John Aman (Coral Ridge Ministries)Having placed 50 percent of America’s economy under government control, the Obama administration is now angling for a tighter grip on the financial sector.

The operative word is “fairness,” which is shorthand for Obama’s famous campaign promise to “spread the wealth around.”
When critics said that this remark to “Joe the Plumber” displayed Obama’s socialist leanings, Obama justified it by citing Scripture:

“My Bible tells me there is nothing wrong with helping other people,” said then-Sen. Obama. “That we want to treat others like we want to be treated. That I am my brother’s keeper, and I am my sister’s keeper. I believe that.”

But Obama, who once dismissed the Bible’s relevance to politics, saying, “People haven’t been reading their Bibles lately,” may need to go reread his Engels. Co-author with Karl Marx of The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels knew better than Obama about collectivism’s clash with Christianity, stating, “…if some few passages of the Bible may be favourable to Communism, the general spirit of its doctrines is, nevertheless, totally opposed to it ….”

Despite Engels and Marx (who dismissed religion as the “opium of the people”), Obama and many others still manage to see socialism in the Bible. They point to the early church which, at first glance, seems like a model socialist community. The New Testament reports that these first believers “had all things in common” (Acts 4:32) and “all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, and laid them at the apostles’ feet; and they distributed to each as anyone had need” (Acts 4:34-35).

But unlike socialism, the sharing was voluntary, not coerced, and the money was given not to the state, but the church. As Southern Baptist leader Richard Land puts it on the new Coral Ridge Ministries documentary, Socialism: A Clear and Present Danger, “It’s one thing for you to give out of compassion to someone who’s less fortunate. It’s an entirely different thing for the government to confiscate your property and give it to someone else.” (Part 2 of the documentary airs Sunday, May 23, nationwide on The Coral Ridge Hour.)

While the Bible asserts property rights and the rights of inheritance, socialism assaults them. Marx and Engels put the “abolition of property” first in a ten-step program for implementing communism. That’s not exactly a Christian thing to do. The eighth commandment, “You shall not steal” (Exodus 20:15) applies every bit as much to the men and women who hold the reins of political power as it does to everyone else.

So does the 10th commandment, “You shall not covet” (Exodus 20:17). Coveting, or envy, is a powerful driver of socialism, which is in a perpetual snit that some people have more than others. So when President Obama castigates “Fats Cats” on Wall Street, decries “economic inequality,” and warns, as he did in his 2009 budget statement that a “disproportionate share of the nation’s wealth has been accumulated by the very wealthy,” he stokes a destructive impulse that is condemned by Scripture.

Socialism also runs afoul of the first commandment, “You shall have no other gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3). Socialist governments seek to play God — to take His place as the ultimate sovereign. Consider the veneration that Russians once gave to the embalmed remains of Lenin and Stalin, the Nazi-prescribed prayer to Hitler (“Thy Reich [kingdom] comes, thy will alone is law upon the earth”), and the personality cult surrounding North Korea’s “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong-il.

The sixth commandment, “You shall not murder,” is also widely ignored by Marxist regimes. Marx and Engels proclaimed that their aims could be “attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.” Their disciples, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and other communist henchmen, killed 100-million people, a “tragedy of planetary dimensions,” as the French publisher of The Black Book of Communism put it.

Barack Obama may say that the Bible tells him to be his brother’s keeper (his youngest half-brother reportedly lived in a shack in Kenya on $1 a day at the time he said this), but he ought to go back and reread what God’s Word actually says. Engels was right. Socialism has nothing in common with Scripture.

John Aman is director of communications at Coral Ridge Ministries and a co-author of the new book “Ten Truths About Socialism.” This column is printed with permission.

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“And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,” “Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” “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.” “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,” “The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:” Revelation 14:6-10 As we study these “Final Events of Bible Prophecy” we will often look to past to obtain knowledge about the future. “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 In studying the Revelation, a Bible student quickly discovers that a large portion of this prophetic book contains portions of other parts of the Bible, especially the old testament. Infact, over 270 verses in the book of Revelation are taken …

Someone please advise this administration that the Almighty God made a covenant with Abraham thousands of years that still stands valid. Nobody is going to change that arrangement and attempting to will prove fatal. Bible prophecy will be fulfilled in its fullness.

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In fact he even goes further than that. He clearly says that those with these kinds of religious beliefs, spawned by a literal interpretation of the scriptures, are an actual danger to world peace, and will in fact, if allowed to influence “public policy” via the military, bring America to total defeat in the world arena.

This report was approved by several high ranking officers including Dr. Tim Challans, PhD., Monograph Director. Challans is a professor at SAMS, a West Point graduate, and the author of Awakening Warrior: Revolution in the Ethics of Warfare. In this book, he not only castigates America for dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also undermines the ethics of our military by writing that army chaplains “should get out of the ethics business in the military.”

I thought this was a very interesting article as related to Israel and Prophecy. I have stated for many years that I believed that Israel would discover oil and gas for sustaining their energy needs. Well, they have already discovered gas and are on the verge of discovering oil in the near future..

A top US energy industry expert believes Israel is going to soon experience an “oil and gas rush” by major Western energy development companies.

Speaking to the Israeli financial newspaper Globes, Fred Zeidman said the recent discovery of a massive natural gas field off Israel’s Mediterranean coast had drawn the attention of every major Western energy company.

Israeli companies Delek and Isramco have already tapped the natural gas field, together with British energy giant Noble Energy. Zeidman noted that quite often, “as soon as Noble goes to a place, many other companies follow in its wake.”

That could mean an enormous economic boom for Israel and its transformation overnight into a major international energy exporter.

The natural gas field in the Levant Basin (the western Mediterranean) is estimated to hold 122 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas, making it the largest natural gas resource ever found. The area is also believed to contain at least 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil.

Why is it I just don’t feel secure against terrorists with George Soros, Moveon.org and the Civil liberties union now running our government. But let me refresh your memory just a little to who are Americas real enemies

Remember 9-11

Here we have an administration that seems to have forgotten how it was at that time. I remember how the far left was calling for the Bush administration to do more to keep them safe. At least the Washington politicians dropped their agendas to concentrate on the ENEMY-TERORRISTS. That is long in the past now as there are no more terrorists now only “man made disasters” according to Obama’s Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano.  Don’t you feel so secure under her watch?

Obama’s team has totally redefined homeland security and who are are threats. After reading their profile of domestic threats, I find myself on the list-and many of the conservative leaders in America would be on the list to “watch out for” also. You see we fit the profile on these left wing loons agenda. If you are pro life,  if you don’t agree with the so called “bail out,”  if you believe this administration is taking us into socialism, if you are evangelical, if you don’t like big government, if you support the second amendment and hold “evil” principles such as these then you are on their list!!!

Then, instead of radical Muslims who swear by Allah  to destroy the West, I found that the Bush administration was the enemy and they needed to be prosecuted with righteous indignation…Why? For keeping America safe for 7 whole years.

In all my years observing politics, this Obama administration is the most naive, weak, agenda driven, power grubbing group of loons I have ever witnessed—and this is only 100 days into his administration…..I cannot imagine what this administration will usher in-every day seems to bring new outlandish left  wing looney ideas…as government control grows stronger and stronger. WAKE UP AMERICA

America you had better wake up……DISASTER is looming and we deserve what we get because we have forgotten, better yet, we refuse to observe the past…we just conveniently forget where we came from. This Messiah and his administration were elected by the American people!!!!! So we do deserve what we got.

America you are getting a preview of the new world order. I remain a staunch anti new world order advocate.

An editorial in the latest issue of the prestigious Atlantic Monthly posits that the Palestinian Authority may never have a state because it does not want one. Writer Robert Kaplan claims that statelessness has more appeal to the PA than statehood.

Kaplan’s ideas are based on a recent study by John Hopkins professor Jakub Grygiel in which he claims that in the modern era, technologies have given minority groups more power to communicate and commit violent acts without the need for a formal state. He claims that the lack of a state, rather than being a detriment, enables the group to maintain its extremist views while avoiding the complicated task of governing.

Grygiel cites as a case in point the Hizbullah terrorist group. “Though probably capable of taking over the weak central government of Lebanon, Hizbullah has preferred to maintain its sub-state role, thereby limiting its responsibility and hence its vulnerability to attacks,” he writes. “Having a state would most likely weaken the ability of Hizbullah to attack Israel, whose military forces could find easy targets.”

“Statelessness provides impunity from the retaliatory actions of a powerful state,” Grygiel points out, in one of the main thrusts of his study.

Hamas, once it gained independence from Israel, faced exactly the problem Hizbullah chooses to avoid, according to Kaplan. “It was the very quasi-statehood achieved by Hamas in…Gaza…that made it easier for Israel to bomb it,” he explains.

The implications for the Palestinian Authority are just as clear. “Statehood would mean openly compromising with Israel,” he writes. “Better the glory of victimhood … As a stateless people, Palestinians can lob rockets into Israel, but not be wholly blamed in the eyes of the international community. Statehood would, perforce, put an end to such license.”

As proof that the Palestinian Authority prefers to remain stateless, Kaplan points out that although former Prime Minister Ehud Barak made vast concessions to late PA Chairman Yasir Arafat at Camp David in 2000, the PA leader chose not to compromise. As Kaplan explains, Arafat “may have seen that as a more morally and emotionally satisfying conclusion to a life of statelessness than that of making the unenchanting concessions association with achieving statehood.”

Can you see that the important world news is centered upon Israel and the Middle East? There will never be a true peace between the Arab states and Israel because the problem dates back thousands of years and lies in the realm of the unseen…the spiritual realm. The world will bring about the new world order and usher in a false peace agreement with Israel and the Arabs…But as with everything else in human politics it is a mere mirage…a lie.   I remain a staunch anti new world order man.