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AN EXPOSITION OF THE TWO WITNESSES – PART 13

November 1, 2009

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There are three woes in the book of Revelation.

The first begins with the sounding of

the fifth trumpet, the sec ond with the sounding of the sixth trumpet, and the last

on the sounding of the seventh trumpet.

Revelation 11:10-12 – And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. [11] And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

[12] And they heard a great voice from heaven

saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

The great gathering of joy suddenly ends in fear as many observe the two witnesses being resurrected from the dead.

I suspect the whole world will see their bodies on the Temple Mound lying stone cold dead for more than three and one half days.

They will have every reason to be frozen in fear for the resurrection precedes a great earthquake in the city of Jerusalem, which occurs in the SAME hour the two witnesses are resurrected and then ascend into heaven.

The great earthquake concludes the second woe of God, which began with the destruction

of one-third of all mankind, finally ending with a tenth part of the city of Jerusalem falling down to the east of the line extending from Geba to Rimmon. The part of the city of Jerusalem to the west of the line will be listed up during the earthquake, and inhabited during Messiah’s reign.

Revelation 9:12-15 – One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

[13] And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, [14] Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

[15] And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

Zechariah 14:10 – All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.

Revelation 11:13,14 – And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. [14] The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

The surviving remnant that gives glory to the God of heaven represents the 144,000 sealed Jews of Revelation 7:4.

Revelation 7:4 – And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

They are the remnant of the Seed of Genesis 3:15, who is also the Seed of the Woman in Revelation 12:17 in the Negev Wilderness.

Genesis 3:15 – And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Revelation 12:5 – And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

Revelation 12:17 – And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

The woman is the nation of Israel, the woman’s Seed is the Christ Child in 12:5, the 144,000 are the remnant of the Seed. They keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of the Seed, Jesus Christ.

Great Conspiracy Theory – The New World Order (NWO)

Emergence of a bureaucratic collectivist one-world Government

Its history and multiple group different ideas about it are on Web Site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory)

In the past 30 years I’ve had many e-mails about the New World Order, some telling me about it, and o

thers asking me about it but, for the most part, I have remained in silence about it all these years. As a former part of the National Security Agency, I could hardly have been unaware of many of the groups associated with it, but I was never a part of it. Many of the things written about these organizations within our government are true, some are not, and some are greatly exaggerated. There is no question in my mind that an attempt is being made to form a world government run by far left wing intellectual liberals who believe it is the best thing for the masses. In their mindset their intellectual superiority gives them the right to decide what is best for mankind. While I have long known a massive far left liberal conspiracy existed in political parties in Europe and America, I am afraid conservative political parties are just now recognizing it for the danger it poses.

So why have I remained silent on something I have kept up with for 40 years? It is because I do not believe it will have time to develop into the one world government which is portrayed by many prophetic buffs of today. It does exist and is growing, but the Islamic invasion of Israel

will cut it short of maturing to complete control.

I have long believed the massive forces of Islam would one day attack Israel, led by the Antichrist, and

would be successful in driving her into the Negev at Beersheba, where a truce, a hudna, would be declared, leaving Israel there for three and one-half years, at the end of which time the battle of Armageddon would occur and the Messiah would return to end it, and thereafter restore Israel.

Once this hudna is declared, nations south of a line from the Rock of Gibraltar to Kazakhstan to New Guinea, with populations greater than 50 percent Muslim, will almost immediately join the Islamic Antichrist’s Caliphate, and that will be the One World government which represents the biblical last days Kingdom of Antichrist.

I am convinced the initial attack which drives Israel into the Negev Wilderness is most likely to occur between 2010 and 2015. I have never believed the one-world government conspiracy would have the time to gain full control of the world before the Islamic assault on Israel. Hence, in the past I have said nothing about it in order to avoid adding the complex and varying opinions within its scattered components to the already confused maize of prophetical interpretations of Scriptures. If you want to see those complex and varying opinions, then take a look at the following Web Site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory)

I am afraid the believing world thinks they have plenty of time before the tribulation period begins because it will take time for the Antichrist of this great one-world government to take over. I am convinced the one thing we don’t have is a lot of time left in the Age of the Gentiles.

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In conspiracy theory, the term “New World Order” or “NWO” refers to the emergence of a bureaucratic collectivist one-world government.

The common theme in conspiracy theories about a New World Order is that a powerful and secretive elite of globalists is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an autonomous world government, which would replace sovereign nation-states and other checks and balances in international power struggles. Significant occurrences in politics and finance are speculated to be caused by an extremely influential cabal operating through many front organizations.

Numerous historical and current events are seen as steps in an on-going plot to achieve world domination through secret political gatherings and decision-making processes.

Prior to the early 1990s, New World Order conspiracism was limited to two subcultures, primarily the militantly anti-government right, and secondarily Christian fundamentalists concerned with end-time emergence of the Antichrist. Skeptics, such as political scientist Michael Barkun, have expressed concern that right-wing conspiracy theories about a New World Order have now not only been embraced by many left-wing conspiracy theorists but have seeped into popular culture, thereby inaugurating an unrivaled period of people actively preparing for apocalyptic millenarian scenarios in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. They warn that this development may not only fuel lone wolf terrorism but have devastating effects on American political life, such as the rise of an insurrectionary national-anarchist movement capable of subverting the established political powers.

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10 Jihad Kings among the Kings of Revelation 19:19!

The 10 Jihad Toes of Daniel 2

Daniel 2:44 – And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it

shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

At the battle of Armageddon most of the kings of the earth

will come to join the antichrist in a final attempt to eradicate the nation of Israel. Among them will be 10 nations representing the 10 Jihad toes of Daniel 2 that drove Israel into the Negev three and one-half years earlier.

Revelation 19:19 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

Some three and on-half years before the final battle of Armageddon, which closes the tribulation period, ten kings of nations out of the territory once occupied by the ancient Roman Empire will attack Israel from the north.

Daniel 2:42 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and

part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

II Thessalonians 2:3 – Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

The last evil kingdom of antichrist on this earth was to initially be comprised of 10 nations with 10 kings led by the man of sin himself. It was to arise out of the ashes of the old Roman Empire. I have always believed it would rise out of the southern half of the Empire and be made up of 10 Arab nations. I believe the elements for its formation are in place today, and I suspect that the most likely Arab nations of which it will be comprised are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Some of these nations are strong like iron, and some are as soft and pliable as clay.

I do not question that in the final battle of Armageddon the descendants of Ham, Shem, and Japheth will be combatants against the nation of Israel. But I have always contended, along with the Bible expositors of the 18th and 19th centuries, that the antichrist’s initial attack would be led by Arab descendants of Abraham.

They are the mingled seed of his oldest son Ishmael with the seed of the six sons he sired by Keturah, as well as some of the other offspring of his own father Terah. The empire of the antichrist will be an Islamic empire that eventually takes into it other old world nations. And, in the final great battle of Armageddon, all those nations that made up the world as it was known in A.D. 95 will come against Israel, such that Japheth, Ham, and Shem’s descendants will also be involved.

Daniel 2:41-43 – And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

[42] And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

The 10 toes will consist primarily of Terah’s descendants. Abraham came out of Terah. Out of Abraham came the leaders of the three great monotheistic faiths associated with Moses, Jesus, and Mohammad. And they have always been in conflict. (See Archive Update 78 Diagram)

The inspired word in Daniel 2:43, from which the word “mingled” comes, is ARAB, which means “ to interlace,

to mix. The “seed of men” refers to non-descendants of the man Abraham, from which both Jews and Arabs descended. “They” refers to the 10 toes of Daniel’s statue in Daniel 2:42, which have 10 kings over them.

Isaac, the father of Israel, had seven half brothers – Ishmael from Hagar and the six sons of Keturah. It was from these seven half brothers that the Arab world has been primarily created. The descendants of Israel have been more likely to marry within the blood line of the man Israel than have the Arabs to marry within their separate bloodlines of Hagar and Keturah, and the Arabs have also intermingled with non-descendants of Abraham more than have the Jews.

Daniel 2:43 – And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

Just as iron and clay do not hold together very long, the 10 Arab nations will only hold together long enough to fulfill God’s end time tribulation period prophecies. The saved will be caught up on the sounding of the seventh trump to be judged in heaven, and the kingdom of God will all be united in heaven, waiting to return to earth with Christ at his Second Advent.

Revelation 11:15 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and

ever.

Daniel 2:44 – And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

The God of heaven will call all the saved of all the ages together in heaven during the “days of these kings,” and will initially “set up” his kingdom, from whence he will return to earth with it as its head, after the saved have been judged in heaven. Christ’s coming kingdom will “break in pieces and consume all the kingdoms” of the present world, and his kingdom alone will rule.

Revelation 11:15-18 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

[16] And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, [17] Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.

[18] And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

Christ, the stone, came from the mountain representing God, without any human instrumentation, but by God’s Spirit forming his body in a virgin’s womb. Christ will return to destroy those morally destroying the earth. All of the evil that came out of the Babylonian, Medo- Persian, Macedonian, and Roman Empires will be laid waste by his Second Advent.

Daniel 2:45 – Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

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Are ‘too big to fail’ powers just too big?

As lawmakers reshape financial rules to stop firms from getting too big to fail, one thing is clear: The White House gets more power. That scares some people.

By Jennifer Liberto, CNNMoney.com senior writer

Last Updated: October 31, 2009: 8:14 AM ET

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) — As Congress starts debating how to deal with financial firms deemed “too big too fail,” some lawmakers and advocates are worried about giving the executive branch expansive new powers over the financial sector.

“Mr. Secretary, I’m not a man that fears this administration or you,” Rep. Paul Kanjorksi, D-Pa., told Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner this week. “But I do fear the accumulation of power exercised by someone in the future that can be extraordinary.”

Indeed, draft legislation that was released this week by the House Financial Services committee would give the Treasury a lot of new clout.

For example, the bill would create an oversight council to watch over big financial firms and require some to shore up their capital reserves. The Federal Reserve would have a big role in determining those levels, but the Treasury secretary would serve as chairman of the council. And that troubles some lawmakers and experts.

“The idea that the Treasury should assume such a large role is, in my view, a problem, ” said Jane D’Arista, for Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition of consumer advocate groups and labor unions. “The council should have more responsibility, and I don’t think it should be under the thumb of the Treasury.”

Also, under the bill being debated, the Treasury secretary’s approval would be needed to pull the trigger before the government takes over a giant failed financial company. (Two-thirds of the members of the Fed and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. boards would also have to agree.)

Even more controversial: The Treasury’s approval would be needed before the government made loans to and bought assets of troubled and, in some cases, healthy firms.

Geithner has maintained in public comments that he needs such power to unwind the kind of multi-billion dollar companies that pose broad threats to the economy.

He denied that his office would use such power to simply dole out bailouts, saying he would oppose any bill that gave such carte blanche.

“I would not support it — would not want to have to live under it and administer it. And it’s just not the proposal we are describing,” Geithner said.

Indeed, in response to criticism of the bailouts, House leaders have made at least one big change in the proposed legislation: Regulators would be able to recoup money used in the unwinding of big firms by assessing fees on firms with more than $10 billion in assets.

But some on the political left and right still worry that the power Congress is contemplating giving Treasury could lead to more bailouts, even if bailouts were simply fronted with taxpayer dollars.

“Passing good regulation is not an excuse for passing permanent, unlimited bailout authority,” said Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., who believes regulators should ask Congress for any money used to wind down firms.

House Republicans say they’d prefer that Congress establishes a special bankruptcy court with the power to unwind big financial firms.

Administration officials and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., have argued that a new bankruptcy court is not good enough to deal with the kinds of systemwide failure these institutions can trigger. They point to the repercussions of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in September 2008.

“If they lose the capacity to fund, then they can cause enormous damage to the system as a whole, so you need a slightly different regime for banks, because banks are different from a regular company,” Geithner said.

Under the legislation, regulators could “wipe out” entire classes of creditors, Frank said. They could force different stakeholders to take haircuts.

“You say you don’t like what we’re doing, because it’s too creditor unfriendly. Yeah, that’s what we want to be,” Frank told a banking industry official this week.

But some experts say they worry about empowering regulators, who can be susceptible to lobbying and politics, to favor some creditors over others.

“Enhanced resolution authority would allow the government to put money into a private firm and to change contracts,” said Phillip Swagel, an economist and former assistant Treasury secretary in the Bush administration who teaches at Georgetown University.

Giving such broad new power to the executive branch is not unprecedented but is usually limited to wartime situations, said law professor Stephen Vladeck of American University.

“It’s understandable that members of Congress for both partisan and institutional prerogative reasons would be a little bit nervous,” said Vladeck. “Republicans are opposed because of who is in the White House. And even Democrats would balk at least a little bit.”

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AN EXPOSITION OF THE TWO WITNESSES – PART 12

October 31, 2009

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Revelation 11:8 – And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

The Jerusalem Temple was destroyed 25 to 30 years before Revelation was written.

The estimates as to when John wrote the Book of Revelation range from 95 to 100 AD. The temple was destroyed in 70 AD just as Jesus had prophesied some 40 years earlier.

The physical sacrifices continued to be offered until approximately 70 AD, but they were no longer spiritually accepted by God after the veil of the temple was ripped from top to bottom while Christ was one the Cross. He declared it would be rendered spiritually desolate when Israel made its final rejection of him, thereafter to remain in that condition until they saw him at his Second Advent. No sacrifices from Israel have been spiritually acceptable to God since the Temple, the house of God, was made spiritual desolate by His Son.

Matthew 23:37,39 – O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! [38] Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

[39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Matthew 27:50,51 – Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. [51] And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

Jesus will return at His Second Advent, the Temple of Ezekiel will be built, and He will rule from Jerusalem over all the earth.

Matthew 24:30 – And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Ezekiel 43:1-5 – Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: [2] And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.

[3] And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

[4] And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.

[5] So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.

Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and

in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.

After the temple was destroyed in 70 AD, the disciples compared it to being judged like Sodom and Gomorra for its sin of rejecting its Messiah, hence John’s reference to Jerusalem as being as Sodom and Gomorrah.

Revelation 11:9 – And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead

bodies to be put in graves.

It would seem that in the case of Lazarus, Jesus let him remain in the grave for four days before He resurrected him, because He wanted no doubt in the minds of those mourning that Lazarus was stone cold dead. I admit that is speculation on my part, as is my opinion that God left the two witnesses on view for three and one half days so ALL could see them and no doubt would later say they were not really dead.

Revelation 11:10 – And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

It is still common cultural practice among Middle East leaders, even those who do not particularly like each other, to send gifts to one another on their birthdays, some festive occasion or religious holiday, or some political victory over an adversary.

I have no doubt this will be declared a national Islamic holiday for all Muslim states on this planet, for these two witnesses will have been tormenting the Islamic toes and horns of Antichrist for almost 42 months by the power of God.

Barack Obama is typical of his FAR LEFT Professors!

FAR LEFT LIBERAL Professors in the Chicago University

And Thousands of Other Professors in Liberal Institutions

Across the United States from the West Coast to the Atlantic,

Paved the way for its graduates to lead today’s American Youth

To awaken and vote in the darling of their agenda, Barack Obama!

The ‘distribute the wealth, we want ours NOW,’ is the cry of U.S. Youth,

This is leading America into an era conservatives never dreamed Possible!

Most far left professors today are opponents of capitalism and faith in Christ!

Capitalism is only ungodly mammon IF you love and serve it RATHER than Christ!

UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS THE CRY OF MOST FAR LEFT PROFESSORS

II Peter 3:1-4 – This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: [2] That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: [3] Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, [4] And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS THE LIFESTYLE OF MOST FAR LEFT YOUTH

II Timothy 3:1-8 – This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure s mo

re than lovers of God; [5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

[6] For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, [7] Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. [8] Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS THE FUTURE OF MOST FAR LEFT YOUTH

Jude 1:14-18 – And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, [15] To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. [16] These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

[17] But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; [18] How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

FORTUNATELY, THIS IS COMING SOON!

Luke 21:27-30 – And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. [28] And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

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Column One: Silencing dissent in America

October 29, 2009

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST

Former ambassador to the UN Dore Gold should probably buy himself a flak jacket.

Gold is scheduled to debate Richard Goldstone at Brandeis University next Thursday and the anti-Israel forces are organizing quite a reception for him.

Goldstone, who chaired the UN Human Rights Council’s commission charged with accusing Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead,

has become a darling of the anti-Israel Left in the weeks since his report accusing Israel of committing both war crimes and crimes against humanity was published last month. And anti-Israeli leftists don’t like the idea of someone challenging his libelous attacks against Israel in a public debate at a university.

In an e-mail to a campus list-serve, Brandeis student and anti-Israel activist Jonathan Sussman called on his fellow anti-Zionists to disrupt the event that will pit the “neutral” Goldstone against Gold with his “wildly pro-Zionist message.” Sussman invited his list-serve members to join him at a meeting to “discuss a possible response.”

As the young community organizer sees it, “Possibilities include inviting Palestinian speakers to come participate, seeding the audience with people who can disrupt the Zionist narrative, protest and direct action.” He closed his missive with a plaintive call to arms: “F**k the occupation.”

Apparently the aspiring political organizer never considered another possibility: listening to what Gold has to say.

It seems rather unfair to pick on a small fry like Sussman. A brief Web search indicates that Gold’s would-be silencer divides his time fairly equally between publishing rambling, Communist verses to paramours and calling for the overthrow of the US government.

The problem is that Sussman’s planned “direct action” against Gold is not an isolated incident. On college campuses throughout the US, Israelis and supporters of Israel are regularly denied the right to speak by leftist activists claiming to act on behalf of Israel’s “victims,” or in the cause of “peace.” In the name of the Palestinians or peace these radicals seek to coerce their fellow students into following their lead by demonizing and brutally silencing all voices of dissent.

This, by the way is true regardless of where the speaker fits on the pro-Israel spectrum. Earlier this month former prime minister Ehud Olmert – who during his tenure in office offered the Palestinians more than any of his predecessors – could barely get a word in edgewise above the clamor of students at the University of Chicago cursing him as a war criminal.

While many commentators claim that the situation on college campuses is unique, the fact is that the attempts of leftist activists on campuses to silence non-leftist dissenters regarding Israel and a host of other issues is simply an extreme version of what is increasingly becoming standard operating procedure for leftist activists throughout the US. Rather than participating in a battle of ideas with their ideological opponents on the Right, increasingly, leftist activists, groups and policy-makers seek to silence their opponents through slander, intimidation and misrepresentation of their own agenda.

CASE IN point is J Street.

The 18-month old, multi-million dollar American Jewish political action committee held its inaugural convention this week in Washington. J Street seeks to present itself as the representative of a silent majority of American Jews.

However, its signature positions – while in line with the Obama administration’s policies – are deeply discordant with mainstream American Jewish views.

J Street asserts that Israel must freeze all Jewish construction beyond the 1949 armistice lines; that Israel should withdraw to the 1949 armistice lines, including in Jerusalem and expel all Jews now living beyond the 1949 armistice lines; that the absence of peace is due to the absence of a Palestinian state; that Israel used excessive force in Operation Cast Lead and the Goldstone Report is legitimate.

J Street also opposes both sanctions on Iran and military strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Just how profoundly out of synch these positions are with the American Jewish community was made clear with last month’s publication of the American Jewish Committee’s 2009 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion.

According to the survey, a majority of US Jews oppose the Obama administration’s call for the prohibition of Jewish construction in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. Similarly, the vast majority of US Jews rejects the call for Israel to surrender parts of Jerusalem to the Palestinians; believes the cause of the Palestinian conflict with Israel is the Arabs’ desire to destroy Israel rather than the absence of a Palestinian state; and supports Israel’ s right to defend it

self against Palestinian terror. A whopping 94 percent of American Jews believe the Palestinians should be required to accept Israel’s right to exist as a precursor to any viable peace. Finally, a solid majority of American Jews supports either a US or an Israeli military strike against Iran’s nuclear installations.

But no matter. Facts are no obstacle for J Street.

Just as Sussman smears his opponents to discredit dissenting views, so J Street has not only misrepresented its own place on the American Jewish ideological spectrum. It has misrepresented the position of mainstream American Jewish groups on the ideological spectrum. Owing no doubt to the fact that most American Jews self-identify as liberals, J Street condemns organizations like AIPAC and

the ADL as right-wing or conservative or hawkish to try to make American Jews feel uncomfortable supporting them.

At its conference this week J Street’s radicalism was on full display. According to the JTA account, one panel discussion featured members of Congress debating the proposition that American Jewish money controls US foreign policy. Congressman Bob Filner (D-California) was reportedly the darling of the crowd for arguing that indeed, Jewish money exerts inordinate and destructive influence over US foreign policy.

Filner related how in 1994 he was one of the few members of Congress who refused to sign onto a resolution condemning an anti-Semitic speech given by Nation of Islam lieutenant Khalid Abdul Muhammad. Filner claimed that by refusing to condemn a public figure’s calumny against the Jewish people he lost some $250,000 in electoral contributions in each subsequent election cycle. “That kind of money is an intimidating factor. I raised a lot less in succeeding years, but my conscious was cleared,” he bragged.

Filner went on to condemn pro-Israel lobbyists in general. Indeed he insinuated that the act of lobbying on behalf of Israel is inherently treacherous.

Filner argued that unlike labor lobbyists who provide some public benefit, pro-Israel lobbyists are dangerous because they convince legislators to take “positions that can lead to war.”

Then there was the self-professed “pro-Israel, pro-peace” group’s panel discussion on Iran’s nuclear program. As James Kirchick reported in The New Republic, the panel included two of Iran’s most outspoken apologists in Washington.

Both former National Security Council staffer Hillary Mann Leverett and National Iranian-American Council head Trita Parsi asserted a moral and security equivalence between Iran, Israel and the US. Leverett accused opponents of Iran’s nuclear program of racism. In her words, those calling for Iran to be denied nuclear weapons

are “reinforcing stereotypes of Iranian duplicitousness,” and their warnings are “fundamentally racist.”

Here we see how just as Sussman seeks to demonize dissenting views, so J Street gives an open forum to radicals who castigate their opponents as illegitimate, racist and treacherous.

Perhaps the most outstanding feature of the far-left’s behavior is its trenchant refusal to acknowledge that it is the far-left. Just as J Street fatuously claims to represent the American Jewish majority, so it claims to be the American Jewish equivalent of the Kadima Party. J Street’s Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami told The Jerusalem Post, “The party and the viewpoint that we’re closest to in Israeli politics is actually Kadima.”

This of course is pure nonsense. Kadima – like every other Zionist political party in Israel – supports strong sanctions on Iran. Indeed, Kadima supports taking whatever steps are necessary to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Beyond that, Kadima waged two wars while it was in office. Both Operation Cast Lead and the Second Lebanon War were opposed by the far-left. J Street was outspoken in its criticism of Cast Lead. Moreover, Kadima’s leaders have emphatically opposed the Goldstone Report. So other than its support for the rapid establishment of a Palestinian state, Kadima shares none of J Street’s positions.

THE FACT that J Street represents neither mainstream Israeli thinking nor mainstream American Jewish thinking is of little concern to its leadership. J Street represents the Obama administration. In his keynote address before the conference, National Security Adviser James Jones told his cheering audience that J Street has a friend in the Obama White House. As he put it, “You can be sure that this administration will be represented at all other future J Street conferences.”

In recent weeks we have discovered that like its agent J Street, and indeed like Sussman at Brandeis, the Obama White House is also dedicated to silencing opposing voices by marginalizing and demonizing dissent. In fact, the White House’s modus operandi is startlingly similar to theirs.

There are six national television networks in the US. Five of them support President Barack Obama. One – Fox News – does not. Rather than rejoice in what is an overwhelmingly favorable state of affairs for it, in recent weeks, the Obama White House has gone to war against Fox News. Obama’s senior advisers have castigated the network as “the research arm of the Republican Party,” and claim daily that it is “not a news organization.”

Obama as well as top administration officials boycott Fox programs and are seeking to intimidate friendly news organizations into joining them in isolating Fox. In a spate of recent statements on the subject, Obama’s top advisers have warned the other networks not to follow Fox’s lead on any of the stories it reports, lest they discover they have allowed themselves to become the tool of the Republicans.

A straight line connects Sussman’s rants, J Street’s lies and the Obama administration’s attempt to destroy a news organization. In each case, actions aimed at silencing debate are falsely characterized as the brave moves of an underdog seeking to confront the evil powers that be. Sussman writes of the need to overthrow the “oligarchs.” J Street claims to be breaking the “right-wing stranglehold” on US Israel policy. And Obama’s adviser Valerie Jarrett claims that by attacking Fox News, the White House is “speaking truth to power.”

Luckily, the falseness of all of these claims has not been lost on the American public. Despite the actions of the likes of Sussman, “wildly pro-Zionist” voices still resonate on college campuses just as they do throughout the US. J Street has been unable to convince American Jews that its anti-Israel positions are the true expression of American Jewish Zionism.

And Obama’s approval ratings now stand at a mere 51%.

But the fact that these views have not become dominant in America is no reason to be sanguine about the future. That opponents of free speech today occupy the top echelons of power in Washington and are represented at all levels of American society constitutes a critical challenge to the continued vibrancy of American democracy.

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AN EXPOSITION OF THE TWO WITNESSES – PART 11

October 30, 2009

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In Part 10 an attempt was made to prove the beast of Revelation 11:3 comes up the shafts of the abyss (pit) in the interior of the earth, and that he is the antichrist as opposed to the false prophet. In the book of Revelation, at times, the beast is the final evil empire itself. However, at times it refers to its final king, a person, who is antichrist.

In Revelation 11:7 it refers to the antichrist as a person.

Revelation 11:7 – And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

I am convinced that the antichrist himself represents the king of the seventh head on John’s first beast.

And that he will suffer a killing wound by a weapon of war and die physically, after which he will apparently be resurrected from the dead.

Whether the resurrection will be phony or genuine, I cannot say, but the world will believe it.

Revelation 13:3,4 – And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

[4] And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast

? who is able to make war with him?

A “deadly” wound is one that leads to a man’s death. He will apparently die stone cold dead, and then return to life. This is what the world has always wanted to see as a mass congregation, a man who actually comes back from the dead. They will worship this man as being from the true God, but in reality they will be worshipping the one who indwells him, the Dragon Satan. They will worship Satan through his son antichrist by the leadership of the spirit of the false prophet, an ungodly false trinity that counterfeits the true trinity. And it is easy to understand why they wonder after him, saying, “who is able to make war with him.” How do you defeat a man who can keep coming back to life

?

The premise of him being a resurrected man appears several times in Revelation.

Revelation 13:12,14 – And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

[14] And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

By Chapter 17 the seventh head, on the beast in Chapter 13, which was bleeding, has stopped bleeding, and the 10 horns have surrendered their crowns to it. The color of the beast has changed to scarlet, the color of blood, and this may signify the antichrist as informing the world his blood from the deadly wound was shed for their freedom. And it has long been taught that when Satan counterfeits the works of God, he tries to paint as authentic a duplicate as possible.

Revelation 13:1 – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

Revelation 17:3 – So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads

and ten horns.

Revelation 17:8 – The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall w

onder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

The antichrist was (was alive), and is not (he died from a deadly wound), and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit (be resurrected by coming up the shaft from the abyss), and shall go into perdition (the lake of fire burning with brimstone). The antichrist that was (was alive), and is not (he died), and yet is (he came back to life). When does he go into perdition (final destruction by God)?

Revelation 19:20 – And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

The bleeding head on the beast of Chapter 13, and the healed head on the beast in Chapter 17, are the seventh and eighth kings, who are one and the same, and both are the antichrist. The first five horns represent the kings of the Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and Grecian Empires that came before John, and the sixth horn represents the kings of the Roman Empire, which existed in John’s day. All of these empires had an effect on Israel in varying degrees of persecution. The seventh empire that is now afflicting Israel is an Islamic Empire, and soon it will also have a king.

He will be the seventh king, but will die from a deadly wound, which will end his reign as the seventh king. But he will return from the dead to also be

the eighth and last of the kings that afflict Israel.

Revelation 17:10,11 – And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.

[11] And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.