Will the Antichrist come to power after an EMP over Europe and the United States?
I almost fully agree with Hal Lindsey on this EMP issue. A couple of years ago I wrote that an EMP attack is the number one imminent danger to the United States. This danger has been reported to Congress by their own hand picked committee of experts. They reported to Congress that an EMP would send our nation back to the dark ages for months or even years. The link to that report is in my article. Guess what? Against the committee’s advice not one thing as yet been done to harden our electric and electronic infrastructure.
By the way, it is not just Iran that is a threat. North Korea can also attack us with an EMP. Not to mention that China and Russia have this technology and their capabilities are tried and tested. It is even not out of the question that it could be done by a terrorist group that got their hands on a few nukes and a few scud missiles. We also cannot rule out a massive solar flare on the sun. If one should occur like the one that occurred in the 1800′s our present economic downturn would be the least of our worries.
These people are not stupid so one wonders why they will not take any action to minimize this grave threat. It really is not that expensive to harden our critical infrastructure so I do not see cost being the issue. Can it be that some at the top levels of Western government are downplaying an EMP because they really want an EMP attack? I know that sounds a bit like the Jericho TV series, but what other sane explanation is there?
Why would some at the highest levels in the Western world order see a use for this? Because it would bring a break down of society and that would give them the excuse to use the military to take complete control of the Western world. Where I disagree with Hal Lindsey is that he said, very few military weapons systems would survive. Actually almost all of Western military hardware is hardened against an EMP. If the systems were not hardened they would be useless under conditions of nuclear warfare so even our Soviet era weapons are hardened against a nuclear pulse. So although a EMP could bring civilian infrastructure to a complete halt it would not significantly effect Western military capabilities at all.
So read up on this and think about the riots and disorder that would occur after an EMP over Europe or the United States. But, perhaps the military will be coming on a big white horse to save the day and Western civilization. Sounds almost Apocalyptic huh? Well maybe it is – at least for Europe. This crises could bring the military leader riding on the white horse that will be the future Antichrist. It also could be the reason why the United States is not in bible prophecy. The Military here might have ran into resistance in certain states. They may have started a civil war.
EMP attack: Overlooked catastrophe
An EMP attack by Iran on Israel, the U.S. and EU would overnight send the most technically developed nations on earth back to the middle of the 19th century. All our electrical grids would be destroyed. There would be no communications by satellite, TV, radios, telephones; no transportation as we know it, no water, no fuel, no electricity, no food, no stoves, no heat, no air-conditioning, no functioning hospitals, no elevators, no law and order, no computers, no banks, very little work force. In addition, there would be very few military weapons systems that would work.
In the light of this, we should immediately begin to make back-ups for our most essential infrastructure systems. We should shield as many critical electrical systems as possible as fast as we can.
At the same time, we should do whatever is necessary to stop Iran from getting nuclear bombs. Expensive? Yes! But not nearly as expensive as it will be after an EMP attack. I believe that if we don’t do something immediately, that attack will come.
Don Koenig founded www.thepropheticyears.com website in 1999 after almost thirty years of independent study on the Bible and learning from many astute teachers within Christendom. Don created his website to write about Bible prophecy, biblical discernment and his Christian worldviews. Don wrote a free Revelation commentary ebook in 2004 named "The Revelation of Jesus Christ Through The Ages". The World and Church and Bible Prophecy section of this website was started in 2007. 
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Interesting theory though I don’t really have a strong opinion on this. I’ve read elsewhere (e.g. http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/11/14/213023.shtml) that there are nuclear bombs already in the U.S. that have been planted there by terrorists even before the 9/11 attacks. I don’t know if that’s true. If it is true I wonder what these supposed sleeper cells are actually waiting for. Then again there’s still those rogue states out there who are developing nuclear weapons.
Brian T. Kennedy from the Claremont Institute (see http://www.missilethreat.com) has written an article on the Wall Street Journal on the EMP threat. You can read it http://tinyurl.com/EMP-threat. I’m glad there are some people out there who are doing all they can to inform the public on this. If the government won’t listen then maybe the people will. Of course there are always people downplaying serious threats, some even denying there is an Islamic threat at all and claiming the islamic Jihad is simply a response to “Western imperialism.” The sad thing is that this communist propaganda is accepted by many and taught in the public schools and universities by far leftist academics and teachers who themselves are the product of brainwashing and self-hatred. On a sidenote, it is encouraging that a leading and reputed newspaper like the Wall Street Journal is willing to publish this and that it is backing Wilder’s right to his views on the Islamic threat.
Having said that, North Korea is going to test their Taepodong II missile again since the 2004 attempt went totally wrong. It’s likely they will succeed this time. The missile is believed to be able to reach as far as Alaska. The second Bush administration’s policies toward North Korea have failed miserably. At first the country claimed to have given up on their nuclear program. They were taken off the black list and some time later North Korea officially resumed its nuclear program. Clinton backs Japan on the abduction issue and wants a denuclearized North Korea but at the same time they still want to listen to the North Korean madmen and engage in diplomacy with these people. It should be clear by now that the North Korean government isn’t intimidated by any of this and will simply go on what they’re doing for as long as there are Islamic and communist terrorist organizations or rogue states out there who are willing to buy their nuclear and other military technology. Syria and Iran are among them. So it looks to me like this is going nowhere. These people are looking at North Korea as an isolated problem while it really is just part of a broader problem. Also see http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/KB13Dg01.html for more on this.
I do not believe that the story that there are nuclear bombs planted in the U.S. is credible. Nuclear weapons have a shelf life. If there were such suitcase bombs in the U.S. these weapons would be so aged that it would be extremely doubtful they would even work. Also, you know as well as I do that if they had such weapons they would have been used by now.
Dirty nukes are much more plausible since nuclear material could be brought in anytime but there is a huge difference between dirty bombs and a bomb capable of nuclear fission. The theory that there are working nuclear bombs from the old Soviet era in the hands of terrorists is now about dead in my mind. The real future threat from terrorists is that they get their hands on weapon grade material and build their own crude nuclear bombs or they get live bombs from Iran, Pakistan, and N. Korea.
I read the link on the EMP threat that you provided but I do not not totally agree with what he said. He thinks the only defense against an EMP is an antimissile defense system. I do not think that anything we have now or anything that we will have in the near future could would prevent a launch into the atmosphere off of our coast. Any nation attempting to use a IBM from their own nation would just be committing national suicide so I don’t see that possibility happening except in an all out nuclear war.
The only real defense is to harden critical electronic and electrical infrastructure. It is not that hard to do since they only have to be protected from wave pulses. If they started building shielding against a pulse into all new critical electrical generating equipment and electronics it would not add much to the cost and in a decade the danger of a national catastrophe from an EMP would be gone. Spending a few billion in prevention is a billion times better than reaping the consequences of an EMP with the unhardened infrastructure that we have now.
In the end we will reap the folly of decades of appeasement of the mad cult running N. Korea. The really insane thing is treating these insane people like they were sane. Nobody knows what a brainwashed cult nation will do. They at any time might just decide to drink their nuclear Kool-Aid. Even if they do not launch out, at some point Japan is going to feel threatened by N. Korea. Japan can become a major nuclear power in just a few years. If the U.S. has to withdraw from most of the world for some reason a nuclear Japan is a certainty.