Weapons
of War
America’s
Weapons of War are now in the Hands of our Enemies
There is a Biblical principle that the Lord will use
one nation to chasten another nation, such as He used Assyria to punish ancient
Israel (Isaiah 10). The intent of this
chastening was to bring Israel into correction.
However, Assyria’s intent went far beyond this – their intent was to
destroy Israel. Because Assyria went
beyond what God had intended for them to do, the Lord eventually punished
Assyria.
Moreover, God will often chasten a nation by
allowing the “weapons of war”
that a nation has been using against others to be used against themselves
within their own borders! For example,
the Lord told the Israelites in Jerusalem who were being besieged by the
Babylonians that He was about to bring victory to Israel’s enemy using Israel’s
own weapons against them.
Jeremiah 21 [4] Thus
says the LORD God of Israel: Behold, I
will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you
fight against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the
walls; and I will assemble them in the midst of this city. (NKJV, emphasis added)
So it is with America! The Lord used America to chasten the country
of Iraq. However, because of America’s
push for world dominance and the personal revenge of American politicians against
any who would dare come against America’s global agenda, including establishing
temples of liberty worldwide, America overstepped its boundaries by invading
other Arab nations.
Because of America’s wrath, many innocent people in
Arab countries are living in terror.
America has justified our troop’s spilling of innocent blood of
civilians and children not even involved in the war. These sins, combined with America’s other
on-going national sins, are contributing factors as to why God is allowing
America’s enemies to attack America from within our own borders with our own
weapons of war.
Now, rather than being a feared nation, it is our
own innocent civilians and children not involved with our overseas wars that
fear the wrath of terrorists within our own borders. This begs the question: who is the enemy that
has entered in the gates of America and what are the weapons of war that are
now being turned back on America?
The
Enemy within America’s Walls
On November 5, 2009, at Fort
Hood, Texas, the Soldiers of Allah began their Ground Invasion of America
Americans Sins are Rapidly
Filling to the Brim:
Approximately five months before the terrorist attack on September 1,
2001 – I shared with a group meeting in Jacksonville, Florida, as well as
others, that the LORD had given me an understanding
that America’s sins were rapidly filling to the brim. Because of that, America would be attacked
imminently. When America’s sins were
filled to the brim because of America’s continuing disobedience, then ground
troops would eventually attack from within America’s borders.
This same understanding was included in an article
that we placed on our website in July 2009 and as part of this paper, I want to
include an excerpt from that article concerning the ground troops that began
attacking within America’s borders on November 5, 2009. The excerpt, “The Enemy Will Enter into the Gates of America Again”, is a
section from the article “The
Spiritual Roots of America’s Economic Crisis” and is highlighted in
blue.
The Enemy Will Enter Into the Gates of America Again
The
measure of our forefather’s sins are rapidly filling up to the brim and when the full measure
is reached – America’s gates are going to be open to a possible devastating
“ground invasion” by the terrorists Americans so fear.
Lamentations 4 [11] The Lord hath accomplished his fury;
He hath poured out His fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it
hath devoured the foundations thereof.
[12] The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would
not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the
gates of Jerusalem. (emphasis added)
Again, just as the kings of the earth and inhabitants of the world in
Lamentations mistakenly believed that the gates of Jerusalem were fortified
against any possible attack from the enemy – Americans as well as people around
the world were astonished when America’s enemies entered into the gates of
America and successfully attacked our country on September 11, 2001. How much more so their astonishment when
America is once again attacked?
To their own detriment and to the detriment of all Americans, our
lawmakers have led Americans to believe that because of all the security
measures they as lawmakers are taking that another terrorist attack on America
will be prevented. However, you cannot
fight a spiritual battle with the carnal weapons of a politician. Rather, of all Americans, it is the lawmaker’s
continuance of sins that are filling up the brim to its full measure that will
open our gates to the terrorist once more to successfully attack America in
what may be a devastating ground invasion.
© Gwen Thomas, 2001, 2003, Revised July, 2009
The Birth Pangs of the Ground
Invasions have begun – the Enemy has entered the Gates of America - Again!
The spiritual attacks behind the ground attacks that
we see in the natural realm began on November 5, 2009 when U.S. Army Major
Hasan, a professing “Soldier of Allah”
(a Soldier of Allah is one who is willing to pick up the sword of jihad and
kill those who come against Allah, the god of Islam), killed 12 soldiers, one
civilian, one unborn child and wounded 30 others at Ft Hood, Texas. As a Soldier of Allah, he is a spiritual
brother of the Soldiers of Allah
who attacked America on September 11, 2001 by air and he was influenced by a principality
that brought its wrath to earth when it was dislodged from the heavens on
November 5, 2009. (This point will be
supported throughout this paper).
The section quoted above, “The Enemy Will Enter into the Gates of America Again”, as well
as more recent events, which will be addressed in this paper, provide spiritual
insight into Major Nidal Hasan’s ground attack at Fort Hood. It also provides spiritual insight and
connection to a seemingly harmless breach of security at the White House by a
man, Tareq Salahi, and his wife, why the enemy’s wrath manifested through Hasan
as opposed to someone else and why it was the Salahi’s who were able to breach
White House security as opposed to someone else.
Major Hasan, whose business cards
identify him as a Soldier of Allah, is a foreshadowing of the warfare to come
to America. More specifically, Islam’s
Soldiers of Allah are entering into the gates of America again – only this time by
ground! However, these ground attacks do
not mean that there will never be a terrorist attack against America by some
other means – quite the contrary! Breaches
within America’s borders, such as we witnessed at the White House is also a
foreshadowing of the warfare to come to America.
Major Hasan & the Salahis
A Holy War: The Lord used America to punish Iraq and now
He will use the Soldiers of Allah to punish America. Much to the surprise of many, the war America
is engaged in is a “spiritual war” – just ask a Muslim from an Arab
nation. For that matter, just ask many
of the Arabs living in America. Moreover,
the LORD did not use Americans to fight against Muslims
because of their righteousness – again, quite the contrary! (Isaiah 10)
Soldiers of
Allah have found their way into our borders – into the very core of America’s
military. What has
shocked Americans is that the man who is responsible for the worst mass
shooting at a United States military base in our history is that Hasan is a
Major in the United States Army.
Nonetheless, he is the foreshadowing of the new enemy – the enemy from
within. The enemy within is a professing
Soldier of Allah who has found their way into the very core of America’s
military. Accept it or not – America is
in a Holy War!
The White House: Another surprise to many. Regardless of our attempts to secure
America’s boundaries, America will be unsuccessful! God’s weapons of judgment can reach those
that think themselves safe from all weapons – even those living in the White
House!
Take Tareq Salahi for example, the man who was able
to breach White House security three weeks after Hasan’s attack on Ft.
Hood. Like Hasan, Salahi is an Arab
American and like Hasan, Salahi too is a foreshadowing of the new enemy.
The Invisible Enemy: Salahi may not be a professing Soldier of
Allah and he may not have murdered anyone, but at times the enemy sets a trap
by remaining hidden, which was the goal of Salahi and his wife who was with him. While the American soldiers in uniform are visible
to the Iraqi and Afghan people, there remains an American soldier that is not
visible to them. Much like Satan hid
behind the serpent when he tempted Eve.
America’s attempts to secure our boundaries are
proving to be unsuccessful.
Notwithstanding all the security measures in which Americans have vainly
put their trust, the Soldiers of Allah have and will continue to attack America
from within our own borders because the LORD
has allowed it! Moreover, the LORD is allowing the Soldiers of Allah to attack America
with America’s own “Weapons of War”!
America’s
Weapons of War
America’s Constitutional
Rights have become Weapons of War for the Enemy: Most agree that Major Hasan’s
attack is a new kind of war, a war that the FBI and Military admits to not
knowing how to approach without violating someone’s constitutional rights. Ironically, in the sense of what America’s
forefathers intended, the
Constitutional Rights they are afraid of violating have become weapons of war
for the Soldiers of Allah.
What the Government knew
about Hasan before the attack:
Interestingly, terrorism investigators, unknown to Hasan, intercepted
e-mail correspondence between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric
living in Yemen who encourages followers of Islam to engage in violent jihad,
or holy war. Terrorism investigators
knew that Awlaki openly advocates Muslim terrorism against America and knew of
his ties to the terrorists who attacked America on September 11, 2001. That is why they kept track of him and those
who correspond with him!
It was the teachings of Awlaki, who Hasan considered
to be his spiritual advisor, that inspired Hasan to take the principles of
Islam more seriously, and in doing so, Hasan, as a Soldier of Allah, took up
the cause of murderous jihad! As we will
see, the location of the Mosque in Falls Church, Virginia where Hasan met Awlaki
(who is also a citizen of the United States) will prove to be significant as
well.
What the U.S. Military knew
about Hasan before the attack:
The U.S. Military was well aware that Major Hasan believed that the time
was coming when Muslims that served in the American military would attack America
from within their own military ranks to defend Islam. From Hasan’s own comments, the military was
aware that given a choice, Major Hasan would personally defend his beliefs in
Islam over that of the Constitution of the United States.
Spiritual Lawlessness: And he did just that! During the attack at Ft. Hood, witnesses
reported that Hasan shouted, “Allah Akbar” – “God is Great” – a declaration
that clearly defines the underlying principle behind his attack on Ft. Hood.
Just as Major Hasan warned that American soldiers
who were Muslim would eventually attack from within, he attacked from within
the ranks. Many of those who knew him
were not surprised that Major Hasan was the very Muslim soldier of which he had
warned the military!
America’s Constitutional
Right have become the new Weapons of War for America’s Soldiers of Allah: Even though military and government officials
were concerned, they were hesitant to take any preemptive action for fear their
actions could be viewed as a violation of Hasan’s constitutional rights to
“Freedom of Speech” and “Freedom of Religion”.
This lack of preemptive measures enabled Hasan to exercise another of
his constitutional rights: the “Right to
Bear Arms”.
Hasan’s constitutional right to bear arms gave him
the “liberty” to purchase the weapon that enabled him to exercise his rights to
freedom of religion – and that was to defend Islam. The 14 that he murdered, one of which was
unborn, and the 30 others that he wounded at Ft. Hood were a manifestation of
his religious beliefs that Soldiers of Allah are justified to kill American
soldiers headed for Afghanistan and Iraq to participate in a war that he
believed was a Holy War against Islam.
A Holy War: The United States may insist that the war in
Afghanistan and Iraq is not a war on Islam.
However, the actions of Major Hasan bears witness that the United States
government cannot determine the beliefs or actions of radical Muslims or others
who are convinced that America’s presence in Iraq and Afghanistan is a “Holy
War”. The actions of Major Hasan also
bear witness that the United States Government does not understand that the
Soldiers of Allah living in America can and will determine the method of
warfare and the weapons of war they will use to fight America from within
America’s own borders.
It is a sobering thought that America’s constitutional
Rights have become one of the weapons of war for America’s Soldiers of Allah. Yet, these same liberties that America’s
lawmakers take such great pride in, whether they are used as weapons or not,
are protected by law. Nonetheless, they
have become “spiritual weapons” of war for America’s Soldiers of Allah engaged
in a Holy War.
A Spiritual Battle: Many of us understand that holy wars on
earth are a reflection of the spiritual battle going on in the heavens. For that reason, we understand that a nation
cannot fight a spiritual war using the carnal weapons of the Constitution of
the United States. Yet, America’s Lawmakers Consult no other
Oracle than the Constitution:
As discussed more fully in the main article, The
Spiritual Roots of America’s Economic Crisis, America’s continuing
interference with the God ordained governments of other countries have added to
the sins of America’s forefathers. As
prophesied by James Wilson on September 11, 1787 (note the date “September 11”
is the same day and month the terrorists attacked America – and it was not
happenstance!) at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, America’s goal
was to “Erect Temples of Liberty” throughout the world.[1]
Collectively, these sins of interfering with other
God-ordained governments have now tipped the scales. For this reason, our liberties have now
become weapons of war that America’s Soldiers of Allah as well as others will
continue to turn back on America in a spiritual war that is neither
acknowledged nor understood by America’s lawmakers. These are the same lawmakers who continue to
embrace the ideology of Rufus Choate who in 1833 declared:
“We have built no temple but the
Capitol. We consult no common oracle but
the Constitution”.[2]
America’s lawmakers approved these very words to be
engraved at the entrance to the Capitol Visitor Center, which is considered to
be the “gateway” to the Capitol. These
words are a reminder to all Americans that America’s lawmakers “have built no
temple but the Capitol and they consult no common oracle but the Constitution”.
Americans, especially our lawmakers, pride
themselves on our constitutional rights of freedom of speech, freedom of religion
and America’s tolerance of diversity.
Yet, these are the same constitutional rights that prevented the FBI and
military from launching an investigation into Major Hasan’s intentions – even
though Hasan had expressed to military personnel to let Muslim soldiers leave
the service to avoid “adverse” effects such as suicide bombings.
Our Constitutional Freedoms can be Dangerous and Deadly: Americans may find that freedom of religion, freedom of speech and embracing diversity (i.e., political correctness) may no longer be virtues to take pride in when people use them as weapons of war against us. After all, Hasan was only practicing what he had preached: jihad according to his Muslim beliefs.
Obviously, people cannot go around killing others as Hasan did, regardless of their religious beliefs. While Hasan has the freedom to believe in Islam, he does not have the freedom to practice his beliefs when it comes to jihad as this violates federal and state laws concerning murder.
America, “the land of the free”, faces a dilemma. How can our lawmakers preserve our citizenry’s constitutional freedoms of religion and speech and embrace diversity and political correctness, while at the same time, protect us from religious fanatics such as Hasan?
Our federal laws prohibit discrimination (in hiring, etc.) based upon religious beliefs, yet this lack of discrimination provided Hasan with his platform for jihad. It is considered discrimination and politically incorrect to “profile” people; consequently, airline travelers are subjected to long security delays at airports, including serious invasions of privacy, such as body pat-downs, strip searches and the latest humiliation, full-body x-ray scans where TSA employees can clearly view a person’s private parts.
Clearly, our constitutional rights are not as realistic or as genuine as our political leaders and lawmakers would have us believe. As a consequence, Americans may come to an understanding of why other countries do not want America’s democratic form of government forced upon them.
As should be recognized, America’s form of government is not a pure democracy (it is a republic) as it is based not only on the Greek ideal of democracy, but also on Roman law. Nonetheless, it is democracy in which Americans pride themselves.
However, rather than take pride in our democratic form of government, it would be wisdom if Americans would heed God’s Word that warns about Greek philosophy, whose viewpoints were based on human reason rather than the Word of God (1 Corinthians 1:22; Colossians 2:8).
1 Corinthians 1 [22] For while Jews [demandingly] ask for signs and miracles and Greeks pursue philosophy and wisdom [23] We preach Christ (the Messiah) crucified, [preaching which] to the Jews is a scandal and an offensive stumbling block [that springs a snare or trap], and to the Gentiles it is absurd and utterly unphilosophical nonsense. (Amplified Bible)
Colossians 2 [8] See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition (men’s ideas of the material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings] Christ (the Messiah). (Amplified Bible)
Nevertheless, America’s lawmakers like our founding fathers consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
Democracy is a Greek word that means, “rule by the people” and describes the democratic form of government that originated in Greece. While ancient Greece is recognized as the founder of democracy, Scripture reveals that a form of democracy existed even before Greece.
In Judges 21:25, we find, “In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes”. In other words, it was “rule by the people” – every man had complete freedom to do what was right in his eyes! Clearly, doing whatever seemed right in their own eyes was not meant to be a compliment.
This is how Americans are beginning to interpret their constitutional rights – the right to do what seems right in their own eyes. As a result, this is causing a lot of strife in America at the present time. Yet, what should our lawmakers expect when they pass laws “that seem right in their own eyes”, but not in the eyes of the LORD.
Kings and Kingdoms do not speak of “Democracy: Note that verse 25 reveals that each man did that which was right in his own eyes “because there was “no king”. Eventually, Yahweh gave the Israelites an earthly king (Saul), but it was never His highest for them. Scripture describes Yahweh and His Son as “Kings” whose desire is to set up their “Kingdoms” on earth. Yet, during the time of the Judges there was no king because they had rejected Yahweh as their king which was a foreshadowing of Israel’s rejection of Jesus Christ as their king. Notice too, God gave them a king – not a democracy. In other words, even an earthly monarchy that had its flaws was more desirable than a democracy.
King of Kings: Whether it be a democratic form of
government, theocracy, monarchy or other form of government, the real issue is
whether or not Jesus Christ is at the center of that government, because, after
all, the government rest on His shoulders.
That is the real issue with America’s democracy. They have not placed America’s government on
His shoulders. Instead, they have placed
their government on the shoulders of Greek philosophy that says you can worship
whatever God you choose. Like the Greek philosophers
in Acts 17 verses 16-34, America’s lawmakers believe in many gods. Because of that, America has placed itself in
a position to be judged!
America’s politicians have now come face-to-face with one of those many gods and those who will defend him to the death: the god of Islam (Allah) and his soldiers who will kill those Americans who come against Islam. America’s politicians have created their own warfare. It is America’s politicians who have declared war on Islam, yet now, these same politicians do not know what to do about this war without causing conflict on the home front.
Fear has become another
Weapon of War for the Enemy to use against Americans within our Borders: Americans invade other countries – and now
America is being invaded. With invasion
comes fear. Scripture reveals that God
did not give us a spirit of fear, but He can let a “spirit of fear” attack
America. I believe that is exactly what
has happened and why so many Americans today are being overwhelmed by
fear. As will be discussed in more
detail later, Pan, the god of fear and panic, is one of the principalities
behind this attack.
Fear is a weapon of the enemy that has now been
turned back upon Americans! It’s not
just the fear of terrorist attacks within America’s borders becoming more and
more of a reality – Fear itself is the
weapon! Whether there is another
terrorist attack or not – the fear of another attack is an attack in
itself.
Innocent civilians live in fear of Americans who
have invaded their country and justified the deaths of old people, children and
their parents for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Our soldiers are told that it is not what the
military wants to occur, but to keep in mind that it is to protect our country,
to secure peace and our boundaries.
At one time American’s did not live in fear. Yet today, security guards with weapons are
everywhere and life in America has gotten very complicated. Fear among our military and their families
have intensified since the attack at Fort Hood, a heavily fortified army
base. While they acknowledge the danger
for American soldiers on foreign soil, they now acknowledge the fear of being
attacked on American soil from within their own ranks. They even fear that their families can be
attacked by a terrorist.
The Invisible behind the
Visible: In many
wars, there are invisible soldiers, such as spies, moles, assassins, insurgents
and others. The goal of this soldier is
to be able to get into places that he would not be able to in uniform. This particular soldier does not appear to be
a soldier at all. His visual appearance
and demeanor is meant to put people at ease – to give the impression they can
trust him – that he is one of them. This
particular soldier is an actor and can adapt to different situations. The Salahis have the same profile of those
who are trained to infiltrate the ranks and gain access to a leader of a
nation.
While some only infiltrate within the lower ranks, many
others are able to find a weak link in a country’s security system that allows
them access to a nation’s leaders. The
weak link is often an individual who is willing to betray those he has taken an
oath to protect. Jeremiah 12:5-6 speaks
to this situation:
Jeremiah 12 [5] If thou hast run with the
footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?
and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they
wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? [6] For even thy brethren, and the house of thy
father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a
multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
Like
the prophet Jeremiah, President Obama and future presidents may find that they
will have greater trials and sufferings to face than the Salahi’s who breached
White House Security. If the White House
staff is “wringing their hands” because two of their own countrymen, who appear
to be non-threatening, breached White House Security, then what will they do
when one of their own countrymen, like Major Hasan who is much more threatening,
breaches White House security?
The Salahis are only “footmen” in the overall scheme
of things, while the “horsemen” are symbolic of those like Major Hasan that are
more dangerous than the Salahis (verse 5).
Even more threatening are the horsemen who are not citizens of America
and who in time will breach America’s borders.
When that happens, even Major Hasan will appear to have only been a
footman.
Tareq Salahi may be an American citizen, but as we have already
seen with Major Hasan, American citizenship does not undo or severe the
spiritual ties that bind someone to the spiritual beliefs of their ancestors,
even when those beliefs are contrary to American beliefs.
The
Spiritual behind the Earthly: Salahi
was not as harmless or clueless as he would have people to believe – especially
spiritually. Like, Hasan, he too has
ties to the Kingdom of Jordan. While
Hasan’s ties to Jordan are ancestral, Salahi’s ties to Jordan are both political
and personal.
Political
Ties: Until Tareq Salahi was
caught breaching White House Security, he was listed as one of the board of directors
of the American Task Force on Palestine. This organization supports the creation of a
Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. Moreover, they also actively try to persuade
the United States Government to believe that unless America supports the
concept of a Palestinian state based upon their ideology, then America cannot
accomplish their goals for peace and the spread of democracy in the Middle East.
Spiritual
Concessions: Whether America’s
politicians understand it or not, anyone who supports Jerusalem being divided
between the Jews and Arabs has joined Islam in their religious war against the
Israelites. American politicians who are
trying to convince and manipulate Israel’s government into believing that the
only way to achieve peace in the Middle East is to give the Arabs half of
Jerusalem – they too are encroaching upon land that God gave Israel.
Interestingly, the American Task Force on Palestine
based here in America has developed political ties with the Jordanian
government. They have a direct line of
communication with the Kingdom of Jordan and without a doubt, the spirit
operating through the Jordanians would have an influence on the board members
of the American Task Force on Palestine. Like the Jordanians and ancient Ammonites,
the goal of the American Task Force on Palestine is to encroach upon land that
God gave Israel, mainly the Old City of Jerusalem that they want as their
capital!
Personal
Ties: In addition to his
“diplomatic visits” to the Middle East, Salahi was in the process of arranging
a polo match between the Kingdom of Jordan and America’s Polo Cup, which Salahi
serves as Chairman. Interestingly,
Salahi’s wife told at least one acquaintance that Tareq Salahi was going to be
appointed as America’s Ambassador to Palestine, which of course is not
realistic given that America does not have an Ambassador to Palestine since
Palestine is not yet a nation.
However, the point is that Salahi is convinced both will come to
pass. Salahi’s mindset of what he is
convinced of and what he is able to convince others of is important to
understanding how the spirit of the Ammonites is able to work through Salahi
and others like him to accomplish its goals.
Encroach
also means “to influence through persuasion or manipulation”: In other words, being able to influence
someone to make a decision they would not otherwise make unless they were
manipulated or persuaded to do so is another manifestation of the Ammonite
spirit. In this case, the
person who has been manipulated has been encroached upon.
This is one of the devices that the Salahi’s relied on to breach
White House Security. The Salahi’s
ability to persuade the White House’s security personnel was part of Salahi’s
strategy to gain access to the White House.
The Salahi’s were allowed inside the White House, in violation of agency
guidelines and procedures, by an officer outside the front gate who was “persuaded
by the Salahi’s manner and insistence”.
This is the Ammonite spirit’s line of attack in trying to persuade
America’s politicians to believe they cannot accomplish their goals in the Middle
East unless they support and push for a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its
capital.
We already know that encroachment, meaning to trespass, is one of
the manifestations of the ancient Ammonite spirit. The ancient Ammonites and their offspring,
the modern day Jordanians, encroached upon land that the LORD gave the
Israelites. Salahi was not only
trespassing when he breached White House Security, he was “spiritually
encroaching” upon the White House.
Salahi’s attack was not as obvious as Hasan’s, but nonetheless, it
was just as dangerous. Like Hasan,
Salahi embraces Middle Eastern beliefs concerning America and Israel – they are
just expressed differently. Salahi’s
desire to be the “Ambassador to Palestine” holds more meaning than wanting
peace in the region. Like the Ammonites,
Salahi wants to encroach upon land that belongs to Israel.
Salahi
Encroached upon his Father’s Land: The
influence of this spirit in Salahi’s life is obvious in other area. Sadly, Salahi has even encroached upon his
own father’s land and he and his parents have ended up in court. According to his parents’ lawsuit concerning
their son, Tareq Salahi only holds a 5% minority interest in their vineyard,
the Oasis Vineyard in Hume, Virginia.
Yet, Tareq has been able to persuade many high-powered people that he is
the exclusive owner of his parent’s vineyard.
Obviously, his ability to manipulate and persuade others to believe
things that are not true is a way of life.
Moreover, other facts about his life are surfacing that are
manifestations of this spirit in operation – too many to list here.
The White House Encroachment: The Salahi security breach has caused “hand
wringing” within the White House and bewilderment among the guests who attended
the State Dinner that night. Once
thought to be the most secure place in America, the White House has been
breached! Now, the same fear that has
been created by America’s presence in other countries has now found its way
within the walls of the White House.
No man shall
have peace: If in times of peace they
have no peace, what will be their peace and security when war comes to America
and the enemy sweeps through America as they have already just begun to
do? (Jeremiah 12:5)
Duane Reasoner – A Soldier of
Allah
If anyone believes that Major Hasan is an isolated
case of a “Soldier of Allah” gone rogue, then consider his young friend, Duane
Reasoner, a recent convert to Islam, who joined Hasan for dinner the night
before Hasan attacked Ft. Hood.
When interviewed, Reasoner, an 18 year-old Muslim,
defended Hasan’s actions. Speaking with
a British reporter, Reasoner stated that he felt “no pity” for the victims of
the Fort Hood massacre. Like Hasan,
Reasoner supports aggressive jihad against America. This is evident from the picture posted on
his website [3]
that shows Osama bin Laden leading a terrorist attack against the White House
(see below picture). It’s obvious that “Ground Attacks” against our
government are on the minds of radical Muslims.
In other words, Major Hasan is not a Soldier of Allah gone rouge!
The Spiritual War behind
Jihad: Not everyone understands the spiritual
dimensions of war. Nevertheless,
Scripture reveals that both angels and demons, which by nature are spiritual
beings, are involved in one way or another with wars fought on earth. Both “holy angels” (Luke 9:26) and “fallen angels”
(Matthew 25:41) exist. While their tasks
are comprehensive, for the purposes at hand, the main focus will be on the fallen
angels and their influence upon man and the wars men engage in.
Let’s begin with Reasoner’s picture, which only portrays the earthly dimensions of jihad, the realm that is visible to everyone. However, there is a spiritual aspect to this picture that is not visible to everyone. Because spiritual beings are visible in their own realm (the heavens), spiritual being are invisible in the earthly realm – unless God opens our eyes to see them. For that reason, the influence of the demonic is not readily discerned, if discerned at all.
Nonetheless, those in the earthly realm are influenced by the demonic in the spiritual realm. Whether they are visible people or invisible spiritual beings, the LORD is in control of all things (Colossians 1:16). In these particular situations where spiritual beings influence people, the LORD deals with both the visible and invisible simultaneously.
For example, in the Garden of Eden, Satan (the invisible) used a serpent (the visible) to operate through when he deceived Eve (the visible). When the LORD rebuked Adam and Eve He also rebuked the serpent. What is interesting, is when the LORD rebuked the serpent, the main rebuke was directed at Satan (the invisible), who used the serpent to hide behind (Genesis 3:14-15). Likewise, as Jesus rebuked Peter (the visible), He also rebuked Satan (the invisible) with the main rebuke directed at Satan (Matthew 16:22-23).
Just as the LORD revealed to Adam, Eve and Peter the
identity of the spiritual being they could not see, He will reveal the identity
of the spiritual beings we cannot see. Spiritual
beings may be invisible in nature, but they are identifiable!
God is in control of the
Spiritual War in America:
The following Biblical accounts will help us understand why the
spiritual beings behind the spiritual war going on in America are identifiable
and why the people they are able to influence are also identifiable.
In any spiritual battle, the LORD determines the
timing, the place and the weapons of war with which spiritual beings
fight. He and He alone determines the
path they are to travel, whom they attack and whom they do not attack! They cannot attack at random! However, before exploring the identity of the
principalities that have brought their wrath to America, it is helpful to
examine several Biblical examples of how these spiritual beings actually
influenced someone during Biblical times as well as explore the Christian’s
role in these spiritual battles.
Principalities and
Demonic Influence over Nations and People
Genesis 3, Judges 11, 1 Kings 22:19-23, Daniel 10,
Revelation 13 and Matthew 16:23 as well as Jeremiah 49 all confirm that principalities
and the demonic have had a bearing on the ongoing affairs of both men and
nations, ever since the Garden of Eden when Satan enticed Eve to eat of the
forbidden tree. The account of King Ahab in 1
Kings 22 gives insight into the spirit realm that reveals that even though they
are invisible to the human eye, there are lying spirits that can and do
influence humans and the actions they take.
In this particular situation, Ahab was deciding whether or not to enter
into a war.
King Ahab is only one example of someone who was
influenced by a lying spirit to enter into a battle that the spirit knew would
lead Ahab to his death. The Lord will
allow a lying spirit to deceive those who won’t accept the truth. Because Ahab rejected the truth, the Lord put
a lying spirit in the mouths of the false prophets from which King Ahab took
counsel. Ahab is an Old Testament
example of those spoken of in 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 who, like Ahab, reject the
truth only to have God send a strong delusion that they should believe a lie. Just as demons led Ahab into battle and subsequent
defeat, they lead kings and nations to their destruction in present day battles
and battles yet to be fought, such as the battle at Armageddon.
The Battle of Armageddon is
the final spiritual battle to occur on earth between Jesus Christ and the
Antichrist before He establishes His Millennial Kingdom. Revelation 16:13-16 explains how Antichrist
and demonic will persuade the Kings of the earth to join forces with them in
their battle against Jesus Christ and the armies of Heaven, all in a vain
attempt to keep Jesus from establishing His Kingdom on earth at His second
coming. Revelation 19:11-21
Revelation 16 [14] For they are the spirits of
devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and
of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God
Almighty. [15] Behold, I come as a
thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he
walk naked, and they see his shame. [16] And he gathered them together into a
place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Obviously, Satan has to operate through God’s creations – he cannot operate or exercise authority without the cooperation and willingness of man, whether it is knowingly or unknowingly on man’s part. Sadly, there are probably many, who like Judas, covet money. For that reason, they leave themselves open to Satan’s influence who put it into the heart of Judas to betray the Son of God.
The New Testament also reveals the influence of
Satan in this world. While Colossians
1:16 speaks of the visible and invisible, whether they are thrones or dominions
or principalities or powers, Ephesians 2:2 reveals that Satan, the prince of
the power of the air, is the spirit that works in the children of disobedience
to bring about his purposes (as he did with Judas). Moreover, 2 Timothy 2:26 reveals that those
who oppose the Gospel are taken captive by Satan to do his will.
So it is with the Soldiers of
Allah: Satan, the
prince of the power of the air, has taken the Soldiers of Allah who oppose the
Gospel of Jesus Christ captive to do his will.
Christians and Spiritual
Warfare
Ephesians 6:12 reveals that the real war Christians
are engaged in is not against physical opponents, but against principalities,
powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world and against spiritual
wickedness in the heavenly realms. In
other words, the realm that is invisible to us.
We also know from Scripture that one aspect of this
warfare is to dislodge principalities from their strongholds in the
heavens. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer! (Isaiah 14:12) Like Satan, it is from the heavenly realm that
the principalities fall from as we engage in the spiritual warfare described in
Luke 10!
The original fall and the final casting down of
Satan is described in Isaiah 14:12-14.
Satan’s final fall will be at the end of the millennial reign of Christ
when he will be brought down to hell and cast into the lake of fire –
Revelation 20:10.
Until then – all throughout
the Church Age – Satan is ever falling! Even
though Satan has yet to be cast into the lake of fire, we find that Satan is
continuously falling from the heavens.
Every time a principality within Satan’s dominion (the kingdom of
darkness) is dislodged from the heavenly realm, Satan is weakened. He comes closer and closer to being cast into
the pit. It is in that sense that Satan
is continuously falling.
We know from 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 that Christians
have the authority to spiritually overthrow and destroy earthly strongholds of
our spiritual enemies. However, Luke 10
reveals that many Christians are called to pull down spiritual strongholds that
the devils have set up in the heavens.
We know that the devils in Luke 10 that submitted to
the 70 Jesus sent out were referring to those devils with strongholds in the
heavenly realm. When the 70 reported to
Jesus that even the devils submitted to them in His name, Jesus told them that
He saw Satan as lightning fall from heaven!
It Is Written: The spiritual weapon used to pull down these strongholds is the Word of God. The Word of God is the two-edged sword (Hebrews 4:12) of the Spirit (Ephesians 6:17) that we must wield over our spiritual enemies to overthrow and destroy their spiritual strongholds.
Like Jesus, we too must say to the principalities, powers, and rulers of the darkness of this world “It is Written”! (Luke 4)
As part of a Believer’s armor, we are to take the sword that the Spirit wields, which is the Word of God, and wield it over the enemy. For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power. His Word is sharper than any two-edged carnal sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life, the soul and the immortal spirit, and of joints and marrow, of the deepest parts of our nature, exposing, sifting, analyzing, and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart! Ephesians 6:17 and Hebrews 4:12 So it was with the 70 who reported to the Lord that even the devils were subject to them because of His name. They too wielded the Word of God over the devils!
Jesus Christ “IS” the Word of God! John
1, verses 1 and 14, reveals that the Word of God was made flesh. In other words, when the devils submitted to
the 70 because of the Name of Jesus, they were submitting to them because Jesus
Christ “IS” the Word of God. Revelation
19:13 also bears witness that Jesus’ Name is called The Word of God.
Revelation 19 [13] And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood:
and His name is called The Word of God.
Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name:
Luke 10 [17] And the seventy returned
again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us
through thy name. [18] And
He said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. [19] Behold, I give unto you power to
tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and
nothing shall by any means hurt you. (emphasis added)
Luke 10 is among those teachings that are important to the
advancement of God’s Kingdom and this particular chapter gives
us insight into a specific type of spiritual warfare, as spiritual warfare is
multifaceted. Taking note of their
victory, Jesus confirmed what they were saying.
Jesus said “I saw Satan fall as lightning from heaven”. He acknowledged that as the disciples gained
ground, the devil was losing ground. We
are to pull Satan’s kingdom down to the ground and this specific type of
spiritual warfare brings Satan’s kingdom to the ground.
The word “beheld” in the context of verse 18 means to look upon or gaze at. It can mean to call ones attention to, to be discerning, to comprehend a matter. With that in mind, Jesus gave them an understanding of the dynamics of the warfare in the heavens and explained to them the authority He had given them in that realm.
In His discourse, Jesus begins the dialogue by looking into the heavens and draws His disciple’s attention to the heavenly realm as well. While He had their attention focused on the heavenly realm, it was in this spiritual posture that Jesus said to them “Behold”, meaning to consider the authority over the devils and “all the power of the enemy” over which He had given them. He also went on to explain the principles of this type of warfare in the heavens – the realm where Satan and devils dwell and only one of the areas where the Christian’s battle is.
Notice that it was only those that Jesus appointed that were sent two-by-two ahead of Him to every town and place where He was about to go (verse 1). In other words, not everyone was appointed for this particular calling. This also means that not everyone understands those of us who are called to this particular ministry.
In fact, Jesus rejoiced in spirit and thanked the Father
that these things were not revealed to everyone (verse 21). In verse 23-24 we find that Jesus said
privately to His disciples that “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that
ye see: For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those
things which ye see and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye
hear, and have not heard them”.
Even though there are those who will never understand this type of warfare, let alone even realize that it exists, blessed are those that have been appointed and who do understand what God has called them to. What is important is that because of those who are called by God to this type of ministry, Satan’s kingdom suffers defeat. Those of who are called to this ministry understand that principle.
Even more so, we rejoice not that the devils submit to us –
we rejoice that our names are written in Heaven (verse 20)! Moreover, we understand that if devils are
subject to us in the Name of Jesus, then what can stand against us and
prevail? Not even the Gates of Hell!
All
throughout the Church Age – Satan is ever falling!
While Luke 10 speaks of strongholds in the heavens,
we know that authority has been given to the Church to pull down those demonic
strongholds that have been established on earth as well. Every time a principality is dislodged, every time
the Church casts out a demon from someone who is bound up and every time an
unbeliever’s soul is rescued from the demonic and comes into the Kingdom, Satan
is being driven out (John 12:31) and comes closer to being cast into the pit!
Every time a Christian takes authority over Satan,
he continues to fall. All throughout the
Church Age, Satan is ever falling! When
every Satanic power and Satan himself has completely fallen and made
inoperative, in other words, fallen under the feet of Jesus, then The End Cometh! 1 Corinthians 15:24-28
Interestingly, Jesus compared Satan’s fall to
lightening, which is quick, dazzling and destructive. Moreover, Revelation 12 reveals why they are
destructive. When a principality is
dislodged from the heavens, they bring “great wrath” to the earth, meaning that
they will slaughter for any purpose because they know their time is short.
The Ammonite Principality Brought
It’s Wrath to Earth! It was the
wrath of the Ammonite principality that was dislodged from the heavens over
Jerusalem on October 17, 2009 that manifested through Major Hasan, a descendant
of the ancient Ammonites, who slaughtered 13 people at Ft. Hood.
Jordanians are Modern Day
Ammonites. Jordanians
rightfully claim to be the descendants of the ancient Ammonites. During Biblical times the city of
Rabbath-Ammon was the Capital of the Ammonites.
Known today as Amman, Rabbath-Ammon remains the Capital of the
descendants of the Ammonites – the Jordanians.
Like his father, who emigrated from Jordan to
America, Hasan’s bloodline is that of a Jordanian and the ancient
Ammonites. His bloodline determines his
lineage, not his American citizenship! Hasan
may be an American citizen, but American citizenship did not change his family
background. Nor did his American
citizenship undo or cancel out his inherited ties to his ancestors, the
Ammonites. Like his father and
grandfather, Major Hasan is still an Arab with ties to Jordan and their ancient
ancestors.
Nor did Hasan’s American citizenship change his
religious beliefs. Like many Jordanians,
Major Hasan is a true Soldier of Allah who believes in jihad! Jeremiah 48:32 speaks to this situation:
Jeremiah 48 [32] O
vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer; thy plants are
gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer; the spoiler is fallen
upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage
Jeremiah was using a symbolic narrative to convey a
spiritual meaning. The vines speak of
spiritual vines that spread from one country to another only to bring
destruction to the country to which they spread. As it relates to America, the vines represent
the spiritual vines of Islam and its influence of jihad that have spread from
the Arab nations over the sea and are now spreading throughout America.
In other words, the influence of Islam and jihad has
reached America and the Soldiers of Allah are spoiling our vineyard here in
America. The vines can be thought of in
terms of poison ivy. Those who are
allergic to poison ivy know the poisonous effects of coming into contact with
this vine!
These “spiritual vines” spiritually connect our nation’s
Capitol with the headwaters of the Jordan River located at Caesarea Philippi
(explained in more detail later), one of the two places the Lord sent me to
speak prophetically on the land October 17, 2009. Surprisingly, along with Israel, Jordan
shares the water rights to the Jordan River, a river that the LORD gave to
Israel.
Also surprisingly, Jordan shares joint authority
with Israel at the Temple Mount, land that the LORD gave Israel. This joint authority is a key detail to
understanding why the principalities dislodged from the heavens on October 17,
2009 were from within the dominion of the gods of the ancient Ammonites, modern
day Jordanians, and why that affects America.
Let’s begin with the Temple Mount located in Jerusalem’s Old City.
The Jordanians have
encroached upon the Old City of Jerusalem!
The Western Wall in Jerusalem: The Lord had given me the understanding to
speak prophetically at the Western Wall in Jerusalem and at the headwaters of
the Jordan River located at Caesarea Philippi on Saturday, October 17,
2009. From the Scriptures that the Lord
quickened me to read on the land, He gave me the understanding that He was not
building up but tearing down, which meant that a principality would come down
and bring its wrath to earth (Revelation 12).
This wrath will be manifested in more than one way, including the
eventual fall of Jerusalem’s Western Wall.
However, for the purposes at hand, I want to speak about the
principality that came down and manifested through Major Hasan at Fort Hood on
November 5, 2009 (November 6, 2009 in Jerusalem) and what that means to America
as well as the principality that manifested through the Salahi’s and what that
means to America.
From the Scriptures that the LORD gave to me to read
on the land, the Lord gave me the understanding that He would not allow the scepter
or rod of wickedness to remain on the land allotted to Israel (Psalm
125:3). This means that the Jordanians
who rule over the Temple Mount will not always be allowed to persecute the Israelites
or to have a permanent rule over the Temple Mount. The rod of the Jordanian government may come
and reside for a time, but they shall not be permitted to wield their rod over
the Temple Mount forever.
After the Six Day War, Israel regained control of
Jerusalem from Jordan. However, much to
the surprise of the Jewish people who had waited for so long to see that day,
Moshe Dayan, Israel’s Defense Minister, permitted the Jordanian government to
continue their civil and religious authority on the Temple Mount. The “Waqf”, a Muslim religious organization
under the authority of Jordan, continues to oversee the day-to-day activity on
the Temple Mount.
When Moshe Dayan allowed the Jordanians to remain as
overseers of the Temple Mount, he allowed their gods to remain as overseers as
well. Instead of destroying the Dome of
the Rock, considered by Muslims to be one of the three holiest sites of Islam,
Moshe Dayan allowed it to remain standing within the walls of the Temple Mount
on land God allotted to the Israelites. Consequently,
the Jordanians and their gods are a constant thorn in Israel’s side.
Moshe Dayan’s compromise did not ensure the peace
for Israel for which he had hoped.
Instead, the atmosphere at the Temple Mount between the Muslims and the
Jewish people has been and is quite volatile.
Spiritually, Islam’s Soldiers of Allah and the
spiritual beings, the ancient gods of the Ammonites operating through them, are
the ones wielding the “rod of wickedness” over areas God allotted to Israel. This includes not just the Temple Mount, but
the Jordan River as well, and they will remain a constant threat to Israel
until their rule comes to an end!
The Ancient gods of Jordan’s ancestors, the Ammonites: Then and Now
The spiritual truths of Israel’s past as revealed in Scripture are relevant to current and future events in Israel. To understand the current circumstances concerning Jerusalem’s Old City and the Jordan River, we need only to turn to Scripture. For example, Jeremiah 49:1-3 reveals that Milcom, the national god of the Ammonites, and his people, the Ammonites, became heir to land that did not belong to them. Rather, they encroached upon land that belonged to Israel.
Just as Ecclesiastes 1:8-9 reveals that there is nothing new under the sun, what has been will be again, we should not be surprised to find that the Jordanians, like their ancient ancestors the Ammonites, have also encroached upon land God gave Israel! According to the prophet Jeremiah:
Jeremiah 49 [1] Concerning the Ammonites,
thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth
their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? [2] Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the
Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned
with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the
LORD. [3] Howl, O Heshbon,
for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth;
lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes
together. (emphasis added)
Jeremiah 49:1-3 reveals that deities, their priests and princes can “inherit” land, which indicates that the geographical principalities as described in Daniel 10 can invade and occupy areas outside of their legal geographical arena. That is what we see happening in Israel today. These geographical principalities, a hierarchy of other spiritual beings that exist in an invisible realm and their priests and princes, along with the Soldiers of Allah who serve them and who we see in the visible realm, have become heirs to Jerusalem’s Old City and Jordan River. Let’s begin with Jerusalem.
Background of Jordan’s
Authority in Jerusalem’s Old City:
The Arab-Israeli War of 1948
·
From 1948 through 1967, Jordan occupied the West
Bank and East Jerusalem, including Jerusalem’s Old City
The Six-Day War of 1967
·
Jordan joined forces with Egypt and Syria and
attacked Israel in June, 1967. It was at
this time that Israel dislodged the Jordanians out of the West Bank and East
Jerusalem and regained control over these areas.
·
After the war ended, Moshe Dayan, Israel’s Defense
Minister, permitted the Jordanian government to continue their civil and
religious authority over the Temple Mount, thereby allowing Jordan to become
“heir” to land that belonged to Israel.
·
The “Waqf”, a Muslim organization under the
authority of Jordan, oversees the day-to-day activity on the Temple Mount.
·
Jordanian authority is not to be taken lightly. For example,
o The
Waqf prevents Israelis from making much-needed repairs to the Western Wall.
o The
Waqf continues to undermine the Israeli archaeologist by removing tons of
gravel from the Temple Mount site that could contain stones that would
substantiate Israel’s claim that that Temple Mount is indeed where Solomon’s
built the Temple to the Lord.
·
Moshe Dayan’s gesture of respect for the religious
rights of the Muslims who had established holy sites within the Temple Mount area equates with America’s
beliefs of religious freedom.
Today (2009) – as quoted from The Washington Post on November 17, 2009 (“To two faiths, a holy patch of land; to the world, a powder keg”[4]) and referring to Jordan’s authority on the Temple Mount:
· “… Under Muslim administration since the Crusades, the compound – a largely open-air plaza that includes the al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock – is under Jordanian authority, an arrangement that Israel agreed to maintain after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and the creation of the Palestinian Authority in the 1990s.” (emphasis added)
· The article continues: “The oversight from Amman, whose ruling Hashemite family is also the formal custodian of the preeminent mosques in Mecca and Medina, reflects how any agreement over Jerusalem will have to go beyond the bounds of what the Palestinians on their own can negotiate.” (emphasis added)
(Note: Amman is the Capital of Jordan and is so named after their Biblical ancestors – the Ammonites).
· “… The Jordanian ministry employs 500 people who staff the Jerusalem compound”
· “…It was nevertheless a close call said Mohammed Tamimi, director of the Jerusalem Waqf, the agency that oversees the compound on Jordan’s behalf.” [speaking of the tense period from late Yom Kippur through late October 2009 that passed with only minor violence]
Given the volatile mood of the
Temple Mount, to keep peace the Israeli government will not take a stand
against the Waqf’s activities. For that
reason, even as of 2009, the Jordanian government remains a thorn in Israel’s
side
Jordan has become Illegal Heirs to Jerusalem’s Old City
What! Were there no Israelites living in Jerusalem that Moshe Dayan, Israel’s Defense Minister, permitted the Jordanian Government to continue its civil and religious authority on the Temple Mount even after Israel regained control of the “Old City” from the Jordanians in the Six Day War of 1967? Again, the spiritual truths of Israel’s past as revealed in Scripture are relevant to current and future events in Israel.
Just as the ancient Ammonites and their gods encroached upon territory that belonged to Israel, the Jordanians, descendants of the Ammonites, and Soldiers of their god Allah have encroached upon territory that belongs to Israel and have become heir to Jerusalem’s Old City. The same spirit that influenced the Biblical Ammonites still influence their descendants – the Jordanians.
The name of the people and their gods has changed. The descendants of the Ammonites are now called Jordanians and Allah has been added to the national gods of the Ammonites. But, there is nothing new under the sun. The goal of both the people and their gods remain the same: they want land that God gave Israel.
As a result of war, the Jordanian government gained authority over the Temple Mount in 1948. Even though Israel regained control of the Old City of Jerusalem in the Six Day War of 1967, the Jordanian government became “heir” to the Temple Mount. As mentioned above, Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, to keep the peace and in a gesture of respect for the rights of the Muslims who worshipped at the Dome of the Rock located inside the Old City, allowed the Jordanian government to maintain administrative and religious authority in the Old City of Jerusalem. They have been a thorn in Israel’s side ever since.
Also key to understanding the spiritual influence behind Jordan’s desire to have authority over the Temple Mount and Jordan River, land that God gave to Israel, is Judges 11; and Zephaniah 2:8. Judges 11:12-17 provides further understanding into the spiritual mindset of the Jordanians whose ancestors, the Ammonites, waged war with Israel over land.
Jephthah rightly insisted that the God of Israel had given the land in dispute to them. yet the Ammonites insisted that the land belonged to them (just as the Jordanians claim today). Interestingly, Jephthah encouraged the Ammonites to be content with the land their god, Chemosh, had given to them and leave the land alone that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had given to the Israelites. When the Ammonites refused to listen, Jephthah informed them that the Lord would judge between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon as to whom the land belongs.
Judges 11 [24] Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess. [27] Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
Scripture reveals that at times God’s people, for various reasons, will lose possession of land that He gave them, as was the case with the Ammonites and their pagan deity who did eventually take possession of the territory that Jephthah had secured. However, Jeremiah 49:1-3 reveals that pagan possession is temporary at best as God will always enable His people to repossess land that He gave them.
We know that when God judged a nation, He also judged their pagan gods. For example, He judged Milcom and Chemosh when he judged the Ammonites and when He judged Egypt, He also judged the gods of Egypt (Exodus 12:12). He and He alone is the one who judges not the other way around.
Without a doubt, as the Lord deals with Jordan, He too will deal with the gods of Jordan operating behind the Soldiers of Allah. Just as the ancient Ammonites mocked God’s people and magnified themselves against the borders of Israel, their descendants, the Jordanians, act as though they have the right to the Temple Mount for their people to worship their pagans gods at the high places the Muslims built unto Allah.
Zephaniah 2 [8] I have heard the reproach of
Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached
My people, and magnified themselves against their border.
Just as the ancient Ammonites taunted the Israelites,
their descendants, the Jordanians, have desecrated and taunted the Israelites
during their control over the Temple Mount.
Before the Six Day War when the Israelites were denied access into the
Old City of Jerusalem, the Jordanians would taunt the Israelites by doing such
things as taking the tombstones off the gravesites of Jews and use them in
their latrines.
Jordan has also become an Illegal Heir to Israel’s Jordan River
What! Jordan has become heirs to
Israel’s Jordan River?
What! Were there no Israelites living in Jerusalem that the nation of Israel agreed to share the water rights of the Jordan River with country of Jordan?
What!
Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir?
Why then do the Ammonite gods of Jordan trespass upon the Jordan River,
The Rightful Possession of Israel,
And why do Allah’s people, the Soldiers of Allah, dwell in its cities?
Conflicts over the Jordan River date back to
Biblical times. However, Scripture is clear,
the Lord gave “all” the water rights of the Jordan River to Israel!
Judges 7 [24] And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim,
saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto
Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together,
and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan.
The Jordan River forms the western boundary between
Jordan and Israel’s West Bank. The
Jordan River also plays a main role in historical disagreements between Israel
and Jordan, both who claim historical rights to the Jordan River, including a
disagreement that was a contributing factor leading up to the Six Day War in
1967.
On the last day of the Six Day War, Israel took authority over the headwaters at Caesarea Philippi where the Syrians had established a fort and were in the process of diverting the headwaters located there to flow through Arab nations. This would have robbed Israel of a portion of their much-needed water supply.
However, even after their victory in regaining control of Jordan’s headwaters, just as Israel relinquished their authority to Jordan to oversee the Temple Mount, they compromised and agreed to share their water rights with Jordan. Again, this has been a constant thorn in Israel’s side!
The Headwaters at Caesarea
Philippi and its Pagan Temple are “Spiritually” Tied to America’s Gateways
& the U.S. Capitol’s Grotto
In order to understand the
spiritual ties between Caesarea Philippi and America we need to have some
degree of understanding of the history of ancient languages
and spiritual gateways. Let’s begin with
the etymology of “Daleth”.
The etymology of
the Egyptian hieroglyphic of a fish, the Phoenician daleth,
the Hebrew daleth and the Greek delta are keys to understanding
why the occult and Freemasons use triangle and fish symbols to identify
spiritual gateways. Even though Egyptian
hieroglyphics were never an alphabet in the true sense, nonetheless, the Semitic
people of Phoenicia, who created the first known true alphabet, were influenced
by Egypt’s use of pictures to communicate.
Over time, the use of pictures evolved into the letters of the
alphabet. Those who understand the
significance of the etymology of words and images realize that the root meaning
is still relevant – especially for those operating in secrecy. It is in that sense that the root meanings
are relevant for those of us who expose what the unrighteous do in secret.
It is well known that organizations who operate in secrecy, like
the occult and Freemasons, are heavily influenced by all aspects of ancient
civilizations, especially their beliefs about their relationship to the
spiritual realm. For that reason, they
are known to use symbols and letters to convey one message to those who are
like-minded and who, like themselves, understand the etymology of words or
images, while hiding the true meaning from the general public. As a result, they are able to continue to
operate in secrecy.
Therefore, let’s look at the etymology of the fish and triangle,
two symbols whose root meanings are vital to the Freemasons and the occult who
both believe that the triangle is symbolic of the spiritual. The chart below shows the
etymology of the letter/symbol, “daleth”, from its earliest usage.
The Semitic alphabet used pictures to convey ideas. For example, the earliest known Semitic
symbol of a fish literally meant “door” or more specifically a “tent
door”. Interestingly, the Semitic people
of Phoenicia incorporated a triangle into their symbol of a fish; it was the
tent shape of the triangle that was meant to be symbolic of a door or
gateway. This particular shape became
known as daleth.
Over time, the diamond shape of the fish was eliminated and only
the triangular shaped tail remained – pointing in the opposite direction. This particular shape was the fourth letter
of the Phoenician alphabet and was also known as daleth. Even though the shape evolved, the idea
behind the letter daleth remained and daleth continued to be equivalent to a
door.
Interestingly, daleth was adopted by the Hebrews for the
fourth letter of their alphabet and like the Phoenician daleth, the
Hebrew daleth also meant door. To
the Greeks, who adopted daleth as the fourth letter of their alphabet, daleth
was written
in the form of a triangle and was renamed “delta”. Like the Phoenician and Hebrew daleth,
the Greek delta means door.
Obviously, not everyone used daleth in the same way that
the pagans did as not everyone bowed down to pagan deities. Many used daleth or delta for
secular purposes. However, it is the meaning of daleth
that the pagans corrupted for their purposes to identify their spiritual
gateways that I want to address.
According to The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible [5] as well as other
sources, the original meaning of daleth was probably dag – the
Hebrew word for fish. In other words,
because daleth was originally based on the pictogram of a fish, the
representation of both the triangle and a fish can be used interchangeably to
convey the idea of a door. This same
concept was embraced by America’s Founding Fathers when laying the foundations
of our Nation’s Capitol.
The Egyptians believed in orientating their temples to the stars;
likewise, those who were responsible for designing the layout of our nation’s
Capital ensured that Washington, D.C. was laid out in accordance with those
same pagan beliefs. The particular star
in relationship to the layout of Washington, D.C. is “Sirius” – and interestingly,
but not surprisingly, the Egyptian hieroglyphic for Sirius includes the triangular
obelisk. The other two hieroglyphics alongside the
obelisk are a dome and a five-pointed star, both of which are incorporated into
the structure and artwork of our Nation’s Capitol building. Once again, the ideology and symbolism were
to show the relationship between the spiritual and the natural.
Spiritual Gateways in Washington, DC
It is well known that America’s Founding Fathers, as well as those
who later implemented their plans and beliefs, used artwork and architectural
symbolism to spiritually link our nation’s capital to civilizations of
antiquity. Therefore, it is not
surprising to find numerous triangles located throughout the city of Washington,
DC. An example of this is the Federal
Triangle, which is located between the White House and the Capitol and includes
approximately 70 acres. These triangles
identify the numerous spiritual doors or gateways throughout our Nation’s
Capital through which the demonic and principalities operate.
Earlier maps of D.C. also clearly portray the Capitol, White
House, Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials as well as the Washington Mall all
strategically enclosed within the outline of a huge fish, as shown in the annotated
aerial photographs below of Washington, D.C. [6]
America’s
Foremost Political “Demonic Spiritual Gateway”
The above fish identifies the foremost political “demonic
spiritual gateway” in America. This and
other symbolism located throughout Washington, DC spiritually connects our
nation’s Capital to various ancient civilizations and their demonic gateways,
for example, ancient Nineveh (see the article entitled: The Symbolism of Washington, DC (the Anatomy of a
Fish excerpt)).
Just as our nation’s capital is represented by the image of a fish
inside the enclosure of a city, biblical Nineveh was also represented by the
picture of a fish inside the enclosure of a city. According to The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopedia, “The name of Nineveh
is written Ninua and Nina in the cuneiform inscriptions. A popular etymology connected it with the
Assyrian nunu, ‘fish,’ at a very
early date, since the name is ideographically represented by the picture of a
fish inside the enclosure of a city.” [7]
The
World’s Foremost “Demonic Spiritual Gateway”:
The Gates of Hell
America’s foremost political demonic spiritual gateway is also
spiritually connected to the world’s foremost demonic spiritual gateway located
in Israel at ancient Caesarea Philippi: The
Gates of Hell.
Caesarea Philippi was originally called Paneas in honor of the
Greek god Pan who was a goat deity. As
shown in the above map, the Capitol of the United States is positioned inside
the topography of a goat’s head (the goat’s head is located inside the tail of
the fish – see the enlarged annotated image below) that sits atop a
geographical triangle that is truncated (blue outline surrounding the Federal
Triangle in red). This particular
triangle is one of several triangles incorporated within the layout of the
fish. Again, both the triangle and fish
are symbolic of spiritual gateways and the triangles within the fish are
symbolic of gateways within the gateway.
The goats’ head outline of the U.S. Capitol and the grotto located on
the Capitol grounds link America’s Capitol to Pan, the goat deity and his
grotto in Caesarea Philippi.
Pan:
the god of fear: In addition to his other
attributes, Pan is also known as the god of fear and was known to instill
sudden fear, especially in lonely places or on the battlefield. This is where we get our modern-day English
word, panic. The current manifestations
of this fear, especially that fueled by our government, are discussed in more
detail in later sections.
The
Satyrs Shall Dance There: It seems that Pan
is none other than the Satyrs (goat deity) spoken of in Isaiah 13:21 and Isaiah
34:14:
Isaiah 13 [21] But wild beasts of the desert
shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls
shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. (emphasis
added)
The “devil” spoken of in 2 Chronicles 11:15 is
referring to a “devil” or “goat-demon”.
A devil in the context of this Scripture is in reference to an idol in
the form of a goat. This goat-demon or
satyr was known as Pan at Caesarea Philippi.
Gateway of Hell
Matthew 16 [13] When Jesus
came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples,
saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? [14] And they said, Some say that thou
art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the
prophets. [15] He saith unto
them, But whom say ye that I am? [16]
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the
living God. [17] And Jesus
answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and
blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. [18] And I say also unto thee, That
thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of
hell shall not prevail against it. [19]
And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever
thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt
loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. (emphasis added)
“And
the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail”
Caesarea Philippi was an area that Christ had not been to before
and His journey to Caesarea Philippi, a prominent pagan high place, marked the northern limit of Jesus’ travels outside
Jerusalem. Given that travel
would not have been easy due to the topography of the land, why would Jesus
journey to this particular pagan high place to make such a profound statement
as recorded in Matthew 16:13-19 rather than at the Temple in
Jerusalem?
To begin with, the name Caesarea Philippi was synonymous with the
gates of hell. According to ancient
history, the pagans of antiquity believed the gates of hell were literally
located at Caesarea Philippi. It was
here that Jesus fearlessly stood at the gateway of hell and spoke a creative
word into the spiritual realm (Ephesians 3:10).
He declared to Satan, the father of lies, and to the kingdom of darkness
that like Peter, all of God’s children, not just the prophets, would have the
ability to hear from God the Father. It
is upon our ability to hear that He will build His church – and that the gates
of hell will not prevail against it.
The
Gates of Hell were Located within a Geographical Triangle
Given that spiritual gateways are identified by spiritual
triangles, we should not be surprised that the gates of hell were located in a
city “nestling amid three valleys on a terrace in the angle of Hermon” [8]. Nor should we be surprised that Mount Hermon
itself was a mountain range with three summits situated like the angles of a
triangle. Given the spiritual symbolism
of truncated triangles, it is also significant that one of these three summits
is described as truncated. (For further
information, see the article titled: Spiritual Triangles)
Nor should we be surprised that it was here that Jesus asked His
disciples who they thought He was and after Peter responded that He was the Son
of God that Jesus said unto Peter: “That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I
will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it.”
The Gates of Hell and the U.S. Capitol
There is an interesting spiritual connection between the Gates of
Hell in Caesarea Philippi and the U.S. Capitol.
It is common knowledge, especially among occultists, that the landscape
design and layout of the U.S. Capitol grounds appears as the outline of a
goat’s head when viewed from a vertical or aerial perspective (below is a copy
of the original 1874 drawing for Capitol landscape improvements [9] showing the
goat’s head). As noted above, Caesarea
Philippi was originally named Paneas in honor of the goat deity, Pan. Thus, both Caesarea Philippi and the U.S.
Capitol have a “goat theme” in common.
While this goat connection might be dismissed in of itself, the
Summer House cannot be. Located on the
grounds on the west side of the Capitol is a small brick structure called the
Summer House. In addition to the goat’s
head, the Summer House was part of the Capitol’s landscape design of Frederick
L. Olmstead, the Capitol’s original landscape architect, in 1874. It is an open-air hexagon-shaped
(geometrically composed of six equilateral triangles – the number of man)
structure designed as a grotto with iron gates at the entrance.
Of particular interest is a fountain inside the structure that was
originally designed to incorporate a device with a set of chimes, sometimes
referred to as a carillon, to produce a “melody” (not a song) from the falling
waters. In a straight line behind the
gates and fountain and viewable through an oval opening or window in the far
wall is a grotto with a stream of water coming from this small cave (see
picture below).
The fountain of water at the Capitol Grotto is symbolic of the
headwaters of the Jordan River – the “Banias Springs” situated at the base of
Pan’s grotto.
Comparing the Summer House on the Capitol grounds to Caesarea
Philippi, we find that Caesarea Philippi was located in one of the angles of triangular-shaped
Mount Hermon. Caesarea Philippi and
Mount Hermon were where the goat-deity, Pan, had a grotto or cave with a stream
flowing from it, just as found in the Summer House. Pan is often depicted as playing a set of
pipes. According to mythology, Pan
invented a musical instrument composed of unequal reeds plucked from a stream
that produced a “plaintive melody” to woo the nymph, Syrinx and named the
instrument after her. This is analogous
to the original intent of the carillon of the Summer House. The spiritual gates (Gates of Hell) of
Caesarea Philippi, of course, correspond to the physical iron gates of the
Summer House (see the below picture of the Summer House gates).
According to Bulfinch’s Mythology, “Pan, the god of woods and
fields, of flocks and shepherds, dwelt in grottos, wandered on the mountains
and in valleys, and … came to be considered a symbol of the universe and
personification of Nature.” [10] Pan’s woodland character and personification
of nature fit nicely with Olmstead’s landscaping plans for surrounding the
Summer House with many different types of plants, especially ivy, which he
planted around the Summer House to “merge it with its surroundings”, thus
making it part of nature.
Again, the ivy is also symbolic of a spiritual cord as alluded to
by Jeremiah:
Jeremiah 48 [32] O
vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer; thy plants are
gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer; the spoiler is fallen
upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
Jeremiah was describing the physical spread of vines, but this is
also symbolic of the spiritual spread of vines, in this case, across the sea to
the ivy vines surrounding the Summer House, connecting the Summer House with
Caesarea Philippi. When taken as a
whole, the connections between the Gates of Hell at Caesarea Philippi and the
U.S. Capitol and its Summer House are unmistakable.
Jeremiah was
using a fictitious narrative to convey a spiritual meaning. The vines speak of spiritual vines that spread
from one country to another only to bring destruction to the country to which they
spread. As it relates to America in the
context of this study – the vines represent the spiritual vines of Islam and
its influence of jihad that have spread from the Arab nations over the sea and
are now spreading throughout America. In
other words the influence of Islam and jihad has reached America and the Soldiers
of Allah are spoiling our vineyard here in America.
The spiritual vine also represents the spread of fear
over America. Starting in Caesarea
Philippi with Pan, the god of fear and panic, this vine first reached
Washington, DC and New York City. Fear
and panic have since spread to the rest of the nation, which, of course, is one
of the primary goals of both terrorism and this principality. Below is a picture of Pan’s cave and Banias
Springs (forefront) in ancient Caesarea Philippi. Pan’s temple was located directly in front of
this cave.
Connecting
the (Spiritual) Dots
President Obama, referring to the attempted
Christmas Day (2009) terrorist attack,
stated that America’s intelligence and law enforcement communities
failed to “connect the dots” by not properly sharing information between
agencies. Because not all authorities
had the same information, this allowed known and suspected terrorists to escape
detection. Without complete information,
there was no way for the various groups responsible to connect the dots,
meaning to draw logical conclusions.
We also need to connect the dots spiritually to gain
a proper understanding of past and recent events. As will be shown below, there is a spiritual
link between the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and recent events
involving Major Hasan and the Salahi’s breach of White House security.
When we connect these spiritual dots, we find the
spiritual paths or lines along which judgment has occurred or will occur. One of the specific paths we are witnessing
today is a pathway of revenge: seventy-seven (77). This pathway goes all the way back to George
Washington and establishes what has come to be known as longitude 77 degrees as
the spiritual path of judgment.
Spiritual Paths of Judgment
Principalities from within the dominion of the
Ammonite gods have been dislodged from the heavens and Revelation 12 reveals
that when a principality comes down to the earth, they bring their wrath! Even so, principalities cannot attack at
random; they can only travel and attack on the “straight path” that the Lord
makes for them.
Psalm 78 [49] He
let loose upon them the fierceness of His anger, His wrath and indignation and
distress, by sending [a mission of] angels
of calamity and woe among them. [50]
He leveled and made a straight path
for His anger [to give it free
course]; He did not spare [the Egyptian
families] from death but gave their beast over to the pestilence and the life
[of their eldest] over to the plague.
(Amplified Bible, emphasis added)
The straight path traveled upon can be thought of in
terms of a “spiritual path” and the “angels of calamity” (referred to as “evil
angels” in the King James Version) can only travel on these spiritual
paths.
It was not unusual for Jesus or Paul to take an
example from everyday life to convey a spiritual concept. Therefore, for the sake of explanation let me
use the concept of a smart missile and a guided missile as examples to explain
a spiritual concept as it relates to a principality that has been dislodged. Both travel through the air, both bring wrath
to earth upon impact and both have been pre-programmed.
A smart missile is pre-programmed – they do not
attack at random. A smart missile is
called “smart” because they have built-in seeking systems that let them home in
on a target. They also rely on sensors
from their home base, which enables the people at the home base to instruct the
missile to return to its home base or it can be disarmed during flight. In the same way, guided missiles are directed
or guided in flight toward a target either by a human who uses a remote control
or by internal mechanisms.
In a similar fashion, God not only determines when
an evil angel is to be dislodged, He also has pre-programmed the evil angels to
travel only on paths and hit targets pre-determined by Him. They cannot attack at random. The “straight paths” that evil angels travel
on can be compared to the path that a missile is programmed to follow through
the air. Just as a missile launched from
one country travels through the air to hit its target within another country, a
principality that has been dislodged over one geographical area travels through
the air until it reaches its target in another geographical area. However, this does not mean that we won’t see
an outworking of a dislodged principality over the very geographical area from
which they were dislodged. Again, the
path evil angels travel on is pre-determined by the LORD.
If the attacks of principalities are not random,
then the manifestation of the principalities that were dislodged from the
heavens over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and Caesarea Philippi will manifest in a
way that will clearly show a correlation between the spiritual path that these
principalities travelled after being dislodged and a correlation with their
targets here in America. In other words,
the paths and targets of the Ammonite principalities will in some way have
something in common with the Jordanians, their gods of Islam and the Soldiers
of Allah who serve them. Likewise, the
principalities of Caesarea Philippi will have something in common with the
attributes of Pan, especially fear, all travelling along a specific path. All of these wield the rod of wickedness over
the specific geographical area from where the principalities were
dislodged: the Old City of Jerusalem,
the Jordan River and especially, Caesarea Philippi.
Take for example, the attack at Ft. Hood and the
so-called “minor” breach of security at the White House. Both were located on the spiritual path that
the Lord allowed the enemy to travel on after being dislodged in Israel and
both Major Hasan and Tareq Salahi have ancestral ties in one way or another to
either Jerusalem or Jordan. Both Hasan
and Salahi are connected to longitude 77 degrees, which is significant as this
was one of the straight paths on which the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack
traveled.
Personal Revenge – The
Spiritual Significance of 77
Spiritually, the number seventy-seven
(77) can represent one of two opposing concepts: forgiveness or revenge. As Christians, we often think of “personal
forgiveness” when we hear the number seventy-seven. When Jesus was asked by Peter how many times
he was to forgive his brother when he sinned against him, Jesus told him
seventy-seven times, meaning that we are to keep on forgiving our brother
regardless of how many times they sin against us (Matthew 18:21-22).
On the other hand, seventy-seven also speaks
of “personal revenge”. Lamech, a
descendent of Cain, told his wives that he had killed a young man as revenge
for wounding him. Lamech declared that
if his ancestor Cain was avenged seven times (this was God’s promise to Cain –
see Genesis 4:15), that he would be avenged seventy-seven times, again, an
indefinite number (this was not God’s promise to Lamech – this was Lamech’s own
vow). (Genesis 4:23-24) In other words, anyone who wronged or tried
to wrong Lamech would pay dearly for their transgression.
Personal revenge is man’s way. Scripture, both the Old and New Testaments,
teaches that we are not to avenge ourselves – this is for the Lord alone
(Leviticus 19:18, Deuteronomy 32:35, Psalm 94:1, Romans 12:19-20, Matthew
5:38ff). God’s vengeance is perfect and
complete. However, man’s vengeance only
begets another man’s vengeance – it becomes a never-ending cycle – hence, 77
times.
Moreover, man’s vengeance, such as
Lamech’s, is overly harsh. King David
was keenly aware of this. When given a choice
of punishments for sinning against God for taking a census, David did not
hesitate. He did not want to fall into
the hands of men, but instead, chose God’s punishment because of God’s great
mercy (2 Samuel 24:14).
Sadly, America has taken Lamech’s
way. America not only kills perceived
foes (including anyone who gets in the way, i.e., innocent people), but we
boast about the killings. This boasting,
for example, the assassination of Taliban leaders, is found in newspaper
headlines, government press statements and the internet. The killing has no limit and no end is in
sight.
George
Washington’s Path
George Washington, often referred to as
“the father of his country”, took the path of revenge, not the path of
forgiveness. One only has to look at
Washington’s life to understand that he was a man who “avenged himself” and
“his country” on a personal, national and international level. However, to avenge oneself or one’s country
is not a righteous act; self-revenge does not equate to self-defense, as some
have confused the one with the other.
George Washington wove into the very
fabric of America the concept of personal revenge. Even today, America’s politicians not only
justify the on-going attacks of retaliation against the terrorists who have
attacked America but seek to avenge themselves against those who have done
nothing more than say they believe in jihad.
In other words, similar to Lamech, America’s politicians seek to kill
even those who have only wounded or struck out at America with words.
Long before George Washington chose the
geographical location of America’s Capitol, later identified as residing along
longitude 77 degrees, he had already attached a spiritual significance to the
number seventy-seven in relationship to the land. Washington’s political career began as a
burgess in colonial Virginia’s House of Burgesses representing Winchester and
Frederick County, Virginia. As their
representative, Washington had to own land in Winchester and Frederick County
before he could be elected to represent them.
Even though being a landowner was a
prerequisite for all burgesses – from the beginning, Washington saw his own
political career “spiritually tied to
the land”. Anyone who has
studied Scripture understands that there is a spiritual relationship between
people and the land. Just ask the
modern-day Israelites and the Palestinians in the on-going battle over which
nation has “spiritual ownership” of Jerusalem.
Both claim that God gave Jerusalem to their ancestors and even though
the Palestinians are free to establish their seat of government anywhere within
Palestine, they want Jerusalem as their capitol – land God gave to Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob and their descendants!
Obviously, there are those who want land
for a spiritual reason other than keeping in agreement with God’s
purposes. George Washington was one of
those men! Throughout his lifetime,
Washington used numbers and symbols to attach a spiritual significance to all
things political whether it was on a personal, national or international level
– especially when it came to land.
Lot 77:
One of the first pieces of land that Washington ever owned was Lot 77 in
Winchester, Virginia. As mentioned
above, the significance of this particular lot is that it was one of the tracts
of land that enabled Washington to begin his political career as a
representative in the House of Burgesses.
Given its significance, the Winchester-Frederick County Historical
Society placed a marker on this particular piece of land as a memorial to
George Washington (see below picture).
But, it is the spiritual significance
that Washington attached to Lot 77 that reveals something about who he really
was and how he would set about achieving his political goals, not only for
himself but for the nation that would call him its father. George Washington never sold Lot 77 – it was
only sold after his death. I am firmly
convinced that Washington held on to this particular lot because of its
symbolism. History bears witness that
George Washington was fixated on the number 77 and because of his occult
fixation, seventy-seven continues to have a spiritual impact on America.
George Washington was a man who also
took matters into his own hands.
Washington was determined to get what he wanted even at the expense of
others. He justified the deaths of many
innocent people to get what he wanted – a nation of his own! To have his own nation, Washington would have
to avenge himself against Europe 77 times!
Longitude 77 and
Divination:
Latitude and longitude, measured in degrees north-south of the equator
and east-west of the prime meridian respectively, are used in cartography and
navigation to determine precise locations on the earth. Longitudinal lines are great circles –
vertical lines drawn at equal distances around the circumference of the earth
going through both the north and south poles.
Latitude lines are parallel horizontal lines starting at the equator;
only the latitude line at the equator is a great circle.
Although the equator is the single
starting point for measuring latitude, there is no obvious point from which
lines of longitude are measured. Even
though America accepts Greenwich, England to be the “prime” meridian for
international purposes, like many other countries, America determined their own
prime meridians for domestic measurements and surveys.
For example, America had four separate
prime meridians, all of which ran though Washington, DC. The first was established by Pierre Charles
L’Enfant, the man chosen by George Washington to design America’s new capital
city. L’Enfant was a man who knew how to
design the new capital city that would express Washington’s true goals without
revealing his true motives to the public.
More importantly, we need to keep in
mind that it was George Washington who chose the geographical location to begin
with and understand why he chose this particular site. Washington had an understanding of how the
spiritual related to the natural realm from an occult point of view. For that reason, he would only have chosen a
geographical site for our nation’s Capitol because of the pre-existing
spiritual lines over that geographical area.
The existence of these spiritual lines or paths over our nations’ capital
would bring the natural and spiritual together.
In other words, Washington had already predetermined that our nation’s
Capitol and city would be built on a specific line: longitude 77.
With this same understanding and relying
upon his own knowledge of spiritual lines and how they relate to the natural,
then and only then was L’Enfant able to determine where America’s Capitol
building itself should be placed. The
dome of the Capitol would be centered over the pre-existing prime spiritual
line, which came to be known as America’s first domestic prime meridian line
and also longitude 77.
In other words, the spiritual lines were
the determining factor as to where to build the nation’s Capitol – it was not
the location of the Capitol that determined where America’s first domestic
prime meridian would be established as some think. Moreover, this particular meridian or
spiritual line was L’Enfant’s starting point for the original layout of the
nation’s capital.
Whether it was America’s first prime
meridian that runs thought the center of the Capitol or the second prime
meridian established by Andrew Ellicott and Benjamin Banneker, known as the “16th
Street meridian”, divination was part of the process. Divination, a type of witchcraft, is the way
that spiritual lines are discovered by those practicing occultism – they cannot
be established through natural means.
Thus, divination was very much part of the surveying process in
determining the geographical location of America’s new capital, a location that
had to be somewhere on longitude 77 to be conducive to occult spiritual
activity.
The Dots Connect
– The Spiritual Path of Personal Revenge: Path 77
Spiritually, the following all have one
thing in common: 77 degrees longitude
·
Mount Vernon, George Washington’s
plantation just south of Alexandria, Virginia.
·
Our Nation’s Capital, Washington, DC
·
The White House
·
The Dar al-Hijra Mosque located in Falls
Church, Virginia with the following spiritual ties:
o Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, spiritual leader at the Dar al-Hijra Mosque, now
a spiritual advisor to al-Qaeda
o Three of the 911 terrorists attended Dar al-Hijra Mosque
o Terrorist Major Hasan who also attended the Dar al-Hijra Mosque
·
The Pentagon, into which 911 terrorists
crashed American Airlines Flight 77
·
Alexandria, Virginia – home of five American
men now jailed in Pakistan on terrorism charges
·
New Deli, India (77 degrees east
longitude), the capital of the nation honored at the White House state dinner
that the Salahi’s crashed
·
Hume, Virginia
o Location of Salahi’s father’s vineyard and boyhood home of Tareq Salahi
o Location where George Washington learned to perfect his surveying skills
·
Mount Pleasant (neighborhood) in
Washington, DC, home of Carlos Allen, an acquaintance of the Salahi’s who, like
the Salahi’s, also crashed the State Dinner for the leader of India [11]
·
Fairfax Station, Virginia, home of
Harold Brown, one of the seven Americans
who perished at the CIA Intelligence Base in Afghanistan when an
al-Qaeda terrorist evaded security and detonated a bomb
Seventy-seven identifies
one of the spiritual paths that the enemy has access to travel on and avenge
themselves and this is one of the spiritual cords that binds together all of
the people and places mentioned above.
This is not just happenstance! As
described above, principalities do not attack at random and for that reason we
should not be surprised that a cleric from a Mosque located on longitude 77
would be connected to the terrorists who hijacked flight American Airlines
flight 77 and flew this plane into the Pentagon which sits on longitude
77.
The connection between George Washington
and 77 has already been made concerning his ownership of lot 77, the location
of the federal city and the location of our nation’s Capitol. Not surprisingly, Washington’s home
(plantation), Mount Vernon, was located on longitude 77 and it was here on
longitude 77 that Washington died and was buried.
However, the spiritual significance of
77 continues in the lives and politics of Americans today. For example, the White House dinner the Salahi’s
breached was in honor of the leader of India whose capital, New Deli, is
located on longitude 77 (east). The
Salahi owns 5% of the family vineyard, which is located in Hume, Virginia, is
on longitude 77. Hume, Virginia is the
childhood home of Tareq Salahi, and interestingly, it was in Hume, Virginia
that George Washington learned to perfect his surveying skills.
In addition to Tareq Salahi and his wife
a third man was also able to breach White House security the same night the
Salahi’s did. Like the Salahi’s, Carlos
Allen’s place of residence is in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington,
DC, also on longitude 77. Most
interestingly, all three are acquaintances.
In December 2009, after traveling to
Pakistan (the Salahi family’s ancestral home), five young American citizens
from Alexandria, Virginia were arrested on charges of planning terrorist
attacks against American troops abroad who they considered to be infidels. These five young men are from the hometown of
George Washington and that it was from there – on longitude 77, the spiritual
path of personal revenge – that the five young men began their journey of
personal revenge against America.
On December 30, 2009 the CIA
Intelligence Base in Afghanistan, believing they were about to make a major
breakthrough in finding Osama bin Laden, were themselves struck a grievous blow
by the very informer they thought would lead them to bin Laden. The informer, a Jordanian nationalist who had
gained the trust of the CIA, was able to evade security and double-crossed the
CIA Intelligence Officers by detonating a bomb, killing himself, seven
Americans and his Jordanian handler.[12]
One of the seven Americans killed was
Harold Brown, a resident of Fairfax Station, Virginia. Unknowingly, Harold Brown was the point of
contact for the enemy being allowed to enter the CIA compound to take revenge. Brown’s home in Fairfax Station is located on
longitude 77. It was this spiritual
point of contact on longitude 77 that allowed the enemy access to strike the
CIA compound and avenge themselves of the death of one of their leaders.
Underlying all of this are the fear and
indeed, panic, amongst the American public.
Terrorism is defined by Webster’s dictionary as “a systematic use of
terror” with terror being further defined as “violent or destructive acts (as
bombing) committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government
into granting their demands”. However,
terrorism works only if fear and panic are generated as a result of the
terrorist’s attacks.
In this context, the terrorists are
winning victory after victory over America.
Much of our country lives in fear today – just ask any New York City
resident. Fear and panic are fueled by
the media, which goes far beyond just reporting the news by demanding a
response from the government to “fix things”.
If something is not done immediately, the media becomes relentless in
its demands. When the government does
take action, it usually only reinforces our fears. For example, we are constantly reminded of
our fears with the overbearing and extremely ineffective security measures at
airports. Our rights to privacy and
other freedoms are increasingly being encroached upon by the government’s
surveillance of American citizens, and the list goes on.
In the spiritual realm, much of the fear
and panic is a manifestation of the principality, Pan (the god of fear). Not coincidentally, our reactionary laws,
which only generate more fears, are made in our nation’s Capitol – longitude
77.
The Enemy Avenges
Themselves against America
The enemy was given access to specific pathways because of the
spiritual cords that were created as a result of the sins of America’s Founding
Fathers. The straight paths (spiritual
lines) that the enemy had legal access to travel on when terrorists attacked
America on September 11, 2001 were Path 11, Path 77 and Path 40.44. These pathways are described in detail in the
chart found in Appendix A of this paper.
For the purposes of this paper, the focus is on Path 77 and its multiple
connections to Hasan, his spiritual advisor, Anwar al-Awlaki, Yemen, ancestral
home to Osama bin Laden and the birth place of al-Qaeda, and others.
Like Lamech who avowed to be avenged 77
times, terrorists are avenging themselves against Americans, who have justified
crossing the sea and invading their land, killing their men, women and children
who were not even at war with America.
In retaliation for these terrorist attacks, America avenges themselves
once again by attacking those who they feel are attacking America. And, the cycle goes on 77 times.
In a pre-recorded video, the CIA suicide
bomber, Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi, said that all jihadists must attack
United States targets to avenge the death of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah
Mehsud, who was killed in August by a CIA missile strike. Al-Balawi warned that even though he took
revenge by striking the CIA’s base in Afghanistan, that the Soldiers of Allah
would seek revenge for the death of Mehsud many times over (77 times).
The CIA had admitted that the deaths of
their agents in Afghanistan are a major blow to the CIA – one from which it
will take years to recover. Of course,
America wants to retaliate for this incident.
America will not stop killing others they feel responsible for the
incident, including innocent non-combatants, until they feel avenged. The spiritual path of revenge will continue
to be travelled until America’s lawmakers bow their knee to the God of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob and let God avenge, if vengeance is justified.
The Final Connections
Below are the final “dots” to be connected,
including Major Hasan, Tareq Salahi, al-Bawali, the timing of events and the
country of Jordan.
Major
Hasan:
·
Major Hasan’s ancestry is Jordanian
(ancestor of the ancient Ammonites) – from his father’s side (his
father immigrated to America from Jordan)
·
He was a Muslim who believed in jihad (a Soldier of
Allah)
·
Spiritual points of contact for the Ammonite
principality to work through:
o Hasan’s
Jordanian nationality
Tareq
Salahi:
·
He is of Palestinian descent from his father’s side (his
father immigrated to the United States from Jerusalem)
·
He is a board member of the “American
Task Force on Palestine”, which favors a Palestinian State with East
Jerusalem as its capital – land that belongs to Israel
·
Spiritual points of contact for the Ammonite
principality to work through:
o Longitude
77 – Salahi’s boyhood home and the winery in which he owns 5% is located in
Hume, Virginia. The Salahi and his wife
were married in The Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC
Humam
Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi: (CIA suicide bomber)
·
Like Major Hasan, al-Balawi was a Jordanian
nationalist who wanted to take revenge against Americans
·
He was a Muslim who believed in jihad
·
Spiritual points of contact for the Ammonite
principality to work through:
o Al-Bawali’s
Jordanian nationality
o The
revenge in his heart
o Longitude
77 – the residence of Harold Brown, one of the seven Americans killed in the
bombing, in Fairfax Station, Virginia
Twenty-one Days:
Daniel 10 reveals that from the very day Daniel set
his heart to understand the things the Lord had been showing him that an angel
came to give Daniel the understanding.
Yet for 21 days, this angel was detained by principalities who were
trying to prevent him from reaching Daniel with the understanding for which he
had prayed.
It was 21 days after I had prayed on the land in
Israel that the Lord started to give me the understanding concerning the
principalities that were dislodged from the heavens and what their wrath might
look like. The first understanding was it
was the wrath of the principality that was dislodged that manifested through
Major Hasan and his attack on Fort Hood.
To understand the twenty-one days, it is important
to understand the time and day differences between the time I spoke at the
Temple Mount on October 17, 2009 and Hasan’s attack on Fort Hood on November 5,
2009.
·
Date
of the attack. Major Hasan
attacked Ft. Hood at 1:30 pm (CDT) on November 5, 2009. However, in Israel, it was already November 6th. Israel was seven hours ahead of America (CDT)
at the time, which meant that it was 8:30 pm in Israel when Hasan attacked Ft.
Hood. Jewish days begin at sunset rather
than at midnight. The 6th of
November for Israel began at 4:46 pm local time (approximately four hours
before the attack at Ft. Hood).
·
Twenty-one
Days: Taking into
account that I was in Israel when I prayed on the land, then the 21 days must
be based on Israel’s calendar – not America’s.
In other words, Major Hasan’s attack occurred 21 days from the day that
I prayed on the land in Israel (October 17, 2009 to November 6, 2009,
inclusive).
Jordan:
The “point of contact” that determined what
principality was dislodged was Jordan. Both
places that I went to on October 17th to pray were directly
connected to Jordan.
·
Jordan wrongly shares joint authority with Israel at
the Old City of Jerusalem
o Jordan
has civil and religious authority over the Old City of Jerusalem while Israel
has military authority
o The
first place that I read Scripture was at the Western Wall located within the
Old City
·
Jordan wrongly shares joint authority with Israel
over the Jordan River
o The
second place that I read Scripture was at the headwaters of the Jordan River
located at Caesarea Philippi
o The
Jordan River forms the western boundary between Jordan and Israel’s West Bank
o The
Jordan River played a main role in the historical disagreements between Israel
and Jordan, both who claim historical rights to the Jordan River, including a
disagreement that contributed to the outbreak of the Six Day War
o At
present, Israel and Jordan have both agreed to share the Jordan River
Conflicts
over the Jordan River date back to Biblical times.
Judges 7 [24] And Gideon sent messengers
throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and
take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of
Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took
the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. (emphasis added)
·
Major Hasan is a Muslim born of Jordanian
parents. Like the Muslim Jordanians who
are Soldiers of Allah, Major Hasan also identified himself as a Soldier of Allah.
What happened at Ft. Hood is actually connected to
the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America, as well. America’s subsequent attack on Iraq,
Hussein’s capture and American troops on foreign soil are all connected to
Islam and the Muslim religion.
The only one
President Obama and future Presidents can Trust in is the LORD: President Obama may soon find that he will
have greater trials and sufferings than just White House Security being
breached. President Obama is in a
situation where he may be exposed to a much greater danger from a much more
powerful foe. Moreover, he should not
trust in the Secret Service. Like
Jeremiah, President Obama is in a situation where even some of his own staff
and security will betray him when they have it in their power. (Jeremiah 12:6)
Jeremiah 12 [5]
If thou hast
run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend
with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou
trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling
of Jordan? [6] For
even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they
have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude
after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee. (emphasis
added)
From this point on, the White House needs to prepare
themselves for a more powerful enemy that will seek to breach White House
Security. The question is, how will the
White House and all of America respond when the powerful horsemen (like the
footmen) eventually breach America’s security?
Whether it is the Soldiers of Allah or those
countrymen who give the impression they are less threatening, both are
manifestations of the ground attacks yet to come, both here in America and
abroad, wherever American’s set up strongholds in enemy territory.
Another manifestation of the ground attacks to come
is found in the December 30, 2009 attack on the CIA Intelligence Base, referred
to above, that delivered a devastating blow to U.S. efforts in
Afghanistan. Jeremiah 12:5 refers to the
“swelling of the Jordan”. When this
happens, the wild animals in the thickets are forced from their hiding places
because of the rising water only to wreak havoc throughout the countryside. This is what happened with the CIA suicide bomber, Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi.
The Jordanian and
American governments thought that al-Balawi, a Jordanian, could lead them to
the inner circle of Osama bin Laden.
Because of his perceived value, Jordanian authorities arrested him and
threatened him with jail, harm to his wife and two children, and to end his
medical career if he did not agree to become an informer for them.[13] He was forced by the Jordanian government to
leave his home in Jordan and under pretense of furthering his education, moved
to Pakistan. Prior to this coercion,
al-Balawi was a doctor by profession and although sympathetic to al-Qaeda
goals, was not known to be an active jihadist.
Spiritually,
al-Balawi was symbolic of one of the wild animals forced to flee the overflowing
of the Jordan River that was coming against he and his family when he agreed to
be an informer for the Jordanian and American governments. Like the wild animals, he too roamed the
countryside to wreak havoc, killing those who had forced him to leave his
home. In his pre-recorded video,
al-Bawali made it clear that he desperately wanted to take revenge against
America. Consequently, the Ammonite
principality that had been dislodged from the heavens was able to manifest its
wrath through al-Bawali because he was a Jordanian, the modern day offspring of
the Ammonites, with wrath already in his heart.
Just as the LORD
asked Jeremiah what he would do if he found himself in a situation when men,
like the wild animals, were forced to flee the overflowing Jordan – America
needs to ask what are American’s going to do now that they are forcing their
enemies to leave their hiding places?
America would be wise not to contribute to the “overflowing of the
Jordan”. In other words, when America
forces Jordanians or others they consider to be their enemy to come out of
hiding and cooperate with their intelligence people, they can expect these
people to react in the same way the wild animals of the Jordan acted: they will wreak havoc against America and not
against America’s enemies.
Jeremiah 12:6 also
speaks of betrayal and it was through betrayal that al-Bawali was able to wreak
havoc with America. Al-Bawali was
considered to be a “double agent”, meaning he betrayed his Jordanian handler as
well. However, whether the CIA ever
admits it or not, evidence points to the fact that his Jordanian handler, a
captain in the Jordanian army, was also a double agent of the same ilk as
al-Bawali who wanted to take revenge on America.
The Knights of Santiago: It may be several years before we know if
Muslim troops from the mid East will actually invade America and patrol our
neighborhoods as the American troops are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan, or if
the Soldiers of Allah will come just from within or both. In any case, it will happen.
Knights of Santiago: The weapons of war that are being
turned back inside the gates of America and the nations that wield them are multifaceted. Just as other nations in Psalm 83 came to the
aid of the descendants of Lot to form a coalition against Israel, the
descendants of the Knights of Santiago
are entering the gates of America as well. (See article entitled, “The American Crusade”)
Like the Soldiers of Allah –
the descendants of the “Knights of Santiago”
have raised a “War Cry” against
America. They too want to see America
destroyed as a nation. Like the
Soldiers of Allah, they are a threat to the safety of the President
of the United States as well as America as a whole.
Interestingly, several weeks after
beginning this article, including the above reference to a descendent of the
Knights of Santiago, the public learned that Carlos Allen, a native of Colon,
Panama, also successfully breached White House security the same evening as the
Salahi’s.
The time is coming when Americans will realize they
are being attacked from all fronts and they will not know whom to trust!
The War in the Heavenly Realm:
In a sense, wars fought on earth are a manifestation
of the wars fought in the heavenly realm.
Wars fought on earth are not decided overnight because the wars in the
heavenly realm are not fought overnight.
Moreover, those principalities lower in rank come down before those who
are higher in rank.
On Earth as in Heaven: We will see a manifestation of the war in the
heavens here on earth as the different principalities are cast to the
earth. For example, the principality
operating through Hasan is among the first to fall. However, when the principalities of higher
rank fall, their wrath will manifest here in America on a much larger scale. More than just one Muslim will be bringing
his wrath against Americans, both here and abroad.
For example, when we prayed on the land at the US
Capitol on December 13, 1998, the LORD
gave me the understanding that Babylon would be attacked within four days. Four days later, America (under the
leadership of President Clinton) attacked by bombing an area in Iraq approximately
80 miles outside Babylon. This attack
was the beginning of the birth pangs for Iraq that resulted in the eventual
capture of Saddam Hussein years later under the leadership of President
Bush. Saddam Hussein, the
self-proclaimed modern day king of Babylon, was found underneath the ground to
the day and hour that we spoke the “Taunt to the King of Babylon” in the
sub-basement of the US Capitol.
From a secular perspective, the reasons for
Americans being on Iraqi and Afghanistan soil are just that: secular.
However, from a spiritual perspective it is a holy war in the sense that
the gods of Islam are fighting against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – a
war they will not win.
One of the weapons of war that America is using to
fight against Iraq and Afghanistan was to invade the borders of both countries
and wage war against them from within their own borders. Now, that weapon of war has been turned back
on America! At this point in time, the Soldiers
of Allah are fighting against America from within the borders of America!
America has invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, two
nations that believe the attacks amount to a holy war against their religion,
Islam, and specifically against their god, Allah. They have repeatedly requested that America
leave their soil, only to have their requests rejected. At this point, it is not really clear why
America remains on foreign soil. What is
clear is that many civilians have been killed by America troops, not to mention
the loss of American lives.
Yet Again!
Even
before this paper was finished, America was attacked once again!
On December 25, 2009, even before this paper was finished, Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian nationalist with ties to Yemen flew from
Nigeria to Amsterdam and there boarded a flight bound to Detroit,
Michigan. He tried unsuccessfully to
bring down the U.S. aircraft on which he was a passenger as it made its
approach into Detroit with an incendiary device that he attempted to ignite.[14]
“I’m
the First of Many”, Warns Airline Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: Abdulmutallab, told FBI agents after his
arrest that he had received the explosive materials from al-Qaeda linked
terrorists in Yemen, which is home to Major Hasan’s spiritual advisor, Anwar
al-Awlaki and the ancestral home of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Further, he warned that he was only one of
many with plans to attack America.
The
Attack was in Retaliation to American Aggression on Yemen: Abdulmutallab told investigators that there
were more just like him who would continue to attack America. The sustained terror campaign Abdulmutallab
spoke of was echoed in a statement issued by Al-Qaeda four days after
Abdulmutallab’s attack. In their
statement, Al-Qaeda forewarned America of unrelenting attacks against America
in retaliation to the American Aggression on Yemen.
U.S.
Backed Yemeni Air Strike Kills at least 30: The retaliation was in response to Yemeni
government forces, backed by America, who launched air raids on suspected
Al-Qaeda militants on December 17, 2009 and again on December 24, 2009 that
resulted in the deaths of approximately 60 people. Less than 24 hours before Abdulmutallab
attempted to blow up the American airliner, Yemen officials, with America’s
backing, ordered an air strike on a suspected al-Qaeda site, which was actually
the home of Hasan’s spiritual advisor Anwar al-Awlaki. Even though al-Awlaki’s home was destroyed
and at least 30 who were meeting there at the time were killed in the airstrike,
reports indicate that Anwar al-Awlaki probably was not present. Intelligence officials are still trying to
verify whether al-Awlaki was one of the 30 who were killed.
This raises an interesting question, one pose by Dr. Nasser al-Awlaki,
the Yemeni father of Anwar al-Awlaki. He
stated to CNN that, “I will do my best to convince my son to do this
[surrender], to come back, but they are not giving me time, they want to kill
my son. How can the American government
kill one of their own citizens?
This is a legal issue that needs to be answered.”[15] (emphasis
added) In other words, how can the U.S.
Government, in effect, assassinate an American citizen living abroad without
the due process of law?
America
Creates their own Warfare: Any
attacks on al-Awlaki will surely result in aggressive and unrelenting retaliation
against America, on America soil as well as abroad. America believes that if they kill men like al-Awlaki,
whom they believe are a threat to America, it will discourage others from
speaking out against America and from participating in jihad. However, they are only creating their own
warfare. America’s actions only
reinforce that America is the enemy of Islam and the Soldiers of Allah will
become more determined in fighting back.
It’s obvious that America’s actions only produce retaliation.
Americans, at least some, are beginning to realize that Al-Qaeda’s
threats of successfully attacking America are more than just rhetoric. The realization that Al-Qaeda’s declaration
of an all-out war against America is more than just a threat has rekindled an
unsettling fear for many living “within the gates of America”.
A
New Weapon of War – The Right to Remain Silent: The Christmas Day
attack by Abdulmutallab has produced a new weapon of war for the enemy to use
against America: the right to remain silent.
Because Abdulmutallab is being charged as a criminal and not as a
terrorist, he has been confined in a Detroit jail, assigned a court-appointed
lawyer (paid for by U.S. taxpayers) and has the right to remain silent!
America is helpless.
Abdulmutallab cannot be interrogated about national or international
accomplices, training, the source of chemicals to make his bomb or other
extremely important details concerning his terrorist attack. This is just another example of our own
weapons being turned against us.
Life in America will never be the same, no matter how many
promises our politicians make to keep America secure. Even if there is never another attack – fear
has already entered into America’s gate – and the fear of being attacked is the
real weapon of war that Al-Qaeda is wielding over America.
The U.S. Military’s
Decision to remove Scripture References from Rifle Sights is Prophetic
On January 18, 2010, the news media revealed that Scripture references have been inscribed on rifle sights used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, something that is against military guidelines. In keeping with these guidelines, the U.S. military has taken measures to ensure that all Scripture references are removed from the existing sights and no Scripture references will be included with future purchases.[16] Although the decision made to remove the Scriptures is in accordance to military policy, it is also prophetic, even though the military is not aware of its prophetic meaning.
This spoke he not of himself. As the hearts of all men are in God’s hands, so are the words they speak – even the words of those who oppose God’s purposes. Like the High Priest, Caiaphas, who unknowingly spoke prophetically about Jesus (John 11:50), the words and actions of America’s military have a spiritual significance that they do not and cannot understand because of the intent of their hearts.
John 11 [50] Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. [51] And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation
God can and does use men and militaries who do not understand His purposes, to serve His purposes unknowingly, contrary to their own intentions. Caiaphas is a good example of this. In spite of Caiaphas’s hatred for Jesus and unknown to Caiaphas, God used him to utter a prophecy about Jesus Christ. The words of Caiaphas held a truth that Caiaphas had not intended. The death of Christ did indeed benefit the Jewish nation and the world – just not in the way Caiaphas thought or desired.
God is removing His Support.
Romans 13:1-6 reveals that the
Lord has delegated authority to governments - all governments – to bear a sword to “execute wrath upon him
that doeth evil”. Obviously, all
governments use this sword to deal with those who commit crimes in their own
nation. As already pointed out at the
beginning of this paper, at times God will ordain one nation to wield the sword
against another nation. However, America
abused the power of the sword they had been authorized to carry when they went
too far in their military attacks in the Middle East to further their own
personal agenda. For that reason, the
Lord will not come to the aid of America as they continue to wield the sword in
their own strength.
Since God is in
control of all things, there are spiritual truths behind natural events. The natural event is America removing
Scripture from their rifle gun sights and in effect, taking God out of the war. The spiritual truth behind this is that God
(Yahweh), by allowing this to happen, is actually taking Himself out of the
war, removing His support of America because they went too far. In the process, God is exposing the hardness
and heart intent of the U.S. military, which is twofold: 1) not to violate the
Constitution, which shows no favoritism of religions (i.e., Yahweh is the same
as Allah), and 2) they don’t need Yahweh because they can fight the war in
their own strength. Thus, another weapon
of war has been turned back on America.
America’s Sword and its High-Powered Rifle Sights. America’s politicians, including our Presidents, have attempted in vain to convince the Muslim world that America is not at war with Islam. Nonetheless, as already pointed out in this paper and our other writings, America is indeed fighting in a holy war. God, not America, determines the nature of a war and the weapons to be used!
To the surprise of many Americans and America’s politicians, is the fact that the “sword” that America has been wielding against those in the Muslim nations has New Testament Scriptures engraved on their rifle sights. Even more interesting, America’s military has been using these rifles to train the very Muslims that they have been assuring that America is not fighting against Islam. In other words, many Muslims have been unknowingly bearing rifles engraved with Scriptures that lift up Jesus as the true Messiah.
Stealth War. The U.S. military has stated that they were not aware of the Bible verses when they purchased the rifle sights. The military is concerned about and admits that this fact could be turned back on them by those Muslims who have long maintained that America has been engaged in a “stealth” war against Islam. In fact, many Islamic clerics have long maintained that the United States’ War on Terror is really a holy war against Islam. Now, it will be almost impossible for America to convince the Arab nations that they are not secretly fighting against Islam.
Men whose own strength is their god. As
prophecy has more than one meaning, removing Scripture references from rifle
sights speaks of America’s perceived pride in her own strength to dominate in
war. Like ancient Babylon bent on
conquering everything in its path, it seems that America is going from nation
to nation in their effort to conquer all (Habakkuk 1:5-11). However, America’s pride in past military
victories may prove to be their downfall.
When men take pride
in their own strength – strength apart from God – that strength becomes a god
in their lives, a god of their own making.
Their strength becomes idolatry (Habakkuk 1:11). As a nation, America attributes their successes
to their own abilities. America’s
government has become overconfident of their own might.
A haughty spirit raised up before God will surely bow its knee and fall in the sight of God and all other nations. America takes pride in being a world power. That perceived power has become one of America’s gods. Even though the victory of any battle is determined by the Lord, many nations attribute their successes in war to their own abilities. In other words, their own power becomes their god.
Habakkuk 1 [11] Then they sweep by like a wind and pass on,
and they load themselves with guilt, [as do all men] whose own power is their
god. (Amplified Bible)
As stated at the beginning of this paper, the Lord used America to chasten Iraq just as He used Assyria to chasten ancient Israel (Isaiah 10). Yet, like the Assyrians, America has gone beyond chastening to further their own personal agenda, both in Iraq and in neighboring nations, at the expense of many innocent people. Because of that, the weapons of war have been turned back upon America and consequently, our nation is facing many hardships.
Now, to add to their sins of abusing the sword they have been authorized to carry, America’s
government has let it be known to all of America and the world that they will
accomplish their worldwide goals in their own strength. But, let it be known, they “do not speak on
their own”. Their words and actions are
prophetic – just not in the way they intended!
The Constitution
Won a Carnal Battle. It has been pointed out that America boldly
declares they consult no oracle other than the Constitution. Therefore, we should not be surprised that
when the decision was made to remove all Scriptural references from military
rifle sights that Michael L. Weinstein, president of the Military Religious
Freedom Foundation, declared, “The Constitution won today”.[17] He, like the many others who cited America’s
Constitution, may have won a carnal battle, yet they are losing the spiritual
battle being fought in the heavens and here on earth.
Now we wait for
America, in all her might and strength, to be humbled in a way we have yet to
witness. Though the appointed time lingers,
it will certainly come!
© Gwen Thomas, January, 2010
Appendix A: Path 11, 77 and 40.44
Path 11
& New York – America’s 11th
State
The first
airplane that struck on September 11th was flight number 11. This particular flight struck the North Tower
of the World Trade Center located in New York – America’s 11th state
to enter the Union.
Path 11
& September 11, 1787
On September
11, 1787, jurist and signer of the Declaration of Independence, James Wilson,
in an address before the Pennsylvania legislature, prophesied that the new
federal government would lay a foundation for erecting temples of liberty in
every part of the earth. This prophecy regarding
“Temples of Liberty”, America’s new secular religion, was opposed to the
Lord. This prophecy was given in Pennsylvania and is only one of the points
of contact for the flight from New Jersey to crash in Pennsylvania.
Path 11
& the Pentagon
The
groundbreaking ceremony for the Pentagon occurred on September 11, 1941, 60
years to the day and month that flight 77 flew into the Pentagon.
Path 77
& the Pentagon
The Pentagon,
one of the targets of the September 11th attack, is located on 77
degrees West Longitude and it was American
Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon.
Path 77
& Lot 77
On May 15,
1753, George Washington purchased Lot 77 located in Winchester, Virginia where
he was elected to his first public office.
Thirty-seven years later on
July 16, 1790, the Residence Act was passed calling for a federal city now
known as Washington, DC. George
Washington selected the site for our Nation’s Capitol, which is located on
Longitude 77.
Path 77
& Longitude 77
Washington,
DC was deliberately located on Longitude 77 and intentionally oriented towards
a star known as Sirius (the Dog Star), the same star which the ancient
Egyptians oriented their temples.
Path 77 & Sirius
At the World
Trade Center, the only police dog to be killed in the September 11th
attack was a 4-year-old Golden Lab by the name of Sirius.
Path 77 & Personal Revenge
Satan’s Revenge:
Psalm 44 [15] My
disgrace is before me all day long, and my face is covered with shame [16] at
the taunts of those who reproach and revile me, because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.
Biblical 77: Genesis 4 [24] If Cain is avenged seven
times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.
The enemy’s
targets were not at random. Even though
it was the Lord who allowed the enemy to attack America, the attack still was one
of Personal
Revenge for the enemy. To
understand fully the connection between the number 77 and Satan’s revenge, we
have to go back to our spiritual roots that were laid down in St. Augustine,
Florida in 1565 when a Huguenot by the name of Jean Ribault was martyred. Jean Ribault willingly laid down his life for
the Lord for the purposes of establishing a habitation for the Lord to be
worshipped in spirit and truth. Before
he was killed, he was given a choice to repent and go back to Catholicism. Instead, he said no and moments before he was
killed he quoted Psalm 132 going into covenant with the Lord establishing
America as a habitation for the Lord.
(see article titled: The Spiritual Roots of
America and the French Huguenots)
The point
that I want to make is that Ribault was a Huguenot and if the spiritual roots
of America were laid down by a Huguenot, then Satan would take his revenge
through someone generationally connected to the Huguenots to lay down his
counterfeit spiritual roots. Think in
terms of Satan’s hatred for Israel and you will understand that he also had hatred
towards the Huguenots concerning America.
It would then make sense that the man who was responsible for choosing
the site for our Nation’s Capitol would in some way be generationally connected
to the Huguenots and George Washington was a descendant of a Huguenot. However, we should not confuse the status of
being a descendant of a Huguenot with actually being a Huguenot. A Huguenot was a way of life and a commitment
to God, not something to be inherited.
With that
understanding, the connection with Lot 77 purchased by George Washington in
Winchester, Virginia, the very location of his first Public Office makes
sense. It doesn’t mean that George Washington
fully understood the spiritual significance of what he was doing when he
purchased that particular lot number, although all things considered, I believe
that he did know. It does, however,
suggest that he was influenced when he purchased the lot: Job 26:4…And whose spirit [inspired what]
came forth from you. (Amplified Bible)
We know from documents that those who were working closely with George
Washington were using divination when the Nation’s Capitol was laid down. We also know that he was of the highest
degree of Masons and it is no secret at that time in history that the Masons
were involved with the occult.
Personal Forgiveness: As
Christians, our response to personal revenge should be forgiveness. It is important to remember that our battle
is not against flesh and blood, but against Satan and his kingdom. Our forgiveness is to be “times without
number” and we are commanded to forgive and bless our enemies. Matthew 18[21] Then Peter came to Jesus
and asked, Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against
me? Up to seven times? [22] Jesus answered, I tell you, not seven
times, but seventy-seven times.
Path 77
& the White House
American
Airlines Flight 77, operating from Washington Dulles, was the flight that
crashed into the Pentagon. It has been
reported that the Air Flight Controllers indicated that Flight 77 was on a
direct path to the White House, however turned towards and struck the
Pentagon. The significance of this is
that The White House, The US Capitol, The Washington Monument, The Pentagon, The Meridian Stone and
the Zero Milestone are all located on the Meridian Line at 77 degrees west longitude.
Why didn't
the terrorists strike the White House?
Because, Satan is still under the authority of Yahweh and it was the
Lord who stopped the enemy from hitting the White House. However, the enemy still had legal access to
strike somewhere along the 77 degrees west longitude and that location as we
now know was The Pentagon. Keep in mind
that this 77 is one of two points of contact concerning the Pentagon (the
attack on America was on September 11, 2001 and the groundbreaking for the
Pentagon was on September 11, 1941)
Psalm 78 [49] He let loose upon them the fierceness of His
anger, His wrath and indignation and distress, by sending [a mission of] angels
of calamity and woe among them. [50] He leveled and made a straight path for His
anger [to give it free course]; He did not spare [the Egyptian families]
from death but gave their beasts over to the pestilence and the life [of their
eldest] over to the plague. (Amplified
Bible)
Straight
Paths: The Masons strategically placed
streets and buildings in Washington, DC to symbolically line up with the stars. (see The
Secret Architecture of our Nation’s Capital by David Ovason). The
White House, US Capitol, Washington Monument and Pentagon were all strategically placed on the longitude of 77 degrees
west by the Masons. Each of these
structures was lined up to correspond with the stars, the constellations and
the rising of the sun for the purposes
of pagan worship. In other words,
“straight paths” can also be thought of in terms of “spiritual lines” – it is
on these spiritual lines that the enemy attacks.
“So in the
dead of winter 1791 Ellicott begins his survey, assisted by astronomer Benjamin
Banneker,... Sighting on stars, they
find the district's latitude and longitude and determine its boundary.”[18]
“As Banneker witnessed the predicted eclipse, he would have known full
well that the ancients had always insisted that such a cosmic event would have
a profound influence upon earthly events. He would have known, too, that the nature of
that influence would depend upon the planetary patterns in the skies at the
time when the eclipse took place.” [19]
(The following is highlighted to identify the new material that has
been added since November 5, 2009)
Path
77: Events that occurred in 2009 and a common point of contact – Longitude 77
Falls
Church, Hume, Front Royal, Alexandria and Fairfax Station, all in the State of Virginia,
as well as the Mount Pleasant neighborhood in Washington, D.C., have several
things in common – one of them being they are all geographically located on
Longitude 77. The other thing these
particular locations have in common is that many of the individuals connected
to events that occurred in America’s political arena from November 5, 2009
through December 31, 2009, all of which
had a profound effect on America, not only domestically, but
internationally, are from these particular geographical areas.
Falls
Church, Virginia, located along State Route 7, has one of the highest
concentrations of people of Arab descent in America. Four of those who assailed America in
terrorist attacks had ties to a mosque located in Falls Church.
Major
Hasan – a Soldier of Allah: Major Hasan’s ancestry is Jordanian (ancestors of the ancient
Ammonites); his father immigrated to America from Jordan. Like many other Jordanians, Major Hasan is a
Muslim and a Soldier of Allah. Major
Hasan, the man who killed 13 and wounded 30 at Ft. Hood, Texas attended the Dar
al-Hijrah Islamic Center, the Mosque located in Falls Church (northern
Virginia) at the intersection of Row St. & Leesburg Pike (Route 7) located
on longitude 77. It
was here that Major Hasan met the man who would become his confidant, Anwar al-Awlaki,
(also spelled al-Aulaqi) an Imam at the mosque who it is believed to also have
ties to al-Qaeda. It was at this mosque that Major Hasan began to take Islam more
seriously – he became a Soldier of Allah, a title found on his business cards.
Intelligence officials
found that al-Awlaki raised money for the terrorist group, Hamas. He also had met with two of the 9/11
hijackers at a mosque in San Diego, California.
In an interview, al-Awlaki (spelled al-Aulaqi in the below referenced
article), who supports jihad, credited Major Hasan as being a hero. Al-Aulaqi said, “Hasan viewed him as a
confidant” and said “Hasan informed him that he had become a devout Muslim
around the time al-Aulaqi was preaching at Dar al-Hijrah, in 2001 and 2002.” Al-Aulaqi said: “I blessed the act because it was against a
military target. And the soldiers who
were killed were not normal soldiers, but those who were trained and prepared
to go to Afghanistan and Iraq.” Al-Aulaqi
further stated, “Fighting against the US
army is an Islamic duty today, … The only way a Muslim could Islamically
justify serving as a soldier in the US army is if his intention is to follow
the footsteps of men like Nidal.” “Al-Aulaqi
said Hasan’s alleged shooting spree was allowed under Islam because it was a
form of jihad. ‘There are some people in
the United States who said this shooting has nothing to do with Islam, that it
was not permissible under Islam, … but I would say it is permissible … America
was the one who first brought the battle to Muslim countries.’” [20] This clearly supports Jeremiah 21:4 when the
“weapons of war” are turned back upon a nation – and instead of fighting the
enemy outside their walls they now find the battle within their borders.
Moreover, at
least three of the terrorist who participated in the September 11, 2001 attack
against America also attended this particular mosque. Some of the hijackers even used Skyline
Towers, an apartment building located just off Route 7, as their address to
obtain American IDs. Other hijackers
lived in a safe house in Vienna, Virginia, also just off Route 7.
Tareq
Salahi:
Salahi breached White House security to attend a state dinner held in
honor of the leader of India. He is of
Palestinian descent from his father’s side; his father immigrated to the United
States from Jerusalem, Israel. He is a
board member of the “American Task Force on Palestine”, which favors a
Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as its capital – land that belongs to
Israel. His family’s winery, Oasis, in which
Tareq has a 5% interest, is located in Hume, Virginia on longitude 77. Moreover, he and his wife were married in the
Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle located in Washington, DC, also on longitude
77. New Deli, the capital of India, is
located on longitude 77 (east); this was the point of contact that gave the
enemy legal access to attack this particular state dinner.
Five Americans
from Alexandria: Five American men were arrested on terrorist
charges in Pakistan just one month after the Salahi’s breached White House
security. They were all from Alexandria,
Virginia – located on longitude 77. Interestingly,
Pakistan is Salahi’s ancestral home.
Harold
Brown and Humam Khali Abu-Mulal al-Balawi: Harold Brown was an
American CIA Intelligence Officer in Afghanistan, while al-Balawi was the
Jordanian double agent suicide bomber who betrayed the CIA, killing Harold
Brown and others. Like Major Hasan, al-Balawi
was a Jordanian nationalist who wanted to take revenge against Americans; like
Hasan, his Jordanian ancestry and the revenge in his heart were two of the
points of contact for the Ammonite principality to work through after it was
dislodged from the heavens.
The
path this principality followed was the spiritual path of revenge: longitude
77. The point of contact was Harold
Brown who lived in Fairfax Station, Virginia, which is on longitude 77
degrees. The fact that Harold Brown was
part of the CIA team in Afghanistan tells us that he was an instrument of
revenge for the U.S. Government and that he believed in what he was doing. Thus, both he and al-Balawi had revenge in
common, allowing this spirit to strike.
Path 40.44
and the United States Capitol/Pennsylvania
It was believed
and later confirmed that the destination of United Airlines Flight 93 was the
US Capitol. Flight 93 departed from
Newark, New Jersey, latitude 40.44 degrees, and buried in one of the four
cornerstones of the US Capitol is $40.44 in coins that came from the mint in
Pennsylvania, the state where Flight 93 crashed.
Normally a
building has only one cornerstone; however, due to ongoing expansion, the US
Capitol has four cornerstones. Keeping
in mind that one of the purposes of a time capsule is to indicate the purpose
of that particular structure, I find it of interest that the time capsule
buried in the cornerstone of the US Capitol in 1851 contained $40.44 in coins from the Philadelphia mint [21].
The $40.44 in
coins seemed like such an odd amount that I had always wondered as to the
significance. However, when the September
11th attack on America occurred, the symbolism and significance of
the $40.44 began to become known. Flight
93 that was hijacked from Newark, New
Jersey crashed approximately 62 miles southeast of Pittsburgh before
reaching its intended target. Interestingly, Pittsburgh’s latitude is 40.44
and the latitude of Newark, New Jersey
is 40.44 – equal to the same amount of coins buried underneath the US
Capitol. The Center latitude of New York City is also 40 degrees 44 N. Again, it was the Masons who determined the
exact locations of all the structures in our Nation's Capitol.
Even though
the terrorists on Flight 93 failed in their mission, it is significant that
they crashed on the 40-degree latitude line.
In other words, the enemy had legal access somewhere along this 40-degree
latitude line.
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Endnotes
[1] Pamela Scott, Temple of Liberty, p. 45
[2] The original source of this quote was from a lecture given by Choate: The Importance of Illustrating New-England History by a Series of Romances like the Waverley Novels, delivered at Salem, MA in 1833
[3] Mark Schone, Joseph Rhee, Mary-Rose Abraham, and Anna Schecter, “Major Hasan Dined with 'Jihad Hobbyist'”, ABC News Website/The Blotter, 17 November 2009, http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/hasans-friend-proclaimed-extremist/story?id=9100187
[4] Howard
Schneider, “To two faiths, a holy patch of land; to the world, a powder keg”, The Washington Post, 17 November 2009,
Sec. A, p.20
[5] The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. V.1, p.95
[6] Addresses Delivered, et al, Development of the United States Capital, p.92
[7] Samuel Fallows, The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopedia and Scriptural Dictionary, Volume II, p. 1238-1239
[8] Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, p.74
[9] William C. Allen, History of the United States Capitol, p. 347
[10] Avenel Books, Bulfinch’s Mythology, p.166
[11] Amy Argetsinger and Mary Jordan, “The Tux and Tales of Carlos Allen”, The Washington Post, 16 January 2010, Sec C, p.1
[12] Peter Finn and Joby Warrick, “Miscalculations Led to Attack on CIA”, The Washington Post. 16 January 2010, Sec A, p.1
[13] Ibid
[14] Carrie
Johnson, “Explosive Could Have Blown Hole in Plane”, The Washington Post,
29 December 2009, Sec A, p.1
[15] Paula Newton, “Al-Awlaki’s Father Says Son is ‘not Osama
bin Laden’”, CNN Website, 11 January 2010, http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/10/yemen.al.awlaki.father/index.html
[16] Erik Eckholm, “Firm to Remove Bible References From Gun Sights”, New York Times Website, 21 January 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/22guns.html
[17] Ibid
[18] Alice
J. Hall, “L’Enfant’s Washington”,
p.122-134
[19] David Ovason, The Secret Architecture of
Our Nation’s Capitol, p.6-7
[20] Sudarsan Raghavan, “Cleric says he was confidant to Hasan”, Washington Post Website, 16 November 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/15/AR2009111503160.html
[21] William C. Allen, History
of the United States Capitol, p.199