December 11, 2004

Things have really been jumping lately. We’ve had a ton of inquiries since the radio interview and I’ve also been quite busy replying to the feedback from Steve’s latest article. Most people now, do seem to understand where we are coming from… but there are also still quite a few who just don’t seem to understand the plain meaning of the Scriptures concerning “coming out” of Babylon the Great. Below I’ll paste a short summation from the email replies I’ve given and then I’ll address one other point (once again), which has been put before us numerous times. After that I’ve got a ton of articles to share via links in the journal. A special thanks goes out to our readers for most of these links, especially to JN and Stephen G. First things first however, and I want to share once again the premise behind God’s command to “come out” of Babylon.

As I said above, most people do seem to understand at this point, where we are coming from, on this matter. Yet there are still those that do not get it. They point to the sinful state of the other nations of the earth and they point to the fact that “the whole world lieth in evil” to buttress their argument that several other nations are just as evil as Babylon the Great or to say that it doesn’t matter where you are when the end comes. The Bible just doesn’t support those lines of thinking and to the contrary (and as has been pointed out in this journal, for examples read the November 24 journal entry) shows a single nation from which the great evils of the end of the age emanate. The Bible also shows clearly that the call to God’s people is to flee from this nation… lest in not fleeing, you become a partaker in her sins and remove yourself completely from God’s will. Below is a summation of recent email responses I have made on this matter:

The great difference [between the US, itself and the world-wide system it has established] is that the US is a self-professing Christian nation. It's president claims to be a Christian, its elected representatives at the local, state, and federal level all claim the same as well. Its people overwhelmingly claim to be servants of Christ. The Church, as a social body and as an institution is intimately involved in the affairs of the State. As a matter of fact it is the Church that is behind the right wing, militaristic direction of the US over the past 24 years.

No other country on earth, be it England, Canada, Germany, etc. is even marginally Christian on a societal level... much less as zealously Christian (in an apostate way) as the US is. The Bible describes the relationship between the Church and the US state as a Woman (the Church) riding the Beast (Babylon the Great/America). The significance of fallen Christianity as the driving force behind this empire is what separates the US from all other nations and it is in this role that it is identified for the "special" destruction laid out for it in the book of Revelation chapter 18.

To continue on that thought... it is America's false Christianity that makes it so terribly evil. It is the fact that all it does is done in God's name... and with the consent of the majority of its "Christian" citizens. The system is terrible as well, but in and of itself it does not lead people into worshipping another Christ... especially in nations, which have not embraced an apostate, societal form of Christianity that sanctions, murder, poverty, destruction, torture, etc, etc. as being a necessary part of serving God's Kingdom. It is the mixture of Christ's name and His Church to the corruption of the World that is anathema to God… and it is this mixture, which is the driving force behind what is driving the US to fulfill the Bible’s predictions concerning Babylon the Great, the Beast, the Antichrist, etc. etc…
As to… …comments on "coming out" of Babylon (as mentioned in Rev. 18:4)... we have dealt with both the first and second part of this verse extensively in our writings over the past year or so. Fear of physical danger should not be the motivating force here because Christ has plainly told us in His words that as His true followers we are to be subject to such things... and that our fear should be directed towards the Lord:

Mat 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

The relevance of this to Revelation 18: 4 is that this destruction takes place at the beginning of God's execution of judgment upon the earth... i.e. the Day of the Lord... i.e. the Wrath of God... i.e. the time at the end of the age spoken of in Daniel when the Stone Cut Without Hands (Christ) strikes down and topples to utter destruction that final gentile world empire (Daniel 2). At this point, all who receive of this judgment are receiving God's judgment and are therefore "appointed" to receive of His wrath. It is this wrath... and the spiritual implications of being counted among those who receive it that leads us to write what we write.

The physicality attached to the verse is because those who remain will be changed. They will by remaining, become partakers in Babylon's sins... therefore God will be justified to count them among those who receive of her plagues (judgments). The Bible says that a little leaven, leavens the whole lump. Those who physically remain in Babylon will both physically and SPIRITUALLY partake of the leaven and will in the end be a part of the "leavened lump" unworthy to God. This will happen due to the fact that the spiritual and the physical, insofar as Babylon the Great is concerned have become so intertwined that God characterizes it as a picture of a Woman (the Church) riding a Beast (the Antichrist Nation, i.e. Babylon the Great).

One cannot come out of the one without coming out of the other. Whether the corrupting process of leavening will take place by coercion, intimidation, delusion, or the loving of family, friends, and the things of this world over Christ... I do not know (on an individual basis). It will be different for each person who remains... Yet, what is clear is that ALL who remain behind will become "partakers in her sins" and will receive of her plagues... once again plague that bear a spiritual price for eternity... in that we know that God will not destroy the righteous with the unrighteous... when executing His wrath.

Hopefully my once again going over these matters is of benefit to everyone out there. I just felt led to share this information one more time. Another subject we have been contending with lately is the thought that this message of fleeing Babylon is one that only the well off can countenance. There have been a few emails lately, which have said as much and in doing so these people have not clearly seen or understood what it took for us (as a group) to get up here.

When we left Sacramento, there were essentially nine adults and three children who came up here. Of the nine adults only two were working full-time in the world (and therefore making income), while another worked part-time, one was attending college, and most all were still doing “full-time” work for the ministry. The two working full-time worked for the State of California and were by no means getting rich from their efforts. An additional income source was the support brought in by the ministry (but most the overwhelming majority of that goes back into keeping the ministry itself going) The only way we were able to survive in Sacramento, much less countenance a move to Canada, was to freely share of all that we have with each other.

Nonetheless, we dedicated ourselves to getting out and were able to do so. Due to the call the Lord has put upon us to prepare others in this message we were also able to find a place up here that is big enough to house our large group and still have room for others to come. This was made possible by the sale of a house in Sacramento and the God sent assistance of a very few others, who made very real and substantial sacrifices to help us in this. As I said though, this was necessary for us to have a place for others in addition to ourselves.

In addition to the financial challenge we also had serious health matters to contend with. One person in our party is a diabetic and another has serious heart problems. Finally, about a week before we were scheduled to leave one of our group was hospitalized with a severe and life-threatening respiratory ailment. This ailment ended up requiring two surgeries and nearly three months of hospitalization. It also left the person with a nine-inch scar where surgeons went into their chest with their hands to complete the procedure necessary for recovery. Praise God that three months after our arrival here, this person was able to join us.

In spite of all these stumbling blocks we left Babylon anyway. We came on faith… and God has been merciful. Since here we have been poverty-stricken and we have had to scramble at all times to survive. We have had to rely on the Lord to keep us healthy and we have had to rely upon Him to provide a way for us to get medical care when it has been necessary. None of us who came up are landed immigrants yet. We are still visitors in Canada… and as such have had to leave Canada on more than one occasion to keep ourselves in the good graces of Canadian law. Yet we trust God to always get us back… and we also trust Him that our immigration issues will be resolved in due time.

All this has been mentioned to say that while having compassion and understanding for how hard it is to leave the US, we do not see anything or any reason the overrides God’s commandment to flee. Nor do we see any circumstance of poverty or health that He is unable to overcome, in respect to allowing “His children” to follow “His Word.” Canada is not the only option. There are other nations easily accessible to US citizens, which are not as stringent as Canada in their immigration process. In this sense it is not that important to us exactly where you go (I don’t mean that in a bad way, but that it should be where God leads you to go), but it is extremely important for you to go. It is important because God has commanded you to do so.

While I’ve been quite busy contending with all the matters noted above I have also received some fantastic links from dear friends and readers. Since the primary purpose of this journal (as I see it) is to share relevant news with commentary… we’ll now proceed with such.

First up is the system of torture and abuse the US uses to maintain the empire. As noted in a recent Washington Post article the significance of Abu Ghraib is that the “system” was revealed to the public and survived its public exposure. Not only has it survived, but it still flourishes.

Rather than love their enemies, Americans have chosen instead to revile and dehumanize them. An example of this is the ambivalence shown towards “what is necessary” insofar as obtaining information is concerned… and how the “rules concerning such things” are not moral imperatives… but instead abstract guidelines meant to be bent and broken when necessary. A recent piece recounts this practice in its reporting of how interrogators in Afghanistan kept looking for “loopholes” to justify harsher treatment of prisoner:

“But the interrogators kept returning to the idea, looking for a loophole. Mackey said he came to approach it like a tax problem: here's the outcome the client wants, how can the tax code be interpreted in such a way to justify it?”

In this example the inflicting of suffering and pain upon another human being is approached coldly and calculatingly as a “tax problem” in which a loophole must be found to justify wreaking larger doses of pain and suffering upon captives. What this really means is that the means justifies the ends. It means that evil acts are acceptable if done in the service of good… but I tell you, God will have none of this and it is a big thing to Him when those who hold themselves up as being His servants do or approve of such things.

This is also big because the US is supposed to be a “Christian nation” and therefore claims to be a nation of servants to God. The president is supposed to be a Christian as are the majority of the men and women in positions of power in the legislative and executive branch. In spite of these public professions of faith by the people of the US and their leaders… there has been no real effort to examine or change a system that makes frequent use of murder, violence, torture, etc.

These are just the things that take place in secret places. What about what is involved with waging a war such as the one going on in Iraq? A US soldier seeking asylum in Canada has said his unit killed more than 30 innocent Iraqi civilians in just two days. Plus, I don’t think people truly consider what it is like to be involved in such a struggle and how antithetical to Christ and His kingdom it truly is. James Carol offers a very relevant statement to this effect in a recent Boston Globe article:

“The main horror of what the "coalition" is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement.

The war itself is the American war crime. But that is lost in the "normalcy" of the news.”

Yet Americans, and specifically Christian Americans do not make this connection. Instead they glorify victory in war… if not war itself… as a noble and necessary venture to combat evil in this world. In doing so they reveal that they truly do not know Christ and are instead serving another God… a god of war, greed and avarice. It is this “Christianization” of war, conflict and the quest for empire… that sets the US apart as the terrible nation that is Babylon the Great.

Come on now… think about it for a second. What is it about America that makes it's evil so much more significant than that perpetrated by other nations? It is the “Christianization” of America’s sins… by her own people. What other nation could or would produce a limited edition Bible tailored for use by Special Forces units? The forces are the ones involved in the most combat, at the closest range, and are required to be the MOST indiscriminate in their use of lethal force to take human life. Yet America has a Bible, just for them… one that will no doubt make them feel good about executing their duties, no matter the cost in human life.

What should we expect from Babylon the Great? America and its people are playing their role to sad perfection. Their belief that God is with them is in the same vein as the belief Germany and its leaders held and acted upon decades ago. What happened then cost millions of lives and destroyed the testimony of Germany’s Church. The future America is unleashing will bring even greater death and calamity upon the world and will reveal American Christians for the tares that they apparently are.

"Go out of the midst of her, my people! Let every man save his life from the fierce anger of the LORD! Jeremiah 51: 45.

November 27, 2004

Recently there has been a lot of talk centered on what we are saying here at Antipas Ministries. “What we’ve been saying,” is referring to our stand on fleeing Babylon, i.e. the US. The predominant stream of thought among detractors is that our going to Canada actually accomplishes nothing, because Canada is going to be absorbed into the American empire.

The thought process follows that fleeing to a nation, which is destined to become a part of the “Babylonian Empire” in the end will accomplish nothing… since once it is absorbed those who oppose the American New World Order and the Religious Right’s involvement in it will be, to put it nicely, “dealt with.” Those saying such things totally discount the fact that our moving to Canada has nothing to do with insuring our physical safety from the forces of the American Empire. Physical safety against this beast probably cannot be secured by fleeing to any country.

Our concern was of course to follow God’s commandment to flee from Babylon because of the SPIRITUAL dangers inherent with remaining within it. These are dangers, which we have dealt with in detail via this journal and Steve’s articles… yet they are ones that our detractors discount as being misinterpretations of the Bible. To them the passage in Revelation 18:4 is insufficient evidence, and the Old Testament passages speak of ancient Babylon’s destruction… therefore we haven’t a leg to stand on. Interestingly it appears they must not have read the passages I have quoted from the Old Testament, since all of them deal with a future destruction of Babylon and a future judgment of those residing within it.

Some take this even one step further and attempt to say that Canada and the US are one in the same in all areas relevant to this discussion. A quote from one such person reads as follows:

“One would have to be incredibly naïve if they thought there was anything culturally, politically or economically unique about Canada compared to America to the south.”

To support this statement a link to an article was offered, which shows plans between US and Canadian military planners to form a sort of “binational integration.” In all honesty, I am dumbfounded that anyone could say that there is no uniqueness between (i.e. no differences between) Canada and the US insofar as culture and politics are concerned.

Speaking as someone who has lived in both countries I can freely and quite easily say that the differences between the two nations on matters of culture and politics are as dramatic as those between night and day. Apparently I am not the only one who feels this way, since a recent article in the Washington Post puts forth the following tidbits of information:

“Longtime observers here say the societies in Canada and the United States are drifting further apart in values and outlook even as their economies become more closely intertwined. Politically, they say, the two countries' populations are more estranged than at any time in recent memory, and Canadians are becoming increasingly critical of their southern neighbors.”

Even the title of the article makes it plain that Canada… and more specifically Canadians want nothing to do with the direction the US is headed culturally and politically. The article is titled:

Forecast Frosty for U.S.-Canadian Ties
Cultural Gap Between Neighbors Widens Even as Economies Grow Closer

Once again, as someone living in Canada I can verify, at least insofar as my own personal experience is concerned, the veracity of the premise put forth in the Post article. Though the Canadian economy is losing its independence to the US, this is a fact that only the wealthy in Canada are pleased with. As to matters of culture and politics, the great majority of 30 million plus Canadians want nothing to do with the direction the US is headed. More specifically they want nothing to do with one particular aspect of the US in a cultural and political sense.

The aspect they particularly abhor is the Religious Right and its Dominionist Agenda in both the culture war and politics within the US. Ironically, this “false” Christian involvement is the very thing that God abhors as well. It is this facet of America that singles it out especially for the destruction destined to befall Babylon the Great. The fact that America is building its beast empire under the guise of being a “Christian Nation” angers God above all else.

There have been empires in times past. Yet never before have economic might, military power, cultural self-righteousness, and religious zeal merged so seamlessly under the banner of Christianity, as they do in the United States. Add to this the fact that the military power and economic might of this “beast nation” is greater than any throughout the world’s history and one should begin to see the prophetic significance of it all.

Yet to lump Canada in as a part of this is farcical. There is no desire to incorporate God into country within the provinces of Canada. Canadians have no desire to “take back their country for Christ.” Unlike American Christians, Canadians (even Canadian Christians) have no compulsion to say as Kenneth Copeland has that:

“This country belongs to God ... He's the One who brought the United States of America into existence. He had a special purpose for it ... He raised it up, and it's not going to be taken away from Him.”

In the Antipas Papers, S.R. Shearer summed up the sentiments at work on the “Christian side” of America’s culture war as follows:

“People like Hunt - and even Pat Robertson and Tim LaHaye - have come to sincerely believe that their civilization - Western Christendom - is under siege by a godless "Secular Humanism" bent on its destruction; they think of themselves as modern-day "Crusader Knights" united together in a "holy brotherhood" to confront this menace and that in doing so, they are doing nothing more than what the Templars, the Hospitalers and the Teutonic Knights did when confronting the Asian and Islamic hordes which were hurling themselves against Christendom a millennium ago.”

This is where American Christianity “is at” and the ideology of these men is now the predominant ideology within the US… as Election 2004 proved beyond a shadow of a doubt. For someone to state that the Canada is the same as the US in this regard, especially someone who in times past had no problem identifying the US as Babylon the Great and was able to make the distinction between Babylon the Great and the rest of the world, leads me to believe that there are ulterior motives at play. What else can explain so radical a shift in thought? The Bible hasn’t changed its meaning… and the other countries of the world certainly have not become more “Christian”… at least in the militant, Dominionist way, which characterizes “The Woman” riding the Beast in the Book of Revelation.

Below is just a short sample of previous emails from one who formerly understood the significance and peculiarity of the position of the US as Babylon the Great and also understood the call to leave it:

“Thu 8/14/2003 1:11 PM
I did not object to the direction they were going, but how they were going about it. I have no problem as you can see in EVERYTHING I write that Christians must leave Babylon. But insulting them rather than communicating clearly are two different things.”

“Sat 9/20/2003 1:17 PM
I never said that I disagreed with Antipas over the matter of leaving Babylon. I believe that the system is as corrupt as can be. I believe we should give the best, most reasoned arguments as to why Christians should leave, along with a solution – i.e. what to do?”

“Fri 1/23/2004 11:03 AM
…I have no problem if you all feel to go to Canada. I think it is a very good idea, and Lord willing, I will be able to leave as well…

… Oh, I think it will be bad. It will get very bad but there will be few places to go to escape unless you keep a very low profile, don’t let anyone know where you are and pay for everything with cash. Dropping out with a “high profile” is like not dropping out at all but waving a red flag at the charging bull! You should have just gone quietly and raised as much “hell” as you want from a secure server somewhere. But your vulnerability increases geometrically with your financial exposure and a growing number of people seeking refuge.”

Aside from the fact that once again this person misses the mark in thinking this is about physical safety instead of spiritual safety... the bigger issue is that less than a year from the date of the last correspondence referenced above the same individual has no problem with openly stating the following:

Friday, November 26, 2004 2:31 PM
" …One would have to be incredibly naïve if they thought there was anything culturally, politically or economically unique about Canada compared to America to the south.

The only separation that counts from the world is spiritual - not physical. All of Sean's latest scriptures on Babylon, especially those that refer to ancient Babylon are taken out of context and miss the real point. We are told to overcome in this world - "even in the streets of that great city" (Revelation 11:8). We are "in" the world but not "of" it.”

[As a side note I encourage everyone to read the info at the following link, to truly understand the meaning of the term "that great city" as cited in Rev 11:8 and to therefore understand where the testimony of the two witnesses is to take place, in that it refers to the world, which Babylon has conquered, excluding Jerusalem which is the Holy city.]

Above I mentioned that only ulterior motive can explain such a pronounced shift in sentiments in such a short period of time… especially when the former sentiments were based upon a literal interpretation of the Bible and the latter seem to be a total disregard for the plain, literal meaning of those same scriptures… scriptures that by and large Antipas Ministries has been aware of and has written about often over the past two decades. Steve touched upon the motive behind such people in his last article when he stated:

“They know what they should do! - that they should leave Babylon; that they should get out. The Scriptures are plain enough to see if anyone really wants to see. They don't leave because they "love" it there, and/or they are MORAL cowards insofar as their wives and other loved ones are concerned.”

Steve is no doubt direct and very much “to the point” on this matter. He is also completely correct. In our correspondence and communication with those who refuse to leave in spite of what the scriptures say… it is almost always out of their fear to confront or stand up to a spouse or loved-one that has no desire to receive the plain truth of God’s Word on this matter. Yet that will not be good enough for Christ ON THAT DAY… as He plainly says:

Mat 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Mat 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Mat 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Mat 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

In these passages what He is saying is that to totally follow Christ, His message, and His commandments will set you at variance against your loved ones. Those who choose convenience and the things of this world over true servitude to Christ will be against the true believer… even if they are bound as husband and wife. Those who stay in the apostate Church and/or desire to remain within Babylon the Great will hate those who stand against these things… even if they are father and son. Yet Christ says to true believers that to choose father, mother, son, daughter, husband or wife over the truth exposes that person as someone who loves the people around them more than they love Christ… And that in doing so they are not worthy of Christ. What a fearful thing to be deemed unworthy by Christ Jesus!

On top of all this it is for sure that those who harden their hearts to fleeing, or even towards the concept of fleeing will no doubt be transformed. They will be changed, so to speak, and given over to believing a lie as opposed to believing the truth. The Bible says that only a little leaven is necessary to leaven the whole lump… which means that clinging to one falsehood will eventually lead to the whole of one’s beliefs being false before the Savior.

Those who claim they will be out in the streets of Babylon testifying against it at a later date while enjoying its pleasures now; will most probably have become so transformed by that point that they will never speak out in testimony against it… especially when the price to be paid is real and will be charged upon them by men able to take away all their possessions and even their lives, not just by a wife or husband who loves what Babylon has become and has no desire to leave. We pray for those headed down this slippery slope and we desire only that all men see clearly what God is calling His Church to do in these last days.

On a positive note, Thursday night’s interview with Joe Myles of CJUM 101.5 FM in Winnipeg, Manitoba was a smashing success. Email responses to the interview have been voluminous and very positive. Joe also phoned me yesterday to say that the radio station was inundated with requests for transcripts of the show and inquiries as to when we would be on again. He also said that the number of online listeners was one of the highest ever for the station. Amen to that!

Based upon this positive response we will be getting a copy of the interview on the website and available for download in the next few days. We will also be working to provide more of our message in an audio format as rapidly as is possible. We have wanted to offer our own version of Internet Radio and audio presentations of the information we cover for quite some time. To do this and to do it quickly, we need assistance from all of you. Audio equipment and extra bandwidth are very expensive. Help us in defraying this cost by supporting this ministry. You can do so by clicking on the following link:

http://www.antipasministries.com/support.html

In the days ahead we’ll have the remainder of Fred’s travel journal posted and we will also have another installment of the Scriptural imperative behind fleeing Babylon. Until then...

God Bless,

Sean

November 24, 2004

NEWS ALERT: STEVE SHEARER AND SEAN MAYFIELD WILL BE TAKING PART IN AN INTERVIEW BY JOE MYLES OF CJUM 101.5 FM IN WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA ON THANKSGIVING NIGHT (NOVEMBER 25, 2004) AT 11:20 P.M. PACIFIC TIME (2:20 A.M. OF THE 26TH EASTERN TIME). YOU CAN LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW LIVE AT: www.umfm.com

Though TV news in the US is trying its best to spin what is going on in Iraq in the best light possible, international news and commentary offers a much harsher look at what is going on. Having never been in combat or even having served in the military, on a personal level I cannot imagine all the brutal details of just what happens in a war zone… but I know enough of the details to see that what is required to wage and win wars has nothing to do with Jesus Christ or His Kingdom. That is a hard thing for many people to take. You have no idea how many emails we get from “Christians” who call us cowards, unpatriotic, and even antichristian because we refuse to sanction or support this supposed war against evil. Most Christians have only a passing (at best) acquaintance with the Bible and therefore have easily been duped into thinking that men can somehow battle evil on earth with smart bombs and assault rifles. In doing so they reveal that their true allegiance lies in the things of this world… and that in taking part in this battle they are not defeating evil… but becoming evil.

In addition to the horror being visited upon civilians in Iraq, let us also not forget the price to be paid by the soldiers. Estimates now place US casualties from the war in Iraq at 15,000. Independent sources going over the evidence say that number could be as high as 30,000. The above article estimates that 300,000 members of the armed forces have served in Iraq… so that puts the overall casualty rate at 10%. The left keeps hoping that news such as this will push American sentiments against the war… but I hope they are not holding their breath. Americans, and Christians in particular are by and large hardened in their resolve that the troops can’t leave until victory is achieved. These are the same people who are mad that “we didn’t finish the job in Vietnam.” They are not former participants or admirers of the 60’s peace movement, but are instead people who more than anything else believe America’s power and its exercise of power are God ordained necessities (for the country and the world) that are not to be deterred by the facts of what is actually going on.

The transition of the US into a sort of Christian/Orwellian state is saddening, yet remarkable to see. Just today I ran across this story, which shows how Big Brother-style billboards touting Bush the Leader have sprung up in Florida… what is next 24 hour surveillance of citizens? … Oh wait; they are already implementing that… Seriously though, how a nation, which is supposedly Christian, be so devoted to man who is not Christ? First century Christians in Rome suffered murderous torture and death because they refused to worship or even pay “homage” to the genus of the emperor, yet Christians in the “greatest Christian nation ever” worship the cult of the new emperor on a scale that would have made Nero blush.

What is happening is that a “synergy” of sorts is taking place. The two “great” movements of the early 21st Century are coming together. Those two movements are Neo-Conservatism and Right-wing Christianity. The two have a lot in common and they no doubt feed off each other. What they also do is offer a similar false prophecy of America and the Church’s future. The one sees American Hegemony being achieved through aggression and control of the world economy’s most vital resource… while the other offers a similar yet slightly splintered view. Those yearning for hegemony on its own terms are of course the Neocons, while the splintered sect is Right-wing Christianity. They are splintered into two main camps. The first is the group which though actually Dominionist in the way they live their lives… still holds to the old-line “false teachings” concerning the rapture and the return of Christ. The millions of fans for Tim Lahaye’s Left Behind series typify these. The other group is made up of those who are out and out Dominionist. They are the true radicals behind this movement and the most dedicated to using America’s entire arsenal to defeat the forces of evil on this earth. They are Succeeding in Their Quest for National Control and World Power and will not stop until the US and the world have been made over into their image of Christ’s Kingdom.

Their image is not of Christ however; it is instead that of antichrist and his kingdom… Babylon the Great. Over the years we have written volumes about Babylon the Great and over the past year and a half (or so) we have written extensively about God’s call to His people to come out of her. As of late there has been a lot of email activity covering these subjects and over the next few journals I will be sharing some of the scriptures we have been going over in these emails. For starters let’s look at some of the basic scriptures that define Babylon the Great and that compel “God’s people” to flee from it. The compilation of Scripture and original comments for the following analyis came from a friend and brother in the Lord who had no interest in receiving credit for his work. I offer that credit "anonymously" nonetheless.

Who (or What) is Babylon?

There are two Babylons, the first is the false Christian religious entity which the Bible also describes as the Harlot and the Woman. The other Babylon is the Kingdom… or nation of Babylon. This Babylon is the greatest superpower nation to ever exist. Also known as the Beast, this nation eventually corrupts, plunders, pollutes and destroys the whole world.

Jer 51: 7 Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine, therefore the nations went mad.

Rev 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

Rev 17 :4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and bedecked with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication;

(With which she has made the nations drunk as we find in Rev 14:8)

Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Rev 17:7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

The two Babylons, in their relationship of co-existence are described in the Bible as a woman sitting upon a beast. What is significant in examing these passages and in examining the actual relationship between Babylon the Great (the US) and the Harlot (Apostate Christianity) is how difficult it is to see where the one ends and the other begins. The two have become so enmeshed, so intertwined, that the function of the one is the service of the other… and vice versa.

The Coming Judgment of Babylon and the Pronouncement of Judgment and Doom on Babylon and a Call from God to Flee the Destruction…Will (this) be both spiritual and physical ?

Judgment Pronounced on Babylon:

Rev 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Rev 18: 6 Render to her as she herself has rendered, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double draught for her in the cup she mixed.

Rev18:7 As she glorified herself and played the wanton, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning. Since in her heart she says, `A queen I sit, I am no widow, mourning I shall never see,'

Rev18:8 so shall her plagues come in a single day, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she shall be burned with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who judges her."

Rev 18:9 And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and were wanton with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning;

Compare those passages with the following from Jeremiah and 1 Thessalonians:

Jer 51: 8 Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.

1 Thess 5:3 When people say, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape.

But, since we find in the OT, (that) Babylon cannot be mended… God tells people to abandon her.

The Call to Abandon Babylon and Flee Out of Her

Jer 51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country; for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.

Rev 18:4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;

(The same thing is being echoed in Revelation as in Jeremiah, also consider the following two verses)

Jer 50:8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.

Jer 51:45 "Go out of the midst of her, my people! Let every man save his life from the fierce anger of the LORD!

(The goats are to show the way for the sheep to follow and the call for God's people, i.e. the flocks, is to "Go out of the midst of her.")

Next consider the following verses:

Isa 48:20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

Isa 48:21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

(This appears to call for God’s people to flee… and in doing so, declare the Good News [including the Gospel of the Kingdom] to the ends of the earth.)

Stones, Foundation Stones, and Corner Stones at the Time of Harverst… Will any be taken from Babylon the Great? How Does This Effect Christians Remaining Within It?

(Understanding) Symbolism in the Bible (is) crucial. We should be familiar with the terms, Corner Stone, Spiritual Stones, Foundation Stones and how they relate to Jesus Christ, Believers and the Prophets.

Eph 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Eph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

Eph 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

Eph 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

1Pe 2:5 and like living stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Pe 2:6 For it stands in scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and he who believes in him will not be put to shame."

Now consider (this) warning in Jeremiah in connection to Babylon (Read the whole chapter of Jeremiah 50 and 51)

Jer 51:26 No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation but you shall be a perpetual waste says the LORD.

This appears to mean that corner stones, foundation stones, and stones (period) are to be taken from rest of the world but not from Babylon. This fits with the statement in Revelation 18: 4, which infers that those who remain within Babylon will become “partakers” of her sins and will hence receive of her judgments. Therefore, if all residing within Babylon when its time for judgment comes are "fit for judgment, then the logical deduction is that none will be included in the "harvest."

Let’s go back to Jeremiah 50 and 51 to continue with more scriptures:

Jer 50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

(This looks to mean that at a certain point there will be no more preaching of God’s Word in Babylon and no more witnessing in Babylon.)

Jer 51:1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind.

Once again... examining these passages looks to show that the desolation, both spiritual and literal, of Babylon the Great is to be so terrible that no stone shall be taken from there for a corner or for a foundation. It appears that when speaking of stones Jeremiah is not just be speaking of literal "building blocks" such as bricks, granite, etc; but that he appears to also be speaking of those "living stones" which are those who make up the Church. In other words he is speaking of those, "In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord."

If this is the case, then Jeremiah's statement that no stone shall be taken (for use in building that holy temple, i.e. the Body of Christ) from Babylon, bears very grave ramifications for those Christians choosing to remain behind. Additionally what looks to be the case is that by the time of the Harvest (the Rapture) all who had remained in Babylon and lived to that point will not be counted as redeemable in the eyes of Christ. Therefore, those who had formerly professed to be Christians will have been eternally compromised through their partaking in Babylon’s sins.

These passages do not appear to say that believers who die before the Harvest will lose their place. Therefore assuming that believers residing within Babylon dying before the Harvest will be included among the "tribulation saints" who are martyred is not incorrect. However, the spiritual danger inherent with remaining inside Babylon made known in the above passages cannot be ignored. As S.R. Shearer points out, the great majority who decide to remain in Babylon are not doing so because they are led to be martyrs. They are instead making the choice Lot’s wife did, in not wanting to leave her life and possessions in Sodom behind, even when the Lord commands otherwise.

Once again consider:

Jer 50:6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.

(Those currently standing as shepherds for America's church are no doubt causing them to go astray.)

Jer 50:7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD , the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

The earthly advesaries of those who have been led astray say that they have not commited an offence in devouring them, since these sheep, which have been led astray have sinned against the Lord. These advesaries are different from the shepherds which have led them astray, i.e. false prophets, false teachers, false pastors, etc, since these shepherds have done their evil deeds under the guise of being God's servants.

This is relevant because it places an emphasis on the point that false shepherds are going to be held accountable for not just leading the sheep astray (counseling them to stay within Babylon) but for making them the prey of their advesaries, who "devour them."

Jer 50:8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.

Rather than be in the flock, which is led astray or be counted among the "false shepherds" God instead says, "Get out of Babylon, the land of Chaledeans". He also calls on His shepherds to be good leaders... and to be as the "he goats" and lead the flock out.

As God's people follow His Word on this there will come a point where true prophets, shepherds, believers, etc. will no longer found in Babylon. All indications from the Scriptures point to the conclusion that believers will not be found or be taken from Babylon. In the context of Jer. 51:9, 45 it appears God’s people have thought it wiser (to say the least) to flee.

(To be continued…)

November 21, 2004

Was there vote fraud in the 2004 election? Preliminary findings from a Berkeley study say that yes. What is the prophetic significance? Well as I mentioned earlier, the significance is that those Americans who “had the most to lose” by a Bush victory have done nothing about it except cry in their milk. I am not trying to foment rebellion, or anything like that… what I am saying is that for all practical purposes there is no worthwhile opposition to stand in the way of anything Bush wants or plans to do and in the prophetic sense that means that there is nothing standing in the way of the alliance between the Woman and the Beast. I mean; if people are too afraid to stand in the streets now, are they going to stand in the streets against the horrors to come? Decidedly I say no.

Just what are the plans that Bush and the Christian have for America and the world? To find out one would be better served watching CBN than they would watching CNN. The agenda of the Elites and of the Church have become so enmeshed on economics, foreign policy, and social issues that to see what the Church wants on most things is to know what the Elites also want. Sadly what the Church wants has nothing to do with Christ… and this too is a fulfillment of prophecy:

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” (II Timothy 4: 3-4)

The agenda of today’s Church is war, tax cuts, and legislated morality… not exactly the blueprint the Prince of Peace handed down to the Apostles. Especially when one fully comprehends the horror that is involved in waging war of any kind. Where does the Gospel of Christ have a place in a campaign where:

“more than 100,000 Iraqis have been killed as a result of the US war on Iraq, the Abu Ghraib torture case, the wedding massacre -- in which 40 civilians, including 10 children, were killed in cold blood, as confirmed by an Associated Press Television News film -- and the onslaught of consistent, documented evidence of indiscriminate bombing of civilian neighborhoods by US forces”

The simple truth is that it doesn’t and those who lie to themselves and to Christ in saying that they serve Him while supporting such things and calling for more will find themselves squarely on the wrong side of eternity… on that day. The Church has allowed itself to be propagandized, just as Germans did nearly seven decades ago. The reality of what is going on is there for all to see… Yet Christians choose not to see, since their actions prove that they “love this present world” over the Truth in Christ.

So what is next? The propaganda mill is ratcheting up the rhetoric against Iran… meanwhile Colin Powell is in the Mid East trying to revive peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Looking at what must come to pass prophetically, one has to recognize the significance of these two subjects. Iran (with Egypt and Turkey as well) must be placed in a position where they will be willing to attack Israel and the forces of the US. News reports of the past few months, in addition to preparing the American public for the Elites plans to capture Iran’s oil wealth, have also reported on Iranian plans to do just such a thing. This attack, as mentioned in Bible prophecy is the Gog Magog War and it is this war, which “kicks off, “ in dreadful fashion the events depicted as the time of wars and rumors of wars (Matthew 24: 6)… i.e. the fulfillment of the prophecy of the Red Horseman (Revelation 6: 4) at the beginning of Daniel’s Seventieth Week. However, there is another significant event that occurs prior to this and it is one that “officially” begins the period of history known as the Tribulation. This event is Israel’s “Covenant with Death and Hell” (Isaiah 28: 15), i.e. it’s defense pact with the Antichrist and his kingdom, Babylon the Great. Could revived talks between the US, Israel, and the Palestinians birth such a treaty? It is highly probable. Would the US have to guarantee Israeli safety to coerce them to relinquish land for peace or to remove the wall separating the two sides? This is very likely.

Given these matters it is imperative for Christians in the US and abroad to soberly watch events as they occur on the world stage. It is also imperative that they take appropriate Biblical action, lest they be swept up in the deception sweeping the Church and become “partakers in the sins” of Babylon the Great, hence receiving of her judgments.

November 13, 2004

"We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known."

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

While many on the left grapple with the disaster that was election 2004, as I noted the day after the election… there are a few who understand things. America is a religious nation. More specifically, it is a “Christian” nation… at least insofar as the world defines Christians. What happened last week was that people were asked to make a choice between two sides. Both sides were for continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both sides were for the war on terrorism. Both sides were more concerned with issues related to Wall Street than they were to issues relating to Main Street. Lastly, both sides had no real plans to do anything that could be remotely considered as contrary to Corporate America’s program of globalization and free trade with its after-affect, which is the “Wal-Martization” of America.

So what were Americans, a uniquely (at least insofar as industrialized nations are concerned) religious people, supposed to do? What they did was vote on matters of “morality.” Absent a candidate willing to do anything to “help the little guy,” the people turned to the guy they thought would push back the “liberal, secular-humanist agenda”… an agenda that the average American greatly fears and sees as evil in religious terms.

Proof of this matter is to a certain degree available from the emails we have fielded at Antipas since the election. While most have been positive, there have been a few negative emails. Ironically, every one of the negative emails touches on the subject of immorality as their reason in voting for Bush. Here are a few excerpts:

Example One
“Just a note to let you know that many Christians voted for Bush because Kerry was thought to be the least moral represenitive candidate that had any chance of winning. In no way does that mean we support a NWO nor was it a Religious mandate. We believe that only Christ will usher in the peace sought by most Christians...”

Example Two
“I recently visited endtimes.com for the first time and I am very interested in your evaluation of President Bush. I do believe however, that abortion and gay marriage are wrong and I was curious to exactly what your beliefs are on those subjects- Besides those issues I would have voted for John Kerry- as I believe so many would have done. Instead, I was so conflicted I voted for noone! Please respond- who should I have voted for -and if Kerry- what do we do with these issues of abortion and gay marriage?”

Example Three
“What Christians voted against, is the left's destruction of the moral fiber of this country and the take over of the United States by the homosexual movement and the secular humanists, which we have every right to do. It's about time that Christians voted their convictions, instead of handing the country over to the ungodly forces. In addition, Christians went to vote for Mr Bush because we know that he is pro America and anti United Nations, that disgusting vile America hating body, blood sucking body and we believe that he is going to fight the Islamic terrorists wherever they are. I believe I can sleep safely in my bed, knowing that I won't be beheaded any time soon, as long as Bush is President of the U.S.A. I would have no such feeling of safety with Bonesman "Long Devel" Kerry at the helm. God is the one who ultimately sets up the rulers over us. He is the one in control of "the affairs of men". So, like Nicodemus, I say if this is not from God, it will come to nought. Your ministry does nothing but bad mouth this country, and you should be ashamed of yourselves. God set up this nation and regardless of what the Illuminati and all the other secret groups hooked in with them think they're doing, they can only do what God allows them to do for his own purpose, which purpose being the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to this earth to rule and reign in righteousness.”

I realize I let that last one run on a little longer than was relevant… but it was just too juicy to cut off. Seriously though, those are the sentiments of a HUGE number of Americans. Killing folks in Iraq and Afghanistan (even women and children) doesn’t qualify as immoral. Installing an interrogation system, which makes ready use of sodomy and rape doesn’t qualify as immoral. Lastly, building an economic/religious system that quite literally demonizes the poor and justifies their exploitation by the rich isn’t immoral. It seems that to these people levels of immorality are only measured by what takes place “in the bedroom” so to speak. This is why Bush won. He and Kerry are no different on those other issues… there only difference was on the matter of immorality related to sex and abortion.

In my replies to these folks what I tried to make known, and what I’ll attempt to make known here, is that by pointing out the sins of Bush we were not endorsing the sins of Kerry. We also weren’t trying to persuade anyone to vote for either one. Here is the most “all encompassing” of the responses I made… hopefully it will shed further understanding on where we at Antipas are coming from:

“We too believe gay marriage and abortion to be wrong... and we never counseled anyone to vote for Kerry. Being that according to Christ and His apostles, "our kingdom is not of this world" then the no vote was probably the best vote. In reality the choices were between immorality highlighted by killing the unborn and abhorrent sexual practice or immorality highlighted by slaughtering of people and stealing from the poor to give to the rich. Not good choices on either side. What is significant however, is that that Kerry and his supporters never claimed to be servants of Christ in their campaign... while Bush, his party, and his supporters have gone to great lengths to portray themselves as servants of Christ. It is because of this that God will judge the latter harsher than the former.

As to the issue of gay marriage and abortion, I am a believer that you cannot legislate morality…

…The world, including the United States, is under the dominion of Satan. This is why gay marriage, abortion, and such things flourish. It is not until the Second Coming that all these evils of men will be swept away forever. Until that point the servant of Christ should look to change the hearts of men around him... not change the culture or laws of a fallen nation in a fallen world.”

Changing the hearts of men is the primary responsibility of the servant of Christ. This is done by the testimony we are to have in Him… a testimony given both by word and deed… and one that is always in line with the commandments of Christ…. Foremost of which is to love your neighbor as you love yourself…. There’s not much room for spectre-gunships in that type of Christianity. Yet this isn’t the type of Christianity that most Americans truly want. Because this type of Christianity calls for meekness, loving of enemies, and all that other stuff that doesn’t get you ahead in the rat race. Since they can’t embrace the real thing… they’ve embraced a lie instead.

The route this lie takes you is straight to the abyss itself. It takes you to a place where the nation doesn’t even flinch when Donald Rumsfeld says Iraq can, “can learn from the recent history of El Salvador.”

Rumsfeld said this in respect to Iraq’s path to Democracy, which he intimates will not be easy, but that following the model of El Salvador they will finally reach. El Salvador as a model for Iraq? US sponsored death squads, indiscriminate murder and torture of civilians, American Evangelical Christian involvement in the whole affair, rigged elections, a US puppet regime and a country that to this day lags behind the rest of the world in human rights, economic development, and freedom of speech are supposed to be the model for Iraq? I encourage everyone to read our recent article on John Negroponte’s involvement in El Salvador (along with his new position in Iraq) and see the brutality that took place (and is going to take place) and to then tell me how El Salvador should be a model for anything… especially anything to be promoted by a “Christian nation.” Then tell me how Christians… who elected the Rumsfeld’s boss… can keep a straight face while passing themselves off as servants of the Prince of Peace.

Lately we have all been made aware of what is going on in Fallujah and we have even learned of how Christianity has been dragged even deeper in to that battle and the war in Iraq as a whole. In all of this are the commandments of Christ being carried out? I think not. What is being practiced for the most part within the American Empire, including its military, is a militant faith, which is totally divorced from Christ’s commandments. It is the type of faith where a Lt. Colonel in the military has no problem telling reporters:

“The Marines that I have had wounded over the past five months have been attacked by a faceless enemy. But the enemy has got a face. He’s called Satan...." In other words, Satan started this conflict. And we -- the anti-Satan forces -- fully intend to finish it by destroying him.”

Anti-Satan forces that are going to destroy him (Satan)… That is how many within the US and its soldiers are beginning to see their role in this conflict. They see it as a conflict between Satan along with his forces against God and his forces. In this battle they see themselves as being blessed and ordained by God to take up the sword to put down the enemy and to destroy him. Theologically what they are doing is divorcing themselves from the truth in Christ and instead playing the role of the harlot, (i.e. the Woman) that is to ride the Beast, (i.e. Babylon the Great), at the end of the age. Terribly what they are also doing is bringing about carnage on a horrific scale in Iraq and soon to more nations throughout the world. Even more terribly is that they do it in the name of Christ.

November 9, 2004

The past few days have certainly been very hectic… to say the least. With the Bush win has come a flood of email response and quite a few kudos to us for seeing where this was headed way back in 2003 when we decided to move the ministry to Canada. Thanks to everyone for your support and for your prayers. It is our sincere prayer that everyone takes serious heed to the signs of the times.

In that vein let’s take a look at recent news. Independent groups such as Bev Harris’ Blackboxvoting.org are starting to piece a case together for massive fraud in last week’s elections. There are two sides to every story… and sadly both sides concerning the election do not bode well for America. If fraud on the scale hinted at did take place, then the fact that Democrats and citizens at large are complicit enough to remain silent about it says much about how far down the road to dictatorship America has gone. The other side to the story is that a huge majority of those within the US who consider themselves to be Christians voted for Bush, the Republican Party, and in essence for their plans to remake the world. Remake the world you say? Just what do you think the Project For the New American Century’s up to when they put out documents like Rebuilding America’s Defenses, which was produced in 1997? Were they conjured up out of thin air? Of course not… and more importantly everything they’ve done thus far was planned for in that document… it is sort of like the evil cousin of the Mayflower Compact.

It is happening my friends. America’s leap into the abyss, one in which she will eventually take the whole world along with her, has begun. Sadly, especially insofar as our Savior is concerned is that those who are leaders on this path to destruction are doing so under the guise of being believers in Christ. Middle America has been converted to the gospel of this world, so too has the government. Now the very apparatus that enforces America’s goals, the military, has fallen prey to this cancerous form of Christianity, which glorifies power at any cost… in this world. Katherine Yurica has done extensive research on this subject and she lays it out for all to see in her latest article, Infiltrating the U.S. Military: Gen. Boykin’s “Kingdom Warriors” On the Road to Abu Ghraib and Beyond.

What she has uncovered is alarming… in that it clearly paints a picture of a nation’s military giving itself over to a type of Christianity, which totally denigrates the commandments of Christ and instead embraces a sort of Machiavellian, ‘the ends justifies the means” type of faith. This is a faith in which torture is not just permitted but encouraged in the “proper” circumstances. A faith in which military violence is sanctioned and perpetrated by those claiming to be servants of Christ, not as a means of self-defense, but of eliminating evil from the earth. This is not just something affecting a small segment of the armed forces, but instead one in which soldiers currently in Iraq are embracing. The idea of soldiers praying to the Savior to give them success in their operations in Fallujah (a city whose population was 30% Christian when the war started), operations that entail the type of urban warfare guaranteed to produce massive "collateral damage" is chilling... to say the least... in the same way that reading about the atrocities of the Crusades were chilling as well. I say this not to denigrate those who have been sent over there on the orders of others… but to point out that in times where one’s life is at risk, it is natural… almost expected for many to search out some kind of faith. Sadly, the religion being given these guys in Iraq is not that of Christ and His Kingdom… but one, which worships warfare, its nobility, and its ability to deliver to Christ, a kingdom on earth.

Yet those of us who read the Bible with a heart for the truth know that the kingdom being constructed by George Bush and his America is not the kingdom of Christ, but instead one for the man to be known as Antichrist. That Kingdom, which the Bible calls greatest and most terribly in all of man’s history is Babylon the Great. Those who would serve this kingdom… whether passively or actively… are to a very real degree serving the kingdom of the one who is THE ENEMY OF THE CROSS.

Recently there have been some serious email discussions about what to do next. People are worried about the draft and they are worried about how much time they have before the last vestiges of freedom are swept away in America and the Coming Dictatorship becomes a reality. Reality is also sinking in for them that serving in the military of the Antichrist means one is actively serving the