QUESTIONS IN CONSTANT CONTENTION - Introduction 2 of 5 from Iraq Prophecy "Parable" 2008

All that which has become whining, coarse arguments among the people might be expressed in the following questions:

1. Should the US armies enter another country to liberate people under the tyranny of an oppressor? Should have they intervened for the sake of these suffering people who had not know justice for decades?

   1. And answer to this first question, a book Saddam's Secrets: How an Iraqi General Defied and Survived Saddam Hussein, can tell us, starting with its cover, "If you thought Saddam Hussein was merely a threat, you have no idea!" It was released by Integrity Publishers and is authored by Georges Sada and Jim Nelson Black. Georges as an eye-witness to history reveals the disturbing truth about the evil in that despot Saddam Hussein, pointing to why he had to be taken down.

2. Can an invasion such as this have the blessings of God? Especially now that we live in New Testament times -in an era called God's grace - would God have participated in any battle?

   1. The answer to the second question is given by the title, The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq. It was published by Simon & Schuster Publisher and is authored by Fouad Ajami, a Professor of Middle East Studies, who gives eloquent insight to the situation in Iraq. But the title gives the main prospect; the hope that is brought in for the Iraqi people by the Americans as the foreigner's gift. It is a gift sent by God, as prophesied in Jeremiah 51:2, "I will send foreigners from other nations...," a gift of liberation which is fulfilled as explained below. It is sad, though, as there are those who have not appreciated it as a gift.

3. Is it right for the US and allied armies to extend their occupation on the land so long as it is to provide security?

   1. The answer to the third question is given again y a book's title, What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building. It was published by Princeton University Press authored by Noah Feldman, an Associate Professor of Law in New York University, who in 2003 was also Senior Constitutional Adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. In his writing, which illuminates America's mission as a nation-building process in Iraq, he points out how insensitive it would be for us to abandon the good work and a whole country in the hands of killer insurgents. We owe Iraq to not fall into such a temptation, but to stay and finish the project we started.

   2. How selfish can we be as Americans? Is this the US, the preachers of Liberty and Justice for all, speaking for a military pullout and to let down a population that has already suffered the maximum of tyranny?

4. To what extent would God allow US intervention? Why has this war started and where are we heading?

   1. For the answer to these question we must look in the Bible and realize that these events have been distinctly written of in the Scriptures. God prophesied the invasion, the toppling of Saddam Hussein and all about the post-invasion chaotic situation. By the accuracy and content in these biblical descriptions God will open our eyes to see not only what happens now, but also the extension and continuation the events will bring into the future. Truly, the longer the US armies are staying in the Iraq the safer we must feel, because as soon as the war there is over we must anticipate God's next phase in His Project. Many long chapters have been provided to resolve what God has for our times of the end, which are extremely important for us to know. He has predicted all about the atrocities and massacres in the streets of Babylon and Chaldea, the same ares now called Iraq. This is in Jeremiah 51:2, "I will send foreigners from other nations to Babylon, and they shall winnow her, and they shall clear her land from the impact of evil; they shall devastate her on the day of disaster they shall be against her round about...," and in 51:4 He continues, "Let them (the evildoers) fall wounded in the land of Chaldea and pierced through (slain) in her streets." For all the arduous circumstances the US armies policing and fighting against the insurgency, and for all the political reconciling with the racial militia in Iraq God speaks about the struggle against terrorist and against the horror they have caused.

This has been an exposition of evil which was allowed to surface according to God's Project. Being the Lord of the Armies, God is pleased with the courageous performance of the troops - as they symbolize the obedience and faithfulness of committed saints in His Church. However, He is displeased with the social and moral movement here in the mother land for which the reader must be very concerned.

We are living at that pivotal and crucial point of the Word of God. We are about to see the after-shock of this war which is on the verge to also judge us with the next phase of God's Project. The same God, the Lord of Armies Who mobilized this country's might warriors to liberate the Iraqi people, is the Holy One Who in the happy conclusion of the war is expressing these words:

Jeremiah 51:5b, "Although their land is full of guild (filled with sin, trespasses, fault) again the Holy One of Israel."

He has a controversy with the land of the attackers, the USA. By saying 'their land' God means the country of the foreign warriors and refers to the people from where the troops originated. He is primarily disappointed because their homeland is built upon the Judeo-Christian beliefs "of the Holy One of Israel."

Here we are going through a political upheaval by opposing parties who are trying to bring the troops back and stop His Project. As this withdrawal movement takes wide dimensions and people in masses are running demonstration against the war, we hear their clamoring in all kinds of irritating words about the President George W. Bush and his administration. But they cannot succeed to change the facts. Since God has decided and says, "I will appoint foreigners (fanners) to Babylon (=Iraq), " it is in God's will for this battle to take place and to continue as He wants.

Who in the world can stop God from executing His purposes?

Critics and pundits allege that this President made a huge mistake by going to war, that misled the nation, abused his authority, made a fallout mission, misinterpreted the good for the country, disturbed international relationships, misrepresented its politics, marred its reputation, made a complete mess in Iraq, misplaced funds, mistreated the troops, ... plus more. But to all charges one is the true answer; God is the One commanding the war, and He makes no mistakes, nor is He misinterpreting misleading, misrepresenting. He is straightforward in what He decided to do.

Politicians boas and extol one another saying, "We denied (decried) the war in Iraq, and that truth should not be forgotten ," but is that THE TRUTH? The people and the media simply do not know it. Naively, in their intense opposition they cause trouble and stir everyone up, even the entire world, against something which no man could have stopped.

They could only tempt and provoke the Lord to wrath.

What would President Bush - or anyone in his position - do?

How could he withstand the overwhelming pressure of a Divine power coming on him from above?

It is very possible that the President and other members in the Congress voted for the war and might not have even really known why they did it.

Truly, if anyone else want to complain about it, he should take his argument up to God. God declared that He takes all the responsibility and the blame. Or it would be better for the arguer, instead of becoming irritated, discontent, and unhappy, that he should read the texts of Scripture for the answer!

It is like a growing obsession among candidates and nominees in the political arena who are trying to gain votes by their public statements, "The Iraq war should not have been authorized." at the right thinking, can anyone seriously say that? To us, after having checked and know the real issue, their wises statement sounds peculiar to our ears. It is so wrong and fraudulent.

And, it is just hilarious.

Series of prophecies herein point out the contemporary wars on terrorist and Babylonian rule. It was in God's program to oust this tyrant and his regime that terrorized its people. Subsequently, the whole string of event happened precisely by the details given in Jeremiah 50:46 "By the news of the capture of Babylon the earth (inhabitants of the earth) will be shaken (that is to say will be emotionally stirred up) and a cry (shout) is heard among the nations."

Cry (in Hebrew za'-ak) means loud outcry as a result of the event many will voice their feeling of alleviation and jubilation, while others will scream and shout in disagreement throughout the world with immodest opinions and outrageous statement against the war. God anticipated that. He said, 'They will be emotionally stirred up'. So, they are dong exactly what is written, and even more, as they are in ignorance of God's will.

In many prophetic words we are informed that the world will be confounded, perplexed, and shivering before the second Coming of Christ to establish His unshakable kingdom.

We live at a time that we should not merely see each incident as a meter of politics, but as 'the Project' of God.

"The War on Terror" is taken to the area where God has His center of exposition. That area is Iraq. There He set the stage to exhibit the hidden controversy that exists in the world. In the continuation of the war He said in Jeremiah 51:2, "I will appoint foreigners form the other nations to Babylon and they shall winnow her...," and to clear up what He speaks in spiritual language is this. "They shall winnow her" is to do a winnowing process, which is a fanning methold to dispwerse the good from the bad, 'the wheat from the chaff". It is done by tossing the end product of the field in the air. God created air - which is an invisible but real thing - as a type of the invisible Presence of God, and in this winnowing air represent His spiritual intervention in the process of separating the kinds of people. God will also work in the hearts of the people by helping them to see the difference.

He is giving them the opportunity for the first time in years to have free speech and to express their choices. Would they be better with Saddam (his name means "the one who confronts," almost spelled as Satan) or with an new government which the foreigners are helping them to establish?

The test for the inhabitants is symbolized with the winnowing process for them to recognize the value of being open to light versus to be kept in darkness, law versus terror and persecution following truth versus deceit, lying , and plotting.

This will continue until the Iraqis will denounce violence. The next phrase in Jeremiah 51:2, "...and they shall clear her land" is explained with the Hebrew verb, 'baw-kah", which means to purge evil, to pour out, depopulate"; but as it refers to the ground, "her land, " means "to abound, to be plentiful, to become abundant, and spread like a vine"! This is exactly what God is doing.

These verses stand in context with more passages that will be interpreted below for the reader to be fully informed. How can the protesters in their minds be able to cut off God from His plans?

That is impossible. This book tells the story of the Bible that led to this historical conflict, as well as it expands like a parable to portray the moral difference. It is not only for the Iraqis to see, but for the entire world to realize this is a fight against radical evil. In order to have peace, God's law says to punish evil wherever it is found. Based on that law the state's legal system arrests and expounds in this parable the urgent need to depopulate and clear the land from the terrorists before it will be able to bountifully prosper - like a gardener removing weeds and tilling the ground before panting a fruitful crop.

Nevertheless, we must recognize that God's statements are also conveying an imminent turn in His Plans. His patience is about to run out. He shows this in stronger language in Jeremiah 51:4, "Let them (the evildoers) fall wounded in the land of Chaldea, and the pierced through (slain) in her streets." As He comes near to the Judgment Day He is not going to be the long-suffering, forgiving God of the New Testament anymore. He is telling us to fight at all cost and uproot evil to its extinction. Can we do it to that extent? Can we make its force disappear?

No. He is the only ON=be Who can, and in a short time He will.

As He had made extinct all dragon-like monsters in eras of the past - and He did away with them - in similar way this will again come to pass as He is preparing His Grand Finale. The spiritual dragon recorded in Revelation 13:2, "...and the dragon gave him (to the beast) his power, and his seat, and great authority," will reappear as a symbol of evil for that purpose. And just before that, if we recognize the other social movements, God gives us in Iraq a foretaste of His moving onward to extinguish evil irreversibly.

By putting there on display the fierce aggression as it could not be tolerated any longer His warning is for us to first purge evil from our personal lives and to be watchful because we are entering into end times. If we faithfully recognize that these events are under the auspices of God, we will also received his advice form the corresponding prophecies which are written in advance of the events for this special revelation.

We always need God's guiding light: a) for our vision to walk in life as we should as united believers of one body of Christ, b) for our knowledge to help others for the sake of themselves and their household, and c) for all decisions in life, especially in these

difficult times.