THE LESSONS OF HISTORY

To a lot of people who have not taken their history lessons seriously, or see no important reason for having it in the first place have put themselves into a room with no windows. History begins for them at the moment of their birth and all they can relate to is what few life experiences they have had. These unfortunate self-deprived individuals are attracted to others with the same shallow views of life mostly while attending colleges and universities. They view themselves as being smarter and brighter than anyone else. They are told that they must be the ones to make the world a better place. They join a cause to give meaning and purpose to their shallow lives. They become involved in the environmental movement or some other cause. These "enlightened ones" become sponges for all the indoctrination and propaganda, both subliminally and superficially as they are being fed the lies and distortions of the left-wing saturated academia. Their new cause has become their religion. "Useful idiots" as Josef Stalin referred to them, manipulated these so called brightest and smartest to advanced the Communist Manifesto and gained control to form the Soviet Union. Since they never studied history or took it seriously, they don't realize that people just like them allowed Hitler to grab power in the 1930's and the communists to become the dominant force in Europe during the Cold War. They failed to see that they were becoming political slaves because of their "enlightened " pacifism. When they realized what was happening, guess who were the first ones being hauled off to the gulags when they tried to use their dissent tactics against those that were in charge?

On September 2, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur on board the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese formally surrendered to the United States said in a followup address, "as long as we ignore the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat it. " Later he added to illustrate the utter destruction of the atomic bomb which quickly brought the war to an end. "Military alliances, Leagues of Nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only path to be by the way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war now blocks out this alternative. We have had our last chance. If we will not devise some greater and equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door."

It has been shown over and over that no other system exists and negotiations do not work. The United Nations is a corrupt organization with most of the member nations being anti-American and nearly all of them anti-Semitic. Negotiations only postpone the inevitable and our enemies that are hell-bent of our demise look at this as a weakness on our part. Since the lessons of history have been ignored, nuclear annihilation is now more of a possibility since the breakup of the Soviet Union in which several Islamic states have access to nuclear weapons. Add to that, Pakistan, India, North Korea and Israel. Iran is on a quest to get them and the best estimates is that they will have them with two to five years. Iran's fanatical leader President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stated on numerous occasions denied the holocaust ever happened and that it his intention to destroy Israel and wipe it from the face of the earth. The world is now waiting to see if Israel will make a preemptive strike on Iran. Israel is on constant threat alert and just recently flew into Syria and took out a possible missile launching installation without being detected. Don't be surprised that if Syria launches a gas attack against Israel that Israel will retaliate totally in kind and as a result Damascus would be destroyed, which by the way is prophesied. Of course the rest of the Arab world would be so outraged that they would try to rally the other Arab nations to launch an all out invasion against Israel but would hesitate because the Arab world is very much aware of the Samson Option that Israel will use if it is forced to. If everything else fails, launch everything you have against your enemies realizing that in doing so you will probably be destroyed as well. Samson, if you remember killed 5000 Philistines in Gaza when he brought down the temple on them. In his death, Samson killed more people than all the other times combined while alive. Israel captured Gaza during the 1967 War but recently gave it back in the "Land for Peace" deal. Since then, the Gaza strip has become a haven for Al Qaida terrorists.

It's not a question that this will happen; the question is when? God would not have us in the dark which is why He has spoken to us through His prophets. In the latter days the books will be opened when men will run rapidly to and fro and knowledge will vastly increase. Presently the sum of man's knowledge is doubling every two years. The books have been sealed , but now they have been opened. The prophesies are really starting to make sense in light of what's going on the mid-east and the Arab world. The faithful few in Europe are going to undergo tremendous persecution and their tribulation is best described as being horrific. As the word says to those undergoing persecution, " Look up for My time draweth nigh. " We Christians in the United States have been alerted to what's going on. It is extremely important for us to make sure the right person gets seated in the Oval Office which is why this next presidential election is probably going to determine the future of all mankind. In any event, we must be ready for the Coming of the Lord.