January 7, 2007

• Asleep in America by Pastor Don

  Well Friday Bible study, as usual, was interesting. Pastor Don read a letter that he wrote that got published in a local newspaper dealing with the fact that there is a trend today to try and deny that the holocaust occurred. He had an experience that he shared with the readers, and to his surprise the editorial was published even though it was 500 words. They usually only publish articles that are half that size on the editorial page. I thought you might like to read the editorial.

  The Truth Must Prevail

  Sometimes it takes an event of shocking proportions to cause us to wake up.

  The president of Iran held a conference to declare that the Holocaust never happened. Westerners were not welcome, but KKK and some neo-Nazi groups were permitted.

  It has been said if you tell  a lie long and loud, people will come to believe it. I cannot believe this lie because many years ago I was at a historic event where Holocaust survivors of a Polish concentration camp met the regiment of U.S. soldiers who liberated them. I saw the Nazi identifications numbers stamped into their skins, photos of friends and family who died, and heard stories from GIs and former prisoners of the great day of freedom and the sorrows that they experienced. Many of these people have passed on, but for me they are not forgotten.

  Radical Islam has labeled Israel as the little Satan and the U.S. as the great Satan. Our two countries are locked together because our roots flow from a common source –the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. No matter how hard forces work to remove God from this country or to separate us from Israel, there is a Jewish-Christian connection.

  We must acknowledge a bond of truth between us; we love God’s land and the Scriptures. We all await a coming Jewish Messiah but can’t agree on whether He was here or not. In the past, we Christians failed to protect and defend the Jews, but the truth must prevail so that doesn’t happen again. Radical Islam will not stop at destroying Israel for they have set out to divide and conquer Israel and the U.S.

  To discredit and destroy the Holocaust serves their purpose; to isolate Israel and erode sympathy for its existence. There is no appeasement or peace plan that works when your enemy is sworn to destroy you, and is functioning from a different set of values and world view. Israel understands this, but many Americans do not.

  Hitler used lies to get his way and World War II engulfed the planet. Our only trusted friend in the Middle East is Israel. The Bible predicts that Israel will be surrounded and isolated. If only more Americans would read their Bibles we could better understand what is happening now.

  Iran is forming alliances with Russia and its Muslim neighbors to gain power and complete control of the area. Mortimer B. Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of U.S. News and World Report (speaking of Iran) said, “It has intensified its murderous anti-Israel rhetoric and reiterated its long-held position and how the end game will be played.

  Israel should have our support. We must realize we are not always involved with folks who are following the rule of our laws or have a love of our constitution. The 9/11 attackers used our freedoms and tolerance to our harm. The lie that there was no Holocaust hurts us all and opens the way to more atrocities like those in the Sudan.

  Pastor Don Moore

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  Pastor Don also read an article on the op-ed page called Charitable Nation by Jonah Goldberg.

  We started talking about various current events and Pastor Don pointed out that we have to be aware of what is going on in our country, because the way we are heading, we may soon not be a country, for US is not mentioned in Biblical prophesy. Then he talked about how some of the minority groups work to get their agendas accepted and he used an example.

  One of the elders of our church was sitting next to him and he asked her for her Bible, pen, purse, chapstick, and notebook. Playing along she said, “No.” He then begged for just the little scrap of a gumwrapper which after he cajoled her, she gave him. Then a few seconds later he said, “You gave me the gumwrapper” why won’t you give me the chapstick. I really need the chapstick and you have so many of them at home. Eventually she gave in and gave him the chapstick. He then tried to ask for her Bible, saying “You gave me the paper and the chapstick. You have lots of Bibles. What kind of Christian are you when you won’t even give me your Bible.” She refused, and he called her “Prejudiced bigot, you gave me these things, and you won’t give me more.”

  He then pointed out that now he didn’t need her Bible because he was able to label her as a bigot, and because she was labeled she looked less in other people’s eyes, so he got what he wanted. Now when he looked around the table he used the term bigot, and pointed out that that term made people uncomfortable for they did not want to be labeled that, so they would more readily comply to escape the label.

  There are many labels being slung around these days such as homophobic (a rather new term), intolerant, etc.

  This is part of a well-planned out agenda to force people to comply with things that are not Biblical, that are not part of the system. We need to realize that as time goes by Christians are going to be persecuted for their beliefs. For those crying intolerant to Christians will not tolerate Christians believing what God has told them.

  We are asleep in America, we keep saying “It can’t happen here.” It is happening. We are a media society, the news and who controls the news controls the mind of the people.

  The agendas of these groups tried to reach the people in the political arena and it didn’t work, now they are reaching out to try and force their agendas on people through the entertainment arena and movies. The content of movies, comedy shows, and other TV shows is radically different from 20 years ago. Subjects that never would have made the show in the past are now an integral part of the shows, and the tone is to imply that immorality is normal and more widespread.

  Our government was given far more power than the founders of our country wanted. The founders figured a few weeks of the year the politicians would leave their communities and daily jobs, travel to Washington and deal with a few issues that would come up. Our country was meant to be a conglomerate of many states, a republic, and each state was to govern itself except in a few areas where they needed to cooperate.

  From the war, Roosevelt turned the country on its heels, and the federal government became stronger than the state governments. Once that power transferred, and the need was no longer there for such a strong government, the politicians held onto the power and refused to let it go back to the states. Our government got stronger and stronger, and the people gave up their rights more and more, the states lost a lot of their power.

  Thomas Jefferson prophesied that if politicians established themselves as an elite and ruled over the people, that our country would suffer.

  We need to remember, that no matter the state of the politics, our kingdom is not of this earth, it is a heavenly kingdom. God separated the church from the realm of politics. When the persecution comes we will have to make a decision, go with the kingdom of the world or go with the kingdom of God.

  Then Pastor Don went on to discuss Ezekiel, a topic I think I will save until tomorrow.

  I am praying you have a blessed Sunday.

  Heather

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