COMMENTARY & OPINION LI - Putin

From the desk of

Bill Ramey

10/9/13

COMMENTARY & OPINION

LI

Also available at:  http://unalienableprophets.blogspot.com

COULD VLADIMIR PUTIN BE AN END TIME CYRUS?

Cyrus was the Median king of the Medo-Persian Empire that took down the ancient world ruling kingdom (empire) of Babylon.  Darius was one of his leading generals and the one that engineered the conquest of Babylon without a battle.  You can get some of the story in the 5th chapter of the book of Daniel.

The Babylonian captivity of the nation of Judah took place in several waves and the prophet Daniel was a captive in one of the earlier incursions into Judah and was taken, along with his three friends, Hananiah, Azariah and Mishael, to Babylon where they were found to be bright young men that could learn the Chaldean language and be of service to the king in an advisory capacity.  As the situation then progressed, they were promoted to administrative positions. 

The historian Josephus tells us that the Medes were descendents of Madai, son of Japheth (see Genesis 10:2).  The book of Jubilees tells us the earth was divided up territorially among Noah's sons, with Ham to have the continent of Africa, Shem to have the middle east and Japheth to have the far northern territory (Asia).  As nearly as I can determine, the rest of the earth was uncommitted at that time.

Genesis 10:2 says, "The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras."  Some few have already found the trail of Magog, Tubal and Meshech leads to the area we call Russia today.  But from there they began to spread to other parts of the world as well and we see this in the confederacy of the Medes (Japhethites) and Persians (Shemites).

Verse 3 of Genesis 10 says, "The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah."  These, we find, migrated south (after their initial move into what we call Russia today) and became a nation located just above the Black and Caspian Seas in the 7th and 8th century AD known a Khazaria.  They adopted the religion of Judaism in the 8th century and that is a story best told by Arthur Koestler in a book entitled "The Thirteenth Tribe".  Because of exorbitant taxation on Russian goods shipped down the rivers to the Black and Caspian Seas, they were driven out of the area by Russia and migrated into the Balkans and became the Ashkenazi "Jews".  These are the "Jews" ruling Israel today.   The leaders among them told the Balkan leaders they were descendents of Ashkenaz while the common people claimed to be descendents of Togormah.  So it appears that at least those two tribes are represented by them.

Why do we need to know these things?  In order to understand what is going on in the world today, and why the line-up of nations as they are in the preparations for WW III.  We also need to know this in order to understand the prophecies in Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Jeremiah, to name just a few.

So what does this have to do with Putin being an end time Cyrus?  Bear with me.  You don't take Calculus until you have mastered arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry.  Likewise, you cannot understand prophecy until you learn the players and how they fit into the modern world.  We can remember the NASCAR driver's names and their car numbers.  We can name all the players on a given sports team but is all this sports knowledge going to give us a leg up in the understanding of world events or are we being, "…destroyed for lack of knowledge"?  Hosea 4:6

"But we elect politicians to take care of world problems" --- ah yes --- and therein lies the problem.  We have been so preoccupied with the rituals involved in the worship of the image of the beast, we neglected to learn the identity of this creature created by the Vatican (see Revelation 13). 

So what was Cyrus' claim to fame?  He released the Jews (those who wanted to be released) to go back to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple (see the book of Ezra), and the city.  He was also the last world ruler to acknowledge that his world ruling position was given him by the Creator (see Ezra 1:2). 

We live in a time when many "religious superstitionists" are expecting the Jews to rebuild the temple again.  There are rumors that the stones are already cut and stored in the underground bunker where they were mined and just waiting for the green flag from the Israeli government to begin the project.  Do you really believe they will get that green flag from an admittedly Luciferian government?  It ain't gonna happen!  Do they have to have a temple in order to resume the animal sacrifices?  Many Protestants adamantly insist they do.  But is this more of the myths we have been raised with?  Let's look in the book of Ezra at the commencement of sacrifices in his day (6th century BC).  Chapter 3, verse 6 says, "From the first day of the 7th month (Yom Teruah) began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD.  But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid."

Are we waiting for an event that ain't gonna happen?  Have we overlooked something?  Let's turn to the book of Zechariah and look at verse 12 of chapter 6: 

"Behold the man whose name is 'The Branch'; and He shall grow up out of His place, and He shall build the temple of the LORD."

Verse 13 continues: "Even He shall build the temple of the LORD; and He shall bear the glory and shall sit and rule upon His throne;"

So will He build this temple single handedly or will He be assisted in this project?  In recent Commentaries, I have shown that Israel and America are to be destroyed together.  There is a sequel to that event and perhaps we should look at it.  Let's pick it up in the Tyndale Living Bible in Isaiah 29:1; "Woe to Jerusalem, the city of David.  Year after year you make your many offerings, but I will send heavy judgment upon you and there will be weeping and sorrow.  For Jerusalem shall become as her name 'Ariel' means --- an altar covered with blood.  I will be your enemy.  I will surround Jerusalem and lay siege against it, and build forts around it to destroy it."

This scenario lies in the very near future.  But now the sequel.  Continuing in verse 5, we see, "But suddenly your ruthless enemies will be driven away like chaff before the wind.  I, the LORD of Hosts, will come upon them with thunder, earthquake, whirlwind and fire.  And all the nations fighting against Jerusalem will vanish like a dream!"

Jerusalem will be established as the command center for the invasion from outer space that we shall see shortly.  In chapter 31, verse 5, we see that, "The LORD will come and fight upon Mount Zion.  He will not be frightened away!  He, the LORD of Hosts, will hover over Jerusalem as birds hover round their nests, and He will defend the city and deliver it." 

In chapter 32, we see beginning in verse 1, "Look, a righteousness king is coming, with honest princes! 

2  "He will shelter Israel from the storm and wind.  He will refresh her as a river in the desert and as the cooling shadow of a mighty rock within a hot and weary land. 

3  "Then at last the eyes of Israel will open wide to God;  His people will listen to His voice.

5  "In those days the ungodly, the atheists, will not be heroes!  Wealthy cheaters will not be spoken of as generous, outstanding men! 

6  "Everyone will recognize an evil man when he sees him and hypocrites will fool no one at all.  Their lies about God and their cheating of the hungry will be plain for all to see.

7  "The smooth tricks of evil men will be exposed, as will all the lies they use to oppress the poor in the courts." 

Is this simply too good to be true?  Is this religious "buffoonery"?  Or is this the promise of the prophets for the rescue of planet earth before Satan's governments make it into an incinerated relic drifting aimlessly through the blackness of space?

Now let's answer the question as to whether this rebuilding of the temple will be accomplished single handedly.  There will be a number of people moved out of the kingdoms of this world and transported to the Jerusalem area after (and perhaps during) the destruction of the present Israeli government and the routing of those enlisted to destroy it.  We find the account of this exodus from Babylon in Isaiah 52, beginning in verse 10:  "The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God." 

11  "Go now, leave your bonds and slavery.  Put Babylon and all it represents far behind you --- it is unclean to you.  You are the holy people of the LORD; purify yourselves, all you who carry home the vessels of the LORD."

12  "You shall not leave in haste, running for your lives; for the LORD will go ahead of you, and He, the God of Israel, will protect your from behind." 

I am quite confident that the Creator could move these people to the Jerusalem area in the same manner He moved Enoch and Elijah to safe areas, however, did He roll out a magic carpet big enough to accommodate 3 million people and their livestock for the exodus from Egypt?  Those people had to walk some 250 miles across some very rough terrain and encountered many trials on the way and it took them two months to get there (see Exodus 19:1).  They were to learn that idolatry comes with a very expensive price tag in the way of pain, frustration, hardships and much grief.  Many died enroute because they insisted on taking their idols with them.  They also made more idols upon reaching their destination which was the real Mt Sinai which is known today as Jabal Al Lawz (Mtn of the law) in Saudi Arabia. 

 It will take approximately three and one half years for the destruction of the armies of Satan's governments and to replace the rulers of those governments with the resurrected saints of the Most High.  During this period of time, the new government (the true New World Order) will be growing in the Jerusalem area and prospering. As we have seen, it will be protected with a cover that makes the iron dome look antiquated.  We see the situation in Isaiah 33 beginning in verse 20:  "You will see Jerusalem at peace, a place where Yahweh is worshipped, a city quiet and unmoved.

21  "The glorious Lord will be to us a wide river of protection and no enemy can cross.

22  "For the LORD is our Judge, our Lawgiver and our King; He will care for us and save us." 

This is just before happening and there will be much confusion.  It appears from Isaiah 32:19 and 33:1 that, in this confusion, the Assyrians will again move into a position of some authority but that will be quickly dealt with as the context shows.  The implication is that they will move in to loot Israel because those who destroyed it were routed before they could accomplish the looting.  Their hopes will be dashed because that wealth is reserved for the people of the new government as we see in Isaiah 33:23.

I fully believe kings of the earth will be moved by Yahweh Himself to facilitate the move of His people to the Jerusalem area.  Which kings will this be?  I think we can be relatively sure that it will not be kings of Islam nations.  Who will be the commanding nation when America falls?  It appears it will be Russia. The lineage appears right and the line-up in world politics today appears right.  It appears, from the foreign troops on our soil (mostly Russian) and more being moved in (Chinese) that we have been sold out by our leaders. The destruction that follows will be only partly their work and partly that of the incoming invaders from outer space.  In Isaiah 24, verse 1 (New English Version), the Creator is quoted as saying, "I will split the earth open and turn it upside down."  Will we see sunrises in the west?  As I have said before, and repeat many times, we do not have reference points for the events that are just about to happen. 

Now, back to the title of this article:  "Could VladimIr Putin be an end time Cyrus"?

"AT A TIME YOU THINK NOT…"

There is a somber warning in Matthew 24:44 about the Messiah's return to planet earth and since we have found we have been deceived on so many other things, perhaps we should look into this as well. 

First, perhaps we should put it into context.  To whom was He speaking?  If we drop back to verse 3, we can see that He was speaking to His disciples.  We have all read the parable of the ten virgins and five were wise and five were foolish.  We have also seen, in the same chapter being discussed, that the times will be, "…as it was in the days of Noah."  And we can see in I Thessalonians 5 that there are to be some inner circle folks who will know the time and be expecting it.

So how then is it that His disciples will be taken by surprise? 

We have learned in these Commentaries that Christ's followers were not Christians!   That is a clever counterfeit handed down to us from the Catholic Church and the very term "Christian" is defined for the world by the Vatican.  When we begin to examine closer, we find the word itself is not derived from the word "Christ" but rather from the word "Cretian" of whom the apostle Paul had nothing good to say (see Titus 1:12).

We also learned from the now opened book of Daniel that the two dominant world powers at the time of the end are the feet of the dream image of King Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 2).  Running out the history of the four kingdoms (empires) to rule the planet from Daniel's day right on down to the time the governments of this world would be turned over to the saints of the Most High, we find that these kingdoms that started out territorial have "morphed" into religious ideologies.  These today are represented by the two largest religious groups on earth and these are Christian (Catholic) and Muslim (Islam). 

We have also learned that the Jews (Judaism) and Christianity, while claiming to be bitter enemies, are really a confederacy and have been for over 2000 years.  I am aware that Christianity, under that name, has not been around that long but the covenant was made with the predecessors of Christianity (see I Maccabees 8) and is still in effect today.  And for those who believe the myth that the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD, check any good encyclopedia, article Byzantine Empire, and I think it will be plain that the fall of the Roman Empire is myth clean and simple.

So the bottom line is that Christ's instructions to his disciples were not intended for Christians --- huh?    Then to whom was it intended?  To those living according to Matthew 4:4.  This is where Christ said, "Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."  That same Messiah said through the pen of Isaiah, "Therefore my people shall know my name."  We have been led to believe His name was Jesus but is that more of the Christian myths we have been raised with?  Is that merely another of Satan's counterfeits? 

We need to be sure because we live in the time when the vast majority have their heads buried in the sand of mythology awaiting the rapture that will take them away from the time of "Jacob's Trouble."  We find the nation of ancient Judah in a similar state of denial back at the beginning of the 6th century BC.  Jeremiah was telling them that the nation was about to be destroyed for idolatry.  Their answer was, "Nonsense, we have the Ark of the Covenant and the Temple of G_d. G_d will not let this nation fall."  I have heard essentially the same argument right here in America.  They phrase it a bit different.  "God won't let America fall because we are a Christian nation."  American Christianity amounts to the Baal religion of ancient Israel and Judah and is attested to by the phalluses (steeples) atop our houses of worship.  Back then those were called "high places".

"At a time you think not…"  When would that be?  Are Christians studying to find that out?  Or are they of those being, "…destroyed for lack of knowledge"?  I asked a Protestant minister once if he knew who the great whore is mentioned in Revelation 17.  There was a young man standing there eagerly awaiting his answer and his disappointment was obvious when the minister's answer was, "I really don't worry about it."  That ended the conversation and we each went off in our separate directions. 

So how is it that a few will know the time of the Messiah's return?  We find the answer in Isaiah 28:9.  "Whom shall He teach knowledge and make to understand doctrine?  Them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts."  They have to grow up first!  Some grow old and die and never mature.  Verse 10 goes on to say: "Precept must be upon precept … line upon line … here a little and there a little…"  Our knowledge has to advance beyond John 3:16 and the 23rd Psalm.  If we are aspiring to a position of nobility, then we must conduct ourselves in a manner befitting nobles.  Paul said of the Bereans, that they were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they "…received our words with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily whether these things were so."  Do Christians do that when they hear something different than what they already believe?  We have all seen ministers who won't even let you finish a question before they jump into the conversation to answer it.

Proverbs 18:13 says, "He that answers a matter before hearing it (fully), to him it is folly and shame." 

We live in a confused and confusing world.  I once had a college grad tell me about the "story in the Bible" of the lion with a thorn in his paw and taken out by a mouse…..  I said, "Jack, that isn't in the Bible, that's Greek mythology."  He said, "Are you sure?"  Was it a vision of this kind of ignorance at the end time that prompted Hosea to pen the words, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…"? (Hos 4:6)

I believe that the ten virgins represent, not Christianity, but rather the Ekklesia and that half of those are wise and still learning (see Daniel 12:10), still receptive to a spirit of discernment, while the other half are asleep.  The half that are wise are looking into the now opened book of Daniel as well as the other books it has provided a key to.  They see that the worldwide conspiracy is no longer a theory but established fact.  In fact, history is a corollary of conspiracies linked like sausages.  These wise know God's name (and it isn't Jesus or Allah), and that it was removed from the KJ version of the Bible in some 7000 places.  They know that the New Testament is not the only part of the Bible that has been tampered with by Jews and Christians but that the Jews were falsifying scripture before Jeremiah's time (see Jeremiah 8:8 --- and read it in different translations).

So doesn't everybody know that the Jews have to build the third temple before Christ's return?  Or is that more of the fables we have been taught in the name of religion?  Does there have to be a temple before the Jews can resume sacrifices? Have we looked at Ezra 3:6?   

Surely we know there is a 1260 and 1290 day countdown and time of Jacob's Trouble before His return --- don't we? Or do we?  Could it just possibly be that this is more myth we have learned?  Have we looked seriously at Daniel 12:1?  Have we understood the book of Habakkuk where it says in chapter 1, verse 5, "I will work a work in your days which you will not believe, though it be told you." Is it just possible that you are reading that work right now?  Could you be a fulfillment of that prophecy?

So if the second coming were to occur at the beginning of the 1260 day count delineating Jacob's Trouble, would that be, "…at a time you think not"?  Perhaps you need to go back and reread past copies of the Commentary.  Particularly the one entitled Habakkuk.

The world is poised on the brink of nuclear war.  It would seem that America has reached the climax of an unsustainable economic SCAM.  It would seem that the bankers have persuaded our leader that the road out of this mess is through Damascus.  I submit to you, based on Bible prophecy, that the destruction of Damascus is the trigger event for the complete and total destruction of America and you can begin to see this in Isaiah 17:1-4.  You can see who the players are and get the gory details of our (daughter of Babylon) destruction in Jeremiah, chapters 50 and 51.  America is about to see things we have no reference points for.  We can begin to get a feel for it in Isaiah 30:13.  We can begin to see why in Numbers 35.  Verse 33 says, "…the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it."  And this is why I have said, in past Commentaries, that 200 million Americans are about to die.  Half of those will die at the hands of the "…assembly of great nations" that pick our bones and the other half will die of famine and pestilence (see Ezekiel 5).  The pharmaceutical industry, FDA, chemtrails in our skies and government approved poisons in our food, air and water are preparing us for this event.

We see date after date being set for the imposition of martial law and then cancelled for whatever reason.  The underlying reason for this is because there is still a restraining force in place (II Thes. 2:7) until the "appointed time" (Daniel 11:35), and when this is lifted, events will come rapid fire.  The wall of Isaiah 30:13 will crumble and America will join the ranks of the "nations that once were" in a matter of hours.

We need to understand these things now because when the "wall falls", it will be a bit late for philosophizing.  It will be a bit late to get serious about debunking our news and our history.  It will be far too late to learn there really was a conspiracy.  It will be too late for any definitive action. 

As recently as a year ago, I was a lone voice saying America is about to be destroyed completely and become a nuclear wilderness and that the reason is for idolatry.  The self appointed seers have still not accepted the idolatry part but more and more politicians, religionists, financial advisors, and common people with common sense, are now beginning to see that there are no political solutions to our dilemma.  We simply have too many strikes against us.  These consist of our own economic meltdown, the international community reaction to our international snooping, Edward Snowden with 4 laptops of damning evidence against us and the determination of "…an assembly of great nations" to end the reign of American terrorism.  If this isn't enough, we have the prophets telling us what happens next.  Are we listening?  

Babylon was a world ruling empire some 2600 years ago (see Daniel 2:38).  But it came down from that position in a single night (see Daniel 5), and without a battle.  It fell while the ruling elite were partying.  

We live today in the age of savages with nukes as depicted by the feet of King Nebuchacnezzar's dream image in Daniel 2.  This is the age in which the rubber meets the road and the kingdoms of this world are given to the saints of the Most High (Daniel 7:22).  This is the age in which justice, which this world has never seen, will be brought to planet earth and death will be on a scale never before witnessed by earth's inhabitants.  We live in a time just prior to "natural"(?) calamities that will boggle peoples' minds.  Isaiah 24:1 (New English) says, "I will turn the earth upside down and split it open".  Few today, take these prophecies seriously, but we are coming into those days and we will see the beginnings of these events within weeks!  And justice will be served.  Those who have built hidey-holes at the expense of the many will soon learn that these holes are nuclear powered dungeons where they are to be held until judgment (see Isaiah 24:21-22).

Can we begin to see that it is not merely the ignorant that will be taken by surprise?  We can see in Ezekiel 18 those indicted and sentenced to death.  The last ten verses of Romans 1 expands on this somewhat.  "At a time when you think not…" will apply to all the beast and "image of the beast" worshippers regardless of their alma mater, lodge memberships, political affiliation and offshore bank accounts.  It will include scholars and pseudo-scholars as well without regard to religious affiliation, degrees after their names and/or past accomplishments.  Is it just possible that we are within weeks of, "At a time when you think not…"?

COMMENTARY & OPINION LII - DAY OF THE LORD

From the desk of

Bill Ramey

10/9/13

COMMENTARY & OPINION

LII

Also available at:  http://unalienableprophets.blogspot.com

DAY OF THE LORD

Religious superstition has taught us that the day of the LORD is when a long haired hippie type comes floating down from the clouds over the Mt of Olives, waves his wand and from that point on, everybody is nice to each other and we beat our swords into plowshares. Some few have looked a little deeper into this matter and begun to under-stand that there is no way all the things scheduled to happen on this "day" could take place in a 24 hour period of time.  So incorporating the "year for a day" principle of Numbers 14:34, they assign a year as the "day of the LORD".  But are either of these concepts right or are we seeing more religious mythology and deception?  Is it possible that, again, we have overlooked something? 

The prophet Isaiah comments at length on the "day of the LORD".  He begins in chapter 2, verse 11, and it continues on throughout the book of Isaiah.  He refers to it as "that day".  By the time of the final chapters, he is referring to it as, "the day of vengeance".  Is God vindictive?  Perhaps we need to read Isaiah 30:30.  When He arrives at planet earth in the next few weeks (or months), it is with a twofold mission:  1) To reward the saints for persevering in a hostile world and 2) to destroy those who destroy the earth (see Revelation 11:18).  We need to understand that, while the Creator is a God of love, He is also a God of wrath and He says in several places in scripture, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay."  And if our concept of God is  a kindly old gentleman with a long beard that only thinks "nice thoughts", perhaps we should read His pronouncement on the religious hucksters that have "…deceived the whole world", in Revelation 17:6.  "Reward her even as she rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works:  In the cup which she has filled, fill to her double."  This is a form of justice the world has not known --- yet.

Yes, the whole world has been deceived, (Revelation 12:9), and this deception has been accomplished through religion.  Now that deception is bearing fruits and the fruits amount to chaos.  The Masonic/Catholic confederacy has a dream of "Order out of chaos".  And for many centuries, they have controlled situations and directed them toward the ends they seek.  But when WW III erupts, the rules change.  The time of the gentiles is fulfilled.  Satan's reign on planet earth has reached its end and mankind is about to be rescued from the slavery of the past several millennia and the rescue party is coming from outer space. 

The nation of Israel, established in deception and ruling with cruelty, is about to be destroyed.  Through deception, they have amassed much of the wealth of the world and this is to be reserved for the people of the government that succeeds them.  If you read the account in Isaiah 29, (and read it in different translations), you can see that those who destroy Israel will be chased out before they can accomplish the looting.  The Assyrians will endeavor to move in for the purpose of looting but they also will be routed. 

The new government for planet earth will be established in the Jerusalem area and will be provided with a protective shield that makes the iron dome appear antiquated (Isaiah 31:5). 

The thing that makes all this exciting is that we are living in those days.  The axe is already being laid to roots of the daughter of Babylon (America), and the coming weeks will see cataclysms mounting.  China has already determined that the time has come to pull the rug from under the American dollar and despite the elaborate plans of American politicians, we are about the join the ranks of the "nations that once were".  It is written!

So when does the "day of the LORD" begin?  How long does it last?

Does it sweep the earth clean of human habitation? 

We have learned in Revelation 18 that there is to be a great trading nation in the time of the end that will be destroyed "…in one hour".  We learned in Jeremiah 51:42 how this is to be accomplished.  The chief city of that trading nation is to be taken out with a killer tsunami.  We know (unless we have our head in the sand) from the Fukushima tsunami that we live in the age of man made tsunamis.  This is accomplished by those, "…who destroy the earth".  We know, or should know, that the world's biggest caldera is in the Canary Islands off the Northwest tip of Africa and that scientists tell us that if it blows in a manner comparable to the last blow (over a hundred thousand years ago) that it will send a wall of water over 100 feet high at our east coast at speeds of a modern jet plane.  Are we aware that this caldera is rumbling?  We could have a dozen "Fukushimas" on our east coast when that happens.  Is that when the "…assembly of great nations" (Jeremiah 50:9) will move in to pick our bones and sell survivors as slaves?  (Ezekiel 5).

We haven't answered the question of when the day of the LORD begins, but in order for me to couch it in terms that are understandable, there are things that need to be understood in order to "set the stage".  For instance, we need to understand that the "time of the end" is not the end of the world as we have been taught by "churchianity".  It is the end of the age and just as Noah closed out one age and ushered in another, the world did not end nor will it at the end of this age.  That is more religious myth.

You also need to know (and past Commentaries have shown) that the book of Daniel, sealed at the time of writing " until the end time", (Daniel 12:4 & 9) has been opened to the understanding of the wise. You can see who the wise are in verse 10 of the same chapter.  With this book opened we can begin to see the two major players in the end time and these are depicted by the feet of the dream image seen by the king of Babylon (and interpreted by Daniel).  By running out the history to verify the accuracy of Daniel's prophetic visions, we can see that these two major powers today are represented by two religious ideologies.  These are Christianity and Islam.  It would seem that America has switched sides in this war (and it is war) and is now supporting the Islamic side with money, arms and political chicanery. 

Since the book of Daniel is opened, then it must be the end time.  It was to remain sealed until the end time.  Some of us have understood the end time to be the "Time of Jacob's Trouble" which is defined as three and one half years in more than one scripture.  However, it is evident that the time of Jacob's trouble has not yet begun, so the time of the end must therefore be longer than three and one half years. 

In the book of Daniel, we found that the nation of Babylon (Chaldea) was conquered by the Medo-Persian Empire.  In past Commentaries, I have shown that the Medes were descendents of Madai and there-fore of Russian descent.  They were of the tribe of Japheth but were confederate with Persia (Shemites) for the overthrow of Babylon.  Is it coincidental in the alignment of nations today, as we square off for WW III,  that the daughter of Babylon (America) is coming head to head with the Medes (Russia) and Persia (Iran)? 

Right now Damascus is a bone of contention because of the determination of America's leader to topple Assad and set up a Muslim government in Syria as we did in Egypt.  It is at this time (when Damascus becomes "…a ruinous heap") that things begin to happen.  We see this in the first 4 verses of Isaiah 17.  Verse 4 is a reference to the beginning of Jacob's trouble.  And trouble it will be, because Israel and America will both be destroyed totally.  This will be at the mid term of the end time.

And I believe it will be the beginning of the day of the LORD.  Let's see why.  In the book of Habakkuk, we see a nation called Chaldeans (Babylon) that run roughshod over the other nations of the earth.  Verse 5 of chapter 1 says, "Behold you among the heathen and regard and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days, which you will not believe though it be told you."

When is this to be?  Chapter 2, verse 3 answers.  "For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie."

Keep in mind that this is speaking to Chaldeans (American leaders are Chaldean while much of the populace is of the lost tribes of Israel).  Verse 8 says, "Because you have spoiled many nations (Iraq, Egypt, Libya), all the remnant of the people shall spoil you."  The rest of the chapter is the indictment of America.  Now comes the action part, now comes Jacob's trouble.  Now comes the destruction of America and Israel. Let's look at how it begins in chapter 3 of the book of Habakkuk and let's look at verse 2 in the New English translation.  It makes it much plainer than the King James.  "O LORD, I have heard tell of your deeds;  I have seen O LORD your work.  In the midst of the years you did make yourself known…"

The opening of the book of Daniel begins the end time.  That's what it says in chapter 12, verses 4 & 9.  Chapter 3 of Habakkuk is speaking of this end time action and it appears that it is to begin "…in the midst of the years"!  What years?  Why, the end time years which appear to be seven.  And it appears to be divided into two three and one half year periods.  The first three and one half year period has the book of Daniel opened to the understanding of the wise and the last half is for the space invasion and the dismantling of Satan's governments worldwide.  We can see which governments these are in the 4th chapter of the gospel of Luke. 

This scenario of the LORD making His appearance at the beginning of Jacob's trouble is confirmed in Isaiah 52:10.  "The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all nations, and the whole world from end to end shall see the deliverance of our God.

11  "Away from Babylon; come out, touch nothing unclean.  Come out from Babylon, keep yourselves pure, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.

12  "But you shall not come out in urgent haste nor leave like fugitives;  for the LORD will march at your head, your rearguard will be Israel's God."

This is the destruction of America (Babylon) and these few that will make an exodus will be exiting to the Jerusalem area that was destroyed along with America, but those who destroy it will be routed before they can carry out the looting.  Isaiah 29:5 gives the account:

"Yet the horde of your enemies shall crumble into dust, the horde of ruthless foes shall fly like chaff.

6  "Then suddenly, all in an instant, punishment shall come from the LORD of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and a great noise, with storm and tempest and a flame of devouring fire;"

Isaiah 30:27 tells us, "See the name of the LORD comes from afar, His anger blazing and his doom heavy."  Indeed He is coming from afar!  This is the invasion from outer space that is well nigh upon us.

Their command center will be set up in Jerusalem and there they will begin to build the new government for planet earth as they destroy the governments of Satan.  It begins to appear that the seven trumpets of Revelation will occur in the three and one half year period that follows.  Modern "churchianity" has taught us that this is to happen after Christ's return but we have already examined much of what they have taught us and found it wanting.  Most of us started debunking with Santa and the Easter bunny. 

So we see the start of the day of the LORD at the time Damascus becomes a "…smoking ruin".  Isaiah 17:4 and I do believe it goes on right up to the time the new king of planet earth is crowned in Daniel 7:13-14. 

I know very well the challenges involved in kicking the traces of the religious SCAMs and Satanic society.  I began some 50 years ago and one of the hurdles was when our two older children were entering the public school system.  When I went down to register our oldest daughter for first grade, the lady at the registration desk said, "Do you have her shots record?"  I said, "She hasn't had shots."  She looked horrified and said, "Then you will have to get them."  I answered, "She is not going to have shots."  She said, "Then you will have to talk to the superintendent." 

So she went in to brief the superintendent on the situation and came back and said, "You can go in now", still eyeing me with disbelief.  I went into the superintendent's office and took the chair he motioned to. When I was seated, he said, "What seems to be the problem?"  I said, "I don't see that there is a problem.  Our daughter Mary is not going to have shots."  He said, "That's fine, but I need a written statement from you saying you accept responsibility."

I asked for a sheet of paper and wrote a brief statement that I accepted responsibility for her not having the childhood shots, signed it and slid it back across the desk to him and that ended the matter.  It never came up again when our other four children started school at the same location. 

That was in the late 60s and the web has tightened since then.  The childhood shots, in the government extermination program, have shown their effectiveness by increasing the incidence of autism from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 100.  The public is kept asleep by the complicity of the media "presstitutes".  It appears that Obamacare is to quantify the extermination program of the medical profession with Ezekiel 5 pro-portions. 

It also appears that the last honest newsperson was fired for his honesty years ago.  May those involved in it reap their just reward.  We live in a time just before a justice system, the likes of which the world has never seen, is to be set up on this earth and the indictment for death sentences has already been written.  You can find it in Ezekiel 18.  

If we sit down with a Bible Concordance and look up the word "day", then highlight the scriptures that say, "day of the LORD", "that day", "day of slaughter" and "day of vengeance", we can begin to see how many references there are.  If we then look up the action involved in each of these references, it becomes abundantly clear that this is not all going to happen in a 24 hour day.  It becomes questionable that it can happen in a year. 

Then when we read chapters 29 through 35 of the book of Isaiah and realize that the kingdom is going to be set up in Jerusalem during the time Satan's governments are being dismantled, it appears more reasonable that the day of the LORD corresponds to the time of Jacob's trouble and the last half of the end time mentioned in Daniel 12:4 & 9.

We live in a time when doing our own thinking becomes more imperative by the day.  We live in the end time.  We live in the time just prior to the invasion from outer space and the beginning of the day of the LORD!

RUMORS

There is a cryptic scripture in Jeremiah 51:46 that may seem puzzling to some.  "And lest your heart faint, and you fear for the rumor that shall be heard in the land; a rumor shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumor, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler."  Is this where Babylon (America) is today?

Rumors of states ruling against Obamacare and blocking the enactment of it into law?  Is this why martial law is being quickly readied and rumor has it our prez has gone into his underground bunker?  Is the military preparing a coup like in Egypt? 

Are we about to see "…violence in the land"?  We have seen things in America in the last 6 years we never thought we would see.  We have gone from a Christian nation to a nation supporting Islam to the tune of millions of taxpayer dollars per month.  We have watched as our nation destabilized and overturned the nations of Iraq, Egypt and Libya and are now eying Syria.  Are we witnessing the justification for the indictment of Habakkuk 2?  I realize it isn't sheik to believe what the prophets have said, but where else do we look for a place to anchor our beliefs?  The world is a very iffy place where fortunes can change overnight.  We live in a nation whose economy is based on a governmental SCAM called "petrodollars" and China's ruler has just given the go ahead to pull the rug from under this SCAM. 

We are quickly running out of options.  When Iraq began selling their oil for Euros, we bombed the trade center and blamed the Arabs and rallied the American people to support an invasion of Iraq because "they had vast amounts of weapons of mass destruction".  This, of course, was a lie promoted by our leader but it accomplished his purpose at the time.  The first order of business when we invaded Iraq was changing the petro sales back to petro dollars.  Now we are trying to rally the same support for an intervention in Syria and the reason is to pacify the international bankers and oil moguls. The motive appears to be robbery, as in Iraq, Egypt and Libya. 

Seven American generals have been replaced in the past ten days, presumably because they don't support the Islamic agenda.  Where does this leave us?  Have we come to the point of "…violence in the land"?

Many things are about to unfold in the next two months and Americans are totally unprepared.  Is it coincidence that we have some 386,000 Russian troops on American soil?  Is it coincidence that the prophet Jeremiah, speaking of the daughter of Babylon, (America), says in chapter 50, verse 28, "Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes (Russians)…"

America's sun has set!  200,000,000 Americans are about to die!  And the reason is for idolatry.  I realize full well that no one else is saying this but does that make it untrue?  The coming weeks will prove me right or wrong.  The rest of the world is obsessed with being politically correct.  I am not!  If we have lived for half a century or more, we should know that, in America, the voice of the majority is almost invariably wrong.  Look at presidential elections from 1912 to the present. For that matter, look at presidential elections from the git-go.  Was Geo Washington the hero stock the Jesuit censored history painted him as?  Abe Lincoln was a railroad lawyer!  But they have been painted with a broad "hero brush" in our history and one has to wonder if histories are using the same rules used at funerals --- i.e. "the worse the scoundrel, the longer the eulogy". 

This world is upside down and backwards but it is about to be turned right side up.  Isaiah 32:5 says, "The vile person shall be no more called liberal nor the churl said to be bountiful."  This is speaking of the new government to be established in the Jerusalem area that will grow to replace the present governments of this world.  Verse 1 of this same chapter says, "Behold , a king shall reign in righteousness and princes shall rule in judgment."  It appears that this microcosm of government will be set up within the next year.  It will not be another Waco.  It will have a protective dome like the world has not yet seen.  From this microcosm of government, the governments of Satan will be destroyed.  Will today's rulers see this in time to bring themselves into subjection to the new world government?  Not a chance.  Rulers do not cede sovereignty willingly.  They will consolidate their forces, when they see their destruction is imminent, to do battle with this new "enemy" and we can see the results in Zechariah 14 and Revelation 19.

Are we living in the generation that gets to see the biggest changes in the world since the days of Noah?  Is this really coming in our generation?  Read Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21 and see if the scenario fits. Check out the prophets and look into their track records.

And then ask yourself, "Are we really living in those days?"  We need to come to grips with the times we are living in because we only come this way once.  There will be no greater advance on the future than to have a leg up in the government that is being brought to us because mankind is totally incapable of self rule as evidenced by world history.

So is this merely another rumor?  You had better hope and pray that it isn't because otherwise, man is preparing to end world problems by ending life on this planet.  We see in Matthew 24:22, "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened."  We are living in those days!

LEADERS

In my career in industry, I saw the ineptitude of managers from a wide variety of perspectives.  The first was from the perspective of a bag thrower in shipping, then progressing through inventory control analyst over a $20 million inventory, a specialist in Maintenance Engineering and finally a superintendent over 5 departments with 76 employees and a $4.7 million per year budget not counting employee salaries.  The year was 1996.  I retired January 15 of '97 and have been assured that things have gotten worse since. 

After retiring, I spent a three month tour of duty in Chile working as a consultant for EsCondido Copper Mine.  I hired out to them through the Kvaerner Bowen Company out of Salt Lake City, Utah, as an Engineering, Warehousing and Purchasing Consultant.  

I take it my services were acceptable by the fact that they sent a feeler, after I left, to see if I would be interested in returning as their manager of purchasing.  I was not interested despite the fact that the tour of duty in Chile was a good experience but not one I wanted to repeat.  Quite frankly, I felt safer on the streets of Antofagasta, Chile, at night, than I did in the little town of Ridgecrest, California.  But again, that was 1998.  I have to keep reminding myself that was 15 years ago.

Old man Deeming was a quality specialist in America in the 1940s.  When he tried to sell the quality concept to GE, GM and other American giants of industry, he was shown the door.  Why did they need a quality program?  They had the whole world as a market place and America was the only manufacturing nation left in the world.  Deeming went to Japan and sold the concept to them that brought Japan from the 1940s technology to a position of a California sized nation competing with the U.S. auto industry.  Japan took his quality training seriously.  It is interesting to note that when Mr. Deeming went to Japan, his comment on American Industry was that 85% of the problems in American industry were in management.  When he returned to America some 30 years later, his observations were up-graded to a 92% management as the problems in American industry. This fits hand in glove with my observations throughout my career in American industry. 

Leaders in America are positioned according to lodge memberships, political and religious affiliations.  As a casual observer, my guess is that leadership capability ranks no higher than seventh or eighth on the ladder of criteria.  So is this a problem?  Only if you consider our national economy a problem today.  We live in an age when people of vision become scarcer by the year.  Vision has been sent to the   back of the bus in order to give the forward seats to politicians.  This is how our nation developed the terminal cancer we call the federal government today. 

Many Americans today look back longingly at the days that never were.  This, in their minds, was when America was a "free nation" and as I said, those days never were. Our nation was conceived by Satan and born in the deception that we are a free nation, a plot by disenfranchised Jesuits who had to go into hiding and seek a new challenge after the backlash of the world to their murderous campaign in Europe known as the inquisition.  The creation of America, as the image of the beast, (see Revelation 13), was that new challenge.  The details of how it was accomplished are best told by the late F Tupper Saussy in "Rulers of Evil".

In order to get a feel for the character of those ruling the world today, we must go to the book of Daniel, chapter 2, and learn of the dream image of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.  He searched his world ruling kingdom for someone to interpret the dream for him and finally located one of the captives taken from the nation of Judah who gave him the interpretation. 

The "little book" of Daniel was sealed at the time of writing, (see chapter 12, verses 4 & 9) and not to be opened until the "end time."

At that time, it would be opened to the understanding of a few, which were defined as, "…the wise" (see chapter 12, verse 10).

Back to chapter 2:  The dream image of King Nebuchadnezzar was a tapestry of time, as it were, unfurled to show the king what "…shall be in the latter days".  (See 2:28)  The king was shown by Daniel that he was the head of gold of this dream image (verse 38).  The second of the four world ruling empires that were to rule the earth for the next 2600 years was the torso of the dream image and this was the Medo-Persian Empire, the silver breast and arms of the dream image.  It is interesting to note that these two of the body parts of the image are made of metals that top the elemental nobility chart.  From that point, the materials of construction degrade through the brass of the belly and thighs, (Alexander's Greece), the iron of the legs and the Iron/clay mix of the feet and toes.  The toes is where we find ourselves today in the stream of time.

It is interesting to note that, of these four empires, the first two did acknowledge the Creator as having given them their position of world rulership, (see Daniel 4:37 and Ezra 1:2).  The world we live in today is depicted by the toes of iron/clay and depicts savages as rulers but with awesome nuclear weaponry.

We have reached the end time and are quickly approaching the mid-term of that segment of time when there are to be significant world events.  Some of these have been discussed in past issues of Commentary & Opinion.  The world is on a toboggan slide toward oblivion and the masses are kept increasingly in the dark as to what is really happening.  The masses have been coached by the rulers through their propaganda ministers ("presstitutes") to pooh-pooh GMO foodstuffs, UFOs, conspiracy "theorists", chem trails and the long lists of poisons in our foodstuffs. 

The angel that spoke to the prophet Daniel divided the end time world into only two camps, (the wise and the wicked---see Daniel 12:10).  He showed in the same verse how to identify each group.  Can we identify the camp we belong in?