From My Perspective - - -

We continue to live in very serious and momentous times. The world continues to be a dangerous place and the United States, with limited resources, can no longer respond with dispatch and generosity as it once was able to do. Some Headlines (taken from Drudge Report – August 31, 2011) conjure up all kinds of possibilities – not just in terms of the affairs of nations – but also in terms of if and how these things might fit into a spiritual sphere rather than being isolated to just the secular. The Headlines were: “Israel Moves Ships; Iran Moves Ships; Israeli Settlers to be given tear gas to defend homes…” Part of the body of the news report from the Associated Press states: “The Israeli Navy (INF) has decided to boost its presence and patrols near 15th fleet to the Red Sea as well to "convey message of peace and friendship to all countries". Israeli security sources stated: …that two additional warships have been dispatched to Israel's Red Sea border with Egypt. Another source said that the operation was routine…that "two naval craft have been sent to the Red Sea. This is not unusual." It all sounds grim and dangerous.

In the United States, some of the major issues continue to be: illegal immigration; continued unemployment; entanglement in two ‘official’ wars with involvement in the affairs of other nations; the excessive national debt. The illegal immigration is not a new phenomena. In August, 1977, President James E. Carter sent a long message to Congress in this regard. Part of his written and expressed concerns were: “In the last several years, millions of undocumented aliens have illegally immigrated to the United States. They have breached our nation's immigration laws, displaced many American citizens from jobs, and placed an increased financial burden on many states and local governments. The set of actions I am proposing cannot solve this enormous problem overnight, but they will signal the beginning of an effective Federal response. My Administration is strongly committed to aggressive and comprehensive steps toward resolving this problem…” Has the problem been resolved? Thirty-five years later, the answer is a resounding NO!

Where are we headed as a nation? How about final enslavement to the government? In order to survive, every possession given over freely – just to get food! Could it happen here? Take time to read Genesis 47:13-27 carefully. It speaks of a time of great famine and great need in Egypt. Joseph was in charge and note what he ordered and did: “…there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine. Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land…in exchange for the grain that they bought. Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt…all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone. Joseph answered, Give your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock… So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year…when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate. So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh's. As for the people, he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other…”  

Have we as a nation forgotten God and removed Him from the equation of our personal and cultural affairs? Will we voluntarily bring all our possessions and ourselves to the government just so we can survive? The end result may be the loss of all we deemed as valuable, then enslavement, and then…??? Consider these things with me!