World War! – and the Weapons are Economic (for now)

The collapse of the credit market was exacerbated if not initiated by the use of economic realities as a weapon of war between nations. Realize that as you see layoffs, empty homes, it is not only an economic cycle, but casualties of an intensifying war as sure as if bombs were dropped on our cities.

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

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

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.

It’s Happening Again – The New Wave of Anti-Semitic Hatred

With Israel’s incrusion in Gaza, Israel’s delayed reaction to the hundreds of deadly rockets fired at its citizens is showing how the dark forces of anti-semitic hatred are once again festering to the surface worldwide.  In Europe, with Hitler a distant abstract memory, over 60 years of humanistic, leftist pacifism has failed to deal with the supernaturally driven evil that targets one small group of people and their tiny swath of prophetic land.  Beatings, intimidation, fire bombings, and crowds screaming Nazi death slogans (see full list below) are being generally ignored by the “enlightened” media in Europe and elsewhere.  While there are no doubt those who protest Israel’s action peaceably, their ill-guided pacifism and muted contempt,  rings of the do-nothings who sat on the sidelines during attacks on the Jews during the 1930’s

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

UFOs in Art? – A Deceptive Imitation of the Sacred

One of the most repeated fallacies in Ufology is that UFO shapes appeared in the European sacred art of the middle ages and renaissance. Some claim that people saw UFOs in those times and then interpreted them in their sacred art. Unfortunately some otherwise well-informed researchers hold this incorrect view. Such views show a fundamental misunderstanding of the common symbols common in European art.

 

 

Italian Art Historian Diego Cuoghi took this fallacy head on in his exhaustive article.  Guoghi identified the shapes misidentified as UFOs as standard artistic elements with a commonly understood meaning by artists and patrons alike. In many cases, such as the aerial circular shapes in art, these elements are so common as to be incorporated as part of the cupola in cathedrals.

It is true the sacred shapes in art do bear a strong resemblance to shapes seen in the sky. It is to the point UFOs are even replicating such universally recognized sacred shapes such as the cross.  This demonstrates a clear trend of the unexplained UFOs manifestation that often use traditional shapes regarded as sacred by Christians to manifest. This deceptive multi-dimensional theater of the sacred was demonstrated in Fatima, Portugal in 1917.  Three children were visited by a small framed humanoid apparition claiming to be the Virgin Mary. This being promised to send a sign. Word spread across the war ravaged region and over 70,000 people assembled in the Fatima town center to witness a flying disc fly from the direction of the sun, zigzag in a classic UFO manner, and send multicolored lights that were felt as a drying heat. (refer to Heavenly Lights: The Apparitions of Fatima and the UFO Phenomenon by Joaquim Fernandes , Fina D’Armada).

Sowing seeds of confusion is the M.O. of the fallen angelic realm, whose purpose is to undermine belief in the one and true God. This is part of a path of deception to dilute belief in God by using the spiritual symbols.