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THE ISLAMIC ANTICHRIST IS NOT TOO FAR AWAY!

Iran’s current President is a “died in the wool” religious Islamic fanatic from the top of his head to the tip of his toes. The Apostle Paul was a “Hebrew of the Hebrews,” and President Ahmadinejad is truly a “Shiite of the Shiites.” He is locked in combat with the old conservative heads. They have run Iran since the revolution that overthrew the Shah of Iran. He is trying to slip new leaders and departments into his new government. He is trying to get younger key members of the extre-meists from his Revolutionary Guard into top positions of power, putting out the old leaders who have held power for so long over all governmental decisions.

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It appears he has another revolution in mind, one in which he has absolute power to form a very radical Islamic Republic to replace the cur-rent conservative one. I truly believe the religious extremism in the fanatical Shiite beliefs among their literal interpreters is going to unveil the antichrist

among them. Both the Sunni and Shiite sects of the Muslim faith believe in a coming Al-Mahdi, which we would relate to by our looking forward to the return of our Messiah Jesus Christ. The major difference between the two sects of Sunni and Shiite, concerning the coming of their Messiah, the Al-Mahdi, it that the Sunni believe he is yet to be born, while the Shiites believe he has been hiding in a cave for some 1,100 years, but will soon come out to rule all Islam as the 12th Imam. Many of the local Imams across Iran and Iraq are preaching his coming is very soon, and a fever for his arrival is growing.

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The President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is a Shiite religious literalist, who believes in the imminent return of the 12th Imam. His segment of the Shiite faith believes the 12th Imam went into hiding in the 9th century. The Sunni sect of Islam believes the Al-Mahdi, who is to arise and lead Islam to rule the world and establish a one-world Islamic religion, will be an ordinary man, born to an ordinary woman, and will live an ordinary life with the people of his time. But the Shiites under the same persuasion of their current President, believe that soon the 12th Imam, who disappeared mysteriously in the 9th century, will suddenly ap-pear to lead the Shiites to victory over all enemies starting with the hypocrite mullahs and ending with the Jews. In the Shiite theology, believing in the Imams is the cornerstone of their faith. They believe the 12th Imam has been living in a cave for more than ten centuries, and that he will suddenly surface from his hiding place as their Mahdi, their Messiah, and

will meet Jesus, the Son of Mary. They believe Jesus, the Prophet of Allah, will be second in command in that he will pray behind Al-Mahdi. They believe Allah will give Al-Mahdi the ability to rule the Muslim nations with righteousness in the span of a night.

In the Shiite theology of the religious followers

of the current President of Iran, the 12th Imam is still the sole source of legitimate power on the earth. I suspect a man will suddenly arise in Islam claiming to be the 12th Imam. He will declare himself to have returned with the power of Allah but in reality, he will be the antichrist. Islamic writers indicate the signs in the next paragraph will precede the 12th Imam.

There are many signs that will precede him, a very important sign is that he will come at a time when there is great confutation, intense disputing, and violent deaths – when people are experiencing great fear. Calamities will fall upon people, so much that a man shall not find a shelter to shelter him self from oppression. There will be battles and conflicts before his appearance. The people will be troubled to such an extent that they will long for death.

It is then that Imam will arise. The messenger of Allah said he will be sent at a time of intense disputes and differences among people amidst widespread earthquakes.

It may well be that Paul’s man of sin, the antichrist, is the coming Islamic Al Mahdi.

Begin Excerpt from MEMRI

Middle East Media Research Institute

Ahmadinejad: West Must Surrender to Hidden Imam; Establish 9/11 Investigative Committee; ‘Islamophobia is Humanophobia’

Special Dispatch No. 3396

November 23, 2020

In recent days, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made statements at several venues. On November 23, 2010, in a speech in the northwestern Iranian city of Zanjan, Ahmadinejad called on “the arrogance and the great powers” to surrender to the Hidden Imam – the Shi’ite messiah whose appearance he repeatedly claims is imminent.

Prior to that, on November 18, while in Baku, Azerbaijan for the third meeting of the leaders of Caspian littoral states, he gave an interview to Iran’s Sahar TV discussing the negotiations with the 5+1, Iran’s demand for a committee to investigate the 9/11 events, “Islamophobia” as “humanophobia,” how the world will treat the Jews, and other issues.[1]

The following are Ahmadinejad’s statements:

Ahmadinejad in Zanjan: West Must Surrender To Hidden Imam

On November 23, in the city of Zanjan, Ahmadinejad said that the time of the arrogance and the great powers is over, and called on them to to surrender to the worldwide governance of the Shi’a Hidden Imam.[2]

Ahmadinejad in Baku: Negotiations With 5+1

While in Baku, Ahmadinejad said that the West would regret rejecting Turkey as the negotiations venue for the negotiations with the 5+1.[3]

In his November 18 interview with Iran’s Sahar TV, Ahmadinejad said that Iran’s nuclear program is a resolved issue and that Tehran would not negotiate on its inalienable rights.

“We have announced that we will not negotiate on our inalienable rights, such as independence. No one negotiates about their independence with anyone,” he said, referring to Iran’s upcoming multifaceted talks with the 5+1 – Britain, China, France, Russia and the U.S. plus Germany.

“Our stance is obvious; we have presented our proposal package,” Ahmadinejad said, adding, “We think global issues will not be resolved without public management and the participation of all nations and governments and without paying due attention to law and justice.”

He went on to say that that Iran’s proposal stresses the main problems of the international community and that Tehran has expressed its readiness to resolve them in an atmosphere based on understanding, justice and respect. “But if they (the West) want to negotiate with their old domineering thoughts, nothing special will happen to them… We, however, will continue our course.”

“Those [countries], whose arsenals are full of atomic weapons arm their friends with atomic weapons and justify all the crimes their friends commit, but when it comes to Iran they spread false news,” Ahmadinejad said, adding that the world powers want Tehran to prove something which does not exist.

“We tell them we work according to the law, and there is no diversion. They say no, there is (diversion). We ask, what is your proof? And they say you give us proof… We say we do not have any [such] proof, and they say well, then this shows Iran is hiding something.”[4]

The 9/11 Investigative Committee

Responding to a question in the Sahar TV interview about Iran’s proposal for a fact-finding committee to probe the 9/11 events, Ahmadinejad said that the West invaded the region using those incidents as a pretext.

“More than one million have been killed, and more [people] are being killed everyday… they bomb villages, children, women and weddings. Why are they interfering in Iraq’s affairs, in Afghanistan’s affairs? Why? The Afghan president [Hamid Karzai] says, ‘Why do you carry out military operations on our soil? This is a republic!’ They [i.e. the West] say, ‘Because we feel like it!’ The excuse for all of this is September 11.

On September 11, they singlehandedly accused our region.”

He continued, “How can they be plaintiff, prosecutor and the judge? How can they deliver the verdict and then carry out that sentence against the nations

? This issue should be cleared.”

“Of course we were saddened by that incident [9/11]. A group of innocent people were killed for no reason… Of course this [9/11 probe] can be a good thing for the U.S. government and NATO.”

He added that if the initial claim by the U.S. government turns out to be wrong, they can say there has been a mistake and withdraw their forces honorably.

Ahmadinejad then said that if the West does not allow the fact-finding committee to be formed, it means all this has been a plot to invade the region.[5]

The West’s “Islamophobia” Is “Humanophobia”
Referring in the Sahar TV interview to the “Islamophobia policy” of the “hegemonic powers” after 9/11, Ahmadinejad said that “Islamophobia is in fact humanophobia.”

“What they are afraid of is retrieving humane [sic] identity. In today’s world a strong and deep wave has been formed in which people are finding themselves.

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Nations are finding their capabilities, identity and humane [sic] origins.”

He continued, “Nowadays, humane [sic] dignity is a very serious matter in the world. Justice is a very serious matter. Monotheism, which is the basis of justice and humane dignity, is a very serious matter. And they (Westerners) are afraid of this. Every human that [truly] knows himself is a danger to them, because such a person will not accept hegemony.

Any nation that knows itself will not accept hegemonic and one-sided methods.”

“They are basically against every religion that originates from truth and seeks humane quintessence and dignity, and justice. They are not only against Islam, they are also opposed to Christianity if they (the Christians) promote true Christian values,” Ahmadinejad added.[6]

The West Will Oppose the Jews

Ahmadinejad added in the interview that the West would oppose the Jewish people if they act according to the teachings of Moses.

Azerbaijan-Iran Relations

Ahmadinejad also told Sahar TV that economic ties between Iran and Azerbaijan would expand.

“In the first step, we envision at least US$5 billion. This [sum] can easily be increased,” he said.[7]

Endnotes:

[1] Press TV, Iran, November 20, 2010.

[2] Fars, Iran, November 23, 2010;
Lenziran, November 23, 2010 http://www.lenziran.com/2010/11/23/ahmadinejad-call-corrupt-super-powers-to-surrender-to-hidden-imam-zaman/.
[3] Mehr, Iran, November 22, 2010
http://www.mehrnews.com/fa/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1196013.
[4] Press TV, Iran, November 20, 2010.

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[5] Press TV, Iran, November 20, 2010.
[6] Press TV, Iran, November 20, 2010.
[7] Press TV, Iran, November 20, 2010.

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British Commander-In-Chief Is Right On Target!

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

“You can’t defeat Taliban or al Qaeda militarily, only contain Them,”

British Commander-in-Chief Gen.

Sir David Richards Said it Bluntly.

I’ve been convinced of it since al-Qaeda twin tower 9/11 Attack

You can’t win a War with Guerillas in a Mountainous Homeland

Across the Vast Asian Continent And the Islamic Middle East!

US Forces are stretched Thin across the Middle East & Asia!

I’m in Favor of the Withdrawal of American Ground Troops

Since War Will begin after it regardless of when it Occurs.

We cannot Win a Guerilla war in the Middle East or Asia

But We Can Send Naval & Air Force Missiles On Military

Targets in the Terrorist Countries to Stop Aggression!

I have held the same military assessment of fighting large terrorist groups since I graduated from the Orlando Military Academy, as that expressed by the British Commander-in-Chief Gen. Sir David Richards, when he stated bluntly, “You can’t defeat the Taliban or al Qaeda militarily, only contain them…”

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Begin Excerpt 1 from DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis

West marks another military retreat at NATO summit

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis

November 21, 2010, 1:11 PM (GMT+02:00)

The NATO summit’s agreement of Saturday Nov.

2010 on staged handovers to Afghanistan security forces by 2014 is a good fit for Taliban’s longstanding fundamental demand for foreign troops to quit Afghanistan as the precondition for talks on an end to the war that will restore them to power in Kabul, DEBKAfile’s military sources report.

Taliban’s response Saturday night addressed elements left out of the NATO statement: The Americans and NATO face defeat in Afghanistan, said Taliban – notwithstanding US troops reinforcements and changes of generals – a jab at Gen. David Petraeus, who recently too over command of the war.

The Afghan insurgents took the NATO statement as the Western alliance’s admission that it cannot defeat them, had in lost the will to do so and sought only an elegant way out of spelling out the word defeat; “transition” to Afghan security forces sounds more honorable.

But even that the Taliban and Al Qaeda are not willing to concede.

Therefore, the fighting will continue to rage as Washington uses the NATO blueprint for maneuvers to open indirect or direct negotiations with the Taliban for ending the war.

The insurgents will moreover press their attacks – less to seize more territory than to drive bigger wedges among Western allies, taking advantage of the badly disunited front US President Barack Obama found in Lisbon.

Exit timelines vary from one NATO leader to another.

According to the summit document, “The transition process towards Afghan control of security matters is to begin in July of next year and end with full Afghan control by the end of 2014.” The alliance also signed a document reinforcing its long-term commitment to Afghanistan’ s

security even after NATO combat operations end.

2014 was not defined explicitly as the date for ending combat operations.

One administration official said Saturday that the President would personally decide when conditions were ready for US troops to draw down. The Pentagon called 2014 “aspirational” and US Secretary of State called it “a goal not a timeline.”

Meanwhile, two of the larger NATO contingents are not waiting for any goals or timelines; they are on their way out of Afghanistan.

President Nicolas Sarkozy is getting ready to recall 3,850 French troops next year, while British Prime Minister David Cameron has withdrawn the 9,500-strong British contingent from direct combat activity. On Nov. 14, British Commander-in-Chief Gen. Sir David Richards said bluntly, “You can’t defeat the Taliban or al Qaeda militarily, only contain them…”

The Western powers are even more at odds on the Iranian nuclear issue than they are on Afghanistan. No coherent, agreed plan for dealing with Iran’s approaching attainment of a nuclear weapon has been laid out in Washington, London, Paris or Berlin – or even an agreed strategy for their nuclear talks with Iran early next month. Tehran, like the Taliban, is therefore preparing to harden its bargaining stance at those talks, encouraged by US-led Western retreats from Iraq, Lebanon and now Afghanistan to assume that Washington will continue to give way.

Begin Excerpt 2 from The Times of India

Taliban vow to throw Nato out of Af before ’14 pullout

Tags: Zabihullah Mujahid|Taliban|Hamid karzai

November 22, 2010

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Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in message e-mailed to the media that Nato will be unable to establish a stable government in Afghanistan by that date. He did not mention an offer from President Hamid Karzai for peace talks and eventual reconciliation _ an offer rejected by the hard-line Taliban leadership.

During the summit, Nato leaders agreed to begin handing off security responsibility to Afghan security forces in early 2011, with a full transition targeted for

the end of 2014. Mujahid said the Taliban “will not remain silent even for a single night until and unless the goal of complete freedom and the formation of an independent government is achieved. They will not wait for the time of implementation of a given decision or timetable of withdrawal.”

Begin Excerpt 3 from World News

U.S. urges China to restrain North Korea

November 24, 2010

State Department: Beijing plays pivotal role in reducing tensions after Pyongyang’s artillery strike on South Korean island

INCHEON, South Korea — The U.S. on Wednesday urged China to press North Korea to halt provocative actions against South Korea, after an artillery attack on the South that the Obama administration called a “premeditated” violation of the truce that ended the Korean War.

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As the isolated North’s only ally and main economic partner, China plays a “pivotal” role in reducing tensions and has a duty to tell Pyongyang that deliberate acts “specifically intended to inflame tensions in the region” are not acceptable, the State Department said.

“China is pivotal in moving North Korea in a fundamentally different direction,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters.

“We expect China to be clear, like we are, as to where the responsibility for the current situation, the current tension lies. This is something that we feel strongly about.”

Crowley said U.S. diplomats had delivered that message to Chinese officials in Washington and Beijing in the aftermath of Tuesday’s North Korean artillery attack on a South Korean island.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to discuss the attack and the response to it by telephone with China’s foreign minister, Crowley said.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, echoed the point of China’s importance in the process in an interview to be aired Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”

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PART 2 – They laughed at Bush’s Evil Axis Claim – Now the World is waiting to see if the U.S. is a Paper Tiger!

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

PART 2 – They Laughed at Bush’s Evil Axis Claim

The World is waiting to See if US is a

Paper Tiger

Full Of Magnificent Diplomatic Intellectual Rhetoric

A Once Great Nation Now Unwilling to Stop a Bully.

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We do have an agreement with South Korea that if she is attacked, then we will come to her defense.

So far President Obama has made the appropriate response, in that he has ordered the carrier George Washington and its escort naval armada to move

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into the coastal waters off the Korean Peninsula to conduct a naval exercise with the South Koreans.

The current dictator of North Korea is about to turn over his dictatorship to his son, and this may be at least partially tied to this event. It probably is linked to this and a test by the Evil Axis of Syria, Iran, and North Korea to see how far they can push Obama without the U.S. launching tactical missiles at them in defense of America’s allies. I also believe the Evil Axis is anxious to stretch the U.S. forces into a defensive posture so thin it weakens the effectiveness of our local presence in individual areas.

Begin Excerpt from YNet News

North Korea testing Obama

Op-ed: Similarly to Nazi era, failure to respond to North Korea aggression could lead to war

By Ron Ben-Yishai

November 23, 2010, 22:10

Part 2 of Analysis

All eyes in the international theater are currently on Washington.

The White House also understands that the North Korean attack on the South Korean island is a challenge to the US

no less so – and possibly even more so – than it is a provocation towards Seoul. Officials in Washington know that a failure to respond in this case would have grave strategic and international implications: Iran is closely monitoring North Korea’s conduct on the nuclear and sanctions front, and there are quite a few indications that Pyongyang serves as a model for emulation. On top of it, there is the close cooperation between the two states on the missile and nuclear development front.

Syria is in the same boat and draws from North Korea not only military and nuclear assistance, but also inspiration for provocative conduct vis-à- vis the US.

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Meanwhile, the concern shown by America’s traditional allies in Asia and in the Middle East is growing in the face of the weakness and helplessness displayed by Washington in respect to Pyongyang’s provocations.

Major question marks regarding America’s power and leadership are in the air, ranging from Riyadh to Tokyo: If this is how the White House conducts itself vis-à-vis the small, poor North Korea, would it have the power and desire to protect the oil states against Iran should Tehran decide, for example, to disrupt oil tanker traffic in the Persian Gulf

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? Can Japan and Taiwan count on the US to protect them in face of Chinese aggression?

And that’ s not all.

There is substantial danger that should North Korea’s provocation not be met with an effective Western, international response, it would provide Pyongyang with an incentive to embark on additional adventures with graver results – to the point of all-out war – as was the case with Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II.

We can assume that at this time, South Korea and the US would not be initiating military retaliation to the North Korean attack.

It is also doubtful whether the US would adopt a grave step such as a total naval blockade against North Korea that may escalate to war. South Korea would be the first to oppose such move. However, the US still has two options on the diplomatic and economic front that may deter the regime in Pyongyang and make it think twice before undertaking the next provocation.

The Key: China

One option is to enlist China to the cause of exerting pressure on its ally, Pyongyang, to put an end to the provocations and return to the negotiating table. China has a substantial interest at th is time in appeasing Washington, which

is pressing Beijing to devaluate its currency and improve the balance of trade between the two countries. China also holds more than a billion-dollar worth of US bonds and has an interest in seeing an American economic recovery. Hence, China is attentive to Washington’s concerns and is uninterested in seeing the US completely losing its superpower status.

Another option available to the US is to convene the Security Council and pass a resolution that imposes further sanctions on North Korea and even threatens Pyongyang with Chapter VII in the UN charter, which allows for military action against a rogue state that jeopardizes world peace.

China would then be facing an uncomfortable position, where it is forced to impose its veto power in defiance of all other Security Council members or endorse the resolution and become a party to sanctions against its ally. In any case, the key to restraining North Korea via non-violent means is currently in Beijing’s hands.

Should all this fail, the US has another possibility at its disposal: Redeploying tactical nuclear weapons on South Korea’s soil. Such move would not only make clear the seriousness of America’s intentions to Pyongyang, but also prove to China that it risks a nuclear war at its doorstep. This move would also signal to Iran what it can expect should it continue with its nuclear provocations.

Should Washington be able to prompt China to impose effective pressure on Pyongyang, or should the US deploy nuclear weapons in South Korea, this would have a restraining effect on Iran on the nuclear front. However, should the White House show weakness, the North Korean model is expected to repeat in our region, in a doubly dangerous fashion.

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Remember when they laughed at President Bush – PART 1

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

Do you remember when they once laughed at President Bush,

When He Identified North Korea As Part Of The Evil Axis?

President Obama is now being tested by North Korea

And it most assuredly is not a laughable S

ituation.

THE AXIS OF EVIL

The Rome-Berlin Axis, a diplomatic agreement between Hitler and Mussolini was formed in 1936 and reinforced by a military pact signed between Germany and Italy in 1939. Japan joined the pact in 1940. It was an “axis of evil.” I realize that there are certainly many differences between the “axis of evil” that was formed between Germany, Italy, and Japan and the one now in existence between North Korea, Iran, and Syria, but they are an “axis of evil” in the present Middle East conflict.

Some 71 years ago, when I was 7 years of age, Hitler attacked Poland to begin WW II.

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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and, when we entered the fray, Japan, Germany, and Italy became known to us as the “Axis” powers, and we, along with the U.K. and Russia, became known as the “Allied” powers. They were assuredly an “axis” of evil.” Many world leaders, and some of our more liberal news distributors, tend to make fun of the labeling of North Korea, Iran, and Iraq as an “axis of evil.” Regardless of how you rate our President, it is a very accurate assessment. North Korea is a very evil regime that is armed to the teeth with weapons of mass destruction and precision ballistic missiles to deliver them.

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I entered the USAF at the outbreak of the Korean War, worked with an ROK unit briefly in Vietnam, and learned a lot about the development of North Korea’s military arsenal before my retirement in 1971 from the Fort George G. Meade USAF Branch of the National Security Agency in the Washington D.C. Complex. Since that time I have kept up with North Korea’s accelerating drive to become a world leader in deadly weaponry.

According to former U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton, between these three nations there is “an axis along which flows dangerous weapons and dangerous technology.” He also said, during the Bush Administration, that “North Korea is “the world’s foremost peddler of ballistic missile types of equipment,” and that they were developing and exporting missile parts and technology to “notable rogue state clients such as Syria, Libya, and Iran.” The greatest problem for the U.S. in all this transfer of weaponry is the blossoming relationship that has developed between Syria and Iran in all areas of commerce and technology. Syria is acting as the middleman between Iran and North Korea in the transfer of such material. I have shown the growing ties between Syria and Iraq in many previous Prophecy Updates, which may be found in the prophecy archives at the top of this Update.

And I certainly agree with John Bolton’s assessment of North Korea as “the world’s foremost vendor of missile technology that has one of the most robust offensive bio-weapons programs on earth.”

At the insistence of the U.S., and with the promise of two power-generating nuclear reactors from us, North Korea supposedly shut down its

nuclear program in 1994. However, it secretly revived it, and thus far they will not let U.N. inspections of it be conducted. The Central Intelligence Agency believes they may have stockpiled enough plutonium to make several atomic bombs before they froze their nuclear program.

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Begin Excerpt from YNet News

Pyongyang has the edge

Op-ed: North Korea’s belligerent policy of bninkmanship backed by vast military superiority

By Ron Ben-Yishal

November 23, 2010, 17:30

Part 1 of Analysis

North Korea is currently facing major domestic distress. The sanctions imposed on it and its agricultural difficulties have led to serious hunger, the UN reports. Yet instead of suspending its nuclear program and ballistic missiles and resuming talks with the US, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea (which promised generous aid in food and fuel,) Pyongyang is attempting to extort them via war threats and provocations. This, in essence, is the backdrop for the grave incident where the communist country shelled a South Korean island

not too far from the two Koreas western border.

The latest incident is the fifth in a series of grave provocations initiated by North Korea in the past two years, ever since talks hit an impasse.

Notwithstanding its pledges, North Korea held a (not particularly successful) nuclear experiment, and also undertook a series of ballistic missile tests, despite US warnings.

In the wake of these tests, the United Nations imposed economic and diplomatic sanctions on Pyongyang, yet the Stalinist regime headed by ill Kim Jong-il was not deterred.

In March of this year, a North Korean submarine sunk a South Korean navy ship.

North Korea denied any involvement in the incident, yet a UN commission of inquiry ruled that Pyongyang was indeed responsible, prompting the US to impose further sanctions. In response, North Korea announced that nobody could guarantee this would not have grave implications for peace and stability in the region. A few days ago, Pyongyang presented an American scientist with a new uranium-enrichment facility, and Tuesday it shelled the South Korean island. This act brings the two Koreas dangerously close to the brink of war.

At the same time, North Korea constantly continues, with active Chinese diplomatic assistance, to invite the US to resume the talks on Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile program, in exchange for economic benefits and lifting of the sanctions. It’s easy to see what the North Korean leadership aims to achieve via this belligerent brinkmanship. The main target is to create a situation whereby the sanctions are lifted and Pyongyang receives an immediate and significant supply of food and fuel, before Pyongyang ever commits to curbing its military nuclear program, and before International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors are ever allowed to return to North Korea.

The other objective is domestic. Current leader Kim Jong-il suffered a stroke two years ago and is having trouble functioning. Hence, a few months ago he embarked on the process of handing over power to his son, Kim Jong-Un. However, the regime in Pyongyang is concerned that domestic and international rivals would take advantage of the sensitive period in order to destabilize the regime and extort political and military compromises. Through their provocations against South Korea, Kim Jong-il and his generals showcase

their power, confidence, and hold on the country in a manner which they believe will deter their rivals.

No answer to North’s missiles

This strategy leaves South Korea and the Obama Administration helpless. South Korea is well familiar with its own military inferiority vis-à-vis North Korea’s million-man army, which is equipped with modern arms and ballistic missiles. While South Korea’s arms and aircraft are more advanced than Pyongyang’s, the quantitative inferiority vis-à-vis the North and the North Korea regime’s willingness to sustain casualties and destruction decisively tilt the balance in the North’s favor.

Moreover, despite its technological and industrial strength, South Korea does not possess substantial capability to intercept missiles and rockets. Seoul is currently in initial stages of acquiring such systems (including the “Green Pine” radar system made in Israel.)

Hence, even if it does not use the nuclear weapons it may or may not possesses, North Korea can literally raze Seoul in a matter of days and gravely undermine the flourishing South Korean industrial sector and economy.

Should a war break out, the roughly 40,000 US troops deployed in South Korea ever since the 1950s are also at risk. These forces possess advanced Patriot missiles capable of intercepting ballistic missiles, yet in low numbers compared to the North’s rocket and artillery arsenal.

The South Korean government is well aware of its situation, and also of the fact that the Obama Administration, which is entangled in Afghanistan and Iraq, would not rush into another war in the Korea Peninsula. Hence, Korean President Lee Myung-bak quickly declared that despite the North’s blatant provocation, his country has no intention of being dragged into a conflict and would do everything it can to avoid escalation.

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A PSALM OF DAVID ABOUT THANKSGIVING

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

A PSALM OF DAVID ABOUT THANKSGIVING

November 23, 2010

PSALM 26:6 – I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord:

A man who loves his wife will be faithful to her in body and in soul.

He will not be unfaithful to her in the vow of faithfulness he made

to her after they united in holy matrimony. Men and women who love the local church will be faithful to it because it is Christ’s local, visible body.

Ephesians 5:25,26 – Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; [26] That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

Ephesians 5:29,30 – For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: [30] For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

Only the Lord brought me through Vietnam without committing adultery, and my thanksgiving will always be to him for having done so.

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One of my saddest times was the final trip from the coast of central Nam to Saigon. When I passed through Na Trang they were having some sort of a holiday. I was in a jeep and got caught in the back of a long, wide parade of Vietnamese carrying banners

and paper figures. Both sides of the coastal highway were lined with women and many were holding babies.

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Many of the babies were half black and half white. My heart broke as I thought of what the future held for them in a place where they would be treated as half-breeds. A lot of American men left those children to such a fate in Vietnam. And a lot of their wives still don’t know it today. My thanksgiving is to God I did not leave such a child behind of my own flesh and blood.

The “altar” referred to in Psalm 26 is an altar of the Tent or Tabernacle, which preceded the Temple of Solomon.

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Although I have never committed the physical act of adultery, only God knows how many times I have lusted in my heart while viewing a woman with a sensual body. I have continual thanksgiving in my soul for the altar of I John 1:9.

1 John 1:9 – If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Those who keep coming to him for forgiveness and his restoration to fellowship grow in the knowledge of the depth of his unspeakable grace and love, continuously publishing it from their lips with a voice of thanksgiving of his wondrous works.

PSALM 26:7 – That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.

Hebrews 13:14,15 – For here have we no continuing city, but

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we seek one to come.

[15] By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks

to his name.

The habitation of God, whether it was in the Tabernacle, the Temple, or individual local Churches, wherever is was or is, it was always meant to be a gathering seeking truth while growing in faith, hope, and love. It was, and is, to be a place where children of God learn to behave themselves after they have been saved by the grace of God. The habitation of his Spirit in his house is where his honor dwells by the presence of his Son.

I Timothy 3:14,15 – These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: [15] But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

PSALM 26:8 – Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

Ephesians 2:22 – In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Hebrews 10:21-25 – And having an high priest over the house of God; [22] Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

[23] Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering (for he is faithful that promised;) [24] And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: [25] Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.

John 13:34,35 – A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. [35] By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Revelation 22:14 – Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

John 4:24 – God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

A local Church without love is a church void of the habitation presence

of the Lord. A church where the Spirit dwells is one that lets Him work in it to both will and to do of HIS good pleasure, such

that it learns to do all things w

ithout murmurings and disputings.