This is a long report. I hope it all comes through without being truncated. I don't believe I have really found expression for the deep sense of forboding I have over recent developments. Not because I don't trust God, but because I know that great suffering is about to be unleased. Forgive me if you feel I am too heavy in this, but I live in a part of the world that has seen the devastation up close for far too long, and I work with people every day who have been victimized by terrorism. I believe what is coming will eclipse that which has been.
I would like to extrapolate on the consequences of the policy shift, taking place in America right now.This morning I was in near travail over what I believe is going to come upon Israel and America in the near future (that may mean the next few months or the next few years, only God knows). The Lord is in anguish today. Much of the Church can't accept such a thing, thinking that everything is only joy all the time, and anything that is not 'Positive Thinking' cannot be Christian.Let me say it again, the Lord is suffering tremendous anguish over the darkness that is enveloping the earth. His heart breaks over every sin, and every sinner. If you take even a few moments to contemplate the depth of evil that Satan unleashes through human flesh upon this world every single minute of every single day, it is overwhelming. Moreover, in every single case, God is there in the midst of it.Why doesn't He end it? Why doesn't He unleash His anger as so many seem to be eagerly awaiting? Because He is a God of life! He is a God of Creation not destruction! He is a God of Mercy and Longsuffering, patiently enduring the anguish until the final moment when the last person who will ever come to Him for salvation… does! And when His wrath is finally poured out, He will not take pleasure in those who are destroyed in the process. He is not poised in heaven just waiting for the right moment to destroy His sinful creation, His anger is directed at that which destroys His creation and causes it to sin. When we fail to accept His mercy, the only thing left for us is His wrath. That wrath is for the purpose of removing all that is evil, from the presence of all that is good.This earth is rapidly falling into gross darkness and the church itself is going to be turned inside out, and the wheat and the tares are going to be exposed for who they truly are. Interestingly, wheat and tares look so much alike even a farmer can't tell the difference until the very end when the head on the tare turns dark, and the wheat remains light. So it is with the church. Today it is becoming clearer that error, worldliness, compromise, and apostasy are strangling the life out of Christianity, and the people who love convenience more than the truth are going to be more dangerous to true believers than even the unbelievers are.I read the testimony of a Christian man who survived the years of communism in Romania, and he said the ones who were the most brutal towards Christians, were the ones he used to sit next to in church and who had turned away from Christ to save their own lives. A Jewish man told me essentially the same thing about those fellow Jews in the concentration camps who compromised and served the Nazi's to save their own lives, that these fellow Jews became their worst tormentors. When you reject eternal life with God through Jesus Christ, then you have nothing left to grab hold of except your earthly existence, and when that is threatened, your instinct for survival takes over and you truly do become nothing more than an animal.We had better prepare ourselves to love not our lives, even unto death.I say all of this because as I watched the nomination hearings of Robert Gates (who has now been confirmed) and he said that the strategy in Iraq is going to require drawing down troops considerably, and that attacking Iran is a last resort and that it is not the job of America to defend Israel against Iran. Since he has now been confirmed as the Secretary of Defense, and has broad support of both Republicans and Democrats, and since he said he would work independently from the President, we can assume that since he touched on some of the same ideas that were contained in the Baker report, that he will implement those ideas.THe Gates confirmation was followed quickly by what I would call the "James Baker Plan for the Creation of an Iran Super state and Destruction of Israel and America Report " which was sold as "The Iraq Study Group report". This report is a typical Council on Foreign Relations policy recommendation that will become policy because everyone receiving the 'recommendation' is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.Inside this report were numerous plans that only the devil himself could have hatched. It is strange that everything having to do with U.S. involvement in Iraq seems to resolve itself in the decimation of Israel.Baker and his team of hand picked demoniacs speak of America's inability to control this situation and that America needs to pull its troops out and draw down to a minimal force, there only to train the Iraqi forces. A suggestion that Robert Gates had also mentioned in his confirmation hearings. Hmmmm… do you think that he has been talking to James Baker? The problem with this plan is that the moment that the U.S. leaves Iraq, all hell will break loose and Iran will emerge as the victor. This will leave Iran in a position of controlling a vast new oil reserve and a land mass that gives them direct access to the rest of the Middle East. This should be particularly worrisome to Saudi Arabia as Iran could turn their sights on them as well, which would give them complete control of the Persian Gulf and the majority of the worlds present oil production.The next 'recommendation' that Baker and Company make is that the U.S. is to call on Iran and Syria to help in bringing a solution to the situation in Iraq.Please Lord tell me this is a joke!Iran and Syria are the two countries supplying all of the insurgents that are causing this problem in the first place. America should not capitulate to them, but rather declare war upon them. We are in a war against terrorism are we not? Is this not the coalition that Bush called the Axis of Evil?Let me assure you that the Middle East is ringing with joy and laughter, and shouts of victory for Islam over the Baker report. This has not appeased them but inflamed them. It sends the strongest message that terrorism works. Even if the report is not implemented, it has empowered the Islamic world to carry on and intensify their efforts.So how does Baker plan to engage Iran and Syria?First by forcing Israel to give up the Golan Heights, the West Bank, including the dividing of Jerusalem, and to allow for the 'right of return' of the families of those displaced in earlier wars. Something the Palestinians have been demanding since their inception and to which Israel has refused. This would flood tiny Israel with millions of Jew hating Arab terrorists. Bakers answer is to give the Palestinains everything they want, and to give Israel the shaft.The Golan Heights is a strategic position that allows Israel a buffer zone against attack from Syria. I have spent a lot of time traveling atop the Golan Heights, and the vantage point for attack over Northern Israel is unquestionable. That is exactly what Syria did with it the last time they possessed it illegally. You see, even if you ignore the Biblical rights of Israel to the Golan, Baron Von Rothschild legally purchased the Golan from the Ottoman Empire which was later deeded to Israel. Israel holds legal deed to the land but Syria had occupied the land prior to Israel capturing it in the 67' war, after an unprovoked attack by Syria.To top all of this off, President Bush and Tony Blair went on global TV to reiterate that a Palestinian state will be established within the present day borders of Israel.The "West Bank" was the area occupied by Jordan prior to the 67' war and encompassed the Mountains of Israel to which the Lord promised to return His people in so many prophetic scriptures. If you drive from Jerusalem to Tel-Aviv on Highway One, everything on the right side of the highway as you leave Jerusalem is considered part of the West Bank. It is absolutely ludicrous to think that this should all be turned over to Arab control.Ahmadinejad has already said that when the U.S. pulls out of Iraq, the insurgent fighters will be sent to Gaza to join the fight against Israel. Hamas feeling emboldened has restated that they will never recognize Israel and will continue to fight for the capture of Jerusalem.I cannot help but think again of a prophecy given by a Tulsa Pastor two years before the Iraq war that the U.S. would invade Iraq, and while they would appear to win at first, they would be sent home like a dog with its tail between its legs.I am starting to hear the dog whimper.If Iran is allowed to take over Iraq, something they wanted to do for decades, they will already have Syria and Lebanon under their control, and will threaten Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and every other smaller nation in the region. They could conceivably become a massive Super State controlling the majority of Oil Wealth and production in the world. When you consider this possibility from Ahmadinejad's view of the coming Imam of Islam, and the oft-stated goal for world domination and a worldwide Islamic state, you can see why this report would make the Islamic leadership in Iran feel Allah has assured their success.An Iran of this magnitude would easily bring the western nations to their knees, and it appears that they may be accomplishing that already.How can we be inundated for the last three years or more, hearing about how the world needs to stop Iran from achieving nuclear capability, and then suddenly we announce that we are supposed to give them everything they could possibly have wanted without a fight?We must wonder what has transpired behind the scenes. China was recently found to have been trailing an American aircraft carrier undetected for three weeks signifying that the Russian technology that has been sold to them is being successfully implemented. Russia, becoming increasingly more dictitorial and reminiscent of the Soviet Union, has been working with China, Iran and North Korea, and China has been working with Iran and North Korea, and Iran and North Korea have also been cooperating. Could this alliance have gained the upper hand and be dictating to the U.S. conditions of surrender?It is becoming increasingly difficult to tell who, if any body, is actually in control of the political mechanizations of the world, other than to say the devil is in the details. We must also remember that his is a house divided against itself, and it will fall.What I do believe is that Israel is being brought to a point where they will have no hope other than to as a nation call out to their God. At some point they must lose their ability to depend on the U.S. or any other form of protection, and to fulfill prophecy the U.S. must become an enemy of the state of Israel as Zechariah states that all nations of the world will come against Israel. While that may be held at bay for a while, the forces that will drive America to this position are clearly at work in the shadows, and are trying to bring their evil schemes into the light of day. It could be as some believe that the U.S. will not exist as a nation by that time.Everything happening in the world today is bringing us closer to the great and awesome 'Day of the Lord'. That means also that we have entered a time of suffering that has never been exceeded, nor ever will be again.I can't help but look ahead, I always do. It was said of me recently that I don't live in the same time as everyone else but rather I live six months in the future. I suppose that is true. Often it has been years rather than months.What I see coming is a time of terrible dread. I'm sorry, I just do. I know that is not a happy message, and is not well received. I cannot tell you it will happen tomorrow, but I can tell you that it could. As Joel Rosenberg said to me, "God may kick the can down the road a bit". And well He might.Jesus said that unless these days were cut short that no flesh would survive. I believe that is why everything prophetically seems to be running faster and faster, each day gaining speed and momentum. All I can say is the time to surrender your life completely to the Lord is NOW! Tomorrow could well be too late.Below I have added most of an article by Aaron Klein of WND (SEE LINK BELOW). It shows you the way the Islamic world is reacting to the James Baker report. I believe that we should take these proclamations seriously, and that all American's need to wake up and protest their government in every conceivable way NOT to accept this suicidal and devilish proposal. We may not stop the tide of events, but we must morally oppose it and warn the public of the danger.God Bless,Neil Cooper