I am completely grateful to all of our armed services for protecting and fighting for our great country. I am disgusted by our media’s representation of our struggle to maintain our freedom. I was reading today’s headlines and it read “Military Death toll reaches 4,000 in Iraq.” God bless those families for their losses. I am totally humbled by their willingness to serve and protect. But we lost over 58,000 in Vietnam and over 418,500 in the 2cd World War. Can we get a little perspective in the media, please?
Our military budget (that certain politicians want to cut in half) is what allowed us to save more human lives in the first place. Without our current advances in technology we would be completely vulnerable to other countries attacks. We are a super power for a reason. We have to be. People fear the most that which they don’t understand. The majority of the middle east hates us because they have no concept of freedom. They raise their children from a very young age to hate, not just dislike but to hate the Western World. These children are the next generation of suicide bombers that our children will be battling in 25 years. There is no end to the Iraq war……it’s not just about pulling out of Iraq. It’s the same battle that been predicted from the beginning of time.
The following is from” They Stumble Together” by Douglas S. Winnail
The prophet Hosea revealed the cause of the problems in the Israelite nations. He wrote: "...Because you have forgotten the law of your God… Because they have ceased obeying the Lord" (Hosea 4:6, 10). This willing ignorance and disobedience has spawned a whole series of problems, "swearing and lying, killing and stealing and committing adultery, they break all restraint, with bloodshed upon bloodshed" (Hosea 4:2). Long before Hosea’s time, God warned the people He had blessed and chosen to be a light to the world: "When you have eaten and are full… Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments" (Deuteronomy 8:10–11). Yet God foresaw the Israelite peoples’ tendency to forget, so He inspired Moses to record sober warnings for their descendants: "I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands" (Deuteronomy 31:29).
It is no coincidence that the growing troubles now threatening the Israelite nations have arisen while they are tolerating and promoting the abortion of millions of unborn babies, leading the world in adultery and divorce and celebrating homosexual relationships and same-sex marriages—all practices the Bible clearly calls abominations (Leviticus 18:20–22). Because of these flagrant sins, God reveals that these nations will "reap the consequences" of their actions (Jeremiah 2:17–19; Hosea 4:9–10). Scripture shows that God himself is "fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against" the modern Israelite nations, and that those disasters will come upon the nations "suddenly" (Jeremiah 6:26; 15:8). It is time to wake up to the power and relevance of Bible prophecy!
