The Final Move Beyond Iraq: The Final Solution While the World Sleeps (6 page)

Upon this assembly of nations against Israel, God declares He will pour out His wrath in what sounds very much like what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki:

Did ancient prophets predict Armageddon would end in a nuclear holocaust? Many biblical scholars have suggested that it will. Just read the following passages and see what you think:

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While the exact players in End-Time events are not necessarily clearly outlined in Scripture, the present situation depicts all of the nations of the earth aligned either with Babylon or Jerusalem. Although Ahmadinejad and his belief in the rise of the Mahdi through an apocalyptic world struggle are terrifying in and of themselves, we are not without hope. Listen, for a moment, to the words of Jesus:

We don’t have the prophecies of Scripture so that we can cower and hide. While the Islamofascists are working to bring on Armageddon in a demonic frenzy, Jesus gave us another purpose as we head toward the Great Tribulation:

In other words, the severity of those last days—as well as the days we live in—depend greatly on the prayers and actions of Christians today. The Bible is not about trying to bring the end of the world as the Islamofascists hope to do, but about bringing salvation and God’s love and mercy to a world going increasingly mad. It is not difficult to see who is behind these activities when Jesus plainly told us:

It is up to Christians to face the present situation in the Middle East with moral clarity, to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, to oppose evil in this world, and to pray for justice and righteousness to prevail. It is time for the United States to remember its heritage in God, recalibrate its moral compass of right and wrong to God’s way of thinking, and stand beside Israel, praying for her salvation both for this world and the world to come.

Every time the terrorists kill a civilian, they win. Every time the terrorists get the democracies to kill a child, they win. It’s a win/win for the terrorists, it’s a lose/lose for the democracies, and it’s all because of the asymmetry of morality.
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We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.
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wind of counter-revolution is blowing across the Middle East and directly into the faces of the Islamofascists and their hopes for spreading Khomeini’s Islamic revolution worldwide. Both Iraq and Afghanistan have held democratic elections. President Bush was right in his decision to invade Iraq—he has established a base to inject the vaccination of democracy into the bloodstream of oil-rich, tyrannical regimes that suppress the human rights of the masses and confuse them with outlandish conspiracy myths about Israel and the West. The terrorists, however, are trying to destroy this move toward truth, freedom, and democracy—and the liberal Left in America is helping them succeed.

America is not hated by liberal leftists, appeasement states, and oppressive regimes because it is doing wrong but because it is doing right. The belief of these regimes is that a perfect world is a weak and anemic America that embraces the perpetrator and castigates the victim.

President Bush’s plan, like that of Ronald Reagan toward the Soviet Union, will bring a new beginning to the Middle East. For the first time since the rebirth of their nation in 1948, the Israelis see the opportunity of a lifetime for a more democratic region. President Bush’s battle for the soul of the Middle East is beginning to succeed, much to the chagrin of the liberal Left. In order for his course to continue, God-fearing Americans must unite and battle for the soul of America.

The foundational promise on which the return of Jesus Christ and all prophecy is contingent is found in Matthew 24:14:

This doctrine is taught and believed by more than one billion Christians worldwide that consider themselves “evangelical.”

The Middle East is the last frontier for the proclamation of our Judeo-Christian principles, fulfilling Jesus’s last words on the earth:

The church will, in fact, respond to the words of Jesus, and in doing so will birth the greatest revival the Middle East—and the world—has ever known.

The basis for President Bush’s conviction is this: good versus evil. It is a doctrine of the Bible from Genesis to the cross and to the very end of the age, as well as the foundational doctrine in President Bush’s war on terror. As Edmund Burke’s oft-quoted saying goes, “All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” It was the same doctrine Ronald Reagan used in defeating the so-called “Evil Empire” of the Soviet Union.

Why do followers of Christ feel a God-ordained call to wage war against evil and to support Israel? How is this mission based on the Bible, and how will it birth a great awakening in America and the Middle East, causing these believers to refocus their passions on confronting the root of all evil?

For example, how can Christians support a war when Jesus has said, “Love your enemies”? The New Testament clearly states that civil magistrates can wage war against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. Romans 13:1–4 (nasu) says:

Today, the battle of good versus evil is being fought from within. Liberals hate the America of which Christian presidents dream. They hate Israel, the Bible, and Christians in general. They subject Christians to scorn, ridicule, and discrimination. There is no attack on American culture more deadly than the secular humanists’ attack against God in American public life.

The insults, verbal abuse, and attacks are so severe that anyone who contradicts them is labeled ignorant, evil, racist, and a bigot. The dumbing down of America has begun, and all in the name of political correctness and a new godless globalism.

The hippies of the ’60s have become the establishment against which they once railed. Even though they run the culture, the media, the educational system, the courts, the arts, and so forth, they are still self-destructing. From the public and private sector, from mainstream Hollywood to the public schools, from Washington politics to local judges, from the arts to the sciences, they are self-destructing.

America, the noble experiment, is under siege. The tidal wave of evil is sweeping over our nation: the self-injuring, spirit-destroying, conscious-searing practices of pornography, abortion, homosexuality, and drug and alcohol abuse are being supported as they never have been before. There is a vicious moral and spiritual war raging in the hearts and minds of Americans.

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At the heart of liberalism is a belief that evil really doesn’t exist, people are basically good, and thus individuals can’t really be held accountable for the wrong they do. The liberal tactic is that it is better just to talk with people since we are basically all the same and reasonable at heart, rather than bringing criminals to justice or fighting to stop those committing crimes upon humanity.

The liberal crowd wants God and the Bible out of America. Our first president, George Washington, said, “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion…. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
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John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”
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Can the liberal secular humanists’ hatred for all things Christian pass Natan Sharansky’s “town square test”?

The rights of Christians in America to express their views without fear of retaliation from liberal organizations are frequently challenged and are slowly being eroded.

I believe America is under attack from radical Islam because it is a Christian nation. Bush is hated because he is one of the most devoted Christian presidents in American history and because he applies Christian principles to every aspect of his policies.

President Bush has said, “When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the Savior, it changes your heart. It changes your life. And that’s what happened to me.”
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In his State of the Union address in 2002 (what is now called the “axis of evil” speech), President Bush drew a line in the sand for nations that he considers part of an axis of evil threatening the free world. On February 7, 2002, the president said, “Faith shows the reality of good and the reality of evil.”
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George W. Bush began his second White House term with his freedom speech, as did Ronald Reagan with his speech about the threat of evil in the world and the hope of freedom. Reagan quoted John 3:16 (kjv) as his favorite verse: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” He explained his relationship with God in these words: “Having accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior, I have God’s promise of eternal life in heaven.”
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Reagan saw the evil of Communism not only as shutting down the churches, but also as threatening the eternal salvation of millions of people. He said of freedom:

Both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush felt called to become president. Mother Teresa told me in Rome that she and her sisters stayed up two nights praying for Ronald Reagan after he was shot. She told me that she met with Mr. Reagan in June 1981 and said:

She said that Nancy Reagan broke into tears. The president was deeply moved. Maureen Reagan, the president’s daughter, told me that her father repeated the story often and said, “God has spared me for a reason. I will devote the rest of my time here on earth to find out what He intends me to do.”

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In October 1970, Pat Boone, Harald Bredesen, Herb Ellingwood, and George Otis, with Shirley Boone, had joined hands in a circle to pray with then governor Ronald Reagan. Otis said that as he prayed, his hands began to shake. (He was holding Reagan’s hand.) Otis said, “Son, if you walk upright before Me, you will reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” The other three men who were present that day told me the same story.

I had the pleasure of meeting personally with Ronald Reagan several times at the White House during his presidency. He talked freely about spiritual matters. I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the Reagan cabinet and eighty-six of America’s top religious leaders shortly after his first inauguration and for the first Middle East national security briefing (on the sale of AWACS to Saudi Arabia) after Reagan’s inauguration. I was also invited to speak briefly at the Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas, in 1980.

Bush and Reagan were both greatly influenced by the writings of C. S. Lewis, and especially his book
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, particularly book 1, which is entitled “Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe.” The writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn were also an influence. Solzhenitsyn addressed the Harvard graduating class in 1978 with a speech entitled “A World Split Apart.” He characterized the current conflict for our planet as a physical and spiritual war that had already begun and could not be won without dealing with the forces of evil.

On January 20, 2005, after praying for guidance on the scripture he should choose as his inaugural scripture, George W. Bush placed his hand on his family Bible. He chose a scripture used by Ronald Reagan at the end of his famous “Evil Empire” speech at the Twin Towers Hotel in Orlando, Florida, on March 8, 1983. From Isaiah 40:31 (kjv), President Bush selected:

The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith. Whittaker Chambers, the man behind one of the most divisive court cases of our time, the Hiss-Chambers case, wrote:

For Chambers, Marxism-Leninism “is, in fact, man’s second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: ‘Ye shall be as gods.’”
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The Western world can answer this challenge, he wrote, “but only provided that its faith in God and the freedom He enjoins is as great as Communism’s faith in Man.”
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Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech rocked the world. In it he said: