June 9, 2014 VISION OF THE RAPTURE-Prophet Dr. Owuor

EZEKIEL 38 THE CENTER OF THE CYCLONE

By Paul McGuire

The subject of Israel and the role of the Jewish people is a topic that elicits strong emotions whenever it is brought up. In addition, with America, EU, Syria, Ukraine, Iran, Russia, and Israel converging in both economic and geopolitical conflict, Israel is once again at the center of the geopolitical cyclone. The European Union, Russia, Syria, Iran, and Israel are all nations prominently featured in various Old Testament prophecies, especially those in Ezekiel Chapter 38, foretelling a last day’s invasion of the nation of Israel led by Russia and Iran, along with an alliance of Middle Eastern nations. This invasion is also known as the War of Gog and Magog.

It is interesting to note that Bible scholars who have researched Russia and the nations that come against Israel believe that the nation of Russia is clearly identified in the Bible, and specifically the nation of Ukraine and the nations surrounding the Ukraine. Right now Russia is involved in a conflict with the U.S. and NATO over the Ukraine. This is a strategic conflict that goes back to Adolph Hitler and the Nazis, who created one of the world’s fiercest military forces inside of the Ukraine, in order to strike Russia. The military infrastructure inside of the Ukraine that is being financed by NATO and U.S. interests to fight Russia consists of a Neo-Nazi military force. The Ukraine throughout history has been a key nation in the control of Eurasia, and Brzezinski and other leaders have often commented that the empire or nation which controls Eurasia controls the world. Some of Russia’s most important oil pipelines cross the Ukraine, and Russia has partnered with Iran to sell oil to China and to Western Europe.

And Russia, Iran, China, and a growing list of nations are no longer using the U.S. dollar as the defacto world currency. If the U.S. loses the Ukrainian and Syrian conflicts this would accelerate the decline of the U.S. dollar as the world’s currency and hit the U.S. economically like a tsunami. The Russia and Ukraine conflict is all about oil and the U.S. dollar and the Syrian conflict is about the control of oil in that region along with the power of the U.S. dollar.

Other forces that are at play in these conflicts are the rise of both Neo-Nazi and right wing political groups who oppose the European Union in favor of national sovereignty. In the Ukraine the U.S. and NATO are partnering with Neo-Nazi groups to fight Russia. In Greece and Cypress there is the rise of Neo-Nazi groups like O.T.O. and Golden Dawn. In addition, Western interests are partnering with terrorist groups like Al Qaeda in fighting Russia and the competing Muslim forces of Iran. It was Zbigniew Brzezinski, co-founder of the Trilateral Commission, who was instrumental in raising up Osama bin Laden and the Mujahedeen, later known as Al Qaeda, to fight Russia in Chechnya and Afghanistan.

Anti-Semitism has continued to spread throughout Europe and the Roman Empire since the time of Jesus Christ. Adolph Hitler blamed the Jews and the alleged Jewish banking elite for Germany’s problems when he wrote Mein Kampf, where he referred to an alleged world conspiracy in a document known as “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” that was first published in Russia in 1903.

“The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” outlined a brutal plan by a secret conspiracy of Jews to take over the world; scholars and historians debate the authorship of the document. Hitler and others believed it was a legitimate document written by an evil Jewish elite. This is still a belief held by millions of people in Russia and in many Islamic nations. Critics of the document believe that it was not authored by the Jews, but that it was a forgery written to instill hatred against them. Others believe that if it was written by Jews, that it was written by a tiny fanatical cult. When you travel in Islamic nations you see copies of the book prominently displayed in the windows of bookstores. The problem in believing that the document represented the consensus of a Jewish elite is that its contents are a total rejection of the Torah and the entire Old Testament. “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” is Satanic in nature and if it was written by Jews, it would have to have been Jews who had completely rejected the Law of Moses and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.



Going back to the time of the Knights Templar in Jerusalem and the soldiers of the Vatican and Europe attempting to control Jerusalem, both Muslims and Catholics have promoted anti-Semitism, passed on to the Protestant Church through the reformer Martin Luther. It is this anti-Semitism which provided fertile soil for the hatred of the Jews by Adolph Hitler and led to the Holocaust.

In Ezekiel 38, Russia, Iran, and an alliance of Muslim nations invade Israel due to a “hook placed in the mouth of Russia” to bring Russia down to invade Israel. That hook could very well be the oil discovered off the coast of Israel.In Ezekiel 38, God supernaturally destroys all the nations invading Israel. The basis for God’s defense of Israel escapes Israel’s critics,although some are aware of the everlasting Abrahamic Covenant where God specifically grants the geographic land of Israel to Abraham and his physical descendants. The argument by those who challenge Israel’s right to the land is that the current Jews in Israel are not actually the genetic descendants of Abraham and thus the covenant is null and void. From a scientific standpoint that is a highly speculative argument because a large percentage of the Jews in Israel are genetically the descendants of Abraham.

The second argument is that the unbelief and secularism of the Jews in Israel disqualifies them from a right to the land. However, Old Testament prophets like Jeremiah specifically predicted that in the latter days the Jewish people would return to the land in unbelief. During a Tribulation Period, known as “The Time of Jacob’s Trouble” the Jewish people would regain their belief in God and in Israel’s Messiah.

Unfortunately, anti-Semitism is stirred up by groups who exploit the tendency of some Jews and Jewish groups to target Christian groups as being the source of hatred of the Jews. This targeting comes from the experience of the Jewish people in Nazi Germany where Christians and Christian churches joined Hitler in what eventually became known as the Holocaust. I remember meeting the grandparents of my friends in New York City who still had the tattoos put on them in the concentration camps.

However, the greatest support for the land of Israel outside of the Jewish community is among Bible believing Christians, especially those who take the subject of Bible prophecy seriously. Yet it is these very same groups who have been targeted by some Jewish organizations. The charge has been made by some leaders in the Jewish community that these Christians who believe in Bible prophecy see the Jewish people as little more than cartoon characters in some kind of end time’s comic book. In some cases that may be true, but in most cases it is not. It is this demographic of Christians who are Israel’s strongest defenders. When they are targeted and mocked, it only serves to empower other groups who are Anti-Israel.

Whether or not you believe the prophecies regarding Israel are literal or allegorical, it is important to understand them in order to comprehend the global geopolitical situation. The prophet Zechariah said that “Jerusalem would be a cup of trembling in the last days,” and, indeed, Israel is the center of a fearful struggle on a geopolitical level. Economic, geopolitical, and military forces are converging upon Israel, drawing in Russia, Ukraine, EU, America, Iran, and Syria.

The global financial system and the fate of the U.S. dollar are all connected to Israel. The Abrahamic Covenant declares that “Those who bless Israel will be blessed and those that curse Israel will be cursed.” This does not imply a blanket endorsement of everything the largely secular State of Israel does. But according to Bible prophecy Israel is God’s prophetic time clock and there is a reason why Israel was reformed as a nation in 1948 after over 2,000 years of non-existence. Alexander the Great discovered that he was referenced in the Book of Daniel, which was written before his birth, and he traveled to Jerusalem to find out the meaning of these prophecies, which today provide a transcendent understanding of current events.

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An Increased Minimum Wage Equals Greater Unemployment

By Alan Caruba




It’s June, a month famed for marriages, but it is likely to be remembered for the high rate of teen unemployment which has been soaring for a long time. By February, the national unemployment rate for youth, age 16 to 19, had reached 20.7%. By November 2013 it was three times higher than the national average of 6.6% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Teens are rivaled by the number of American men in their prime working years, a record 1-in-8,who are not in the labor force. These men, age 25-54, represent 61.1 million who are either not working or no longer looking for work. The Weekly Standard reported that “This is an all-time high dating back to when records were first kept in 1955.”

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released a report in February that said the wage hike to $10.10 could result in a net loss of about a half a million workers at the same time in increased wages for 16.5 million others.

So, naturally, President Obama in his State of the Union speech, called on Congress to raise the national minimum wage from $7.25 to 10.10 an hour. Soon after, he signed an Executive Order to raise the minimum wage for individuals working on new federal service contracts. That means that taxpayers will pay more for those services as the cost gets passed along. Does he have the power to impose the increase? Probably not.

Meanwhile in California where countless businesses are fleeing thanks to the insanity of its liberal legislature and Governor, as May ended its senate approved a measure that would lift the state pay floor to $13.00 an hour by 2017. If it becomes law, Californians will be interacting with machines for everything from banking to filling their gas tank to having a fast-food meal. Even more insane, Seattle has become home to the highest minimum wage in the nation, $15.00 an hour!

Minimum wage laws have been around a long time. Their original goal was to raise the income of the working poor, but the fact that there is still talk of raising them suggests they don’t work as intended. Letting the job market determine wages holds a greater promise of increased wages because businesses have to remain competitive and that means paying a wage that attracts skilled and even unskilled workers.

As Thomas E. Hall, the author of “Aftermath: The Unintended Consequences of Public Policies” (Cato Institute, $24.95, due in August) notes, “The living wage concept moved to the forefront during the Industrial Revolution, along with calls to end practices such as child labor and conditions poor working women faced. Massachusetts passed the nation’s first minimum wage law in 1912.

One of the outcomes of the Great Depression, 1929 to 1941, was the inclusion of a minimum wage as part of the New Deal’s National Industrial Recovery Act. Suffice to say, the NIRA, which actually encouraged businesses to collude together to set prices, failed to promote economic recovery. It was very unpopular and in 1935 the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional.

Because liberals never learn anything from experience, the NIRA was resurrected later in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act that raised the minimum wage to 40 cents in 1945. “The United States has had a federal minimum wage ever since.”

Politicians and even some demented economists like the minimum wage. Every time it is raised, it appears to the general public that working people benefit. The problem is that the wage increases also include increases in unemployment as businesses try to contain costs in order to remain competitive and make a profit.

As Hall, a professor of economics at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, notes, “The minimum wage’s first significant impact on national labor market conditions occurred in 1956, when the hourly rate was raised from 75 cents to $1.00.” The increase had its “greatest impact on teenagers because they possess the fewest marketable skills among the working-age population. Also, teens often do, or have in the past, worked at jobs easily replaceable with machinery or by conducting business in a different manner.”

The minimum wage rate, nonetheless, has continued to increase since the 1950s and, “By the early 1990s, these changes had caused to minimum wage to apply to over 90 percent of the U.S. workforce.”

Here’s the fundamental lesson about the minimum wage that continues to be ignored. “President Ronald Reagan, who occupied the White House from 1981 to 1989, did not support further increases because he believed that raising the minimum wage would discourage employment growth…during that decade, the U.S. economy created 18 million new jobs.”

As Hall succinctly points out “Remember that the minimum wage is just a government-imposed price-fixing scheme that creates winners and losers.”

Teens that stayed in school and will either be facing a summer vacation or graduating are particularly disadvantaged by a minimum wage law.

“The effects of high unemployment among this demographic group,” says Hall, “should not be discounted. One reason is that the lack of employment opportunities for young people deprives them of valuable work experience in the form of learning the responsibility of showing up for a job on time, learning to follow directions and complete tasks, learning to work with others…these skills can prove to be beneficial later in life.”

It is likely that the minimum wage is also a factor in why many men in the 25-54 age cohort are not working either. This is hardly the time to be increasing the rate unless you want to see the rate of unemployment increase for all ages and both sexes.

By contrast, in addition to the energy sector, the sector that builds machines to replace human workers is likely to do very well over the coming years.




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Less than ten percent of all born again Christians have a Biblical world view

George Barna, a pollster with an independent marketing research company, found in a recent survey that only 4% of the overall population of America and 9% of born-again Christians have a biblical world view, suggesting that many of the nation's moral and spiritual challenges are directly attributable to this fact.

For the purposes of the research, a biblical world view was defined as believing that absolute moral truth exists, that such truth is defined by the Bible, and that the Bible is accurate in all of its teachings.

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A biblical world view based upon understanding Bible prophecy is essential for an understanding of the times we live in today.
Let's look at the provision in scripture for a biblical world view. All scripture is God breathed. That means it's inspired and is profitable for doctrine, for correction, and instruction in righteousness, that's II Timothy 3:16. God gave the scriptures to the Jew to preserve and communicate to mankind, Romans 3:1-2. And thus, we have His written Word for us today. Our blessings and understanding comes from God's provision of His heart, His mind, His thoughts in written form, the Bible.

Now, let's look at the priority for studying a biblical world view. The Apostle Paul wrote that we must study the Word of God, a workman that need not be ashamed, relying on God's Word for all of life's questions. We must rightly divide the Word of truth, the Bible, to ascertain its true meaning. These two principles, study and rightly dividing the Word of God, are instruction for the End Times and they come from Paul's exhortation to young Timothy found in II Timothy 2:15.

Finally, let's look at the prophetic scenario of a biblical world view. A study of Bible prophecy reveals the scenario for the Last Days with a seven year period of judgment in our world followed by the return of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, to establish His Kingdom here on earth. However, preceding that seven years of judgment, those who are true born again Christians will be taken out of this world to be with Jesus Christ, that's the Rapture.

Allowing the Bible to form our world view prepares us for these future events and gives us evidence as to how close they may be.


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County Sheriff’s Chilling Justification for Bringing Former Military Vehicles to Local Police Forces

Pulaski County, Indiana, is home to less than 14,000 people. In all of 2012, they saw only 11 larceny or theft incidents, one murder and a grand total of 17 property crimes.

Yet, their police force has a mine-resistant ambush protection vehicle at their disposal.


Mine resistant vehicles and other wartime assets are going to law enforcement agencies across the nation. The Pulaski County Sheriff in Indiana received an MRAP to police its roughly 14,000 citizens, and a county with the same name in Arkansas got one as well, shown here (Image source: KTHV-TV).

“It’s more intimidating than a Dodge,” Pulaski County Sheriff Michael Gayer told the Indianapolis Star.

Eight Indiana law enforcement agencies acquired MRAPs from military surplus since 2010, The Indianapolis Star reported. The vehicles are among a broad array of 4,400 items — everything from coats to computers to high-powered rifles — acquired by police and sheriff’s departments across the state.

“The United States of America has become a war zone,” Sheriff Gayer said when justifying the purchase. “There’s violence in the workplace, there’s violence in schools and there’s violence in the streets. You are seeing police departments going to a semi-military format because of the threats we have to counteract. If driving a military vehicle is going to protect officers, then that’s what I’m going to do.”

Mark Wright, a Pentagon spokesman, told TheBlaze any federal or state law enforcement agency whose officers “have arrest and apprehension authority can request and potentially receive excess DoD personal property,” but a quick look at the type of equipment the police forces across the nation are arming themselves with indicates preparation for worst-case scenarios rather than typical criminal activity.

Since 2006, police in six states have received magazines that carry 100 rounds of M-16 ammunition, allowing officers to fire continuously for three times longer than normal. Twenty-two states obtained equipment to detect buried land mines. Law enforcement in 38 states have received silencers, which soldiers use to muffle gunfire during raids and sniper attacks; one rural county in North Dakota has 40 silencers to police the 11,000 people in the county.

According to an April 2013 audit, Utah police possessed $2.8 million of weapons and other military gear received through the program, including four grenade launchers, 17 .45-caliber pistols and a handful of magazines and weapon accessories.

“The United States of America has become a war zone.” — Sheriff Gayer, Pulaski County, Indiana.

Congress created the military-transfer program in the early 1990s, when violent crime plagued America’s cities and the police felt outgunned by drug gangs, according to the New York Times. Today, crime has fallen to its lowest levels in a generation, the wars have wound down and, despite the Department of Justice’s insistence that a revival of the Domestic Terror Task Force is necessary, the number of domestic terrorist attacks has declined sharply from the 1960s and 1970s.

The DoD 1033 program allows surplus military equipment to be handed over to state and local civilian law enforcement agencies for use in counter-narcotics and counter-terrorism operations, or to enhance officer safety. And keeping their officers safe is the primary reason most law enforcement leadership offer for why they take on the advanced weaponry.

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Gun and ammunition shortage hits Australia

A shortage of guns and ammunition in the US has spread to Australian shores, causing problems for farmers, security contractors and sporting shooters across the country.

Domestic importers say the shortage is being driven by the current gun debate in America.

The managing director of Nioa, Australia's biggest wholesaler of firearms and ammunition, says the situation reached crisis point at the end of last year.

"The current situation came about immediately after the last US election where Barack Obama was re-elected," managing director Robert Nioa said.

"The American shooting population felt that in his second term he would be likely to introduce more restrictions on firearms and ammunition and they all have started buying up in expectation of those changes."

Mr Nioa says the company has been forced to wait up to three years for some of its American stock to arrive, leaving customers to make do with existing products.

"It's meant increased lead times for customers that are waiting up to a year, sometimes two years, for firearms or specific ammunition, and it's meant that our stockpiles that we had previously are being diminished so we don't have much of a buffer stock," he said.

"Some firearms have been delayed as much as three years for getting deliveries, but we're starting to see that delivery time come back down to the six months to 12-month timeframe now.

"The big delays have been in centre-fire ammunition that farmers might use and also projectiles and ammunition components that [a] target shooter might use for competing in Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games-style events."

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