9/11: Reinforcements are coming...the good and the bad

[FCTP]

As a little girl in Sunday school, I loved to hear stories about Bible times.   When it was time to listen to our teacher tell a story, we would scoot out wooden chairs near hers as she pulled the Big Book of Bible Stories off the shelf.  It was a large book with perfect pictures to go along with the stories.

 

All of them were great, but one has recently jogged my memory again.  It was the story about keeping our house clean so good could live in it. 

 

It goes like this.  When you decide to live a good life for Him, you clean up your life.  You want to do good things and take care of people and serve God.  You want to make sure you don’t fall into the old bad habits that brought you to Him in the first place.   When you start cleaning up your life, it isn’t easy.  Your friends encourage you to continue doing the “fun” things you did together.  You are tempted daily to fall back into your old ways.  As my teacher told us, "If you don’t live for Him every day and grow stronger in that Love, then the mean old devil will come back and he’ll bring more of his bad friends with him to make sure you fall back into your old ways."  In other words, he brings reinforcements.   

 

Ten years have passed and evil reinforcements may be on their way.  As 9/11 approaches, new threats are at our door and they cannot and MUST not be ignored.  In a recent report by Heritage, The Right Strategy to Fight Terrorism, they state:

“Unfortunately today, the United States is not on a trajectory to adequately counter the terrorism threat. Though America has enjoyed success in thwarting al-Qaeda's efforts against the United States, those victories have come as a result of a decade of taking the offensive in the war on terrorism. Now, though, the Obama Administration is changing course with its new National Strategy for Counterterrorism.”

 

 This week, the White House issued Guidelines on 9/11 Observances.  “The guidelines say the absence of Al Qaeda playing any significant role in the “Arab Spring” uprisings against longtime autocrats in the Middle East and North Africa should be cited as evidence that Bin Laden’s organization “represents the past,” while peaceful street protesters in Egypt and Tunisia “represent the future.”

 

It is unfortunate that we must spend today’s observance of 9/11 showing you not to believe this statement. 

 

Why?

 

1. Six hundred al-Qaeda radical prisoners were released by the new Libyan regime.  Watch the video here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgBzZtzqQ_M&feature=player_embedded
2. Egyptian Sheikh Calls for Worldwide Sharia & Threatens Christian Extermination -- http://www.theblaze.com/stories/senior-eij-official-calls-for-world...
3. Radicals plan Cairo-style occupation of freedom plaza in DC -- http://www.theblaze.com/stories/radicals-plan-cairo-style-occupatio...

Remember my Sunday school lesson?  If you don’t clean it out and fill it up with love, the evil one will come back with reinforcements.  They’re here.

 

Three thousand innocent men, women and children died on 9/11.  Will we allow more to die at the hands of radicals?  Will Congress put a stop to the low-level concerns of this administration or will it stand up and protect American citizens from evil men who want to destroy us?  Will those in Washington DC who want America to be like Cairo be allowed to shut down our government?

 

Just like the pictures in the Big Book of Bible Stories resonated with me for life, the pictures of 9/11 have also. 

 

Let us be reminded of the horror that evil men can do to innocent, loving Americans.  Show the attached pictures to your family and let them know that the enemy is coming back with reinforcements and this time, they may look like us.  9/11 Aerial Photographs

 

May God have mercy on America and send His angel reinforcements to protect us.  Amen

 

[Joe Story]

God has taken us through our darkest our as a nation. We experienced the Spirit of American after 9-11 as we came together as one nation. Now he is offering us another chance at life The war continues and we have done nothing but play defense in our homeland. It is time we come together and define who we are as a people and what we the people mean by "freedom of Religion"..

[Sandy McCorvey]

Thanks, Billie.  I think perhaps some of the comments below have been misinterpreted by some, much like I believe the Supreme Court misinterpreted Thomas Jefferson's words, as I wrote in my own post below.  Mr. Story is correct about the basis of law in the USA, and I'll quote a couple of other things from Mr. Barton's book to explain further.  "Robert Winthrop, a Speaker of the U.S. House of Reprentatives in the 1840s, repeated what he had learned from the Framers, explaining 'Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or a power without them, either by the Word of God or gby the strong arm of man, either by the Bible or by the bayonet.' " In George Washington's Farewell Address, which used to be taught in schools are required learning, he said, "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indepensable supports.  In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness - these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens." What has happened to our country since the 1947 decision by the Supreme Court has been the removal of our moral code.  No one blames God - we have only ourselves to blame.

[Joe Story]

The Christian  rules under which we live, the basis of law in the USA, are not inviolate nor are they the sole measure of virtue. However when morality becomes totally man centered,  secular humanism, the primal animal desire takes control. Power, greed, passion, and evil enter the society. We see this all around us today.
Still, God is and will always be available to here our cry. His mercy knows no bounds.

[Steven D.Upshaw]

 Thank you Billie! I am glad you replied to that. I will be nice.

[FCTP]

I think most within the walls of this website do not blame God for anything that is happening or will happen.  I believe they blame themselves and those around us who are pitting our culture against us.  The devil loves political correctness so not sure how we can take God out of politics since the devil is fully invested there.   I love God and know he loves me too.

[amanda choate]

God Spoke to me last night. He was angry. He asked how many tribulations we could endure. War, famine, hate, intolerence, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornados, hurricanes, floods, drought, fires, volcanos, genocide, what would it take to get us to stop?

Stop what I asked?

Stop blaming God for all the bad stuff that happens, bad stuff just happens sometimes. The stuff we can change for the better, we should. Feed the hungry, cloth the naked, comfort the sick, love our brother(and we are all brothers). He then said that until we stop blaming him for the bad stuff, he was going to keep allowing it. By the way, he doesn't get mad with us, we are his children, but occasionally he is disappointed.

One more thing, no more God in politics. We don't know what His plans are,so to assume that he has opinion one way or another, it is just another example of our own ego serving our own needs. He says NO ONE knows what he thinks, or what he woould choose, he wrote that in the bible but evidently we don't read that passage very often. Finally, stop praying to him to win the lottery, that is Satan's department. God's blessings are harder to see, the devil is so ostentacious.

[Sandy McCorvey]

I just finished reading a small but very enlightening book, "Separation of Church & State, What the Founders Meant" by David Barton.   I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to have the true facts about our First Amendment and what has happened in our country since 1947, the first time the Supreme Court interpreted the phrase as requiring the federal government to remove religious expressions from the public arena.  They cited 8 words by Thomas Jefferson which were taken completely out of context from a letter which had been used by previous Supreme Courts to PRESERVE religious principles in public society rather than remove them.  The 1947 court used those 8 words - without printing the entire letter - to "apply it in a manner exactly opposite to Jefferson's clearly articulated intent."

[amanda choate]

Mohammed Bouazizi the Tunisian produce merchant who set him self ablaze last December in a final protest against a repressive regime. Self-immolation, it is hard to imagine the circimstance that would drive someone to this desparate act. Those who were moved to act in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemin, do so for freedom, they are more like us than not like us. Draw them close and ,make them allies.

[Ann Bruchmann]

Be encouraged:  IPet 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and His ears are open unto their prayers; but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. 

All believers really know that God will have the ultimate victory.

 

[J. Lo]

Thank you David. Great insight into what is really happening.

 

Ephesians 6:12

New International Version (NIV)

¹² For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

 

We can not fight this evil by ourselves. We may have to go through hell on earth first, and pray to God for deliverance, but don't we know by studying the New Testament how it ends. Jesus said it would be like this, but he also said..............   do not be afraid, do not worry. Believe in him. He will be back to settle the score.