Hurricane Earl is wrecking havoc on the East Coast of the United States. It is no mere coincidence that this is occurring at the very same time the White House is trying to force Israel back into peace talks with terrorists who vow in Arabic to destroy Israel and teach their children to hate Jews, but put suits and ties on for the American public and try to play the victim of warmongering Israelis. Does anyone recall that Katrina hit New Orleans about the same time the Bush Administration was trying to force Israel to give up land for peace? These so-called natural catastrophes occur nearly every time America tries to force Israel into giving up something to the terrorists for peace.

This round of Washington, DC peace talks certainly looks one sided. The Administration has featured discussions with the President of Egypt, the King of Jordan and the loosely elected president-in-name-only of the Palestinians-in-name-only Mahmoud Abbas. The man who occupies the Oval Office appears to believe that by featuring the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, and the Bush Administration’s propped up version of moderate terrorist Palestine that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will get the picture that he needs to give up Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to the Arab terrorists to secure a lasting peace.

Isn’t is a strategy of satan himself to use Israel’s only modern ally to pressure it into giving up the traditional Biblical lands of the Israelites to those who were prophesied by an angel of the LORD in Genesis whose “hand will be against every man”? Couple this with a truly peace loving people and it becomes a real paradox. I know from my visit to Israel and extensive discussions prior and since with Israelis, that they want peace above all else. They want their children to grow up without the threat of a terrorist killing them because they are Jews. And many in Israel are willing to do most anything to have this peace. They are willing, to an extent, to give up their land, if only the threat of terrorism would subside.

Those who have studied Islam and know the doctrine of this warlord political system masquerading as a religion know that peace is never possible without complete submission. Thus, the Biblical prophecies of the Gog/Magog war, Damascus being destroyed, the anti-christ, Revelation and more. A friend of mine told me that the Holy Spirit gave him a simple prayer that everyone should know. It goes like this: Lord Jesus, may we bless Abba’s Holy City Jerusalem, His people Israel, and Abba’s Holy Mountain, Mt Zion. This is not unlike Psalm 122:6, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.” Do we need a reminder of a hurricane or the discernment of evil to exhort us to do the will of God?

Bill Keller is this on fire-for-the-Lord internet evangelist who founded LivePrayer.com. I have known Bill for about five years and believe him to be a take-no-prisoners, Bible believing, Bible teaching man. He is not one to see a problem and cower away from it, he attacks it. He was criticized years ago for going on Howard Stern. But Bill handled Howard Stern and because of his appearances on Stern’s show, literally thousands came to the Lord, recommitted their lives to the Lord and thanked Bill for being so bold as to bring Christ to Stern’s airwaves. He has the emails and letters to prove it. Now Bill is off on another mission–to counter the Islamic Center and Mosque to be built near Ground Zero in New York.

Bill says, “How do you battle the darkness? With the LIGHT! I watched in disbelief a few weeks ago as they announced the Muslims would be building a $110 million mosque just a few blocks from where their Muslim brothers perpetrated the greatest act of terror on US soil in history, deliberately flying planes into the World Trade Center towers, knocking them down and killing 3,000 innocent souls in the process. The gall, the arrogance, the audacity of this false religion of violence, hate, and death to build their temple to satan just blocks from that hallowed ground.” So Bill decided to do something about it.

Beginning this Sunday, September 5, he will begin having services at the “9-11 Christian Center at Ground Zero.” He will be holding services every Sunday at 11 am at the New York Marriott at 85 West Street–one block from ground zero. There will be services 7 days a week and a “9-11 Memorial Prayer Room” for those who visit Ground Zero and want to stop and pray. Bill says, “The mission is simple. Have a place at ground zero where people can come to hear the real uncompromised Truth right from God’s Word, and find the only true hope there is, faith in Jesus Christ!!!” He said he is not starting just another church–services will be like the soul winning “old time evangelistic meetings.”

The opposition to this new church is tremendous. Bill wrote in his daily email that “every left leaning website has been covering our opening. It is amazing how they all could not wait to support the victory mosque, but have gone after me with a vengeance, calling me every horrible name you could think of in the process.” But these attempts to discourage only make Bill Keller more determined. He says, “I have a secret to share with you today. The people in this world are looking for hope.” The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 12:21, “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.” This is an example of how we as Christians can change the world if we are obedient to the Lord.

In an interview with NBC, the man who occupies the Oval Office said that polls indicating a third of Americans did not believe he was Christian and nearly a fifth believe he is a Muslim were the result of a misinformation campaign by his conservative enemies. Getting a bit indignant, he said, “I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead.” Jesus said in Matthew 7:20, “Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.” By supporting Islam over Israel; the building of an Islamic mosque near ground zero; appointing an inordinate number of Muslims to high government positions; and proposing spending tax dollars on remodeling mosques–the American people are getting the picture.

There is a lot more to this. On March 27, 2004, the man who now occupies the Oval Office denied the deity of Christ, defined Christ as Muslims define Him, said there were many ways to eternity, defined sin as “being out of alignment with” his own values”, and defined heaven in Islamic terms. He did so in an interview with Cathleen Falsani, author of “The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People.” In his own words, he describes his faith in Islamic terms, from an Islamic worldview of Christianity. He said, “Jesus is a historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.”

He said, “There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they are going to hell…I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell.” He continued, “I can’t imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity…I think that each of us when we walk into our church or mosque or synagogue are interpreting that experience in different ways, are reading scriptures in different ways and are arriving at our own understanding at different ways and in different phases.”

He concluded, “If all it took was someone proclaiming ‘I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins,’ and that was all there was to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would they?” If you have any doubt where the president stands from his own words about his faith, just look at his actions. But the worst of it is that he actually denies the central doctrine of Christianity by saying there is more than one way to heaven. Jesus Christ said in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me.” The president gave us his answer in the comment about wearing his birth certificate on his forehead–he was born a Muslim and his fruits bear witness to his faith.

The definition of propaganda is: chiefly derogatory information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view; the dissemination of such information as a political strategy. The definition of lie is: an intentionally false statement used with reference to a situation involving deception or founded on a mistaken impression. The definition truth is: that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality. Another definition of truth is: a fact or belief that is accepted as true. Hitler’s propagandist Joseph Goebbels is credited with stating that a lie spoken often enough will be believed as truth.

In a January 9, 1928 speech in Berlin, Goebbels said, “Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful, aesthetically elegant speeches, or speak so that women cry. The point of a political speech is to persuade people of what we think right. I speak differently in the provinces than I do in Berlin, and when I speak in Bayreuth, I say different things than I say in the Pharus Hall. That is a matter of practice, not of theory. We do not want to be a movement of a few straw brains, but rather a movement that can conquer the broad masses.”

Given the definitions, is it truth, lie, propaganda or telling a lie enough times that it becomes truth when the man who occupies the Oval Office and his vice president say with conviction that the country is moving in the right direction? All economic indicators point to a double dip recession. Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg begs to differ. In his daily report to investors, Rosenberg says the economy is “a depression, and not just some garden-variety recession.” He compares these times to those of the era of Goebbels speech, saying that any good news during the late 1920′s triggered euphoric responses.” Unemployment rising, home mortgage failures, bankruptcies–all point to an economic depression.

Yet the White House says the country is headed in the right direction. Goebbels pretty much said the same thing. He added, however, in another 1928 speech: “What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel.” Sound familiar? Joshua said in Joshua 24:15,”…but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” Who will you serve, and what will you do about it?

In a rare instance, a judge at a US District Court ruled in favor of life. Judge Royce Lamberth granted in Washington, DC a temporary injunction against an Executive Order by the man who occupies the Oval Office that illegally expanded a ban on using taxpayer money for embryonic stem cell research. Embryonic stem cell research is illegal if federal money is used to destroy a human embryo. Under President Bush, federally financed research of embryos was limited to 21 cell lines already in existence by 2001. The current president issued an executive order that allowed federal money to be used on hundreds more stem cell lines, so long as donors signed consent forms.

The problem now faced by researchers is that they have eagerly destroyed an unknown number of preborn human embryos–the number could be in the hundreds or thousands–for their so-called research. The White House attempted to bend the meaning of words so that federal tax dollars could be used if technically that part of the funding was not destroying embryos. But the judge ruled that taxpayer money could not be used for any part of the research that resulted in or required the destruction of an embryo–which is the intent of the original law. This is just one example of how insidious this White House has been with interpreting law.

The ruling is a temporary halt to the work at dozens of Embryonic destruction facilities that have received millions of taxpayer dollars since the Oval Office edict. Embryonic stem cell research has yielded no intended results over more than a decade. In fact, most of what was thought as breakthroughs eventually yielded terrible results with mutations and harmful, if not deadly, after effects. Adult stem cells, however, have been used to cure scores of health problems, including some forms of cancer. About five years ago, I covered a news conference in Washington, DC where there were some 20 children who were birthed from preserved embryos that could have been destroyed by embryonic stem cell research.

This is a classic battle between good and evil. That government would go against God’s law thinking it can destroy human life that human lives may be saved is a deception. Satan has been trying to destroy life on earth since the beginning. From early Biblical edicts of infanticide to today’s edict by another ruler that taxpayers should fund destruction of human life–be it abortion or embryonic stem cell research or so-called end of life decisions–is against God’s plan for life and the supreme law of America–the Constitution. Jesus said it best in John 10:10, “The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

In an interview on KCBS Radio, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for an investigation into those who oppose the building of a mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero of the 911 attacks by Muslim terrorists. Pelosi said, “There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded.” So now all those who are expressing their disgust over this proposed Islamic monument to its 911 terrorist attacks should be investigated as to how they are getting their money. Some 68% of Americans oppose the mosque. That’s a lot of government investigation proposed by Pelosi.

Instead, it might be wiser to investigate where the Muslims are getting their money to build the mosque and Islamic center, and whether the effort is being funded by those who support terrorism or the destruction of the United States. Let’s start with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, founder of the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the organizer of the Ground Zero mosque initiative. Rauf has been billed as a “moderate” Muslim Imam who seeks to build the Ground Zero mosque to foster “peaceful Muslim-Western relations.” Rauf refuses to say where the $100 million is coming from to build the mosque. He has told American media its being funded by donations from American Muslims.

Rauf, however, in an interview with the Saudi-owned Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, says funding of the mosque will come from the US as well as from Muslims overseas. Rauf’s American Society for Muslim Advancement is partially funded by the Saudis. Interesting that the State Department is sending Rauf on a goodwill mission to the Middle East–a mission Fox News says will take him to United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, and Saudi Arabia. State Department spokesman PJ Crowley says, “we have informed him about our prohibition against fundraising while on a speaking tour. We do not expect him to fundraise. ” Yes, but what prevents him from fundraising on his own personal time during the trip? Probably nothing.

Meanwhile, the Ground Zero mosque issue is becoming such a political liability to the Democrats that Democratic New York Governor David Paterson plans to offer “state owned” land to Rauf’s group in order to get them to move the project. Separation of church and state apparently only applies to Christians in America. Pelosi wants an investigation into Americans who might be funding the mosque opposition, yet no investigation into whether terrorist money is being used to build it. The Democrats now want to provide state-owned property to build a Muslim mosque and community center. 2 Timothy 3:13 says, “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived.” And so it is today.

Some 68 percent of Americans do not want an Islamist center built near the hallowed ground zero of 911 where Muslims, carrying out the tenets of the Koran, killed nearly 3,000 innocent people. Crying religious freedom, even Hamas terrorist leaders are saying that Muslims should be able to worship wherever they please. And the man who occupies the Oval office has once again sided with the terrorists–he says its ok to build a mosque and Islamic center there. “Once again” because he has been doing it all along in supporting the Palestinian terrorist view of Israel, in extolling the virtues of Islam in official White House policy, and in refusing to control American borders, allowing terrorists in unabated.

So now, is this the issue that will stir the passions of all true Americans? Is this the straw that breaks the camel’s back? Has this Islamic-raised usurper in the White House finally crossed the line? History, if Americans were actually taught it, would indicate that Islam has been at war with Jews and Christians for centuries. It was a prophecy of the angel of the LORD to Hagar about her son Ishmael, who is considered the patriarch of Islam. Genesis 16:12 says, “And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.” Every place where you see human suffering either socialism or Islam is involved. This president touts both.

Now beware. In the days ahead there will be a deception in play. Islamists in America, in their spirit of respect and grace, will appear to back off from building an Islamic center near ground zero. But do not believe it. Do not stop pressuring the public sentiment. There are actually two entities that are to be built on the complex near ground zero–a mosque and an Islamic center. Watch these cunning Islamist leaders recant on the center, so they can keep the mosque. Watch how the media and the White House will praise them for being so sensitive. Then they will build the mosque as intended–a memorial to their struggle against the “great American satan.”

Islam is an enemy of the state that uses religion to anchor the seed of its rancid and hateful agenda as it grows into a tyrannical political system. Americans have no business with a usurper in the White House who demands that Israel quit building houses on its own land, but fully supports Islam building a mosque near the site where it attacked Americans and spilled innocent blood. This is calloused disrespect for all Americans, especially to the families of those who died in the 911 attacks, and to those who have fought in this horrible war of Islamic aggression since then. Americans, especially Christian Americans, need to stand up and shout loud that even the deaf politicians hear the error of their ways.

Since September 11, 2001, both President George W. Bush and the man who currently occupies the Oval Office have been trying to convince Americans that Islam is a peaceful religion. Both hosted dinners either at the White House or the State Department celebrating Islamic holidays, especially Ramadan. Both attempted to extol the virtues of Islam to the American people. Now the president has gone too far by throwing his support behind a mosque and Islamic center proposed to be built in New York near where Muslims brutally murdered 2,752 innocent American citizens. He uses the old argument of religious freedom to justify his position. It is a false argument.

Given the definition of “sound religion” that was used by the Founding Fathers of this nation to build out the First Amendment, Islam would hardly qualify as a religion. Benjamin Franklin summed up the Founder’s take on religion in a letter to Ezra Stiles, president of Yale University: “I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he out to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion.”

Here we see that when George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin and others framed up their Constitutional positions on religion, it met essentially five criteria to qualify: First, one God that created all things and who should be worshiped; Second, God has established a providential government; Third, that all people are to treat one another according to the principles of God; Fourth, the soul of man is immortal; and Fifth, will mankind will answer justly to God according to the life lived here on earth. Analyzing this criteria, which is held consistent through the Founders writings on religion, only the Judeo-Christan religion qualifies. All others, especially Islam, violate these principles in some ways.

God’s law was given to Moses, and the Founders used it to fashion America’s laws. There is blessing in keeping the commandments, statutes and judgments given by the LORD. They are enumerated in Deuteronomy Chapter 7. Moreover, Jesus Christ gave the true law of love for all mankind to follow. He said in 13:34, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” Even Mohammed recognized Jesus as a great prophet, yet he wrote in the Koran that his god wanted all Christians and Jews killed. Building an Islamic Center near the 911 site is not about religious freedom. Its about submission to political Islam. And the Oval Office knows it.

Ten members of an International Assistance Mission, a Christian organization that has provided medical care to remote parts of Afghanistan on short term missions for 44 years, were summarily executed by the Taliban while returning to Kabul. Six of the group were Americans. Because they were medical personnel doing charity work, they had no security, no weapons, no armed guards. In claiming responsibility for the executions, a Taliban spokesman told The Associated Press that they killed the missionaries because they were “spying for the Americans” and “preaching Christianity.” A spokesman for the mission, however, said his organization is Christian, but does not proselytize.

This tragedy underscores the prophetic persecution that is coming to America. So long as Americans count Islam as a religion rather than the totalitarian political system it is, Islamic colonization of the United States will continue to advance rapidly. In its wake will be persecution beyond anything any American has ever experienced. The federal government refuses to secure the boarder with Mexico, allowing thousands of undocumented Islamic colonists each year. Christian denominations embrace Islam through “inter-faith dialogue.” And many Americans just fail to see the danger of Islamic encroachment on American society. But persecution is coming.

Politicians and the public alike refuse to recognize that Islam is not a religion and that it should not fall under First Amendment protection. The Founding Fathers knew the First Commandment to have no other gods. Religious freedom meant the ability to worship God freely without government interference. Islam’s holy book, the Koran, instructs Muslims to kill infidels, unbelievers, Jews and Christians. This alone is the doctrine of the political system of Islam. It is an enemy to any nation. Its antithesis to God’s people was prophesied in Genesis 16:12 when an angel of the Lord said that Ishmael “will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.”

Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me.” This is the central doctrine of Christianity. Anything else is a false religion, no matter how nice your Muslim neighbor is. And a false religion is of satan. Jesus warned of satan’s wiles in John 10:10, “The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.” And that is exactly what the Koran instructs its followers to do to anyone who is not Muslim. Jesus also warned Christians in John 15:20, “If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you.” Persecution is coming. It will be swift and brutal as it was for the brave martyrs in Afghanistan. It will be even swifter, if God’s people continue to embrace Islam in this nation.

The National Review has made public a memo by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that proposes the White House use policy rather than legislation to allow millions of illegal aliens entry or residence in the United States. Shocking in this memo is that our own government is proposing to subvert Congress to actually allow even criminals and terrorists to enter into this country unabated. The very politically correctly worded memo suggests regulation changes to allow applicants who “require a waiver of inadmissibility” ways to remain or come to the United States “without fear of removal.” The authors of the memo were obviously charged with finding ways to allow amnesty by Executive Order.

In fact, the memo boldly states that Immigration Services should break the law. It says, “Thus, USCIS should no longer adhere to the 1990 General Counsel opinions, and instead permit individuals in TPS (Temporary Protected Status) to adjust or change status. Opening this pathway will help thousands of applicants obtain lawful permanent residence without having to leave the U.S.” To justify this, the USCIS Chief Counsel “has expressed her view that these legal opinions no longer reflect a correct interpretation of the statute.” In other words, the current Administration’s lawyers have reinterpreted longstanding 20 year old statues that prevent illegal immigration to mean that they allow it.

USCIS says that it has the “discretionary authority” under the law to “parole into the U.S. On a case-by-case basis for “urgent humanitarian reasons” or “significant public benefit” any applicant for admission.” The memo states, “By granting PIP (parole-in-place), USCIS can eliminate the need for qualified recipients to return to their home country for consular processing.” The memo says that this procedure has been used on a very limited basis for years, but the Administration had already approved a broader use of parole that could apply to all illegal aliens, which the memo calls “applicants.” It even says that any “alien present in the U.S. who has not been admitted shall be deemed an applicant for admission.”

This demonstrates how this Administration “interprets” the law to its own political ends. The memo so alarmed a group of Senators that they wrote a letter to the man who occupies the Oval Office. The group, led by Iowa Republican Senator Charles Grassley, says in part “While deferred action and parole are Executive Branch authorities, they should not be used to circumvent Congress’ constitutional authority to legislate immigration policy, particularly as it relates to the illegal population in the United States.” Isaiah 59:14 describes our government: “…justice stands far off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.” Isaiah 59:9 says, “we wait for light, but behold obscurity.” The time for waiting is over.

If one wishes to understand the direction of the nation, one only has to look at the prayers that were offered during the inauguration. The prayers reflected the man who occupies the Oval Office who told the nation, “We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus – and non-believers.” Kicking off the inauguration was homosexual activist and apostate Episcopalian minister “Vickie” Eugene Robinson who opened with “O god of our many understandings. . .”, then proceeded to curse America with his “blessings” calling on our nation to suffer tears, anger and discomfort for our treatment of homosexuals, the poor in other nations and every religion’s gods.

On January 21, Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, offered an inaugural prayer at the National Cathedral. ISNA is supported by the terrorist group Muslim Brotherhood and was also named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land terrorist money laundering trial. Mattson is quoted by the Center for Security Policy as saying, “Indeed, since preserving faith is the highest priority, it is important that Muslims avoid demoralizing dependence on other faith communities for their protection and material needs.” She says, “People of faith have a certain kind of solidarity with others of their faith community that transcends the basic rights and duties of citizenship.”

At the inauguration proper, SaddlebackChurch pastor Rick Warren gave a Christian prayer, yet the discerning ear found it to be ecumenical by including phrases from all the major religions-Christian, Jewish and Muslim. After publicly approving of having the homosexual Robinson pray, Warren followed his same theme, although it was carefully hidden. Warren, in his inclusive prayer, said, “The Scripture tells us, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one.” And you are the compassionate and merciful one.” But, here, Warren mixed the scriptures of the Bible and the Koran-considered a somewhat heretic move by Jews, Muslims and Christians.

JihadWatch.org’s Robert Spencer, an expert on Islam writes: “‘The compassionate, the merciful’ is, of course, a reference to the invocation at the beginning of every chapter of the Qur’an except one. . .the prayer indicates yet again that there is little general awareness of the reasons why the term “Judeo-Christian-Islamic Values” is a misnomer.” All religions do not worship the same god. The First Commandment is “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.” Jesus says in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me.” The Koran instructs its readers to kill Christians and Jews. Why are Christian religious leaders compromising the word of God? Why are Americans tolerating such apostasy?

Sunday, January 18 marked the beginning of the U.S. presidential inauguration. Kicking off the ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial was homosexual activist and false minister of the gospel “Vickie” Eugene Robinson, the apostate Episcopalian. Robinson was charged with opening the event with a prayer. He began his prayer for the new administration at the White House with these words, “O god of our many understandings. . .” From then on, Robinson called on this pagan god to “bless” America, but each “blessing” was actually a curse pronounced over the nation, a prophetic call from the abyss to the one world order and the encoding of the true gospel into words that tickle the ears, but destroy souls.

Robinson asked god to bless our nation with tears, anger and discomfort that we might not accept: poverty around the world; women being raped because they seek an education; the discrimination of homosexuals, transgender people, immigrants and people of color; simplistic answers rather than the truth about ourselves as a nation. Robinson then asked for the blessing of patience to understand that our problems will not be fixed anytime soon; with humility to embrace with respect our differences and to know that our national needs must be balanced with the needs of the world; and compassion, “remembering that every religion’s god judges us by the way we care for the most vulnerable.”

It is with these curses embraced by the new administration that our nation begins another chapter in its history, a chapter that when it is written will say that Americans stepped outside of its underpinnings as a Christian nation and its leadership fell apostate to a strange word. Even the man who claims to lead evangelical Christians served as an apologist for the apostate. Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life and pastor of Saddleback Church, praised the choice of Robinson to pray, saying that the president-elect “has again demonstrated his genuine commitment to bringing all Americans of goodwill together in search of common ground.”

Warren could not be more incorrect. Robinson is not a man of goodwill. He is an apostate that mocks the word of God. And in lacking discernment by promoting common ground with such a man, Warren is deceived and is deceiving others. What has occurred is the cursing of our nation and its leadership with heresy. And it is a sad day that Christian leaders would embrace such compromise. Hebrews 4:12 says, “For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Discern that you may not compromise.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is demanding an explanation from Israel as to why the UN Headquarters in Gaza was shelled by Israeli artillery. Ban told the AP reporter Ibrahim Barzak, “I conveyed my strong protest and outrage to the defense minister and foreign minister and demanded a full explanation.” Barzak, known as a Palestinian propagandist rather than as an unbiased journalist, reported that a UN official speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press said that the U.N. compound in Gaza had only that morning become a makeshift shelter for hundreds of Gaza City residents seeking sanctuary from relentless Israeli shelling.”

In reality, Hamas proved the point Israeli forces have been trying to make to the deaf ears of pro-terrorist, anti-Israel media reporting on the war: that the Palestinians are using civilians as human shields. Knowing full well that war refugees were herding into the UN headquarters, terrorists set up artillery positions and fired anti-tank missiles at Israeli Defense Forces reportedly from near the doorsteps of the UN building. Israeli forces returned fire. The only explanation Ban needs is that it is a war zone and the UN building was being used by terrorists as a propaganda prop to attack Israeli positions–which exposes the point that the UN presence in Gaza is emblematic of the problem, not the solution.

The Israeli Embassy reports each day on the progress of the war. During the week, the Embassy reported that Israeli forces continued to attack terrorist targets: “Among those sites were 55 weapons smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip, twenty rocket launching sites and twenty-two cells of armed gunmen, some of which were targeted in coordination with ground forces. Hamas continued to use mosques as operational centers in order to strike at Israeli forces. . . A tunnel built to allow terrorists to enter Israel and carry out large scale terror attacks was also discovered. The entrance to that tunnel was located in a house 300 meters from the security fence.”

How is it that Palestinian terrorists were allowed to dig tunnels, smuggle arms, launch rockets at Israeli civilians and use Gaza as a base of operations to train for and conduct suicide attacks on Israeli citizens under the watchful eye of the United Nations? The US should demand an investigation of whether the UN is complicit in allowing the terrorists to establish such a base with the UN headquarters among them. It would seem that the UN is a promoter of terrorism by its knowledge and subsequent inaction. 2 Timothy 3:13 says, “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.” The UN is an evil deceiver and should be disbanded.

It’s a jihad, or holy war, against Israel, says Osama bin Laden in a new video release from some cave somewhere. The issue is not, however, the formulation of a Palestinian state living side by side in peace with Israel. If that were the case, the Palestinians would have made sure that Gaza was a peaceful pristine example instead of raining missiles down on innocent Israeli civilians day in and day out for years. No, the issue is Israel and its right to exist as a nation. The Islamic world says “no” to an independent Israel and says so with explosives every chance it gets. Now the Iranian-backed Hezbollah is shelling Israel from the north in Lebanese strongholds.

One must wonder aloud how Hezbollah and Hamas have the ability to gain weapons enough to shoot at the Israelis, especially since the venerable United Nations peacekeeping forces are watching over the area to make sure that the peace is kept. The United Nations is a farce. There are reports that the terrorists rearm and refortify in clear sight of the UN forces. UN forces refuse to acknowledge that it is their responsibility to prevent the rearming. So the world experiences frequent war in a pattern: the terrorists call for a ceasefire; during the ceasefire they rearm and reassemble under the watchful eyes of the peacekeepers; then the terrorists resume launching missiles at Israeli civilians until the Israelis retaliate.

Now Hamas is wanting a temporary ceasefire. There should be no ceasefire granted. This is, after all, Israel defending itself against a hostile terrorist enemy. And this enemy should be annihilated. But the world is upset that Palestinian civilians are being harmed in the process. The world ignores what must be painfully obvious to every Israeli soldier-that one cannot distinguish between Palestinian civilians and the terrorists. The terrorists live among the so-called civilians; they booby trap the neighborhoods; hide their weapons in public places such as schools and mosques; and fire missiles and artillery from schools and highly populated residential neighborhoods.

Palestinian terrorists are the civilians; they are the elected party in power; they are the chosen government of the Palestinian civilians and they are the civilians. Another thing the world needs to recognize, despite demands for peace and words of conciliation, is that no Islamist will be satisfied until Israel is destroyed-this is the goal of Hamas, Hezbollah, the PLO-now the Palestinian Authority-and it’s the goal of Russian-backed Iran, which supplies the terrorists with finances and weaponry. Ephesians 5:6 says, “Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.” The wrath of God is promised to those who come against Israel.

Three cheers for the loyal opposition. There was, however, none. The senate chamber sat nearly empty at one of the most important hearings in the nation’s history. In fact, at one point, Republican senators occupied one of 12 chairs at the Senate confirmation hearing of soon-to-be Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. By the end of the hearing only six senators were present. This is the very image of defeatism and irresponsibility. And that is the reason that America is drowning beneath the wave of socialism and facing an era where freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to pursue life and happiness will be swallowed up by the leviathan of federal government, history’s new handmaiden to the one world order.

Moreover, representation exemplified by these spineless purveyors of compromise and common ground for the common good, is no representation at all. Americans are angry and disgusted with their Congress, giving it the lowest approval ratings of nearly two centuries, yet it is the American public that continues to vote for these amoral scoundrels whose primary purpose in life is to perpetrate their existence by making gullible people think they are doing their job. In reality, they are a disgrace to the Republic, a menace to the well being of society, a treasonous bunch that in times when men were men and patriots, these so-called elected officials would have been tarred, feathered and ran out of town.

Christians, as represented by some of the most powerful ministries and pro-family organizations ever seen in the history of this nation, must take to the streets and demand their rights as citizens and as patriots. Christian ministries that hide behind faxes and civil brown-nosing to politicians that give them ear and the feeling of power, need to become more concerned about the issues that are destroying souls in our nation rather than how much money they can extract beyond the tithe from even more gullible people than the electorate. We either must determine that our country is lost and we must deal with it like Christians do in the third world, or that our nation is worth the fight and to take the appropriate action.

Ephesians 6:13 says, “Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” Further, verses 19-20 pray, “that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly as I ought to speak.” If not, your taxes will fund more abortion; you will not be able to quote scripture against immorality such as homosexuality; Islamic interests who have bought and paid for our politicians will be running our foreign policy; and America’s Christian heritage, the light among the nations, will be hidden underground. Choose this day who you will serve.