On Monday night, a “mystery missile” streaked across the sky just off the Southern California coast, and at this point the U.S. military still has no official explanation for it. The “mystery missile” was caught on video by a local television station’s helicopter camera, and the images are absolutely stunning. The trail left behind by the missile was visible from the city of Los Angeles, and the helicopter crew that took the video estimated that the missile’s location was approximately 35 miles out to sea north of Catalina Island. So where in the world did this mystery missile off the Southern California coast come from?
At this point, nobody seems to know. The Pentagon says that the U.S. military did not have any missile tests planned and that they do not know who fired the missile at this point. Some are speculating that it could be the work of an amateur. Others are claiming that it could just be an optical illusion.
Still others think that it might have been the work of a foreign nation. For example, Robert Ellsworth, a former deputy secretary of defense and ambassador to NATO, is speculating that perhaps an Asian power is responsible….
“It could be a test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile from a submarine to demonstrate, mainly to Asia, that we can do that.”
A video news report about this mystery missile is posted below….
Eventually, the U.S. military will either tell us what this mystery missile over Southern California really was or they will make up a really good cover story.
In any event, all of this is rather unsettling.
The truth is that many believe that this is exactly the type of attack that is going to take down the United States in the last days.
Many, many, many people have had visions of Russian subs just off the coast striking U.S. cities with nuclear missiles in the future.
So is such a thing possible?
Yes, very much so.
Once Russia and/or China decide that war with the United States is inevitable, they will want to get in as devastating a first strike as possible before we can respond.
The very best way to do this is with submarines.
The reality is that Russia’s next generation subs are so incredibly quiet that they can creep all the way up to U.S. coastlines without even being detected most of the time.
So did a sub from a foreign power test how close it could get to the coast of California and fire off a missile without being detected?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
In any event, this is something that a lot of people are convinced is coming in the future.
If Russian subs did sneak up to 30 miles off the California coast, they could literally be raining down nuclear missiles on U.S. cities in as little as five minutes.
That would not leave us a whole lot of time to respond at all.
So what do you think about this “mystery missile” off the California coast?
Do you think that this type of thing is a real danger?
Do you think that someday submarines could pop up off the coast and rain down nukes on all of us?
Please feel free to leave a comment with your opinion….
Today, an increasing number of people in the world believe in the theory of Darwinian evolution. In particular, the vast majority of institutions of higher learning in most of the nations of the world only teach that all life on earth “evolved” from a single cell which somehow popped into existence. So is this theory actually true? Of course not. In fact, this article is going to teach you how to disprove evolution very easily. The truth is that no species has ever been observed changing into another one. Neither are there any transitional fossils which show one species “evolving” into another species. Rather, what we see in the fossil record is the very sudden appearance of fully-formed complex life. This is much more consistent with a creationist paradigm than it is with a Darwinian paradigm, but the scientific community doesn’t seem to care. In fact, if you believe that we were created by God, you will be automatically blackballed by the academic community in both the United States and in Europe. The truth is that if you want to be accepted in the academic world today you must have complete and total blind faith in Darwinian evolution.
But what else should we expect? The Scriptures told us that men would choose to deliberately forget that God created the world in the last days. 2 Peter 3:3-7 says the following….
First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
Isn’t that so true? The scientific community has chosen to “deliberately forget” that God created the world, and instead they have manufactured an incredibly elaborate cover story to explain how we all got here.
But God says that we are all without excuse. The Scriptures tell us that all men should know that there is a God simply by looking at the created things around them. In Romans 1:18-20 it says the following….
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
But isn’t there a ton of evidence for the theory of evolution?
No, there is not.
A while back, Jerry A. Coyne, a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at The University of Chicago, authored an article in USA Today entitled “Science And Religion Aren’t Friends“. In his article, Coyne repeatedly rips all forms of religion, making such statements as: “science is no more compatible with religion than with other superstitions, such as leprechauns.”
So being the curious sort that I am, I ventured over to his website, Why Evolution Is True, hoping to find some decent arguments for Darwinian evolution. Well, it turns out that the site is mostly just one big advertisement for his book, so I was disappointed once again.
You see, for years I have pleaded with evolutionists to please tell me what the best pieces of evidence for the theory of evolution are. I have challenged them to lay out for me a basic outline of the facts that “prove” that Darwinism is true.
Perhaps you think you can do it.
I’ll even get you started…..
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With so many billions of people around the world now believing in evolution you would think that this would be an easy exercise.
But it is not.
Why?
Because evolution is simply not true.
The reality is that science, logic and reason all favor creationism.
And shouldn’t science, logic and reason trump any personal agenda that anyone is trying to push?
You would think so.
The truth is that once you learn the truth, you are ashamed that you ever believed in the hoax of Darwinian evolution….
“I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it’s been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has.”
-Malcolm Muggeridge (world famous journalist and philosopher), Pascal Lectures, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
The evidence is just not there for Darwinism. It has been manufactured out of whole cloth in most cases.
In fact, Dr. Lyall Watson once stated the following….
“The fossils that decorate our family tree are so scarce that there are still more scientists than specimens. The remarkable fact is that all of the physical evidence we have for human evolution can still be placed, with room to spare, inside a single coffin!”
Even some of our most prominent magazines have admitted that there is very little evidence to back up the theory of evolution. For example, a 1994 article in Time Magazine (which is radically pro-evolution) made the following stunning statement….
“Yet despite more than a century of digging, the fossil record remains maddeningly sparse. With so few clues, even a single bone that doesn’t fit into the picture can upset everything. Virtually every major discovery has put deep cracks in the conventional wisdom and forced scientists to concoct new theories, amid furious debate.”
So with such a flimsy foundation, shouldn’t evolutionary scientists at least call Darwinism a “theory” rather than a fact?
No, they keep insisting it is “fact” and that any scientist who disagrees must be blackballed by the rest of the scientific community.
But what does the science really say?
Well, the following are three key points which you can use to disprove evolution.
#1 If the theory of evolution was true, we should have discovered millions upon millions of transitional fossils by now.
So do we have millions of transitional fossils?
No.
In fact, we do not have any.
The following is how one very prominent evolutionist once described what we have actually found in the fossil record….
“I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. You suggest that an artist should be used to visualise such transformations, but where would he get the information from? I could not, honestly, provide it, and if I were to leave it to artistic license, would that not mislead the reader?”
-Dr. Colin Patterson, senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History (and a hardcore evolutionist), in a letter to Luther Sunderland, April 10, 1979.
Wow.
Let that sink in for a moment.
The senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History did not know of a single transitional fossil to include in his book about evolution.
In fact, there are a large number of evolutionists that are noticing this little “problem”….
“The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution.”
Stephen Jay Gould (Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Harvard University), “Is a new and general theory of evolution emerging?” Paleobiology, vol. 6(1), January 1980, p. 127
Did you get what Professor Gould is saying there?
He actually admitted that they even have trouble imagining transitional forms.
How bizarre is that?
Remember, these are quotes from big time evolutionists.
Here is another one….
“Contrary to what most scientists write, the fossil record does not support the Darwinian theory of evolution because it is this theory (there are several) which we use to interpret the fossil record. By doing so we are guilty of circular reasoning if we then say the fossil record supports this theory.”
Ronald R. West, PhD (paleoecology and geology) (Assistant Professor of Paleobiology at Kansas State University), “Paleoecology and uniformitarianism”. Compass, vol. 45, May 1968, p. 216
Circular reasoning?
Isn’t that what atheists usually accuse Christians of doing?
At this point, many Darwinists will usually trot out the same handful of incredibly weak, totally laughable examples of “transitional forms” that have been debunked and discredited time after time.
For example “Archaeopteryx” has been used as “proof” of evolution for years, mostly because scientists can’t find anything better to support their case. Fortunately, it is very easy to debunk….
The cold, hard truth of the matter is that if Darwinian evolution was true there would be millions and millions and millions of very clear transitional fossils in the fossil record.
But their “theory” has a huge problem.
The fossils are simply not there.
“Lastly, looking not to any one time, but to all time, if my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking closely together all the species of the same group, must assuredly have existed. But, as by this theory, innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?”
-Charles Darwin
There are millions and millions of fossilized creatures out there. So why can’t we find tons of transitional forms among all of those fossils?
Well, as one prominent evolutionist once explained, it is because they simply are not there….
“In fact, the fossil record does not convincingly document a single transition from one species to another.”
-Evolutionist Stephen M. Stanley, Johns Hopkins University
So, in the final analysis, what the science actually reveals is that the “missing links” have always been missing and they always will be missing because they were never there in the first place.
#2 If the theory of evolution was true, then we should see an “evolutionary tree” in the fossil record, with complex life developing very slowly from earlier, less complex forms. Instead, what we do see in the fossil record is the very sudden appearance of fully-formed and fully-functional complex life.
If you examine the fossil record, you see all kinds of complex life suddenly jumping into existence during a period that evolutionists refer to as the “Cambrian explosion”.
None of the fossilized life forms found in the “Cambrian period” have any predecessors prior to that time. In essence, the “Cambrian period” represents a “sudden explosion of life” in geological terms.
So how do evolutionists get around this?
Well, by using one of their favorite tricks. When something seems unbelievable they just stretch it over a long period of time.
Many evolutionists say that while it may “appear” that complex life suddenly appeared on earth, in reality the Cambrian explosion was about 50 million years long.
Of course this is a bunch of nonsense, and they still can’t produce any transitional fossils from before that time period or from during that time period, but nevertheless they persist in their delusions.
For much more on how complex life seemingly appeared on earth very suddenly and out of nowhere, please watch this YouTube video.
The truth is that complex life first appeared on the earth in a very sudden, explosive manner.
“The earliest and most primitive members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous series from one order to another known. In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed”
-Paleontologist George Gaylord
The reality is that complex life appears in the fossil record fully-formed and fully-functional….
A major problem in proving the theory has been the fossil record; the imprints of vanished species preserved in the Earth’s geological formations. This record has never revealed traces of Darwin’s hypothetical intermediate variants – instead species appear and disappear abruptly, and this anomaly has fueled the creationist argument that each species was created by God.
-Paleontologist Mark Czarnecki (an evolutionist)
There is no denying it.
There is no getting around it.
Even renowned atheist Richard Dawkins has really struggled with how to explain this phenomenon….
“It is as though they [fossils] were just planted there, without any evolutionary history. Needless to say this appearance of sudden planting has delighted creationists. Both schools of thought (Punctuationists and Gradualists) despise so-called scientific creationists equally, and both agree that the major gaps are real, that they are true imperfections in the fossil record. The only alternative explanation of the sudden appearance of so many complex animal types in the Cambrian era is divine creation and both reject this alternative.”
-Richard Dawkins, ‘The Blind Watchmaker’, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1996, pp. 229-230
Now which worldview does the sudden appearance of fully-formed, fully-functional complex life in the fossil record support?
It is all so clear if you are willing to use even an ounce of common sense.
#3 Evolutionists are at a complete and total loss when it comes to trying to explain the creation of new information that is required for one animal to turn into another animal.
Evolutionists cannot show us a single example of functional new information being added to any creature ever.
One creation scientist explains it this way….
“The key issue is the type of change required — to change microbes into men requires changes that increase the genetic information content, from over half a million DNA ‘letters’ of even the ‘simplest’ self-reproducing organism to three billion ‘letters’ (stored in each human cell nucleus).”
The truth is that species just don’t change. Future generations of dogs may have more hair or less hair, they may be a bit bigger or a bit smaller, they may be a little nicer or a little meaner, but they will never, ever sprout jet engines out of their behinds and learn to fly. It just is not going to happen.
Dogs are always going to be dogs.
Cats are always going to be cats.
People are always going to be people.
Evolutionist Stephen J. Gould of Harvard University put it this way during a lecture at Hobart & William Smith College….
“Every paleontologist knows that most species don’t change. That’s bothersome….brings terrible distress. ….They may get a little bigger or bumpier but they remain the same species and that’s not due to imperfection and gaps but stasis. And yet this remarkable stasis has generally been ignored as no data. If they don’t change, its not evolution so you don’t talk about it.”
The evidence for evolution simply is not there.
If you ever find yourself in a debate with an evolutionist, lay the following question on them and see what happens….
“Do you have enough blind faith to believe that life just popped into existence from nonlife, and that such life just happened to have the ability to take in the nourishment it needed, to expel waste, and to reproduce itself, all the while having everything it needed to survive in the environment in which it suddenly found itself?”
The truth is that evolutionists do not have a good answer for that question.
And here are four more questions that evolutionists do not have answers for:
1) Which evolved first: blood, the heart, or the blood vessels for the blood to travel through?
2) Which evolved first: the mouth, the stomach, the digestive fluids, or the ability to poop?
3) Which evolved first: the windpipe, the lungs, or the ability of the body to use oxygen?
4) Which evolved first: the bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or the muscles to move the bones?
Conceivably, you could continue this exercise forever. The reality is that the body has a huge variety of incredibly complex systems which completely rely on other incredibly complex systems in order to function. Evolutionists just tend to completely ignore this bit of common sense.
There are so many examples of irreducible complexity that you could write a whole series of books on the topic and just scratch the surface. For example, there are a whole host of extremely complicated chemical reactions which must occur in just the right order for blood clotting to take place. If one of these steps is missing, blood clotting simply will not work.
But without blood clotting, how did the first animals survive?
The following excerpt is from an article by Robert Harsh that describes the almost unbelievable intricacy of blood clotting….
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1. A cut occurs and Hageman Factor sticks to the surface of cells near the wound. Bound Hageman Factor reacts with another enzyme called HMK to produce Activated Hageman.
2. Pre Kallikrein reacts with Activated Hageman to produce Kallikrein.
3. Hageman Factor also reacts with HMK and Kallikrein to form Activated Hageman.
4. PTA reacts with Activated Hageman and HMK to produce Activated PTA.
5. Christmas Factor reacts with Activated PTA and Convertin to produce Activated Christmas Factor.
6. Antihemophilic Factor is activated by Thrombin to produce Activated Antihemophilic Factor.
7. Stuart Factor reacts with Activated Christmas Factor and Activated Antihemophilic Factor to produce Activated Stuart Factor.
8. Proconvertin is activated by Activated Hageman Factor to produce Convertin.
9. When a cut occurs, Tissue Factor (which is only found outside of cells) is brought in near the wound where it reacts with Convertin and Stuart Factor to produce Activated Stuart Factor. (Note that step 9 involves an extrinsic process whereas step 7 is an intrinsic process.)
10. Proaccelerin is activated by Thrombin to produce Accelerin.
11a. GLU-Prothrombin reacts with Prothrombin Enzyme and Vitamin K to produce GLA-Prothrombin. (Note that Prothrombin cannot be activated in the GLU form so it must be formed into the GLA form. In this process ten amino acids must be changed from glutamate to gama carboxy glutamate.)
11b. GLS-Prothrombin is then able to bind to Calcium. This allows GLA-Prothrombin to stick to surfaces of cells. Only intact modified Calcium-Prothrombin Complex can bind to the cell membrane and be cleaved by Activated Stuart and Accerlerin to produce Thrombin.
12. Prothrombin-Ca (bound to cell surface) is activated by Activated Stuart to produce Thrombin.
13.Prothrombin also reacts with Activated Stuart and Accelerin to produce Thrombin. (Step 13 is much faster than step 12.)
14. Fibrinogin is activated by Thrombin to produce Fibrin. Threads of Fibrin are the final clot. However, it would be more effective if the Fibrin threads could form more cross links with each other.
15. FSF (Fibrin Stabilizing Factor) is activated by Thrombin to form Activated FSF.
16. When Fibrin reacts with Activated FSF many more cross ties are made with other Fibrin filaments to form a more effective clot.
Well now, I am wondering to myself whether you are experiencing frustration or intrigue, weariness, or excitement. There are a lot of details but let me ask you a leading question. Is this intricate system something that man developed or is it something that man has discovered? Blood clotting is not an invention of man. It is the invention of either God or “Mother Nature” (i.e., it invented itself). Regardless of how you believe the clotting cascade came to be, the fact remains that blood clotting is a clear example of irreducible complexity.
Let us next consider that this irreducibly complex system of blood clotting must have a way to remove the clot once the wound has healed. How is this done?
17a. A blood protein, Plasminogin is activated by + – Pa to produce Plasmin. This acts like tiny chemical scissors which cuts up the Fibrin filaments of the clot.
17b. The rate at which the clot is broken up is controlled by yet another blood protein named Alpha 2 Antiplasm, which in turn inactivates Plasmin. One of the most important parts of this whole blood clotting machine is the ability it has to keep the clotting localized to the area of the wound and to stop the clotting cascade. What is the biggest killer of human beings? That’s right, blood clots. Most heart attacks and strokes are caused by blood clots lodging. I believe the way your body shuts down the clotting cascade is as fascinating as the clotting process itself.
18. Antithrombin inactivates Activated Christmas, Activated Stuart and Thrombin.
19. Protein C is activated by Thrombin to produce Activated Protein C.
20. Activated Protein C inactivates Accelerin and Activated Antihemophilic.
21. Finally, Thrombomodulin which lines the inside of your blood vessels prevents Thrombin from activating Fibrinogin.
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Are you starting to get the picture?
So how did blood clotting possibly evolve?
Which of the steps evolved first?
How did “evolution” know that all the rest of the steps were needed?
And there are literally thousands of other examples just like this.
When you really get down to analyzing it, it is just not too difficult to disprove evolution.
In addition, if evolution is true, then where in the world are all the bones? If the theory of Darwinism is even remotely accurate, we should be absolutely swimming in bones….
Today the population grows at 2% per year. If we set the population growth rate at just 0.5% per year, then total population reduces to zero at about 4500 years ago. If the first humans lived 1,000,000 years ago, then at this 0.5% growth rate, we would have 10^2100 (ten with 2100 zeroes following it) people right now. If the present population was a result of 1,000,000 years of human history, then several trillion people must have lived and died since the emergence of our species. Where are all the bones? And finally, if the population was sufficiently small until only recently, then how could a correspondingly infinitesimally small number of mutations have evolved the human race?
So where did all the bones go?
Can you answer that question?
In addition, I have issued a standing challenge to all evolutionists, skeptics and atheists to go and try to debunk these videos….
If you can actually debunk those videos then you are better than any evolutionist I have ever met.
The truth is that the more you investigate it, the more you discover that the science actually backs up creationism.
“Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever. In explaining evolution, we do not have one iota of fact.”
-Dr. T. N. Tahmisian (Atomic Energy Commission, USA) in “The Fresno Bee”, August 20, 1959. As quoted by N. J. Mitchell, Evolution and the Emperor’s New Clothes, Roydon Publications, UK, 1983, title page.
“Evolutionism is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless.”
-Professor Louis Bounoure, past president of the Biological Society of Strassbourg, Director of the Strassbourg Zoological Museum and Director of Research at the French National Center of Scientific Research.
The truth is that even world famous atheist Richard Dawkins admits that it is “possible” that we were intelligently designed. He is just convinced that it was definitely not God that did the designing….
So after reading all of this do you still believe in the theory of evolution?
Do you actually still believe that the science supports Darwinism?
Are you starting to see that things may not be as clear cut as you have been taught in the past?
Are you beginning to understand how easy it is to disprove evolution?
In the end, what all of us should want is the truth. Perhaps we can all learn from each other. Please feel free to post a comment below with your contribution to the creation/evolution debate….
Yet another survey has been released that reveals how shockingly little Americans know about religion in general and Christianity in particular. It is called the “U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey” and it was conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. According to the survey, 86% of Americans believe in God or at least in some form of “higher power”, but when it comes to the specifics of what various religions actually believe, most Americans are blindingly ignorant. Perhaps this should be no surprise considering the rate at which our society is becoming secularized, but you would think that the American people would still have a little basic knowledge about Christianity and some of the other major religions around the world. But they do not. On average, respondents of the survey answered half of the questions wrong. Only 2% of those surveyed were able to answer at least 29 of the 32 questions correctly. And the sad thing is that these were not difficult questions. They were the kind of questions that any half-educated numbskull should be able to answer with ease.
But today most Americans do not care about religion or about God.
In fact, while most Americans still identify themselves as “Christians”, the truth is that most Americans are seemingly complete dunces when it comes to even the most basic facts about the Christian faith.
In fact, do you want to know what group scored the highest on the survey?
Atheists and agnostics.
Not that they did incredibly well – it is just that everyone else was just shockingly ignorant.
The following is a sampling of what the survey found….
*Only 19% of all U.S. Protestants knew the basic Christian tenet that salvation is through faith in Christ alone.
*Just 55% of respondents knew that the Golden Rule is not one of the Ten Commandments.
*Only 45% of those responding to the survey could name all four of the gospels. The correct answer: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
*45% of all Roman Catholics did not know that, according to Catholic doctrine, the bread and wine used during the Mass is not just a symbol, but rather literally becomes the body and blood of Jesus.
*Over half of all Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the individual that inspired the Protestant Reformation.
*Only 8% of all respondents knew that Maimonides, one of the most famous rabbis in history, was Jewish.
*Just 54% of the respondents could identify the Quran as Islam’s holy book.
*Fewer than half of the respondents correctly knew that the Dalai Lama is Buddhist.
How disturbing is that?
Most Americans know all about American Idol, Dancing with the Stars and their favorite sports teams, but they can’t correctly answer even the most basic factual questions about faith and religion.
We have a major, major problem.
So was there any question that almost all respondents got right?
Yes, 89% of those surveyed knew that public school teachers cannot lead their classes in prayer.
Isn’t that sad?
If there is one thing that Americans know about religion it is that it must be kept out of the classroom at all costs.
That is how far we have fallen as a society.
And the truth is that we are losing younger Americans at a staggering pace.
According to a survey by America’s Research Group, 95 percent of 20 to 29 year old evangelicals attended church regularly during their elementary and middle school years. However, only 55 percent of them attended church regularly during high school, and only 11 percent of them were still regularly attending church when they got to college.
Yes, you read the correctly.
11 percent.
When young evangelicals finally have the opportunity to decide things for themselves, they are deciding to leave our churches in droves.
In fact, young Americans are abandoning all religions in unprecedented numbers.
According to the American Religious Identification Survey by the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture at Trinity College, 46% of Americans between the ages of 18 to 34 say that they have no religion.
46 percent.
Overall, only 15 percent of Americans say that they have no religion.
So for 46 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 to 34 to say that they have no religion is extremely troubling.
We are losing an entire generation.
The Christian faith is in a state of deep, deep decline in the United States and it is time to stop denying it.
So what do you think about all of this? Feel free to leave a comment below with your opinion….
Has the Israeli government already decided that they will be giving away East Jerusalem to the Palestinians in peace talks? Unfortunately, there is every indication that is exactly what is going to happen and that Israel plans to give up control over the holy sites in Jerusalem as well.
In an absolutely shocking interview with Israel’s Haaretz newspaper on the eve of the peace talks in Washington, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak made the following statement….
“West Jerusalem and 12 Jewish neighborhoods that are home to 200,000 residents will be ours. The Arab neighborhoods in which close to a quarter million Palestinians live will be theirs. There will be a special regime in place along with agreed upon arrangements in the Old City, the Mount of Olives and the City of David.”
It is important to note that this is not some minor official in the Israeli government talking here. This is Ehud Barak – the Israeli Defense Minister.
He seems to have a very clear understanding that the Israeli government is fully prepared to give up East Jerusalem.
And the truth is that the Palestinians will absolutely not accept a “peace agreement” that does not include East Jerusalem, and both the EU and the United States both assume that a peace agreement will include handing over East Jerusalem to the Palestinians.
Not only that, but Barak said that he believes that the holy sites in Jerusalem will be administered by a “special regime” after a peace agreement is reached.
Now what in the world does that mean? There have been rumors for quite some time that the holy sites would be turned over to international control of some sort or another, and it now seems that the Israeli government is more than willing to give them away.
And for what?
A promise of peace by the Palestinians?
When have they ever kept their promises before?
The stunning concessions that Barak believes the Israeli government is prepared to agree to are absolutely mind blowing. The following is a brief excerpt from the interview with Barak in Haaretz….
What are the principles of a peace deal that you believe can be agreed upon by the conclusion of the talks?
“Two states for two nations; an end to the conflict and the end of all future demands; the demarcation of a border that will run inside the Land of Israel, and within that border will lie a solid Jewish majority for generations and on the other side will be a demilitarized Palestinian state but one that will be viable politically, economically, and territorially; keeping the settlement blocs in our hands; retrieving and relocating the isolated settlements into the settlement blocs or within Israel; a solution to the refugee problem [whereby refugees return to] the Palestinian state or are rehabilitated by international aid; comprehensive security arrangements and a solution to the Jerusalem problem.”
So that’s it?
The Palestinians get a Palestinian state?
The Palestinians get East Jerusalem?
Israel gives up control of the holy sites?
And Israel gets a promise of peace that is not worth the paper it is written on?
Already it seems as though progress is being made in the negotiations that are taking place in Washington. The Israelis and Palestinians have agreed to work towards a “framework agreement” over the next few months as a “first step” to a full peace treaty.
According to U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell, the purpose of the framework is to establish the compromises which will be made by both sides….
“The purpose of a framework agreement will be to establish the fundamental compromises necessary to enable them to flesh out and complete a comprehensive treaty that will end the conflict and establish a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.”
Or in other words, the “framework agreement” will set forth the very deep concessions that Israel is making and only require the Palestinians to offer a vague promise of peace.
At this point, Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas have agreed to hold another round of meetings on September 14th and 15th. It is believed that these meetings will be held in Egypt.
Isn’t that fitting?
Israel always seems to want to go back to Egypt.
Israel always seems to want to give away parts of the promised land.
The upcoming September talks are also going to include U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell. The United States is playing a central role in this “peace process” and that is a very bad thing.
For example, has anyone noticed that Hurricane Earl has been raging just off the east coast of the United States as these negotiations have been taking place?
The truth is that God gave the land of Israel to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob forever.
No man has the right to ever give it away.
Anyone who tries to give it away is coming directly against God.
Psalm 105:8-11 says the following….
He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant: Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance
The land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel.
Any effort to give it away is foolish and will only bring the wrath of God.
In the end, the people of Israel will have all of the land that God has promised.
But in the meanwhile, Jerusalem will continue to be a “burdensome stone” and the land of Israel will continue to be carved up by world leaders.
Please pray for the land of Israel and for the peace of Jerusalem in these last days.
Many times Christians in America speak of the persecution that is coming someday. But the truth is that intense persecution of Christians is already here. According to a new report from the Pew Research Center, two out of every three people in the world now live in countries where religion is highly restricted. Governments around the globe are regularly killing Christians, torturing Christians and imprisoning Christians in absolutely horrific conditions. But it isn’t just governments that are persecuting Christians. Jihadist groups throughout the Islamic world have taken it upon themselves to slaughter those who commit “blasphemy” by preaching the gospel. The truth is that it is a very dangerous time to be a Christian, and things are only going to get even more intense as we get deeper into the last days.
Things are really getting frightening out there. Just consider a few of the recent reports of Christian persecution from around the globe….
*Christian organizations around the world are expressing outrage over the killing of ten Christian medical workers who were serving the poor in the northeastern province of Badakhshan in Afghanistan. According to reports, the Christian medical workers were killed by jihadists for “spying for the Americans” and for “preaching Christianity”.
*Two brothers were recently shot dead by Islamic extremists outside a courtroom in the Pakistani’s Punjab province. The brothers were facing blasphemy charges after allegedly distributing gospel pamphlets.
*A Christian pastor in the Russian republic of Dagestan known for founding the biggest Protestant church in the region and for successfully sharing the gospel with Muslims was recently shot and killed by unidentified gunmen.
*Christians in Bhutan were disheartened to learn that the government there has proposed the kind of “anti-conversion law” that other nations have used as a pretext for persecuting Christians and shutting down the sharing of the gospel.
But it just isn’t in other areas of the world where Christianity is being persecuted. The truth is that Christians are now being heavily persecuted inside the United States itself….
*A newly filed lawsuit against Augusta State University in Georgia alleges that university officials essentially gave a graduate student in counseling the choice of either giving up her Christian beliefs or being expelled from the program.
*Two other Christians were arrested recently for sharing the gospel and singing hymns on a public sidewalk outside an Islamic mosque in the city of Philadelphia.
So would you continue preaching the gospel if it meant that you would be put in jail?
That is something to think about.
The sad thing is that most American Christians don’t preach the gospel anyway.
In fact, for most Americans, God is not a very important part of their lives at all. According to a brand new study by the Barna Group, only 12 percent of American adults say that faith is a top priority in their lives.
Only 12 percent?
Unfortunately, even many of those Americans that do consider faith to be important have been completely lulled to sleep by their “shepherds”.
All over the United States, Christians are being taught by their “life coaches” to “live their best lives now” while millions of other Christians throughout the world are literally risking their lives to advance the gospel.
Christians across America better start waking up. The last days are upon us and a time is coming when Christians are going to be killed in staggering numbers. We all need to decide right now what we are willing to give up for the sake of Christ.
An event has just occurred that the rest of the world has not taken much notice of yet, but it is one that will soon have Bible prophecy students buzzing with anticipation. There has been a major discovery of oil in Israel. An Israeli oil prospecting and production firm has formally announced the discovery of a “commercially sized” oil field in central Israel. Ever since it became a nation again in 1948, Israel has been importing all of the oil that it needs, so needless to say this is potentially an incredibly exciting development. For years, many Bible prophecy teachers have believed that oil would be discovered in Israel in the last days, but up until now there hasn’t been much to report.
Now there is.
A recent article in Haaretz provided some more details on this new discovery….
Givot Olam Oil Ltd notified the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange of the find in its “Megev Five” drill near the town of Rosh Ha’ayin, saying it can produce 470 barrels of oil a day.
But this has not been the only major discovery in Israel in recent years. In January 2009, Nobel Drilling announced that they had found a massive natural gas field approximately 60 to 90 miles offshore from Israel. The firm says that the field contains enough natural gas to supply everything that Israel needs for the next 10 or 20 years.
Things are changing.
So will these new discoveries fundamentally change the politics of the Middle East?
Are we seeing Bible prophecy being fulfilled right before our eyes?
For years, there have been some Bible teachers that have pointed to scriptures such as Deuteronomy 33:24 as evidence that Israel would someday be blessed with oil….
“And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.”
The truth is that there is a lot of debate about the “oil” passages throughout the Bible, but these new discoveries are certainly strengthening the case of those who strongly believe there is a lot of oil in Israel.
So could the discovery of oil in Israel end up being one of the things that sparks the next war in the Middle East?
Only time will tell.
But one thing is for sure – we certainly do live in extraordinary times.
The Scriptures tell us that in the last days there will be wars and rumors of wars, and that is certainly true of the times that we are living in today. Iran’s nuclear program continues to advance, and world leaders around the globe are becoming increasingly alarmed. In fact, even Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is now warning that Iran is close to having the potential to build a nuclear weapon. For years, Russia has been one of Iran’s most vigorous defenders on the world scene, but now even the Russian government is expressing reservations about what is going on in that country. That should set off alarm bells for all of us.
Not only that, but now even Arab nations are expressing concern about Iran’s nuclear program. For example, the United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States recently said that it would be extremely difficult for his nation to coexist with a nuclear Iran and that it would support any actions the U.S. took to prevent such a possibility.
The UAE would support a U.S. military strike on Iran?
But does being able to produce nuclear power mean that Iran is also planning to develop nuclear weapons?
The truth is that we all know the answer to that question.
In fact, a former of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard who relayed its secret operations to the CIA for 10 years says that Iran will commit the “most horrendous suicide bombing in human history” if it is not stopped from developing nuclear weapons.
So who is going to stop them?
The United States?
That seems quite likely as long as Barack Obama is running things.
Israel?
Perhaps.
For now, Israel has been trying to talk peace with the Palestinians, but they are also preparing for war.
The world has certainly been trying to push Israel and the Palestinians to the negotiating table, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed interest in sitting down with them. Netanyahu says that he believes that direct talks with the Palestinians will begin very soon and he recently predicted that they will be “very, very tough”.
But on another occasion recently, Netanyahu said that he does not envision actually reaching a negotiated Middle East peace settlement within the next two years, despite his Palestinian counterpart’s declared intentions to set up infrastructure for a state by 2011.
So it looks like Netanyahu expects peace talks with the Palestinians to begin soon, but he is not anticipating that they will bear any fruit in the foreseeable future.
Not that any of the other “peace agreements” with the Palestinians have ever worked out.
In the end, war always ends up breaking out again.
And war tensions are certainly on the rise in the region once again.
Debka is reporting that 20,000 Hezbollah troops have advanced and are dug into 160 new positions in South Lebanon. Israel is believed to be “preparing something” for Lebanon and Hezbollah is on high alert to prevent it, unnamed sources in the group were quoted by London-based newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat as saying recently.
In addition, according to the Palestinian Authority daily newspaper Al-Hayat al-Jadida, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas recently told Arab leaders that the PA is ready to wage war on Israel if the rest of the Arab world does. The following is what Abbas reportedly told them….
“If you want war, and if all of you will fight Israel, we are in favor. But the Palestinians will not fight alone because they don’t have the ability to do it.”
To the world media, Abbas talks about peace, peace, peace, but to his fellow Arab leaders he says that the Palestinian Authority is ready for war with Israel.
What a hypocrite.
The truth is that even if a “peace agreement” is reached, and even if a “Palestinian state” is created, more wars in the Middle East are inevitable.
These are the last days, and wars are going to continue until the end. The only time that there is going to be true peace is after the King of Kings, the Messiah, returns to this earth and sets up His kingdom in Jerusalem.
Right away it is important to warn you that the premise of this article is highly controversial. Throughout history, God has always dealt very harshly with anyone who has turned their backs on Israel. In fact, as we will document below, God has dealt very harshly with the United States on a number of occasions when the U.S. has been involved in the dividing of the land of Israel. God gave the promised land to the people of Israel forever, and nobody has the right to give one inch of that land away. But the Scriptures tell us that in the last days that is exactly what is going to happen. The truth is that world leaders never learn. They are still messing with the land of Israel just like they always have throughout history. However, those nations who do mess with Israel have often found themselves cursed. So is the Gulf of Mexico oil spill a curse that has been brought upon us because Barack Obama is trying to divide the land of Israel?
The truth is that we don’t have a definitive answer for that question. Only God can tell us exactly why something happens. But below we will detail the evidence for why these two things may be connected.
Barack Obama And The Division Of The Land Of Israel
Barack Obama has rapidly become the most anti-Israel president in U.S. history. In fact, it was reported in the international media on April 30th that Barack Obama had already decided that if Israel and the Palestinians have not agreed to a peace agreement by the end of the year, the Middle East peace process will be handed over to the international community and a final solution will be imposed on both parties.
In fact, Haaretz reported on April 30th that Barack Obama had already conferred with “several European leaders” at that point and that it had been decided that the “international peace conference” would be run by the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers – the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia – and the goal would be to forge a united global front for creating a Palestinian state.
So if this was being reported on April 30th, and Barack Obama had already spent a good amount of time talking with European leaders about this plan prior to that date, then it seems quite likely that Obama had started implementing this new Middle East strategy at least a week or two earlier.
Coincidentally, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on April 20th, 2010.
Before you convince yourself that the two events are unrelated, keep reading the rest of the article.
The truth is that God does not like it when anyone tries to take the land of Israel and give to to someone else.
And that is exactly what Barack Obama’s plan would do.
If Obama’s plan is implemented, the international community will almost certainly come up with the “final solution” that the UN, the EU and Barack Obama have been seeking all along – a Palestinian state along pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
So now the Palestinians have absolutely no incentive to negotiate with Israel at all.
The reality is that the Palestinians can just sit back, allow the negotiations to fail, and still get a Palestinian state with a capital in East Jerusalem just like they always wanted anyway.
“If you enforce a time limit and then introduce an imposed solution if they don’t succeed after a period, then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: you’re going to guarantee the talks won’t succeed.”
Not that Israel should be considering giving away one single inch of the promised land anyway.
But now the Palestinians will just sit back and wait for the international community to give them the state that they have been promised along with a capital in East Jerusalem.
The sad truth is that Barack Obama has been promising them a Palestinian state for a long time. According to WorldNetDaily, Barack Obama told the Palestinian leadership all the way back in 2008 that he supports a Palestinian state with a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem.
So why in the world would the Palestinians be willing to accept anything less from Israel?
Meanwhile, Barack Obama and his administration are bringing a curse on to the United States of America.
Examples Of Horrific Disasters That Have Occurred At Times The U.S. Has Been Involved In Dividing Up The Land Of Israel
In a previous article, we detailed what has happened before when the U.S. government has tried to divide the land of Israel….
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In the Scriptures, we are warned that the city of Jerusalem would one day become a huge stumbling stone for the nations in Zechariah 12:3…..
“On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.”
Is that not what has happened?
The truth is that God gave that land to Israel long ago, and now that He has started to bring His people back to the land, anyone who tries to give it away is going to be under a curse.
So is there any evidence of a curse on those who try to divide the land of Israel today?
Yes.
Consider these examples…..
#1) On April 30, 2003, America was positioned to be the catalyst for the so-called “solution” to the Middle East crisis. As Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas was sworn in, the “Road Map” peace plan was set in motion.
The very next day began the worst month of tornadoes in United States history – more than 500 in a single month. Under normal conditions, 1,000 tornadoes hit the United States each year, but in just eight days that May, 375 twisters ripped across the heartland of America.
#2) May 9, 2003, President Bush addressed students at the University of South Carolina. Bush called on the Palestinians to embrace the roadmap to peace, and Bush expressed his desire to see the flag of Palestine raised over a free nation.
Hours later, tornadoes returned and Oklahoma City again became the target for deadly twisters, reducing many businesses and homes to splinters and bricks. The tornadoes of May devastated the Midwest with the third worst property damage in American history.
#3) On October 30, 1991, in a meeting scheduled by George H.W. Bush, Israelis and Palestinians discussed ways to achieve peace in the Middle East. Opening talks focused on trading parts of Israel for a peace agreement.
That same day, thousands of miles away, a powerful storm was brewing off of the coast of Nova Scotia. On October 31st, what would be known as “The Perfect Storm” smashed into New England, pummeling the President’s Kennebunkport, Maine home with waves 30 feet high. It was a storm so rare that the weather patterns required to create it only happen about once every 100 years.
#4) On August 23rd, 1992, Middle East peace talks resumed in Washington, D.C. with hope that there would be a great breakthrough. These talks focused on surrendering the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria in exchange for peace. Hundreds of miles south of there at the same time, Florida was the target for one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. Hurricane Andrew ripped through the state with an eye more than 30 miles wide and winds up to 178 miles per hour leaving behind a 32 billion dollar disaster.
#5) Between August 16th and 30th, 2005, Ariel Sharon expelled 9,480 Jewish settlers from 21 settlements in Gaza and four settlements in the northern West Bank.
On January 4th, 2006, Sharon had a stroke, and he fell into a coma and is now in a persistent vegetative state.
#6) The U.S. had strongly pressured Sharon to evacuate those settlers from Gaza.
On August 29th, 2005 the storm that would become Hurricane Katrina formed, and it devastated New Orleans and the surrounding areas to such an extent that they still have not recovered. That devastating storm caused at least 200 billion dollars in damage.
#7) In June of 2001, George W. Bush sent CIA director George Tenet to Israel in an attempt to implement the Mitchell Plan. The Mitchell plan called for, among other things, the cessation of new building in the Jewish settlements.
On the same day that Tenet met with Israeli and Palestinian officials, tropical storm Allison formed in the Gulf of Mexico and moved over Texas, the President’s home state, and dropped over 28 inches of rain over the Houston area alone, causing over $4 billion dollars in damage. The storm then moved to Florida and up the east coast causing damage as far as Pennsylvania. The meteorologists called Allison the “worst tropical storm in history”.
There are many more examples of this phenomenon here:
In the book of Joel, God warns specifically against dividing the land of Israel.
Joel 3:1-2 states, “…I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of my people and my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up my land.”
You just cannot go against the Word of God and win.
So is the Gulf of Mexico oil spill a curse on the United States for trying to divide up the land of Israel?
Or could it just be a coincidence?
Could all of the examples cited above just be a string of coincidences?
You make the call.
****UPDATE****
A YouTube video has been posted by Carl Gallups of Hickory Hammock Baptist Church in Milton, Florida that examines this same idea. A copy of the video is posted below. In the video, Gallups points to April 19th as being the key date, which is very interesting.
“April the 19th, Israel celebrates its independence in 2010,” Gallups explains in the video. “On April the 19th, Fox News reports that the U.S. will no longer automatically support Israel in the United Nations. The next day, on April the 20th, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes. Coincidence? Or the hand and judgment of God?”
So is this even more evidence that our treatment of Israel is linked to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico? Watch the video for yourself and decide….
