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Apr 22, 2013

Fallout from the Boston Bombing

Last week, the world was once again reminded of evil nature of Islam when two terrorists planted bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon. The devices were crude in their design, made from pressure cookers stuffed with gunpowder and shrapnel.

It didn't take long for the hordes of cameras covering the race to flush out the two perpetrators. Brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were immigrants from the Islamic nation of Chechnya. Tamerlan was killed early Friday morning in a gun battle, and Dzhokhar was found 18 hours later hiding in a boat.

The Boston terrorist attack came just four months after the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. One of the most common reactions from my comrades here at Rapture Ready is concern that God may be lifting His hand of protection from this nation.

My big concern is what impact is this event is going to have on our freedom. The liberal media has been very aggressive in pushing the idea that every time there a terrorist incident, we need to surrender another piece of our constitutional rights. If this police state mentality had its way, everyone owning a pressure cooker would have to get it registered, and everyone wishing to purchase one would need to submit to a background check.

I think we are guaranteed to see surveillance cameras becoming more pervasive in our society. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel pointed out the effectiveness of video technology in aiding the investigation. “I will say, as I always have, because we have continued to put cameras throughout the city for security … purposes, they serve an important function for the city in providing the type of safety on a day-to-day basis – not just for big events like a marathon, but day-to-day purposes,” he said.

It has become a disgusting habit of the liberal media to openly fantasize about right-wing involvement in some terror plots. Immediately after the bombings, several liberals were hoping that the bombers were white. David Sirota of salon.com wrote an article entitled, "Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American." The folks at Current TV said the same thing: "Yeah, I was hoping for a white guy, because I know the way that American is reactionary."

I have to wonder what would happen if a "white guy" was caught trying to carry out an act of terrorism. The liberal media seems to have a vast storehouse of propaganda ready in case that day should come. Not since the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City has there been an example of terrorism in the world has not been carried out by a Muslim or someone who is mentally unbalanced. This trend has become so reliable, in our Wednesday recording for Rapture Talk, I told Terry that the Boston bombers most likely had a Muslim connection.

The press has been doing everything it can to cover up Islam's involvement in terrorism. They focus on impertinent questions about what type of "military or terrorist training" they may have received or what caused them to become "radicalized." The news media refuses to make the most simple connection: They were Muslims, the religion that calls for the murder of all infidels.

The stupidity of our accommodating stance toward Islam can be best summed up by what happened to the owner of a Mercedes sport utility vehicle. In a bitter irony, the hijacked car bore a bumper sticker featuring a mixture of religious symbols including the Star of David, the Cross, and the Muslim crescent--and the symbols spelled out the word “Coexist.” They forced the driver to stop at several bank machines and took $800 that he withdrew. After a few minutes, the man was left behind at a gas station. Once he gets his bullet-riddled car back, he might want to think about removing the sticker. For Islam, coexistence is a one-way street.

In the coming months, there are going to be calls for greater government controls over our lives, all in the name of public safety. Since the followers of Mohammed have a near monopoly of terror, they should be the ones scrutinized. If we had a more realistic immigration policy, we wouldn't have had to declare martial law in one of our nation's largest cites, and 30 people would still have the limbs they lost in the bombings.

Things would be a lot better in the world if we had a sterner attitude towards the Muslim world. The Bible warns that Islamic nations will trigger a series of great battles in the Tribulation hour that will kill tens of millions of people. The most spectacular battle involving the Muslim world will be when the Lord pours His wrath on the Gog armies as they attack Israel.

"And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD" (Ezekiel 38:21-23).

--Todd

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Tears in Heaven

Losing those we love is the deepest emotional hurt we can suffer, I believe most will agree. Those whose spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, or best friend betrays the relationship and rejects us leaves us devastated. Even more terrible is the loss through death of someone dear to us.

When those we love die, the break is final. We will never look upon their likes again in this earthly life. The ache eats at our very core; their every remembrance gnaws at our soul, even if the memories are among the best of our ability to recall.

It’s not manly to love felines is the general rubric of understanding between the males of our species. It’s okay to love canines if you are a guy, but it's not okay to love a cat.

I lost Stanley the other day when he was hit in the street in front of our home. Stanley came to us probably a year and a half ago. Somehow, this yellow and white, half-grown, cat knew that I’m blind. He instinctively knew… Stanley would hurry to get in front of me, from no matter where he had been, and would position himself in front of my left leg, making me bump against him all the way down the hallway.

He always led me into the bedroom –every time.

There was a food bowl in the bedroom, and he would always reward himself with a face full of cat chow at the end of his mission. It was a self-administered, Pavlovian response, no doubt.

This was still going on the last day of his life. We were amused and amazed. He did this for/to no other of the family –just me. I loved Stanley. I’m still hurting, and thinking about the many nuances of our relationship. I have his name on the tip of my tongue and just say “Stanley,” to try to assuage the hurting, I guess. I don’t know why the Lord so obviously put Stanley with me, then so abruptly took him. I do know that God knows why and all will be made perfectly clear some eternal day. I’m comforted by that assurance.

Now, I’m writing to perhaps thousands in Rapture Ready’s vast audience who have lost those very close to them. The loss of an animal seems ridiculously superfluous to those whose mother, father, or perhaps child is near death or has just passed away. There is no comparison will be the response--and I will agree—to my experience with this little yellow feline–which I, being a man, am–in the view of some of my manly peers--a little weird for loving, anyway.

I’m coming to the point of this essay, so bear with me. Jesus knows our every hurt. He experienced them all during His short time on this planet. He wept over the death of Lazarus, feeling the depth of the kind of hurting you and I experience when a loved one dies. Our loved ones who die, whether human beings we love or the pets many love dearly, all have names. We have them on the tips of our tongues and only the passing of time pushes their cherished memories to somewhere in the middle of our very spirit. The Heavenly Father, however, thinks without ceasing about every creature He creates. --Even the sparrows, we are told.

Those of us who constitute fallen mankind, on the other hand, are more often than not substantially unmoved by the loss of those who aren’t directly, or at least indirectly, linked to us, individually. We have no attachments to those who don’t directly relate to our lives; we make no place for their names in our cerebral or emotional centers of concern. Of course I realize that this is the nature of the human condition.

This fact of life–that we can’t find or make time to concern ourselves beyond our own orbit—we justify by pointing to our torrid pace in America today. But, no excuse justifies the incomprehensible blind eye turned from the horror of the abortion industry which the news, finally, brought to our attention this past week.

America’s greatest sin should burst with convicting fire into the concern center of every person made aware of the story. There are reasons, however, that the horrific information needed to ***** the consciences of every American will not be forthcoming. The reasons are summed up in two words–mainstream media.

This unbelievably reprehensible lack of accountability for what has been going on can be laid at the feet of the nation’s news organizations. The reason they’ve gotten away with such journalistic malfeasance can be laid at the feet of the American public. Fifty-plus million abortions that have anesthetized U.S. citizens to the reality and horror of this holocaust have been willfully accepted with only moderate resistance since the Supreme Court decision in Roe v Wade on January 22, 1973.

The nameless children who have been murdered in their mothers’ wombs by the multiplied millions are screaming in deafening silence. Now it is learned just how heinous have been the murders of the aborted little ones outside their mother’s wombs as well as inside. Still, mainstream media remain silent for the most part about this infanticide that has taken place under their supposedly superior reportorial investigative noses.

The grisly abortion activities of Dr. Kermit Gosnell in his Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, abortion horror chamber--which, incidentally, has been known since 2011--have finally reached the trial stage, thus is forcing some degree of reporting by reluctant news media organizations. Gosnell is charged with the murder of one woman and seven born infants, in which he allegedly “snipped” with scissors the babies’ spinal cords once they were outside their mothers’ wombs.

The liberal champions of the woman’s right to choose are hard pressed to look upon the things being uncovered in that horrendous murder factory. All the agenda-driven pundits on the left can come up with is that Gosnell’s unsanitary, non-professional clinic shows all the more reason for increased federal funds and regulations to assure clean, “safe” abortions.

The above is almost precisely what I heard Alan Colms, the liberal pundit for Fox News, say in response to Gosnell’s trial. Here’s what one angry journalist against legalized murder of babies had to say in regard to Gosnell and the reporting of the atrocities involved.

Thus far, Gosnell’s wretched clinic, with its filthy speculums, jars filled with severed baby feet, and photos of female genitalia, has had a hard time piquing the interest of major news outlets. After all, racy, sexy murderess Jodi Arias is much more intriguing than some twisted biracial abortionist carrying out Margaret Sanger's eugenic ministry on vulnerable people of color. Isn't she? (Jeannie DeAngelis, "Kermit Gosnell: Secret Hero of the Left," American Thinker)

So, the big-time news men and women are being dragged kicking and screaming into covering this vile representation of the industry of infanticide they so fervently champion.

The little ones who have died since Roe v Wade have no names. They have been treated as inconsequential refuse to be flushed or sent to the garbage dumps of America. But, just as I have the name of my little Stanley forever etched in my memory, and each of you who has lost a loved one have their names stamped indelibly upon your hearts, the God of Heaven has a name for every one of the little ones who are now safely with Him, carved in His omniscient memory.

While the Word of God tells us that tears will one eternal day be wiped from every eye in Heaven, the Heavenly Father must at the present time shed tears of sadness for what continues to be the most severe child abuse possible–abortion. More than that, He must have hot tears of anger as He watches this nation He blessed so mightily shed innocent blood by more than 3,700 babies per day –something those who sacrificed their children to Molech in ancient times came nowhere near matching. Jesus made it inescapably clear what would be the fate of those who dealt so egregiously with little ones:

“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea” (Matthew 18:6).

--Terry



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Zechariah 12:3,9:
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people; And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.


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