September 11, 2001: God's wake up call to America

"Everything will change, everything has changed." (Gen. Cornwallis, ending scene in the movie "The Patriot")

After the September eleventh attacks I felt angry, upset, frustrated, and depressed as did many Americans. I too had sleepless nights. The attacks effected everyone in some way or another. I didn't struggle with those feelings because I was afraid, but because I know the truth behind all of this. God stomach punched America! It's not just the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but all of the hidden agendas of the indigenous sons and daughters of belial in America. Certainly everyone will remember September 11, 2001 it was and will remain a day that changed everything. As Christians we know God is in control of all events and circumstances. We can rest in Christ and His word to guide us into the kingdom regardless of future events. Amen?

How could it happen?

Many people are asking how could this happen? Why did this happen? We have to understand we were very much in "sleep mode" before all this. We have to admit that as a nation we were totally unprepared, and even ignorant to such an idea. The fact is we were, had been, and still are lulled by our sins and pride into a false sense of security and our arrogance as a prideful sinful people. The majority of people in America don't like to hear these truths. The majority doesn't like to think God allowed this to happen to us. They don't want to hear that it was our sins. They can't reason that their brand of a loving God would ever do such a thing to America. "Why, we're blessed" they say. And worse yet, they run around saying "God bless America" as if this mantra will rectify the situation. We have to face the stark reality that this attack did happen and that for a reason—our beginning judgement! I had very strong feelings that something was going to happen in the world and it did! Why did this attack happen?

"Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem [America] slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return." (Jeremiah 8:5)

"In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD." (Ezekiel 6:6,7)

What Kind of Nation?

If God allowed this to happen (that is ultimately what it is, seeing He's in control over all things, He allowed it. He may not have planned it or ordered it but He did nothing to stop it—His protection was removed from us) why would He? We have to understand there's only two kinds of nations in this world—those that serve God and those that don't.

"Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof." (Matthew 21:43)

"Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] the LORD; [and] the people [whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance." (Psalm 33:12)

Many will say what are you talking about? Why should God judge us for our sins? Other countries commit sin and we don't see them be "judged" as you say? To be honest, those are all good points. But in the beginning of our nation we were built on God and His word.

Fact: Our nation (The United States of America) started out proclaiming God was the God of America, and that we would follow Him and His laws.

Evidence #1: The Magna Carta was a document that greatly influenced the new America. "Know that, having regard to God and for the salvation of our soul, and those of all our ancestors and heirs… that the English Church shall be free, and shall have her rights entire, and her liberties inviolate…." (Magna Carta, June 15, 1215)

Evidence #2: The Mayflower Compact - Composed by William Bradford Adopted November 11, 1620 [This Compact, drawn up in the cabin of the Mayflower, was not a constitution, a document defining and limiting the functions of government. It was, however, the germ of popular government in America.  "In the name of God, Amen…having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid." (The Mayflower Compact, Composed by William Bradford Adopted November 11, 1620)

"For as much as it hath pleased Almighty God by the wise disposition of his divine providence so to order and dispose of things that we the Inhabitants and Residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield are now cohabiting and dwelling in and upon the River of Connectecotte and the lands thereunto adjoining; and well knowing where a people are gathered together the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent Government established according to God… for ourselves and our successors and such as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereafter, enter into Combination and Confederation together, to maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus which we now profess, as also, the discipline of the Churches, which according to the truth of the said Gospel is now practiced amongst us; as also in our civil affairs to be guided and governed according to such Laws, Rules, Orders and Decrees as shall be made, ordered, and decreed as followeth." (The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, January 14, 1638)

"CAPITAL LAWS 1 If any man after legal conviction shall have or worship any other god, but the Lord God, he shall be put to death. 2 If any man or woman be a witch (that is, hath or consulteth with a familiar spirit), they shall be put to death. 3 If any man shall blaspheme the name of God, the Father, Son, or Holy Ghost, with direct, express, presumptuous, or high-handed blasphemy, or shall curse God in the like manner, he shall be put to death." (Massachusetts Body of Liberties," The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, 1641)

"…and for this end they, or the greater number of them, shall have power to take account from time to time of all parents and masters, and of their children…especially of the ability to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of this country…. It being one chief project of the old deluder [deceiver] satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures…that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the Church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors." (The Massachusetts School Laws, April 14, 1642, and November 11, 1647)

"…be it enacted that whatsoever person or persons within this province…shall deny our Saviour, Jesus Christ, to be the son of God, or shall deny the Holt Trinity (the Father, Son, Holy Ghost)…shall be punished with death and confiscation or forfeiture of all his or her lands…." (The Maryland Toleration Act, April 21, 1649)

"…be it maintained with a full liberty in religious concernments [affairs] and that true piety rightly grounded upon gospel principles will give the best and greatest security to sovereignty and will lay in the hearts of men the strongest obligations to true loyalty." (The Rhode Island Colonial Charter, 1663)

"And that all persons who also profess to believe in Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world, shall be capable (notwithstanding their other persuasions and practices in point of conscience and religion) to serve this government in any capacity, both legislatively and executively…." (The Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges, October 28, 1701)

"The Rights of the Colonists as Christians. These may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament." (The Rights of the Colonists, November 20, 1772)

"and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them… We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights… We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence…." (Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776)

"Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged." (The Northwest Ordinance July 13, 1787)

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…" (The First Amendment, Bill of Rights, December 15, 1791)

The first amendment did not intend to exclude God or Christianity from public or private life only to not restrict freedom of worship, and caution against making one religion a "state religion."

"…but this is not all, he opens and carries the matter of government a little further: "Let every soul be subject to the higher powers; for there is no power but of God. The powers that be are ordained of God: whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil: wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same." "He is the minister of God to thee for good." "Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but for conscience' sake." (FRAME OF GOVERNMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA by William Penn 1682)

"And my that Infinite Power which rules the destinies of the universe lead our councils to what is best, and give them a favorable issue for your peace and prosperity." (Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801)

"That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth." (Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863)

"If this measure attains a successful result, then our aspirations as a Christian, peace-loving people will be realized." (William McKinley's War Message, April 11, 1898)

"…the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." (John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961)

"Our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament, or the Christian religion." (Noah Webster, History of the United States (New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1832), p. 6)

"All [laws], however, may be arranged in two different classes. 1) Divine. 2) Human. . . . But it should always be remembered that this law, natural or revealed, made for men or for nations, flows from the same Divine source: it is the law of God. . . . Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is Divine." (James Wilson, The Works of the Honorable James Wilson, Bird Wilson, editor (Philadelphia: Lorenzo Press, 1804), Vol. I, pp. 103-105, "Of the General Principles of Law and Obligation.)

"[T]he law . . . dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this." (Alexander Hamilton, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett, editor (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961), Vol. I, p. 87, February 23, 1775, quoting William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1771), Vol. I, p. 41.)

"In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. . . . No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people." (Noah Webster)

"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws. . . . All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." (Noah Webster)

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever." (Thomas Jefferson)

"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." (First Chief Justice of Supreme Court John Jay)

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever." (Thomas Jefferson)

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religion but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ…." (Patrick Henry of the Constitutional Convention)

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible" (President George Washington, September 17th, 1796)

"The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions...." (Noah Webster)

"Our laws and institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teaching of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that is should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian . . . this is a Christian nation." (US Supreme Court, 1892)

"America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scriptures." (Woodrow Wilson, 1911, pre-Presidential campaign speech.)

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America; and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." (The Pledge of Allegiance)

"In God we trust" (your money)

These are just a few quotes that provide undeniable evidence that our nation and government was founded, dedicated, and structured on the God of the Bible. I would challenge anyone to seriously research the beginnings of this country to find out for themselves that indeed it was founded upon God and His Bible. Only those that are afraid of the truth will refuse to do the research! Remember the Mayflower compact?

"In the name of God, Amen…having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith…."

What does this mean? It means that at the very start of this nation our forefathers dedicated themselves and this nation to God. They were saying, God is our God and we will build this nation and live by His commands. God's approval to them was the blessings that followed.

We Turned Our Backs on God

"And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins." (Leviticus 26:18)

"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity." (Daniel Webster)

"…I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever." (Thomas Jefferson)

If we return to the central question—"why did this happen?" we find that the answer is clear, it is because we turned our backs on God. We have been very evil in His sight, and as Thomas Jefferson said,"… God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever."

As Americans we were built upon ideas of freedom, peace, and the worship of the one true God. We certainly have become like the children of Israel after the exodus from Egypt--how that they rose up to play and commit all kinds of evil once their freedom was granted. Freedom of oppressive governments, tyrants, rulers, and slavery will always bring evil actions why? Because the human heart is sick with sin (Jeremiah 17:9).

If a people are unshackled to do, express, and live how they wish, as it is here in America, without any moral, legal, or corrective instructions to curb the evils of the heart the result will be out right wickedness and evil. Sodom and Gomorrah were such an example of non-restraint of wickedness.

How long did you think the covering of protection would last?

A result will occur that the evil will raise its agenda, either secretively or openly, to conquer the good—because the good stands as a threat (just as the Angels posed a threat to the sons of belial in Sodom) to squelch the evil.

The reality is evil is in the heart and will always exist. No man, gun, missile, ship, or aircraft will be able to stop it. Even if we had a massive nuclear war there would still be small amounts of people on earth and you know what? They would have evil in them. As long as humans exist evil and evil ideas will exist. Evil in the heart of people will only stop when everyone accepts Jesus Christ, or when He comes for judgement.

What can we do? One, we must understand justice and peace will never be only when Jesus returns. Two, evil, evil people, and evil ideas will never stop until Jesus comes. So what can we do then? We must learn to rely on the Lord Jesus to bring us through. We must stand up for God and what is right and good, and never let our voice we stopped. One thing we would consider acceptable is that they stop pushing their agendas on all of us. It's a conflict of good verses evil of which has been going on for thousands of years. It's a war of good vs. evil a spiritual war. However, having said that it's true that like most wars its foundations can be traced to religion. The goal of the enemy is to try and defeat Christianity.

We have been given a stern warning from God in this attack. He is judging our nation for our evils and sins, and nothing but an all out corporate repentance and acknowledgement of Him as the only one true God and Jesus Christ as our Lord will overt further disaster. People will say how can you say that? We can. God throughout history has brought swift destruction and slavery to His people when they turned away from Him.

And the fact is, from the beginning to the present we have degenerated to an immoral post-Christian nation. We are a nation soaked in our sins and show no signs of repentance. Many videos and programs show the digression of America from the beginning to the present. Often times this is designed to get us to feel guilty—to get us up to do something. Our Ministers and Pastors make us feel as if all this is our fault, and that by our silence evil has gained a foothold over the years. Our job as true Christians is to occupy till He comes, living a holy and Godly life, and to preach the gospel. Jesus never promised that our nation would always be blessed, or that we would never encounter evil people only that He would be with us forever. Moreover, no one needs to give the gory details of our sin look around you and you well see it everywhere! Almost everyone in this county deep inside knows we've done wrong and offended God.

How long did you think the covering of protection would last?

For example we have crime, injustice, abortion, homosexuality/lesbianism/ transvestitism/ bisexuals and pedophiles, greed, drunkenness, removing God from schools, courts, symbols, public acknowledgment, gambling, prostitution, drugs, pornography, witchcraft, physics, soothsayers, adultery, idolatry, murder, hedonism, corrupt education system, divorce, godlessness, lying, pride, corruption, rape, bestiality, lust, foolishness, hatred, strife, allowing foreign gods on our soil, and the list can go on and on. We also have a secret government that wants to destroy Christianity.

"Susan Otto, Timothy McVeigh's first attorney, told Stephen Jones, McVeigh's second attorney: "When you know everything I know . . . you will never think of the United States of America in the same way." (Stephen Jones, Others Unknown: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy, PublicAffairs, New York, 1998, p.359.)

"What is the "painful truth" we face today? The fact that our government has two levels, an outer level everyone recognizes and an inner level that operates behind a cloak of secrecy. The outer level consists of our elected officials, our court system, and the vast bureaucracy they've spawned. The inner level is controlled by powerful men who control our intelligence agencies, our politicians, most media outlets, many of our major corporations, and our tax-exempt foundations. They operate outside the law and interlock with the "Brotherhood of Darkness." Henceforth I will refer to the men and the groups that work in the inner level as "the dark side." (Rene Wormser, Foundations: Their Power and Influence, Devin-Adair, New York, 1958: See Also, Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, Macmillan, 1966, pp. 950-956: See Also: Jim Keith, Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness, IllumiNet Press, 1999, p. 35.)

"Where did the "dark side" come from? Those who have heard my talk on Geopolitics or read my book, Brotherhood of Darkness, know that two different ideologies have been competing for supremacy in our country for the past 380 years. One ideology is based on Christianity, truth, and righteousness; the other on occultism, deception, and depravity. Occultists consider Manly P. Hall the leading esoteric philosopher of modern times. If you read his book, The Secret Destiny of America, you will learn that the Rosicrucians sent a group of men to North America shortly after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. Their assignment was to prepare this country to lead the world into the Novo Ordo Seclorum, the coming Secular World Order. [15] One hundred and fifty years later, our Founding Fathers established the United States. They based our laws, our calendar, and the structure of our government on the Bible. The new nation prospered as no nation has ever prospered before, but that didn't discourage those who were dedicated to "the dark side." When Franklin Delano Roosevelt became President, they consolidated their power. President Roosevelt was a 32nd degree Mason; both he and Eleanor were involved in the occult. [16] FDR replaced every retiring Supreme Court judge with a Mason, or someone sympathetic with their goals, who was willing to undermine the Constitution, centralize power in Washington, D.C., and destroy our Christian heritage. Vice President Harry Truman was a 33rd degree Mason, and when President Roosevelt died, Truman continued to pack the Supreme Court with Masons. As a result, Freemasons controlled the United States Supreme Court from 1941 to 1971. During those years they removed God and prayer from public schools, increased the power of the Federal bureaucracy, and established the "dark side" of our government." (John Daniels, op cit., p. 549.)

God Warned Us

"But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, [but] that ye break my covenant:I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your [high] ways shall be desolate. And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins." (Leviticus 26:14-24)

"But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out." (Numbers 32:23)

"And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish." (Deuteronomy 8:19)

"Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; And [then] the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and [lest] ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you." (Deuteronomy 11:16,17)

"And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known." (Deuteronomy 11:25)

"When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you." (Joshua 23:16)

"If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good." (Joshua 24:20)

"If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God: But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as [it was] against your fathers. " (1 Samuel 12:14,15)

"But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back." (1 Kings 14:9)

"But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a proverb and a byword among all nations." (2 Chronicles 7:19,20)

"And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending [them], but ye have not hearkened; Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth." (Jeremiah 26:4-6)

"But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward…Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. But thou shalt say unto them, This [is] a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth." (Jeremiah 7:24,26-28)

"See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape], if we turn away from him that [speaketh] from heaven:" (Hebrews 12:25)

"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished…Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness." (2 Peter 2:9,15)

These are just a few warnings from God when a people dedicated to Him turns away wholesale from Him as we have!

"Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead. And it came to pass, when he reigned, [that] he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite: Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger." (1 Kings 15:28-30)

"For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger. And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin." (1 Kings 14:15,16)

"But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin. In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;" (2 Kings 10:31,32)

"For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day." (2 Kings 17:22,23)

"In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as [did] the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments [and] my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that [were] round about them, [concerning] whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, [even] two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only." (2 Kings 17:6-18)

"And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day." (1 Chronicles 5:26)

"Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought [them] to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter." (2 Chronicles 28:5)

Why did these things happen to Israel? Because of the following:

For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt.

Sound familiar? Do you think we have stop sinning? Do you think we have departed from God? What do you think God will do to us if we don't turn back to Him? We get a verity of comments from ministers and pastors about the attack. I know I understand the sign of the time, and that I will say without reservation that God allowed it to happen because of our ongoing sin.

Here are some examples of what others have said about it.

I have said, "I understand the sign of the time, and that I will say without reservation that God allowed it to happen because of our ongoing sins."

"God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve," said Falwell, appearing yesterday on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club," hosted by Robertson…Jerry, that's my feeling," Robertson responded. "I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see what they can do to the major population…Falwell said the American Civil Liberties Union has "got to take a lot of blame for this," again winning Robertson's agreement: "Well, yes." Then Falwell broadened his blast to include the federal courts and others who he said were "throwing God out of the public square." He added: "The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen."

"I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist," he said. But he said America's "secular and anti-Christian environment left us open to our Lord's [decision] not to protect. When a nation deserts God and expels God from the culture . . . the result is not good."

Then he says on Monday Sept. 17^th.

"The Rev. Jerry Falwell apologized Monday for saying God had allowed terrorists to attack America because of the work of civil liberties groups, abortion rights supporters and feminists. Falwell also said the terrorist attacks on the U.S. were "probably what we deserve." The conservative minister made his remarks on "The 700 Club," the popular religious show on the Christian Broadcasting Network hosted by Pat Robertson. Robertson immediately said, "Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror." In his apology, Falwell said his comments were ill-timed, insensitive and divisive at a time of national mourning. President Bush had called the minister's statement inappropriate. "In the midst of the shock and mourning of a dark week for America, I made a statement that I should not have made and which I sincerely regret," Falwell said. He added: "I want to apologize to every American, including those I named." (CBS News.com, Sept. 18, 2001)

Then it's not enough for Falwell to shut up he comes out again and says.

"L Y N C H B U R G, Va., Sept. 20 — The Rev. Jerry Falwell is taking back comments he made after last week's terrorist attacks, saying he shouldn't have blamed gays, civil libertarians and others for making America a target… On Thursday on Good Morning America, Falwell said he "misspoke" when he said gays, lesbians and the ACLU made the attacks happen. "I do not believe they endanger America. I misspoke totally and entirely," Falwell told ABCNEWS' Diane Sawyer… On the 700 Club, Robertson said he totally concurred when Falwell finished his controversial comments. Since then, Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network released a statement calling Falwell's remarks "severe and harsh in tone and, frankly, not fully understood" by Robertson at the time." (ABCnews.com, Sept. 22, 2001)

"THE CURRENT CONFLICT is "much more complicated" than previous ones, said Albert N. Keim, a pacifist scholar. "These people are killing people in a particularly dreadful way," said Keim, a retired history professor at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va. "We pacifists know how to behave in war, but we’re still learning how to react to terrorism. We’re finding it very, very difficult." Unlike millions, they hear a renewed call to oppose war. This week, the Quakers urged members to recall the words of their 17th-century founder, George Fox: "The Spirit of Christ ... will never move us to fight and war against any man with outward weapons." (Richard N. Ostling, ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sept. 29, 2001)

"Local Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell (President Bush's Pastor) points fingers at those who didn't pray for bin Laden… Instead, Caldwell, the Windsor Village United Methodist Church preacher and frequent spiritual adviser for President George W. Bush, promised the crowd of 4,000 last week that he would "rock your boat." He proceeded to do it with a sermon partly built around his wife Suzette's observation that angry Americans should blame not Osama bin Laden but rather the church. "Now whyyyyy is that?" Caldwell shouted. "Because the church has failed to walk and operate in the power and authority that has been given only to the body of Christ." (The Houston Press, Sept. 7, 2001)

"Yesterday, standing before the smoldering five-story high pile of rubble, I cried inwardly, "Oh Lord, if every American could stand here and behold this awful destruction, they could come to the only possible conclusion: God is warning this nation to repent." (David Wilkerson, World Challenge letter, 10-8-01)

The Attack

Just as in the Old Testament, when Israel would turn from God and refuse to hear His call to return, He used an army or a nation to execute His judgement. So it was on September 11th God used the extremist Muslims. Many are saying that the religion of Islam is not to blame for this attack. Many in the Christian faith are even trying to reach out to them as if it is accepted. We must understand Christianity and Islam are not compatible. Islam is against Christianity on many positions, but the most compelling is its rejection of Jesus Christ as the Son of God and God Himself. This alone makes Islam an enemy of Christianity and its adherent's candidates for evangelism.

Before we all start running off and embracing Islam as ok we need to examine what it teaches about Jesus and Christianity.

"The resentment of the US has spread through societies demoralized by their recent history. In few of the world's 50 or so Muslim countries have governments offered their citizens either prosperity or democracy. Arab nations have lost three wars against their arch-foe - and America's closest ally - Israel. A sense of failure and injustice is rising in the throats of millions. From one end of the region to the other, the perception is that Israel can get away with murder - literally - and that Washington will turn a blind eye. It only keeps going on and on until the Muslim empire swallows every empire existing. Saeed has become another shahid, a martyr and heroic defender of the Muslims against the enemies of Islam. if we need to fight against the United States in Afghanistan we are ready, because we are Muslims. It is our duty to fight against any infidels who are threatening our Muslim brothers." (Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 27, 2001)

After reading the above we should not be fooled it's not about America being perceived as a world bully or anything like that its truth (Christianity) and falsehood (Islam) are at odds.

"It is our duty to fight against any infidels who are threatening our Muslim brothers… It only keeps going on and on until the Muslim empire swallows every empire existing."

Those are pretty scary words to freedom loving people, but that’s what they have been led to believe.

"Muslims do believe that Isa (A.S.) was sent down as a Prophet of Allah (God), but he (Jesus) is not God or Lord, nor the son of God. Muslims do not believe that Isa (A.S.), also known as Jesus by Christians and others, is dead or was ever crucified. We believe that he was raised to heaven and is there, and will descend at the appointed time, end all wars, and bring peace to the world. Like Jesus (A.S.), Muhammad (Peace be upon him) is also a Prophet and Messenger. Muhammed (P.B.U.H.) is the last Prophet, though, and there is none after him. Hence, Islam is the last religion, complete, with the Holy Qur'an as the unchanged and perfect word of God for over 1400 years, as God promised to preserve it till the last day for all of humankind, unlike sacred texts of other religions which have mulitple versions and are "revised" periodically. God, or Allah in Arabic, is Divine and Supreme Being and Creator." (Mufti A.H. Elias, www.islam.tc, Isa/Jesus A.S.)

They slew him not, nor did they crucify him but it was made dubious to them. (Holy Qur'an, Surah Nisaa, Verse 157)

"Hadhrat Isa (A.S.) himself told of the coming of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him).

They attempt to use John 14:15,16; 15:26,27; 16:12-14.

Ulema (learned scholars in Islam) have said that the person who is described by Hadhrat Isa (A.S.) to come after him - in the above verse - does not comply with any other person but Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)." (Mufti A.H. Elias, www.islam.tc, Isa/Jesus A.S.)

This is crazy and totally untrue. It's clear from ancient testimony, the Scriptures and nature itself, that these Biblical verses speak of none other than the Holy Spirit not Mohammed.

"The "person" whom Jesus (A.S.) prophecised will come after him, is called Pargaleeta in the Bible. This word was deleted by interpreters and translators and changed at times to "Spirit of Truth" and at other times, to "comforter" and sometimes "Holy Spirit." The original Greek and its meaning is "one whom people praise exceedingly." The sense of the word, then, is applicable to the word Muhammad in Arabic, since Muhammad means 'the praised one.'" (Mufti A.H. Elias, www.islam.tc, Isa/Jesus A.S.)

This is ridiculous someone needs to go back to Theology School! The Greek word parakletos means comforter, advocate, or one that comes along side. Not "the one whom people praised"? That is sloppy Greek and twisted Theology.

What does the Qur'an teach?

"And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers." (Quran, the cow chapter, 2:191)

"O you who believe! spend out of what We have given you before the day comes in which there is no bargaining, neither any friendship nor intercession, and the unbelievers-- they are the unjust." (Quran, the cow chapter, 2:254)

"And repentance is not for those who go on doing evil deeds, until when death comes to one of them, he says: Surely now I repent; nor (for) those who die while they are unbelievers. These are they for whom we have prepared a painful chastisement. Those who are niggardly and bid people to be niggardly and hide what Allah has given them out of His grace; and We have prepared for the unbelievers a disgraceful chastisement. And when you journey in the earth, there is no blame on you if you shorten the prayer, if you fear that those who disbelieve will cause you distress, surely the unbelievers are your open enemy." (Quran, the women chapter, 4:18,37,101)

"And when Allah promised you one of the two parties that it shall be yours and you loved that the one not armed should he yours and Allah desired to manifest the truth of what was true by His words and to cut off the root of the unbelievers. this-- taste it, and (know) that for the unbelievers is the chastisement of fire. This, and that Allah is the weakener of the struggle of the unbelievers." (Quran, the accessions chapter, 8:7,14,18)

"O Prophet! Strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination.

And let not their property and their children excite your admiration; Allah only wishes to chastise them with these in this world and (that) their souls may depart while they are unbelievers It did not beseem the people of Medina and those round about them of the dwellers of the desert to remain behind the Apostle of Allah, nor should they desire (anything) for themselves in preference to him; this is because there afflicts them not thirst or fatigue or hunger in Allah's way, nor do they tread a path which enrages the unbelievers, nor do they attain from the enemy what they attain, but a good work is written down to them on account of it; surely Allah does not waste the reward of the doers of good; O you who believe! Fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil)." (Quran, the Immunity chapter, and 9:73,85,120,123)

"So do not follow the unbelievers, and strive against them a mighty striving with it." (Quran, the Distinction chapter, 25:52)

"And whoever does not believe in Allah and His Apostle, then surely we have prepared burning fire for the unbelievers. Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah, and those with him are firm of heart against the unbelievers..." (Quran, the Victory chapter, 4:13,29)

Beloved, it's clear Islam is not compatible with Christianity and is an enemy of Jesus Christ. The quote below from their own beliefs prove it.

"Muslims do believe that Isa (A.S.) [Jesus] was sent down as a Prophet of Allah (God), but he (Jesus) is not God or Lord, nor the son of God. Muslims do not believe that Isa (A.S.), also known as Jesus by Christians and others, is dead or was ever crucified." (Mufti A.H. Elias, www.islam.tc, Isa/Jesus A.S.)

This is totally contrary to Biblical Theology and places Islam as a world religion polemic to Christianity.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God." (John 1:1,2)

"No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him]." (John 1:18)

"Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am." (John 8:58)

"Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known [it], they would not have crucified the Lord of glory." (1 Corinthians 2:8)

" Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." (Philippians 2:6-8)

"And he hath on [his] vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." (Revelation 19:16)

Some will say but Islam teaches that the Quran is God's final word to mankind? Just as we say that of the Bible.

"Islam is the last religion, complete, with the Holy Qur'an as the unchanged and perfect word of God for over 1400 years, as God promised to preserve it till the last day for all of humankind…." (Mufti A.H. Elias, www.islam.tc, Isa/Jesus A.S.)

They may make this claim but we know this is not true. Our Lord Jesus has a problem with that He said.

"…I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6)

So the conclusion is Islam is a religion that is opposed to Christianity and to Christ Himself. And is therefore lost and its adherents are in need of salvation.

Here's what some say.

"To kill Americans and their allies, both civil and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who is able, in any country where this is possible." (Bin Laden, 1998)

After the attack

"President Bush has authorized calling in 35,000 members of the Ready Reserve Units of the armed forces and the Coast Guard. These members would be on active duty for "homeland defense," including Cold War-style patrols of U.S. airspace from coast to coast, officials said. New technology, called biometric software, introduced last January at the Super Bowl, can screen crowds and pick out suspected terrorists from a crowd. The same technology could be used in places like airports and landmarks and offer advanced warning of possible attacks." (Amanda Onion, On Guard, ABC News.com, Sept. 18, 2001)

"The use of biological or chemical weapons — described by some as the poor man's atomic bomb — is a sensitive topic, especially now. No Real Threat — Yet Experts caution that a bio-terrorism attack in the United States is not inevitable." (Joseph B. Verrengia, Planning the Unthinkable, ABC News.com, Sept. 17, 2001)

"In response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Congress is considering requiring all citizens and non-citizens to carry identity cards. Those might be "smart cards" storing data such as fingerprints and travel records." (MSNBC.com, Sept. 18, 2001)

"Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), who headed the committee hearing, said a "new era" in protecting national security -- including cybersecurity -- had arrived. Although the hearing had been previously scheduled, what was remarkable was that it was even held, since many others were postponed…Plesser says he believes that shift will be toward security. There is no doubt that the nation is in a new era." (IDG.net, Sept. 14, 2001)

"In a wide-ranging interview, Bono gave dire warnings of an immediate future she predicted could include intense scrutiny of airline passengers, a national system of fingerprinting and identification cards and the specter of chemical and biological attacks on the United States…The key here is to crack down. I think people are going to have to recognize that some of their conveniences are going to be gone," Bono said. "Whether we are talking about national ID cards I don’t know, or fingerprinting of everybody, I don’t know where we are going to go with security. I’m glad to show my identification where I need to go." (The Desert Sun
September 16th, 2001)

"Under cover of a series of terrorist attacks in New York City and at the Pentagon, California lawmakers have passed a bill that will redefine traditional marriage in the state and convey new marriage rights on homosexual couples, says a conservative women's group…You'd think they would have had the decency to wait a few days before launching this reckless assault on society's premiere institution," said Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute." ( WorldNetDaily.com, Sept. 18, 2001)

"…when America is experiencing a moral resurgence, the homosexual lobby is pushing its divisive agenda to redefine the natural, God-given family and marriage," Moles said. "It’s almost as if they’re capitalizing on this crisis to push their agenda." (Allan Dobras and Peter LaBarbera, Cultureandfamily.org)

"…Powell Acknowledges Homosexual Partner of Ambassador, Post Says Secretary of State Colin Powell publicly acknowledged the homosexual partner of America’s new ambassador to Romania at a swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday, according to The Washington Post’s "Reliable Source" in the Style section." (Cultureandfamily.org, Sept. 20, 2001)

"Just ten days before the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon – reportedly linked to Islamic militants – the U.S. Postal Service issued a new stamp celebrating Islam. The postage entitled "EID Greetings" may appear to some as a sinister spoof, given that, when read backwards, EID spells "die." ((Diana Lynne, WorldNetDaily.com, Sept. 20, 2001)

"With Congress hotly debating whether to grant sweeping police powers to federal law enforcement agencies in the name of combating terrorism, two attorneys who have studied presidential directives in depth are concerned that civil liberties will take a beating from the executive branch as well as the legislative – and no one would realize it until it was too late. On Sept. 14 President Bush, responding to the terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center and the Pentagon three days earlier, issued a proclamation declaring a state national emergency and reinforced it the same day with an executive order (EO 13223) calling the Ready Reserves of the Armed Forces to active duty." (Sarah Foster, WorldNetDaily, Sept. 27, 2001)

"Local Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell (President Bush's Pastor) points fingers at those who didn't pray for bin Laden… Instead, Caldwell, the Windsor Village United Methodist Church preacher and frequent spiritual adviser for President George W. Bush, promised the crowd of 4,000 last week that he would "rock your boat." He proceeded to do it with a sermon partly built around his wife Suzette's observation that angry Americans should blame not Osama bin Laden but rather the church. "Now whyyyyy is that?" Caldwell shouted. "Because the church has failed to walk and operate in the power and authority that has been given only to the body of Christ." (The Houston Press, Sept. 7, 2001)

"HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's slumping economy could be pushing the capitalist outpost's suicide rate higher, with 15 people recently killing themselves in a single day. Last year, 915 people in the Chinese territory of 6.9 million people killed themselves, the highest number in at least a decade. The rate is average by global standards but has raised concerns the deaths are being driven by the worsening economy." (Yahoo News, Oct. 11, 2001)

"SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Gray Davis (news - web sites) signed legislation Sunday providing about a dozen rights enjoyed by married couples to more than 16,000 registered gay, lesbian and domestic partners in California. The bill lets partners who register with the secretary of state's office make medical decisions for incapacitated partners, sue for wrongful death, adopt a partner's child and will property to a partner. ``This bill is about responsibility, respect, and most of all about family - and it's about time,'' Davis said."

We notice a string of earthquakes in "various places."

"LOS ANGELES -- A small earthquake measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale was felt in parts of Los Angeles on Sunday. No damage was reported from the tremor that struck at 10:29 a.m PDT and was centered in the Silver Lake area north of downtown. It was followed by two smaller "micro earthquakes" centered near downtown and in the Newport Beach area of Orange County, the U.S. Geological Survey reported." (NewsMax, Oct. 12, 2001)

"Five earthquakes measuring between 3.2 and 4.8 on the open-ended Richter scale shook northern Greece and the island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea on Monday, earthquake monitoring authorities said. Authorities said there had been no victims or material damage in any of the quakes. The strongest quake shook the region around Rhodes off the Turkish coast, but it, like the four quakes near Salonica, caused no damage or injuries, authorities said. The quakes near Salonica had caused panic and schools were evacuated as a precautionary measure." (Yahoo News, Oct. 8, 2001)

BEIJING (Reuters) - An earthquake in southern China measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale toppled more than 3,400 buildings and killed at least one person, the official Xinhua news agency reported Sunday. (ABC News Oct. 28, 2001)

HAGATNA, Guam (Reuters) - A severe earthquake jolted Guam early Saturday, disrupting power and water services and sending tourists and residents running out of hotels and homes. The quake, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, occurred at 1:02 a.m. Guam time Saturday (around 1700 GMT on Friday), officials said. (Yahoo News, Oct. 13, 2001)

NEW YORK (AP) A minor earthquake shook the New York City area early Saturday, a monitor for the U.S. Geological Survey said. A magnitude-2.6 earthquake hit under lower Manhattan around 1:42 a.m., said Dr. John Ebel, director of the Weston Observatory at Boston College, which monitors seismic activity in the Northeast. (ABC News, Oct. 27, 2001)

And then there's the obvious.

A few top Defense officials believe Timothy McVeigh, executed for his role in the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, was an Iraqi agent, reports U.S. News in the Oct. 29 issue. (WorldNetDaily, Oct. 24, 2001)

"A Changed World, a day of atrocity wrenches America – and stirs a new sense of community" (Christian Science Monitor, Web Site Sunday September 16, 2001)

In China, where anti-Americanism is high (and is the only UN Security Council member not to fly state flags at half staff), popular reactions mixed sympathy with a feeling the United States got what it deserved. Yet many Chinese will also recognize a call one son made to his mother, saying, "I am not a fan of America. But when I saw those towers collapse, I thought of the great hurt we would feel if a plane crashed into Tiananmen Square. I feel differently." (Global empathy: Will it last? from the September 17, 2001 edition, Christian Science Monitor)

"Anti-Americanism is a luxury we allow ourselves when things are going well," stated Paris political analyst Nicole Bacharen, summing up the solidarity that swept Europe. "At moments like this, we are all Americans." (ibid)

"Most of the terrorists are Arabs, most are Muslims," Mr. Fisher continues. "The next war will begin with the Christians and the Jews on one side and the Muslims on the other side." (Ibid)

"Days ago, foreign leaders were fretting that a disengaged United States was heading down a unilateralist path. Now the US is reaching out to friend and foe alike as it seeks to build an international coalition to fight the scourge of terrorism. Suddenly, President Bush is dealing with international relations much more in the style of his father, who rallied a broad coalition to fight the Gulf War. That is important, observers say, because the task now facing the son is a similar one: working from an initial base of close allies to construct an "inclusive" coalition that doesn't end up in a clash of civilizations that would only make things worse." (A New World Order? September 14, 2001 edition, Christian Science Monitor)

"They said, 'Is this Islam? Is this Islam?'‚" referring to the attacks. "And the imam gave the proof from verses in the Koran that it is not allowed in Islam under any circumstances to kill innocent people or even commit suicide. So suicide bombings? That's not Islam." (Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post.com Staff Writer, Sunday, September 16, 2001)

There are many "interfaith services" going on, and this will be a reason to bring all religions together.

"Yet in a service at St. Paul's Cathedral in London on Friday, Pakistani Tariq Muhammad Dhamial stood out in a traditional black Sunni Muslim kurta. 'I am here to show as a Muslim that we condemn these acts,' he said." (Global empathy: Will it last? from the September 17, 2001 edition, Christian Science Monitor)

"What we are seeing is a unity of people and the doctrines that we thought separated us has no control or authority to do so. God is using this to unite us [all faiths]…." (a minister on TBN, Sept. 16, 2001)

"Make no mistake though an act of war was committed against the United States last week, we are not witnessing regression to an era of religious warfare. The vast majority of Muslims, Arab and non-Arab alike, deplore the slaughter of thousands of civilians that took place in New York City and Washington, D.C. "It violates the very foundations of Islamic law," says Imam Yahya Hendi, Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University, a Jesuit school. Nor are we witnessing a clash of civilizations. On the contrary, the United States is one place in the world where Jews and Christians and Muslims alike can live in peace with each other. In moments of crisis like the present one, Muslims are quick to stress their bonds with Jews and Christians. Islam recognizes figures like Abraham and Moses and Jesus as prophets of the one God, Allah. Muslims study the Quran like others study the Bible, but they also look to the ahadith , or sayings and stories of Muhammad, for guidance." (By Kenneth L. Woodward, NEWSWEEK, A Peaceful Faith, A Fanatic Few, MSNBC.com, Sept. Issue 24)

"Religious leaders of all faiths took the pulpit for prayer, including a Muslim imam, Muzammil Siddiqi, who offered prayers and verses from the Koran. Arab-Americans and Muslims have been targets of revenge assaults, despite pleas by political leaders who have urged against such prejudices. Rabbi Joshua O. Haberman, rabbi emeritus of Washington's Hebrew congregation, called for peace. "We as Americans reaffirm our faith and our hope that security and peace will be fully restored in our country," he said. "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His steadfastness never comes to an end." Among those leading the congregation in prayer was Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington. His nephew, Michael Lynch, is among the firefighters still missing amid the rescue efforts at the World Trade Center. The Rev. Billy Graham, who has been struggling with Parkinson's disease, delivered a sermon. "We come together today to re-affirm our conviction that God cares for us, whatever our ethnic, religious or political background may be," said Graham. "We are facing a new kind of enemy. We are involved in a new kind of warfare. And we need the help of the spirit of God." (Teresa Novellino, A Day of Prayer, ABC News.com, Sept. 14, 2001)

The heretical pope lying to people

"Pope John Paul II said he was "heartbroken" and called for the Virgin Mary to bring comfort and hope to the victims' families. He urged restraint in efforts to find the terrorists." (CBS.com, Sept. 16, 2001)

Again, the heretical pope lying to people

"He said: "Mary welcomes the dead, consoles the survivors, supports those families who are particularly tried, and helps all to resist the temptation of hate and violence and to commit themselves to the service of justice and peace." (CNN.com, September 16, 2001 Posted: 9:06 AM EDT)

"Tonight I'd like to say a prayer for peace," she told the crowd of about 18,000 people." (Madonna, CNN.com, September 16, 2001 Posted: 10:51 AM EDT)

"On Thursday, an interfaith prayer service was convened at Georgetown's Gaston Hall in commemoration of the victims of Tuesday's attacks and their families." (CNN.com, Remembering economist Leslie Whittington, September 18, 2001 Posted: 11:30 PM EDT)

"The broad sweep of services and prayers continues, often in interfaith gatherings or joint services by members of different congregations. But with the release of the identities of victims, the services are taking on a different dimension." (Bill Broadway, Washington Post.com, Staff Writer, Saturday, September 15, 2001)

"Escorted by a priest in flowing robes, Graham took a seat on the pulpit with Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, imam for the Islamic Society of North America, and Rabbi Joshua Haberman, rabbi emeritus of the Washington Hebrew Congregation. Siddiqi read a verse from Islam's holy book, the Quran: "Those that lay the plots of evil, for them is a terrible penalty; and the plotting of such will be not abide." (Foxnews.com, Friday, September 14, 2001)

"Rev. John Wintermyer read the oldest fable of war to the anxious friends and relatives packing the hospital's tiny 100-year-old chapel. After he finished the biblical story of Cain killing Abel, the Roman Catholic priest posed these questions: "What's next? Where are we going?" Wintermyer's questions were a subset of the Big Question, the one troubling hearts everywhere: "Where is God in the midst of this evil?" Seeking an answer, people horrified by Tuesday's terrorist attacks attended religious services throughout the Washington region yesterday, many of them interfaith events. On military bases, in churches and synagogues, at universities and in open public spaces, they gathered in prayer. Some hoped to assuage feelings of helplessness. Some sought comfort, some solidarity." (Caryle Murphy and Bill Broadway, Washington Post.com Staff Writers, Thursday, September 13, 2001)

"He was one of many clergy issuing warnings against intolerance. At St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Alexandria, the Rev. Oran E. Warder opened his homily with the Muslim benediction, "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate." Muslim extremists, he pointedly noted, are no more representative of Islam than the Ku Klux Klan is of Christianity…The two morning services at the cathedral drew about 7,000 people of all faiths, with hundreds more listening to Baxter's sermon on loudspeakers in the plaza outside. Sunday services normally draw about 1,500 people, a cathedral spokesman said." (Caryle Murphy, Washington Post.com Staff Writer, Monday, September 17, 2001)

"It is one of the many paradoxes of faith: Underneath all religions, which exist to offer hope of redemption, is a low tone of despair. Faith's job is to help salve the understanding that life is finite and tiny and often desperate and violent. You can see the melancholy in the faces of the saints painted in trompe l'oeil high on the wall of the Healy Hall auditorium, a dark-wood, Gothic sanctuary on the Georgetown University campus. There, on Thursday morning, a hushed crowd received ecumenical solace…During Wednesday's interfaith prayer service at Georgetown, a Hindu-Jainist representative gave a reading from the Bhagavad-Gita, the holy book of the Indian religion. Like an "amen" at the end of a Christian's prayer, the reading had a formal conclusion, which Siva Subramanian slowly chanted." (Frank Ahrens, Washington Post.com, Staff Writer, Saturday, September 15, 2001)

"From popes to the Piano Man, Yankee Stadium has been used often in its 78 years for purposes other than baseball. On Sunday it will be the venue for an interfaith prayer service for the more than 6,000 people killed or missing in the destruction of the World Trade Center." (CNN.com, Sept. 21, 2001)

"At a few minutes after the 3 p.m. EDT scheduled start time of the service, former United States President Bill Clinton and his wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, entered the stadium to adamant applause, with New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Cardinal Edward Egan and Rabbi Arthur Schneier -- whose "prayer for the country" followed a Blowing of the Shofar, the ram's horn used to announce major events in Jewish life. And the service got underway in earnest with the Amor-Artis Chorus and Orchestra performing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." During the familiar anthem, the dignitaries -- including ranking clergy of the Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Sikh and Hindu faiths -- took their positions on a large center-field podium." (Prayer service: 'We shall not be moved' September 23, 2001 Posted: 5:30 PM EDT (2130 GMT) By Porter Anderson)

"We're all Americans, bound together by common ideas and common values," Bush said as he met with a group of American Sikhs in the White House Roosevelt Room. He planned to meet in the same room later Wednesday with Muslims, and wants to ensure that everyone is treated with respect, "particularly during this time…These citizens bring their hearts with them," Bush said. "I can assure them that our government will do everything we can ... to treat every human life as dear, and respect the values that made our country so different and so unique." (Fox News, Sept. 26, 2001)

"The relief agency of the US based National Council of Churches (NCC) said Tuesday, September 25, that it will shelter tens of thousands of Afghan refugees, who are trying to enter neighboring Pakistan ahead of a possible American military offensive against the Muslim nation. Officials of the Church World Service relief agency told NCC's Office of News and Information that despite the official closure of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, thousands have managed to escape… It plans to provide over 8,000 family shelter kits to new arrivals in the border cities of Quetta and Peshawar and to provide primary shelter to approximately 50,000 persons." (Stefan J. Bos, Special Correspondent ASSIST News Service, Sept. 30, 2001)

"People have come here to seek peace," said Kenjitsu Nakagaki of the New York Buddhist Temple on Manhattan's Upper West Side. "But with so many people, it was sometimes a little less than calm." Like no other time in recent history, Americans got religion. A Gallup poll showed that 47 percent of respondents said they had attended church or synagogue in the last seven days, a level rarely seen since the 1950s. A Harris Interactive poll found that 82 percent of Americans prayed or attended religious services the week of the tragedy. But now, three weeks after the attacks, crowds in places of worship have been tapering. And while religious leaders hope that some of the new attendees will stick around, religious scholars are divided about whether the surge in interest in religious sanctuaries will last." (ABC. Com, Oct. 3, 2001)

"Oprah Winfrey Offers Viewers Course in 'Islam 101 the queen of U.S. talk television and arbiter of all things cultural for many Americans, gave her viewers a quick course in Islam on Friday, attempting to erase heated prejudices about the religion after the attacks on New York and Washington… She said the most common misconceptions about the religion and women who practice it derives from 'local influences' that are mistakenly attributed to Islam itself. "There is nothing in my religion, nothing in Islam, that does not afford women equal rights,'' she said." (Yahoo.com, Reuters, Oct. 5, 2001)

Susan Otto, Timothy McVeigh's first attorney, told Stephen Jones, McVeigh's second attorney: "When you know everything I know . . . you will never think of the United States of America in the same way." (Stephen Jones, Others Unknown: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy, PublicAffairs, New York, 1998, p.359.)

"It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it." (Patrick Henry, John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, Little, Brown and Co, Boston, 1980, p. 383.)

"What is the "painful truth" we face today? The fact that our government has two levels, an outer level everyone recognizes and an inner level that operates behind a cloak of secrecy. The outer level consists of our elected officials, our court system, and the vast bureaucracy they've spawned. The inner level is controlled by powerful men who control our intelligence agencies, our politicians, most media outlets, many of our major corporations, and our tax-exempt foundations. They operate outside the law and interlock with the "Brotherhood of Darkness." Henceforth I will refer to the men and the groups that work in the inner level as "the dark side." (Rene Wormser, Foundations: Their Power and Influence, Devin-Adair, New York, 1958: See Also, Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, Macmillan, 1966, pp. 950-956: See Also: Jim Keith, Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness, IllumiNet Press, 1999, p. 35.)

"Where did the "dark side" come from? Those who have heard my talk on Geopolitics or read my book, Brotherhood of Darkness, know that two different ideologies have been competing for supremacy in our country for the past 380 years. One ideology is based on Christianity, truth, and righteousness; the other on occultism, deception, and depravity. Occultists consider Manly P. Hall the leading esoteric philosopher of modern times. If you read his book, The Secret Destiny of America, you will learn that the Rosicrucians sent a group of men to North America shortly after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. Their assignment was to prepare this country to lead the world into the Novo Ordo Seclorum, the coming Secular World Order. [15] One hundred and fifty years later, our Founding Fathers established the United States. They based our laws, our calendar, and the structure of our government on the Bible. The new nation prospered as no nation has ever prospered before, but that didn't discourage those who were dedicated to "the dark side." When Franklin Delano Roosevelt became President, they consolidated their power. President Roosevelt was a 32nd degree Mason; both he and Eleanor were involved in the occult. [16] FDR replaced every retiring Supreme Court judge with a Mason, or someone sympathetic with their goals, who was willing to undermine the Constitution, centralize power in Washington, D.C., and destroy our Christian heritage. Vice President Harry Truman was a 33rd degree Mason, and when President Roosevelt died, Truman continued to pack the Supreme Court with Masons. As a result, Freemasons controlled the United States Supreme Court from 1941 to 1971. During those years they removed God and prayer from public schools, increased the power of the Federal bureaucracy, and established the "dark side" of our government." (John Daniels, op cit., p. 549.)

"I believe their memorial can and should be greater than simply the punishment of the guilty. It is that out of the shadow of this evil, should emerge lasting good: destruction of the machinery of terrorism wherever it is found; hope amongst all nations of a new beginning where we seek to resolve differences in a calm and ordered way; greater understanding between nations and between faiths; and above all justice and prosperity for the poor and dispossessed, so that people everywhere can see the chance of a better future through the hard work and creative power of the free citizen, not the violence and savagery of the fanatic…have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in…The sweep was daunting. His ability to see the possibility that "lasting good" will come from the crisis will not persuade everyone. The vision of a new moral world order for all the "children of Abraham" will have its sceptics too. But in dealing with almost every important immediate doubt, this speech was the real thing…The world community, Mr Blair said, "must show its capacity for compassion as for force", but there was a sharp reminder to Islam to confront prejudice against America." (The Guardian, Tony Blair, Oct. 2, 2001)

Did God warn us? Is there more judgement to come? And what should we do? Yes, I believe God did warn us. Is there more judgment to come? I believe so, if we don't corporately repent. What should we do? Trust in Christ our Lord.

"The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe." (Proverbs 29:25)

Amen?

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