- So we are going to war again, and soon. I don't want
to talk about the rights and the wrongs of the situation. My intention
is to try and explain why this is all happening. To understand this you
have first to let go of all prejudices, suspend your beliefs in religious
dogma, forget politics, nationalism, your governments, countries, forget
despots and weapons of mass destruction. Instead concentrate on a bigger
picture.
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- Imagine God exists.
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- As the eminent French mathematician and philosopher Blaise
Pascal once said: "If you do not believe in God, and he exists, you
have a problem. If you believe in God and he does not exist, you have no
problem."
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- If you believe that God exists, then some creedence must
be given to the concepts and ideas promulgated in religious writings such
as the Bible and the Koran. Much of these writings, particularly the prophecies,
are considered to be the "Word of God".
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- I understand that this concept is pretty difficult for
some people to get to grips with, but give it a try. It involves considering
the supernatural, a God that is all knowing. A God who is omnipotent and
all powerful, but is also compassionate and merciful. A good God.
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- Suppose some of the stories in the Bible are true. Suppose
that the Book of Revelation and the prophecies contained in Saint John's
apocalypse of the "end times" really are a warning from our future,
somehow passed on to mankind almost two thousand years ago. Suppose those
prophecies are even now coming to fruition. Look around you at the world
today. Does good or evil prevail? If you think that evil prevails, and
believe that a good God exists, the question must be asked "Why would
a good God allow evil to prevail?"
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- Perhaps the answer can be found in the Bible.
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- Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for
the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth
that he hath but a short time.
- Revelation 12. verse 12.
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- If you believe God exists, then the devil also must exist.
God tells us so. The devil is the personification of evil, the antithesis
of a good God. The devil is pure evil and very powerful. The devil uses
his evil power to corrupt, deceive and pollute the hearts, souls and minds
of those he needs to realise his aims and ambitions of global war, famine,
catastrophe and destruction. His ultimate aim is the extinction of the
human race and the annihilation of planet earth.
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- So, the devil appears to prevail in the world today,
and as we are told he has "great wrath" because he has "but
a short time." The devil knows that mankind is in the "end times",
he knows his time is short, so his fury is unbounded as he lashes out this
way and that with unadulterated evil trying to destroy all that God created.
He is bringing the whole human race into a conflagration of unparalleled
hate and destruction unlike anything mankind has witnessed before. As Jesus
says to his disciples on the Mount of Olives, when they asked him about
the end times:
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- For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not
since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
- Matthew 24. verse 21.
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- Kings, presidents, princes, premiers, religious leaders,
tyrants, despots, you and me; all can be swayed by the devil's promises
of power, glory and riches into doing his bidding. Look around you at the
situation in the world today. What plans are even now being prepared for
another war of death and destruction, what consequences will this action
have on a world already full of war, hate, murder, famine and destruction.
Perhaps your beginning to see the big picture now. The devil is winning
and evil is triumphing in the world.
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- And God?
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- God looks on from a distance at mankind's continuing
folly, stupidity and violence. As Albert Einstein said: "Only two
things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure
about the former."
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- God cannot intervene. He has created mankind with "free
will" so mankind must sort out it's own problems. When things get
so bad that the world itself is in danger of being destroyed then he will
intervene. The destruction of the planet is not in God's cosmic plan. As
Jesus says to his disciples:
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- And except those days should be shortened, there should
no flesh be saved: but for the elects sake those days shall be shortened.
- Matthew 24. verse 22.
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- However, before that mankind has to learn a lesson. He
must fight and defeat the devil himself, not an easy task and one that
will bring with it horrors on an unimaginable scale. Many will grow tired
of God, many will be killed in God's name, many will, as many have already,
side with the devil. So, if this really is the big picture there is one
question we must all ask ourselves. Whose side are we on? God's or the
devil's?.
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- Whilst you ponder that question it would be well to finish
with another thought from Albert Einstein that may help with your decision:
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- "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file
has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization
should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality,
deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable
and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of
so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of
war is nothing but an act of murder." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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- Copyright: Ian Gurney January 2003.
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- Ian Gurney is the author of "The Cassandra Prophecy"
(www.caspro.com) and welcomes your
comments at: <mailto:info@caspro.com>info@caspro.com
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