Preface

Certainly you've wondered how the most authoritative book ever written could be totally silent regarding the most prominent nation in all history. Well, in fact, it was not. And even though the references were much obscured, they were not totally hidden. As the clouds are lifted by some careful attention to important detail in the following chapters, the United States emerges as the most prominent nation in end-time prophecy.

The central theme of this book is the United States' role in end-time prophecy, especially Ezek. 38 and Deut. 32:15-36. The obscure nature of these passages requires some preparation in order to see them in the proper context, so their discussion is saved for a later chapter. The earlier chapters provide some background that will help fill some gaps in Ezekiel 38. Additionally, they each provide some interesting and exciting revelations that give them a life of their own. I hope that you will bear with me to the end; and that you find some of what is revealed herein as exciting and rewarding as I have - though some is bittersweet. Knowledge is sweet as honey; but sometimes the harsh reality found in it is a bitter pill to swallow, as the "little scroll" John ate (assimilated) in Rev. 10:9.

Another theme throughout, is one of liberation, so eloquently expressed in Malachi 4:2 above. In these chapters we will explore Scriptures that expose millennia of false prophet lies and false scribal manipulation of God's Holy Word. Those who want to be free from false scribal deceptions can be, but only if willing to accept the truth. We need to free ourselves from the barbaric practices of the ancient Hebrews. We should have learned by now to be civilized.

Women have never been treated as equals in the revisions of Scripture that were handed down to us. The truth in Scripture - recognizable by its logic in contrast to the mythical - reveals that those apparent inequalities are not attributable to God, but rather to a self-serving male-dominant society.

Those who presumed to change the course of history by altering God's words were working at a great disadvantage against a formidable opponent - the omniscient God. They could not skew to fit their own evil agenda what they could not understand.

Much of the cryptic language in symbolic Scripture was likely employed to protect the authors from their contemporaries who would have killed them had they understood what they were saying. However, it is also likely that much of the ambiguous language was because there were so many who would have changed the words had they understood them. One way God could get them to us intact was to write them in language that only we would understand.

In Mt. 13:10, Jesus' disciples asked, "Why speakest thou unto them in parables?" He answers in verses 11-15 "Because it is given unto you (His disciples - us) to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given ... Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."

In other words, He hid the truth from them because they didn't deserve to hear it. Mt. 13:34 says, "All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them." Note it, everything He said to them was obscured in figurative and ambiguous language - the same language that is still in our Bibles today. Verse 35, "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world."

Listen to what a powerful statement that is. He spoke in cryptic language, about things kept secret from the foundation of the world. Mysteries hidden in His words, available only to those for whom they were written - the "hidden manna" of Rev. 2:17.

Now it is for us to choose independently whether to sit at the table with the "new wine," eating of the "hidden manna" and then, after we learn the "new song," join in the singing with the 144 thousand of Rev. 14:3; or whether to eat our bread at the table with the broader circle - those from which the truths of God are hidden, because their hearts are hard, self-serving and cruel.

There will be no mystery to that paragraph after you read this book.

Acknowledgments

First, allow me to express earned respect and gratitude to worthy psychiatrists and legal officials who serve God with truth and justice, rather than vilify and crucify any rational person who dares to lawfully challenge the status quo.

Were it not for the noble few who challenge convention, men would still pursue women with cudgels and drag them back to their caves by their hair.

Thank God for those who put an end to ungodly, inhumane, and evil beyond expression "witch" burning; and those who still weep for the unjust, unspeakably cruel religio-political public burning of the magnificent Joan of Arc! She winced, she cried, she went out in flames of glory! But what of those who found joy in the shameful spectacle? The burned, the hanged, the stoned, the raped, the unjustly persecuted …

Such have inspired awe and wonder throughout history. They came as angels; they served not man but God honorably; and were then sent back home to God in ignominy by men unworthy of them that they had given their lives to save.

I would never dare claim or presume equality with, nor could I ever attain to, the worthy honor of the great; but they will have my profoundest respect and deepest love, as long as I have a single brain cell left undamaged by court-ordered psychiatric drugs intended to dissuade me from serving God, rather than the religious establishment.

I also want to offer my sincerest gratitude and salute the noble men and women who serve this nation in war and are never as appreciated after their job is done and they're no longer needed. If they were, they would all have trained physicians treating them at every VA Medical Center in the United States; but instead, they are used as training aids for medical students from local universities.

They practice on disabled and poor veterans, and the government wants you to think they have the best medical care available. They'll tell you that there are attending physicians overseeing the procedures, but that's not always the case. And even if it were, how does that help when an unpracticed student makes a mistake performing open-heart surgery?

If the government wants to train medical students, they should offer free treatment to volunteers, not say, "Take it or leave it!" to America's noblest of the noble. If they survive the ravages of war and come home in pieces, they still serve well as learning tools for the privileged elite. Painful surgeries are prolonged and pain intensified, as untrained students practice surgical procedures, using men and women who offered their lives to save yours..