Let me share this quickly...My family has a habit of saying sometimes, "It's a free country"... but that is just not so... not in some time. I think of the TSA's behavior as an "in your face" example, and the stripping of American Citizen's rights... it is something out of the Old Soviet Union or Nazi Germany... when do the Black-coated Goons start barging into our lives saying, "Papers please..." with a machine gun behind their request? It can't be far away. It is disturbing how much of our lives is recorded on video... and how its all networked and "who" has access... BIG BROTHER INDEED! Our freedom is a joke, sadly. It breaks my heart... but the country I grew up in is not what this has become.
There's a song I used to listen to in the 80's by KANSAS (one of my old favorites)... called, "The Sparks of the Tempest" (Steve Walsh and Kerry Livgren wrote it... Kerry is quite an amazing fellow)... it just seemed almost prophetic:
The future is managed, and your freedom's a jokeNow...
You don't know the difference as you put on the yoke
The less that you know, more you fall into place
A cog in the wheel, there is no soul in your face
Run for the cover, Millennium's here
Bearing the standard of confusion and fear
Spreading like wildfire, fallin' like rain
Though they may promise, they only bring pain
Get ready... it is at the door. We have talked about the time when our liberties are taken from us violently... at time when real Christians are hated and persecuted, imprisoned and probably martyred for their faith and their refusal to deny Jesus Christ. We are on the brink. When you see the blatant destruction of the fundamental rights of the basic U.S. Citizen publicly... they have become brazen in their confidence.
What you see by the TSA is a "sign" that they are not going to hide their campaigning anymore. One of the most intelligent blogs I read said something to the effect that since 9/11, the American Government has been attacking its own citizens with the premise of protecting them. It has been an excuse to attack our basic Constitutional Rights. It is an attack on the very SOUL of AMERICA. The foundation of this country had to do with liberty, justice, the pursuit of happiness, and a seeking of God's face to keep us. Read up on it (ignore the hype of some Anti-christian groups and read what the founding fathers actually said. Even the deists in the bunch humbled before God at times of trouble).
It is the basic liberties that are on the foundation level (our Constitution... the Bill of Rights) that are being attacked. The TSA is an arm of a force that hates our liberties as we are being destroyed from within.
We had better be both praying and preparing. This is not paranoia... we knew that perilous times would come before the End of this Age. We knew that Jesus was returning soon. We knew... why did we think that the USA would somehow be spared? Why is it that so many were martyred for their faith in the last century and we thought we were somehow safe?
Folks, we were attacked from the inside. The country has weak or evil leadership and there is nothing to protect us from the darkness that is coming... except... GOD! So, are we praying? Are we ready? Are you?
Be filled with the Spirit... be led of the Spirit... and prepare.
Know this... there is coming a showdown. There are those within movements as the Tea Party who are trying to retake this country before it is too late. I don't think though that most really recognize how far it has gone... how many U.N. soldiers are already on U.S. soil... how little it would take to fake a National Emergency and declare martial law... how they would come to round up all the weapons of the people by force (of course the Constitution would finally be wiped aside in this and all of the our few remaining liberties with it)... and then come to round up people who would by their very nature oppose such an oppressive, evil regime... Christians.
If this country is spared at this time, it will be because that the people of the United States decide to pray and REPENT and turn back to God. I don't see it happening... there is some sign of it, but most are growing more and more lukewarm.
Folks... it is at the door... get ready! Get ready! Don't bow before the spirit of Antichrist. Don't deny your faith. Pray... repent... and stand.
Try and not deceive yourselves... this is a very perilous time that we are entering. It is not going to be easy. But greater is HE that is within us that he that is in the world. Being "in Christ" is the answer. Sometime look up the writer of those lyrics... Kerry Livgren from the Progressive Rock Band Kansas. Mr. Livgren became a born again Christian in the 1980's. His lyrics were always spiritual and searching for a deeper truth than the normal carnal living of the average person (as Dust in the Wind shows). They became very Christian after his conversion, and you will find both his testimony and a Bible study on the nature of Jesus' Divinity on his website. I read where he did teach a bible group at Topeka Bible Church. He had a stroke last year and I don't know if he is still doing that or not. But, these lyrics are almost prophetic for this age... much more than they were in the early 80's when they were released.
One last quote from the song...
Big brother is watching and he likes what he sees
A world for the taking, when he's ready to squeeze
King and the Queen are gone, each piece is the same
The difference between us is a part of the game
If you are a Christian, then you are going to wind up with one of two choices... bow to Jesus or bow to a very evil power that is controlling things as they take away your liberty.
But looking at this as an American (without the actual spiritual connotations), you need to "THINK" and decide if what is happening is Constitutional. In other words... is what the government is doing to its own citizens legal or not? Is an attack on our Constitution something we should just "allow" without any fuss or resistance? Is this the same country that our fathers and mothers grew up in? Is this still the United States of America or has it become something else? Do you realize that many other nations have looked to us as a beacon of liberty? Now, we are losing our soul as a nation. Do we just let that happen? Do we?
James Coldiron
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