Can you hear that sound? It is the sound of the air being let out of the economy. Since the election, there has been a massive tsunami of layoffs and business failures. Of course the company that is making the biggest headlines right now is Hostess. On Monday, Hostess will be in a New York bankruptcy courtroom as it begins the process of liquidating itself. Needless to say, Twinkie lovers all over America are horrified. Many are running out to grocery stores and hoarding as many as they can find, and some online sellers are already listing boxes of 10 Twinkies for as much as $10,000 on auction websites such as eBay. Well, there is really no reason to panic. It is very likely that another company will purchase the Twinkie brand and continue to produce them. In fact, it is already being rumored thata Mexican company may have the inside track. But even though the Twinkie may survive, the failure of Hostess is yet another sign of how weak the U.S. economy has become. Approximately 18,500Hostess workers will be losing their jobs, and even if some of them are rehired by the company that takes over the Twinkie brand, the truth is that those workers will almost certainly be looking at greatly reduced pay and benefits. Sadly, we are seeing this kind of thing happen all over America. Large numbers of once thriving businesses are either shutting down or laying off workers. Overall, the failure of Hostess is not that big of a deal for the U.S. economy. But we may look back someday and remember Hostess as a symbol of the economic problems that were unleashed by the election of 2012. Since November 6th, a wave of pessimism has swept over the economy and we are now seeing some of the worst economic numbers that we have seen in more than a year. Many fear that we may have reached a tipping point and that things are only going to get worse from here.
Sadly, the reality is that Hostess is not the only iconic American company that is in a huge amount of trouble right now. Sears just announced a loss of nearly 500 million dollars in the third quarter. Sears has been bleeding money like this for a couple of years, and if they continue to do so it will just be a matter of time before Sears is headed for liquidation as well.
Can you imagine trying to explain the Sears catalog and Twinkies to future generations in a world where those things no longer exist?
Our world is changing at mind blowing speed, and the pace of change is only going to keep accelerating.
A few days after the election, I wrote an article about the huge number of layoff announcements that we saw after Barack Obama won.
Well, it has gotten even worse since then. The following is a partial list of the layoffs and job losses that have been announced since November 6th...
Abbott Labs 700 Activision 30 Adventist Health 48 Airlines SAS 6000 AMD 400 American Cotton Growers 110 ArcelorMittal 20 American Independence Museum 4 Ameridose 790 American Airlines 4400 + 800 leaving voluntarily American Coal 54 Atlantic Lottery Corporation 16 Assc Milk Producers 130 Aveo Oncology 45 ATI 172 Bankia 5000 Bechtel Power Corp 277 Bigpoint Games 47 Boston Scientific 1200 Brake Parts LLC 75 Brattleboro Retreat 31 Bristol Myers 500 Career Education 900 + Closing 23 Campuses Cigna 1300 Citigroup 100 Commerzbank 6000 Consol Energy in W.V. 145 Covidien 595 Crouse Hospital Syracuse NY 70 Cummins 150 CVPH 27 DEP in Tallahassee FL 15 DuPont, Co. 64 Eagle-Tribune, Andover 21 Emanuel Medical Cente 24 Energizer Holdings 1500 Ericsson 1550 Exide Tech, Laureldale 150 City of Findlay, OH 39 First Energy 400 Gameforge Berlin 20 Gamesa Energy 92 GenOn Energy Inc 33 Glen Falls Hospital 29 Groupon 80 GT Advanced Tech 165 Harris’ Broadcast 17 Hawker Beechcraft 400 + Facilities closing Hill Rom 200 Hills Holdings 300 HMX Group 567 Hostess 627 Iberia Airlines 4500 ICM of Colwich 25 ING 2350 Judson University 21 Juniper Networks 500 Kaiser Permanente 84 Kinetic Concepts 427 Kratos Defense Security 125 Lackawanna County PA 11 Lightyear Network Solutions 12+ Lonza 500 Majestic Star Casino/hotel 80 Major Wind Company 3000 Martha Stewart Living 70 Medtronic 1000 Mills Manufacturing NC 68 Momentive, Inc. 150 Monitor Group 235 Montco Behavioral Health/Dev 58 NBC 500 Nebraska Medical Center 38 Neovia Logistics Services 52 New Energy 40 Ormet 200 Panasonic 10000 PayPal 320 Penn Refrigeration 40 Penske Logistics 50 Pepsi 4000 Philips Electronics 218 Pierce Mfg 325 Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne 100 Research in Motion 200 Rheem Manufacturing 50 Sentry Foods 70 Shaw’s Supermarket 700 Shawano foundry WI 90 Smith & Nephew 770 Smithfield Packing Co. 125 Solel Solar Systems 140 Southeastern Container 15 SpaceX 100 SRA Intl Inc 222 St. Jude Medical 300 Stryker 1170 Sulake 60 Sun Media 500 TE Connectivity 620 TECO Coal Corporation 90 Texas Instruments 1700 The Providence Journal Co 23 TMX Group Ltd. 100 Turbocare 220 Turkey Point Nuclear Plant 277 Oce North America, Inc. 135 Turbocare OCE 220 UBS 10000 US Cellular 980 UtahAmerican Energy Inc 102 Volvo Trucks Pulaski County 300 Wake Forest Baptist Medical 950 Welch Allyn 275 West Ridge Mine 102 Westinghouse 50 World Media Enterprises Inc 105 WPS Health Insurance 600 Wright Patterson AFB 115 Wyodak Coal Mine 11 Xerox 2500
Sadly, the list actually keeps going. You can view the remainder of the list right here.
Even companies owned by Obama supporters are laying people off. Just check out this excerpt from a report by CitizenLink...
A corporation whose part owner gave $2 million to a group committed to re-electing President Obama announced this week that it will be forced to lay off more than 1,000 employees in lieu of the financial hardship imposed by the president’s signature health care law.
Overall, more than 100,000 job losses have been announced since the election. It is almost as if the election was the straw that broke the camel's back. Everyone in the business community that had been hoping for something different now realizes that no change is coming.
Meanwhile, Obama continues to pour on even more rules and regulations. According to CNSNews.com, the Obama administration has posted a total of 6,125 regulations on its reguations.gov website during the past 90 days. Our politicians are clueless and they simply don't understand what they are doing to the business community.
But of course this goes for politicians from both sides. For decades we have been consuming far more than we produce and spending far more money then we bring in, and most of our politicians seem to be under the delusion that this can continue indefinitely.
The other night my wife had me watch a documentary entitled "The Queen of Versailles" that followed the lives of time share mogul David Siegel and his wife Jackie. I found it to be a perfect metaphor for what America is going through right now. David Siegel built the greatest time share empire the world has ever seen on a mountain of easy money and cheap credit. At the beginning of the movie, David and Jackie were living the high life and were constructing the largest house in America down in Florida.
Well, things dramatically changed when the financial crisis of 2008 struck. Suddenly nobody wanted to lend to David's company and the house of cards started to crumble. But even though they were facing massive financial problems, Jackie found it incredibly difficult to adjust her lifestyle. She just kept spending and spending and spending.
It would be easy to pass judgment on David and Jackie, but the truth is that they are a perfect example of what this entire country is going through. Thousands of businesses are failing, our economic infrastructure is being gutted, millions of jobs are being shipped overseas, our financial system has become a gigantic casino and we keep piling even more mountains of debt on top of the mountains of debt that we already have. We have been living way above our means for so long that we don't even have any concept of what "normal" is anymore.
If you have not seen "The Queen of Versailles" yet, I encourage you to do so. Don't watch it to laugh at the downfall of David and Jackie Siegel. They are just trying to make their way in this world like all of us are. Rather, watch for parallels between their lives and what the United States is experiencing as a whole. As I mentioned earlier, I found their story to be a perfect metaphor for what is happening to this entire country. You can find the trailer for "The Queen of Versailles" right here.
As the economy falls apart, it is going to be really easy to point fingers at one another and blame one another. But what will really be needed is more love and compassion. A lot of workers at Hostess and a lot of other good companies just lost their jobs. The unemployment epidemic in this country is going to get a lot worse. These people are going to need our love and support.
In the end, we are all in this together. The coming economic storm is not going to be averted, but we can choose how we respond to it. Hopefully the crisis that is coming will bring out the best in many of us.
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’” – President Ronald Reagan Those wise and yet haunting words spoken by one of our nation’s greatest presidents couldn’t ring more true – especially today, as winter sets in on an estimated 130,000 of our fellow Americans who are still struggling without power. Many live without heat, hot water or inhabitable homes and question the government’s efforts to alleviate their condition.
Amid the election frenzy, several mainstream media outlets instantly praised the Obama administration’s response to the Hurricane Sandy devastation in the Northeast. But let’s look beneath the congratulatory headlines to see the real and horrifying picture of what’s happening.
Right now, homeless Americans are literally freezing, wrapped in blankets and trash bags as they struggle to survive in FEMA tent cities such as New Jersey’s “Camp Freedom,” which reportedly “resembles a prison camp.”
“Sitting there last night you could see your breath,” displaced resident Brian Sotelo told the Asbury Park Press. “At (Pine Belt) the Red Cross made an announcement that they were sending us to permanent structures up here that had just been redone, that had washing machines and hot showers and steady electric, and they sent us to tent city. We got (expletived).”
Sotelo said Blackhawk helicopters patrol the skies “all day and night” and a black car with tinted windows surveys the camp while the government moves heavy equipment past the tents at night. According to the story, reporters aren’t even allowed in the fenced complex, where lines of displaced residents form outside portable toilets. Security guards are posted at every door, and residents can’t even use the toilet or shower without first presenting I.D.
“They treat us like we’re prisoners,” Ashley Sabol told Reuters. “It’s bad to say, but we honestly feel like we’re in a concentration camp.”
Snow and icy slush seep into living areas through the bottoms of the government tents.
Meanwhile, officials are said to be banning residents from taking pictures and even cutting off WiFi and power access.
“After everyone started complaining and they found out we were contacting the press, they brought people in,” Sotelo said. “Every time we plugged in an iPhone or something, the cops would come and unplug them.”
He added, “Everybody is angry over here. It’s like being in prison.”
In New York, residents of Gerritsen Beach have banded together to survive.
“With all due respect to the federal issue, we’re used to taking care of ourselves,” Doreen Garson, the acting volunteer fire chief, told the Washington Post as area residents received hot meals outside a trailer. “I don’t know what FEMA is really doing for anyone.”
Some citizens say FEMA has distributed checks to fix their homes, but bureaucratic hurdles mean relief amounts are determined inconsistently and may be insufficient to cover damage. In some cases, the rebuilding funds are distributed even when reconstruction doesn’t make sense because the destroyed homes are located in high-risk areas.
FEMA’s bureaucratic tape is such a mess that states have had to hire consulting firms just to navigate the paperwork, with consultants earning as much as $180 an hour – all of which is billed to American taxpayers.
Meanwhile, FEMA – which previously provided trailers to victims of Hurricane Katrina that made residents sick from toxic levels of formaldehyde – will now bring more temporary homes to New York and New Jersey. The government assures us that this time the homes have been approved by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, FEMA failed to have bottled water and other supplies ready for storm victims – a week after the storm hit – and was forced to seek help from private vendors to meet residents’ needs.
While generous citizens fill trucks with donations and goods for hurricane survivors, FEMA is reportedly demanding they stop – because the federal agency has “strict rules on what can and can’t be accepted.”
To make matters worse, FEMA now expects Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to appear before Congress and request a taxpayer bailout for FEMA flood-insurance operations while it burns through $200 to $300 million a day.
Where did we go wrong? The moment we began looking to government to fill the role of caretaker, provider and savior.
What happened to the days when communities and churches were the places Americans turned to for help? We need to get back to basics where Americans care for our brothers and sisters and help them in times such as these.
In one brilliant example of communities banding together, Staten Island residents organized their own citizen-led team of volunteers and started a donation drive, bringing massive trucks of aid into their community from Virginia. They’ve worked with local churches, VFW posts and businesses to bring in needed supplies and help with clean-up efforts.
In yet another stunning example of private efforts, veterans of both the Israeli army and U.S. military descended on New York to help with rescue operations and relief assistance when the government was said to be absent.
Churches and businesses are reaching out to people who’ve been displaced, packing U-Haul trucks and 18-wheelers with food, diapers, blankets, toiletries and other needed goods.
“We decided that it wasn’t enough for us to simply declare the gospel; we’ve got to demonstrate it,” pastor Jerry Young declared from New Hope Baptist Church in Mississippi. “What we’re trying to do now is demonstrate the gospel.”
Just as these grassroots volunteers have been sacrificing so much to help displaced citizens and clean up storm-ravaged areas in the Northeast, I urge America’s citizen volunteers, churches and businesses to follow their examples.
Let’s stop making the mistake of expecting government to be our savior in times like these.
We are told eight times in the Bible to love our neighbor. This Thanksgiving week, America has an extraordinary opportunity to do just that. Let’s band together and show our fellow citizens that we care and we won’t leave them to the “mercy” of the government in their time of need.
Stray Syrian fire hit an IDF patrol in the Golan Heights on Saturday night. No injuries were reported but an IDF jeep was damaged. This is the fourth such incident recorded in the past week.
The incident began when an IDF patrol was hit by Syrian fire in the Tel Hezeka area. The IDF fired artillery at the Syrian post in response.
The Syrians then retaliated by firing a mortar shell that landed in the demilitarized zone. The IDF Spokesperson's Unit said a complaint was submitted at the United Nations force.
The last similar event occurred on Thursday, a day after the IDF launched Operation Pillar of Defense. A soldier was lightly wounded by ricochet.
On Monday, a Syrian shell hit near an IDF post in the Golan Heights. No injuries or damage were reported.
Shortly thereafter, the IDF returned fire, using tanks deployed along the border to target two D-3 mortar launchers belonging to the Syrian army. A direct hit was identified. The IDF reportedly hit two Soviet guns.
On Sunday, the IDF fired into Syrian territory for the first time since the Yom Kippur War. The IDF's Artillery Corps fired a missile towards a post in Syria after a 120mm mortar shell landed in the eastern Golan Heights on Sunday morning.
A giant solar prominence erupts from the sun on Nov. 16, 2012, in this image captured by NASA's sun-watching Solar Dynamics Observatory. The solar eruption was not aimed at Earth.
Two leading EU countries have urged Israel not to launch ground operations in Gaza.
Speaking ahead of a foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels on Monday (19 November), the UK's Wiliam Hague told Sky news on Sunday that "a ground invasion of Gaza would lose Israel a lot of the international support and sympathy that they have in this situation."
France's Laurent Fabius while on a visit to Tel Aviv also on Sunday told press: "War is not an option. It's never the solution."
The EU in a joint statement last week blamed Hamas, the militant group which controls Gaza, for starting the fighting.
"The rocket attacks by Hamas and other factions in Gaza which began this current crisis are totally unacceptable," its communique said.
But Hague and Fabius took different lines in their public remarks.
"It is Hamas that bears ... the principle responsibility for starting all of this," Hague said. "Responsibility is shared. There are rockets fired from Gaza and there are extremely deadly attacks against the people of Gaza," Fabius noted.
For its part, the UN's office in East Jerusalem says the escalation began when Israel assassinated a senior Hamas commander on 14 November.
The US-based NGO Human Rights Watch says it began when Israeli fire killed a 13-year-old Palestinian boy on 8 November.
With 95 Palestinian and three Israeli deaths so far, the crisis is to dominate the EU ministers' talks, pushing other Middle East issues into the background.
Ministers had planned to discuss Palestine's plan to call a UN vote on 29 November on upgrading its status to "observer state."
But Hague said the UN bid is a bad idea in the current context. "I think it would be a mistake for the Palestinians to try at this moment ... because it would be so divisive among all the people whose help they need to get the peace process going," he told Sky.
Palestine's draft UN resolution has some sympathy in Brussels, however.
One senior EU contact told EUobserver the text is "mild" because it does not call for countries which do not recognise Palestinian sovereignty to do so and does not call on Israel to take back the millions of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. At the same time, it givs a nod to UN resolution 181, which describes Israel as a "Jewish state."
Ministers had also planned to take note of an EU report on Jewish settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Giving a broader context to the decades-old enmity between the two sides, the report says the Israeli army does little to protect Palestinian victims.
It urges individual EU countries to consider travel bans on settler extremists, an EU source noted.
Foreign ministers will also look at developments in Mali, Syria and Ukraine. But decisions on the three dossiers are to be left for later.
There is no EU consensus on recognising the newly-formed National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as the legitimate government of Syria despite the fact France took the step last week.
Detailed plans on how many troops and what kind of financial or intelligence support to give to Mali to reconquer its northern provinces from Toureg and Islamist warlords are due in December.
Ministers will also wait until next month to decide what to do with an EU-Ukraine political and trade agreement following flawed elections in the EU neighbour.
I have an anticipation of the year 2013 being a year of great evil for the nations, and especially in America where I reside. There are many signs pointing to great evil being unleashed at this time. History reveals that years and Congresses marked by the number 13 have been calamitous ones in the United States. The 113th Congress will be in session from January 3, 2013 until January 3, 2015.
Let me begin by sharing that it is not idle superstition that has led 13 to be accounted as a number of ill omen. This evil association finds its origin in the Bible. E.W. Bullinger in his excellent book Number in Scripture shares the following information on this number.
As to the significance of thirteen, all are aware that it has come down to us as a number of ill-omen. Many superstitions cluster around it, and various explanations are current concerning them.
Unfortunately, those who go backwards to find a reason seldom go back far enough. The popular explanations do not, so far as we are aware, go further back than the Apostles. But we must go back to the first occurrence of the numberthirteen in order to discover the key to its significance. It occurs first in Gen 14:4, where we read "Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and the thirteenth year they REBELLED."
Hence every occurrence of the number thirteen, and likewise of every multiple of it, stamps that with which it stands in connection with rebellion, apostasy, defection, corruption, disintegration, revolution, or some kindred idea. [Source: http://philologos.org/__eb-nis/eight.htm#205]
Bullinger proceeds to document thoroughly the association of this number in Scripture with those things that are evil. The evidence of Gematria is most telling. The name of the descendants of the lineage of Cain, the murderer who slew his righteous brother, are especially marked as multiples of the number 13. Not only does this number bear a strong association with the concepts of rebellion, apostasy, defection, corruption, disintegration, and revolution, but there are 13 famines that are mentioned in the Scriptures.
Thus, the number 13 being viewed as an ill omen is far more than mere superstition. It is founded upon Biblical revelation and established as a divine association.
Previously, in the series titled Babylon Rising, I have made reference to the year 2013 being a time in which Satan’s kingdom will attain to previously unseen heights (or more accurately, depths). One of the major symbols of Satan’s visible kingdom in the earth is the building known as One World Trade Center in New York. This monolithic structure replaces the twin towers destroyed on September 11th, 2001. One World Trade Center is scheduled to open for occupancy in the year 2013. This is in keeping with the Biblical type as this building is ultimately a symbol of rebellion against Yahweh.
One World Trade Center
Satan has sought to consolidate his rule over the earth into a single visible kingdom ever since the Tower of Babel. Babel and Babylon are names associated with Satan’s kingdom even as Zion is indicative of Yahweh’s kingdom. Babylon is rising in the earth at this time as Satan will bring forth a New World Order that comprises a one world government. Out of the many (nations) will come one. This is the meaning of the Latin expression “E Pluribus Unum” that is found on the Great Seal of America. It should be noted that there are 13 letters in this Latin phrase.
Whether Satan has deliberately marked all his works with the number 13, or Yahweh has determined that this be so to mark the devil’s rebellion, we find that this number is infused throughout all the works of the adversary. America is a nation born out of rebellion. This rebellion was planned and carried out by Freemasons whose headquarters was the Green Dragon Tavern in Boston. This tavern was owned by Freemasons, and their lodge meeting rooms occupied the upper floor.
It is significant that there were 13 Colonies that formed a league of rebellion against the King of England. Even though the nations have long borne an aversion to this number, the rulers of America intentionally embraced this evil number and have placed it everywhere throughout their official symbols.
First Flag of the United States
There are 13 stars and 13 stripes on the original U.S. flag.
The Great Seal of the United States
On the obverse side of the Great Seal there are 13 stars forming one large star above the head of the Eagle (Phoenix). There are 13 letters in the phrase “E Pluribus Unum.” There are 13 stipes on the shield over the eagle’s body. There are 13 leaves and 13 berries in the Eagles left claw. There are 13 arrows in the eagle’s right claw. On the reverse of the Great Seal there are 13 letters in the Latin words “Annuit Coeptis.” There are 13 layers of brick in the pyramid.
The government of the United States first convened in the year 1789. Following is the symbol of the Treasury Department which was commissioned at that time.
1789 Department of the Treasury Official Seal
Note that in the center of the seal is the architect’s square which is a symbol of Freemasonry. On the square are 13 stars. The control of money has played a central role in the governing of the nation and the subjugation of the people. This is further borne out by the fact that the Federal Reserve System was established by Congress, and given legal embodiment by the President of the United States, in the year 1913. Effectually, the government of the nation was placed into the hands of foreign money powers when the Federal Reserve Act was passed.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1790
Returning to the One World Trade Tower on Manhattan Island, its overall shape is that of an obelisk formed of numerous pyramidal shapes. The obelisk has long been used by secret societies such as the Freemasons and the Illuminati to mark the location of some victory. It is a symbol of their dominance and rule over a people. The world’s largest obelisk is the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.. It rises 555 feet above the ground, and is reported to extend 110 feet below the surface, but I suspect the true depth is 111 feet. This gives it an overall structural height of 666 feet.
The One World Trade Center building with its massive antenna above it will rise to a complete height of 1,776 feet. It is suggested that this is a reference to the year America’s Declaration of Independence was signed and made public, which is certainly true. However, this was also the same year the Bavarian Illuminati was founded by Adam Weishaupt. The height of the building is surely intended as a reference to this event as well, for the symbols of the Illuminati are found everywhere throughout America’s government images. One of these symbols is the Pyramid with the all seeing eye above it on the back of the dollar bill. The One World Trade Center is also pyramidal in shape, and it will incorporate a brilliant light that is located in the antenna in the same location one finds the out-raying beams of light over the pyramid on the Great Seal.
The antenna resembles a great horn as of a unicorn above the building. In the Bible horns are symbolic of governmental power. This is a declaration of the Illuminati’s power over America and the nations. By extension it is a declaration of Satan’s power over the nations, for he is the god that the Illuminati worships, and from whom they derive their authority and power. That the tower will reach its full height, and be opened in 2013, speaks of the advanced state of Satan’s kingdom which is nearing its fulness. This sign alone bodes ill for America and the nations in 2013, but there is much more pointing to days of great evil being at hand.
As mentioned, the 113th Congress will be seated in 2013. The U.S. Congress is fully in the power of Satan, and its membership continues to reveal the apostate condition of America and its leadership. Following is a graphic listing the new members of the 113th Congress and some “firsts” that mark their introduction.
The 113th Congress will include the first openly homosexual member of the Senate in Tammy Baldwin who is a lesbian. It introduces three more openly homosexual men as members to the House of Representatives. It introduces the first openly bisexual member of Congress in Kyrsten Simena of Arizona. Ms. Simena is also listed in the lower right corner as the first non-theist in the Congress (denying the existence of any God). I found it to be highly illuminating that she is a staff member at Arizona State University who are called “the Sun Devils.” Following is a local publication announcing her win.
Downtown Devil Headlines
We truly live in a dark hour. A people who elect representatives who are openly practicing depravity and engaging in acts that Yahweh describes as abominations are inviting judgment upon themselves.
Romans 1:26-32 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
Do we not find in the government of America those who not only practice this list of transgressions, but who give hearty approval to others who practice the same? The hand of God’s judgment will delay no longer.
Looking back over the course of U.S. history I found a foreboding sign of that which is to come. In March of the year 1813 the 13th Congress was seated and continued until March 1815. This is the only other time that America has had a Congress marked by the number 13. That it coincided with a year that ends in the number 13 is equally significant.
What occurred in Washington, D.C. during the time of the 13th Congress foreshadows that which will occur under the rule of the 113th Congress. It was during the 13th Congress, in August 1814, that Washington, D.C. was razed by the British. Both the White House and the Capitol Building were set aflame in an act of wanton destruction.
White House After it was Burned
U.S. Capitol Building After it was Burned
In the past week a number of people have written to me to either notify me, or ask my thoughts, about a recent post by Nathan Leal. Nathan has posted a written “Alert” and has audio messages relating to the evil he foresees after Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term on January 2oth, 2013.
(Note: I am not endorsing any minister or ministry by providing this link. Let the saints always test every word of prophecy carefully as the Scriptures admonish them to do.)
In this Alert, Nathan Leal compares what is transpiring in America to the judgment brought upon Jerusalem in the days of the prophet Jeremiah. Yahweh sent the King of Babylon to destroy the city of Jerusalem, break down its buildings, and burn it with fire. Nathan Leal specifically makes mention of the Scripture that gives a date for this occurrence.
Jeremiah 39:1-2 Now when Jerusalem was captured in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it; in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the city wall was breached.
Note the time measurements given.
The 11th year... The 4th month... The 9th day...
Nathan Leal reveals that beginning at the date of September 11th, 2001, the date the towers fell in New York City, and going forward the specified amount of time listed by the prophet Jeremiah, one arrives at the precise date of Barack Obama’s second inauguration. Following is a brief excerpt from his article.
Moving forward from the date of September 11, 2001 and using the calculation found in the verse above (Jeremiah 39:2),
1. September 11, 2001 + 11 years = September 11, 2012. 2. September 11, 2012 + 4 months = January 11, 2013 3. January 11, 2013 + 9 days = January 20, 2013
We arrive at the date of January 20, 2013!
Ladies and Gentlemen, January 20, 2013 happens to be the same day as the coming Presidential Inauguration! [End Excerpt]
I also find this correspondence significant. So what exactly happened on that day of which Jeremiah wrote? The city of Jerusalem was breached. Jerusalem’s government fell that day. The king fled, only to be captured. His children were slain before him and then his eyes were put out so that the last thing he would see would be the death of his children. The Babylonian conquerors took up seats in the gate of the city, indicating their conquest, and similar to the British burning Washington, D.C., the Babylonians burned Jerusalem.
The British Burn Washington, D.C.
Various parallels could be drawn between the conquest of Babylon over Jerusalem and the triumph of Satan and his minions over the people of God in America.
Jeremiah 39:3 Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came in and sat down at the Middle Gate: Nergal-sar-ezer, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sekim the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.
Satan has also installed a foreigner to rule over the people of America. The end result of the King of Babylon’s conquest was that the people of wealth and nobility lost all their possessions. They were either taken into captivity, or slain, while the poor were left to till the land and eke out whatever meager existence they could.
Regarding the poor and those who deserted to Babylon before the city fell, Nathan Leal is mistaken in his audio message when he seeks to draw parallels to America. He has denigrated the poor and those who surrendered to Babylon, comparing them to those who make allegiance with the enemy. This reveals a failure to comprehend what was actually occurring. Yahweh through the prophet Jeremiah told the King of Judah and the people that they should give themselves up to Babylon for things would go better with them if they did. Yahweh told the people that He had sent the armies of Babylon as a judgment upon the wickedness of Jerusalem and they would surely prevail. He entreated His people to not resist His judgments. He promised those who surrendered that they would lose all their possessions and their freedom, but they would preserve their lives. He warned those who did not surrender that they would lose their lives as well as their possessions.
It was the will of Yahweh that His people not resist His judgment, nor hold to a false hope that they would not be conquered. Similarly, those who would seek to resist the judgment pronounced against America, those who seek to employ carnal means to stave off the enemy, will suffer the greatest loss. People of God, let me say plainly that it is not the will of God that you seek to preserve the freedoms and prosperity of America. Yahweh has pronounced judgment against her and it will not turn back.
Jerusalem would not have been given into the hands of the King of Babylon had they not already had Babylon in their hearts. The people lusted after the pleasures and prosperity of Babylon. They turned away from a path of righteousness and embraced idolatry and many abominations. The same is true of America today and of the church that is within her borders. John wrote the following about Babylon.
Revelation 18:2-5 "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality." I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.”
For generations now America has been a dwelling place of demons and a prison of unclean spirits. She has poured forth her immorality to the nations, causing others to drink of the same. Yahweh has been calling His people who dwell in the midst of Babylon to “Come our of her, My people!” Many Christians have heeded the call to come out of apostate churches, and to disengage from the pursuit of the American dream of ease and prosperity. Those who have not heeded the Spirit’s voice have been caught up in the sins of Babylon, and they risk partaking of the plagues which are coming.
People of God, I do not know precisely what the upcoming days will bring. I am not prophesying that Washington, D.C. will be burned with literal fire. It is possible that she will, but it is also possible that the destruction of the White House and Capitol during the 13th Congress foreshadows the destruction of the institutions that meet in those buildings. The American system of Republican democracy is ending. The separation of powers instilled in the Constitution by America’s founders have been breached. The walls have come down. The government has run amok. America’s government has fallen into the control of foreigners who seek their own welfare and care not for the citizens of the nation. The people of America have brought this judgment upon themselves. America’s fall and ruin is certain.
This leads me to a final point and I will close this post as it is getting lengthy. When Barack Obama campaigned for a second term in office he used a question and answer format to drum up support. His campaign website listed the question “Are You In?” The suggested answer was “I’m in!”
It was pointed out to me that the question “Are You In?” in the shorthand that people are accustomed to use in text messages and in e-mails would be conveyed as follows:
R U IN
The people of America have voted. Yahweh will give them what has been promised.
2013 is the year of the serpent. It is shaping up to be a year of rebellion, apostasy, defection, corruption, disintegration, and revolution. There is a famine coming. The abundance of former years will be forgotten. Seek the Lord while He may be found.
A U.S. congresswoman is warning that while the world’s eyes are on Iran’s growing threat against Israel, the Islamic nation’s terrorist surrogates may have already formed sleeper cells here in the United States.
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Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., asserted in a radio interview today she believes it’s possible that Hezbollah, the radical terrorist organization tied to Iran, may be working with Mexican cartels to funnel not only drugs, but also terrorist sleeper agents into the U.S.
“Former [Defense Intelligence Agency] people and others have told me what is going on, there have been a couple of arrests in this country relative to people who have had ties to Hezbollah or Iran, and my concern has been with the drug cartels and the gangs that are operating in Mexico,” Myrick said. “There is, what I have been told, a very strong presence there of coordination between the two.”
Myrick was speaking to Aaron Klein, host of “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” which airs from 7-9 p.m. Eastern on New York’s 77WABC Radio and is also streamed live on the Internet.
“I’m very concerned about the fact that they’ve been in Central America and South America for so long – we all know that, that’s a recognized fact – and our border is not secure,” Myrick continued. “We do not know who is in this country, and I really believe because of what is happening, because of the growing presence of Iran, their influence in those areas – and it is a growing presence – that there is just an opportunity for them, with our weak border that we have, to come into our country.”
Myrick explained that she has been asking the Obama administration for years to expand its drug and border investigations to include activities of terrorists funneling through, “but there just hasn’t been any movement whatsoever to get this done.”
Klein asked Myrick why the Obama hasn’t moved the Department of Homeland Security to action.
“I have no idea,” she answered, “[but] one of these days we’re going to wake up with a very big surprise.”
Klein further pressed his guest about Iran’s nuclear aspirations and the possibility that having surrogate Hezbollah agents crossing the U.S.-Mexican border could bring the worst of Islamic terror to the U.S.
“A lot of people think the Iranian threat is thousands of miles away – it’s all about Israel, it’s all about the Middle East, it doesn’t affect the United States,” Klein said. “Yes it does! They could give nuclear capability to Hezbollah, and then we’re talking about suitcase nukes, EMP threat, who knows?”
Myrick confirmed both she and her contacts in the Drug Enforcement Administration are “very concerned” about “what have they already brought into the country and where is it and what can they do to cause harm to us, because that’s their intention. It’s no secret. They publicly say that.”
Myrick has sounded the alarm before.
Earlier this year, after an alleged Iranian operative plotted to assassinate a Saudi diplomat in Washington using a hired gun on loan from a Mexican drug cartel, Myrick asserted the DHS was ignoring mounting evidence of a Hezbollah presence in Mexico.
“I don’t have a lot of faith in the Department of Homeland Security,” said Myrick. “They should be looking at these groups in Mexico much more closely.”
DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart similarly told Fox News, “The dangerous connection between drug trafficking and terrorism cannot be overstated.”
“Given the evidence available,” Myrick also told Fox, “it only makes sense that DHS should, at the very least, investigate the presence of Hezbollah along our Southern border, regardless of who is in office.”
They don't need the government, they need a DAD...... The results are in ... and parents in Ireland voted for their own defeat -- conceding that they are not fit to make decisions about raising their own children. They effectively handed over their parental rights to their own children and the government Saturday, as the final poll results show this week that 57 percent -- versus 43 percent -- of Irish voters believe that "children's rights" should usurp their own when making crucial decisions on the upbringing of Irish youth.
In another stride toward global governance, the United Nations brought Ireland under compliance with its mandate that allows for the state's seizure of children via an amendment that voters approved into the Irish constitution. Only one-third of Irish voters showed up to cast their ballot on the measure, which was not only supported by every political party, but surprisingly by all children's charities, as well.
But pro-family groups in America are more than concerned that what goes down in Ireland doesn't stay in Ireland.
"The election results are going to require us to engage in both offensive and defensive tactics to preserve parental rights," says Parentalrights.org president Michael P. Farris. "There is absolutely no doubt that the internationalists are going to push extremely hard for ratification of a whole series of treaties that will dramatically reorder the relationship between parents and children."
And Farris promises that he will not let America sit down and bow to the dictates of the government as parents blindly stand by to watch their parental rights stripped before their very eyes.
"The nanny state will gain much ground under these treaties," Farris adds. "We must do everything we can to stop their ratification -- and we will continue to work very hard to push the Parental Rights Amendment. Getting a two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate will be a significant challenge over the next two years, and we may have to hope for a turnaround in 2014."
Home Front Command asks local authorities to prepare for seven-week fighting period: In discussions held between Home Front Command Chief Major-General Eyal Eisenberg, regional commanders and heads of local authorities in the center and in the south, authorities have been instructed to prepare for a seven-week period of combat as part of Operation Pillar of Defense and to prepare emergency supplies, accordingly.
Some supplies were prepared in advance. The Home Front Command estimates that terror organizations in the Gaza Strip are still capable of launching long-range rockets, even further than a 75-kilometer range.
The Home Front Command sharpened instructions for the Tel Aviv metropolitan area and southern residents and, accordingly, communities located in a range of between 40-75 kilometers from the Gaza Strip must enter nearby, protected spaces the moment blasts or sirens are heard.
If there is no protected space in the vicinity, residents should enter the nearest structure or stairwell. In light of the long-range rockets fired over the past few days, these instructions apply to all communities within a 75-kilometer range and not only in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.
Until now, 2,000 ground reservists have been enlisted to the Home Front Command. Beyond emergency and rescue team activities at locations where missiles have landed, the Command's soldiers have been filling various duties such as providing reinforcements at hospitals, opening baby-sitting services and renovating shelters.
Shelters – on demand
Due to the escalation, the Home Front Command has been enlarging protected areas and dispersing portable shelters in southern communities. Instruction has yet to be given to the Tel Aviv metropolitan area authorities to open public shelters, but authorities have been opening shelters upon resident demands in various neighborhoods, as residents turn to the municipal 106 call center.
The Home Front Command has not yet been caught by surprise by the rocket firing range, firing rate and the like. Until now, over 550 missile landings have been counted, but only 26 of them in built-up areas.
The commander of the Home Front Command has released orders to the Ashdod Port and to factories with hazardous materials in the south. According to these orders, hazardous materials must be protected and removed.
Thousands of reservists have received emergency enlistment orders and, over the past few hours, have been trickling into the gathering and enlisting point in the south. Hundreds of military trucks with supplies, ammunition, water and gasoline, alongside tank-carriers, armored-personnel carriers and jeeps are filling the Gaza vicinity roads in a sight that has not been seen in the area since Operation Cast Lead. Ynet
