PATRIOTIC ARMAGEDDON

The cataclysmic overshadows the grief of ceaseless wars. Charles Krauthammer’s “Democratic Globalism”—where such conflicts within the American New World Order framework are unilateral, pre-emptive, and orchestrated in the name of spreading democracy . . . if they meet the criteria of “National Interest”—are easily perpetuated now that we’ve utterly disregarding Eisenhower’s warning: “Beware of the Military-Industrial Complex.” Each day the present geo-political reality confirms what The Tribulation Network has been saying for the past two years! How much longer can the world debate whether or not we should call the current War on Terrorism/Terror: The West vs. Radical Islam?

Now, the EU and Iran squabble over Iran’s real intentions—but the US makes plans for taking out Iran’s nuclear threat. September—we commemorate the “official” commencement of the “War on Terror.” Bolton is in place at the UN—Bush is ready to move and faster than you think (about as fast as the Democrats turn in a victory claim on a dead jackass in Ohio).

We have termed the spiritual force(s) behind “Radical Islam” the rise of “Gog”—that great principality the Bible declares, who under the Prince of Darkness (both now, as found in Ezekiel 38, 39, and Daniel 11:40-45; and at the close the Millennium in Revelation 20:7-10), is summoned to confront Israel at the “End of Days” AND at the conclusion of millenarian bliss.

To announce this, to be utterly cognizant and Biblically affirmed in this scenario, does not mean that we here at The Tribulation Network are hell-bent on an Armageddon strategy and full of gloom and doom. There’s hope beyond the criminality and destruction that is going on out there—most of which acclaims “peace and safety” to all who would join in assailing the prospect of Gog and those allied with this principality (Magog).

Kenneth Timmerman’s much-acclaimed exposure on Teheran’s intentions (The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran) has been given overwhelming exposure in the “conservative media” and even some liberals concur with his nuclear suspicions. A quick read of Timmerman’s immediate conclusions portend an exceedingly aggressive Iran with 30 deliverable nukes on the ready—we’re talking a major crisis here where even the French (can you believe) would side with the US and go after Iran!

TBN/LEFT-BEHIND CHRISTIANITY’S SCENARIO

Likewise, we have repeatedly warned of the folly, false hope—yea, deception, fraught with pride and false patriotism, which cripples the evangelical Church in America from her true testimony to the Cross of Christ!

Their shameful display of such in the War on Terror, in the name of the Son of God—against the “Evil Doers”—is akin to the cutting off of the ear of the servant of the high priest wrought by impetuous Peter that night in the Garden of Gethsemane in order to protect his Master . . . as if the Master needed any sword of man!

Our previous tomes have excoriated our beloved brother, Dave Hunt, for his persistent denial of Gog’s specificity—claiming it all blends together into Armageddon. This he deliberately does, I surmise, because of the Premillenarian embarrassment of claiming that Gog-Magog was for decades believed to be Russia and her Arab allies—but that stupidity ended when the Cold War terminated any real Russian threat (Note: If Biblicists would have taken the nations “literally” – as they are wont to do – the current alignment of nations in the Middle East found in Gog-Magog, and recorded in Ezekiel 38-39, is nigh perfect!). Today’s Russia is, as Vladimir Putin put it: The greatest geopolitical tragedy of the century—while decrying the onslaughts of the New Roman Empire: The USA.

By blurring the distinctions of Gog-Magog from that of Armageddon would be one thing—but Hunt (as pointed out), not only blurs these distinctions (allegedly to make amends to Premillenarian exegetical excesses) but asserts that we have naught to worry for the Church’s Rapture (and that but a scarce 200 million will rapture—I guess akin to the 200 million figure mentioned in Revelation 9:16 of those armies of the Kings of the East who shall assault the Middle East) or His coming for (i.e., the believing Church) precludes any involvement (or testimony) to any future or revealed Antichrist and the forces of darkness.

In other words, Hunt’s eschatology precisely mirrors the Left Behind Series eschatology of Tim LaHaye and Hal Lindsey (America’s top book sellers!)—falsely, as far as we are biblically concerned—leaving the entire 70th Week of Daniel to Israel of the flesh to fend off the Prince of Darkness and his minions, while getting pounded for their rejection of Messiah, until He finally shows up.

Somehow, however, as other Pretribulationists/Premillenarians explain (and here’s where their theology does great insult to the doctrine of being “in Christ” (i.e., being a part of the Body of Christ))—a vast multitude of “Tribulation Saints” shall arise during this awful time of the revealed Antichrist to contend with his Pax Antichristus; however, their “salvation” is akin to those of the Old Testament (whatever that means or can mean since the cross of Christ persists straight through the 70th Week of Daniel).

Nonsense, these “Tribulation Saints” described in Revelation 4-on, until the coming of our Lord in bodily form, are as much “in Christ” – as much a part of the Church here and present – as we believers in Christ are this very day!

Hence, there is full justification, yea, absolute value in support of all “wars of liberation and democratization” throughout the planet wrought by these United States of America—though they be unilateral, pre-emptive, and self-serving of our national interest—because the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition, the Lawless One “who is after the working of Satan with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish” (II Thess. 2:9-10) has NOT been “revealed in his own time” (II Thess. 2:6) and will not be so revealed (so says Dave Hunt) until “He who now restrains (i.e., the Holy Spirit and, ipso facto, the Church) will do so until He (the Holy Spirit, along with the Church) is taken out of the way (i.e., Hunt/LaHaye/Lindsey’s alleged Rapture of the Church).

It is this faulty exegesis and cruel subterfuge which lulls the Body of Christ at the close of this age into a false sense of security and formidable deception AND under this vulnerability, commits her to the War on Terror—compounding the error of Balaam and the gospel of prosperity and wealth within the overall Laodicean expression of the current apostasy wherein the god Mammon is worshiped and adored, as the Green Gospel persists from sea to shining sea!

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