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Iran, Christian Apologist Tells Greg Laurie Analysis: Hamas attack tunnels remain the
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Netanyahu: US, Iran galloping towards deal which threatens Israel - http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4624318,00.html Prime Minister Netanyahu says US, Iranian commitment to reach nuclear deal with Iran by March a danger to Israel, vows Israel 'will do everything, take any action to foil this bad deal.' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated once again his promise to stop at nothing to prevent Iran from reaching nuclear capabilities, or maintain the ability to do so quickly through a deal with the west. His comments came US Secretary of State Kerry met with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif Friday and again Sunday in Munich, where the top US diplomat stressed Washington's commitment to seeing the deadline met. "The major powers and Iran are galloping toward an agreement that will enable Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons, which will endanger the existence of the State of Israel," Netanyahu said at Israeli government's weekly cabinet meeting. Netanyahu took aim at Kerry and Zarif, saying that their intention to complete a framework agreement by the end of March, forces Israel to take action. "From this (commitment stems the urgency of our efforts to try and block this bad and dangerous agreement. "We will continue to take action and to lead the international effort against Iran's arming itself with nuclear weapons. We will do everything and will take any action to foil this bad and dangerous agreement that will place a heavy cloud over the future of the State of Israel and its security," Netanyahu said.
Kerry ruled out extending a March 31 deadline for Iran nuclear talks unless the basic framework of an agreement is hammered out, speaking in an interview aired Sunday. "The only chance I can see of an extension at this point in time would be that you really have the outlines of the agreement," Kerry said in the interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" taped Saturday in Munich. Global powers have been struggling for more than a year to pin down a comprehensive deal to rein in Iran's suspected nuclear program, after an interim accord was struck in November 2013. After their meeting Sunday, Zarif appeared to rule out any new extension to tough negotiations with world powers. Kerry said outlining the basics of the agreement was crucial before a possible extension could be considered, but reiterated his preference for sticking to the target date. "But if we're not able to make the fundamental decisions that have to be made over the course of the next weeks, literally, I think it would be impossible to extend," he told NBC. "I don't think we would want to extend at that point. Either you make the decisions to prove your program is a peaceful one, or if you're unable to do that, it may tell a story that none of us want to hear." After missing two previous deadlines, the group known as the P5+1 - Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States - set a March 31 deadline for a political agreement. That would be followed by a final deal setting out all the technical points of what would be a complex accord by June 30. But the atmosphere has been complicated by hardliners both in Iran and the United States, with US lawmakers threatening to impose new sanctions on Iran if the March deadline is missed.
End Times Prophecies Point to Threat from Iran, Christian Apologist Tells Greg Laurie - By Anugrah Kumar - http://www.christianpost.com/news/end-times-prophecies-point-to-threat-from-iran-christian-apologist-tells-greg-laurie-133771/ In an interview about the latest global developments in light of End Times prophecies, apologist Don Stewart told evangelist Greg Laurie that the Bible points to Iran as a major threat not only to Israel but also to the United States. Iran, formerly known as Persia, is mentioned along with Rosh in Ezekiel 38 in relation to a prophecy about a coalition having a military alliance in the last days, Stewart said in a Q&A with Pastor Laurie at the Harvest church in Irvine, California, this past week. Rosh seems to refer to the modern day Russia, Stewart explained, saying we can see that the two countries are signing military pacts, which had never happened earlier. What seemed impossible in the past "is now falling in place," he said. Iran's Defense and Armed Forces Logistics Minister Brigadier General Hosein Dehqan last month met with his Russian counterpart, General Sergei Shoigu, for a mutual defense pact to prevent "foreign meddling" led by the U.S., according to The Jerusalem Post. People in Iran are Shia and they have a prophetic view of the last days that a final Imam, the 12th one, will come, and they will know who he is by the fact that he kills Christians and Jews to make this world a Caliphate, said Stewart, who has authored several books, including Living in the Light of Eternity, his latest, and The Rapture. "They [the Shias in Iran] think they are divinely ordained to do this," which explains their determination to have nuclear weapons, Stewart added. About 10 percent of the Muslims in the world are Shia. Sunnis have a different view of the last days. "We [the U.S.] are the big Satan; Israel is a little Satan," for them, Stewart said, after he mentioned a 90-feet high inter-continental ballistic missile Iran has made "to hit us." The Jerusalem Post reported last month that Iran has a missile measuring 88.5 feet in length placed on a launch pad just outside the capital city of Tehran. The missile had never before been seen in public.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham last week warned that President Obama will soon "unleash hell" on the Middle East if he carries on with his plans on striking a nuclear deal with Iran without listening to Congress and his critics. Critics say that Obama is allowing the negotiation process to divert, from its original objective of removing that Iran's potential to make nuclear weapons, to tolerating and only temporarily restricting Tehran's nuke capability. "Iran controls, or heavily influences, four Arab capitals without a nuclear weapon. They have great influence in Iraq with Shi'a militias, the Houthis in Yemen have now taken down the government. They're Iranian-backed. You've got Assad in Syria who's a puppet of Iran, and you've got Hezbollah," Graham said, highlighting Iran's increasing clout. Asked why America is not mentioned in the Bible in the End Times prophecies, Stewart said it is indeed true that the U.S. is not shown as playing any role at all. Ezekiel 38 and 39 say that when a coalition of eight nations comes down to invade Israel, there won't be any nation they will be afraid of, Stewart said. "So we assume there's no superpower in the world at all... We're predicting the United States goes down the drain." Stewart said his guess as to why the U.S. will not remain a superpower is that "partly [because we're] having a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof." The world looks at us as a Christian nation, but when they come here they realize we have nothing Christian about us, he said. About his discussions on the End Times, Pastor Laurie earlier told The Christian Post, "It shows how fragile things are in our world and how quickly things can change. It's like we are seeing foreshocks of a powerful earthquake that is ready to happen. The prophetic events are like dominoes closely stacked together. When the first domino falls, the others will fall in short order."
Analysis: Hamas attack tunnels remain the
greatest threat to Israel - http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Analysis-Hamass-attack-tunnels-remain-the-greatest-threat-to-Israel-390584 The IDF's controlled explosion of a tunnel on Monday is a symbolic act that completes the achievement of one of the most important goals of last summer's Gaza war - the destruction of some 30 Hamas attack tunnels. The tunnel, located near the Gaza border in the area of the Karni crossing, some three kilometers from Kibbutz Nahal Oz, was uncovered during the war, but the destruction of the tunnel was controlled and carried out in coordination with local residents. It was a branch of an attack tunnel that started in Gaza's Shejaiya neighborhood. The tunnel, found to contain old weaponry, was destroyed in order to prevent Hamas from using it again in a future war. Hamas did indeed suffer damaging blows in the war. The uncovering and destruction of the tunnels was one of the heaviest blows dealt to the organization. The defense establishment speaks of a "deterred Hamas," but the concept of deterrence is clearly fragile. Therefore, in the IDF it is estimated that it is just a matter of time until the next round of fighting. It could be a matter of months or years. There is one undisputed point agreed upon in the defense establishment: Hamas is continuing in its efforts to learn lessons from the war and rehabilitate its military capabilities. A week does not go by without reports of the organization carrying out rocket-launching experiments from different sites in the Strip, westward into the sea. Hamas is still finding it difficult to smuggle weapons into Gaza, especially rockets, because of good Israeli intelligence and because of Egypt's contribution to weakening the organization. Egypt is demolishing houses between Sinai and the Strip to create a 1,000 meter buffer zone which could potentially be expanded to three kilometers from the border. Cairo sees Hamas as a group which must be combated due to its support of jihadist terror in Sinai. However, this doesn't prevent Hamas from making domestically-produced rockets. In the past six months, since the conclusion of the Gaza war, Hamas is believed to have made several hundred rockets, good for various ranges, of the types used during Operation Protective Edge. However it is not known at this point if Hamas has received technological help from Iran that could potentially improve the rockets' range and accuracy.
Hamas is also trying to divert building materials and cement to reconstructing the tunnels, even though soil conditions in the area allow for relatively easy and quick digging that makes it possible to build sturdy tunnels with a limited amount of cement. Wooden support posts generally suffice. Therefore, Israel's biggest problem remains the tunnels. Hamas has begun digging them again with the understanding that they are a strategic tool which must be updated and improved, as well as doing everything possible to make it more difficult for Israel to detect and uncover them in the future.
Israel and Egypt forewarned of synchronized ISIS-Sinai assaults in both countries - http://www.debka.com/article/24391/Israel-and-Egypt-forewarned-of-synchronized-ISIS-Sinai-assaults-in-both-countries Intelligence gathered by Egypt and Israel attest to the former Ansar Bait al-Maqdis - now reborn as the Islamic State's operational arm in Sinai - being well into advanced preparations for a large-scale terrorist offensive targeting Israel forces manning the Egyptian frontier, along with a string of Egyptian targets across Sinai up to and including the Suez Canal and Cairo. According to debkafile's counter-terrorism sources, the Islamist group was so elated by the outcome of its multiple attacks on Jan. 29, which left at least 40 Egyptian soldiers dead and more than 100 injured in Sinai and Suez towns, that it is determined to keep going. Using different types of rockets, including Grads, as well as mortars and car bombs, terrorist squads then broke into military bases in four cities in Sinai and two on the Suez Canal and set them on fire. Others killed all the personnel aboard military and police convoys before putting them to the torch. The ISIS Sinai arm is planning to target Israeli forces with a similar type of multiple offensive. Appropriate precautions for fending off this attack are in place.
Cairo banned Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, as a terrorist organization in the wake of the support the Palestinian extremists extended to ISIS for this wholesale assault, supplying the terrorists with rockets and intelligence. In addition to Hamas, DEBKA's sources report that Ansar Bait al-Maqdis has entered into operational collaboration with a newly-established Egyptian Islamist group, which calls itself "Agnad Misr" - Soldiers of Egypt. This group first broke surface on Jan. 24 with a communiqué bearing the motto "Retribution is Life." It turns out to be made up of Salafi extremists mixed with former members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, one of the forerunners of the original Al Qaeda. Its terror agenda focuses on Cairo and its environs.
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Russia pushing U.S. out of Middle East - Jerome R. Corsi - http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/russia-pushing-u-s-out-of-middle-east/ Egypt turns to Moscow after another Putin visit Vladimir Putin's visit to Egypt marks a low point in U.S.-Egyptian relations, weakening an alliance formed 35 years ago, when President Carter negotiated the Camp David Accords with Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, contends a retired Army general. Retired Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, a founding member of the Citizens' Commission on Benghazi, told WND the Russians filled a void after the Obama administration cut off military supplies and equipment to Egypt in response to the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood-backed
president, Mohamed Morsi, which set the stage for Gen. Abdel-Fatal al-Sisi to become president. Vallely noted that in October 2013, after the Obama administration suspended military aid to Egypt, Sisi turned to Russia. The move was followed by Putin's first visit to Egypt on Feb. 12-13, 2014, which resulted in Cairo's decision to purchase some $2 billion of weapons from Russia. Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney, another founding member of the Citizens' Commission on Benghazi, concurred. "It is amazing how fast the Obama administration has turned some of our most loyal allies against us. Egypt was the keystone of our Mideast Policy for 40 years," McInerney said. Egypt is "vital," he said, "because it controls the Suez Canal, plus airspace to enter and exit the Middle East as well as the crucial partner in the Israeli Peace Treaty, and we have now forced the Egyptians to look to Russia for support. How could we let this happen?" Clare Lopez, senior vice president for research and analysis at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, warned Putin is a "shrewd operator who, like his predecessors, prioritizes a Russian presence in the Middle East." "We must know that wherever the Kremlin is able to establish a foothold will be used to the detriment of our friend and partner, Israel, to perpetuate historical KGB relationships with Islamic terror operatives, and to oppose U.S. strategic interests in the region," said Lopez, a former CIA officer and another current member of the Citizens' Commission on Benghazi. "Squandering our decades-long partnership with Egypt is dangerous, foolish and entirely unnecessary," she said. The Washington Institute for Near East Politics reported that between 1979 and Obama's decision to suspend military aid to Egypt last October, the U.S. provided Egypt with nearly $70 billion in funding. More than half went to purchase American-made equipment. The Washington Institute further reported a $1.3 billion per year U.S. security-assistance grant accounting for 80 percent of Egypt's military's annual procurement budget. "Sisi had no choice but to fill the void left by the Obama administration's decision with the military aid that Russia was willing to provide," Vallely
said. Vallely said that since declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization in December 2013, Sisi has been fighting a threat to the Suez Canal, combating ISIS in the Sinai and worrying about ISIS now aligning with the al-Qaida-affiliated militia and the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood in Libya on Egypt's western border. Meanwhile, al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists are gaining strength in Nigeria and Somalia to the south of Egypt. WND reported an interim report by the Citizens' Commission on Benghazi concluded the Obama administration "switched sides" in the war on terror in Libya in 2011 when the White House and State Department under Hillary Clinton chose to arm al-Qaida-affiliated militia and the Libyan branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in their effort to oust Muammar Gadhafi by force. "Russia has stepped up to provide the arms Egypt needs to defend itself against the radical Islamic terrorists al-Sisi faces on all sides," Vallely said. He was referring to a report that Saudi Arabia has agreed to finance the weapons Egypt purchases from Russia. Valley said the Obama administration has managed to reverse some nearly 35 years of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, with Egypt now returning to Russia. Egypt had a close relationship with the Soviet Union had in era of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, from 1956 to 1970. "Egypt has a real concern about security, and the United States is not there to help as we should be helping," Vallely said. "This is typical of the changes the Obama administration has made in U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East," he said. "With the Obama administration supporting the al-Qaida militia in Libya and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, it's a great illustration how an errant foreign policy undertaken by the U.S. State Department and a White House national security team has managed to drag the United States down lower and lower in credibility throughout the Middle East."
Nearing Midnight: The "god" of This World - Todd Strandberg - http://www.raptureready.com/rap16.html "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he doesn't exist." This quote is a modern rephrasing of a more long-winded recitation by Charles Baudelaire. I would like to rephrase it one more time by saying, "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he is not in charge." A large portion of the population acknowledges the devil's existence, but they don't recognize the control he has over their lives. Recent polls point out this growing problem. While belief in God remains fairly stable, the number of individuals who see Satan as real has been in sharp decline. People are at a huge disadvantage when they have an adversary they don't believe exists. When generals face each other on the battlefield, they often do everything they can to learn about the personal traits of the leader they are fitted against. The Bible gives us plenty of examples on how fixated Satan is on bringing about our destruction. This lack of understanding about the Evil One is a key reason why I don't regularly listen to any of the nation's conservative talk radio hosts. I have no interest in hearing someone complain for two to three hours each day about political problems in Washington DC. Since all the major voices in talk radio don't understand that America's capital is really run by spiritual forces, it's pointless to follow their commentary. A lot of Christians have the mindset that President Obama is an evil genius; with a step-by-step master plan for the enslavement of the world. If you look at his record of accomplishments, you would find him to be the most nonproductive president in our nation's history. The only achievement I could credit him with is the steady erosion of America's relationship with Israel, The huge gains made by Republicans in the election this past November has done nothing to break the political stagnation. The leadership traits of the Speaker of the House, John Boehner, and the Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, only makes me wonder if they are part of God's judgment on our nation.
The weakness of Boehner was made plain in a recent interview with 60 Minutes. Reporter, Scott Pelley, asked him "Do you practice that scowl?" in referring to Boehner sitting behind the president. Pelley then asked, "Mr. Speaker, can you bring the Tea Party in line?" implying there is something wrong with being a conservative. Speaker Boehner should have strongly protested being asked such leading questions. By not having any backbone, he allowed the liberal media to define the nature of Republicans. Boehner may get to sit in the center chair with the big gavel, but someone else is setting the agenda. The forces of darkness have such a stranglehold on the political process; they basically get to decide who is allowed to run for any type of major office. I think former Governor Mike Huckabee should have kept his job at Fox News. He has zero chance of being a significant 2016 presidential candidate. During the 2012 election Ron Paul was completely shut out for just being a libertarian. Huckabee's background as an ordained Southern Baptist minister will automatically disqualify him from getting major media coverage. Another way the devil covers his tracks is by shifting blame on causes that really don't matter in the big picture. One of his favorite diversions is the use of various conspiracy organizations. I know a group like the Illuminati fits into the master plan to enslave the world, but they are not a key player. YouTube has become flooded with videos that offer some very weird ideas about Illuminati plots. There are over 10 million views for videos that claim the illuminati was behind the death Michael Jackson and over 4 million views of others videos that blame the organization for the death of rapper Tupac. According to the legend, they were both going to rat out the Illuminati, so the powers that be had them bumped off. In reality, Jackson died because he was a hopeless drug addicts and Tupac is dead because of his gangster lifestyle. We are well past the point where the only way one can make sense of the world is to be mindful of Satan's involvement. The average person's inability to recognize the danger of Muslim terrorism, the rise of anti-Semitism, and the world's fixation on micromanaging Israel's internal affairs-are all things that defy logic. As Satan gains more control over this world, his ability to blind people to the truth is also growing stronger. The only remedy for this mass delusion is God's judgment on mankind. As followers of Jesus Christ, we have the blessing of being able to escape this demon possessed world to heaven either through death or in the Rapture.
"In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God" (2 Corinthians 4:4).
Daily Jot: No apology to Christians from White House - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com Christians should be outraged that an American "president" would compare them with the atrocities of the Islamic State. No where in the Bible does it instruct followers of the one true God to kill infidels, to torture them, to cut off their heads, fingers and toes, to terrorize them. No Christian is instructed by the holy scriptures to do any such thing. The Koran, however, and the example of the false prophet Mohammad, explicitly instructs Muslims to torture and kill those who do not believe in Mohammad and allah, the false god of Islam. Yet the US "president" equated the atrocities of Islam with Christians at the National Prayer Breakfast, a Christian prayer gathering. Have you called for his ouster yet? The "president" said, "We see ISIL, a brutal, vicious death cult that, in the name of religion, carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism -- terrorizing religious minorities like the Yezidis, subjecting women to rape as a weapon of war, and claiming the mantle of religious authority for such actions." He recounted other Islamic atrocities and said, "And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ." Of course, he pointed out the terror against the Yezidis, and mentioned nothing about what the Islamic State has done to Christians in the region. Apparently, he thinks Christians deserve it. That would be the conclusion drawn from Deputy Press Secretary Eric Shultz who unapologetically justified the "president's" remarks saying that Americans must be accountable to our values: "So the President believes that when we fall short of that, we need to be honest with ourselves and look inward, and hold ourselves accountable...Again, I think if you look at the entire text of the remarks, you'll see how well
suited they were for that audience and that setting....I'd refer you to his speech earlier this year at the United Nations General Assembly, where he spoke very compellingly about...us living up to our own values and our own principles." Americans fell short of our own values during the Crusades? Huh? The Crusades were in response to the Islamic Ottoman Empire conquering the Middle East and taking vast amounts of Europe as it sought to establish a worldwide Caliphate--the rule of Islam, the peace of Islam--throughout the known world. They were slaughtering Christians and Jews then as they are now. If not for the Crusades, it is possible that all of Europe would be under Sharia. Christians had to fight Islam or be overtaken by it. Just as it is today. Americans need to wake up and remove their "president" and any who believe like him, otherwise they will face the same consequence. As a judgment on Babylon in Jeremiah 51:14 says, "Surely, I will fill thee with men as with locusts; and they shall raise a battle cry against thee." You heard the battle cry at the National Prayer Breakfast by the leader of the locusts. No apologies.
Daily Devotion - Work It Out - Greg Laurie - www.harvest.org Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.-Philippians 2:12 During the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, people came to California from all around the world because they had heard there was "gold in them thar hills." Apparently some people imagined they would arrive and find chunks of gold just lying around in the streets. Well, there was a lot of gold in California back then, but people quickly discovered that the gold wasn't as plentiful as they'd hoped. Yes, a lot of gold was in the mines, but it was necessary to work hard and stay with it in order to find that mother lode. This is the idea the apostle Paul was conveying to the saints in Philippi when he wrote, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling" (Philippians 2:12). We need to work out what God has worked in. We need to discover what God has done for us.
However, we don't work for our salvation; we work it out. Salvation is a gift from God. We are told in Ephesians 2:8-9, "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast." So we don't work for it; we work it out. Remember, Paul was directing this statement to believers. The idea of working out one's salvation is referring to living out one's faith-carrying it out correctly. In fact, the term work out carries the meaning of working to full completion. So we need to carry it to the goal. As believers, the work of God is in our hearts, but we need to live it out. Like the gold seekers in California's early days, we need to mine it. That means carrying to the goal and fully completing our own salvation with fear and trembling.
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Featured Article: The Hermit Kingdom - Pete Garcia - http://www.omegaletter.com/articles/articles.asp?ArticleID=7986 North Korea is an isolated nation, ruled by a series of short, squatty dictators by the name of Kim. The Kim's are revered by their people as being god-like. Of course, this reverence doesn't come naturally, it's a mix between an extremely relentless propaganda campaign, coupled with the threat of extreme pain and violence. The violence isn't limited to just the supposed perpetrator of said crime, but also to that person's family and extended family. North Korea is the most restrictive, most oppressive, and most propagandized nation on the planet. It is so oppressive, that it makes Sharia Law look trivial, and Sharia bound Islamic states like Disneyland. But the question that seems to be on everyone's mind is, how much longer can it survive? My guess, is that it doesn't survive the decade. Historical Background The founding "eternal" father, Kim Il Sung, was an anti-Japanese militant who reentered the Korean peninsula as Japan surrendered at the end of World War II. With backing from the Soviet Union, Kim solidified his power and in 1948, founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). In 1950, he launched an invasion of the southern half of the Korean peninsula, in which we know today as the 'Korean War'. Subsequently, this four year war ended in a stalemate by 1953. This military incursion resulted in the death of nearly five million people. In 1994, Kim Il Sung stood down (died) after iron-fistedly ruling the tiny
hermit kingdom for 46 years. His son, Kim Jong Il, who had been groomed to take over since 1980, officially took the reins and began a military-reinvestment program. This, along with massive flooding, led to widespread famine conditions, of which the nation is still trying to recover from today. This famine, was due largely to the Kim Jong IL diverting much needed capital to military buildup, rather than on economic infrastructure for his nation. Around one million North Koreans starved to death and the majority of the remaining population, remain malnourished and in extreme poverty. North Korea survives today solely on black market trade, foreign aid, and with limited trade partners like China, Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, Iran, and Syria. Kim Jong Il died in 2011, and his 29 year old son, an almost entirely unknown Kim Jong Un, took over as the next "Supreme Leader". North Korea gained nuclear power status in the early 2000s, and have remained committed to exporting their nuclear technology to rogue regimes around the world, for the right price. From their anti-American rhetoric, black market WMD exports, and military blustering, North Korea has been a time-tested, thorn in the side of the west since their inception in 1948. A lot of important things seemingly events took place in 1948. For one, another tiny nation, Israel, was reborn as a nation after spending almost 2,000 years in diaspora. Over the past 20 years, it has been often speculated that the Hermit Kingdom would collapse due to one reason or another. But it's been 20 years since that speculation began in earnest, and since they are still here, that speculation has been nothing more than that, conjecture. The possibility that they could collapse has a variety of terrifying prospects which makes nations and markets very nervous. Here are a few: *In the face of collapse, Kim Jong Un and leadership do not go quietly into the night. Kim Jong Un bares (or at least is trying too) strong resemblance to his grand-father, Kim Il Sung. (The same guy who started the Korean War.) He may try a last ditch effort at either invading the South, or making good on his continual threats to attack the South.*After watching West Germany struggle to incorporate the East, a similar fear is that North Korea would inundate the south with malnourished, unlearned, unskilled, and highly brainwashed North Koreans who would strain to the point of breaking, the South's economy.*A North Korean collapse would result in a US-South Korean rush to secure the nuclear facilities ahead of the Chinese, potentially triggering a military confrontation between the Chinese and Americans.*North Korean WMD go missing, and fall into the wrong hands, as it did during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
*A North Korean collapse would come at the exact same time, when the US is trying to disengage from its protectorate status in South Korea, catching the US shorthanded and in an economic downturn. So what makes today's speculation any different than those of the experts over the last 20 years? Technology. Since 2002, the North's 'information blockade' has been breaking down at an increasingly exponential rate. Cellphones, radios, laptops, thumb drives filled with black market movies and television shows from the outside world are increasingly breaking down the façade the regime has tried to blind its population with. It's hard to gauge exactly how much information is flowing into the kingdom, but the effect it's having is increasingly noticeable. Most of what we know is gathered from defectors who have managed to escape and from the agents smuggling the contraband in. This reminds me of the months and years leading up to the fall of the Iron Curtain. South Korean activists who work to get the information in, and gathered from those who have defected, report an ever increasing use and tolerance of information consumption even though it is punishable by imprisonment or death. In short, the tightly veiled blockade is coming apart at the seams. Dear Kim There also seems to be an increasing disdain for the young Un, which is due in part from a Korean view that older=wiser mentality in their culture. In other words, many don't think he knows what he is doing. Of course, they can't say that publically for the obvious reasons. But Kim Jong Un is by far, the least respected, as compared with his father and grandfather. This distrust and disdain is in part, why he has purged a significant portion of his military leadership. As more and more North Koreans gain exposure to the outside world, the more they will realize that North Korea isn't the greatest nation in the world. The more they are exposed, the more they will realize how bad they truly have it. Factors leading down to the breakdown the 'cult of personality', in which has kept the North Koreans impoverished and blinded is the information inflow, a total mismanagement of resources, and the notorious prison camps in which the Kims have used to maintain their grip over the Hermit Kingdom. Assessment In recent history, there seems to be a seventy year time limit in how far
God will allow these atheistic nations to exist in their current forms. The collapse in Eastern Europe began in the Soviet satellite states who also suffered under a collapsing "information blockade". This led to the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989-1990. 1989 also marked a volatile year for the People's Republic (China), culminating in the brutal crackdown at Tiananmen Square. Had the global condemnation of human rights abuses not been rewarded with the Most Favored Nation (MFN) status under the Clinton Regime, it is very likely China's current form of government would be very different. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of its own corrupt and bloated bureaucracy. But in all the cases where communism collapses two things are seemingly and divinely allowed to happen. The Gospel is sent in, and the Jews that are there, are allowed out. Although there aren't any Jews (that we know of) in North Korea, the Gospel will find a way in. We know that either before the Rapture, (Kim's regime collapses) or after the Rapture (144,000 or the Angel) the Gospel will reach mightily into this satanic stronghold. It is already finding a way in, but it's being brutally oppressed. There is said to be an estimated 100,000 Christians (primarily in labor camps) in North Korea. There are also an untold number of underground churches, as well as missionary groups who routinely and in various ways, attempt to bring in the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the North. When this impending Kim Regime collapses, we need to pray that the Good News of Jesus Christ is allowed to reach a people who have spent almost a century in abject misery. We need to pray for the safety of the men and women who continue to risk their lives to bringing the Gospel. We need to pray daily for those now so that they might find some respite and relief in an environment that is aggressively hostile to the Christian faith. And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. Matthew 28:18-20 NKJV
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