America’s Future?

By Dene McGriff

September 11, 2003

(Writers note: This is the first major article for the Tribnet so I thought we had better get right to the point. Who knows how much time we have left?  Now I may be wrong and this is just my opinion, but this is the way I see it.  There are a lot of good reasons why I don’t think there will be a presidential election   – some very practical and some prophetic in nature.  If you  wonder why I don’t quote the mainline press, it is because they are controlled by the big corporations and do not report the real truth.  I encourage you all to dig a little deeper beyond the news spin)

Today’s Quote

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism,' since it is the marriage of government and corporate power." 

Mussolini

Never in the history of mankind has there been such a far reaching military and economic empire even though there are cracks appearing in the foundation.  Is America THE superpower of the world, or is it on the verge of collapse?  Can America continue to launch pre-emptive wars against perceived threats?  Can America sustain the cost of garrisons around the world?  Will the rest of the world continue to pour their dollars back into the U.S. economy to keep it from crashing?  Will the dollar continue to be the world standard?  Will the U.S. government ever tell the truth or continue to lie and obfuscate with the world and their own people?  Will there be another free election for President in 2004?  Or will administrations lies begin to catch up with them?   We are told we are bringing democracy, self-determination and economic freedom to the world’s oppressed.  We are told we are in a death struggle against an amorphous enemy called terrorism.  We are told the economic recovery has begun and we will see nothing but prosperity as far as we can see in the future.  Can we trust the government, the news media, our leaders, our pundits and pastors?   What is America’s destiny?  Will we see a change in direction?  Is America saving or enslaving the world?  

HARD TO BELIEVE THE GOVERNMENT LIES?

Governments regularly lie to their people and ours is no exception.  It took decades before the truth about Pearl Harbor came out.  Roosevelt knew about the attack a week before but needed an excuse to go to war….at the expense of countless thousands of lives.  The Gulf of Tonkin incident which brought the U.S. into Vietnam was another lie, as were the precipitating incidents in Bosnia and Kosovo – both set-ups.  And you think Afghanistan and Iraq were not planned in the mid 90’s by Paul Wolfowitz, Daniel Pearl and company, fully documented in “think tank” documents?  And how about the way we treat our soldiers, claiming that agent orange had nothing to do with thousands of Vietnam veterans health problems.  Everyone knows but the government refuses to admit that the so-called “Gulf War Syndrome” is radiation poisoning caused by bombs and tank shells encased with hardened uranium (waste the nuclear industry didn’t know what to do with but can now sell).  The civilian and military casualties from radiation poisoning in Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo is well documented, but hardly ever mentioned.

Can you imagine how our country treats our own troops who are dying to defend it?   The US Department of Defense estimates 315 tons of DU were fired during the first Gulf War. " ‘Thousands’ of soldiers may have been exposed to depleted uranium residues in connection with the war, according to the Pentagon." (San Francisco Examiner, 1/9/98)  “Bush-Cheney have delivered upon 17 million Iraqis tons of depleted uranium (DU) weapons, a "liberation" gift that will keep on giving. Depleted uranium is a component of toxic nuclear waste, usually stored at secure sites. Handlers need radiation protection gear.”  (See complete article at Death By Slow Burn - How America Nukes Its Own Troops What 'Support Our Troops' Really Means By Amy Worthington - The Idaho Observer at http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/061303Feldman/061303feldman.html)  Another terrific article on DU is found at http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0330-02.htm (The Sunday Herald (Scotland), March 30, 2003 titled “Us Forces’ use of Depleted Uranium is Illegal by Neil Mackav).  He says, “BRITISH and American coalition forces are using depleted uranium (DU) shells in the war against Iraq and deliberately flouting a United Nations resolution which classifies the munitions as illegal weapons of mass destruction.”   So who is USING “weapons of mass destruction” – the U.S. or Iraq?

Then we had 9/11 just months after the President took office.  I’m not going to go into all the details because reams have been written about it for those who want to really listen (http://www.the-tribulation-network.com/News/911.htm).  Please see the “Un-news” on our website.  How could a commercial airliner leave the East Coast and get to Ohio before turning around and heading in the wrong direction without being intercepted?   How could an airplane get through to the Pentagon 45 minutes after the twin towers unless someone was purposefully sleeping at the switch?   Andrews Air Force base is 10 minutes away.  (When golfer Paine Stewart’s private jet went off course it took ten minutes to scramble jets to see what was wrong.)  Where was the wreckage of a huge 767 Boeing passenger plane at the Pentagon.  Did you ever see wings, engines, seats, baggage, body parts?   I don’t think so.  You draw your own conclusions and we will come back to this, but I would remind you that it took a matter of weeks to ram the Patriot Act through Congress (when no one even had a chance to read it) which effectively dismantled the Constitution and Bill of Rights and set the stage for a police state of the first order.

In an interview with author Don Paul by Bob Feldman, Mr. Paul says this about 9/11

Neither jet fuel's fire nor anything else that was in the Towers that morning burns hot enough (1022 degrees Fahrenheit) . . . to deform steel." And that: "to not topple sideways, but to instead fall straight-down within their foundations, the 110-story Towers had to be imploded by explosives set off against their load-bearing columns and beams.

 

“I remain sure of those statements. I'm also sure that the Twin Tower's central columns must have been severed at their bases, 7 stories underground, by explosives comparable to nuclear devices. The largest seismic spikes that Columbia University's Laboratory record on the 9/11/01 morning, 2.3 and 2.1 on the Richter scale, came within the first five seconds of each Tower's fall, not at the moment of the collapses' impact with ground. Also, temperatures 7 stories underground of the Towers' sites remained above 2000 degrees F. three weeks after 9/11/01, suggesting that something very hot and independent of the need for oxygen must have continued to burn there. Recent analyses on the internet, however, suppose that the volume of dust in the Towers' in-air collapse—3 to 5 times each Tower's diameter—points to other, explosive causes in the Towers' collapse.”

Before we look at why there won’t be another election and what is likely to happen, let’s look at why the current administration will most likely lose the presidency unless they take extraordinary action.

“American liberty is under attack, not by terrorists, but by the US government. The US Dept. of Justice's authority was granted in a 342 page law introduced by the Bush administration days after 9-11, passed sight unseen by Congress and signed into law 6 weeks later.” (Robert Bauman, former U.S. Congressman, Sovereign Society Newsletter, 9/9/03)

PREMPTIVE CONFLICTS AND OCCUPATION

Not only is the truth about 9/11 coming out gradually, but many are becoming aware that the invasion of the Middle East was planned nearly a decade ago by the business elites, politicians and sad to say, is condoned by many Christian leaders who think we are waging a holy war against “godless Islam”.  Again, read the un-news, the news that isn’t spun for you by the big corporations who own the networks (Westinghouse, GE, Disney, and Murdock).  Find out who is profiting from the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.

America has bit off more than she can chew in both instances.  Listen to the generals who have been fired, and retired because they wouldn’t go along with Rumsfeld’s madness.  There is no way to win a war of attrition, a nasty guerilla war when the majority of the population is against the occupying force.  The five million Jews in Israel have a hard enough time keeping a million Palestinians under control.  Imagine how the quarter of a million troops in Iraq will control 25 million Iraqis, who, if they could vote, would probably vote for an Islamic fundamentalist government (something we will never permit – democratic principles aside).  But there is even more.  Word is Iran is next (after all they probably really do have nuclear weapons or are very close).  Then, of course, there is Saudi Arabia, the real supporter of terrorism. 

But meanwhile, the administration’s arguments that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, nuclear plans and so forth have not been proved to be true and it is beginning to dawn on people that maybe it was all about oil after all.  But still, the administration so controls the media that seventy percent of Americans, according to polls, think that Iraq was the source of terrorism even though 15 of the supposed 18 hijackers were Saudi and no connection has ever been made.  It is easy for the average dull-minded American to just believe what he hears in the “spin zone” of the daily news.

The high cost of both occupations in dollars and blood will cause more and more to question what we are doing and what good it is doing.  The Islamic world will grow increasingly hostile and incensed at the U.S. intrusion and violence will escalate throughout the Middle East with us (and Israel) as the target!  There is no compromise possible.  The two cultures will never come together in peace.  Both sides have been radicalized and will never come to an understanding.  (The radicalization was largely our doing as we trained most of today’s fundamental Islamic terrorists to fight Communism in the Middle East) 

There was no connection between Saddam and terrorists.  Al Qaeda had nothing to do with the Bathist secular regime.  But recent news accounts suggest that the U.S. presence in Iraq is creating terrorists. The BBC says Arab fighters are infiltrating into Iraq, starting new groups, sabotaging pipes, shooting our troops and blowing things up. The U.S. military is creating new enemies every day and giving fodder to the Arab news agencies confirming their suspicions toward us and arousing hatred in the entire Muslim world.

The Washington Post reports that “As the situation in Iraq continues to spiral out of control, an anxious nation watches. Despite assurances to the American people that our troops would be welcomed with open arms as liberators, U.S. soldiers are increasingly being met with guns and car bombs. The bombing at the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad has clearly exposed our vacant policy in Iraq. The American people are told to be patient, that winning the peace will take time. Meanwhile, the frustration of the Iraqi people grows by the day, as does their anger. The inability of the United States even to restore basic amenities further fuels the fire.”  (Unprepared for Peace in Iraq The Washington Post By Robert C. Byrd, Tuesday, August 26, 2003; Page A13)

Democratic politicians are going to start to bring this out and stir the controversy.  Who is profiting from these moves?   Are we really bringing truth, justice and the American way to the Middle East?   Do we really believe in self-determination and democracy or is it really all about oil, dollars and power?     On top of all that, we have a new enemy.  What better enemy than terrorism – even better than communism!  The enemy can be anywhere and everywhere!  They can blow up a plane, shopping center or restaurant or take out a power plant, refinery or skyscraper.  We believe the enemy hates us and wants to destroy us.  At least, that is what we are told.  The Office of Homeland Security raises the threat levels from time to time.  They tell us it is not a question of if but when, justifying whatever actions they deem necessary to “keep you safe.”  Meanwhile, people are jailed on suspicion with no due process and sometimes kept indefinitely.  All of this becomes fodder for the opposition candidate in the next election.

“The second Patriot Act is a mirror image of powers that Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler gave themselves. Whereas the First Patriot Act only gutted the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and seriously damaged the Seventh and the Tenth, the Second Patriot Act reorganizes the entire Federal government as well as many areas of state government under the dictatorial control of the Justice Department, the Office of Homeland Security and the FEMA NORTHCOM military command. The Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, also known as the Second Patriot Act is by its very structure the definition of dictatorship.

I challenge all Americans to study the new Patriot Act and to compare it to the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence. Ninety percent of the act has nothing to do with terrorism and is instead a giant Federal power-grab with tentacles reaching into every facet of our society. It strips American citizens of all of their rights and grants the government and its private agents total immunity. (Brief Analysis of Patriot Act II by Alex Jones)

Today, the second anniversary of the 9/11 attack, “President Bush Called Wednesday for expansion of the USA Patriot Act, saying current law ties the hands of law enforcement in its pursuit of terror suspects.  (The Sacramento Bee, 9/11/03).  And the sad thing is, we will continue to sacrifice “freedom” for a false sense of security.

All of these things are going to haunt the administration during the campaign, that is, assuming the candidates have the guts and integrity to attack on these issues.  But there is an even greater problem for the administration that goes right to the heart of the average American’s pocket book.

IT’S THE ECONOMY STUPID!

This simple little slogan led to the defeat of the senior Bush after his first term in office.  In the next few pages, we’ll see that there is no improvement.  We are not in a recovery.  Government and corporations are lying more than ever before to disguise the severity of the situation.  We are on the brink of seeing four bubbles burst at the same time, plunging America into a depression not seen since the 1930’s.  It is not possible to present all of the detail, but if you follow through, you will find that everything I am about to tell you is true.  The long and the short of it is that the economy will continue to sink along with the President’s approval ratings and support.  But will this stop him?

ARE WE SEEING A RECOVERY?

If you watch the news, everyone, including the President, Alan Greenspan, the regional heads of the Federal Reserve, the TV talking heads, the stock market analysts and brokers are all proclaiming we are beginning a great recovery!  Oh really?   You can’t wipe out $10 trillion in the stock market, have a national debt of $8, money supply increasing at double-digit rates (that means we are printing funny money dollars that will be worth less and less), doubling from $3 to $6 trillion, now headed to $7 trillion, balance of payments of a half trillion a year, budget deficits of a half trillion a year without having a depression.  Let’s talk about bubbles.  Bubbles are so beautiful as they fill with air but eventually, they all either burst or fizzle.  In our lifetime, we have seen the greatest growth and expansion in the history of man largely based on our ability to print an infinite amount of dollars which have no inherent value.  So let’s talk bubbles.

The Employment Bubble

It is beginning to dawn on us that we have a big problem with employment.  Employment was growing nicely the end of the nineties.  New jobs were being created by the hundreds of thousands every month.  Now we see millions of jobs either disappearing as layoffs mount or going overseas.  But this is not something you hear from Lou Dobbs or anyone else on the news.  Week after week, they spin the unemployment figures. Every now and then a little bad news leaks out.  On Labor Day, The Sacramento Bee Business Section Headline reads, “Unemployment makes a sobering Labor Day – Companies are slow to rehire and jobs go overseas.”  It goes on to say “some 9.1 million Americans are officially unemployed….Meantime, 74.5 million adults are outside the labor force, 4 million more than when the nine-month recession started in March 2001.”   (Sacramento Bee, 9/1/03)  There is no recovery without job creation and jobs are not being created.  If you follow the reports every week, you will notice that it is supposed to be really good news if we lose less than 400,000 jobs for the week  The problem is the next week, they don’t tell you that they revised the previous weeks figures, sometimes as much as 30,000 or 40,000 which pushes the original low number over the 400,000 mark.  A recent headline read, “New Jobless Claims Drop to Six Month Lows.”  Why?   The power black out meant that employment offices in the northeast were not open on Friday.  We all know unemployment figures are bogus at 6.2%.  If 400,000 become unemployed each week and an equal number drop off because their benefits have run out.  They are no longer officially unemployed since they are not drawing unemployment.  The true figure for unemployment is over 20 percent.  These represent the people that dropped out and have given up or are underemployed in part-time jobs.  How many people do you know that lost good six figure jobs who found a comparable job?   I sure don’t.  White collar jobs are going overseas.  I called the Dell customer service and found myself talking to Sheri in New Delhi, India (I’m sure glad I didn’t have to pay for the hour long phone call).  Once jobs leave, they never to return to our shores.  We have a jobless, profitless recovery based on increasing worker productivity in India and China, and the cannibalizing of our own industry through layoffs!

Recently, we were told that the economy grew by a whopping 2.4% in July which was recently revised to 3.1%.  Well, .8 percent of that growth was inflation factored in and 1.7 percent was defense spending and the rest a spike in new automobile “giveaways” they call sales (a 3.2% gain).  This is another example of the spin as then “talking heads” told us what good news this was.  Whatever consumer spending increases there were, were fueled by refinancing homes.  They tell you the mortgage market is booming but just wait until August reports since mortgage rates went up by over a point.  They tell you to buy stocks, but what are the insiders doing?   (these are the CEO’s and stockholders)  They are selling 32 stocks for every one they buy!   They are getting out of the market just like the Morgan’s, Rockefeller’s, Vanderbilts and Carnegies did in the 20’s and continuing to hype it for the suckers who still plan on that mutual fund for retirement.

The Stock Market Bubble

Warning shots were fired shortly after the turn of the millennium as the stock market lost about 10 trillion dollars in value.  Stocks were trading at 30 to several hundreds times earnings, especially the “dot coms” who never really made any money.  Amazon.com, known as “the river of no return” has gobbled up billions of dollars and never produced a real profit.  Companies are showing bottom line improvements by massive layoffs, but the benefit from cost cutting is only temporary.  There is over capacity in the system – too many internet providers, cell phone manufacturers, computers, airlines, etc.  Some have to go broke, but we won’t even let them do that!

The market has had a nice run up the past few months since finding its lowest levels last fall.  Rally backs (four in all) occurred throughout the Great Depression – just part of the game they play.  Stocks on the Dow are currently trading at about 35 times earnings (about the same level they were at during the height of the bubble three years ago).  That means you have to hold on to a stock for 35 years before you even get your money back.  But the real number is over 50 times earnings because executive stock options are not booked as an expense, and neither are pension funds.  During the boom era of the ‘90s, accountants convinced companies they should take the cash out of their pension funds and put their valuable stock into it.  When the stock values plunged, corporate America found huge deficits in their pension funds.  GM’s pension liability is estimated at $35 billion dollars and growing.  This has happened all across the board.  Any stock price that is greater than 10 times earnings is a “bubble stock”.  Get ready for a huge fall in stock prices in the fourth quarter this year.  Why?   The earnings are not real!  They are still “cooking the books!”

The most basic problem is that companies are not making any money.  Look at the stock prices of almost any company today compared to three years ago.  You will find that most have lost from half to two thirds their value.  I don’t care what industry you look at -  power companies, construction companies, airlines, aviation, steel, aluminum, hotels, banks, software companies, electronics makers, cell phones, automobile, investment banking, telecoms, dotcoms of course, chips, fiber optics, wireless, cable, satellite TV companies, broadband, food, brokerages, department stores, the Internet retailers, computer makers, computer services companies, media and advertising, oil, oil service companies, shipping, trucking, etc.  The list goes on and on.  When you read in the paper that a department store or car company had an increase in sales over a year ago, you have to look at the “quality of the sale”.  Did they give it away in desperation or did they really make money?   This applies to everyone – new car sales, computers or department stores.  The question isn’t whether they are selling or not.  Are they making any money?

That brings us to another area of the different indexes and economic reports.  They are all spin.  Greenspan talks about the danger of inflation being too low which is another word for deflation and another word for depression (words they would never use, and which, in fact were never even used during the Great Depression).  He talks about the increase in “worker productivity”.  Companies are making money because they are laying off thousands of workers (thus increasing worker productivity) and exporting them to China!  Although they talk about recovery, there is no recovery apart from job creation and we lost another 93,000 the month of August!

The Bond Bubble

After 40 years of downward movement, bonds began to recover in 1981 and have had a 22 year run up.  Now long term bonds have lost value over 20 years of value driving up long term interest rates.  The mortgage boom ended abruptly as rates rose more than a percentage point in six weeks.  Mortgage refinancing spurred consumer spending.   The burst in the bond bubble is leading to the burst of the housing bubble since there is no more incentive to refinance and the unemployed can hardly make house payments.   

The Housing Bubble

We had record new home sales, record refinancing rates.  Now we have record home foreclosures.  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac hold most of the mortgage debt and are on the brink of collapse with record loans and absolutely no reserves in case things go wrong.  Let me give you some statistics. Mortgage debt in America is the highest it’s ever been at $6 trillion.  Equity in homes is the least it’s ever been, and housing prices are the highest they’ve ever been.  The economy has been running on home equity.  This is a bubble and it will burst – not as fast as Argentina where they saw housing values fall 90 percent in five months, but people with no job or savings can’t pay their mortgage.  Japan lost 80 percent of their property values over the past decade.  Over the next few years, you will see another Greenspan bubble pop.

The Deficit Bubble

Just two years ago the CBO projected a $5.6 trillion surplus over the next ten years.  Now we are looking at an additional $1.8 trillion deficit.  Foreign lenders own over 40% of U.S. government debt, 23% of U.S. corporate bonds and over 20% of mortgage debt.  There is no doubt that currently America is the most dominant economic and military power on earth. Although the world has seen many great powers come and go, including the Spaniards, the French and the British, America's influence in all global matters, whether economic, military, technological or cultural, is a phenomenon the world hasn't seen since the Roman Empire.  Once the U.S.went off the gold standard in 1972 and no longer had to settle its accounts in gold, it could create and spend money at will.  This lit a fire under foreign producers, who realized they could sell to the world’s greatest consumers (Revelation 18).  They bought dollars so we could buy their goods.

From 1983 to 1987, budget and current account deficits grew reaching 5 percent of GDP, leading to the Stock Market crash in the fall of 1987.  Now we are looking at deficits reaching 12 percent of GDP.  The balance of trade deficit is half a trillion dollars, as is the government spending deficit.  The government conveniently doesn’t count the Social Security money spent, some military spending and other items hidden in the budget.  Money supply has increased at alarming rates and is now over $6 trillion.  The printing presses are working over time.    This can only result in a devaluing currency and inflation.  And if you think about it, inflation is the most insidious hidden tax of all.  As a graduate student on a fellowship with a wife and two children, I remember living very well on $240 a month (and I’m not that old)

We have record tax cuts, record government spending, record government deficits.  Once the rest of the world figures out the “greenback” is not the stable currency they thought it was, watch out!   Some speculate that the Iraq war was more about the dollar than oil since Iraq was planning to switch from the dollar to the Euro.

The Personal Debt Bubble

Personal bankruptcies hit a new record of 1.6 million people in the past 12 months.  (The NY Post, 8/20/23).   Yet, we continue to spend.

“Americans are holding on to their standard of living not as a function of their productivity, but at the sacrifice of the family unit (since it now requires both spouses working to maintain a standard that forty years ago took only one), and at the expense of their own future generations (as the result of the increasingly heavy debt load), and at the expense of the rest of the world (a function of its record and ever- growing trade deficit).”  (The Daily Reckoning “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, Part I)

” The 2nd-quarter numbers look more like a 'last gasp' by consumers than a genuine recovery. Since June, mortgage rates have gone up, which triggered a rush to buy houses. But refinancing applications have faded as fast as the

living room drapes. Last week, they fell again by 13.7%, bringing them 65% below levels at the end of the 2nd quarter... and 78% below their peak.

"Refinancing is over, basically," says the Atlanta Journal- Constitution.

“The whole world economy is stuck in a system that no longer works. It depends on the U.S. economy as its 'engine of growth'... and upon the U.S. consumer to push the pedal to the metal. If Americans do not continue to buy, the whole

thing comes to a halt. But something is going wrong.  American consumers still buy... but they are running out of money. Americans have begun to ache and strain under the burden of the $2.5 trillion net that they owe to foreigners. And if the 'engine of growth' is to keep running, Americans must add another $500 billion to its borrowings each year.

At the present rate, estimates the Levy Institute, the amount owed to foreigners will rise to $8 trillion by 2008, or 60% of GDP. Which shows why Nixon's Dollar Standard system is about to go bad. Every dollar the U.S. borrows from abroad adds to the amount it must borrow to service its borrowings. Even at 5% interest, the carrying cost of $8 trillion in debt is $400 billion per year. That is in addition to the $500 billion of trade deficit... and in addition to the anticipated federal deficit of $500 billion or so. The U.S. would soon be in the position of needing to

import more capital than the entire world saves.”  (The Daily Reckoning, July 29, 2003)

American consumers have created the greatest debt bubble in history between mortgage and credit card debt.  The so-called recovery is about to stall out since they don’t have credit, any more home equity or savings.  The 12 year depression in Japan (80 percent loss in the stock market and property values) was muted by the 40 percent personal savings rate.  The average American has no savings to speak of.  When was the last time we had record filing of bankruptcies, record home foreclosures and low interest rates?   The Great Depression, you guessed it!

THE UNITED STATES IN PROPHECY?

The question for Christians is where does America fit in prophecy?   Surely, it has been a force for good in the world.  It is Israel’s only friend.  It is the only “Christian” nation in a post-Christian world – or is it?   Could it be that it is changing and few even notice it?   Is it really “Christian”?   Is it really benevolent?

The Bible speaks of a great end times super power, a young nation, a “little horn” (Daniel 7) that comes out of a ten nation confederacy and ends up not only dominating them all but being the source of the antichrist’s power (for a complete discussion please see http://antipas.isrp.org/antipas/ant_chp13.html as well as Chapter 14).  Christians see all of the prophetic action in Europe but seem to forget that America was born from European soil and that we are “European” in language, culture, history, religion, etc.  In the past 100 years, America has become the dominant military, cultural and “Christian” force in the world.  But something has gone wrong with this country that many Christians consider to be God’s chosen nation.  It is turning, changing, becoming an evil domineering force that will allow no rivals.  (please see Chapters 13 to 15 of The Antipas Papers for a thorough explanation).

Revelation speaks of a great “end times” power, a “beast” that the apostate church rides to power on (See Revelation 17 and 18 in particular).  This is not the work of a post-Christian nation but a nation that claims to be acting on behalf of Christ to bring His kingdom to the earth.  It also happens to be the world’s great consumer nation, a nation that all the nations depend on to consume the products they produce.  They have to trade with her by sea.  In the past 30 years, we have seen the “Church” (referred to as the “religious right”) become more and more entangled in politics, the Republican Party in particular, so that today we see a purported “evangelical Christian” President and administration acting out their policy as if it were a holy mission from God.  We see a holy war against terrorists (represented as godless fundamental Islam) and the churches and Christians in general have jumped on the patriotic bandwagon.

Now what does this have to do with this article?    From a prophetic point of view, if America represents that great last days superpower supported by the apostate church, the loss of the next election would break the alliance between “Christian” churches and the state and stop the charge of the administration to “rid the world of evil”.  But, didn’t I just say that the empire was crumbling and we were going broke?   Yes, that is all true, but Hitler did not pull Germany out of the Great Depression by producing  goods and services, but by conquest – beginning with Poland, Austria, the rest of Eastern Europe before he went into the lowland countries, pillaging along the way.  The U.S. is poised to pillage the greatest wealth on the earth and take the spOIL!  Why are we so reluctant to turn Iraq over to the United Nations?   Why did we spurn help from France, Germany, Russia and other countries?   We want it for ourselves… so there will be plenty of money to keep the elites in the money.

But what of the rest of us? Aren't people going to begin to see what is really happening in the economy? The elites make more money than ever from their Chinese slave factories but the average American may start to figure it out unless something really bad happens.. And if and when it does, you know what happens. Americans will rally around the administration and scream for terrorist "Middle Eastern" blood. Another 9/11 type event will justify Afghanistan and Iraq, give an excuse for all the money rebuilding (which goes to the administration's business friends) and call for more sacrifice on the part of the American people.
Oh, and did they forget to mention? Not a good time for an election, so they'll just cancel it for a while until things settle down and the conquest of the white horse of the Apocalypse will continue (Revelation 6:2). Please notice, it is not a black horse, but a beautiful pure white horse going forth to conquer no doubt, in the name of god. (sorry I just couldn't capitalize that one). The more likely scenario is that given a catastrophic terrorist event, the nation will rally behind the current administration in the next election. That is the only way I see it overcoming the economic and war news.

Now, lest you think I am a “boom, doom and gloom” person, that is just not the case.  Prophecy is going to be fulfilled exactly as written.  We can’t change the course of history, but we can make sure we are on the right side (not in the apostate church) but in a real relationship with God and other Christians.  This will be the most glorious time in history for the true Church, but a day of reckoning for the false apostate church that has married the state and gotten caught up in the patriotic fervor.  This is hard for most Christians to grasp, but as I said in my book, it wouldn’t be deceiving if it were easy to see (http://www.the-tribulation-network.com/denemcgriff/Apostasy/recognizing_deception_and_apostasy.htm).  They think of the “America” they knew or were taught, not the arrogant, grasping, evil empire it has become.  And to get caught up in its web of deceit is probably the most dangerous thing a Christian can do.  The organized church is hopelessly lost.  The laity is clamoring for pastors to “itch their ears” and tell them what they want to hear, so get out while you can.

Dene McGriff

Sacramento, California

September 11, 2003

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