posted by Bruce Porter on י"ח אדר תש"ע כ"ג טבת תש"ל
Last time I saw it all coming and cried aloud
to my own fellow-countrymen and to the world,
but no one paid any attention.
There never was a war in all history
easier to prevent by timely action
than the one which has just desolated
such great areas of the globe.
It could have been prevented in my belief
…but no one would listen
and one by one we were all sucked
into the awful whirlpool.
We surely must not let that happen again.
-Sir Winston Churchill-
THE SINEWS OF PEACE
March 5, 1946
Address to the graduating class of Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri
Not long ago I passed through Fulton, Missouri, the state of my birth, and made a special pilgrimage to the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library at Westminster College. There, next to the reconstructed Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, stands a bronze statue of the “Bulldog of England,” Sir Winston Churchill, in commemoration of his historic visit and speech there. The church, dismantled and transported to Missouri from London, was built in the 12th century, was redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren in 1677 after the Great Fire of London. To prevent its demolition, Westminster College purchased and brought it to Fulton. It now serves as the Churchill library.
Sir Winston Churchill
Students passing by glanced sideways at me as I stared at this old warrior, pondering the loneliness he must have endured. I wondered how many of them were aware of who this man actually was, and how profoundly their lives were still being affected by his faithfulness to stand up to evil, even under the scathing glare of appeasing critics in his time. No-doubt his soul must have borne many scars of rejection and ridicule before his true greatness was recognized.
Even as a young man, before WWI, Churchill harbored dark forebodings about the rise of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s dictatorship in Germany.
I thought of the peril of Britain,
peace-loving, unthinking, little prepared,
of her power and virtue,
and of her mission of good sense and fair play.
I thought of mighty Germany towering up
in the splendor of her Imperial State
and delving down in her profound, cold,
patient, ruthless calculations.
After World War I, Churchill was marginalized politically as he raised his voice in warning about the dangers of future dictatorships in the Soviet Union, Japan, Germany, and Italy. The liberals of his time called him a warmonger, unable to fathom the danger he so clearly foresaw. How we need voices like his now!
AN IMMINENT ATTACK ON AMERICA?
Juval Aviv
In a lecture in New York City a few weeks ago, an Israeli speaker, Juval Aviv, warned of another, even more devastating terrorist attack on the U.S.
Aviv was one of the Israeli agents sent out by Israel to avenge the murder of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the Munich Olympic games. He also served as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir’s personal bodyguard. He is no stranger to the ways of terrorists.
This is the man who was mocked by Bill O’Reilly on Fox News when he predicted that within a week the London subway bombings would occur. A few days later O’Reilly wasn’t laughing so much. He also tried to warn President Bush that terrorists using aircraft as missiles would target prominent buildings and monuments. Within a month the attacks of 9/11 occurred.
Aviv now says that the next terrorist attacks here in America are imminent and will involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers anywhere large groups of people congregate. Likely targets would be places like Disneyland, casinos, and theaters in large metropolitan cities. They will likely strike shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, and include small communities. He believes the attack will involve at least 5-8 cities, including rural areas coordinated to occur on the same day for maximum impact.
Aviv doesn’t believe terrorists will use nuclear weapons since suicide bombings are much cheaper and effective. Also, because of the level of Islamo-sycophantic indoctrination in our own schools and universities here in the U.S., there will be no need to bring foreigners in to do the job. There are plenty of “homegrown” Jihadists right here in America who do not fit the profile of Middle-Eastern terrorists and can move freely among us without arousing suspicion.
Are Americans ready to meet this challenge?
Aviv recently conducted a private security test by placing an empty briefcase in five well-traveled spots in five major cities. Guess what happened? Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In fact, in Chicago, someone tried to steal the briefcase! (Now, why doesn’t that surprise us?)
Israel is ready
I have been to Israel over twenty times and was present in two of Israel’s wars. I can attest that individual Israelis are well-aware of terrorist threats. The citizenry have developed a “personal radar” that instantly alerts them when things don’t “look right.” This is honed by the bitter experience of suicide bombers detonating themselves on public buses, in shopping malls and nightclubs. When you get on a bus, or walk into a restaurant, every person in the room gives you the “once over” with their eyes, especially if you’re carrying something. Americans know virtually nothing of this sort of vigilance. I expect we will soon learn however.
As I consider the times we live in, and what is actually happening around us–how the world is moving inextricably toward the chaotic events that God warned would happen in the last days –I’m convinced that we are about to receive a jolting wakeup call.
Some may think me melancholic in saying this, but–
Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse
If you listen closely, you can almost hear the hoof-beats of the four horsemen of the apocalypse approaching.
(see Revelation 6:1-9)
The fact that we are already in the midst of World War III is lost on most of us in the West. As a culture we are awash in mind-numbing triviality fed to us through a ratings-driven mass media and an entertainment industry that conditions us to believe that calamity and terrorism cannot happen to us.
More than this, increasingly, we are being offered spiritual-sounding pabulum by many false teachers who seek to convince us that comfort and affluence is promised to every Christian who “believes correctly” and responds financially to each and every offering. Huge multimillion-dollar church-buildings have gone up all over the land, and far too often success is measured by how expensive your car is, or how many square feet you occupy.
Change is in the wind. The Islamofascist war is coming to America. Our world will soon become ‘a different place’, and side-issues like ‘global warming’ and ‘political correctness’ are going to become an irrelevant absurdity.
Just one dirty nuke in one of our cities would bring our debt-bloated economy down. This has never been truer with the present administration’s obsession with spending more money than our grandchildren could possibly ever pay back. Just one suicide-bombing, or a biological attack by terrorists will empty out our beautiful church buildings. What sane person would expose their family to the possibility they might be blown to bits by a terrorist, or catch a deadly bio-engineered infection by coughing, sneezing people inside enclosed places?
Winston Churchill was considered a prophet of doom in his time, but was later vindicated when his dark visions of the future became everyone’s nightmare in Britain during the Nazi blitz. I’m continually amazed at how quickly fearful people will scoff at, and actively marginalize anyone who warns of the dangers in our times. When liberal appeasers were finally discredited by Nazi bombs falling on London, they desperately sought his leadership. By then it was nearly too late.
His views on Islam are particularly noteworthy. He saw in Islam a grave threat to western civilization, and his word are prophetic.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities.
Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen:
all know how to die.
But the influence of the religion paralyses
the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.
Far from being moribund,
Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith.
It has already spread throughout Central Africa,
raising fearless warriors at every step;
and were it not that Christianity is sheltered
in the strong arms of science
- the science against which it had vainly struggled -
the civilisation of modern Europe might fall,
as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
Sir Winston Churchill
I believe God is about to do some things in the earth that will take quite a few of us by surprise. Not all of it will be painful! I’m convinced that those who prepared and are ready to face the times ahead with confidence and courage will shine as bright stars on a dark, moonless night. Our greatest days of usefulness are just before us, but we must not allow ourselves to be paralyzed with fear or lulled asleep by the siren call of this fallen world!
As Yeshua said;
For those will be days of greater horror
than at any time since God created the world.
And it will never happen again.
In fact, unless the Lord shortens that time of calamity,
the entire human race will be destroyed.
But for the sake of his chosen ones he has shortened those days.
And then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah,’
or, ‘There he is,’ don’t pay any attention.
For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up
and perform miraculous signs and wonders
so as to deceive, if possible, even God’s chosen ones.
Watch out! I have warned you!
At that time, after those horrible days end,
the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give light,
the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.
Then everyone will see the Son of Man
arrive on the clouds with great power and glory.
(Mark 13:19-26 NLT)
Winston Churchill left us a legacy of patient perseverance. He stayed steady and waited for his time in destiny to unfold. He suffered many setbacks, endured vicious attacks, and many dark nights of disappointments. Yet, when the time came for him to step up upon the stage of world history, he was ready.
Are you ready? Are you filled with a sense of destiny and confident that it was no mere accident that placed you in this time and place? We need not fear what may come. God has called each of us for such a time as this, and He didn’t make any mistakes. Take your place. Do your duty. Hold steady in the coming storm, for in the end, more peaceful days will come.
Jerusalem is about to undergo a major remodel upon the return of the King of Kings, and the world will be under infinitely better-qualified management with a Jew on the throne who wears the scars of His battles and the crown of His victory.
I hope to see Winston there among the worshippers, with a proper British grin on his face.
From Bruce:
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