"Why Did God Create Me?"

Let us go back before the beginning of time. Sometime in eternity past, before the earth was created. Let us go into the Council Chambers of heaven where a meeting is taking place(yes there is only one God yet manifested in three distinct persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit). In order for us to comprehend the Destiny of Nations we must look into the heart and mind of God for His original intent. What is Gods intent for the creation of Human beings? It was at this time in eternity past that God began to express His deepest desires (yes God has desires). See the heart of God is love; His nature is to give love and He desires love to be reciprocated back to Him. The many faceted expressions of Yaweh's love encompasses the Father's heart, the Bridegroom's heart, and the Mothering nurturing heart of the Holy Spirit. In order for God to satisfy His inner desire it was necessary to create a complex intelligent being with the capacity to make rational decisions and one who had the freedom of choice to enter into a loving relationship with Him. God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; _ _ _ So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them" Genesis 1:26. Through the Human family the Father would have a family, the Son would have a bride, and the Holy Spirit would have a family of Sons and Daughters. God knew that by creating man with a free will there existed the possibility that man could be corrupted. The power of darkness already lurked upon the face of the earth and temptation waited in the garden. God knew there would be a confrontation. He didn't want to simply create robots or beings that did not have the power of choice; therefore it was necessary for His creation to have the power to freely make the choice to enter into relationship with Him. The question that confronted the council was what would happen if the man made the wrong choice? God is righteous and holy and cannot fellowship with sin, and righteousness demands that a penalty be paid when the eternal laws of heaven are broken. The penelaty for sin is an immediate separation from the presence of God. In the eternal laws of heaven the penalty for sin is death. Knowing what would happen, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, "If the man fails I will pay the penalty." Thus He became the Lamb of God slain from before the foundation of the world. And so God created man in His own image. God created man to worship Him in true fellowship. This was God's intention for the human race and when we are not in fellowship with Him we are worshipping something else. He desires our full attention, our total surrender, our unbridled love and devotion.If you believe in an intelligent Designer you come to appreciate the beauty of God's crown jewel of creation, the human race. We have been fearfully and wonderfully designed and created.

"Free Trade or Fair Trade?"

I am posting this excellant article on "Free Trade or Fair Trade?" by Micheal Snyder of Blacklisted News. It contains just about every point I would want to include in an article on the "Giant Sucking Sound". If I were president of the US the second thing I would do is abolish all Free Trade and Most Favored nations agreements, right after I abolished the Federal Reserve Banks power to print money. Any presidential candidate who is not addressing these issues are liars and a part of the New World Order and are workin towards the dismantling of the United States of America! blacklistednews.com: Free Trade Or Fair Trade? 20 Reasons Why All Americans Should Be Against The Insane Trade Policies October 16, 2011 By Michael Snyder BlacklistedNews.com It is absolutely amazing how many Americans are still convinced that more "free trade" is the answer to our economic problems. The truth is that there is a vast difference between "free trade" and "fair trade", and in this article I will prove that all true conservatives and all true liberals should be completely against the insane trade policies of the federal government. Yes, we will always need to trade with other nations. Other nations make or have things that we need to trade for. Balanced trade relationships with other nations that have similar economies and that share similar values can be very beneficial. For example, our trading relationship with Canada, though not perfect, is generally beneficial to both sides. However, the United States also has dozens of trading relationships that are highly destructive to the U.S. economy. There are some predatory nations that are blatantly and openly cheating and everyone can see it. They are getting away with bloody murder and they are robbing us blind. The United States of America is being taken advantage of, and as a result thousands of good businesses are being destroyed and millions of good jobs are being lost. If you are an American and you are in favor of all of the unfair trade that is currently going on, then either you don't know much about economics or you actually want to see the U.S. economy be destroyed. Congress has just passed new free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. The Obama administration has also made " the NAFTA of the Pacific" a very high priority. Obama says that all of these new trade pacts will create more U.S. jobs. Well, either Barack Obama is completely ignorant when it comes to economics or else he is lying. When we merge our economy with the economies of nations where wages are much lower, it is inevitable that large numbers of jobs are going to leave the high wage areas (where we live) and go to areas where wages are much lower. It also certainly does not help that we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world, that we burden our businesses with mountains of ridiculous regulations, and that we allow our "trade partners" to give their businesses a huge advantage by openly subsidizing them. The way that the system is set up now, nearly all U.S. businesses are at a massive, massive disadvantage. In general, the only businesses that can compete effectively in this environment are the giant corporations that can offshore huge portions of their operations. If you are a conservative, then there is no way that you should support our current trade policies. If you are a liberal, then there is no way that you should support our current trade policies. However, if you are a "George W. Bush Republican" or a "Clinton/Obama Democrat" that believes in globalism and the establishment of a one world economy as part of a "New World Order", then it would make sense why you would want to see America deindustrialized and brought down to the level of the rest of the world. But if you are a true conservative or a true liberal, then the following are reasons why you should be horrified by our current trade policies.... #1 Other Nations Openly Manipulate Their Currencies In Order To Gain A Significant Competitive Advantage For example, China keeps its currency set at a super low level relative to the U.S. dollar. By doing this, their products are far cheaper than U.S. products, and U.S. businesses cannot compete with them. This has resulted in the death of large numbers of U.S. businesses and the loss of millions of U.S. jobs. So just how bad is this problem? Well, a recent CNN article stated the following.... Critics of China's policy estimate that the yuan is still undervalued by 25% to 40%, even with the recent rises in value. The other day the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would impose tariffs on currency manipulators, and China has already retaliated, even though the bill has not become law yet and even though it almost certainly won't. China plays hardball. They love the advantage that they are getting right now and they do not plan on losing it. #2 Millions Of Good Paying Jobs Have Been Shipped Overseas And They Are Never Coming Back Our politicians all try to tell us how good they are at creating jobs. But what is the truth? The truth is that a total of zero jobs were created last decade. The following is a quote from a recent article in Washington Monthly.... "If any single number captures the state of the American economy over the last decade, it is zero. That was the net gain in jobs between 1999 and 2009­nada, nil, zip. By painful contrast, from the 1940s through the 1990s, recessions came and went, but no decade ended without at least a 20 percent increase in the number of jobs." Last decade we opened up our trade with the rest of the world more than ever before. But instead of creating jobs it destroyed them. Our trade deficits exploded and unemployment skyrocketed. The Economic Policy Institute says that since 2001 America has lost approximately 2.8 million jobs due to our trade deficit with China alone. So if you are unemployed, that is probably what happened to the job you are supposed to have. It went overseas and it is not coming back. #3 America Is Being Deindustrialized At A Blistering Pace Thanks To Globalism The advocates of "free trade" cannot dispute the cold, hard facts.... *The United States has lost an average of 50,000 manufacturing jobs per month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. *The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000. *If you can believe it, more than 42,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have been closed down since 2001. * Between December 2000 and December 2010, 38 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Ohio were lost, 42 percent of the manufacturing jobs in North Carolina were lost and 48 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Michigan were lost. *Back in 1970, 25 percent of all jobs in the United States were manufacturing jobs. Today, only 9 percent of the jobs in the United States are manufacturing jobs. #4 (For Conservatives) True Conservatives Should Be Horrified That We Are Being Taken Advantage Of By A Hardcore Communist Nation That Hates Us Ronald Reagan would have never engaged in "free trade" with the Soviet Union. The Communist Party is in complete control of China and while we may regard China as a "frenemy", they really do believe that they will totally defeat us someday. If you doubt this, just read what the top generals and politicians in China are writing. It is so incredibly stupid what we are doing. Our trade relationship with China has enabled the largest communist economy in the world to go from third world status to superpower status. China is now the second largest economy in the world, and that would have never happened without our help. A lot of people like to talk about how "capitalist" China is becoming, but the truth is that they have never wavered from their pure belief in communism. 7 of the 10 largest corporations in China are owned by the government. A host of other corporations in China are very deeply subsidized by the government. U.S. businesses have a very hard time competing with foreign businesses that are deeply subsidized by their own national governments. It is called cheating, and we let other countries get away with it. So our businesses die and their products fill up our store shelves. #5 We Are Endangering Our National Security By Greatly Enriching Our Biggest Potential Enemies The biggest threats to the United States are not some goat herders hiding out in the caves of Afghanistan. The biggest threats to the United States are actually China and Russia. Conservatives are supposed to be the ones that are so concerned about national security. But instead of expressing concerns about China, they just keep pushing for more free trade. As a result, China has been able to become a true global military superpower. Someday we will deeply, deeply regret that. #6 China Brazenly Steals Technology From Anyone And Everyone That They Can China gets away with bloody murder when it comes to stealing technology. They will do it "legally" if they can, and they will do it in "other ways" if they have to. At this point, China has invented a whole host of ways to extract technology from any firms that wants to do business in China. The following is a short excerpt from a recent article on CNN.... Foreign companies are often required to set-up joint ventures with Chinese firms before the can start doing business there. And China is instituting new "indigenous innovation" rules that U.S. companies say force them to transfer their own technology to their Chinese partners. #7 We Should Never Trade With Any Nation That Has A "One Child" Policy China has a very strict "one child policy" which should be absolutely abhorrent to all Americans. Most Americans have no idea what is really going on over in China. The following is from a recent article in the Epoch Times.... Pregnant women lacking birth permits are hunted down like criminals by population planning police in China and forcibly aborted. All over China, mobile abortion vans are used to help enforce the one child policy. What women in China must endure is absolutely sickening, and this kind of behavior should never be accepted in the global community. But instead of penalizing China, we reward them for this behavior. They even get awards at the United Nations for it. Look, conservatives are supposed to be pro-life. If you are a social conservative, then it goes against everything that you believe to support trade with China. You can support trade with China if you want, but then don't even try to call yourself "pro-life" again. We should never trade with any nation that has a "one child policy". Such a policy is against everything that America is supposed to stand for. #8 Our Horrendous Trade Imbalance Has Allowed Other Nations To Accumulate Gigantic Amounts Of Our Debt Every month, we send much more money to the rest of the world than they send to us. One thing that those other nations are doing with all of that money is that they are buying up our debt. Our trade deficit with China has enabled them to accumulate nearly a trillion dollars of our debt. This gives them tremendous leverage over us and is a very serious threat to our economy and to our national security. So now China can threaten the stability of our financial system with just a phone call. #9 Globalist Trade Institutions Are A Serious Threat To Our National Sovereignty Today, the "global economy" is governed by globalist institutions such as the G20, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank. The United States has given up huge amounts of national sovereignty to these organizations. If you are a true conservative, this should greatly disturb you. We don't want faceless international bureaucrats telling us what our trade policies will be. But to a large degree that is the situation that we have gotten ourselves into. #10 Liberals (And All Americans) Are Supposed To Care About What Is Best For American Workers Millions of working class jobs have been shipped overseas, and yet Barack Obama just keeps pushing for more "free trade" agreements which will make the problem even worse. But instead of screaming bloody murder, liberals keep on supporting Obama. It's disgusting. The truth is that the Obama administration actually says that there are certain kinds of jobs that we "don't want" in the United States. For example, the following is what U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk recently told Tim Robertson of the Huffington Post about the Obama administration's attitude toward keeping manufacturing jobs in America.... Let's increase our competitiveness... the reality is about half of our imports, our trade deficit is because of how much oil [we import], so you take that out of the equation, you look at what percentage of it are things that frankly, we don't want to make in America, you know, cheaper products, low-skill jobs that frankly college kids that are graduating from, you know, UC Cal and Hastings [don't want], but what we do want is to capture those next generation jobs and build on our investments in our young people, our education infrastructure. So where is the outrage? Is anyone even awake out there? Even the construction of many of our roads and bridges is being outsourced to China. Just check out the following quote from a recent ABC News article.... In New York there is a $400 million renovation project on the Alexander Hamilton Bridge. In California, there is a $7.2 billion project to rebuild the Bay Bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland. In Alaska, there is a proposal for a $190 million bridge project. These projects sound like steps in the right direction, but much of the work is going to Chinese government-owned firms. "When we subsidize jobs in China, we're not creating any wealth in the United States," said Scott Paul, executive director for the Alliance for American Manufacturing. Liberals are supposed to be working to defend the working class. So why won't they openly go after Obama on these issues? Our unfair trade agreements have put American workers in direct competition for jobs with the cheapest labor on the globe. Until this is fixed, you will continue to hear a "great sucking sound" as millions of jobs continue to leave the United States and go to places where labor is ten to twenty times cheaper. It is insanity what we are doing. We allow big corporations to send their manufacturing offshore and also to ship their products back into the United States for free. Where in that equation is good news for the American worker? #11 Liberals (And All Americans) Should Be Horrified By The Exploitation Of Slave Labor Around The Globe All over the globe, workers toil in nightmarish conditions for slave labor pay just so that Americans can feed their addiction for cheap foreign products. Big corporations and collectivist governments such as China are getting unbelievably rich by exploiting this slave labor pool. Get educated about this and find out the truth. It just might totally change the way that you view "free trade". #12 Liberals (And All Americans) Should Be Horrified By The Damage To The Environment Our Trade Relationships Cause Liberals are supposed to deeply care about the environment. But our trade relationship with nations on the other side of the globe result in thousands of factories and businesses leaving our shores and ending up in countries where the environmental regulations are not nearly as strict. In fact, nations such as China are a complete and total environmental nightmare at this point. If liberals truly cared about the environment they would want to keep factories and businesses here. #13 Very Dangerous Products Continue To Flood Into This Country From Overseas Isn't product safety supposed to be a big thing for liberals? Today, a huge percentage of the products we buy are made outside the United States far from the watchful eyes of our regulatory agencies. Over the past couple of years, there has been headline after headline about dangerous products made in China. The following is just one example of this: 10 Babies Die Mysteriously At Fort Bragg: Toxic Drywall From China Used In Base Homes The Culprit? #14 The Globalization Of The Economy Causes Income Inequality To Grow By paying slave labor wages to workers overseas, the big corporations are becoming very wealthy. At the same time, that means that there are much fewer jobs for average working class Americans, and wages for the jobs that remain are pushed down because of increased competition for jobs. So the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. If you don't believe that income inequality in the United States has become a huge problem, just check out this chart. #15 Because Of All Of The Cheating And All Of The Predatory Behavior That Is Going On, Our Trade Relationships Have Become Incredibly Imbalanced Today, the United States spends about 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that China spends on goods and services from the United States. So how is that even close to "fair"? Our store shelves are absolutely packed with stuff from China. In 2010, the number one U.S. export to China was "scrap and trash". Even in high technology products we are being destroyed. In 2002, the United States had a trade deficit in "advanced technology products" of $16 billion with the rest of the world. In 2010, that number skyrocketed to $82 billion. #16 Our Gigantic Trade Deficit Is Destroying Our National Wealth The United States has had a negative trade balance every single year since 1976, and since that time the United States has run a total trade deficit of more than 7.5 trillion dollars with the rest of the world. Our gigantic trade deficits are making us poorer as a nation each and every month. Each year, somewhere around half a trillion dollars of our national wealth gets transferred out of the United States. That half a trillion dollars could be going to support U.S. businesses and U.S. jobs. Taxes could be paid on that half a trillion dollars. But instead it leaves the country and makes other nations wealthier. #17 The Globalization Of The Economy Has Caused Unemployment In The United States To Explode If you gathered together all of the workers that are "officially" unemployed in the United States today, they would constitute the 68th largest country in the world. #18 As Our Cities Are Deindustrialized, Many Of Them Are Being Transformed Into Absolute Hellholes The other day, I wrote the following about what is happening in cities and towns across the United States.... All across America there are cities and towns that were once prosperous and beautiful that are being transformed into absolute hellholes. The scars left by the long-term economic decline of the United States are getting deeper and more gruesome. #19 Without Good Jobs, An Increasing Number Of Americans Are Having To Turn To Government Assistance We are going to support U.S. workers one way or another. Either we are going to provide them with good jobs, or we are going to let their jobs be shipped out of the country and we are going to pay for the government to feed and house them. Today, there are more than 45 million Americans on food stamps. That number has gone up by more than 70 percent since 2007. Almost every single month we set a new all-time record for the number of people being fed by the federal government. #20 If Nothing Is Done, All Of This Is Going To Get A Lot Worse According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades. Can you imagine what America is going to look like if that happens?

"THE DAMS ARE COMING DOWN"

THE 2012 Native American Holy Ghost Conference exploded with spiritual significance during the campmeeting on the ancient site of the Celilo Indian Village on the banks of the Columbia River. I cannot describe the incredible spiritual significances this place holds in the plans and purposes of the Creator and for the destiny of North American and its inhabitants. In the early stages of planning and while searching for a suitable location to hold the campmeeting our team did not realize the spiritual significance of what YHWH God had planned in His mind and heart for this place. Our team of Circuit Riding Preacher brothers did not know the ancient historical significances of the Celilo Village but we agreed that the Great Spirit would be pleased if we held our campmeeting at this location. We came to learn that Celilo Village is one of the oldest continually inhabited villages in North America. The Celilo Tribe has lived and fished at the site of Celilo Falls continually for thousands of years. Celilo Falls developed into the Wall Street of the western tribes, when tribes would annually come to harvest during the salmon runs, and Celilo Falls eventually developed into an important trade center, and cultural polinization center. The Chief of the Celilo Tribe was the man in charge of administering order and directing different tribal groups and individuals as to the exact location where they could fish. He was a very important figure in the fishing societies and cultures of the area. He maintained peace and order, and it is incredible to think that no wars or disorder was reported in the area. The Celilo tribe flourished and were a prosperous people, unlike the village gripped by poverty that exhists there today. Think about this, prior to the arrival of the White Man, there were no hospitals, no prisons, no insane asylums, no schools, no welfare checks, no poverty, no police force, only men and animals living in harmony with nature. One of the tribal elders several generations ago had a vision that a snake would crawl across the land, a monster would come up the river, and a wall would be built that would be dangerous for animals to cross to get to the river. Modern tribal members interpret the vision; the snake is the railroads crossing the land , the river monster is modern tug boats and barges on the river, and the Interstate highway blocking animals from the river is the wall. Their interpretation may be accurate but I believe it has a spiritual interpretation; demonic entities sent to destroying the people and their way of life since the arrival of the White Man. The pythons grip of the serpant has encircled the people with poverty and oppression; the monster in the river is the series of dams that has changed the flow of the river and robbed the people of their way of life; and the wall of prejudice and injustice erected that has isolated the people. During the era of the Bonniville Administration the Columbia River became the source of power generation for the Pacific Northwest; power being generated from numerous dams built on the Columbia River system disrupting the natural flow of water and altering the sensitive eco system thereof. The dammed up river developed into intense controversy between the Tribes and the Corps of Engineer who administer the river for the federal government, the dams disrupting the salmon runs and natural life cycles. During the 1950s the Dalles Dam was constructed completely covering Celilo Falls, flooding Celilo Village and forever altering the world of the Celilo people. The federal government negotiated an agreement to build the dam with three major tribes in the area, the Yakima, the Warm Springs, and the Nez Perces; however, none of the three live on the river. The negotiations completely left out the Celilo Tribal leaders. The three tribes agreed to a monetary settlement of twenty seven million dollars for damages to the tribes for the right to construct the massive dam; in addition, the Corps agreed to build a new housing area for the Celilo people who were being displaced by flooding the river. The settlement was divided between the tribes and per capita payments made to the people. When Celilo Tribal leaders received settlement checks they refused to accept them, and eventually tore them up, saying, "These do not mean anything to us." The Corp took the small river band and moved them across the highway into small barrack type houses with uninsulated plywood walls. The people lived without sewer or electricity for the next decade; their livelihood taken away and their way of life forever altered. Without the traditional salmon economy the tribal people languished and fell into a life of government subsistence, food was hard to come by. For fifty years the people waited in their shanties for the promised houses to be built. The elders and old people who had waited so long for the promises to be fulfilled began to die off. This once proud independent people had been reduced to nothing. Can you imagine, twenty seven million dollars for a way of life? John Stossel should take this story and stuff it in his pompous pipe, and report about who really is being ripped off. The Celilo people were not asking for a handout, they just wanted to live their traditional way of life. They were not asking for a life in the White Man's world, just the freedom to catch fish in their traditional ways. Today Celilo Falls lies buried beneath millions of cubic feet of water. The story of the Celilo people unfolded during the campmeeting and the Holy Spirit moved upon us to pray for the "Healing of the Land and river. Prior to the campmeeting a prophet had a vision of an angle named Columbia straddling the Columbia river with a foot on the Washington side and a foot at Celilo Park .We worshipped, preached, and prayed for the healing of the land. The Holy Spirit led us to have communion with the land and river, to cast salt into the river and to blow four blasts on the shofar. This powerful ministry took place without any visual confirmation other than a few unusual clouds and a powerful presance of God. However, while returning from a ministry trip to Turner Oregon I decided to stop by Celilo Park. My babies and I took a stroll down to the rivers edge; to my amazement the water was crystal clear and the mossy scum that had covered the rocks was totally gone. This was a sign and wonder to those who had seen the river before the healing service. This gave us confidence that the angel Columbia had also released its promised blessing of revival in the Northwest. One last thing, in the heart and mind of God and His justice; one day He will bring those dams down and the salmon will return, just like Jesus said, "Not one stone will remain upon another." Praise the Lord Jesus!!!

INDIANS GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED?

Did Native Americans really get what they deserved, or is this the same old condemnation Christians have been demonizing Native Culture with since they got off the Mayflower? Could it be that Satan hates Native Americans so much that he has perpetuated this lie and has done everything he can to destroy them? Was the holocost that destroyed an estimated twenty million Native Americans and stripped them of their way of life the judgement of God? Recently, a friend of mine emailed me with this question? Dear Lockley: I recently told a fellow Christian about what happened at the Celilo meeting. I told him how the whites took away from the Indians their fishing by building that dam in the Dalles http://www.blogger.com/blogger.gblogID=11247868&pli=1#editor/target=post;postID=738577809952324579;onPublishedMenu=trafficsourcesstats;onClosedMenu=trafficsourcesstats;postNum=5;src=postname. He replied with Deuteronomy 28 and said that is how God deals with people groups and nations. So he thinks that the Indians got what they deserved and that it was God's will for the whites to take over. You have done more research on this than I have. How would you answer that person? My reply: The statement made by this Christian pretty well reflects the opinion formulated by the majority church here in the United States; Early American Christians were enamored with the vision of, "A City Set On a Hill" and manifested into the doctrine of "Manifest Destiny". This doctrine basically says, in the providence of God's will and His higher purpose, is for Christian civilization to progress and possess the land occupied by ungodly heathen." This includes the displacement of prior and unchristian civilizations. Early Anglo Christians used this belief as grounds to justify their actions and to kill and displace the Original Inhabitants of the land without guilt or fear of reprocussion. They based their belief on scriptures such as Deutoronomy 28, Leviticus 26, believing that the vast empty continent of America was their promised land, "a land flowing with milk and honey." The American church today has become complacent with the thought that it was God's will. But the question we should ask this young man is; what gives Anglo Americans the legitimacy to conquer and occupy the land of the Native Americans in the New Testament? Where did Jesus tell His disciples to go and take the land, or to kill the ones they were sent to preach the gospel of the Kingdom?