RUSSIA WANTS WAR

I thought this would be a good time to repost this and the additional links from 2018

              

The above illustration is a good place to start in order to understand the whole Russian issue with the United States and the European Union. It is important to understand both sides in the conflict if we want to understand Biblical Prophecy concerning the end times. This blog will provide links to help you understand the reasons for the tensions between Russia and the U.S..

Since WW 2 Europe and the U.S. have been attempting to encircle and control Russia. American global strategy, in fact, goes under the name “Total Spectrum Dominance.” In other words, American global policy is to encircle enemies with military bases and prevent those enemies from becoming too powerful. https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-nato-encirclement-of-russia-america-launched-the-cold-war-before-the-end-of-world-war-ii/5381447

Encirclement is control. American global policy is to control her enemies militarily and financially. This has been a successful policy for the past 70 plus years—since the end of WW 2.

On Nov. 9, 1989, frenzied East German crowds gathered at the Berlin Wall yelling “Tor auf!” (“Open the gate!”). When a worried and confused border guard complied, tens of thousands began pouring into the West. Millions more would do so in the coming days.

In Dresden six weeks later, a crowd greeted West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl shouting “Einheit! Einheit! Einheit!” (“Unity!”). Nearby, a nervous but determined 37-year-old KGB officer had spent weeks burning mounds of documents in preparation for possible attacks on his station by angry mobs. The enormous volume of ash destroyed the building’s furnace. Years later, Russian journalists interviewed the former officer about his work in Germany. “We were interested in any information about the main opponent,” Vladimir Putin explained. That opponent, NATO, would continue to obsess Russian leaders in the years to come.

By early 1990, the East German Communists, imploding under the weight of popular revulsion and infighting, were a spent political force, and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev had begun to reconcile himself to German unification. What he still demanded was that a reunified Germany not be part of the Atlantic alliance. Continued German membership of NATO, Gorbachev told German and Soviet journalists, must be “absolutely ruled out.”

Gorbachev and his Russian successors have maintained that they were misled over whether the alliance would be permitted to expand eastward. NATO, the Soviet leader said, was “an organization designed from the start to be hostile to the Soviet Union.”

With the demise of Gorbachev and the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian President Boris Yeltsin continued to press the issue with his American counterpart. The United States, he told then-President Bill Clinton, was “sow[ing the] seeds of distrust” by dangling NATO membership in front of former Warsaw Pact states. For a Russian leader to “agree to the borders of NATO expanding toward those of Russia,” he told Clinton during a 1995 meeting at the Kremlin, “would constitute a betrayal of the Russian people.”

Days after the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland joined NATO in March 1999, the alliance began a three-month bombing campaign against Serbia — which, like Russia, is a Slavic Orthodox state. These attacks on a brother country appalled ordinary Russians, especially since they were not carried out in defense of a NATO member, but to protect the Muslim population of Kosovo, then a Serbian province. NATO’s actions in the former Yugoslavia — in Bosnia in 1995 as well as in Serbia in 1999 — were undertaken with noble aims: to stop the slaughter of innocents. NATO expansion into the former Warsaw Pact countries, however, all but guaranteed that Russians wouldn’t see them that way. Moscow knew that its former vassals, by joining the alliance, had now bound themselves to support Western policies that challenged Russian interests. The farther east NATO expanded, the more threatening it would become.

In trying to assure the Russians that NATO was not a threat, the Clinton administration had taken it for granted that legitimate Russian interests, in an era following glasnost and perestroika, would not clash with NATO interests. But this view presumed that the Cold War had been driven by ideology and not geography.

Russia’s eternal fear of invasion drove its foreign policy then and continues to do so now. “At bottom of [the] Kremlin’s neurotic view of world affairs is [a] traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity,” Kennan wrote in his famous 1946 Long Telegram. Vast, sparsely populated, and with huge transport challenges, Russia had a natural tendency to fracture. Looking outward, Russia was a “land which had never known a friendly neighbor.” Its defining characteristic was its indefensibility. No mountain ranges or bodies of water protected its western borders. For centuries, it suffered repeated invasions.

More: http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/02/12/russias-clash-with-the-west-is-about-geography-not-ideology/

Of course there is much more to this story. There is a financial side to it that is taking place now. If you’ve been reading this blog you should be able to understand what is happening with the US dollar, trade between Russia and China, and the march towards a new world currency backed by gold, to replace the US dollar.

If America continues on her path of extraordinary debt and apostasy from God then she is going to experience severe Godly chastisement. Sadly, I believe it is coming—but it can be a positive thing if the nation will truly repent during those days.

Everyone wants to see revival. The false prophets say it is going to come, it is going to be a new paradigm and time of great restoration. What they don’t tell you is that revival only comes through true deep heart repentance. This will occur only through the most difficult of times. If you refuse to believe me please read the Books of Kings to see what happened to Israel and Judah when they turned away from Yahweh.

This is why I continually urge and exhort that we need to prepare NOW! It is surely coming. God has had enough of our disobedience. It is because He is so merciful that He has been holding off. He may continue holding off for a season but a storm is coming!

Check out all the links in this post and you will see where we are heading. Blessings to all.

http://burningbush647.blogspot.com/2016/11/vladimir-putin-and-russia-president.html

http://burningbush647.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-rise-of-china-fulfills-biblical.html

http://burningbush647.blogspot.com/2017/11/breaking-news-in-yuan-for-gold.html

http://burningbush647.blogspot.com/2017/06/germany-and-european-union-european.html

http://burningbush647.blogspot.com/2017/06/chinas-vision-of-new-world-order-china.html

HABAKKUK SPEAKS TO CURRENT EVENTS

O Lord, how long shall I cry, and You will not hear? Even cry out to You, “Violence!” and You will not save. Why do You show me iniquity, and cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; there is strife, and contention arises. Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous
therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

The prophet Habakkuk was having a serious conversation with Yahweh. He saw how the nation had become lawless—disregarding their Constitution—the Torah! He was having a difficult time understanding how the wicked should seemingly be allowed to prosper. Does this not sound like our present dangerous situation?

Our Constitution in these United States is under attack by the corrupt representatives of the people. Many of them have been compromised and bought off. Silent infiltration of our government by foreign entities who hate our Constitution and freedoms has been going on for decades. They are the silent enemies of we the people.

The truth is slowly dripping out and these enemies will be exposed. The people of the United States, and the world, are waking up to the truth. The power elites have no regard for the people—they have their own sinister objectives. They have used the Plan-Demic to further thier agenda but they are going to lose.

They have lied to us about everything—and have been lying for decades. The mainstream media, the corporations, sports leagues, and our corrupt politicians have been working together. They are the true fascists. Their agenda is to rule by force in their socialist utopia. They wish to rule by mandate. They despise the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Habakkuk saw the same spirit at work 2,500 years ago. He cried out to his Elohim for justice. He was severely grieved by the situation in Judah at that time. The answer he received was not the answer he expected:

“Look among the nations and watch—be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you. For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation which marches through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. Their horses also are swifter than leopards, more fierce than evening wolves. Their horses charge ahead; their cavalry comes from afar; they fly as the eagle that hastens to eat. They all come for violence; their faces are set like the east wind. They gather captives like sand.”

The Chaldeans were the Babylonians who were conquering the nations surrounding Judah. They would soon destroy the temple and Jerusalem. Yahweh was going to use them to chastise the Judah and Jerusalem for their disobedience and distain for God’s law, the Torah, the Constitution of God’s people.

Habakkuk was shocked. He couldn’t believe God would allow the pagan Babylonians to destroy the holy city of Jerusalem, the temple, and His chosen people:

“Are You not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, You have appointed them for judgment; O Rock, You have marked them for correction. You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously, and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a person more righteous than he?”

Habakkuk asked God how He would allow a pagan nation to chastise a nation more righteous than they were. He couldn’t understand how God could allow treacherous Babylon to prevail over Judah. He decided to wait for Yahweh to answer this question:

“I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me, and what I will answer when I am corrected.”

God replies: “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith.”

Habakkuk is told that the proud are not upright, but the just people, who fear the Lord, will live by their faith even as the punishment on the nation must come. A father chastises his disobedient children and so must Yahweh chastise His nation for turning away from the law. God continues to explain:

“Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you, Because of men’s blood
and the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it. “Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house
that he may set his nest on high, to be delivered from the power of disaster!
You give shameful counsel to your house, cutting off many peoples, and sin against your soul…“Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, who establishes a city by iniquity!  Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the peoples labor to feed the fire, and nations weary themselves in vain?

 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.”

This is an answer with dual meaning. God is telling Habakkuk that the Babylonians will also be punished after they punish Judah. The description above is not only describing the Babylonians but also the sins which God’s people have been practicing. Habakkuk is told that God will exact righteous judgment on Babylon also.

America has been under judgment for some time now. Our nation has turned away from the laws of God and have made up their own. A simple example is that a man is a man and a woman is a woman. That is God’s law. There are only two genders. No need for me to elaborate! God’s laws are written in stone tablets. They are forever.

God is going to expose those who hate Him and our country. This year is going to see God’s justice in action. The truth is going to come out in a flood. Up until now it has been dripping out but a flood is coming. We are being given the opportunity to reform and repent—to take back our country and establish truth and justice. We’ve had enough lies.

The wrongs that have been committed in the 2020 election are going to be heard and action will be taken. The corruption in the Biden family will be exposed and action taken. The crimes against humanity—human trafficking and pedophilia will be exposed and action taken. The mainstream media is going to be exposed for their lies and propaganda. It’s going to shock the nation. Those whom have sold themselves to China will also be brought to justice.

Change is coming. It’s going to be a year of great upheaval and chaos as the enemies of our country will fight to the end. Be prepared--God is going to bring judgment on the traitors and evil politicians in His time and way. We will see it unfold this summer. The swamp creatures are in disarray—they know they are in trouble.

Listen to Habakkuk as he digested the knowledge that God was going to judge His people and their enemies. Expect God to act this year in power:

“O Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid; O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy. God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah.

His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise. His brightness was like the light; He had rays flashing from His hand, and there His power was hidden. Before Him went pestilence, and fever followed at His feet. He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations.”

This is beautiful Bible poetry describing what is about to occur in our nation. This is our opportunity to repent and make things right. If we miss this opportunity to drain the swamp we will fall and be crushed. Hear the word of the Lord!

Habakkuk ends with this incredible statement of how the just—all of God’s true people, should live by their faith:

Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls—Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength; He will make my feet like deer’s feet, and He will make me walk on my high hills.