in a failed state living under tyranny and persecution.

I have no inside information of any phase two where Obama will be thrown under the bus by “them” but I just have this gut feeling.

I never believed that an obscure Far Left Congressman with no achievements could get to power without the backing of “them” and I am not sure that “they” did not even expect Obama to help bring the nation to the dire straights it is in. After all, Obama is their own creation.

I think they always intended to throw Obama under the bus after he achieved what they expected of him but the Tea Party Movement and the Brown election might have now moved up the date. It now appears that Obama will not get most of their socialist globalist agenda passed so “they” just might move up the date of phase two of their agenda.  Hypothetically phase two is when they throw Obama under the bus believing that such action would turn America into the police state that they want.

Was Obama the created expendable patsy chosen as the sacrifice to bring in their greater global governance agenda through government dictated police actions? We may soon find out.

I cannot tell you exactly who “they” are but I do think “they” are powerful elitists that now are in control of most of the world and I believe they will do almost anything to bring about total global governance run by “them”.

I do not think “they” intend to have a democracy on the earth and if they bring in in their agenda threw democratic means it never lasts. “They” achieve their agenda quicker through conflicts and most of the world “they” control has a  ruling oligarchy not a republic or a democracy (e.g. EU, China, Russia etc). “They” are not people with horns sticking out of their heads. They might appear much like the Oprah’s of the world that seem so nice and well meaning but also think they have all the answers for the less evolved of the world. You see, “they” really intend to have a world that is totally controlled by “them”.

“They” actually believe that those that disagree with them are hindering a evolutionary leap forward for mankind. “They” think those who hinder them are expendable for the greater good. “They” despise and attack true Christianity because it gives freedom but “they” love religion because religion enslaves and is a means of control.

So why do I say that I think Obama is about to be thrown under the bus? These two articles might help explain why. The first article makes a strong case why Americans should be afraid. We are no longer the country that some people think we are. We are really just one step from a police state. There is no good outcome for America because the people living here have already lost their government to “them”.

Just imagine what “they” could accomplish toward their agenda if something happened to Obama? If “they” could pin it on actions of terrorists we could have world war. If they could pin it on someone identified with the Far Right in America we could expect riots in all the big cities followed by martial law and a police state. “They” also probably have enough on Obama to make him resign if they wish. Such a scenario where Obama is removed might be the plan for a complete takeover of America by “them”.

By the way, I also think Bush Junior was almost thrown under the bus but when George Bush Senior explained to him who was really running the world Junior chose to became one of “them”. That may have been the reason for his big Left turn in his second term.

Another reason I think they may soon throw Obama under the bus is that much of the nation is now catching on that their emperor has no clothes and is a liar This second article documents his lies. Obama will now become a liability to “them”. If Obama continues in office he is now likely to become a catalyst for a national movement back toward constitutional government. That is the last thing “they” want.

Like I said, I  just have this gut feeling, perhaps I will be wrong and Obama will be removed at the ballet box but somehow I do not think “they” are about to let that happen.

Pray for Obama and not just for his sake and the sake of his loved ones. Because if “they” throw Obama under the bus it will bring the worst outcome in the history of this nation.

Certain Bible prophecy teachers are saying certain things that can only be labeled as dangerous theology.

The dangerous theology I am talking about comes from subjective interpretations of the Parable of the Fig Tree mentioned in three gospels. The problem is that they teach their conjecture as truth and that is what makes it dangerous theology. When they say the Rapture has to occur before the end of next year based on their own subjective interpretation of the Parable of the Fig Tree they are teaching dangerous theology.

I am speaking of  those that say the Rapture has to occur by next year because of their conjecture that the Parable of the Fig Tree has to be talking about Israel’s rebirth in1948 and their conjecture that a generation or a lifespan is seventy years. They go on to say the Rapture would have to occur at least seven years before the seventy years are up so they say the Rapture has to occur by the end of 2011. Even worse are the ones who tie in pagan hype to come up with a 2012 tribulation. When once credible Bible prophecy teachers dogmatically set the final date for the Rapture or the tribulation they are on dangerous ground theologically.

If Christians actually believed what they are teaching as fact, the Church should do no planning for anything after next year. So if you believe them don’t build that church or start that Bible college. Why even go on with your Bible translating since you will never will get it done before next year? Everyone might as well just quit college and stop future planning for anything. Just go wait on a mountain top. Do you get the picture?  This date setting from a flimsy interpretation of the Fig Tree Parable is very dangerous theology. Thank God that most of the Church have not and will not buy into Rapture date setters.

What are those that are saying these things going to do when 2011 comes and goes and there is no Rapture? I already know. They will just change a lifespan or generation to mean 80 years and say the Rapture has to happen by 2021.

It is no skin off their nose because many already claim that a lifespan can be 80 years according to the Bible. But what about the people that actually believed your dogmatic teaching that the Rapture would occur before 2012? What about all those that will give up on Bible prophecy teachers because they once again prove to be wrong. Is it any wonder why in the last days some will mock and say where is the promise of His coming (2 Pt 3:4)? Every time some Bible prophecy teacher cries “Lion” and Jesus does not come at their call the skeptics of Bible prophecy grow in number.

I also have to ask the people that claim to believe these subject interpretations a question? Do you really dogmatically believe that the Rapture has to occur by next year? If you really do I certainly do not see any indication of that. There is no increased activity from Christians to get things completed by next year. Many of the Christians I am in contact with seem to be worrying more about an economic collapse in the United States, and for good reason. Why worry about that if you actually believe the Rapture will happen by next year? If you really believe the Rapture is coming by next year just send me your money you will not be needing it.

So, obviously such conjecture by Bible prophecy teachers do not really impact the lives of Christians anyway. So what is the point for giving gullible people false hope of an early escape? On some Bible prophecy forums all troubled people do all day is talk about their hope of escaping in the Rapture by next year. The need for escape even borders on faithlessness in my opinion.

Anyone see a parallel here with 88 reasons why the Rapture will occur in 1988? That well meaning but very wrong Bible prophecy teacher thought a generation was forty years. The fact of the matter is that we do not know that Jesus was talking about the birth of secular Israel in 1948 in the Parable of the Fig Tree .

A word to the wise should be sufficient, but will it be?

Had what happened in Haiti this week occurred on the same scale in America many people would be saying that Bible prophecy was being fulfilled. They would be saying that America was Babylon and it has now fallen. Haiti is not in Bible prophecy and neither is America but throughout history God has only put up with evil nations for so long.

Haiti has been a nation that has sold itself out to Devil worship through Voodoo for two centuries and the consequences have been turning what should be a resort Island into a hell hole with the lowest standard of living on earth. Eighty percent of the people in Haiti practice Voodoo mixed with Catholicism. In modern times Satanic Voodoo has been the official religion of those leading Haiti and they have been oppressing the people of this nation that are living under tyranny and spiritual bondage. America has even helped to prop up these evil leaders.

God gave Haiti plenty of time to repent and has sent in many missionaries to get leaders and the common people to give up Voodoo spiritualism for true Christianity but in the end most would have have nothing of it.

Now in one hour judgment has come on Hatti and many tens of thousands of people are dead and the port city is destroyed. Like most judgments of correction it can become a blessing in disguise if people of Haiti repent of their evil. This judgment can give Haiti a chance to break their bondage to Voodoo and build a  foundation for a new beginning based on the Bible. However, they must  heed the spiritual advice of the hundreds of Christian relief groups that will now be coming to Haiti to help them and they must give up their wicked religion. After all, what has appeasing demonic spirits brought Haitians besides poverty, misery, bondage and now total destruction?

America also can take a lesson from what occurred in Haiti. In one day our nation can be cast down as well, but in our case there will be few coming to help us. If America continues on its present course the outcome is inevitable. Also be aware that American Patriots and Christians who see these things coming on America and try to prepare and warn others will become enemies of evil people running our nation . They wish to control all that do not see things their way and they have a false view of who the real enemy of America is. It really is big government control freaks, corruption at the highest levels and Islamic radicals that hate us.

I just read a post that I really think gives a very good analysis of what would occur if there is a sudden break down of our own system. I think the article is well thought out. It gives the likelihoods that everyone should be aware of but it also gives astute preparations for survival. Just remember that after an EMP, a financial collapse, or a major earthquake, in just one hour we could find ourselves in a position very much like those living in Haiti today.

In the article I am not sure he has given enough consideration to a nation under martial law. If the government and police forces actually have the time to set up a command and control structure I see a police state running things and local networking  groups would not be calling the shots for very long.

I do think the churches would have a primary role after any major disaster because they are the most highly organized local groups in our nation. How much the churches would obey government rather than God depends on the church. If  many of our churches stay on Bible ground rather than becoming a muzzled arm of the state, it could be a great tool after a national disaster to bring much of this nation back under God.

Your input is invited but please read the three articles I linked to in this post to get the background information before you comment.

This administration has the audacity to blatantly commit high crimes and misdemeanors as if they are above the constitutional law of our land. They think that the American people are too stupid or too apathetic to do anything about it. They are in for a rude awaking when the inevitable backlash comes.

When enough people in this country catch on that criminals have been running this nation for quite some time there will be real change. The Tea Party is just the start of this “fed up with government” movement.  The latest batch of criminals in Washington seem hell bent on destroying this nation as fast as they can. It reminds me of what Satan will do when he is cast down unto the earth and knows his time is short. He will set out to destroy all flesh on earth through his anointed Audacity-in-Chief. I am not sure that the Far Left is not also deliberately trying to destroy this nation for its own end. The concept seems ludicrous but many on the Far Left actually hate everything America stands for.

Even so, there is no doubt in my mind that the Marxist fascists that are now running our government will lose control. They might even try a military martial law takeover after some real or created crises but the American military will turn against them in the end. America is not Europe there are many more Christians in America and America is still overwhelmingly conservative. The rank and file military are not going to go against the will of the vast majority of Americans for very long. Keep in mind that all in the armed forces swore to defend the Constitution when they enlisted.

The highest law of our land is our Constitution and we have a teacher of constitutional law as our own Audacity-in-Chief. Apparently he uses his knowledge of constitutional law to try to make it say what it clearly does not. He is a postmodernist. He is like the liberal preacher that reads the Bible and picks and chooses only the passages that support his own Far Left ideology. In fact we know that Obama does that with the Bible or he would not be legalizing immoral practices. So it should be no wonder that he does the same thing with our Constitution.

Nevertheless, as hard as the liberals try to redefine the words of our constitution there are too many other documents written by our founding fathers that make the meaning of the words in the constitution absolutely clear. They did not write a living document like Obama and these liberals want to claim. They wrote a constitution founded on absolute biblical truths. You can no more redefine the Constitution to what you want it to say than you can honestly redefine the truths found in the Bible. Some will try but they are heretics.

I think the Democrats know how much time it will take to challenge all their unconstitutional actions through the courts and they think by that time they will have a Supreme Court packed with liberal clones. Even if that turns out to be the case, the majority of the people of this nation will have had enough by that time. There are provisions in the Constitution for out of control tyrannical government.

There have been a lot of unconstitutional actions by prior federal administrations as well, but they never had the audacity to make it as obvious as they do under Obama administration and the Far Left. Obama has the audacity to not even attempt to hide hiring liars, tax evaders, perverts,commies and freaks in his administration. He promised he would have an open administration but everything is being done in secret behind closed doors and critical details of legislation are hid from the public in thousands of pages of legalize. The hate bill was passed by attaching it to a critical funding bill for national defense. The people doing this are scum suckers they should be tried for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Liberals might even ask what is unconstitutional about our federal government actions? I would turn that question around and ask the liberals what Constitution is this government following?  They are not following the America’s Constitution that retains to the states and the people what is not given to the Federal government by the states and the people. The liberals rather than follow the Constitution are following the plans of Marxist and Fabian socialists that already control much of the rest of the developed world.

Just the other day Obama modified an executive order that will allow international police forces to operate with impunity on U.S. Soil?? That is unconstitutional! I won’t get into all the ramifications that this single action means against the rights of all Americans. You can check into this yourself here. Here is another view of this ongoing inner attack on the United States.

Did you know that at the same time that they were ramrodding the unconstitutional health bill through the Senate they also passed another 4 trillion dollar bail out provisions for the banksters . The next time they need a bailout the law to give them trillions of dollars is already on the books. Who gave the congress the authority to give away taxpayer money to private banks? The American people have been robbed more than once by congress and banksters. The latest robbery of the taxpayers bailed out bankers and selective corporations. It was clearly unconstitutional.

The Health bill that will force people to buy health insurance or pay a fine is clearly unconstitutional. For government to dictate a federal health plan over the health plans of individual states is unconstitutional. For government to make special deals with certain states at the expense of people in other states is unconstitutional. To force people to buy insurance or pay a penalty is unconstitutional.

Our government has been running  undeclared wars contrary to the Constitution for many decades. Will it ever end? Our annual defense spending is larger than the next 25 nations combined.

The hate bill that was recently passed is also unconstitutional. It makes a mockery of justice just to appease those who want to believe perversion is normal. I do not think government should be in our bedrooms but I do not think perversion should be acceptable in a civil society.

Government forcing the teaching of doctrines of perversion to our children in schools is unconstitutional.

Our whole monetary system  is unconstitutional.

Our tax laws are unconstitutional. Our tax system is a means of funding many other unconstitutional actions and is used to redistribute wealth.

The Democrats intent to pass unconstitutional cap-and-trades laws and the EPA is now setting up unconstitutional rules to control carbon dioxide that has nothing at all to do with global warming. This carbon control is not about global warming at all. It is about setting up rules and regulations for global governance, greed, power, and wealth transfer.

The federal government intends unconstitutional control over all water in this nation. That gives them unconstitutional control over almost all land uses.

The federal government wants unconstitutional controls over everyone’s farm animals.

The federal government unconstitutionally took over major financial institutions and industries in their to big to fail scheme. They dictatorially decided what corporations lived and died.

Our trust funds have been robbed by the federal government. There is nothing in them but IOU’s. Social Security and Medicare were to be insurance funds for people who pay into them all their lives. They were not to be a piggy bank for the government to rob. Those who allowed the robbing of our trust funds should be tried for high crimes and misdemeanors. Now taxpayers will have to foot the bill again to pay the cost of these entitlements that the government robbed.

Many Federal laws break the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. The U.S government now resorts to what can only be described as extortion to force states to comply with unwanted federal mandates.

Federal government taking ownership over state lands is unconstitutional. The Federal government claims to own over half the land in some sovereign states. Then they dictate to the people of the state the land uses allowed.

The Federal government is ever eroding our freedoms of speech and religion and they will certainly try to take our guns if they can create a believable national emergency. I am not talking about a false flag, although anything is possible with these people. More likely with Obama in charge of national security and him showing weakness to our enemies he knowingly or unknowingly invites an attack so that martial law could be declared.

The unconstitutional private Federal Reserve is creating vast amount of money out of thin air to pay for all the bailouts and guarantees and that will soon make the American dollar nearly worthless. Our own government will not allow the Federal Reserve to be audited because they do not want the American people to know the truth.

Do you know that the next agenda of the Democrats after the Health bill is to provide a way for illegals to become U.S. citizens? They also intend to pass a Universal voter registration bill that will unconstitutionally supersede all state laws. Everyone on any government dole roll will automatically be signed up to vote. They would include illegals and criminals (actually illegals are criminals). I guess the fact that most of these voters they want to get registered would vote Democrat is just a coincidence. Anyone really think that this administration will not take radical action to stack future elections?  What next, mandatory voting for those on government assistance?

The government drug wars have militarized the local and state police forces of this nation and have done nothing but make drug trafficking more profitable while eroding the constitutional rights of all Americans. The drug wars have zero chance of success but they will lead to a police state. We already have 2.3 million people in prison most for drug crimes. America has by far the highest incarceration rate in the world and the inner cities are still controlled by gangsters and drugs are everywhere. The fact of the matter is that Government cannot enforce morality without become a police state. Is that really what Americans want?

The only peaceful outcome of all this that I see is if the Tea Party movement regains control of government and puts it back under the Constitution before the Democrats bring the nation to open civil war.

I have been sitting here listening to Brannon Howse interviewing world trend forecaster Gerald Celente. It was one of the most interesting interviews I have heard in a long time. Celente is not a prophet so what he says will not necessarily take place but I think you would have to be foolish to discount all of what Gerald Celente is saying. The man certainly calls them like he sees them and he does not pull his punches.

Trend researchers study today’s current events that will bring tomorrow’s effects. I see much the same things as Celente coming but I am not as sure of the timing as he is.  Celente has a whole staff  to analyze all the issues and he has had a very good track record in predicting world trends. That is also why Gerald Celente is now a very hot item on talk shows. Celente sees the crash coming in 2010 so if you believe he really knows what he is talking about there is little time left to prepare.

Here are some highlights of the Celente interview, at least that is what I got out of listening to the program, but listen to the Celente interview yourself if you can spare an hour.

• In 2010 there will be a major terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11 because we continue to make many new enemies due to our foreign wars and also because WMD are getting easier for enemies of America to obtain.
• The attack will bring the world into the greatest depression because governments do not have any more resources to advert it.
• Even if there is no attack there will be an economic collapse in 2010 for any number of reasons.
• There will be a run on the banks and the government will close all the banks for a period of time to devalue the dollar.
• America is now under the control of banksters and the military industrial complex.
• America is under fascism.
• There will be major social breakdown in the big cities. There already is in some cities.
• People need to come up with a plan for how they will get through the coming crash and disorder.
• Martial law and the loss of more rights will take place.
• A false flag operation may take place.
• A huge anti immigration movement will take place all over the world.
• A third party will form in the US in 2012 and change government.
• Secession movements will grow and the United States will eventually break up into smaller nations.
• If  America or Israel attacks Iran it will be the start of World War III.
• Saudi Arabia is involved in a war in Yemen and oil installations in Saudi Arabia may now be at risk. Should an attack occur on a Saudi oil field it could spike oil prices enough to cause the economic crash.

I hope everyone had a great holiday season with their family and friends and hope you all will have a joyful new year in Christ.

We have arrived to a new year and a new decade and I know 2009 was bad for many but 2010 will be worse.

Here are seven things to consider in 2010. They are likely to impact us in one way or another.

1. We probably should start in the house of God. How long will God put up with those on TV speaking in his name?  Christians have been putting up with the rats in our Christian TV for quite a long time. It is high time to clean out these vermin nests before God does. For decades I have been calling Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) The Blasphemy Network because I think that name is much more fitting. I have not watched TBN for some years but from what I hear it just gets worse and worse.  Dr. John MacArthur decided to give TBN a look-over when he was recovering from knee surgery. MacArthur is not one to mince words and he did not in this article he named the Unholy Trinity. The article has been re-posted all over the Internet so you may have already read it. If not, I suggest that you and all Christians read it and take heed and stop supporting these “Christian” TV heretics. They are giving a false gospel to millions and hindering the work of the Church in these last day.  Here are a couple of clips from MacArthur’s article.

I’m outraged at the brazen way so many false teachers twist the message of Scripture in Jesus’ name. And I’m frustrated because I’m certain that if these charlatans were not receiving a large proportion of their financial support from sincere believers (and silent acquiescence from Christian leaders who surely know better), they would have no platform for their shenanigans. They would soon lose their core constituency and fade from the scene. Instead, religious quacks are actually multiplying at a frightening pace. One thing I discovered to my immense displeasure is that TBN is by no means the only religious network broadcasting poisonous false doctrine around the clock. The channel lineup I receive includes at least seven other channels whose schedules are filled with false teachers and charlatans. There’s The Church Channel, Daystar, GodTV, World Harvest Television (LeSEA), Total Christian Television, and several others. Some of them feature blocs of family television programing and a few fairly sound teachers who provide moments of escape from the prosperity preachers. But all of them give prominence to enormous amounts of heresy and religious claptrap—enough to make them positively dangerous. And TBN is singularly responsible for kicking that door open so wide.

TBN is by far the leading perpetrator of that lie worldwide. Virtually all the network’s main celebrities tell listeners that God will give them healing, wealth, and other material blessings in return for their money. On program after program people are urged to “plant a seed” by sending “the largest bill you have or the biggest check you can write” with the promise that God will miraculously make them rich in return. That same message dominates all of TBN’s major fundraising drives. It’s known as the “seed faith” plan, so-called by Oral Roberts, who set the pattern for most of the charismatic televangelists who have followed the trail he blazed. Paul Crouch, founder, chairman, and commander-in-chief of TBN, is one of the doctrine’s staunchest defenders.

The only people who actually get rich by this scheme, of course, are the televangelists. Their people who send money get little in return but phony promises—and as a result, many of them turn away from the truth completely.

If the scheme seems reminiscent of Tetzel, that’s because it is precisely the same doctrine. (Tetzel was a medieval monk whose high-pressure selling of indulgences—phony promises of forgiveness—outraged Martin Luther and touched off the Protestant Reformation.)

Like Tetzel, TBN preys on the poor and plies them with false promises. Yet what is happening daily on TBN is many times worse than the abuses that Luther decried because it is more widespread and more flagrant. The medium is more high-tech and the amounts bilked out of viewers’ pockets are astronomically higher. (By most estimates, TBN is worth more than a billion dollars and rakes in $200 million annually. Those are direct contributions to the network, not counting millions more in donations sent directly to TBN broadcasters.) Like Tetzel on steroids, the Crouches and virtually all the key broadcasters on TBN live in garish opulence, while constantly begging their needy viewers for more money. Elderly, poor, and working-class viewers constitute TBN’s primary demographic. And TBN’s fundraisers all know that. The most desperate people—”unemployed,” “even though I’m in between jobs,” “trying to make it; trying to survive,” “broke”—are baited with false promises to give what they do not even have. Jan Crouch addresses viewers as “you little people,” and suggests that they send their grocery money to TBN “to assure God’s blessing.”

That’s not all. Almost no false prophecy, erroneous doctrine, rank superstition, or silly claim is too outlandish to receive airtime on TBN. Jan Crouch tearfully gives a fanciful account of how her pet chicken was miraculously raised from the dead. Benny Hinn trumps that claim with a bizarre prophecy that if TBN viewers will put their dead loved ones’ caskets in front of television set and touch the dead person’s hand to the screen, people will “be raised from the dead . . . by the thousands.”
Ironically, one doesn’t even need to be an orthodox Trinitarian in order to broadcast on the Trinity network. Bishop T. D. Jakes, well known for his rejection of the Nicene creed in favor of oneness Pentecostalism, is a staple on TBN. Benny Hinn has repeatedly attempted to revise the doctrine of the Trinity in novel ways, notoriously teaching at one point that there are nine persons in the godhead.

And yet evangelical church leaders typically show a kind of benign tolerance toward the whole enterprise. Most would never endorse it, of course. They may joke about the gaudiness of the big hair and tawdry set decorations on TBN. Ask them, and they will most likely acknowledge that the prosperity gospel is no gospel at all. Press the issue, and you will probably get them to admit that it is a dangerous form of false doctrine, totally unbiblical, and essentially anti-Christian.

Why, then, is there no large-scale effort among Bible-believing evangelicals to expose, denounce, refute, and silence these false teachers? After all, that is what Scripture commands church leaders to do when we encounter purveyors of soul-destroying substitutes for the true gospel:

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2. I think 2010 will be worse because it will be the year when people realize that there is not going to be a easy fix for the economy. In spite of the hype coming from government and Wall Street there really is no was to avoid a full fledged depression or hyperinflation. I think this article called 2010 will be worse explains it very well. Here are a few clips.

The year 2010 is likely to be the pivotal year where pundits stop referring to the recession and begin openly talking about a depression.

Our economic problem is rather simple to describe: There is too much debt relative to income and/or wealth. Below is a single graph that depicts the condition of our economy. It shows total debt of the U.S. as a percentage of GDP from 1870 forward

The government has decided that the cure for too much debt is more debt. This solution cannot work, especially when credit is already so overextended. Income and wealth cannot support present debt levels. Credit will adjust back to the mean, regardless of what the government attempts. Whether this is via orderly payment or via default, the reduction in debt is inevitable.

There are only three possibilities with respect to meeting 2010 funding needs:

• The Fed continues its QE beyond their planned cessation in March 2010.

• The Fed raises interest rates to levels that would attract the capital necessary to fund government operations via conventional credit markets.

• No Fed action is taken. That would cause the government to default on some of its obligations.

None of these alternatives is attractive. The unpalatable choices arise from prior Fed and governmental policies. To avoid recessions over the past fifty years, the government abused and then finally exhausted all reasonable options. After years of mismanagement, the government is in a quandary of its own making from which there is no escape.

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Other events that may make 2010 worse than 2009.

3. The Middle East is in real danger of a major war this year. There are many things that could spark this war with Iran and Hezbollah being the chief concerns. If a regional war should happen this year I expect it to rapidly turn into a world war against all radical Islam. The wild card is if Iran has a revolution or Hezbollah uses its power to fight against the Lebanese government instead of Israel. These developments could slow Iran’s nuclear ambitions and weaken the Israeli opposition and delay the world war a few years.

4. People are dying all over the world because of  unusual cold and  governments are still planning to tax us to pay for imagined carbon caused global warming. I think this may be the year that people of the world will finally wake up. We may see a backlash against this tax and power grab by globalists. The tar and feathers might appear in the not too distant future.

5. I do believe several successful terrorists events will be carried out in the United States in 2010 and Obama will take the heat.

6. I think there will be unrest and riots in many nations in 2010 and possibly even in the United States

7. It might not be all bad  in 2010. The Far Left controlled house and Senate might get a rude awaking this year when people rebel against the unconstitutional Health Care Bill the unconstitutional reckless bail-outs and many other unconstitutional actions of Federal government? Watch the progress of the tea parties and state rights legislation.

Imagine if you wake up tomorrow morning and the electricity is out and your heat is off. You also have no water or telephone service. You find your neighbor and then he locates an old battery operated shortwave radio that is still working and then you hear this:

An EMP has occurred high over the United States from a nuclear explosion that is believed to have come from a missile from some unidentified ship and the entire electrical grid in America and parts of Canada is down.

Official United States government sources could not say when anyone in the United States would have electricity again. Experts say if the damage to electrical generation equipment and electronics is as severe as some officials fear it could take many months before electricity is restored in many parts of the United States. They say even if  little damage was done to the electrical generation equipment it will still take weeks to get most of the grid back up.

Riots and looting are taking place in many cities and martial law is declared throughout the United States. The Department of Homeland Security has nationalized all local police forces and said that looters will be shot.  Everyone but critical emergency responders are told to stay home. Americans will be given further instructions as to………….”

I bring this EMP discussion up again because yesterday a person brought to my attention that nothing is being discussed on the Internet about what people should do to prepare for the aftermath of an EMP attack.

I wrote about the subject of  the possibility of an EMP attack in a series I wrote called Imminent dangers to the United States. Any one of the six dangers I wrote about in that series could be the reason why America is not in Bible prophecy.  I wrote about this EMP danger in 2006. Now almost 4 years later the danger is growing and still very little has been done to insure that the people of the United States could survive an EMP. If you think the EMP danger is not a real threat, read what commissioned experts said before the Senate in a 2004 hearing on the EMP threat. Very little has been done since that report. Vital infrastructures are still not protected from a EMP event.

So there is a real possibility that one day you will wake up and find out that you are in an extended black out.  What would you do? What are you now doing to prepare for such an event. Did God guarantee Christians an interrupted supply of electricity? One might see how suddenly God could judge this nation by just allowing this to happen. Within days social order would break down in the mass panic to acquire  food, water and energy.

I have to admit that I have done little to prepare for this very real danger myself even though I wrote about it. My excuse is that several physical changes of location has made preparations for such an event nearly impossible for me. I do know that this EMP threat is a very real possibility within the next decade. It is probably more likely than not. Experts have said the same thing. However, people in California also know that the big earthquake is coming soon but they still live as if it will never come. Ancient Israel thought judgment would not come upon their generation even after being told it would by prophets of God. I guess it is just human nature to believe that disaster always falls on someone else.

Anyway, I plan to do more preparation as soon as I can figure out what it is that I should do. That is where you people that are preparing come in. We need to hear a preparedness discussion on what you are doing to prepare for the aftermath of an EMP attack. Or for that matter anything that might bring about civil disorder in this nation. Even an economic collapse would bring that. What do you think Christians should be doing to prepare for the inevitable decline or fall of this nation?

Now don’t just tell us that God will provide because you choose to continue to live in Laodicean apathy on your own secure hill top while the enemy is climbing the cliff that you think protects your rear end (true story of Laodicea). There were also believers in the land of Israel that were taken captive to Babylon when Israel fell. If God takes his hand of protection off of America it is not going to be pleasant for Christians living here either.  Therefore, lets have a preparedness discussion from those that are actually doing or contemplating doing some survival preparations.

What preparedness have you done for the aftermath of an EMP and what advice do you have to help others survive an EMP attack?

Just reading about what is going on in this nation and the world and churches each day is enough to make the blood boil of real Christians and real American patriots.  I am learning how Lot felt when the Sodomites took over the land and how Martin Luther felt when he came to realize that the Roman Church was run by the same den of vipers that crucified his Lord. I am also beginning to understand the feelings of Patrick Henry that said, “give me Liberty or give me Death”. He would be saying the same thing today to our government of pimps and queens that want to run a collective communist Borg ant farm here. But do the the people of this nation say give us liberty? Nooooo. They say give us a king! We want “O” king like all the other slave nations.

Does a day go by where some pimp of Satan does not attack the very foundations of Christianity and still claim to be one of us? Go to most “Christian” book stores and see what kind of books are on display.  People cannot get enough of the words of Emergent and Word Faith pimps and those pimps who tell them how to woo the world.  The Christian book store has become The Shack filled with books on pop psychobabble and  postmodern deceptions. Most “Christians”  buying these books obviously are not looking for truth they want a book that will tell them what they want to hear. Mostly they want  to follow a king of their own imagination even if they call him Jesus.

What pimps let the Word Faith hucksters, healing clowns and false prophets take over Christian TV? It is the people that send in their seed faith money and give to get and think some trinket sent to them will actually bring them a blessing from God.  Those who do this are worse than the Christian apathetic. You people have become pimps of con artists that are actually mocking true Christianity in front of the world but many of you are supporting them because you are greedy yourself. Your motivation to give is to get. Praying to God for your lusts did not work so you think you can appease God with abominable offerings given to the latest high priests that are very likely Satanic. These hucksters see Christianity as a means of wordily gain and you pimps enable them to continue to fleece the flock because you believe the King can be bribed or manipulated to do your will. I do realize that Christian sheep can be gullible but after decades of these blowhards doing the same things over and over you have to wonder why certain Christians never acquire any discernment at all. They even put the king of cons Jim Bakker back on his throne and he is proving that a dog returns to his vomit, but the people say give us a king! Next, you same people will go to a Todd Bentley rerun.

At the political brothel I see that Obama gave himself a B+ for his performance in office so far and he said he will change that to a A- if a health bill passes. What kind of loon grades himself? Obama gets a F+ in my school of thought. That is Probably closer to the grades he will not disclose before the elite located Rosemary baby and sent him off to Harvard. He is well on his way to destroying this nation. But hey, you can’t just blame Obama. The majority of American people were gullible or apathetic enough to vote for him to destroy their own nation. Many just voted for him because he is brown (real depth in these people). So if a nation chooses to commit suicide by saying, give us a a minority King even if he is not qualified! That is the choice they made.

Have you read about the new rules for our solders in Afghanistan? Seems Obama and staff are going to make sure that more of our men  get killed by making them fight with one hand tied behind their back. Why do we keep repeating the mistakes of Vietnam all over again? Could it be it is because the lefties that are now in charge never fought that war and never learned anything? Most of them were hiding in Universities and in Canada.  So now our nation becomes more likely to prosecute our own soldiers then terrorists. How much longer will our military put up with this administration? If the commander-in-chief were a real king instead of a pimp for the globalist communist elite he would be leading the charge and not tying his men’s hands. It is almost like they want to lose the war on terrorism while putting on some facade for the American people.

Speaking about wars, Are you ready for the carbon wars that are coming? That is the war of the near future when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with or without congressional blessings starts regulating all carbon (CO2) in the United States.  EPA now tells us that carbon dioxide is a deadly gas. Nevermind, that we need more of it if we want a greener plant. Nevermind, that there is absolutely nothing that we can do about 97 percent of it because it occurs naturally. Termites produce more CO2 then humans. But are they going  to war against termites? Noooo. They are going after humans and cows. Lets get real! All this global warming hype is nothing more that a scam to bring in total government regulation of everything on the planet and scientists and bureaucrats pimp it because they profit from it. Nevermind, that it is a crock! Nevermind, that when the EPA starts enforcement with the loony carbon regulations that they are now drafting that the few jobs that remain in this nation will depart for the third world. The only people in our nation that will benefit from carbon regulations will be government and lawyers, or in other words, the “O” king the pimps and his court.

Did you know that no matter what Congress does on global warming that the EPA already has a mandate to regulate everything that emits more than 250 tons of carbon a year. Then EPA says out of one side of their mouth that they have no intentions to regulate anything under 25,000 tons when they really mean they will not get down to the 250 tons unless they get the money and staff to regulate the rest. You can be sure that Government will be involved in everything since 85 percent of everything bought and sold has carbon. What will you get out of this? Cleaner air? Noooo…, how about much higher costs for everything that you buy. You might as well start burning your money because when global warming regulations kick in the government will just give away your money to corporations in India or somewhere else. The real goal of these communists (and that is what they really are) is a level playing field where everyone in the world has the same income and global government rules over all. They really could give a cow’s fart over global warming, it is just a means to an end. Globalists are communists that think that everyone on earth in the collective ant farm should work for the Queens and the workers should only exist for the queen’s pleasure and only live at her pleasure. So now you know why they have secret meetings open only to the globalist communist elite queens and their pimps.

So keep living in mindless apathy and you can be sure that George Orwell will soon be regarded as a prophet. A few see where all this is heading and are warning others but what could the prophet Samuel of the Bible do when the people said give us a king instead of give me liberty under God? Many people today are the same. They want to be like all the other nations (Godless). In today’s world that means they will become ruled by the elite communist queens in the collective Borg until Jim Kirk and the aliens comes to the rescue.

1 Sa 8:4   Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
5  And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
6  But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
7  And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
8  According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
9  Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
10  And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
11  And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
12  And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
13  And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
14  And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
15  And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
16  And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
17  He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
18  And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
19  Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
20  That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

Vox Day in this article on the dire sign of Dubai implies the default of Dubai World is just the start of the unraveling of tens of trillions of dollars in world debt. The article contains a pretty compelling graph as it compares world debt to the 1930’s and world gross national product.

The problem with excessive world debt is not limited to the United States. That is why those who just think only the dollar is going to crash are short sighted. The whole world banking system is going to fail. Many nations have been spending way beyond their means. Now everyone with major investments owns the IOU’s of the world not just the debt of the United States. Most banks and investment companies owe far more money than their assets are worth today if they had to sell. They are hoping that if they can hang on to these investments long enough they will regain their value. That is just wishful thinking. One day soon a fire alarm is going to go off and and everyone is going to run for the exits at the same time. When that happens expect worldwide martial law and a world full of wars when many nations try to secure tangible resources by force.

A prime example given of the dire debt situation is this article that questions if Britian is also on the brink like Dubai. I think Britain is on the brink, but you could take this article and insert the United States, Japan, Spain, Mexico, or many other nations and most of what is said in this article would apply just as well to them. The whole world is on the brink. Like Fox Day seems to suggest in his article above about two-thirds of the world debt is never going to be paid. Think of the implications of that for the standard of living of people everywhere.

Another article in Asian Times online, “Dubai, Debt and a return to reality”, By Chan Akya, gives a pretty clear picture on what is happening in Dubai and why the world debt implications will not be limited to Dubai.

I have read worse horror stories today than these three articles, but even though they might come true they are more speculative, so I will pass on the more conspiratoral nightmares.

The bottom line is really this:

I wrote on the world debt problem ten years ago and updated it earlier this year. Everything I said in that article still applies and is happening before our very eyes. Do not believe the latest nonsense that the world financial crises is over and that we are now going into a recovery. We are just going further in debt and the massive debt burdern will just make the next crises far worse than the last. With the debt hanging over the world the economic depression has hardly even begun yet.

The world debt is like a house of  paper cards with IOU’s written on them. Dubai is only one IOU that was taken out but that card may be super-glued together and put back in to keep the house up a little longer, However, there are countless other IOU cards coming due and each of them can bring the house down if it is not promptly remedied.  Soon world events will bring a strong breeze and the temporal repairs will not hold, and then the whole house of debt will come crashing down. Perhaps the breeze could be an attack on Iran or a war on the sub-continent or just more massive defaults. Who really knows?  But, sooner or later people are going to realize that there is 35 trillion dollars in excessive debt in the world and realize that those IOU’s can never be paid and then there is going to be a real world panic.

The world across the board is in worse shape than the early 30’s after the stock market crash of 1929. Remember that the crash of 29 did not cause the world depression it was excessive government spending and debt as compared to their GNP that caused the depression. Everything that followed including World War II was just the inevitable consequences of certain people that thought they could regain their good life of excesses by finding scapegoats and taking the resources of other nations.

The economic collapse today cannot be averted because professional politicians that run our most prosperous republics have to please those who get them elected and re-elected. Therefore, they will never make the hard choices and will continue to approve massive new spending programs. They will do all they can to ease the pain in the nation until the next election by borrowing but they know full well that the end results will mean higher taxes and stagflation for generations. As if those generation could even pay the interest on the debt that they are racking up but this is increasingly unlikely

I gave the only real solution at this point for the United States in my last post.  So there is little point in repeating it again. In short, the solution is to default on our own debts before the other nations do and go back to a constitutional government and constitutional monetary system rather than become perpetual slaves of international monitary power brokers that have been driving the world to the brink for their own idealistic purposes of world government and a world currency. They certainly could not run the world any better than they run their own homes and nations so why even buy into the world goverance lie?