From
the desk of
Bill
Ramey
2/30/16
COMMENTARY
& OPINION
SPECIAL
ANOTHER
LOOK AT REVELATION
I recently published an article which declared boldly,
"The Book of Revelation was not Written by the Apostle John". Is this true or is this more of the end time deception? I have long felt and shared with readers that
there is something very wrong with the book of Revelation. It simply doesn't all ring true. There are things that simply don't compute. But does this mean we should rip that book out
of our Bibles and discard it? We need to
ponder this carefully.
Was it merely happenstance that the counterfeit "Jews"
were prophesied in chapters 2 and 3? Is it
more happenstance that the first five seals of Rev 6 are opened and it would seem
the stage is set for #6 to be opened very soon?
Is it more coincidence that the "Image of the beast" of chapter
13 is now controlling the earth through money and military? Can we deny that "....all the power of the
beast", (Roman Empire), was bequeathed to the second beast of Rev 13:12?
There seems to be more than coincidence involved in
the fulfillment of the prophetic utterances of the book of Revelation. What I begin to suspect is that the author Cetinthus
had the original writings of John and used these as the core of his writing of the
book of Revelation. It would seem that the
truth is seldom overturned and supplanted by myth in one generation. Idolatry is a "soft sell" which takes
decades. We can see the cycles repeated in
Israel during the times of the judges. What
is the missing ingredient that allows those relapses into idolatry? An ongoing righteous king! That ingredient is about to be supplied and Israel
is about to be restored in the land promised to Abraham and they will be required
to complete their commission of introducing the Creator to the gentile world. Have we the vision to see the stage being set
for this today? Isn't this the vision promoted
by the prophets of old?
Daniel showed us an overview of history before it happened
and the efforts of historians to discredit his prophecy serves only to underscore
it.
Habakkuk introduces us to the image of the beast and
shows the indictment against this rogue government and their demise. Jeremiah spells out that demise in considerable
detail and the prophet Amos puts the lie to the Christian myth embodied in the New
Testament that "...every eye will see" the Messiah at His return. The prophet Isaiah shows us that it will be an
undercover operation to rescue a few of His own from "Babylon" before
the world is apprised of His return.
Can this really be?
Can the world of religion be that wrong?
If you have been reading the past Commentaries and checking up on what you
have read, then you know the answers to those questions. We live in a world that has lost the meaning of
truth. And it has been this way for millennia. We live in a world totally given to idolatry to
the point that they feel that the phallic symbols atop their houses of worship are
showing their godliness. We live in a world
that is totally deceived as we see in Rev 12:9.
We live in the final generation of this age as we can see in Matthew 24,
Mark 13 and Luke 21. We live in a time unprecedented
except perhaps by the "...days of Noah". We live in the time when this world, under the jurisdiction
of Satan, has already been "...weighed in the balances and found wanting". We live in the time of the end of the age ---
but not the end of the world.
If we know these things, what are we doing about it? If we know these things, is it because we have
been given a "...love of truth"?
If we have been given, and received,
a "...love of truth", then we will follow the truth wherever it leads
--- even when that turns out to be something we really didn't want to know.
The prophet Ezekiel was sent to the house of Israel,
(although he was not allowed to go), with a message from the Creator. He was told that they were a stiff necked people
who would not listen but that he had to tell them anyway. It would seem his message was put into writing
for Israel today. It goes without saying,
not everyone who has been given a love of truth has received it. (See II Thessalonians 2:10).
March
30, 2016 · 2:43 pm
History and human nature display the certain doom for any
semblance of an American Representative Republic from ever returning. Rome’s Fall would be a better fate for us than
what is now coming.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat
it.” – George Satayana
““When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and
now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then
might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story. It is as old as the
sibylline books. It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness
of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness
to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion
of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring
gong–these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.” – Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 2 May 1935
To quote the scriptures to emphasize the point the two men
above made if you believe that God is the same yesterday, today and forever:
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you
have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you
have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. – Hosea 4:6
Because America has not only forgotten God and declared His
Laws and Ways to be evil, criminal, racist and discriminatory, it has also the notorious
distinction that the bulk of it’s citizens and populace totally ignore history and
human nature as completely irrelevant to them.
They see no reason to understand history outside of the revisionist pap being
taught in every public school about how rotten this nation was at it’s foundation.
They do not care that the Republic has been fundamentally
transformed into a despotic tyranny of which they are comfortable. As long as Breads and Circuses are constantly
maintained, it does not matter which emperor the factions clamor for: Caligula or
Nero, Trump or Hillary – the end-result is exactly the same: ruins. Willfully discarded by their own people for the
empty promises of hope, change and greatness by those whom intend to rule, rather
than govern.
The following essay opines that the best-case scenario for
America at this point, is the fate of Rome.
A lot of people, especially Millennials with degrees in Intersectional
Climate Change Gender Studies, may not know it, but there is a way to anticipate
what’s going to happen in the future. It’s not perfect, but it helps you make educated
guesses about what’s next. It’s called “History,” and apparently no one in our ruling
class has ever heard of it.
Roman history is especially applicable to America and all
of Western civilization. The Romans had a good run, but then their moral, political,
and cultural weaknesses grew insurmountable and the empire fell. Not all at once,
mind you, but slowly – Rome fell long before the barbarians showed up at the city
gates and started looting. Rome was powerful enough that its unworthy inheritors
were able to live off the corpse for a few centuries before its enemies finished
it off. In fact, Rome today still lives off the past. You go to Rome today primarily
to see the ruins, and to shake your head over what the Romans just threw away.
The first phase of Roman civilization was the Republic, with
something like a democracy (at least for some people) but with a definite rule of
law, formal and especially informal. Noble Romans dedicated their lives to upholding
these informal norms and values, the mos maiorum
that formed the foundation of their society. The elite had its indulgences, but
the expectation of a young noble Roman was that he would be highly educated, that
he would serve Rome in its Army, and then move into politics and continue to serve
in a series of governmental and diplomatic offices. And, if it came to it, he was
expected to die for Rome.
But human nature asserted itself and the Republic became unstable,
as factions developed and the mos maiorum was put aside for the sake of expediency.
Populist politicians arose and agitated for the rights of regular Romans; the patricians
were scandalized and fought back, sometimes killing the populist leaders. Eventually,
some cunning Romans figured out that the armies they had been entrusted with were
useful for more than crushing Rome’s foreign enemies. Sulla and then Caesar, frustrated
by the checks and balances of the Republic – neither of them was a check and balance
kind of guy – used their commands to take power. They were emperors in all but name;
after the patricians tried one last time to reassert the Republic by getting stabby
with Julius, the empire was born.
And thus began a period of glory that was in reality merely
a blip in the long trend line downward. With the Republic gone, there was an imperial
bureaucracy to take on many of the responsibilities citizens had once personally
undertaken. The defense of Rome was outsourced to barbarians, who were allowed into
Roman territory but never integrated. That, of course, went poorly. But Republican
Rome’s inertia was strong enough to propel the Western empire on for another five
centuries before it finally collapsed in exhaustion.
And now our civilization is likewise demonstrating its own
shortness of breath, with Europe a few decades ahead of us on the downslope. Europe
is utterly exhausted. It believes in nothing – its churches are empty and that hopelessness
has translated into a demographic death spiral. Europe does nothing new and merely
feeds off of the fading triumphs of the last century. Its politics are frozen in
a cycle of failure even as the barbarians it unwisely invited into its midst establish
their own internal kingdoms. The elite is no longer composed of citizen-soldier-politicians
in the mode of the ancient Roman patricians, or even the modern Winston Churchill.
Instead, it is all bland bureaucrats, terrified of losing power and using their
regulatory cudgel to squelch the unrest by marginalizing the unsatisfied and outlawing
the speech of the uncooperative.
But while the elite obsesses about stomping out “racism” and
“sexism” and “cisnormativity,” the real enemy slaughters Europeans at will. But
pretty soon the surviving Europeans’ waning survival instinct will kick in and they
will notice that Muslim terrorists are not running free in Putin’s Russia. Then
they too will reject the chaos of their failing Republic for strongmen, and their
course will be set.
Here at home, the left has tossed out our own American mos
maiorum, with Obama leading the charge to disregard the norms and customs that
he finds far too constricting. Obama is the poster child for the ruling class’s
decline. He is poorly educated – internalizing your commie prof’s clichés and lies
does not make you educated even if your degree says “Harvard” – and utterly without
any personal investment through service to his country (Obama in the military? That’s
a laugh. Do they make camo mom pants?). Of course he has no respect for our norms
and customs – he does not know anything about them and he has no personal investment
in them. He has no business running anything, as he has amply demonstrated during
perhaps the most damaging presidency since James Buchannan’s.
Led by pedestrian street agitators like Obama and his equally
undistinguished cohort of leftist allies, the left has gleefully chipped at the
foundations of our American Republic, not understanding that our society is not
static. They cannot disregard the rules and expect the rest of us to keep obeying
them. Oh, some try – the GOP establishment’s supine response to Obama can be understood
as a desperate gambit to try and preserve the old ways. They hope – without basis
– that Obama is merely a blip and that after he flies off into his narcissistic
sunset in a gas-guzzling jet things will go back to normal. Their strategy is passive.
They want to wait him out.
But the rest of us don’t want to wait and see if that happens.
We want to respond. And that’s why we have two very different candidates promoting
two very different responses. We have Ted Cruz, who is promoting radical action
to return to the American Republic, with a focus on the Constitution. He is the
true American mos maiorum candidate.
And then we have Donald Trump, who cares nothing for norms
and customs and embraces raw power much as Obama and the left do, only he promises
to protect the interests of a different constituency. He’s a would-be Caesarean
strongman/savior, though to analogize him further to Julius Caesar is to insult
the concept of analogies. Trump is a vulgar fool milking phony populism for power,
best understood as a particularly tacky Graachi.
Unlike them, Trump is both ignorant and a coward, but like them, if he does get
elected president, he will be cut off at the knees by the patricians of the establishment.
Hillary Clinton is an even more anti-Republic candidate. Like
Trump and Obama, she cares nothing for anything but power. Another sub-par mind
trading off her degrees from a half century ago, this unaccomplished, bitter harridan
lacks the wisdom to chart a course that avoids aggravating our society’s already
gaping wounds. Instead, she’ll pour salt into them for no reason other than her
own delight at asserting power, gleefully poking at normals with initiatives like
forcing women to accept men into their bathrooms and trying to disarm the law-abiding.
Inevitably, she will be stunned when she finds her actions greeted by a reaction
she cannot control, and the American Republic will disappear as her rule by power
is replaced by her opponents’ rule by power. Oh, we may get a good emperor or two
along the way, but history tells us how this story ends.
Someday, after the gloom of the next Dark Age clears, some
tourist from a society that has rediscovered liberty will look at the ruins of the
Capitol and shake his head at the fools who did not realize what they were throwing
away.
Ramey comments:
The author of the above article seems to be a person of average
intelligence and one has to wonder why he hasn't seen through the myth of the fall
of the Roman Empire. Since he doesn't see
through that myth, his entire thinking is colored by it.
The Roman Empire did not fall and you can prove that to yourself
by checking any encyclopedia under the article "Byzantine Empire".
This is simply one of the many myths we have been raised with
and promoted to keep the populace from learning the identity of the fourth beast
of Daniel 7.
The "Fall of the Roman Empire myth" was promoted
some 1300 years after the supposed event and was published by Edward Gibbon in 1776. Now if that date rings a bell, it should, because
it is when the U.S. became a nation. "The
Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" was published as a smoke screen to hide
the Vatican involvement in the creation of the USA. We have been a "Vatican puppet" since.
But their reign of terror is almost over and will meet it's
end in this generation. You have seen that
in the pages of these Commentaries.
April 1, 2016
China Invokes Feared Russian
Defense Pact, Orders Attack Subs To US West Coast
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
An
ominous Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating
in the Kremlin this afternoon states that earlier today the People's Republic of
China (PRC), for the first time
in 15 years, invoked Article 9 of the Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship (FCT) notifying the Federation
that it has begun “offensive/defensive”
military movements to protect its vital national interests—that include the immediate
stationing off the western Pacific coastal region of the United States a flotilla
of attack submarines.
According
to this report, China’s invoking Article 9 of this treaty comes less than 24 hours
after President Xi Jinping issued a blunt “warning
of war” to President Obama stating: “China
will firmly safeguard the sovereignty and related rights in the South China Sea
and will not accept any freedom of navigation as an excuse to undermine China's
sovereignty and national security interests.”
Article
9 of this treaty, this report explains, states that: “When a situation
arises in which one of the contracting parties deems that peace is being threatened
and undermined or its security interests are involved or when it is confronted with
the threat of aggression, the contracting parties shall immediately hold contacts
and consultations in order to eliminate such threats.”
In
the formal PRC government document invoking Article 9 of this treaty, delivered
under diplomatic pouch international
legal protections and procedures to Security Council (SC) Chairman
President Putin, this report continues, Chinese authorities state that their vital
national interests are now under immediate threat due to:
1.) Continued
military provocation(s) against the PRC by
the United States in the South China Sea.
2.) The
possible ascension to the US presidency of Hillary Clinton who has threatened
war against the PRC (and is the
most hated American woman in China).
3.) The
possible ascension to the US presidency of Donald Trump who has not ruled
out war against the PRC.
4.) A
direct
threat of nuclear war made against the PRC by the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea (DPRK) the United
States, and its allies, are preparing to “intervene/interfere”
in.
Immediately
coinciding with the PRC’s invoking Article 9 of the FTC, this report further notes,
China, also, made an immediate economic protectionist move against the United States
and its allies by imposing
a new tax system on all overseas purchases—which, ironically, billionaire US
presidential candidate Donald Trump had threatened to do against the Chinese if
he was elected.
MoD
analysts contributing to this report further state that China’s “preparations for conflict” with the United
States include their military setting up “non-war” units able to evacuate their citizens
from foreign territories, their establishing
a massive military base in the Horn of Africa to counter American aggression
in the Middle East, and their
deployment of the world’s longest range nuclear missile.
As
per the protocol and procedures to be followed once Article 9 was invoked by the
PRC, this report continues, Security Council Chairman President Putin directed the
MoD and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) to immediately begin all
needed steps to “ameliorate/ alleviate”
this conflict and to, likewise, assess its potential to harm the national interests
of the Federation and take all necessary means needed to protect the citizens of
Russia both at home and in potential war zones.
A
rather lengthy conclusion to this report written by MoD intelligence analysts shockingly
states that the American peoples knowledge of this conflict is nearly non-existent,
in spite of the many warnings issued to them about it these past few weeks—including
US Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work announcing that the
Obama administration would not recognize any air defense identification zone that
China might proclaim in the South China Sea, and Washington Post columnist David
Ignatius warning that “the
US is heading toward a dangerous showdown in China.”
Kurt
Campbell, the former US Assistant Secretary of State for Asia, perhaps, gave the
most accurate warning to the American people about this coming war by stating “This
isn’t Pearl Harbor, but if people on all sides aren’t careful, it could be ‘The
Guns of August.’” Campbell was referring
to the Pulitzer
prize winning book by Barbara Tuchman on the events that led up to World War
I, which led to the deaths of 17 million people—a miniscule amount when compared
to the hundreds-of-millions, if not billons, who will die in World War III.
April
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Ramey
comments:
Those
who have even a cursory knowledge of the Chinese should know that bluffing is not
part of the Chinese psyche.. It would seem
we have thrown a rock into a hornet's nest.
Totally imprudent.
But we
have been looking for a way to start a war with China even to the point (evidently)
of mini-nuking one of their large chemical ware-house facilities. It would seem that few can understand this line
of reasoning because it would appear to be cosmocide. And the only way it can be understood is from
a Luke 4 perspective. In Luke 4, we learn
that Satan owns "...all the kingdoms of this world". He said so and Christ didn't dispute it. He has "...deceived the whole world"
as we can see in Rev 12;9. All the nations
and all this world's religion operate under his jurisdiction!
A commanding
general withholds information from his own troops except under a "need to know"
basis. Satan is a commanding general and
quite astute in this respect. His ultimate
goal is very well hidden from his underlings and that goal is the total destruction
of all of mankind. So when you see the nuclear
war buttons being pushed, it is this "top drawer agenda" that is being
massaged. It will not be stopped by the wisdom
of today's world diplomats because they have no wisdom. It will only be stopped by the "Strong Hand
from Some-place" alluded to decades ago in "U.S. News and World Report".
This
world is in it's death throes due to the ignorance of those who presume to lead
and control the world --- and it will come
so close that many will consider it the end of the world. But if we can believe the words of the prophets
of old, the earth and a few people on it will be spared and it will shortly begin
the healing process after Babylon is destroyed and the earth is set free from her
idolatry.
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