America is Falling

I was going to take a nap on this beautiful Sunday afternoon. But now I am finding myself writing about Track and Field events and former Miss Universe contestants.....all in light of God's word of course. Read this all the way through. I think you will find it interesting.

Right before I was going to lay down I received an email from a good friend of mine inviting me to comment on a thread on his blog. I'll try and give you the cliff notes.

In the comments section at the end of his post he put forth a question. Without him taking a position, he wanted to hear both sides, both for and against, to the following:

"An argument exists that says the idea of God judging nations is an Old Testament concept... that all judgment for sin occured at the cross and so therefore no judgment of any kind is awaiting nations, as sinful as they are. Question: Does God judge nations today? If so, upon what basis in light of Christ’s work on the cross? 

So what he puts out there for discussion is whether or not God judges nations today. The following was my response on his blog.

Posted by Jay on September 4, 2011 at 2:30 pm

"The argument is an extension of Calvinism and the TULIP doctrine. They are superimposing it over the political and social issues of our day. It is another way of saying, “Peace and Safety.” (1 Thess 5:3)

Is the Grace of God a license for immorality (Jude 4)? Do nation-states reap and sow just as individuals do (Galatians 6:7,8)? Do nations experience judgement?

Isaiah 24 speaks of an “everlasting covenant” that has been broken by the nation states of the earth, specifically verse 5 and 6. It also clarifies the consequence for breaking this law of conscience, even amongst nations that did not know the spiritual rock Jehovah Jireh.

Revelation 6 speaks of the Lamb who is worthy to open the seals, releasing 4 horsemen upon the earth to conquer, to make men slay each other with the sword, to disrupt fair trade and plunge men into poverty and hunger, to release plagues on the earth, to release the wild beasts of the earth, and to harvest on behalf of Death and Hades.

Has God judged nations since the our Lord’s cruxificion and resurrection? Paul said, “In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last.” 1 Thess 2:16

Even back to the time of Cain and Abel, man has experienced consequences for shedding innocent blood. God judged the world in Noah’s time because of this. After he got off the ark the Lord told him not to shed blood (Genesis 9:5,6) and that if he did there would be consequences. This was a component of the law of conscience which has always trumped old covenant law (See David eating the consecrated bread in 1 Samuel).

Japan’s judgment for what they did to China during WWII. Germany’s judgment for what they did to Europe. The judgment of the Armenians for not listening to God during World War I (and they were Christians). France’s judgment from 1915 to 1945 for what they did to the Huguenot Christians several centuries before. God’s judgment on Jerusalem and Judah in 70 A.D. God’s judgement on the Roman Empire for what they did to the Mediterranean rim. God’s judgment on Britain’s economy for what they did to North Africa (slavery), the southern U.S. (slavery), India and China (the opium trade) during the 1800′s.

Does he judge nation states? Can the United States murder 53 million children through abortion, 8 times more than the Nazi’s did in all of Europe, and think the party will continue? Really? Jesus threw over a few tables for some money changers. How much more should we be turning over these false arguments over 53 million children."

First I want to say that I love my friend who author's the blog I am qouting. I love his heart, his ministry and his writing. I love his whole family. He is married to a godly woman. They bear good fruit in Christ. They have great kids. They are trustworthy people. In no way is my comment a correction of him or anything he is doing in the Lord. I am not directing my response at him. I have even now put a link on my blog to his blog, The Sage of Texas. And I am extremely selective when I do that. I am encouraging others to read his blog and receive from him. Just want to make sure I am being clear.

But my response was to a question he posed from a neutral position and it was directed specifically at the other side of the argument which I believe is rooted in falsehood, specifically in Calvinism and to some degree in Dominion Theology/Kingdom Now Doctrine. Truthfully, if you have been following the posts on this blog for any length of time and you have been taking it in then you know my position on this in the Lord.

Read Here, Here, and Here  if you need a refresher. If not, keep reading.

Brethren, America is falling and has been progressively for many years now. Let me explain why I am bringing this up again like I have in the past months.

Coincidentally, this morning, I saw on the news that a new world record had been set by the Jamaican Men's 4 x 100 Sprint Relay Team at the world championships in South Korea just this morning. The men's 4 x 100 sprint relays are, in my mind, the most exciting 38 to 40 seconds in all of sports. Now 37 seconds. It's all about raw straightline power, speed and intensity.

But in this particular race we have what I believe is a prophetic symbol of sorts. You see, at about the 30 second mark something terrible happens to the runner on the third leg of U.S. men's team. He falls and the American team doesn't finish. Watch the film up until about the 1:00 minute mark. Then skip all of Usain Bolt's hot-dogging and fast forward it to the 3:20 mark of the video. They show the American falling in slow motion.





The American runner loses balance and just falls between strides. You know, this has happened recently to both of the U.S. contestants at the Miss Universe Pageants in 2007 and 2008.



Miss USA @ Miss Universe 2007



Miss USA @ Miss Universe 2008

Bless their hearts. I felt bad for the U.S. runners and for these 2 ladies. Yet these symbols are out there on the international stage for all to see. And they are not happening by accident. Joseph Herrin does a good post on the symbolism of some of these events as well. You can Click Here to read the whole thing later. But I want to pull something from it and quote it here. This is what he interpreted about Miss U.S.A falling 2 years in a row. I think it is very forthtelling.

"In 2007 Rachel Smith fell down while walking on stage at the Miss Universe pageant, and this year, 2008, Crystle Stewart did the same thing. No other contestant experienced the same. Consider for a moment how appropriately this contest was chosen. All the nations of the world are gathered for this event. Each country is symbolized by one woman. And for the past two years, the woman symbolizing the USA has fallen down as she stood before all the world, in a moment when she hoped to impress all those who looked upon her."

"Rachel was the name of the favorite wife of Jacob. She died giving birth to her son Benjamin. God will bring forth a purified remnant from the midst of the church in America, even though it should require the death of the nation as we know it."

"In an article I read today on the event, it was said that falling down was “the death knell” for any participant as far as their chances of winning the competition. The judges looked for how much poise and grace the contestants manifested on stage, and falling down was sure to end any chance of them winning. Is it not strange that this last event took place in Viet Nam, the infamous war that America failed to win?"

"That this event has occurred two years in a row, being repeated at the same stage of the event, the evening gown portion, reveals some profound truths. The word “evening” speaks of the last hours of the day before night falls, and all is plunged into darkness. That this same event occurred two years in a row bears the same meaning that Joseph declared to Pharaoh when God repeated his dreams to him twice."

"Now as for the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh twice, it means that the matter is determined by God, and God will quickly bring it about." Genesis 41:32

God has determined this matter. This is to say that His mind is made up and now there is no turning back what He has determined. There is only a sure expectation that these things will come, therefore the wise should do whatever the Spirit tells them to do that they might be made ready. It will quickly come to pass. This judgment is no longer years away. It will commence presently.....As I mentioned, the signs of distress are everywhere apparent."

Joseph Herrin is right. The matter has been firmly decided by God. Both ladies names are in fact significant. Rachel for the reason he stated above:

"Rachel was the name of the favorite wife of Jacob. She died giving birth to her son Benjamin. God will bring forth a purified remnant from the midst of the church in America, even though it should require the death of the nation as we know it."

Rachel was first to fall in 2007. Then in 2008 it was Crystle that fell. The name Crystle is derived from the proper name Crystal and can be defined as: to take on a solid shape or form when atoms or molecules begin to arrange in definite and repeated patterns. (See Websters Dictionary).

When the Lord begins to speak on things repeatedly it means it's important. Real important. Four times in John 14 &15 Jesus said that if we loved him, we would obey him. Romans 1:28 says that men get into trouble with God when they don't retain his word. The word for retain (NIV) in the Greek is Echo. The word of God echoes. 2 Corinthians 13 says that things become established through the repeated witnessing of 2 or 3 members of the body.

My point is that as events occur repetitiously they, in many cases, become a sign of what God is saying. He is in effect trying to Crystalize his word. He is causing it to take a solid shape and form. In this case it is the fact that America, as symbolized by the American runner and the two beauty contestants, is falling. America is falling.

America will fall. The signs are everywhere if you know what to look for. I think in the next post I should talk about the four-fold judgment of Ezekiel 14. The dominoes are falling and the first one has almost completely hit the ground. Ezekiel 14 is happening in America right now.

Stay Alert.
JEB
http://www.miraclesinmerida.blogspot.com/.

Shadow World

"The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And he said to him, 'I will give you all their authority and splendor, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. So if you worship me, it will all be yours.'" Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.'" Luke 4:5-8

Satan offered Jesus authority over the kingdoms of the world for they were his to give. The word he uses for authority is Exousia. It means "jurisdiction." Satan offered Jesus jurisdiction over the systems of the world. He offered him political, economic, military and social jurisdiction. The interesting thing to me is that Jesus never disputed the statement. Jesus knew it was true. Jesus knew that it was Satan's to offer....for the time being. Jesus simply refused the offer.

Satan has jurisdiction over the earth for the time being. God's authority is plenary and eternal. But Satan has temporary authority over the nations of the world. Ephesians 2:2 calls him "the ruler of the kingdom of the air" (NIV) or the "prince of the power of the air ." (KJV)  And Satan gives out his authority to men who will work on his behalf to corrupt humanity and oppose God's redemptive work in Christ Jesus.

"Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against his Anointed One." Psalms 2:1,2

The nations, peoples, kings and rulers of this world are scheming against God. Progressively the systems of the world have been corrupted and controlled by the prince of the power of the air. In order for the enemy to continue this process of corruption and control he must at times engage in deception along the way so that people and nations will relinquish God given control. Satan did this to Adam. And he has done this to the United States along the way. I believe that America once had the majority of its roots in God. Read The Light and The Glory by Peter Marshall and you will see this. Not all of our roots (The slave trade), but many of our roots where in God at one time. But not anymore. Many or most of them have been pulled up and replaced as we have abdicated God given jurisdiction that at one time trumped the devil's authority.

America is no longer the country that we want to believe that it is. America is not truly like what is being  presented by most of our politicians and most of the main-stream media. Most everything we are seeing with regards to economics, politics (foreign and domestic), media and social issues, is actually a deceptive spin on what is really happening. Everything we are seeing at this point are in fact shadows, not the reality of things themselves. Consider the following verse:

"These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ."  Colossians 2:17

Shadows are a reflection of something else that is real. The shadows are not real. They are not reality. We see types and shadows in God's kingdom and in the fallen world itself. God's intentions, through the types and shadows found in the Old Covenant, were for our redemption and holiness through the reality of Christ Jesus. Satan's intentions, through the shadows he creates in the systems of the world, are for our deception and destruction. Satan has created shadows just as God has. Let me explain what I mean.



The Federal Reserve Bank

As previously noted, Satan has the controlling shares of the levers of governments, economies, media, militaries and social movements. He progressively influences and controls these venues as God allows and/or as man abdicates his God-given dominion over these sectors of society. I think there is one main institution among many in our country that can be easily researched and discovered to be satanically inspired. That institution is the Federal Reserve Bank. All other aspects of satanic corruption and deceit in society work out from there IMHO. The Federal Reserve Bank is the epitome of unjust and dishonest trade. This was Satan's original sin.

"You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz and emerald...You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones. You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you. Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings. By your many sins and dishonest trade you have desecrated your sanctuaries." Ezekiel 28:13-18

This prophecy by Ezekiel in chapter 28, although on the surface is a condemnation of the King of Tyre, evolves into condemnation of Satan himself, who apparently was possessing the King of Tyre. Satan was in Eden, and although anointed with wisdom and full of beauty, became violent through corrupt trade. And he was driven from the mount of God because of it. Notice that the prophecy mentions trade twice. The Hebrew word used here is Rekullah. It means "trading" or "merchandising." It comes from the Hebrew word Rakal which means "a traveling merchant." Satan's sins began with corrupt trading and business.

The citizens of the United States have been fighting against and  suffering from the efforts of central bankers as far back as the days preceding the the Revolutionary War (1776-1783). Benjamin Franklin stated himself that this was the case (see right). From that period all the way to our present day, the international banking elite have been operating in corrupt widespread trade (Rekullah) and it has slowly killed off our sovereignty. In 1832, U.S. President Andrew Jackson's re-election campaign slogan was, "JACKSON and NO BANK."  "NO BANK" is a direct reference to the resistance of central bankers and their European counterparts, specifically in England and France. In 1835 Jackson actually paid the last installment on the national debt that had been foolishly incurred by allowing banks to issue currency in exchange for government bonds. In taking his stand against incurring further National Debt from Central Bankers, an attempt to assassinate Jackson was conducted by Richard Lawrence two weeks after the debt was paid back. Lawrence later admitted he did so at the behest of "wealthy Europeans."

During 1961 Abraham Lincoln was faced with the enormous task of confronting the cessation of the southern States. In need of money to finance the Northern campaign in the war, Lincoln and his secretary of Treasury Solomon P. Chase went to private bankers in the US to see what the cost of funding would be. They offered Lincoln loans at 24% to 36% interest. Lincoln refused the offer. He subsequently sought counsel with a trusted colleague, Colonel Dick Taylor of Chicago. Taylor advised Lincoln to spur Congress to pass a bill using it's Constitutional rights to print treasury notes without interest to pay for the war. Congress did so and in turn kept the government out of debt and out of the temporary reach of the bankers once more. See here for details.

In 1862 and 1863 Congress printed the $450 million in interest-free "Green Backs" and saved the Union. The London Times condemned the US Congressional action and called it a threat to not only Britain but every monarchy around the globe. Their article went on to say that the US financial system must be destroyed. After Lincoln's assassination, Otto Van Bismarck, the great Prussian Prime Minister and 1st Chancellor of the newly United Germany, knew Lincoln had been done in at the hands of powerful banking interests. He later made the following statement:

"The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. I fear that the bankers with their craftiness and torturous tricks, will entirely control the exuberant riches of America, and use it systematically to corrupt modern civilization. They will not hesitate to plunge the whole world of Christendom into wars and chaos in order that the earth should become their inheritance."

J.P. Morgan

In the years after Lincoln's death it appears that the nation and it's growing companies continued to slip into the control of powerful banking interests with roots in Europe. By 1907 the four most powerful banking families in America were the Rockefellers, the Warburgs, the Rothschilds and the Morgans. J.P. Morgan was a very powerful banking financier from Connecticut who was increasingly consolidating US banking interests and various industries like steel companies under his control.

In October of 1907, J. P. Morgan created a disinformation campaign by circulating rumors that a large New York Bank was insolvent (bankrupt). This created mass panic in the public with depositors and a run on the banks ensued as a result. Many banks were forced to call in their loans. This led to many personal bankruptcies as well as foreclosures by many Americans. This covertly contrived instability in the financial markets was the pretext that the Big 4 banking families needed in order to create fear in Congress and the voting public in general and get them to accept the need for a new U.S. private central bank to control the money supply and bring back perceived "stability" in the markets. The plan eventually worked on behalf of the bankers.

In 1910 the aforementioned bankers held their infamous meeting on Jekyll Island off of the coast of Brunswick, Georgia. It was there that legislation was drafted, not by U.S. Congressional members, but by the bankers themselves for a proposed US Central Bank. These same men used their frontman in Congress, Senator Nelson Aldrich, to formally propose the bill on their behalf. Aldrich, himself a member of the Rockefeller family through marriage, introduced into Congress supposedly "his" version of the Federal Reserve Act. Although Aldrich left the Senate in 1911, Senator Robert Owen continued to run with the legislation on behalf of the bankers and in May of 1913 he introduced what we know today as the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The bill, having just barely made it through Congress, was quickly signed into law by the banker-backed Democratic President Woodrow Wilson. The money-changers had officially taken over the levers of power in the U.S. Government.

"Give me control of a nation's money supply and I care not who writes it's laws." Mayer Amschel Rothschild

In regards to his willingness to sign the Federal Reserve Act, President Woodrow Wilson was later quoted as saying the following:

"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world. No longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." -Woodrow Wilson

Now remember, this piece of legislation was supposed to bring stability to our financial markets, stability to our national currency and help maintain it's value and purchasing power within our borders and around the globe. Let's just see how the bankers did from 1913 on. Remember, this was going to be a good thing....Right???

1914-1920 - In the first six full years of it's existence the Federal Reserve Bank (The Fed) had increased the money supply by 100%. Then suddenly in 1920, the FED called in huge percentages of the US money supply. Member banks (banks that borrow from the FED) called in their loans from common everyday people. This led to a massive # of bankruptcies. The total number of small banks that failed was 5,400. And to top it all off the value of the U.S. Dollar was literally cut in half. In six short years it cost twice as many dollars to buy something as before the time when the FED was created. WOW! In response to this Senator Charles Lindbergh stated:

"Under the Federal Reserve Act, panics are scientifically created. The Present Panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figure a mathematical equation." Senator Charles Lindbergh

Do you think maybe the good Senator understood that the "bankers" were doing this on purpose to concentrate the nations wealth in the hands of a few men? Do you? How is the FED doing so far? Let's look at the next leg of time.

1921-1929 - The FED increased the money supply by another 62% by making loans to the public via member banks. They also introduced what was called "Margin Loans." A Margin Loan was a loan that allowed a stock investor to have ten to one leverage on all stock investments. That's 10:1. The Catch......A Margin Loan could be called in at a moment's notice by the issuing bank and had to be legally paid back within 24 hours. No Exceptions! This is called a Margin Call. In order to pay back a Margin Call Loan the borrower would usually sell off the stock they had purchased with the loan itself.

After helping to fuel the Roaring 20's with Margin Loans, the large New York based financiers called in the Margin Loans in 1929, but not before the Rockefellers quietly exited their large positions in the stock markets. This is called "Insider Trading." It's Illegal.

So the banks call in their Margin Loans in 1929. This triggered massive bank runs and over 16,000 banks collapsed in the US in one year. Black Tuesday ensued on October 29, 1929 and the Dow Jones subsequently lost over 40% of its value over the next 3 years. The Crash of 1929 was under way. It took another 34 years for the Dow just to recover to its pre-1929 levels. This downturn also enabled the controlling investors in the FED to enter back into the Markets and buy up rival banks and large companies at pennies on the dollar.

So how is the privately controlled, privately owned FED doing so far? Or better yet, what are they doing? Not just "how" but "what?" Remember what we just qouted Senator Charles Lindbergh as saying: "Panics are scientifically created...worked out as we figure a mathematical equation."

While all of this is going on most Democrats and Republicans are quietly sitting by watching it happen. Then to top it all off, the FED contracted the money supply to increase unemployment and fuel the depression even worse. In response to all of this Congressman Louis McFadden demanded impeachment of the Fed Reserve Board. Afterwards he endured two failed assassination attempts. He was then subsequently poisoned at a banquet and died. This is what happens to men who speak out. They die. Then to top this whole fiasco off.....

1933 - By 1933 the value of the dollar had actually regained 30% of it's original value. Do you know why? Simple. We were still on the Gold Standard. Well, leave it to the FED to do something about that. The  Federal Reserve Bankers demanded that Franklin D. Roosevelt, their FDR, issue Executive Order 6102 on April 3, 1933 demanding seizure of all gold in the United States. This enabled the FED bankers to fully manipulate downward the value of the US Dollar at any time without restraint. The result.....The US Dollar again went into a steady decline and has been ever since. By 1971 the US Dollar was only worth .24 cents of its original value in 1912. In less than 60 years the value of the dollar lost over 75% of it's value. Is the FED doing a good job? I don't think so. The value of the U.S. Dollar today is worth 4.5% of what it was in 1913. In almost 100 years the US dollar has lost 95% of it's value. Look at the chart I posted to the right.

Let me ask you this question. How do you know that an apple tree is an apple tree? Simple. It's grows apples. And if it's a good apple tree it grows good apples. Bad apple trees grow bad apples. Simple as that.

"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them.....Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit....Thus by their fruit you will recognize them." Matthew 7:15-17,20

What kind of fruit has the FED born? The Morgans, Rockefellers......? What kind of fruit? Are you mad yet? Let's move on.

1963 - On June 4th, 1963, one last attempt was made to strip the FED of it's power. President John F. Kennedy issued his little known Executive Order No. 11110. This in effect restored the power to issue currency to the U.S. Government just as Lincoln had chosen for the nation in his time. Silver certificates were issued against all silver bullion in the Treasury. Kennedy put $4.3 billion worth of new U.S. notes into circulation. Unlike the FED notes, the new notes were backed by silver. The FED's notes are not backed by anything. They are Fiat money.

The result....President Kennedy was assassinated just 5 months later. You oppose the FED and you get killed or at least they attempt to kill you. First President Andrew Jackson. Then President Abraham Lincoln. Then Congressman Louis McFadden. Then President John F. Kennedy. Remember, violence and corrupt trade go hand in hand.

"Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned." Ezekiel 28:16

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy...." John 10:10

"The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And he said to him, 'I will give you all their authority and splendor, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to." Luke 4:5,6

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." Woodrow Wilson , September 4, 1912.

The Fed is a private bank. It is owned by private stockholders. It is not a government institution. It is not ruled by our government. It rules our government. It steals, kills and destroys because it gets it's power and authority from the one who Jesus said ultimately steals, kills and destroys. The Fed is ruled and run by the enemy himself. And the enemy, through the FED, is taking our currency down to a value of zero. He is completely bankrupting our country. Total insolvency. Total.

The Federal Reserve Bank is a shadow of a greater force working behind the scenes. The FED is a shadow, not the reality itself. The Fed is killing America to help prepare the world for a New World Order. Novus Ordo Seclorum. The New Order of the Ages.

More to come. We will get into some Macroeconomics next....if I don't feel led to talk about the CIA. We'll see. Folks, pay attention because we are going to eventually give all of this a greater context in light of scripture and talk about how the Lord wants us to respond. This applies to all of us and it is about what the Lord wants for us, our spouses and our children. This affects all of us.

God Bless,
Jay Blackshear
http://www.miraclesinmerida.blogspot.com/.

P.S. Sorry it took me a whole week to do another post. I realized after I started putting this together that I actually had to brush up on my past research. I was a little rusty and actually had to work more than I thought I would have to. Thank you for your patience.

Collision Course

When I was 21 years old I was involved in an accident that almost killed another person.  I was playing in a college soccer game in the district playoffs my junior year at Midwestern State University in 1991. We found ourselves going up against Hardin Simmons University from Abilene, Texas. At one point in the second half I found myself jumping into the air to head the ball back towards our front line about 35 yard away from our opponents goal. When I began my descent back down all of the sudden the lights turned off. The next thing I knew I was trying to pick myself off of the ground, barely conscious. I didn't know what had happened or what hit me. I tried to stand up only to find myself just collapse back down to the ground. Two of my teammates came and helped me to my feet and got me to the sidelines where the trainers and medical staff could take a look at me.

While they were helping me off the field I heard one of my teammates say, "Look at that guy!" I couldn't turn around as I was barely conscious. I found out later, post concussion, that after I had jumped up to head the ball, while coming down, another player from the other team had jumped with me and in the process the left side of my skull made full contact with the back side of his head on the way down. The other player was knocked completely unconscious. He stopped breathing, swallowed his tongue, began going into convulsions and started foaming at the mouth while turning blue in the face. If the paramedics had not been there to revive him it would most likely have killed him.

As we start 2011 we enter into our annual time of looking forward.  I have thought long and hard for a few weeks as to how the Lord would have me start out writing. And in the process I have come to the conclusion that there are some things that need to be said about the United States and the direction it is ultimately heading in. I feel like I have been hiding in a closet and avoiding talking about things that should be obvious to everyone. America, and subsequently the world, is on a collision course with complete and total collapse. The skull of America is about to receive an unforseen blow that is going to cause it to stop breathing, swallow its tongue and go into mouth-foaming convulsions. The only difference between America and the player that I banged heads with is that there will be no paramedics to revive and restore it. The scripture says the following about Samson:

"He awoke from his sleep and thought, 'I'll go out as before and shake myself free.' But he did not know that the Lord had left him." Judges 16:20

The Lord had left Samson, but he was not aware of it. I believe God has left America, but most within her do not know it. Most do not believe it could ever happen. In the coming weeks I want to share some things with you that I feel the Lord has shown me over the years. We are going to cover doctrine, prophesy, counsel and current events. We are going to talk of the following subjects over the next several blogposts:

• The Shadow World
• Ezekiel 14 and Four-fold judgment.
• Macroeconomics 
• Leviticus 18
• The Broken Hammer
• The Last 5 Kings of Israel and Judah
• Josiah's Reign and the Prophet Jeremiah
• Ezekiel 21:15 and Nahum 3:13
• Jereboam II and the Prophet Amos
• Prophetic Confirmation of Leviticus 18
• The Boy Prophet, Efim Gerasemovitch Klubniken
• The Purpose of 2011
• The Current Spiritual Climate
• The Fear of the Lord and Wisdom...Building an Ark

The list may change. I don't know exactly if things will come out in that order. But I feel that it is important to know, for both you and your loved ones, that life as we know it in both America and subsequently in the world is about to change dramatically. Our lives as Christians always change, hopefully for the better. But the world is changing in a very bad way. Understand, I don't write this with any sense of joyful contentment or feelings of "I told you so!" My wife and I have two young boys that we are trying to raise along with one that is already grown and out on his own. I have 11 neices and nephews. I want to believe that this world we live in will be stable and growing for generations to come. But I don't think that is the case. I believe the Lord has shown me differently over the last 20 years or so.

Things are already changing in America in case you haven't noticed. And it isn't for the better. America and most of the world have been in spiritual free-fall for well over a century now and especially over the last 40 years. You don't believe it? I am going to show you. I am going to show you that the current state of our country is exactly in line with the nation of Judah during Jeremiah's and Ezekiel's ministry. I am going to prove it doctrinally and then I am going to point out how God has already confirmed it through His prophets and various signs in the natural realm.

America is already experiencing the four-fold pattern of judgment as discussed in Ezekiel 14. He is already breaking the staff of bread. He is already cutting off America's food supply and raising up the wild beasts.  It's already started. And right now, as Christians, we need to be cutting lumber, swinging the hammer and coating our Ark with pitch inside and out. Remember the following verse:

"The prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it." Proverbs 22:3 & Proverbs 27:12

The same verse is written in two different places in Proverbs. It must have been important for Solomon to say it twice. This isn't a time for us to put our heads in the sand. This is the time to fear the Lord, hear the Lord, and trust God for his provision and protection for ourselves, our spouses and our children. But it starts with acknowledging what is happening, acknowledging what the Lord has been saying about it, and asking the right questions in prayer and then moving with a sense of urgency to prepare for what is about to happen not only to America but subsequently most nations in the world. Now is the time to hear God and move in obedience without reservation. Now is the time. It's time.

There is more to come. Watch for more posts. It will all make sense when I map it out and connect some dots.

In Christ,
J.E. Blackshear
http://www.miraclesinmerida.blogspot.com/.