"I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse." Genesis 12:3
The United States is not preparing to attack Iraq in order to protect Israel. She is not going to war to remove weapons of mass destruction. She will war against Iraq to depose a man who desires to rule the region, if not the world. Saddam Hussein knows that control of oil is power, even over the United States! Do we not see how America stoops to Saudi Arabia? The U.S. is going to war to protect her oil interests! In this the United States curses Israel with every decision she makes.
To side with Israel against a Palestinian state would unify the Arab world against the U.S. There would be no war against Iraq and Saddam would most certainly try to exploit the opportunity to extend his power over his neighbors. The U.S. is truly trying to walk a fine line between her traditional friendship with Israel and war against Iraq, but it is clear that Israel is losing a friend and her enemies are milling around her like vultures as the United States turns away.
The antichrist will come from the lands that used to be the Assyrian and then Babylonian empire (Isaiah 10:5-22, 14:3-23, Habakkuk chapters 1&2). As we take war to this ancient land are we helping to bring about the antichrist's rise to power? I am not saying Saddam Hussein is the antichrist. We will not know for sure who the antichrist is until he is revealed by Israel's rebellion against the covenant. That time is not far away.
Listen to the Holy Spirit within you. He is warning His people about the things to come.
To American believers, he is warning us, be prepared for the consequences of our sin. America, Israel's only friend, failed to protect Israel when little Israel needed a friend. The UN Security Council voted 14-0, with one abstention, in favor of calling on Israel to pull back from their siege of Yassar Arafat in Ramallah. The lone abstention was the United States who withheld her veto power over the measure. By this the U.S. sent a clear message to God, Israel and the world where she stood. God will not ignore this cursing upon Israel by the United States. Just as He has not ignored those of the past or those of the future. As often as we oppose Israel we oppose God who will send his withering curses upon our heads!
Prepare for a more tumultuous time ahead as storms and catastrophe plague our nation. Sell your stocks now! If you are waiting for the market to regain its losses then you will only have ignored God and will lose further. Drought and plague will continue on the U.S. because she serves the world and her own desires and has yet again betrayed God's people Israel!
Fellow believers in other nations don't be lax! God will continue to afflict you as well. What happens to the U.S. will effect you profoundly in the days ahead. Listen to the Holy Spirit and make preparations.
Like myself, many of you do not have money to spare. You are wondering what you can do and how this will effect you. You are in the best circumstance, because you will lose the least and will not be as tempted to hold on to what you have by serving the world. Put aside food and water and other basics, just as if a hurricane or blizzard were approaching, because there will indeed be great storms of cursing on the horizon. Pay down your debts as quickly as you can so that what you can't pay for in the future will not be as easily seized.
Some of you who have lived through the great depression, start teaching others your survival skills.
Those of you with money to spare, it is time to reduce you standard of living before it becomes the tool Satan will use to ensnare you, and then give to the poor just as Jesus told us.
Are you afraid? Only fear God and he will see you through. Open your Bibles and believe what is said there, then pray and listen. God will guide you through these times, his rod and staff will comfort you - even as we walk through this valley of the shadow of death!
My words will seem extreme for most of you, but remember how I told you months back that the stock market would continue to fall? At that time I told you we had lost a thousand points. Since then we have lost nearly two thousand more! Still these words will seem extreme, nevertheless some of you will remember these words when the next plagues come.
The plagues that continue and those to come are only a small sample of what the earth will face in the last seven years.
Look around you, the nations are suffering the curses of drought, storm tossed seas and flooding and yet the world barely stops for a moment to look before it resumes it race to destruction! Maybe you have been guilty of this as well. Repent and let God open your eyes to what he has conceived for those who curse Israel! As for you, bless Israel and be blessed. Yes, even during what is to come the faithful who pray for the peace of Jerusalem will surely be blessed.
Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man." Luke 21:36.