The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest
Vol: 50 Issue: 17 - Thursday, November 17, 2005
Lies, the Big Lie, and THE Lie
From time to time, it is helpful to step back and take a look at the Big Picture as outlined for the last days by Bible prophecy and compare it to the Big Picture as outlined by the cable news outlets and mainstream newspapers.
Bible prophecy for the last days details events and trends as they unfold during the last generation before the return of Christ at the conclusion of the war of Armageddon.
At some point during the lifetime of that last generation, according to the Apostle Paul, society will be characterized by its willingness to discount truth and embrace a lie for the sole reason that they prefer the lie over the truth.
"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." (2nd Thessalonians 2:11-12)
*Modern English: Because they took pleasure is unrighteousness and did not believe the truth, God will make them delusional, believing lies, so that they may go to hell! -mk
Specifically, and in context, Paul's Big Lie relates to the embrace of the antichrist as a deity and the rejection of Christ.
But a whole society's willingness to embrace a lie simply because they either like the liar or prefer the lie isn't something that happens in a vacuum. Neither is it something that happens overnight.
It takes years of conditioning.
Consider the Big Lie scenario in the light of a situation in which more than half of Americans in a recent poll have been convinced to oppose their own country's war effort while US troops remained engaged in combat -- based on a lie so transparent it takes one's breath away.
Yesterday, Democratic members of the Senate attempted to wrest control of the war away from the administration and military by setting a 'date certain' withdrawal from Iraq.
It didn't pass, but the mere fact any US politician would consider voting to put the conduct of a war in the hands of a Senate that can't confirm a judge without months of bloody combat is a benchmark measure of how easy it has become to dupe the public.
The Senate measure was based, in the main, on the Democratic contention that George Bush started an unnecessary and illegal war by deliberately manipulating intelligence. No secret, alternative intelligence sources not available to the Congress have been identified. Nobody has offered an example of the administration's refusal to share intelligence with the relevant lawmakers.
(Even after Senators Jay Rockefeller and Dick Durbin acknowledged details of a secret 'black ops' program on national television that compromised the operation and put the forces involved in serious risk.)
This is just the most recent example of the self-induced Blue-State mass delusion, based on the greater delusion that Al Gore was cheated out of the White House in 2000, (even though not a single recount before or after EVER put Gore ahead).
Paul's description of society in the final days of the Church Age reads like the platform for the American Democratic Party.
I know it sounds harsh, but I neither wrote Paul's description or scripted the speeches emanating from the Left. And, unfortunately, many of the characteristics outlined by Paul are shared on both sides of the political aisle. And not just in America, but throughout the 'Christian' West.
Nonetheless, Paul seems to be outlining the DNC's political platform specifically;
"For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof . . " (2nd Timothy 3:2-5)
Some will dismiss this as a partisan attack against the Democrats or some defense of the Republicans. That is unfortunate. The point is that, unflattering or not, it is true. And it is true of an entire segment of the population in this generation. What we are looking at is a developed social trend. It is either there or it is not. You be the judge.
I've read through Paul's list many times, and it never fails to rock me back on my heels. There is not a single characteristic in Paul's outline that doesn't dovetail with some liberal policy or part of the DNC's political agenda. It is just that Paul doesn't use euphemisms like 'pro-choice' -- he calls it being 'without natural affection'.
He doesn't call politicians who show up with big, black Bibles on Sunday at African-American churches, but then support gay marriage, abortion, evolution, 'alternative lifestyle' families, America as the Great Satan, denigrating Christian holidays etc.,'liberals' -- Paul calls them 'blasphemers, false accusers, traitors, incontinent and despisers of those that are good'.
Same thing. Just absent the usual PC-speak. And they are values shared with half of America and most of post-Christian Europe.
Compare those values with American or European values of the World War II generation. See what YOU come up with.
Assessment:
The deception of the last days isn't confined to American, or even European social conditions or moral values. Paul said that the deception would work because if people WANT to believe the lie, it won't matter how thin or transparent it is.
Take, for example, the global attitude concerning Israel. Leaving Islam's religious duty to hate the Jews aside for a moment, what excuse works for the civilized world? It is the official policy and unified goal of the western democracies to spread democracy throughout the world. Efforts at rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan as democracies are being shared by dozens of free Western nations involved in the process.
A working democracy in the Middle East, they reason, would by its prosperity and freedom, inspire the surrounding nations to seek the same prosperity and freedom.
But Israel is the only working democracy in the Middle East. It is the only nation in the region that affords its citizens basic human rights, full representation in government, freedom of speech and religion and is, by far, the powerful and most prosperous nation in the entire Middle East.
So why is it the most hated government on earth? Why is it the most often-censured by that bastion of democracy, the United Nations? Why is it the recipient of global criticism, while its dictatorial neighbors, like Jordan, are feted as strong allies of the West?
How can it be that more resolutions of censure have been aimed at Israel by the UN than all the Islamic countries of the world combined? Why would the world side with an openly terrorist organization against the only legitimate, western-style democracy in the Middle East?
Why is it that when Israel puts up a fence to protect itself from bombers, the world condemns Israel's fence without saying A SINGLE WORD about the reasons that make it necessary?
There can be only one answer possible. The world hates the Jews more than it hates totalitarianism, Islamo-facism or terrorism. No other answer explains why Israel ranks, according to a global poll, as 'the most dangerous nation on earth'.
What makes Israel's continued existence so dangerous? Israel has the population of New York City and has spent all of its existence since 1948 fighting a war FOR its existence against those repressive Islamic dictatorships.
Bible prophecy for the last days goes beyond the Church Age and outlines how God's plan for the national redemption of Israel will be accomplished. According to Bible prophecy, in the last days, the most hated nation on earth will be Israel, and the most contested piece of real estate on earth in the last days will be the city of Jerusalem.
According to the prophet Zechariah, "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto ALL THE PEOPLE round about, when they shall be IN THE SEIGE both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for ALL people: ALL that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH be gathered together against it." (Zechariah 12:2-3)
Until about the end of the 19th century, few people could point to Jerusalem on a map -- most believed it was a lost city from the ancient world. Today, it is the focal point of global attention to the exclusion of all else. What happens in Jerusalem is more important to world peace that what happens in Baghdad, Kabul or even Moscow.
But most people could not tell you why they hate Israel. Neither can the leaders of the western democratic countries can identify why Israel is more of a pariah nation in their eyes than Syria or Iran. They just know that every bad thing that happens is somehow related to their level of support for Israel.
The Bible says that, in the last days, Israel will stand alone, without a champion, against the combined armies of the world, for a twofold reason; to reveal Himself to a lost and dying world, and to reveal Himself to Israel.
"Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD." [Ezekiel 38:23]
"So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward." (Ezekiel 39:22)
Now, step back with me again and look at just these two prophesied scenarios. Look at the detail with which Paul described the political worldview that would prevail during the final hours of the Church Age. One can argue these characteristics are hardly unique to this generation -- until one tries to apply them across-the-board to previous ones. They just don't fit.
Now consider the global political worldview where Israel is concerned. The only western democracy in the Middle East, desperately seeking allies from among the western nations without success, while the world turns its attention away from the war on terror -- just long enough to express its support for the creation of a terrorist state on Israel's borders dedicated to Israel's destruction.
Absent the Bible's outline for the last days, can you find any way to make any of it make sense to you?
"And He spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled." (Luke 21:29-32)
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