Free Lunch

#1192

Green as the tobacco fields where I worked, I entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the fall of 1948. During the 8 years I was pursuing my professional education, commissioned as an Army medical officer upon graduation. Unbelievers... those who had no relationship with Jesus Christ whatsoever, were as committed and “religious” as “so called” believers are today. Today, there is little difference between the Christian believer and Satin’s unbelievers. Even among ministers of the gospel, God's Word is not considered word from God but rather words that various men wrote as coming from God. The country's most popular preacher, Joel Osteen (never attended a Bible college or Seminary, just took over after the death of his father), never uses the word sin. When recently asked about same-sex marriage, his opportunity to proclaim God's Word about the sacred union of man and woman he said, “I think God has better.”

Weather forecasters do not have a clue about forecasting weather, climactic catastrophes. They could not predict the recent October blizzard, the 177 earthquakes, tornadoes and other disasters of this past year, all over the world were a mystery to them. There is no mystery about happenings in today's world, already described.

The game is over in Europe, the launching point of western civilization. Miserable conditions in Greece, the cradle of civilization. Greek bonds cannot be sold and now German bonds. Germany, in past, the world's center of intelligentsia now on the brink. The world's second largest mosque is in Cologne,Germany... Christian churches throughout Europe turned into mosques. As in America, Muslims attempting to establish Islamic Sharia law replacing the US Constitution.

Your history book tells you that all political-religious uprisings start with street protestors. There are not enough police, prisons to control world upheavals as we find across the world... Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Iran, Syria, etc. And now, with the “so called” Wall Street Occupiers, American cities. Thousands, NYC, LA, and to a greater or lesser extent, every American city under the umbrella of jobs, inequality, fairness.

This week, North Carolina State University, America's fourth largest bank president, John Stumpf, Wells Fargo, shouted down by occupiers who had infiltrated the student body. This man who makes $18 million per year as president of this bank, with the usual jovial-Obama style-appeal to school team spirit was giving the usual bankers optimistic prophetic dream-tune. The thousands of unemployed, victims of communism, taught in public schools no longer swallow the drivel of political-correctness. Most have sense enough to know that the national debt can never be repaid. Most have sense enough to know that their living is headed downward.

Thinking Americans, mostly in the tea party movement have already discovered that America is on the brink of disaster. It has taken a long time to discover that politicians will promise anything for your vote, including a free lunch. “In the 50's”, people knew that money does not grow on trees, that there is no such thing as a free lunch. “In the 50's”, Christians did not watch the same smut and slop at the movie house and on their new TV sets as the non-Christians. “In the 50's”, remembering the Great Depression, the strangle hold of WWII, hard-working, god-fearing, tax-paying citizens did not expect anything from government... never thought about vacations, not working on holidays, benefits and retirement packages. We have seen what communist-inspired unions and government troughs have done to the work ethic. Over 50% of the population now live on entitlements.

Even today's students at “so called” Christian colleges are less moral than university students in the 50s. Much to my sorrow, much to my embarrassment, much to the sorrow of God, I feel personally cheated because I can no longer give money to a certain Christian college (a college where I had given hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years.) Twice, in one month, girls raped on this college campus, “hanging out” in men's dormitories. Why, on a Christian college campus, would their be inter-visitation in residence halls between men and women?

“In the 50's”, even college students were embarrassed to talk about homosexuality, abortion, new age religions.

I believe today's Christian is OVERWHELMED by the problems of the world. Instead of persevering, many just withdraw and, I'm sorry to say, many enable continuation of “play church” Christianity by giving their funds, buying the “Jesus junk” of trinkets, books from the televangelists and others who are putting up a facade in the hope that they are doing something good. (James 1:12)

The world, the flesh, the devil, and particularly “politically-correct” politicians, pastors., parents want the people of the world sitting in order in a box. One cannot do anything to improve the world while in a box. You must be outside the box to lift it and,the world, your country, your town, with the help of God, needs you to lift the box without any thoughts of a free lunch. Your freedom comes from your liberty with God.

Prolific Storms

Perhaps it is because of the 24 hour, never ending news commentaries all over the World. Perhaps it is because I have never heard a city mentioned on a BBC radio weather forecast that I have not visited. Perhaps it is because I am just more interested in world conditions, but there seems to be more storms, more weather disasters, than any other time in my memory.

Most weather or other weather catastrophes are just news for a few days. Think of the thousands of human beings still living in makeshift tents and other shelters in Haiti (230,000 killed, 1,000,000 homeless). Think of the earthquake victims in Chile (521 killed), victims of mudslides in Guatemala (at least 96 killed). This past weekend, on isolated religious campground in Arkansas, a flash flood took 20 lives. Last week, in Oklahoma city there were torrential rains and around 136 people were injured.

And so it goes, day after day, somewhere in the world, a disaster of some type. Not a disaster for the onlooker, but a disaster for those afflicted. Much like a newspaper headline in WW1 “Great battle fought, great victory won, only one American killed” It was only one American killed, but for the family of that one American, it was a tragedy from which they would not soon recover.

We are now in the hurricane season. In 2004, we had one of the costliest hurricanes in history, Hurricane Ivan (Category 4). Among damages, Ivan topped 7 gulf oil platform rigs. Today, the world is facing the greatest environmental catastrophe in history, just the toppling of one oil platform belonging to British Petroleum. Millions of gallons of crude oil are poisoning the Gulf of Mexico, and could very well destroy much of the world's oceanic marine life. 31,000 miles of oil pipe and thousands of oil platforms can be found in the Gulf of Mexico, . Hurricane Ivan scoured the ocean floor, bringing up debris from the depths of the ocean floors. Can we even imagine the dilemma posed by a powerful hurricane in this area now? Think of what it will be like when the oil reaches the Gulf Stream and pollutes the entire east coast and probably waters around Europe.

At this very time, when America needs all it's resources concentrated on an international ecological disaster, we are bogged down in two senseless, endless, win-less wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The third world war has already begun, and the world will realize this as soon as Israel attacks Iran. Saudi Arabia has already cleared Israel to make flights through it's airspace. Israel, Pakistan, and probably both Iran and Saudi Arabia have nuclear weapons, all it will take is one nuclear explosion if even accidental to close the Straits of Hormuz and turn the entire middle east aflame. With the Islamic extremist in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and most assured the West Bank into a battlefront of biblical proportions and biblical prophecy.

At the same time, we have a second front, North Korea. Many of us remember the trauma and tragedy of the other Korean conflict. North Korea is threatening to turn South Korea into an “ocean of fire”. China, with it's eye on Taiwan, is using North Korea as a puppet. North Korea predicts that it has a “Los Angeles missile”, missiles which will reach the USA from Alaska to San Diego. From 1952, South Korea and USA have had an armistice with North Korea. North Korea states that the war is on again. When I was last in South Korea, staying in the Chosun hotel in Seoul, signs were in the windows of the hotels reading “Keep Curtains Closed” and it gave the mileage to the border of North Korea. All it will take is one more sunken ship, 46 South Koreans killed on recent sunken ship, and the far east can become aflame again. It will not be a Quemoy or Matsu entanglement, China will not be satisfied until it invades Taiwan, and China does not mind involving North Korea as a puppet against its enemies.

China has a long-range space program, Mr. Obama is destroying our space program...as well as everything else that has kept America a superpower. Russia and China are no longer communist, they have found like America that communist-capitalism serves them best. The three great world powers: USA, Russia and China are fascist in their political doctrines. Russia probably fears China more than it fears America. I crossed the Gobi desert when Russia was had missiles aimed at China. Russia realizes China's superpower, nuclear superiority ambitions. The ash storm from Iceland, killing agriculture in Europe, the storms of America including the great oil-spill are nothing compared to threats of a nuclear annihilation storm which could happen...a prolific storm beyond compare.