A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE

Posted on Wednesday 2 July 2008

Regardless of the Israeli Knesset’s legislative efforts to force all land concessions to be approved by referendum, and despite a clear lead in the polls for conservative politicians to easily win the next elections, and in spite of the lives land concessions have ruined and will continue to ruin, direct talks between Israel and Syria are going to go ahead as planned.

Let’s get a little perspective here. What does this mean during these end-times? It means that Israel is entering a covenant with death! I have spoken about this covenant, as prophesied by Isaiah, so many times that I almost assume that believers actually know what it is.

The covenant with death is the act of making deals for peace, apart from God, by Israel with her enemies during the end times. To accomplish this Israel will concede a portion of her lands to these same enemies. It is now commonly referred to as “land for peace”. The problem for Israel is that God calls this rebellion. This is due to the fact that the land Israel is giving away does not belong to her, the Palestinians or anyone else on earth. It belongs to God and He considers Israel to be only His tenants, not owners. Jesus already told us that the tenants had mistreated and killed God’s prophets and then they killed God’s son as well. They are in no mood to listen to anymore of God’s warnings. This makes sense since they no longer turn to Him to seek refuge from their enemies. Instead they make concession after concession to their enemies at great cost to the true covenant that God made with Abraham. Their desire? To attain peace. Unfortunately it is a peace that will not last.

The covenant with Abraham gave Israel a birth right to dwell in the land as their inheritance forever, as long as they obeyed God. No rights were conveyed to Israel that allowed them to freely give away the land in order to accomplish their worldly desire for peace. The Bible tells us that when they rebel against God by violating His covenant, then the antichrist, the man of lawlessness, will be revealed.

This is the year US President Bush has scheduled the formation of a Palestinian state out of lands Israel will concede for this purpose. At the same time Israel will also concede her Golan Heights territory to Syria. Many say the primary reason Israel should not let go of the Golan Heights is due to their strategic military value that offers Israel security from attacks by Syria. It is true that these heights are important to Israel’s security, but not from a military perspective! As long as Israel obeys the Abrahamic covenant then neither Syria, nor anyone else, will ever overcome Israel. Israel has little to fear from a military security point of view, but should Israel give away covenant lands that belong to God, then Israel’s security will collapse. God will withdraw Israel’s chief protector, the Arch Angel Michael, and they will have very much to fear from God Himself!

The ultimate perspective that urgently needs your attention is that when Israel violates the covenant there will only be an approximate 7 year span until the last day and the coming of Christ! I’m not calling the day or the hour here, these we will not know until it happens, but weeks, months and years will be exposed ahead of time for those with eyes to see and ears to hear!

The antichrist will begin to assume His role in end-time events by agreeing to forge a covenant of peace with many as prophesied by Daniel. I believe we are about to witness the advent of this covenant. This covenant will lure the world into a false sense of security and the man who makes it possible will become a rising star. Watch Iran closely. Although Iran has Russia’s backing, and is obtaining her latest weapons, Iran is feeling seriously threatened by Israel’s growing threat of attacks upon its emerging nuclear systems.

Iran is at this very moment seriously considering an incentives package, put together primarily by the US and the EU. This package would require Iran to step back from its nuclear program and regional belligerence in exchange for major investments and upgrades in Iran’s economy. Israel’s desire to attack Iran is being used by the West as added incentive for Iran to accept the package.

Iran will accept. This incentives package is a win-win for Iran. It would enable Iran to run peaceful nuclear power with uranium processed in Russia. It would save a proud, but debilitated and teetering Persian economy and elevate Iran’s status not only regionally, but on the world stage as someone to be reckoned with. The Sunnis know this and are trembling at the prospect of a fundamentalist Shiite regime, bent on bringing about the advent of the Mahdi (Islam’s savior, and Christianity’s antichrist), becoming a regional superpower! Iran will emerge as a seeming hero to the downtrodden, flush with cash and backed by Russia, China and India among many others! Just think about the lofty status to be gained by her Shiite leaders and their Islamic Revolution!

Iran is not like Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was. They have been busily working behind the scenes forging strong pacts and alliances with numerous nations. When Iran agrees to the West’s proposals it will be viewed worldwide as an Iranian victory. Iran’s influence within her many alliances will be solidified and her attentions will be drawn to the world domination of the Mahdi. Remember, Russia has already pledged full support to Islam. Who will stand in the antichrist’s way? Not Israel. It will be the Sunni nations of the South, led by Egypt and backed by the USA. Daniel’s king of the North is rising, are you watching?

Randy Loudenslager @ 7:00 pm
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THE RELENTLESS POUNDING

Posted on Thursday 26 June 2008

For the true Christian believer in this world it is fast becoming the time that tries men’s souls. You know what I speak of. Christianity is being subjected to a relentless pounding from the forces of evil. Evil is waging a desperate campaign to eradicate God’s influence in the affairs of men.

The soul shriveling practice of homosexuality is advancing forcefully as it shoves its way onto the crowded table of already tolerated evils. They demand the right to destroy their consciences out in the open in an accepted manner like every other detestable practice. Worse, they want you to join them . . . misery indeed loves company!

Beware, they want your children and they mean to take them. They are the National Education Association (NEA) and a seeming multitude of cohorts in evil’s war against precious little innocence, embodied by our children, that still survives in our world. Parents are being sidelined in the raising of children to the simple duty of surrogate. Now that family can be called anything one wants to call it, parents have been deprived of much of their authority under God to raise their children in good conscience. The so-called “teachers” of our children, with few exceptions, are in reality indoctrinators. They understand all too well that to capture the culture you must capture the children and turn them against their own heritage! Want to home school? Be prepared to go underground in the near future! The NEA works day and night to destroy this last bulwark that inhibits their domination of our children.

These are just a few of the many attacks upon us. The demise of the world we know is nearing its completion. Evil is drunk with daily victories and new found power and confidence. The stage is set for full persecution of all who stand for truth and freedom. God’s presence in our world is systematically being destroyed.

The New Order chants its mantra, “We are a nation that is under rule of law!” Sounds good, doesn’t it? It must, since we buy it hook, line and sinker! Meanwhile they construct new laws that continuously corral us and bind our freedoms. What happened my dear Christian friends to the much spoken adage that we should obey the law until it has us disobey God? Our laws have us disobeying God nearly every day! We disobey God every time our hearts burden us to speak up against evil, but you remain quiet under threats of intolerance, being too judgmental, fines or even arrest. A righteous man judges all things spiritual, the truth of the Bible tells us so! What can the world do to you? What you give up for the sake of Christ, God will replenish 100 fold! The world acts in vain!

We see two “men” running for the office of President of the United States. Neither one instills in our hearts the hope of leading us back into the light. Both men are patterned after the darkness that is enveloping our world, God’s love has long grown cold within them. Yet, millions of us who call ourselves after the name of Christ will actually vote for one of these morons! Is that too intolerant for you? Not loving perhaps or too judgmental? Telling the truth means just that, tell the truth! No greater love can be expressed than to tell the truth. Yes, I know about giving one’s life for another, but telling real unadulterated truth is a form of self-sacrifice for the sake of another. In other words telling the truth doesn’t make many friends these days. That in a nutshell is the problem, isn’t it? We do nothing for fear of how we are viewed by others or possible repercussions against us. Telling the truth makes people uncomfortable, they may actually avoid you. You must understand that to follow the path of fear we are self-serving, and the love of God is not in us.

Jesus Christ was not some lovable, likable, cuddly guy with nothing but fuzzy-wuzzy things to say! He is a king, the King of kings, and He told us, in black and white, that He didn’t come to bring peace, but division and a sword! No, get it out of your heads, I’m not advocating armed rebellion. But I am advocating Spirit led rebellion!

The time has come to decide who you will serve. With which kingdom is your allegiance to be found? You must make a determined choice that is backed by determined action! James tells us that he would show us his faith by what he does. I exhort each of you to do the same! Prove your loyalty! Put wheels on your faith!

The Bible tells us that since the times of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of Heaven has been advancing forcefully and forceful men lay hold of it. Get it? If you do not become filled with the Spirit, and boldly answer your calling in the face of the World’s war upon Christ and His bride, then the forceful advance of God’s kingdom will pass you by!

We are entering, nay, we are in the time, that the Church has waited 2,000 years for. Sadly for many it will be life as usual; Make money and follow selfish pursuits. But for those who long for the coming of our Lord this will be the Church’’s finest hour! Are you going to be part of it, or will you be quaking with fear when the sign of the Lord appears in the clouds?

The time to advance is now! Take up spiritual arms and advance in the face of the enemy. Satan will most certainly fall! In the coming battles, both those great and small, we must love Satan’s soldiers even as we seek the annihilation of their sin. They know not what they do, and in the coming days some of them will be saved. I know this to be true, I used to be one of them!

We are at war, but it is almost like somebody forgot to tell our side to show up for the fight. We do not fight as the world fights, we are armed supernaturally with the power of God’s truth and His Spirit. We are able to demolish all strongholds the enemy places in our way. But to fight and stay in the fight we must have these tools and know the way to use them. To do this we must do as Paul told us, we must strive to keep our consciences clear before God and man. Let no sin remain as guilt on your conscience. Repent and get back into the fight!

What can you do? Speak up at every opportunity your conscience burdens you to do so. Do not worry about your wounds in these conflicts, God will heal them. It is an honor to bear wounds for the cause of Christ! As Christians we are free, but freedom must always be maintained by a critical mind. You must demolish not only the arguments that directly attack God’s truth, but those that serve to simply dilute it. Remember, you are messengers, make sure you only deliver the King’s message, not your own. Where you can write, then write, where you can speak, then speak, where your presence is needed, be there! Let the world know we are here, not queer, and we will not go away peaceably into the night!

Are you waiting for a great leader to come along, someone worth following? Maybe you are waiting for your pastor to give the signal. WHY? You have the authority of Jesus Christ! You are already under orders to advance against the gates of Hades, why do you disobey? Do not wait for those around you before you advance, they too wait for you. Why let them lead you into the pit? Each and every one of us will give an account for what we have done. How will you explain your inaction?

You are new creations in Christ, do not deny Him by your apathy. Yes, our nations will fall, but God’s church never will! Fight for your King! You were born for this moment, will you deny your creator by ignoring His call to live in the light? The Church has fought this war for over 2,000 years, but now the climax approaches. It is our turn and we have been chosen as the Church of the end-times! Our King told us, “He who stands firm to the end will be saved”. The honor is yours, if you answer the call.

I’m am a peace loving family man who has found himself at war! This is not a war that I asked for or sought out. Evil has brought its war to my door. My home is under siege, the enemy is at the gates. But soon, legions of chariots will be heard in the air and my enemies routed as salvation draws near. I will defend all that I hold dear against evil’s onslaught, and when my King comes, and lifts the siege against me, I will be able to stand before Him with a conscience clear of guilt, knowing that I have fought the good fight!

Randy Loudenslager @ 1:49 pm
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ADVENT OF THE COVENANT WITH DEATH

Posted on Monday 26 May 2008

I encourage readers of the Daily Watch to take another look at the Daily Watch from 1/2 year to a 1 year ago. You will find much that describes the events of today. Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear will heed the warnings found here.They are revealed as God enables me to see them.
Early last Summer I warned about grain shortages and the rise in food prices. I hope I served you well. I also had several things to say about Syria when everyone else seemed to be certain Syria was going to start a new war with Israel. The Lord showed me that they would not fight, that it was a ruse by Syria to gain leverage at the negotiating table. Syria doesn’t want to fight Israel. Syria wants the Golan Heights back in its possession. Middle Eastern pride is a very thick-headed problem. Syria was soundly thrashed in its wars with Israel. In the eyes of Syrians the Golan Heights in the hands of Israel stands as a monument to Syria’s repeated military and national humiliation.
It has recently been reported by WorldNetDaily.com that Syria has made an extraordinary offer to the United States. In exchange for peace Syria wants substantial Western investment in Syria’s economy and to become the main Arab ally of the United States ahead of Saudi Arabia. To be the main ally of the US translates into billions of dollars of high tech arms each year. Syria’s outward assessment of Saudi Arabia as the number one Arab ally of the US is wrong. In reality this “honor” belongs to Egypt, followed by Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia does indeed receive much US military hardware, but it is Egypt that is second only to Israel in the size of arms “aid” deals received each year from the US. Syria knows this, but doesn’t want to risk upsetting its close friend Egypt. Syria has seen how friendship with the US and peace with Israel has paid off for Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and when compared with the little gain to be had from friendship with Russia and Iran the conclusion to them is clear, it’s time to switch beds. As in earlier writings I want to make clear that Syria has little in common with non-Arab Shiite-Muslim Iran. The World War that even now is festering just under the radar of our ignorance is primarily between East and West and North and South, but also Shiite-Muslim verses Sunni Muslim. I have warned as the Lord has allowed that the West, primarily the US, will support the Sunni sect of Islam, while the Eastern alignment of Russia and China will support the Shiite sect. You will see ever increasing evidence of this in the days to come.

Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, is under investigation for some very serious allegations against him. Many point to his sudden announcement that Israel is negotiating with Syria and that the Golan Heights are on the table as a way for Olmert to deflect attention away from his woes. The truth be told, Israel and Syria have been talking through back channels over the last eight or nine months now, possibly longer. Perhaps exposing negotiations to the public to intentionally dilute personal damage to himself was politically astute of Olmert, but it has little actual bearing on the peace talks. These talks started before Olmert’s hands emerged as dirty.

When Israel and Syria establish peace between them and Israel gives back the Golan Heights the beginning of the Covenant with Death spoken of by the Prophet Isaiah will begin to take shape. This will be a solid step of rebellion against God by Israel. Israel is about to give some of her inheritance to Syria, an enemy, in exchange for peace. When this is widely perceived to be an effective solution, Israeli popular sentiment will significantly shift towards greater compromise with the Palestinians. The problem is that Israel’s land belongs to God, not Israel and is not hers to compromise. Listen carefully: The events that unfold after this covenant with Syria will be rapid. Syria will gain her alliance with the US and the West. Syria will begin to protect Sunni interests in Iraq against Shiite interests supported by Iran. Syria will comply with US demands for help in stabilizing Iraq so that the US can pull out. Syria will be under great pressure from other Sunni nations in her new role to protect the Sunni minority from Shiite persecution in Iraq. Israel will gain significant political leverage over Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinian government and Iran. The world will support Israel for a short time because of such a painful compromise. Iran, after losing its Syrian ally, will be increasingly isolated and scrutinized by a world that expects the same level of compromise from Iran as that demonstrated by Israel. Iran will find little support, even from its friends Russia and China, and will seek to spin events into its favor by changing its tune to that of a peace loving nation. Iran’s propaganda machine is already building a good head of steam in its efforts to appear nonthreatening. Look for significant peace gestures from Iran towards the US, the West and most importantly towards Israel. Hamas and Hezbollah will have their anti-Israel activities reined in by their Iranian sponsors and the Palestinians will be more agreeable to Israeli terms during negotiations for the Road Map to Peace. When the Palestinians gain their state on Israel’s inheritance then Israel’s rebellion will be full blown and the Covenant with Death will be complete. These events will reveal the antichrist to those with eyes to see. What will follow is commonly referred to as the end-times or last days. Jesus told everyone to watch!

Randy Loudenslager @ 10:34 am
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TIME IS RUNNING OUT!

Posted on Friday 8 February 2008

Russia is arming to the teeth and has begun a campaign of intimidation that leaves little doubt she plans to be top dog in every arena. Russia’s weapons are her vast resources, the control or influence over the resources of others and her military might.
Gog now has Syrian permission to allow Russian warships and subs to be stationed in her coastal waters. Russia’s latest naval maneuvers in the Mediterranean, Europe’s backyard, have served to reestablish Russia as a power to be reckoned with.
Russia is supplying all anti-western nations (Islamic and other eastern nations) with the latest in weaponry.
Russia is sending nuclear fuel to Iran. Russia routinely defends and advocates on Iran’s behalf during UN Security Counsel meetings over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Please keep in mind that the Iran/Iraq region is where the antichrist will arise from and is the heart of the region referred to in prophecy as the king of the North.
Russian President Putin has stated that Russia will not engage in the arms race now rapidly spreading throughout the world. He noted Russia’s desire to obtain state-of-the-art weapons technology without the associated costs found in western countries. Russia has hitched it’s wagon to the rising technology star India. India has acquired vast amounts of western technology via Israel and new agreements with the US. Russia has acted shrewdly by partnering with India on several key weapons programs, namely the new Brahmos missile system and the new Russian/Indian fifth generation jet fighter. Russia wants to build more aircraft carriers to add to her present single carrier. The answer? Help India build her own aircraft carriers first, thereby learning about key weapon systems acquired from the West without massive outlays for research and development.
Russia is once again threatening Ukraine with the cut-off of her natural gas supply for the “lack” of back-payments on dramatically higher costs forced on Ukraine. Gog is rising and being prepared for his end-time role. Gog is not the antichrist. The attention given to Gog here is due largely because he is the largest power behind the king of the North as spoken of by the prophets Daniel and Ezekiel.
The East and Islam are quickly becoming one and the same. They are unifying against the power of the West and their allies. Gog has the bite and the might that inevitably will be used by the king of the North to fulfill prophecy against Israel and the world. He will be resisted by the king of the South, Egypt, and her allies, among whom may be found the United States of America. Europe is quickly withering into a totalitarian vassal state of Russia and is Western in name only. Even today the Archbishop of Canterbury declared that Great Britain should introduce Islamic Sharia Law! Freedom, whatever actually existed as such in Europe, is trapped now only in mind numbing political rhetoric.

The West, although decreasing in member states, rules this world. Had the West continued to run foreign and domestic policies as the Christian nations they formerly were, this great historically climactic war may not be forming as such. But alas, the human nature is evil and prone to wickedness. Greed is now what defines the once shining city on the hill envisioned by President Ronald Reagan, certainly not her virtue. The US, finding itself alone as the world’s superpower and de-facto world leader could have aspired to the greater good. Instead we have made a deceptive friendship with Gog and have turned his heart against us. The US is as guilty as Russia in its global chess game for domination of resources and peoples and now the earth will truly suffer.
As I have written before, there will be no winners in this last war, the war to end all wars. Only those who stand firm in Christ to the end will celebrate victory.

Beware United States of America! You who were once noble hearted, you have now become Babylon! You have earned the scorn and contempt of the nations! Look now to the elections of your next leaders. Whom do you see who will take the bowl off the lamp so that it may shine? You do not see anyone, there is no one to stand in the gap! Your good men are pushed to the side, while you vote for agents of the Devil and then grumble for the lack of choice! You will suffer greatly in the coming days. Your head will be removed and your body lashed and pierced. You have acted against the Covenant and have no remorse. You force the children to do what their conscience tells them ought not be done. You tell yourself that you fight on the side of right and freedom and a better world, but you only facilitate the enslavement of the world.
REPENT! The hour draws near, the war has begun! There is little time left before the LORD of Hosts causes a delusion to settle over all who rebel against Him. From that point on you will have no hope, you will believe the lie.

To the World, REPENT! Your shepherds are leading you astray. They tell you here is the light, come to it and you will see, but they lead you into utter darkness where you will only find woe and the gnashing of teeth!
You see what I am saying. Your conscience tells you something is radically wrong and the feeling of impending doom lies ahead. Listen to your conscience while you still can! Jesus Christ is coming back and when He does, He will expend His terrible wrath upon all who are rebels against His kingdom. There will be no mercy.
Am I using fear to intimidate you? Are you not already slaves to your fears? I am pleading with you about reality. The prophecies are being fulfilled. Turn to God’s Word and listen, that He may stay His hand of wrath against you. The fear of God’s perfect justice against this unjust World will set you free! Do not fear what man can do to the body, fear the one who can kill the body and throw it into Hell!

Randy Loudenslager @ 1:38 pm
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REBELLION SCHEDULED FOR 2008!

Posted on Wednesday 28 November 2007

This ministry has been warning you not to believe the prophetic wannabes out there when they proclaimed the Road Map to Peace is as good as dead! How did I know? It had nothing to do with me. The Bible clearly shows us that Israel will rebel against God and the Abrahamic covenant. God’s Word states that Israel will enter a covenant with death. This new covenant means that Israel will abandon its covenant with God, clearly making them rebels! The Word depicts this covenant will be made with many! Denial leads to delusion. Wake up!!! The fulfillment of end-times prophecy is being staged right in front of our eyes on the evening news!

If the powers that run this country, and most of the world, get their way then they will force Israel to recognize an independent state of Palestine on her God-given inheritance. Worried about the falling dollar, a North American union, erosion of freedom? Why? These are just some of the by-products of the anti-God New World Order. The most significant event in history is scheduled for 2008 and all mankind can do is worry about the economy.

Do I need to spell out the fact that when the rebellion occurs in Israel it will be a like a rock thrown into a pond? The ripples will radiate across the surface until the whole pond has been disturbed. First all will seem great. In fact the whole world will rejoice because peace in the Middle East will seem to finally have been achieved. But that peace is a deception and a lie. Israel will disappear as a nation. As a people they will hardly be considered as an after-thought. The world is at war, the peace will only be a pause so that the combatants can arm themselves for all-out violent conflict.

Russia has been bullied by the USA and is now arming to the teeth with the latest weapons and missile systems. Russia is not just arming herself, but much of the world has found in Russia an arms supermarket, and they are taking full advantage of it. Russia is setting arms sales records every year! One of the greatest beneficiaries of Russia’s eagerness to arm the world is Iran. From the Iranian/Iraqi region will rise the king of the North. As the antichrist he will hate the West and Zion and persecute those who do not demonstrate loyalty. To a world of adoring fans, and worshipers, he will be the Mahdi, the Islamic savior determined to force the entire world into submission to himself.

Are you ready for all of this? Too much to deal with? Won’t happen in your lifetime? Then go ahead and forget about it, but make no mistake, I am blowing the horn. If you pay no heed to it, then your blood is upon your own head.

The powers of the world have now concentrated their efforts into a single focus, a state of Palestine on Israel’s inheritance. Mankind is reuniting to finish that tower abandoned so long ago in Babel.

Don’t expect America to last long in its present form. In this last world war there is no right side and wrong side to pick from, no good or moral high ground, no winners . . . only evil. Man has only one hope, only by standing firm in Christ will you be saved. America has chosen to stand against Christ by forcing Israel to abandon her relationship with God. America has also chosen the losing side in this last world war. America is supporting Egypt, the king of the South, and the Sunni majority of Islam against the king of the North, the Shiite Muslims, Russia and eventually most of the world. America would have been exceedingly wise to have picked God’s side and stayed out of this path of self-destruction.

When the king of the North has won his world war against the king of the South he, and the entire world, will face the wrath of God. As I said, no winners except those who stand firm in Christ!

Randy Loudenslager @ 2:42 pm
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THE LAND IS MINE!

Posted on Monday 29 October 2007

The land of Israel is not hers to “give” to the Palestinians. Israel has no right whatsoever to grant a state to her enemies, or anyone else!

Some have, via email, tried to discount what I have said in regards to Israel’s rebellion occurring when she gives away covenant lands to her enemies in exchange for peace. It amazes me to what great lengths people will go to appease their fears by falsifying what is before their own eyes!

Most people fall into two camps on the land of Israel issue. The first camp says that the land belongs to Israel so Israel has a right to it. The second camp says that the land does not belong to Israel and so they should carve out a homeland somewhere else. The first camp is wrong, but with good intentions. The second camp is right, but with the wrong intentions and thus the wrong conclusion.

Israel’s right to the land is based on the covenant God made with Abraham, not ownership. God told Abraham, “I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.” (Genesis 17)
Now many people will be tempted to quote the old saying, “Possession is nine-tenths of the law”. But the fact is possession does not equate to ownership.
The land is to be Israel’s inheritance. This simply means that Israel will “possess” the land eternally.

So, who does the land belong to? The answer may seem overly simple, but then again God’s truth is very simple. It is us mortals that complicate it. The Scriptures, God’s Word, speaks it most plainly, “The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine [God] and you are but aliens and my tenants. Throughout the country that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.” (Leviticus 25:23-24).
Now, when read in context (something I always strongly insist upon) it says what it says about the land and Israel’s relation to it. The land is God’s and Israel is considered “but aliens and . . . tenants“. Jesus gave us strong parables describing the land as a garden or vineyard belonging to a master who was away and how the tenants abused the servants the master had sent to the vineyard so as to try to take over ownership of the land. “There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey. When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
“The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
“But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
“Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.
” (Matthew 21:33-41)

So, where does this bring us? Some would say that this justifies Iran’s stance, and much of the Islamic world’s stance, that Israel should leave and find another land for themselves.
To answer these people we have to go back to who God made his covenant with. God established His covenant with Abraham. He reestablished it with Isaac and then again with Jacob, also called Israel. The only tenants allowed in the land are the people of the covenant, the people of Israel!

Israel, as the tenant, has pushed aside the law and the prophets, the landowner’s servants, to “sell” the land to people who are not of the covenant. In this sale Israel is to receive reassurances of peace. Hence Israel is attempting to make a new covenant by selling something she does not own. Israel is in effect entering a covenant with death, or as God says, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end“.
When Israel sells the land to the Palestinians then she will be in rebellion against the landowner and the covenant the tenants made with him. The Israeli government is literally hellbent on making this happen sooner than later. To its shame the United States of America is not only forcefully pushing Israel into rebellion, it is accelerating the process.

When the rebellion occurs then those with eyes to see will be able to identify the antichrist.
Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for (that day will not come) until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. (2 Thessalonians 2:3)

The good news is that the land will be redeemed when Christ returns! The land will be retaken by God when He returns and takes it by force. On that day they will “sound the trumpet throughout your land . . . . and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.” (Leviticus 25:9-10)

Randy Loudenslager @ 12:15 pm
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IT MAKES SENSE . . . OR SO IT SEEMS

Posted on Saturday 6 October 2007

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has increasingly taken upon himself the role as spokesman for the East, particularly the Muslim world. In his speeches while globe trotting to extend Iran’s “warm hand of friendship” to nations opposed to the West, prominently the USA, Ahmadinejad offers his own solutions to problems plaguing the world and more precisely the Middle East.

Normally it would not be so disturbing to have a minor player on the world stage express his opinion. After all, most minor players are politely ignored while the world hangs upon every word stated by the real powers, like the USA. The real danger is that Ahmadinejad’s arguments and solutions at times make good sense to a godless and disenchanted world. Godless people do not know God’s Word and so they accept worldly arguments as wise.

For example this article from the Islamic Republic News Agency:

West intends to impose Zionists on region: Ahmadinejad

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here Friday said Europe cannot tolerate the Zionist regime’s presence in their own region but intends to impose it on the Middle East region.

“Let a referendum be held in Palestine. It is our clear proposal to European countries,” Ahmadinejad said after he took part at the International Qods Day rallies here.

“Let all Palestinians including Muslims, Christians and the Jews attend the referendum,” he added.

He repeated an earlier suggestion to Europe on settlement of the Zionists in Europe or big lands such as Canada and Alaska so they would be able to own their own land.

This argument by Ahmadinejad has been repeated for a while now and is beginning to take hold among many peoples. Give the Jews some place to call their own someplace else so that the “rightful” owners of “Palestine” may also live in peace. It sounds logical and it appears to look after the interests of all parties, including the Jews.
For a Christian or devout Jew these words are far from logical. The Bible makes it very clear that God gave land already to the descendants of Abraham forever, period. But the world does not know God or His Scriptures. The world is being lulled into a false sense of security by words they want to hear. These are the type of words that will be spoken of by the antichrist and in fact have been spoken by an antichrist.

The reality is that Israel itself believes peace and security are just around the corner, but they do not realize that soon they will not have a nation to call their own. Their existence matters little or not at all to most of the world. Only true believers in Jesus Christ stand for Israel now, and most of them are in the USA. Europe, no longer part of the West, but in name only, has been systematically eradicating every vestige of Christianity from its culture. All the while Islam, rather than a secular utopia, has steadily filled the vacuum. Socialism has won the day in Europe and has set the stage for its wedding to Islam. Christianity in Russia, though publicly respected, is powerless to resist the tentacles of Islam upon Russia. President Putin has made it abundantly clear that “Russia was always the most faithful, reliable and consistent defender of the interests of the Islamic world.”.

Unknown to the US public, and in fact largely hidden by the socialist media outlets in the USA, is the fact that Ahmadinejad enjoys broad support from Russia who promises to finish Iran’s nuclear plant and ship fuel soon. Russia is also enjoying lucrative arms contracts with Iran and in doing so is in effect preparing for a proxy war with the West before Russia itself will one day march South in support of the antichrist.

Is Ahmadinejad the antichrist? Time and the rebellion of Israel will soon reveal the answer. All I can say is that although we do not know yet whether he is thee antichrist we do know with certainty that he is an antichrist and must be resisted by the people who know their God!

Randy Loudenslager @ 2:23 pm
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Ahmadinejad

Posted on Wednesday 26 September 2007

So, what was the significance of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech to the UN? Well if you read the main stream media analysis it was just more blustering from the Iranian leader. To believers in Christ it embodied much more!

Nearly a year ago I wrote Hatred of the Prostitute. I ask you to go back and read it again, and then consider what Ahmadinejad said as quoted from the Islamic Republic News Agency:

UNSC most ineffective int’l organization, Ahmadinejad
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday deplored inefficacy of international mechanism to prevail over these challenges and to bring durable peace and security.
Addressing the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly, he said international organizations and mechanisms clearly lack the capacity to overcome problems and challenges, to put in place fair and just relations and peace, fraternity and security.
There is hardly any government or nation that places much hope on these mechanisms to secure its rights or defend its independence, territorial integrity and national interests, he regretted. Ahmadinejad noted that among all the ineffective organizations, the UN Security Council ranks first. “They have created circumstances in which some powers with exclusive and special right to veto in the Security Council act as prosecutor, Judge and executioner, regardless of being a defendant or respondent.

It is natural that countries that have been subjected to their infringements have no hope to get what they deserve from the Council.

“Unfortunately the humanity has witnessed that in all long wars, like the Korean and Vietnam wars, the war of the Zionists against Palestinians and Lebanon, war of Saddam against the people of Iran and ethnic wars of Europe and Africa, one of members the Security Council was one of the belligerents or supported one party against the other, usually the aggressor, or the conflict itself.”
As for Iraq, he noted, they first occupied the country and then received authorization from the Security Council.

“Who should the people of Iraq complain about and to where should they take their complaints with hopes of securing their rights? Turning to Lebanon, he said some powers delayed the decisions of the Security Council hoping for the victory of the Zionist regime. However , Ahmadinejad said, when they became disappointed in that usurper regime’s victory, they approved of a ceasefire to take effect.

“The presence of some monopolist powers has prevented the Security Council from doing its main duties which are safeguarding peace and security based on justice. The credibility of the council has been tarnished and its efficacy in defending the rights of its members has been destroyed. Many nations have lost their confidence in the Council .

“Some other mechanisms like the monetary and banking mechanisms are in the same undesirable situation and have been turned into tools for the imposition of the wishes of some powers on other nations.

It is evident that these mechanisms are not capable of responding to the current needs and solving the challenges and establishing fair and sustainable relations.”
Ahmadinejad has made the two very same points that I made in Hatred of the Prostitute. He first establishes that the West, predominantly the US, is in control of the UN and that the world’s monetary system was also in Western control. Ahmadinejad’s statements are very revealing. As President of Iran, a nation in the heart of the region Isaiah foretold as the kingdom of the antichrist, he is expressing the East’s disenchantment with the world as it stands now and the powers that run it. He is establishing within people’s minds that the system is broken and biased and needs to be replaced. In effect he is stirring up hatred for the West and the tools he sees as oppressive, namely the UN and Western Capitalism. What Ahmadinejad didn’t state is what he would propose to replace the current world government and economic system. At least he didn’t state it in his speech. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a Muslim Shiite believer who sees his life’s purpose as to bring about the world rule of the Mahdi, and Islamic savior. Naturally this world ruler would have no need for a Western dominated UN or a Western dominated economic system. In the eyes of a devout Shiite these things actually stand in the way of the advent of the Mahdi and must not only be removed, but destroyed! The target? New York City, home of the world government and the headquarters of the global economic system. Remember, Islam doesn’t want to destroy nations (with the exception of Israel). To do so would leave nothing for the Mahdi to rule. One city on the other hand is expendable if it brings down the West and opens the way for the rule of the Mahdi. Is it any wonder that NYC has been the repeated target of Islamic attacks?! Revelation shows the beast destroying the great city in one hour. It will go up in smoke and flames. A terrorist nuke is the probable weapon since there is nothing else that can destroy a city that quickly. Remember that the US government has stated many times that the possibility of a terrorist nuke hitting a US target is pretty high.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has clearly stated the Mahdi’s position against the current world order. What people in the US do not realize is that Ahmadinejad’s speech was received warmly by much of the world outside the US, including parts of Europe.
I cannot say that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the Mahdi/antichrist or his predessesor. What is clear is that the prophecies are staged to be fulfilled and with Israel’s soon-to-come rebellion will also come the revealing of the antichrist.
How surreal it is to watch the world go about its business without a clue to what is actually happening.

Randy Loudenslager @ 11:10 am
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TWO KINGS

Posted on Wednesday 19 September 2007

The two kings, with their hearts bent on evil, will sit at the same table and lie to each other, but to no avail, because an end will still come at the appointed time. Daniel 11:27

The fulfillment of the verse above is coming soon. Today’s news out of Iran is shadow of what is to come. Iran has announced efforts to reconcile relations with Egypt. Diplomatic ties were severed by the Iranians in 1980 when Egypt normalized relations with Israel. In the Bible Egypt is known as the king of the South while whoever dominated the region that encompasses Iran, Iraq and Syria is the king of the North. In the these end times it will be the antichrist. To the Muslims it is the Mahdi, their coming savior.

Iran and Egypt appear to be mending a rift within the Muslim world, but their differences make this only a political show that will cast a kinder light on militant Iran. Iran also wants to create a wedge between Israel and Egypt and their all important ally and benefactor, the United States of America. It will not work and will ultimately lead to wider conflict between the already warring Shiites and Sunnis. Today Iraq is the battlefield, tomorrow the world.

There are multitudes of signs that support what I have been saying about the US alliance with the Sunnis and the Russian alliance with the Shiites. Syria is about to receive the Golan Heights back without firing a shot. American military brass has stated many times that Syria is now restricting the flow of foreign Sunni fighters into Iraq. The talk of peace between Israel and Syria will soon fill the air. Sunni tribal leaders are now aligning with the United States against Al Qaida. Despite the treachery of liberals in Congress the war is winding down and some normalcy is returning to Iraq. Iran also is holding back the Shiite fighters and equipment from further escalations against the Sunnis. An ease in tensions will surely bring US troops home, but it is only the calm before the storm. The Shiites know that despite their rhetoric about US forces inability to win they have no ability to force their will upon Iraq until the US leaves. The Sunni nations are strangely quiet on the subject. The truth is that they don’t want the US to leave Iraq. When the US does leave the Sunni nations will have to help the Sunni minority in Iraq to survive the onslaught of Shiite aggression backed by Iran. Iran will become increasingly more docile in order to ease tensions and bide their time until a US withdrawal. The antichrist (Mahdi) will come out of that region according to the prophet Isaiah. He will make peace with a great many of the nations that now oppose the spread of the Shiite’s power. Israel will be among these nations. Watch for treachery! Shiite Islam has clearly stated its intentions to dominate the world under the government of the Mahdi. It is the fruition of all they believe. Believers in Jesus Christ know that for a short time the antichrist will succeed in this endeavor, and then the kingdom of God will be established by Jesus Christ when He comes in great wrath and takes the beast’s kingdom by force.

Beware, the USA will not continue to support Israel for long. As US support for Israel diminishes it will increase for the Sunnis, primarily Egypt. In the days ahead Israel will increasingly be viewed world wide as expendable, as not important enough to get in the way of peace or to waste resources on. Little do they remember what happens to those who scorn the apple of God’s eye!

Randy Loudenslager @ 4:50 pm
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CONVERGENCE

Posted on Monday 10 September 2007

Iran, the bastion of Shiite Islam and part of the region that will produce the antichrist, is busily unifying Islam into a regional and world force. This same Iran is presently led by a Islamic Shiite theocracy. This theocracy is exposing its true agenda on almost a daily basis. Is Israel’s destruction Iran’s agenda? This may come as a surprise to you, but the answer is no. Iran is making threats toward Israel for one simple reason, Israel is the largest threat and greatest obstacle to Iran’s control of the region.

Tiny Israel is the West’s beachhead into the Middle East.  The West, in turn, is the force that stands between the Mahdi’s world conquest and freedom from tyrrany for what is left of the free world.

Iran seeks to thrust the Shiite sect of Islam into power over Islam and the region. This is the first step in the antichrist’s road to domination of the world. The West understands the strategy of divide and conquer. The West knows that a united Islam will indeed be capable of dominating the world with its 1 billion adherents. Iran knows this as well. Iran is attempting to form the initial stages of the Mahdi’s empire by calling for Asian (read Islamic) states to converge their goals and agendas into one unified force against the West. On another level they have issued the call for an “Islamic Common Market”. Naturally Iran wants to lead these efforts at “convergence”. They argue that it is their role to bring about the advent of the Mahdi. The West, more particularly the US, and their Sunni allies have different ideas about this. Egypt for one, a Sunni dominated nation, doesn’t want to share regional power with anyone else. To this end the USA has made Egypt second only to Israel in receipt of military aid.

Iran is attempting to publicly appease Egypt, but is also making it clear that Iran plans on taking over Egypt’s role in the region. When the antichrist makes his appearance he will wage war against Egypt. The Scriptures make it clear that eventually he will overcome Egypt through treachery. Israel having made peace with Egypt will seek to be neutral in the escalating Islamic war. The antichrist will actually feign peace with Israel and here neighbors. This false peace is simply a preparation time for war. When war comes Israel, having rebelled against the covenant by giving away some of her inheritance to the Palestinians, will no longer have the protection of Michael the Arch Angel. It will be the beginning of Jacob’s trouble.

Russia has already declared its faithfulness to Islam and is actively supporting Iran with arms. No one wants to admit it, but the US and Russia have entered a new cold war. This cold war will not end peacefully or without bloodshed beyond anything ever seen before!

When Jesus comes will you be rejoicing or heading for the hills? Repent and stand firm as we wait for our coming salvation!

Randy Loudenslager @ 3:00 pm
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