In this series we’ve been surveying the prophetic scene as it is unfolding today. In the process we’ve begun to unpack the patterns of fulfillment that characterize this point in history. Last week we looked at Israel. The return of the Jews to God’s Promised Land and the establishment of the Jewish state are sure signs that we are approaching the End of the Age. But God’s prophetic fulfillment is not limited to the geopolitical but encompasses all areas of human endeavor including the economic, religious and societal spheres. In PART III we’ll look at the role that exploding racial tension, civil unrest and Radical Islam are playing in setting up the conditions for the Last Days.
SOWING CHAOS
“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” (2Timothy 3:1-5)
We are living in a day in which chaos reigns. Laws are overturned. Standards and practices that have ungirded our culture for millenniums are being cast away in favor of a new morality declared by the wisdom of man – in defiance of the laws of God. Life is held so cheaply so as to be sold for replacement parts to satisfy the sacrificial demands of a god of pleasure and death – all in the name of ‘women’s health.’ And cities are assaulted from and by their own citizens; destroyed in the name of justice. It is a hard world to fathom. And the truth is: These occurrences are not happening by accident.
A year after the shooting of Michael Brown, demonstrators once again took to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri to protest his death.[i] Brown, was an unarmed young, Black male who was shot by a White policeman. The story went out that he had put his hands up to surrender at the time of his shooting. But the fact of the matter was quite different. In the words of Jonathan Capehart, an African American writing for the Washington Post: The entire “Hands up. Don’t Shoot’ scenario was “built on a lie.” The Department of Justice investigation found that: Yes, there was rampant racism in Ferguson. However, as Capehart wrote: “Brown never surrendered with his hands up, and [Officer] Wilson was justified in shooting Brown.” This was corroborated by ballistic evidence as well as witnesses. The DOJ report states: “Wilson and other witnesses stated that Brown then reached into the SUV through the open driver’s window and punched and grabbed Wilson. This is corroborated by bruising on Wilson’s jaw and scratches on his neck, the presence of Brown’s DNA on Wilson’s collar, shirt, and pants, and Wilson’s DNA on Brown’s palm.”[ii]
But that doesn’t stop the narrative – or the protestors – or the agenda. On the night the protests began, one man began shooting at police and wound up being critically injured by police. Sixty were arrested on the second night. Clashes between police and civilians occurred throughout the area; precipitated when officers were showered with rocks and bottles. Protestors shut down a highway and two other teen agers were shot.[iii] Many in the crowd were chanting: “Ready for what?! We’re ready for war!” in the time just leading up to shots being fired at the police.[iv]
All of this did not occur in a vacuum. George Soros had primed the pump by financing many of the outside groups that have maneuvered to take advantage of racial tensions as they erupted in Ferguson and Baltimore and elsewhere. [The word is vaguely yet generally out: Some are trying to engineer a race war.] Soros was not directly involved after-the-fact, but his money had made their involvement possible.[v] Britain’s Guardian reported that the original “mayhem” was “initiated by a small, organised group of agitators.” One local politician who can be numbered among the protestors wrote: “There is a small group of people who cannot be defined as protestors/demonstrators. They are more like fighters/rebels/insurgents.”[vi] Sources identified some of the groups who infiltrated the situation. These included The Revolution Club of Chicago, the Chicago Communists and the New Black Panther Party.[vii]
That was last year. But now the situation has grown even worse. Not a week before the new round of rioting, Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Black Muslim Movement, gave the keynote address for the new ethic. [You be the judge, if these are the words of the ‘Religion of Peace.’] “Death is sweeter than to continue to live and bury our children, while white folks give the killer hamburgers. Death is sweeter, than watching us slaughter each other, to the joy of a 400-year-old enemy. Yes, death is sweeter. The Quran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter. Then it says, ‘Retaliation is prescribed in matters of the slain.’ Retaliation is a prescription from God, to calm the breast of those whose children have been slain. So if the federal government will not intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us. Stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling.”[viii]
In Texas, a group of Black Panthers seemed to be acting on Farrakhan’s advice. An armed group of 15 members of the New Black Panther Party took to the streets in Waller County, marching on the jail and chanting threatening slogans. Here’s some of the reporting on the incident from Breitbart. “The Black Panthers marched into the street in front of the jail chanting ‘Whose streets?… Our streets!’ Many of the members of the group were armed with shotguns, hunting rifles and AR-15 style assault rifles.” And as they marched they chanted in military marching style. “The revolution is on, said the chant leader. Off the pigs, the group chanted back. The chant continues, Time to pick up the gun… Off the pigs. No more pigs in my community… Off the pigs. No more brothers in jail… Off the pigs. No more sisters in jail… Off the pigs. The pigs are gonna get scared… Off the pigs. The pigs are gonna get dead… Off the pigs.”[ix]
Dave Hodges writes that it has gone even farther. He cites credible sources that say that both ISIS and the Palestinian Authority are involved in this new round of Ferguson violence. Hodges quotes a source: “Be advised: Command Sergeant Major (RET), Dan Page, states he has intelligence that we have direct involvement of ISIS (Islamic State In Iraq) and the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) on the ground in Ferguson/St Louis. Further be advised: my reporters and myself are convinced the protesters want out-of-control chaos up to and including fatalities on both sides.” This is not the outrageous claim that some will make it out to be. ISIS took responsibility for the twin attacks on Chattanooga area military personnel. And don’t forget the “‘Draw a Prophet’ event in Richardson, Texas in which two ISIS member traveled from Phoenix to Texas intent on killing everyone at the event but were fortunately stopped by local law enforcement. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack on American soil.” Hodges sees these attacks and the Ferguson situation as probing forays by ISIS and sundry allies to determine American vulnerabilities and capability to respond.[x]
The Game Has Changed
The fact that Americans should even be facing these threats means that we are living in a new era. Under the Old Way, American troops would invade other nations – for reasons good and bad – and take out the ‘bad guys’ engaging them on their own soil. It is not so any longer. Groups like Hamas and Hezbollah and the Palestinian Authority and ISIS act with impunity on American soil or very nearby. It was in April that Judicial Watch reported the existence of an ISIS base camp just a few miles from El Paso, Texas in northern Mexico. [Mexican authorities confirmed its existence.][xi] Dave Hodges chimes in with some very disturbing reportage. He has written rather extensively, detailing “the interconnection between most major Middle Eastern terror groups, MS-13the largest drug and arms shipping cartel in the world, the Sanchez Peredes as well as most of the major Mexcian drug cartels who are receiving paramilitary training in San Salvador. Training for what? Many are thinking that they are training for military incursions into the United States.” Other sources reported to him that ISIS operatives had infiltrated both Greely, Colorado and Cheyenne, Wyoming. “This is very interesting because the Monfort Meat Packing Plant – [in Greely] – was routinely raided by the Federal Goverment for hiring a massive amount of illegal aliens.”[xii] [Is God lifting His hand of protection from this yet most powerful – and once –godly nation?]
All of this is part of a religious war; an assault against the God of the Bible. Persecution – of both Christians and Jews is on the rise all across the globe. ISIS is at the forefront of presenting the ideology that justifies and inspires the increase in attacks. Take for instance this one instance. Several hundred Indonesians have traveled to the Middle East to join ISIS fighters there. One leader, who goes by the by the nom de guerre Abu Karimah Indonesi, is urging his fellow radical Islamists to launch attacks against Christians – both native and tourist – in his homeland and elsewhere. Here is his post. “Kill Any Christians You Can Find. Christians Can Be Easily Found. You Can Use Anything. For Example, A Car. Video The Process … Run Them Over While Passing.”[xiii] [Ah! Anoter message of love – from the religion of peace!] And thus there is
What is remarkable is that our current leadership in Washington takes little note of this exploding crisis of Christian persecution – much less do anything about it. Even Senator John McCain raised his voice in criticizing the administration for doing nothing to alleviate the situation. “Throughout the Middle East and North Africa today, Christianity is under attack. Terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are destroying some of the oldest and most sacred Christian communities and relics in the world on the very lands where Christianity was born and first took root. They are committing brutal atrocities against Christian communities in Syria and Iraq, persecuting religious minorities and destroying entire towns and local economies. Christians are fleeing their homes in increasing numbers, creating an exploding refugee crisis… The Obama Administration has repeatedly refused to defend religious freedom abroad and continues to ignore its devastating cost to those religious communities targeted by terrorists because of their religious beliefs.”[xiv] Again we must understand the nature of such actions. This is a strike against the God of Scripture. And because of the explicit teachings of the Quran, the people who do such things believe they are serving God in the process. Jesus Himself prophesied that such a day would come. We find it in John 16:2-3. “They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.”
Now when Muslim-fellow-passengers threw a dozen Christian men overboard from a migrant ship traveling from Libya to Italy – President Obama said nothing about the incident – even while standing next to Italy’s President who was being questioned on the matter. [Perhaps the Teleprompter in Chief wasn’t able to give him the answer in a timely fashion!][xv]
If that lack of action on the part of the President denotes passive agreement – (or a sin of omission) – with regard to the anti-Christian agenda: What is going on in the US Military definitely takes the active form – or what the church would call a ‘sin of commission.’ Michael Snyder wrote a powerful summary of the situation back in April of this year. “If you are a Bible-believing Christian, there is no place for you in Barack Obama’s version of the US military. Christian service members all over the nation are being disciplined for reading their Bibles, talking about their faith publicly and encouraging others to live a moral lifestyle. And just saying the name of ‘Jesus’ at the wrong place or the wrong time while serving in the military is enough to spark a national controversy. We live at a time when political correctness in America is wildly out of control, and thanks to Obama the US military has become one of the most politically correct institutions in our society. Things have gotten so bad that dozens of top officers that did not agree with Obama’s views have been forced out of the military in recent years. The U.S. military is being transformed into an overtly anti-Christian institution.”[xvi]
And thus chaos is sown – from enemies within and without – all with their own agendas, yet all leading to the same end. They are sowing the chaos from which the Antichrist will ultimately rise. And we in America are cooperating in creating those very conditions. We have turned from the God of the Bible in so many ways. The marketing of the unborn for ‘research’ and cosmetics and flavor enhancers[xvii] is surely one sign of our falling away from the wisdom and fear of the Lord. Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, author or The Harbinger points to another; the recent Supreme Court Ruling legalizing same sex marriage. In doing so America rejected the “Biblical definition of marriage.” Cahn describes this as a “tectonic event, a seismic event, a culture changing event,” an “act of desecration,” if you will. And he states that “judgement is preceded by an act of desecration.” In a recent video he warns: “I believe a great shaking is coming to America and the world. It involves an economic collapse, a financial collapse and a shaking even greater than those realms….America has not grown closer to God. It has grown farther. And the harbingers continue to manifest as America has continued on a course away from God.” America now bows to her new idols of perversion and tolerance of the intolerable. America has rejected God and His law. God has a pronouncement for those that do such. “The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; The Lord alone will be exalted in that day, But the idols He shall utterly abolish.” (Isaiah 2:17-18)
[i] Picture taken from: Michael Snyder, Protesters Declare They Are Ready For War, Men’s News Daily, August 10, 2015
[ii] Jonathan Capehart, ‘Hands up, don’t shoot’ was built on a lie, Washington Post, March 16, 2015
[iii] More than 60 are arrested on second night of confrontation in Ferguson, Daily Mail (UK) / Reuters, August 10, 2015
[iv]Listen to the Chant Ferguson Protesters Were Caught on Video Shouting Shortly Before Gunfire Erupted, The Blaze,
August 10, 2015
[v] George Soros funds Ferguson protests, hopes to spur civil action, Washington Times, January 14, 2015
[vi] Ferguson: outsiders spread unrest and unease in pursuit of eclectic aims, The Guardian (UK), August 19, 2014
[vii] Communists And The New Black Panthers Gin Up Violence And Racial Conflict In Ferguson, The Noisy Room, August 17, 2014
[viii] Leo Hohman, Will Farrakhan be arrested for call to kill whites?, World Net Daily, August 5, 2015
[ix] ARMED BLACK PANTHERS MARCH IN TEXAS: ‘OFF THE PIGS’, Breitbart, August 12, 2015
[x] Dave Hodges, ISIS Led Paramilitary Forces Are Probing US Defenses In Preparation for a Major Attack,
The Common Sense Show, August 11, 2015
[xi] ISIS Camp a Few Miles from Texas, Mexican Authorities Confirm, Judicial Watch, April 14, 2015
[xii] Dave Hodges, ISIS Led Paramilitary Forces Are Probing US Defenses In Preparation for a Major Attack,
The Common Sense Show, August 11, 2015
[xiii] Theodore Shoebat, Major ISIS Leader Sends Out This Message To The Islamic World, Shoebat.com, August 11, 2015
[xiv] Senator John McCain, Tony Perkins, Christianity under attack: US must do more to promote religious freedom,
FOX News, June 25, 2015
[xv] Is the Obama Administration Indifferent to Christians and Those Suffering For Christ?, Voice of the Persecuted, August 11, 2015
[xvi] Michael Snyder, Christians Are Being Systematically Purged From The U.S. Military, End of the American Dream, April 17, 2015
[xvii] Alicia Colon, Planned Parenthood and other abortion ghouls, Jewish World Review, July 16, 2015
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