Over two years ago we noted the use of economics as a weapon of global war against the U.S., as the

Casualties of war. Economic realities are magnfied when nations use currency, credit, and commodities as weapons of war

nations opposed ot the United States, namely Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and others sought to destabilize our currency. While the current economic collapse has been made possible by the usury and corruption within the U.S., the unnatural swings in currency and commodity prices such as oil point clearly to geo-strategic use of the crises by other nations.

The West, in particular the United States, has fired its weapons back in the form of collapsing oil prices. Oil industry expert Jim Norman argues in his well-researched book “The Oil Card – Oil as Economic Warfare“   that the United States manipulates the price of oil as an economic weapon against countries such as Russia and China.

This type of war has a nasty way of becoming an “iron” war. Russia’s actions against Georgia involved control of and destruction of key oil pipelines and equipment.  On January 1 Russia’s state controlled

Russia cut off gas supply to Ukraine and the rest of Europe in a growing response to energy price manipulation in the economic war between world powers.

Gazprom shut off the major natural gas pipeline into Europe in the middle of the coldest winter in many years as Russian oil revenue evaporated overnight, threatening Putin’s dictatorship.  This time the American counterattack of oil price manipulation hit, but it is stirring up the Russian bear.

With nations pushed to the brink by this economic battle, it forces them to desperate measures, which almost always have a military aspect.  In this case, it falls right into the prophetic.  The Bible describes a situation where Russia is forced to make alliances and fight a war against Israel:

I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.
Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
Ezekiel 38:4-5

Besides oil, weaponry is the only other major asset that Russia produces. Now, devoid of its oil revenue, desperate Russia is making alliances with the very group of nations predicted in Ezekiel 38. Russia’s customers include Iran (Persia), Ethiopia, Libya, Syria, Sudan, and others, all who swear the the destruction of Israel.

I do not know the timing of this war, but it is clear that economic warfare is hastening the conditions for these prophetic conflicts.

This humanistic education cannot wipe anti-semitism because it is not from a lack of reading philosophy.  Anti-semitism is a blatant demonstration of the spiritual reality that exists despite the materialism of leftist ideology.  The Jews are hated because this world is fallen, both with mankind’s inherent depravity and a very real non-human forces of evil under the command of a powerful multi-dimensional entity called by many human names.

They are hated because the very miraculous survival of the Jewish people through thousands of years of diaspora is evidence of a God – a God who came to this earth 2000 years ago in Christ and will come again to sit on the throne of this world from the land of His birth. God has not forgotten the Jewish people, despite the liberal theology of mainstream “Churchianity” that claims the church has replaced Israel. 

As a Christian, I am shamed that those who call themselves Christians would once again set up a religious system that would tolerate the politics used in this new Nazism. This comes not only from the social left of the church but also the paranoid conspiracies of some who see Jewish plans involved in their imagined scenarios.  Satan loves both sides here, because they all point to the continuation of his extermination of God’s signature upon humanity.

Please realize that I do not blindly support all that Israel does; their secular embrace of humanism has left them blinded.  The discotheques of Tel Aviv imitate the very debased immortality of America and Europe that would usher in a new Auschwitz. 

From http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/Gaza_Tensions_Europe.htm:

Following is a selection of anti-Semitic incidents that have occurred in Europe since Israel’s Gaza incursion. 

Belgium: 
• Two synagogues and a Jewish home were attacked with Molotov cocktails. 
• Belgian Jewish leaders say they have received dozens of death threats. 
• Jewish stores and a Jewish school were vandalized.

Denmark:
• Two Israelis were shot by a Dane of Palestinian descent.

France:
• A burning car with a Molotov cocktail was rammed into the door of a Toulouse synagogue, while a rabbi was leading a class inside. 
• A 29-year-old Jewish man was attacked at a Paris subway station by a gang of about 20 people who yelled “Palestine will win.” 
• In Bordeaux, two kosher food shops were vandalized.
• A car at the synagogue in Toulon was burned.

Germany:
• Several anti-Israel protesters were arrested for illegal anti-Semitic banners at a demonstration, and Berlin’s Holocaust memorial was vandalized with anti-Semitic slogans and swastikas.

Greece:
• The leader of a far-right party published an editorial that accused Israel of acting in Gaza like the Nazis, claiming that such could be expected of Jews because they are “Christ-killers.”  The editorial also included the phrase, “it is known all over the world that a Jew smells of blood.” 
• A synagogue in Volos was defaced with graffiti that read: “The state of Israel murders – whose side are you on?”

Ireland:
• The Irish Times published a cartoon (“Final Solution,” Jan. 2) clearly equating Israel’s military operation against Hamas with the Holocaust.

Netherlands:
• At an anti-Israel rally in Amsterdam that included the participation of a Dutch legislator, the crowd chanted, “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas.”

Spain:
• Anti-Israel demonstrations in Barcelona, Valencia, and Sevilla included signs that equated Israel with Nazi Germany.

Sweden:
• A Molotov cocktail was thrown into the synagogue in Helsingfors.

Switzerland:
• Anti-Israel protesters carried signs equating Israel with Nazi Germany.

Turkey:
• On January 4, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan accused Israel of atrocities and predicted divine punishment, saying Israel was “perpetrating inhuman actions which would bring it to self-destruction. Allah will sooner or later punish those who transgress the rights of innocents.”  Two days later, an Israeli basketball team in Turkey fled from the court into the dressing room, because the crowd became threatening, calling them “killers.”

United Kingdom:
• The Community Security Trust reports over 25 anti-Semitic incidents since December 29, 2008, including an arson attempt against a synagogue in the Brondesbury section of London. 
• Other synagogues were vandalized with anti-Semitic slogans, including “Kill Jews” and “Jihad 4 Israel”
• A Jewish community center was spray-painted with pro-Hamas slogans. 
• In London, a Jewish man was pulled from a car and beaten by three men, reportedly of Arab descent. 
• Jewish shops were attacked by Arab youths who reportedly shouted anti-Israel slogans

It is said in the Bible that the Earth was filled with violence in the days of Noah.  Jesus said the end times would be like the Days of Noah. 

The signs of increasing violence and lawlessness are now apparent for even the skeptic to see. True, the world has always seen areas of horrible violence; wars, genocide.  However, in the last 100 years, violence has grown exponentially, even compared to the bloody past.  Now, even areas once considered “safe” are not immune. Here’s just a few examples.

Children as Targets

In the growing violence of Mexican drug wars “hitmen from Mexico’s drug gangs are breaking traditional codes of honour by killing children, in a chilling new chapter of a narcotics war that President Felipe Calderon is struggling to control.” (The Age)  School shootings are a continuing plague that has affected American and even highly controlled European suburbia.  Russian dictator Vladamir Putin used the terrorist hostage massacre of Russian schoolchildren in 2004 to consolidate his power.

The Rise of International Gangs

MS-13 is not just a dangerous street gang, but they represent an international terrorist sub-culture steeped in open Satanic worship.  From Alaska to South American, gangs like MS-13 have spread like a virus, there is no corner of the western hemisphere where this gang and its clones are not involved in brutal violence and crime.  If the U.S. enters a period of civil unreset due to ecomonic conditions and terrorists attacks, watch for these gangs take control of vast urban areas.  Refer to this documentary.

Terrorism

The growth of terrorism is apparent to all, and it has been steadily growing in power and scope. No longer content with hijacking and hostage taking, terrorism in the 21st century attacks the infrastructure of entire nations. From destroying massive skyscrapers in New York to taking over major sections of huge cities like Mumbai, this force is eroding at the very foundation of freedom.

Piracy

Now that pirates have seized one of the largest oil tankers in the world, people are noticing a problem that has really has been growing for the last several decades.  These high-tech bloodthirsty pirates take their booty and feed back into international terrorism and criminal networks.  All busy shipping lanes  are fast becoming targets for this scourge. No longer limited to areas like Somalia, or Southeast asia, these pirates are a new bluewater criminal navy with high tech resources and deadly modern firepower.  

The Man of Lawlessness

This all is a prelude to a coming world leader who will have a false answer to an unprecendented growing level of violence and war. This man will be a false-Christ and people will look to him for hope.  Let me go on the record to say I do not think president elect Obama is this man, but I think the irrational, unbridled worship that people directed towards Obama is but a tiny hint of the worship they will direct to the man. 

The Real Answer

The real answer to this violence is Christ.  Christ will return to this earth someday, and it is only He that offers both personal and International peace.

 Make no mistake, while you may not see Chinese troops on the street corners, or see their aircraft surveilling our citizens, our national sovereignty has been compromised. We can only blame ourselves as a nation. The bureaucrats who bought votes using the subprime rape of the American coffers via the handout institutions called Fannie May and Freddie Mac, are surely but one major factor.

 For those of you who question this assertion, saying that surely China would never follow through on economic threats that would jeopardize its own prosperity, realize that we are not talking about a Democratic slave master here. To further its own ends, the ruling elite of Communist China would most certainly sacrifice the prosperity of its brave citizenry in order to achieve its strategic art-of-war ends. However, China knows that we will baulk at this game of chicken.

 The change in foreign policy will be subtle at first, but this new America-on-the-chain of China will slowly placate to its eastern masters. Watch for a more compromising Taiwan, as the Red Pax China spreads its way across the Pacific as surely as Imperial Japan’s vision of the “East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere”  of the 1930s. The difference of course, is China never had to fire a shot.  They needed no military Pearl Harbor, but settled for our own  economic erosion via the never ending spend free welfare brought on by Lyndon B Johnson’s Great Society. On the very week of one of the most dramatic stock market crashes in American history, they launched a much heralded historic space-walk mission.  The symbolism was hard to ignore.

 The only path out of this would be a massive change in American society towards personal responsibility, traditional American values based on God, and the technological ingenuity that very much still exists in concentrated pockets in America. It is very possible America could spin on its heels and march to the tool shed of its traditional values. Prayer and time will tell this story.

The fact remains a great Asian empire is predicted to appear on the world stage:

And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. Rev 16:12 ( Emphasis mine )

We are now building the first of three CBRNE Consequence Management Response Forces,” said USNORTHCOM Commander Gen. Gene Renuart. “On the first of October, we’ll have an organized force, a trained force, an equipped force, a force that has adequate command and control and is on quick response – 48 hours – to head off to a large-scale nuclear, chemical, biological event that might require Department of Defense support. (http://www.northcom.mil/News/2008/093008.html)

In addition to this deployment, the US Northern command has also redeployed 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team ”as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.”

 Here in Southern California, the increased military activity has been evident by a dramatic increase of military aircraft, particularly UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, including some very loud maneuvering during the night hours.

The conspiracy circles run rampant with discussions of internment camps, but I believe that the brave men and women of the Northern Command are honestly focused on defending the continental United States. However, our enemies have us in their crosshairs. 

Let’s be clear, there are many threats to the United States during this time. When a country is perceived as weak because of the economic crisis, our enemies have increased their tempo.  The Russian fascist dictatorship is conducting exercises both over the northern regions of the United States, and to the southern Caribbean area in coordination with the Venezuelans.  These exercises include live firing of nuclear capable missiles from strategic bombers including exercises close to U.S. airspace in Alaska.

The terrorist threat is probably more complex than it has ever been, with not only Al Qaeda, but also Iranian, Hezboallah, and natural born Americans turned to Islamic fascists in our midst. The U.S. election timeframe is a tempting target.

There is no doubt coordination with criminal street gangs, such as MS-13.  The Russian tactic is to work with the existing enemy to form an irregular force to conduct terroristic crimes and social disruption.  We can see this effort on our Southern flanks in Mexico, which is suffering from the full blown war with criminal gangs with ties to communists. 

Bottom line.  Please prepare you and your family NOW for potential disruption due to terrorist attacks or even enemy inspired social unrest. Refer to this preparation guide >>