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Euphrates River to Be Dried Up
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In revelation 16:12, the bible predicts that the Ruphrates river will be dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East to invade Israel. This will happen at the time of the battle of Armageddon according to verse 16 of the same chapter. The battle of Armageddon will be the final battle during which Jesus will return and fight on the side of the nation of Israel. Immediately thereafter He will establish His kingdom and usher in His one-thousand year reign of peace. On January 13, 1990, the Indianapolis Star carried the headline “Turkey Will Cut Off Flow of Euphrates for One Month.” The article stated that a huge reservoir had been built by Turkey. While filling up the reservoir, the flow of the Euphrates would be stopped for one month and a concrete plug for a diversion channel built. These things have now been done. With this newly built dam, Turkey has the ability to stop the Euphrates River at will. The conditions for fulfilling this 1,900-year-old prophecy are now in place.
China Goes to War
in revelation 9:15-16, the bible prophesies that an army of 200 million soldiers
will launch a war which will kill “the third part of men.” Never in the
history of the world until our present generation has there been a power on
earth that could field 200 million soldiers. However, the late ruler of China
Mao Tse Tung boasted in his diary that he could field an army of 200 million.
The CIA World Factbook reported that in the year 2001 it was estimated that China had 200,866,946 men of military age and that this number is growing by 10 million per year.
Worldwide Numbering System Predicted
in revelation 13, the bible prophesies that a world dictator will soon rule over
a world government. He will cause all people on the earth to receive a number
without which they will be unable to buy or sell. We are seeing this prophecy
fulfilled before our eyes in a most astonishing way. Nearly every human being in
the world has now been assigned a number. In America, it is our Social Security
number. In the past few years, we have seen this number extended to newborns. A
child without a Social Security number cannot be declared as a dependent on an
income tax return. We have seen the emergence of electronic money, shopping with
credit cards, and many people actually urging the abolition of cash. All of
these things could not possibly have been
fulfilled until this present time. Only after the invention of the computer could such a worldwide numbering system be administered.
The Emergence of a New World Order
revelation 13:7 and daniel 7:23 prophesy the establishment of a world
government. The term “New World Order” has become a prevalent phrase in the
world’s political culture. Mikhail Gorbachev made the term famous, and Pope
John Paul II referred to it repeatedly. In the September 12, 1990 issue of the
Chicago Tribune, our former president George Bush said, “Iraq is the first
test for the New World Order.” He emphatically stated that the Iraq War was
Saddam Hussein against the world. The United Nations’ troops are continually
referred to as the multi-national forces. The decision has been made to
establish an interdependent community of nations that will rule the world under
United Nations authority. The Bible says that this will lead us into a great
world government. The formation of this government is at hand.
Coincidence or Divine Providence?
is it coincidental that all of these major prophecies pertaining to the last
times are being fulfilled simultaneously? Hardly!
The Bible prophesies a time when
individuals will not be able to buy or sell unless they take the ‘mark of the
beast.’ Between now and May of 2008, Americans
will receive national ID cards without which we will be unable to hold a job or
open a bank account. If we cannot hold a job or have a bank account, how
much buying or selling will we be able to do? The question has to be asked:
“Will the National ID card—which will be implemented over the next two
years—be the mark of the beast?”
A little history
For many years, advocates of socialistic big
government have promoted the establishment of a national ID card. The American
public has steadfastly resisted this encroachment upon individual liberties, not
wanting to become a number in the government’s computer.
When it created the Department of Homeland
Security after 9/11, Congress made it clear in the enabling legislation that the
agency could not create a national ID system. In September 2004, then-DHS
Secretary Tom Ridge reiterated, “The legislation that created the Department
of Homeland Security was very specific on the question of a national ID card.
They said there will be no national ID card.”
However, when the Homeland Security Commission
presented their recommendation for responding to 9/11, there it was… as big as
Dallas. On page 407 of the 9/11 Report, it states, “Secure identification
should begin in the United States. The federal government should set standards
for the issuance of birth certificates and sources of identification, such as
drivers’ licenses.”
Those who have long salivated over imposing a
controlled society upon America grabbed the 9/11 baton and ran with it!
Knowing that Americans did not want a national
ID card, the ‘Big Brother-ites’ decided to pass the National ID Act by
stealth. First of all, they called it the Real ID Act, and then attached it to a
huge appropriations bill for our troops in Iraq so that no member of
Congress would dare vote against it. On May 10,
2005, the bill creating a national ID passed by a vote in the Senate of 100-0.
The next day, May 11, 2005, President
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George W. Bush signed the bill into law. Just
like that—the handcuffs were snapped around the wrists of Americans. The
‘land of the free and the home of the brave’ became the land of the
controlled and the home of the scared.
What will the Real ID
Act actually do?
In layman’s language, the Real ID Act
mandates that all states in the U.S. must standardize procedures for the
granting of drivers’ licenses and ID cards. The state must require before
issuing a drivers’ license or ID card the following documentation:
(A) A photo identity document, except that a
non-photo identity document is acceptable if it includes both the person’s
full legal name and date of birth.
(B) Documentation showing the person’s date
of birth.
(C) Proof of the person’s Social Security
account number or verification that the person is not eligible for a Social
Security account number.
(D) Documentation showing the person’s name
and address of principal residence.
Please notice that one of the mandatory
requirements to get your ID card is the presentation of your Social Security
number. Your Social Security number is what makes you trackable.
It enables the government to enter information
—lots of information about you—into its database, and then retrieve it at
the push of a button.
What if you do not get a national ID?
This comes straight from the text of the Real
ID Act: “Beginning 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, a
Federal agency may not accept, for any official purpose, a driver’s license or
identification card issued by a State to any person unless the state is meeting
the requirements of this section.”
Notice that this paragraph sets the deadline
for the final implementation of the national ID. It specifically sets May 11,
2008—3 years after the enactment of the law on May 11, 2005.
It also states that a Federal agency may not
accept ‘for any official purpose’ a driver’s license or ID card issued by
a State unless the State is meeting the requirements of the Real ID Act. What
does this mean?
It means that you must have this new national
ID to board an airplane, enter a federal building where ID is required, open a bank account or hold a
job. Furthermore, if you refuse to get this new national ID, you will not be
able to legally drive your car (since your driver’s license will now be your
national ID). How will a person function in a modern society if he cannot drive,
fly, hold a job or have a bank account? It is obviously going to be nearly
impossible!
The big
lie
Defenders of the Real ID Act say that the Real
ID is not a national ID. They deceptively argue that states do not have to
comply with the federally set standards of the Real ID Act.
Technically, they do not have to comply, but if
they do not, none of their citizens can board a plane, hold a job or open a bank
account. Oh, yes – one more thing. Any state that does not link its database,
containing records on all drivers and ID holders, to the database of the other
49 states loses its federal funding. But, of course, it is not mandatory!
Sounds very much like the ‘voluntary’
income tax to me! Anyone who tells you that the Real ID is not a national ID is
intentionally lying or is incredibly ignorant.
Other nations have had
national ID s for a long time
The argument has been made that many nations
have had a national ID for a long time, yet they have not taken the mark of the
beast. Why should we believe that the National ID Act will usher in the mark of
the beast in America?
It is true that other nations have had national
IDs for some time. However, America has been regarded as the world’s last
bastion of freedom. If the U.S. succumbs to the tyranny of total governmental
control, the last light of freedom on earth will have been extinguished.
Furthermore, it can be demonstrated that the
prophesied time for the enactment of the mark of the beast has arrived. There
are six prophecies that will come to pass in the three and one-half years
immediately preceding the imposing of the mark of the beast. All of these
prophecies are in the process of coming to pass right now. This enables us to
know that the mark of the beast is just ahead. America simply cannot allow the
implementation of the national ID!
Six prophecies will immediately precede the
mark of the beast:
Middle East Peace Plan
The Bible foretells a peace plan for the Middle
East that will deal with the status of Jerusalem and the borders of the Holy
Land. The plan will be sponsored and confirmed by the world community seven
years before the Battle of Armageddon. It is at the Battle of Armageddon that
Jesus Christ returns to earth, human government ends, and the 1000-year reign of
the kingdom of God begins.
Such a plan now exists. The Roadmap for Peace
was authored in 2002 by “The Quartet,” consisting of the United States, the
European Union, Russia and the United Nations. It was accepted by Israel and the
Palestinians in June of 2003, but has not yet been implemented.
The Roadmap is a peace plan for the Middle East
and calls for settling the status of Jerusalem and the borders between Israel
and the Palestinians.
After Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from
Gaza in August of 2005, the world community believed this action by Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon might put the Roadmap for Peace back on track. The
Quartet met at the UN on September 20, 2005, to “reaffirm” the world’s
support for the Roadmap.
We are not sure that the prophesied
‘covenant’ has yet been ‘confirmed,’ triggering the beginning of the
final seven years. However, it does seem certain that the Roadmap for Peace is
the mechanism for the “confirmation of the covenan,” whenever it does occur.
World War II
Another prophecy found in Revelation 9:13-20
states that a war will originate from the area of the Euphrates River and will
ultimately result in the killing of “one-third part of men.” The vast
majority of the Euphrates River is in Iraq where the U.S. presently has around
150,000 troops. This war that will kill one-third of mankind (two billion
people) must be completed at least three and one-half years before the Battle of
Armageddon. It appears that
we are already in the beginning stages of that
Euphrates River war.
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George
W. Bush signed the bill into law. Just like that—the handcuffs were snapped
around the wrists of
Americans.
The ‘land of the free and the home of the brave’ became the land of the
controlled and the home of the scared.
What
will the Real ID Act actually do? In layman’s language, the Real ID Act
mandates that all states in the U.S. must standardize procedures for the
granting of drivers’ licenses and ID cards. The state must require before
issuing a drivers’ license or ID card the following documentation:
(A)
A photo identity document, except that a non-photo identity document is
acceptable if it includes both the person’s full legal name
and date of birth.
(B)
Documentation showing the person’s date of birth.
(C)
Proof of the person’s Social Security account number or verification that the
person is not eligible for Social
Security account number.
(D)
Documentation showing the person’s name and address of principal residence.
Please
notice that one of the mandatory requirements to get your ID card is the
presentation of your Social Security number. Your Social Security number is what
makes you trackable. It enables the government to enter information — lots of
information about you—into its database, and then retrieve it at the push of a
button. What if you do not get a national ID? This comes straight from the text
of the Real ID Act: “Beginning 3 years after the date of the enactment of this
Act, a Federal agency may not accept, for any official purpose, a driver’s
license or identification card issued by a State to any person unless the state
is meeting the requirements of this section.” Notice that this paragraph sets
the deadline for the final implementation of the national ID. It specifically
sets May 11, 2008—3 years after the enactment of the
law on May 11, 2005.
It
also states that a Federal agency may not accept ‘for any official purpose’
a driver’s license or ID card issued by a State unless the State is meeting
the requirements of the Real ID Act. What does this mean?
It
means that you must have this new national ID to board an airplane, enter a
federal building where ID is required, open a bank account or hold a job.
Furthermore, if you refuse to get this new national ID, you will not be able to
legally drive your car (since your driver’s license will now be your national
ID).
How
will a person function in a modern society if he cannot drive, fly, hold a job
or have a bank account? It is obviously going to be nearly impossible!
The
big lie Defenders of the Real ID Act say that the Real ID is not a national ID.
They deceptively argue that states do not have to comply with the federally set
standards of the Real ID Act. Technically, they do not have to comply, but if
they do not, none of their citizens can board a plane, hold a job or open a bank
account. Oh, yes – one more thing. Any state that does not link its database,
containing records on all
drivers
and ID holders, to the database of the other 49 states loses its federal
funding. But, of course, it is not mandatory!
Sounds
very much like the ‘voluntary’ income tax to me! Anyone who tells you that
the Real ID is not a national ID is intentionally lying or is incredibly
ignorant. Other nations have had national ID s for a long time The argument has
been made that many nations have had a national ID for a long time, yet they
have not taken the mark of the beast. Why should we believe that the National ID
Act will usher in the mark of the beast in America? It is true that other
nations have had national IDs for some time. However, America has been regarded
as the world’s last bastion of freedom. If the U.S. succumbs to the tyranny of
total governmental control, the last light of freedom on earth will have been
extinguished.
Furthermore,
it can be demonstrated that the prophesied time for the enactment of the mark of
the beast has arrived. There are six prophecies that will come to pass in the
three and one-half years immediately preceding
the imposing of the mark of the beast. All of these prophecies are in the
process of coming to pass right now. This enables us to know that the mark of
the beast is just ahead. America simply cannot allow the implementation of the
national ID! Six prophecies will immediately precede the mark of the beast:
Middle East Peace Plan The Bible foretells a peace plan for the Middle East that
will deal with the status of Jerusalem and the borders of the Holy Land. The
plan will be sponsored and confirmed by the world community seven years before
the Battle of Armageddon. It is at the Battle of Armageddon that Jesus Christ
returns to earth, human government ends, and the 1000-year reign of the kingdom
of God begins.