Destiny of Nations

WHAT IS GOD'S NAME?

2012-01-22T22:17:00.004-07:00

While setting in the barber's chair getting a hair cut the other day I notice the barber had the "Ten Commandments" posted on his wall, the third commandment stated, "You shall not take the name of the Lord God in vain." I asked the barber, "What is the name of the Lord God, in the third commandment"? He said, "isn't it yahoo, or something like that?" Laughing I said, "Don't you think we need to know the name of the Lord so we don't break the third commandment?" He said, "Isn't His name YAHWEH?" I replied, "According to modern Jewish tradition and modern biblical interpretation they say Yahweh is His name, however, this is really a hybrid name of God since it is based on marks that were added to the original Hebrew letters indicating vowel sounds. These marks were not on the original manuscripts and so should not be included. The original name revealed to Moses was the tetragramaton which is "YHWH". Modern interpretations added the vowels sounds which became YAWEH. This is a mistake since the original language pronounced the letters of the Hebrew alphabet which were Y or YOD, H or HAY, W or Wah, H or Hay; this would make the name, Yod Hay Wah Hay. The beauti of this interpretation is that the interpretation of Yod is hand, the interpretation of Hay is behold, Wah is Nail, and Hay is behold; so the interpretaion of Yod Hay Wah Hay in English is "Behold the Hand, Behold the Nail" This brings us to Jesus, who being crucified on the cross, the Romans hung a sign over His head which said, "Jesus of Nazereth the King of the Jews". The Jewish Elders being infuriated at this demanded that Pilot remove this sign from the cross: Pilot being unpreturbed replied, "What is written, is written". The interesting thing is the sign was written in Hebrew which revealed the true nature of who Jesus really is, the interpretation reads like this; Jesus of Nazeruth King of the Jews or Yeshua Hanasarut Whemalik Heyuda. Notice the first letters of the sign, YHWH, or YOD HAY WAH HAY, "Behold the Hand, Behold the Nail". This ties Jesus back to the God of creation, who before time began identified Himself as the one whose hand would be pierced with nails. Now the interesting thing that Jesus commanded the apostles in Matthew 28:19, "Baptise them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." Could that name be "YOD HAY WAH HAY"?

"Why Did God Create Me?"

2011-10-21T14:01:00.000-07:00

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?"

2011-10-18T09:37:00.003-07:00

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?

HEALING THE LAND (Part 2)

2011-08-11T12:59:00.011-07:00

A few weeks ago we held a Native American Holy Ghost campmeeting on the ancient site of the Celilo Village on the banks of the Columbia River. We worshipped, preached, and prayed for the healing of the land. 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 this campmeeting we did not realize the depth of what God had in His mind and heart to accomplish. We did not know the history or significances of this place when our team of Circuit Riding Preacher brothers agreed that the Great Spirit would be pleased with this place. 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 where annually tribes would came to harvest during the salmon runs, and 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 tribes and individuals as to where and when 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. The modern tribal people interpreted the vision to be; the railroads crossing the land, modern tug boats and barges on the river, and the Interstate highway blocking animals from the river. Their interpretation may be accurate but I believe it can be translated with a spiritual interpretation. Demonic entities senr to destroying the 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 Satan has erected and 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 and disrupts the natural flow of water and 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, because of the disruption to 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, none of which live on the river, and completely left out the Celilo Tribalal leaders. The tribes agreed to a settlement of twenty seven million dollars for damages to the tribes and the right to build the dam. This settlement was divided between the tribes and per capita payments made to the people; in addition, the Corps of Engineers agreed to relocate Celilo village to a location not far from their aboriginal home site which was being flooded by the dam. 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 being taken away and a way of life forever destroyed. 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. Our minstry was led 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 angle Columbia had also released its promised blessing of revival in the Northwest. One last thing, in the heart and mind of God and in 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?

2011-08-03T17:05:00.011-07:00

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. 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? The statement made by this Christian pretty well sums up the opinion formulated by the majority church here in the United States, who are influence by the doctrine of "Manifest Destiny". This doctrine basically says that in the providence of God, it is His will and higher purpose for Christian civilization to progress and possess the land. This includes the displacement of prior and unchristian civilizations. Early Anglo Christians used this belief as grounds 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, and others, believing that the vast empty continent of America was their promised land, "a land flowing with milk and honey." 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?

Obama the Liar

2010-05-31T13:18:00.004-07:00

Where do we agree; firstly, that big money is the root of all evil and that both Bush and Obama are intimately tied to it and that George Bush Jr is a liar and a member of the super elite. Where do we disagree; that Obama is Mr Innocent and has no responsibility for the mess our country is in now. Have you noticed yet that George Bush is no longer president and the buck stops at Obama? I sat in Joe's living room when Bush Jr gave his rationale for invading Iraq; the Holy Spirit spoke to me right there and said "He is lying." I told Joe that Bush was lying; that same Holy Spirit told me that Obama is a liar and a deceiver ever since he opened his mouth. The reason you haven't heard me say anything about Bush is because you haven't read or heard anything I have said. I have done my homework on Bush and I have no admiration for the man; in fact, I thought for a while that it was going to be Bush who would take us into the New World Order, you can read that in my blogs. Bush came into power under the deception of being a Christian, but in fact was under the control of the super elite, of which his father is a prominant player. He proved my point when during the first banking crisis he said, "He was abandoning free market principles". The banking crisis under both the dems and repubs has been manufactured and orchestrated by the super elite to syphon off profits. The Stock Market crashes, the banking crisis have all been manipulated and set up for the rich to syphon off multi billions of dollars from you and I (ha, ha, I wish I had a billion). All of the so called "Regulations of the Stock Market and Banking Industry" are nothing but smoking mirrors. I was watching the congressional hearings on Goldman Sachs and the Goldman President was asked who would benefit from the new regulations? He answered, "Why we will of coarse". When congress passed Obama's first bank bail out bill the Dems removed an original amendment under pressure from Treasury Secretary Giethner that would have prohibited executive bonuses; when the banks started handing out tax payer money for bonuses Obama cried out against the bonuses, what a joke if you believe it(its all smoking mirrors). All of the so called regulations that are coming down will do nothing for the country, in fact it will increase government control over the local banks and lay the framework for the one world economy and wlll not stop the biggies from ripping us off. Another fact you may not be aware of; when congress passed Obama's bail out bill they turned over our sovereign power to the Federal Reserve Bank to enforce the regulations. The Federal Reserve Bank is owned by the Rothschild's and Rockefeller's and the super elite. The main international central bank, The Bank of England, is located in London and is owned and run by the Rothschild's. These banks control and loan money to the central banks in most countries. The US Federal Reserve Bank cannot be audited nor controlled by the American government unless congress pulls the plug and dismantles the Fed. This can only happen if Congress follows the Constitution and reclaims its monetary authority and declares they are the only entity that can create money for the US. If Obama is who you say he is then you will see him break up the monopoly of the big banks; he will dismantle the to big to fail banks and strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power, and break up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If I am right Obama will continue on the path to destroy the US economy by collapsing the US Dollar (see what happened in Greece), bring the US under international monetary laws and a one world currency, and enslave this country under Cap n Trade, Now about the lying? When Obama gave his 2010 SUTO speech he declared that no illegal alien would receive health care under his plan. A congressman stood up and accused, "You lie!" Now technically he did not lie, but what he said was a deception because he knew that by the time his health care bill came into effect he will have legalized illegals. Whenever Obama makes a declaration you can believe the opposite; for instance, Obama said, "I do not want to own an auto corporation", what did he do; fact, he owns GM and Chrysler. When he said he didn't want to be in prolonged wars; fact, he increased troop levels. When he said he would have the most transparent administration in history and televise the proceedings; fact, Obama has only conducted one Press Conference since taking office and conducts business behind closed doors. When Obazma said under his health care plan insurance prices would go down and health care cost in the country would go down; fact, they are still calculating the multiple cost upon cost increases that are coming down the pike. When Obama said he would not increase taxes on anyone making under two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; fact, the first thing he did was lower the figure to two hundred thousand dollars, he has passed bills that increase taxes on cigarettes and alcohol, is working on passing Cap n Trade which will be the biggest tax increase in history, is promoting a deceptive policy of tax increases through inflation, and is pushing a multitude of other tax increases. You watch, when his commission on the economy makes their recommendations to increase taxes, Obama will put on the persona that it is against his will but they made him do it. The man doesn't have guts to take credit for anything. This whole commission thing was created just to shift the blame. I could go on and on. I think if we would really try to understand where each other is coming from we would find we agree on a lot. I think we agree that our government has betrayed us and that most politicians have been bought out and are working against our interests, whether they are democrats or republicans. I think the major point of our disagreement is that you see Obama as the savior of the underclass and I see him as an agent of the New World Order.

"AMERICAN IDOLATRY" (part 1)

2010-03-29T07:26:00.004-07:00

Part 1 (The Mystery of Iniquity) In my search for God there has always been two over riding questions; first, "Something is missing;" and second, "There must be more". The human spirit is an amazing creation. We thirst, but we know not what for; we hunger, yet nothing satisfies; we look, we search. and our spiritual quest leads us on life's long journey of discovery. Ultimately our quest leads us to these questions, "Why am I here", and "Is there a purpose for my life". I was never a rebellious child, however, as I encountered God I was confronted with the decision to climb up to the mountain top and explore what the burning bush was or remain in the herd and be led around by my shepherds. On the mountain top I discovered it was just me and Him; the world faded away, all of the buzz, all of the fuss, all of the lies. My spirit began to respond, "Yes, Yes, this is what I want, this is what I have been searching for, I give you my life, I will go where you want me to go, I will do what you want me to do." To my friends and family I had gone crazy, but to me, I had discovered the realization of why I am here. See, within the human spirit there is a longing for God. He put it there, it is one of the mysteries of the Crown Jewel of God's creation. You and I my friend are not here by accident. We have a purpose. The Apostle Paul says, "We are God's workmanship." He has created and formed our spirits to stand face to face with Him, only we on our knees pouring out our hearts to Him. Yet, this is where mankind begins to miss their special purpose. God is a Spirit, we can't see Him, we can't touch Him, we have no physical contact with Him. Man wants a god he can see and touch. We build temples, we form denominations, we elevate heroes to godlike status. See, when you reject your face to face relationship with your Creator you must turn to something else. When we turn to another god our spirit is corrupted; this is what we call the "Mystery of Iniquity". This was the root of the fall of mankind's first father Adam. The Mystery of Iniquity is the perversion of true worship. It is mankind's attempt to fill that place in their spirit that was created to be filled by the lover of their soul. The world is sick, America is sick! Why, because we have rejected the living God and His Son Jesus, and we have created this thing, called the United States, that we worship. We turn to the government for all of our needs. Instead of praying to the Creator of the Universe we expect the government to solve all of our needs. Yes, this is idolatry of the first order, and it comes with all of the consequence's. One of the consequences is blindness and deafness; we have a country of people held in bondage to an idol that demands blood sacrifice. We offer the unborn on the alter, we offer the blood of our finest. Yes there is a price that your idol demands. America, repent!

"Native Culture Was Not Communism"

2010-03-26T11:34:00.015-07:00

There are many things I would like to say, but for the time I will concentrate on tribalism verses socialism, communism, and capitalism. From what I understand many have taken on the politics formed from the worldview that Indian people have been irreparably damaged by the United States government and the capitalistic system of the White people; that they believe that Native people should return to their former tribal culture which they believe more closely resembles a communistic socialist society; and are motivated by a revolutionary movement to bring down the current system of capitalism and replace it with a socialist system of government. First I would like to refute the thesis that Indian culture was a communistic culture, and show you that Indians followed a dynamic leadership structure that was based on spirituality, wisdom, and the sole interest in the survival of their family units or bands. Communism and socialism are basically the same thing, however, communism crosses over from the purely economic philosophy and into a governmental system supposedly owned and run by the populace; we will refer to them in this essay as CnS. The basic philosophy of communism and socialism is materialistic while Native American culture is based upon spirituality. Capitalism is based upon private ownership. while CnS is based upon centralized control and governmental ownership of resources, production, in the name of the people. This is where CnS departs from similarities with Native culture because where CnS forces the confiscation of private property and resources; Natives believed that the Creator (God) was the sole owner of the land and resources, and they could not possess the land or resources. Natives practiced an active system of trade for goods but were not capitalists. The Europeans came over here with the concept of individual ownership of the land; however this concept was quickly corrupted when they discovered the vast amount of fertile land in North America; "The love of money is the root of all evil." Capitalism taken to its extreme is like the game of monopoly, where the rich get richer and the rest go broke. Christianity more closely resembles Native American beliefs because in true Christianity God is the owner of everything and we are only stewards of His blessings. CnS are evil and anti Christ at their core beliefs because they believe that religion is the opiate of the masses, that only ignorant and uneducated people believe in God. Their aim is to become God to the people and to control every aspect of their life.

Native tribes never had a centralized system of government. A loosely confederated group of bands had a shared language, culture, religion, and geographic location, but they never did have a shared government. They were much smaller tribal components called Bands. Some bands were very small made up of just a few family units and some were much larger. These bands would come together at certain times of the year for fellowship and celebration but the bands were never under a autocratic system. After the gathering the bands would break up into their smaller units and travel traditional hunting and gathering patterns.

Natives were not a communist society. Yes they lived in a community but it differed diabolically from communism. I have been in several former communist countries and I have many friends who lived under communist regimes. They are all thankful they no longer live under that evil system. I have seen the skeletons of communist apartments, the raping of the land, and the poverty they created. One of my friends is a farmer and he told me that during the communist era there was a shortage of food and goods. He said it wasn't because their land wasn't fruitful or productive, but the communists would come and take all of the produce and take it back to Russia. He said he was forced to go to Russia and show them how to farm, but it was a joke because the people had no incentive to work hard on the communes. Many of the people under communism were on waiting lists to buy things like cars. They said it took fifteen years to get a car; a family would save all of their lives to buy one car and they ended up with a little Travant (same as an Obama car). In a Native community the people owned their own personal goods such as tee pees, house hold goods, food, horses and weapons; under communism you only own the clothes on your back. A Natives family status depended on their ability to hunt and gather for their household,. The family unit was the strongest unit in the Native community. Generosity was the most highly honored virtue in Native culture. It was up to the individual to share their good fortune with those who had less. They were never forced to support the weak and sickly, there was no common ownership of resources. There was no such thing as taxation or a central government. The people who became known as Chiefs were those who were the most trusted and honored people in the community. They were followed because of their generosity and wisdom. The Council Fires were a forum where the community could come together and speak freely. Every person had a voice and were honored to speak their mind, but in the end they did not vote, there was no democratic rule; the Chief would make the final decision. Once the decision was made those who trusted in his leadership would follow, those who didn't had the option to go their own way. No one was forced to follow; a Chief was followed because he was a dynamic leader. The Natives believed their good fortune was based upon how well they pleased the Creator. They believed that if circumstances were hard that they had somehow offended the Creator and had to somehow atone for their sins. They did this through the various ceremonies, dances, etc. When the White Man first arrived Natives believed that they were God's messengers and had come to show them how they could better please the Creator. If the early missionaries had known the expectations of the Natives the results would have been very different. I believe the reason Europeans came to this continent was to introduce Natives to the Son of God, Jesus. Had they kept their mission to the simple gospel and allowed the Holy Spirit to form a Native Christian community I believe it would have been a beautiful culture. The Natives had already many Christian concepts in their culture and taken to its completion would have modeled Christianity far better than capitalism. Getting back to CnS; they are very deceptive because they play on peoples emotions using social justice and equality as their M/O. It is deceptive because they cannot deliver on what they portray. They must use oppression, suppression, force, and the confiscation of personal property to impose their rule. There is a ruling class of people and when taken to its completion communism always ends in tyranny and dictatorship. Carl Marx one of the founders of communism said that socialism is the first stage of communism. The losers in a communist take over is always the Christians. I personally know pastors and Christians from communist China who were put into prison, beaten, bones broken and forced to renounce their faith. They are denied employment and Their children denied education. Under communism you will end up with the same wicked rulers you would have under a capitalist system, because it is survival of the fittest. If you study history, every communist nation was built upon the blood of thousands of people who opposed their systems. To them social justice is to create class warfare by turning the Have Nots against the Haves. It is all based upon materialism; to create hatred, prejudice, and revolution against a privileged class of people who the have nots view as denying them the same basic privileges. You kids were never raised to be materialistically minded; this is where the world is waging warfare no matter what label you put on it. The only one who has denied you any worldly goods is yourself. Now my solution to all of this is the Kingdom of God. Jesus said when you pray say, "Thy Kingdom come thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." In the end, all of them are going to have to give it all back to God. Why don't you get on the right side now?

What's Missing in the Health Care Debate?

2010-03-24T08:56:00.003-07:00

What is missing in the current health care debate? Has the church been struck dumb, is it a sleeping dog, or has the church finally become irrelevant living in its own universe? It seems that the church has been eerily silent in the current debate. The only thing we hear is a few peeps in opposition to federally funded abortions. Whatever the reason, the prophetic voice of hope in divine healing has been stuffed under the seats of Christians in their ivory towers! Isaiah says, "Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" The health care crisis reveals two things; First, it is a tremendous opportunity for the church to proclaim the healing message of the gospel, and second, it reveals how the mighty have fallen; that is, the decline in physical health in this country is a physical manifestation of the decline in the spiritual health of this country. The Apostle Paul says, "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to the flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit everlasting life." The steady decline in the physical health of this nation's populace is in direct proportion to the spiritual decline of the church. The church should be lifting its voice like a trumpet, shout aloud, spare not! We are missing the prophetic voice against the idolatry that is being set up in this country. Government is being set up as God! The Bible says, "My God shall supply all of my needs according to His riches in glory;" the government says, "We will provide for all of our hudled masses;" The Bible says, "Jesus is the Great Physician;" Government says, "Our health care bill provides for the poor and needy." Government is trying to take the place of God in the lives of the people! Idolatry produces devastating consequences; Revelations 3:23, "Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds." I'm sorry folks, the more we turn to the idolatrous government system and turn our backs on the living God, the more we are going to see this country fall into chaos. The illustration of the "Blind man of Bethsaida" gives us a good picture of where we are at with the Lord. Mark 8:22, As long as this blind man stayed in the cursed place he could not be healed. Even when the people begged Jesus to heal him the Lord could not help them. Jesus had pronounced judgment upon the city of Bethsaida when He proclaiming, "Woe unto you Chorazin and Bethsaida, for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom and Gomorrah they would have repented a long time ago." The blind man had to take Jesus by the hand and be led out of the cursed place before he could be healed. Then it took Jesus two times praying for the man before he could be healed. Then Jesus told him not to go back into the cursed town. The first thing we need to do is to take Jesus by the hand and let Him lead us out of our cursed place; secondly, we need to pray through until we see clearly, and thirdly, we can't go back into an idolatrous relationship with the United States government or any other system. The next thing we will see is restrictions on the proclamation of the gospel in this country. Be free and be healed in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, King of King, and Lord of Lords.

THE AMERICAN DICTATOR

2010-02-01T23:50:00.007-07:00

The American Dictatorship, While visiting a friend in Germany about the election of Barack Obama recently he commented , "The reason Americans don't recognize Barack Obama's agenda is because they have never lived through Adolf Hitler." My friend informed me that one of the scrupulous tactics used by Hitler to become dictator was to under mine and usurp the authority of the legislature. If we read between the lines of Obama's recent speeches we can detect his subtle plan to render the congress of the United States as irrelevant. During his recent SOTU speech he declared, because of Congress's inaction on a certain issue he would be forced to issue an Executive Order. Time and time again he emphasises the ineffectiveness of congress. His appointment of over thirty Czars is another end run around congress and imposes the executive power over government. One thing I have noticed about Obama is that he is totally committed to the philosophy that if you tell a lie often enough the people will eventually believe it is the truth. This tactic is employed when he speaks about Washington gridlock and congressional hindrances to getting his agenda passed. In addition to all that, Obama could care less if his Democratic counterparts are reelected; a new congress with political green horns is exactly what he wants. The last obstacle standing in his way is the Supreme Court; in Obama's SOTU speech he took a stab at undermining the Court with half truths. His little stab at the court was intended to make them appear old, out of touch, and ineffective. We are not far off from a takeover and the new American Dictator. All it will take is a national emergency; since the H1N1 Swine Flu pandemic proved to be an unreliable emergency perhaps the crash of the American Dollar will do. Whatever the case we need to keep this administration under close scrutiny. We can take a lesson from a segment on the Jay Leno show, "Here is what he said, what he really meant is?"

"LOOKING IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES"

2009-12-21T15:16:00.001-07:00

Who would have suspected the savior of the world be born in a stable. He never commanded a great military victory. He never came on a white stallion. He was never elected to a political office. He didn't go to Harvard or Stanford. He was the antithesis of everything we look for in a savior. He is the exact opposite of someone we think can solve all our problems for us. Today, we in America are doing the same thing, we are looking for a savior in all the wrong places. Look at the meteoric rise of Barack Obama. America was enthralled with this great orator graduated from Harvard. Surely he must be the one to save us. With all of his talents and intelligence surely he must be the one. Sorry America, we are prisoners of our own national stupidity. Nobody is going to fix your problems but you, and the One who gives you breath in your nostrils. No one will admit it but what we are expecting from Obama he cannot deliver. I believe God is going to allow this nation to flounder until we realize that He is God and we are not. As long as we continue to look to man for the answers we will continually be disappointed. God has a plan. Actually God is a family man and His plan is to gather His family into one household where He has furnished everything for His children. This is why the whole story begins with a baby wrapped in swaddling clothing lying in a manger. The baby was God's baby, His Son, Jesus, and it is through His Son that He is delivering all of the blessings of heaven to those who believe. Jesus is the Prince of Peace. Jesus is the Great Physician, Jesus is the one who multiplies the fishes and the loaves. Jesus is the one who pulls the tax money out of the fishes mouth. He is the one who provides all of our needs according to His riches in glory. Jesus is the Savior!!! Merry Christmas

Obama Announces Surrender in Afganistan

2009-12-03T14:40:00.002-07:00

President Barack Obama, in his speech to West Point Cadets, announced the biggest military blunder since Viet Nam. In the same sentence Obama announced the deployment of thirty thousand additional troops to Afghanistan and he announced his withdrawal date of July 2011. It is obvious that the troop surge is purely a political ploy to camouflage his true position, which is to retreat from the War on Terror. Obama should have ended the sentence by saying these troops will crush Al Qaeda, eradicate the Taliban and bring peace to Afghanistan; instead he set a clear date to retreat. It does not take a military genius to see this gives our troops only one summer to accomplish the mission of winning the war, train Afgan police and army, pacify the villages and cities of Afghanistan, capture Bin Laden and destroy Al Qaeda. The harsh winters in Afghanistan prevents most military maneuvers so this leaves the summer of 2010 to win the war. If we haven't won the war in eight years, what new military strategy did Obama reveal that will win the war in one summer. First of all, more troops is not the answer; being a Viet Nam vet I witness a troop build up of half a million men, resulting in nearly fifty eight thousand dead. What was missing in the Viet Nam build up was the will and commitment to a military victory. Without the will for a military victory in Afghanistan the buildup is doomed to failure. What is infuriating, this man will sacrifice the lives of American young men to cover up his true agenda of retreat. By setting a withdrawal date Obama has given a signal to our enemies that we are not in the fight to win, and he has given our friends the message that we will not stand with them to the end. Why is our President so willing to give our enemies a subliminal message? It is not the first time. It is clear that either Obama does not understand the underlying agenda of Islam or he understands Jihad and is working to further their cause. When is America going to hold Obama accountable! During his campaign he made it clear that Afghanistan was the war that needed to be won. He declared that the Iraq war was the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time! Well, he has been president for over a year now; where was his strategy for Afghanistan last December? Why did it take him so long to announce his surrender; did it take him that long to figure out how to mask his retreat? My conclusion, just get out and face the music.

"HE KILLED A FLY"

2009-06-19T21:20:00.003-07:00

The world trembled a few days ago when President Obama killed a fly, and to top it off he made the audactic remark, "Killed the sucker". As Obama triumphantly grinned the imperialistic fly lay defeated. At the same time Kim Jung Jill launched a cargo ship possibly carrying nuclear materials in defiance of the fly killing President. A few weeks ago Obama's reaction to North Korea's nuclear detonation and long range missile launch, Obama said, "We are going to turn you in to the United Nations". It is mysterious that the news media has not made this saber rattling front page news. The overt actions of North Korea are nearly as provocative as the Cuban missile crisis of the Kennedy Administration. Obama is clearly intimidated by the short nearly dead North Korean Dictator, or he doesn't know what to do. Vice President Joe Biden predicted almost to the day, that the new president would be tested by an international incident. This fly killing President is sending weak kneed signals to the rest of the world. Iran has ramped up its accusational rhetoric toward the United States in spite of Obama intentionally avoiding criticizing the Islamic regime's election fraud. The Obama doctrine of appeasement is clearly snowballing into dead end street. What's he going to do?

Writers Blockl

2009-05-05T22:02:00.002-07:00

Okay, it has been a while since I last published a blog. My only excuse is a severe case of writers block. My objective in this blog has been to introduce cutting edge prophetic articles that are relevant to the day we are living in. The problem has been it is difficult to sort through my conservative political opinions and what saith the Lord. I must confess that the Obama candidacy and election threw me for a loop, and because I have been alarmed by the actions of the leftist agenda, I could not write a prophetic article without injecting my political opinion. I hope this makes sense because it sounds pretty weak. Recently I have felt the Spirit of God once again inciting me to get back to business. I am working on articles for the near future that should enlighten my audience; the first article will be, "THE SEEDS OF PROSPERITY", and the next one will be on, "THE SOURCE OF POVERTY". I really believe these articles will be revolutionary. Stay tuned

THE PROBLEM WITH CAPITALISM

2008-04-24T09:49:00.002-07:00

One of the noble ideals of America is the "American Dream". That is the ideal that any individual who is willing to work can achieve financial success and individual freedom. I have spent most of my life struggling to attain my place in the Dream, and have faught a war to defend our right to the Dream. With the emergence of Barak Obama as a presidential candidate I have detected a tendency of his followers to denigrate "Capitalism". My first reaction is to defend capitalism; however, when capitalism in context with the emergence of globalism is taken into context it is necessary to re-examine my position. Capitalism in its pure form is much like the game of Monopoly; the rich get richer and the poor eventually go bankrupt. In the evolution of American capitalism we are entering the stage of the rich consolidating their power and the poor selling out. One of Hitlers philosophies was to introduce governmental deception through lies to the public. He believed that it was necessary, for his policies he believe good the people, but were overtly wrong, to be introduced through deception. I am afraid this has happened to us the American public; we are sheep being led to the slaughter. The deception being hid from the American public is the power and political control of the super rich. American public opinion is being controlled and manipulated by an elite class of The New World Order. Barak's followers are blind to the fact that what they are crying for, "socialism" is exactly what the rich ruling class are planning on. The Utopian idea of the redistribution of wealth is in reality a formula for the enslavement of the masses. What the masses consider the rich, in reality are middle class; will reduce the entire nation to poverty, while the super rich oligarchy continue to skim the gravy off the top. In reality the super rich do not pay taxes. They have passed laws to hid their wealth in Trusts, Foundations, and tax shelters. The Federal Reserve Board is in reality a private for profit corporation that is destroying the American dollar for the sake of globalization. On the other hand, capitalism in its present form is funneling cash into the coffers of the super rich. Exxon Corporation profits have grown from twenty five billion in 2001 to over three hundred billion last year, at the expense of the American consumer. What capitalism has evolved into is predatory profiteering, with the help of the United States government. The government who was established to protect the American Dream has become partners in destroying our economy as we know it. Take the merger of Delta Airlines with Northwest, the recent giant bank mergers, the sale of Yahoo to Microsoft; these are all symptoms of the Monopoly game of capitalism coming to a close. I guess its time to reassess our position and find out how we can capitalise on the new system. Take your pick, the Marxist agenda of Barak, or the predatory profiteering of the others.

THE TRANSFERENCE OF AUTHORITY

2008-04-20T06:55:00.003-07:00

TRANSFERENCE OF AUTHORITY For the believer understanding spiritual authority is a vital revelation necessary to walk in victory and in the plan and purposes of God. God has chosen the believer to be His agent to propagate and establish His rule and blessing in the whole earth. Jesus came preaching, “Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand.” For the believer understanding several incidence throughout history where a transference of authority took place helps us to understand the dynamics of spiritual authority and gives us confidence in who we are and what Christ has invested in us. Luke 4:5-8 “The devil taking Him up on a high mountain showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said to Him, ‘All this authority I will give You, and their glory, for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. Therefore, if you will worship before me, all will be yours.’ Jesus answered, ‘Get behind Me Satan! For it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ This is one of the great events where the cosmic struggle for power and control over God’s creation, between good and evil, between God and the devil, occurred; the first being the struggle that occurred in the Garden of Eden when Adam succumbed to the deceit of the devil. Satan knew who Jesus was and the authority invested in Him, and immediately challenged His authority by undermining His standing, saying, “If you are the Son of God?” Satan had already deceived and coerced God’s first son to deliver his authority over to him and for the second time was making a play for all authority. He knew that this was the home run, the grand slam play that would bring down all of God’s rule and deliver God’s supreme authority over to him. Satan understands the transference of authority and is the master usurper of power, and under miner of authority. When Satan said to Jesus, “All this authority I will give you, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whoever I will;” he was declaring the legal entitlement over the world that had been delivered to him; the transference of authority that had taken place in the garden of Eden. We must understand the immense authority God had endowed upon Adam. Adam was a king, and God had crowned him with authority to rule the entire world. Remember, Adam was created in the image of God and after His likeness. Adam was not given a suit of skin like the rest of the animals in the garden, but he was clothed with the glory of God; this is why the man and woman did not realize they were naked. It was God’s purpose for the man to utilize the glory and employ the authority to spread the blessing of Eden into all of the earth. One must assume that darkness already covered the earth and that Adam’s job was to reclaim and replenish the earth by restoring the blessing of heaven over all of God’s creation. According to Genesis 1:2, “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep;” implies that Satan and the fallen angels were already on earth and had destroyed the original creation. The earthly reign of Satan is illustrated in Job 1:7 when God says to Satan, “From where do you come?” Satan replies, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.” Sometime in antiquity the original creation had been destroyed by the powers of darkness. Jesus illustrates this when He said, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.” “The Fall” occurred when Lucifer, the anointed cherub, exalted himself and tried to usurp God’s throne on the mountain of God. It was at this time in antiquity that Lucifer and a third of the angels fell from their standing in the kingdom of God and were cast into the earth. Jude says, “And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode. He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day,” Jude 1:6. When God planted Eden in the earth it was a beach head; a foothold from where He would reclaim His creation and plant His blessing over all the earth through His agent Adam. Notice the words God used when He enthroned Adam as King of the Earth; “Let them have dominion (over everything), be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth, subdue it, have dominion over___ every living thing that moves, God put man in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.” If we examine the commission in the original language we can conclude that Adam was given authority to rule and to guard, and to spread the domain. The words, to keep and to guard, contain a militant connotation. Through Adam and his offspring God would recover His creation and perpetuate His blessings into all of the earth. Adam’s rule was demonstrated and established in the naming of the animals. Genesis 2:19, “And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.” Adam used the power of the spoken word and his word was established. For the casual reader this statement seems to be insignificant; however, to the student of the word we can see the revelation of the power of the spoken word through God’s anointed agents. It is through the spoken word through God’s anointed agents that His rule is established and His will perpetuated. Adam’s implementation of the role of a King was verified through his actions. We can further understand the extent of Adam’s authority when we see the vast extent of the kingdom of darkness in all of the world. Satan uses the same authority that was given to Adam. Satan hates mankind because man was created in the image of God. When Satan sees man it infuriates him because he sees in man what he wanted for himself. In Isaiah 14:13 and 14, Satan declared his desire to be like God in the five “I wills”, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will also sit on the mount of the congregation, on the farthest sides of the north, I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.” When he sees man he is enraged with jealousy and hatred and desires nothing but to destroy the image of God in man. This is why he takes pleasure in destroying the unborn before the image of God can come forth into the world. It pleases him to terrorize mankind, to destroy and disfigure the image of God in man through sickness and disease and destruction. Jesus said, “The thief cometh but for to steal, kill and destroy,” John 10:10; He also said in John 8:44, “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” When Adam succumbed to the treachery of Satan an occurrence of the transference of authority took place in the spiritual realm. It was at this point in time that all of the authority, the dominion, and anointing that God had placed on His son Adam were legally transferred onto Satan. Jesus called this “The Foundation of the World;” A legal action that took place founding the legal establishment of the Kingdom of the World under the rule and reign of Satan himself. The Greek word for foundation is themelios meaning the founding of an organization, company or entity. When Adam came into agreement with the serpent and rejected to command of God he legally handed over his Kingship to Satan and reduced himself to become a slave of the devil. Isaiah says it in chapter 60:2, ”Behold the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people.” Once again God’s plan to restore His blessing over creation was thwarted, and set back for another time and for another man. When Satan declared, “All this authority has been delivered to me, and I will give it to whoever I chose,” he was enforcing his right over his domain, the authority he had usurped from the first son of God. We find that all of the world follows the serpent, or dragon, and worships him, and he finally finds an entity called the beast who he delivers his worldly authority over to, Revelation 13:2. When Satan showed Jesus all of the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, Jesus was seeing in the spiritual realm all of the kingdoms of darkness and demonic networks in the world; He saw the networks of terrorism, the networks of religion and idolatry, the networks of greed and riches, the kingdoms of tyranny and injustice, drugs and addictions, the epidemics of sickness and disease, death and destruction, hell and the grave. All of this authority Satan had corrupted and turned to be used to destroy God’s glory in creation. Jesus revealed the true nature and destiny of Satan’s kingdom in Matthew 12:25, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand “ Unfortunately for the devil his play to usurp God’s authority from His Son Jesus was not going to work. The devil knew that if he could get the Son of God to bow down and worship him he would once again triumph and under mine the authority of God. It seemed simple, “If you will worship before me, all will be Yours.” The devil was stupid to think Jesus would be tempted to desire all that was in the world and their glory but he knew that Jesus may be tempted to try to regain Adam’s authority by one act of bowing before the devil. It seemed simple enough. But remember the command of God in Deuteronomy 5:6, “I am the LORD your God ___You shall have no other gods before me ___you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children.” The devil knew this command and the consequences of breaking this law, just like he knew the command given to Adam, “thou shall not eat of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, for in the day you eat of it you shall die.” Just one little act of worshipping the devil and all this authority will be yours. Jesus was a man under the Law and was commissioned to fulfill all of the Law, every jot and tittle. What the devil was counting on, since Jesus had come in the flesh, was for the mystery of iniquity that had corrupted Adam, to kick in. The devil had mastered the corruption of the nucleus of God’s desire. In the heart of God He desired to create an intelligent being who was capable of forming a relationship with Him, and that had the freedom to choose to love and worship Him. When God created man he placed within him the innate desire to worship his creator and the freedom to choose. The core nature of man is to worship and glorify God in perfect harmony and union. Man can never be a complete being until he becomes one with His creator. Unfortunately, with freedom of choice, or free will, comes the right to make the wrong choices. This is the mystery of iniquity; the perversion or corruption of true worship. Because man was created with an innate desire to worship he will worship something whether it is God or something else. When this worshipping nature is turned to something other than God it becomes perverted. Iniquity and idolatry are synonymous throughout scripture; idolatry is the act of worshipping false gods, while iniquity is the nature in man that is adulterous and betrays his creator by giving his devotion to another. At the fall man turned away from God and he began to worship the creation rather than the creator, Romans 1:25. When Jesus spoke to the devil He said, “Get behind Me Satan, for it is written, you shall worship the LORD your God and Him only shall you worship!” Thus, declaring His devotion and allegiance to His heavenly Father. What the devil didn’t realize was that Jesus did not come to reclaim Adam’s authority; He came in His own authority and to establish a new dominion. Jesus did not want power in the world; He had power over the world. He did not come to regain the power of the world but He came to destroy the works of the devil. Adam’s authority was inconsequential to Jesus. His authority was greater. When Jesus declared in Matthew 28:18, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth;” He was not saying all power in heaven and earth and the world has been given to me. He did not want power in the world He had power over the world. When Jesus said, “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy,” He was declaring His authority over the powers of darkness. Jesus came proclaiming the Kingdom of God. He announced a new rule, a new dominion, a new ruler, a new King. This Kingdom was not an earthly kingdom; it was the Kingdom of heaven, God’s rule, God’s authority. This was the white stone from Daniel 2:34, “A stone was cut out, without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay and broke them in pieces ___and the stone that struck the image, became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.” This was Jesus who came to destroy the powers of darkness and the tyranny that Satan had cast over the world.

THE RE IMPOSITION OF PHARAOH'S RULE

2008-03-02T17:52:00.003-07:00

THE INSTITUTIONALIZED ENSLAVEMENT CONSPIRACY Jesus made the statement, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.” He goes and to say, “Satan has been a liar from the beginning, and is the father of lies.” In this essay I want to illustrate how Satan has formulated a conspiracy from the beginning of time to enslave populations, nations, and people through governmental institutions. I will uncover this institutionalized deception by illustrating the four hundred year bondage of the children of Israel under the Pharaohic governmental system, and compare it to our current reservation systems and how this conspiracy is taking over in our American governmental system. The enslavement of Israel in Egypt under Pharoahic rule demonstrates how Satan uses the structure of institutional governmental policies to reduce a formerly free people to that of slaves, and how a free people were seductively drawn into the role of slaves. Israel migrated into Egypt during a time of famine in their homeland. Formerly a prosperous and free people they were welcomed as brothers, initially, into Egypt. Israel was the possessors’ of the blessings and promises of God; that through them all nations in the world would be blessed. They had learned to live by faith under the providence of a benevolent and living God; they were beholden to no man. Through a series of events Israel found their selves living in a foreign land and under the rule of a fierce taskmaster. The Israelites found themselves in an unbearable circumstance; God said, “I have come down and have heard their cry, and have seen their sorrows, and surely I have seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt because of their taskmasters. Israel was brought into Egypt under the providence of their God when one of their sons, Joseph, was elevated to second in command over all of Egypt. During the famine God miraculously provided, and gave the Children of Israel great favor with Pharaoh and the Egyptians. When Jacob brought his family down into Egypt he was a highly respected man and had gained great stature. He was a wealthy man and they were a free people. Through Joseph, one of Jacob’s sons, Pharaoh gave Israel a prime fertile reservation in the land of Goshen. The children of Israel prospered and became extremely comfortable, living as first class citizens. In the process of time Joseph, Pharaoh’s Visor or second ruler, died and there was a new King that took over the nation of Egypt. It was during this time that we begin to see the emergence of a satanly inspired highly structured government. The Pharaohic system had gained control and ownership of most of the land through Joseph’s “land for food” policies initiated during the great famine. In ancient Egypt the people believed pharaoh was god incarnate, and that he ruled by divine right. The kingship was always passed on to the eldest son in order to maintain strong control, and pharaoh ruled a strong central government. Today Pharaoh has been a synonym for rule characterized by slavery and tyranny. Pharaoh and his system were the tools of Satan. We can see the emergence of satanic rule through the headship of a powerful king pharaoh. A domestic treasury was developed and acquisition of property by the government, a strong military, a system of health care, government sponsored religion, judicial, and law and order. Pharaoh’s motivation did not come from a benevolent love for his people, but his acts were inspired by fear, jealousy, and prejudice of a free people who would threaten his control over the country. He feared that this free people would ally themselves with his opposition and instigate free thinking and undermine his political agenda. His jealousy was fueled by the blessing and prosperity that these people were demonstrating in his country. He feared they would become more powerful then he, and would influence his people to seek what they had (which is YHWH). Enslavement came very subtly. It began with dependence. Israel was legally given a reservation in Egypt, and was permitted to live and prosper on this free land, (similar to our domestic dependent nations of Indians). Initially, Israel was given enough grain to live on, and they were allowed to maintain their livestock on government land (government subsistence). Israel began to look to and depend on Pharaoh for all of their sustenance (a domestically dependent people). They forgot the blessings of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They forgot their heritage, their divine inheritance of walking with YHWH through faith. Finally, they lost their identity of who they where and who God created them to be as a free people, and they began to identify with Pharaoh and Egyptian culture. They began to take on the Egyptian customs, developed Egyptian dietary habits, and even put on the garments of Egyptian society. They were integrated into Egyptian society; today we call it assimilation, or being absorbed into the larger culture. It amazes me to see our Native American young people identify with black culture, Chicano culture, prison culture, White culture, but never have any idea of their own identity. In the book of Exodus we can find where Israel was stripped of their cultural symbols and identity, and replaced them with the jewelry and symbols of their host country. The traditional occupation of the Israelites was that of herdsman; as herdsmen they had become independently wealth, but finally they lost their traditional profession. Finally, they gave up their own self defense. As herdsmen they had developed their own militia and were capable of raising up a significant army capable of defending their own self interests. It was the political conspiracy Satan had initiated to develop institutional policies that would destroy Israel’s identity and reduce them to sniveling slaves. Pharaoh knew that in order to accomplish his goals it would be necessary to introduce propaganda that would brainwash his people. To do this, he instigated fear in the populace to produce racial prejudice toward this growing threat in their midst. He manipulated public opinion in order to develop policies, and programs that would strip Israel of its initiative, and independence, and reduce them into a condition of dependence. The conspiracy to consolidate Pharaoh’s power was to stop; 1. Population growth 2. Reduce political strength 3. Suppress independent thought and free speech 4. To profit from the enslavement of a people. After depleting the herds of the Israelites, and to help fight poverty, the benevolent Pharaoh instituted a public works project that would employ every able bodied man; his plan was to channel the energy, talent, and strength of this people into consolidating more power for his government. He hired the men to work in government work crews, and I am sure that in the beginning he offered them good wages, and convinced them that building the pyramids was a worthwhile and a good project to work on. The Israelites were anxious to please pharaoh and to repay him, because they were grateful for him taking them in and giving them a piece of land (reservation) to live on. The all compassionate Pharaoh, who knew what the people needed more than they did; took the normally independent people and put them under taskmasters, slowly, the work load and burdens increased. We have evidence in the bible that he even used their own people against them, by integrating the people into low level governmental and supervisory positions. These representatives of the government began to lay the law down; I have seen Indian people serving in bureaucratic positions, and on tribal councils enforcing the will of the government. These governmental hacks are harder on their own people than any White man ever was. Slowly the burdens increased on them until they were unable to think like free people. This public works program eventually turned into a forced labor camp, a form of government induced trauma. Trauma opens the door to anxiety, stress, oppression, substance abuse, and the breakdown of family structure. We can see the Israelites beginning to oppress one another, squabbling, and infighting. The people's lives were reduced to hardship and bitterness. Satan has always relished the slaughter of innocents. From the very beginning he has attempted to destroy the image of God in His crown jewel of creation, and how much better if he can destroy that image before it ever comes into this world. Satan is the chief terrorist and a notorious baby killer. He hates the image of God that is in humanity. This is where abortion and birth control originate and has gained acceptance in the governmental systems throughout history. Satan tampers with the seed of man in order to deform and weaken the human family and to mar the image of God in man. Pharaoh introduces governmental mandated birth control by instituting a policy to destroy every new born male child in Israel. Through his government supported health care system of midwives He orders them to kill all male babies immediately upon coming out of the birth channel. The midwives in good conscience cannot carry out this directive forcing Pharaoh to order the army to go out and kill every male child under the age of two years old. This policy of terror empowered the army to go into the homes of the Israelite families and to forcefully remove their children (sounds like the boarding schools). Pharaoh’s policy was designed to reduce population growth as the Israelites birth rate far outpaced that of the Egyptians. The root of prejudice and hatred work at reducing population, and instituting legalized abortion. Is there anything more insidious than the hatred of our unborn children? Have you ever noticed how birth control and abortion policies go hand in hand with homosexuality and the gay agenda? The reason homosexuals hate pro creation is because it proves to them, that homosexual union is illegitimate, and that they are not a legitimate people group, but a perversion of nature. A famous man once said, “He who fails to understand history is bound to repeat it” (my own paraphrase). I am afraid that history is about to repeat itself in our generation. Pharaoh’s rule is once again emerging and is about to be re imposed upon the world. In our own country we can see the same old satanically inspired dynamics repeating themselves in the policies and institution of our democratic government. Don't be hoodwinked by slick politicians that promise all of your needs will be met by the government.

SOCIALISTIC IDOLATRY

2008-02-21T10:52:00.003-07:00

I am sorry to say that my life has been a part of the grand experiment of socialism in the United States. I was born and raised and have spent the most part of my life living on reservations. I have lived on four reservations and have ministered on dozens of others. They are all the same and display the same poverty characteristics and problems. The main problem I see is the pythons grip of socialism that has decayed the talents and initiative of our Native People. Right now we are being set up for another round of disappointment and failure with the emergence of Barak Obama. Now I love Barak and would love to see him become president, but I can see the writting on the wall. Beneath the messianic image and rhetorical hype Barak offers empty promises of more government intervention and control over the lives of Indian People. Barak inspires images of robbing the rich to take care of the poor; images of more government programs (we are domestically dependent nations). Unfortunately, the government socialism experiment on our reservations has done nothing but destroy my people. The problem with taking from the rich to give to the poor results in everybody becoming poor, even the tribal governments. Tribal governments do not generate enough income to pay for themselves, they are a poverty entity and they perpetuate the socialist system to perpetuate their own existance. Indian people we don't need tribal councils! On reservations the Tribe owns the businesses. Anytime an enterprising individual tries to stand up they are slapped down with tribal regulations, federal regulations, state regulations, county regulations, tax regulations, and if Barak has his way United Nations regulations. On the reservation the government runs and owns the housing. A couple of years ago my son and I built the first privately financed house, in our home town ,that has been built in many years. On the rez we have government run health care. They tell you what treatmants you can receive and if it is not in the budget to pay for your care you are not allowed the treatment. You stand in line for services (literally stand in line). Now I am thankful for the health care I receive, but for you America there is a better way. On the rez we are waiting for the next tribal program to help us out. We are a shell of an economy. If you want socialism, I am telling you, it is a trap to lower the standard of living for every American, and to empower the elite few, who know better, to tell us what is best for us.

"HEALING THE LAND" Part 1

2008-02-02T10:57:00.000-07:00

Romans 8:21 "Creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption"

I have been amazed at the lack of attention and insight of Christian theology concerning the healing of the land! Romans chapter eight makes it very clear that the whole creation is groaning for the manifestation of the sons of God. I have found in scrpture that healing the land is a vital part of redemption; I believe that it will be God's sons who will restore the blessing that the Creator intended for His creation. It is not hard to figure out that creation is convulsing and revolting because of the defilement from its inhabitants. So called sientists today are calling for worldwide reduction in carbon emissions and pollution to stem global warminig, but let me tell you, it is not because of the car you are driving, it is because of your sins. The Spirit tells us that the land is defiled; and the land itself vomits out her inhabitants. The land is defiled when man refuses to worship the one true Creator God and turns to other idolatrous practices, such as; worshipping riches, bloodshed, sexual perversions, and broken covenants, which are some of the root causes. Defilement of the land creates legal grounds for the demonic to gain footholds and to attached to local cultures, including institutional demonic strongholds. These defilements layered on top of original sin, and the original curse upon creation, lends to an earth that is reeling under a load that is ready to topple. Now the question of why the church has not paid more attention to bringing redemtion to the land? First of all, the church is blinded to God's redemptive purpose for the land because she is complicit in promoting defilement and corruption. If the church were to understand God's redemptive purpose for the land it would uncover hidden sins that would embarace Christian religious history by exposing religious doctrine that empowered greed and the illegal occupation of the land through discovery and eventually colonialism. Can you immagine the church telling its financial supporters to repent and to give the land back to God, because of idolatry, bloodshed, broken covenants, sexual perversions ? Instead the church preaches a feel good message that never exposes the real issues that cause revival to tarry. Give me a call when you decide to get serious about the Kingdom of God until then hold on tight because this old earth is going to take us for a ride.

JACK PINE PEOPLE

2007-11-26T13:23:00.000-07:00

After returning from a visit to my home reservation I was troubled by intense feelings of despair, and a sense of never wanting to go back again. What I had seen and heard while there triggered a pessimistic attitude that things are never going to change nor can they. I am certain I am not the only person with feelings of frustration toward my home land and my people. A lady recently shared a vision she had received from God; that people were driving aimlessly up and down the streets, including Christian people, and gigantic birds, looking like pelicans, would swoop down and devour individuals from off the streets. People die every week in my home town but even more tragic are the living who have lost their souls to prolonged overwhelming depression. Empty eyes stare straight ahead hoping to score some fry bread. Iron bars strangled grip enclose with grief, despair, and overwhelming depression. It is a cycle of fatalistic abandonment due to historical experience of continuous disappointment and prolonged overwhelming depression that has become a prison to our reservation people. Its more serious than you think. We are Jack Pine people. The Jack Pine never grows straight and tall because of the continual beating of hurricane force winds and frigid weather. Jack Pines stays close to the ground, crooked and twisted. Jack Pine may be very ancient in age but has never reached a state of maturity. What's worse is that we think it is normal! That's the way it is and we have settled for a life of abuse and misuse at the hands of our dysfunctional leaders, whether they be secular or religious. The problem with fatalistic abandonment and accepting dysfunction as normal is that unresolved issues such as grief, stress, and trauma manifest in ways that are harmful to a person's and societies' well being. It is a downward spiral that only lends itself to infestation of demons and devils and all sorts of oppression. Unfortunately, long term abuse and misuse experienced at the hands of historic leadership, both tribal and federal, has eroded hope into a state of disappointment and faithlessness. Indian people have fallen into the web of iniquity and idolatry by creating a baseless hope that the state will be their ultimate agent of redemption. We have been beaten down like an abused wife until we think we deserve a good beating and that we are unworthy of anything more than what we have. Until the people throw off the blind mans mantle and abandon themselves to Jesus and take personal ownership of their futures I am afraid there is little hope for recovery. However, in spite of my pessimism I still hold on to hope; not in the government, not in the tribal council, but in the hope that God has created my people for His purposes, that there is a redeeming value in the Blackfeet people that is worth saving. God created us for a purposes and for His pleasure.

Weve Been Duped

2007-10-20T13:00:00.000-07:00

Iraq is not the main issue; while the world, the citizens of the USA and American Christians have been obsessed with events in the Middle East a more sinister plot is being unveiled. Have you ever wondered why the Iraq war has dragged on for so long, especially when we consider the awesome military might of the United States? How a small group of under equipped rag tag Arabs holds the greatest military might the world has ever known to a stand off? It is becoming crystal clear that the Iraq war is serving as a diversionary tactic in order to mask the objectives of the Internationalist's agenda. We have been duped by a wolf in sheep's clothing! George Bush will go down in history as the president who sold us down the river. Not only that, Bill Clinton's fling with Monica Lewinsky will be nothing in comparison to Bill and Hillary being in bed with the Bushes. Remember when Bush number one stood up and declared the invasion of Iraq the beginning of a "New World Order?" Under our noses the Internationalist's agenda has been perpetuated by the Clinton's and the Bushes, the next phase to be executed by Hillary who has already been anointed by the Bush/Clinton club to be the next president of the United States. Conservatives were astonished and could not understand why their super hero George Bush came out for amnesty for illegal aliens, and why he failed to secure the southern border with Mexico. It became crystal clear when I saw Vicente Fox, former President of Mexico, on television trying to sell his new book. Fox revealed, that in a secret meeting, he, President Bush, and the Canadian Prime Minister agreed to establishing a North American Union. That is the reason for Bush's stand on immigration, and that is the reason for unmarked Mexican trucks being allowed to enter the US without inspection and to travel the North American Super Highway. Last week Bush pushed for the United States Justice System to come under International jurisdiction. Not only that but the International Trade Agreements, NAFTA, CAFTA, and so many others have served as that giant sucking sound of American jobs and industry going over seas. All of this going on while the sovereignty of the United States has been sold down the river by a bunch of traitors. Can't you see? If it wasn't for our obsession with the war it would not have been so easy. Americans, wake up!

HE WHO LIVES BY THE SWORD

2007-10-09T10:40:00.000-07:00

I would like to share a revelation that up until this point in time has been hidden. With the rise of Islam and the Spirit of Antichrist we are beginning to see and understand prophetic scripture more clearly. In the book of Revelation 13:10, "He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity, He who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword." Jesus reiterates this prophetic word in Matthew 26:52, "He who lives by the sword will die by the sword." This word must be understood in context with Revelation thirteen which is speaking of the rise of a one world government under the rule of Antichrist. Revelation says, he was given authority over every tribe, tongue, and nation. In addition, it was granted to him to make war on the saints and to overcome them. I have identified the Islamic Antichrist system as the beast from evidence in Rev. 13:1 thru 3. First of all, this system arises out of the sea which represents a group of people that rises from throughout the vast sea of humanity. The "Nation of Islam" is identified as the worldwide following of Islam throughout the world. It is estimated that Islam is nearing one and a half billion people worldwide, and is one of the fastest growing religions in this century. Revelation identifies the beast as a leopard, a lion, and a bear; these were all world empires that ruled in the middle east at some point in history. The beast takes on all of the characteristics of these past world empires, and is given authority from Satan himself to rule with an iron fist. The ten horns on seven heads represents, nations and governments of Islamic world; one of the heads was mortally wounded, but was miraculously healed which caused the world to wonder with amazement. I believe this wounded head is Iraq, and in the near future we will see Iraq miraculously restored and become a prosperous and powerful nation. Islamists believe that Al Mahdi will arise out of Iraq, so this may be the seat of the Islamic Caliphate. Then in verse four a statement is made, "Who is like the beast, and who is able to make war with him?" We can see paralytic fear already operating in the nations of the world. In the United States the spirit of liberalism exudes a pacifistic philosophy, and the cry of Democratic politicians promotes weakness. The false prophet of Iran, Aqmad Amadinejad, is the mouth speaking great things, and blasphemies, leaving the nations quaking in his aftermath, and saying, "Who can make war with the beast?" Islam has been at war with Christianity since its inception, but in these last days will be given authority to rule over them (God help us). Verse seven says, "It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them." Who do you think grants him the power? The nations of the world, or the United Nations will act, much as they did when they gave the U.S.A. authority to invade Afghanistan. It is not clear whether "the saints" refers to Christianity or Israel, or more probably both. Here is the revelation of "the Sword"; I believe the United States is going to lose its sovereignty because we have as a nations chosen to use military force first. In other words, we live by the sword and so we will die by the sword. Forces are at work in our country right now to undermine our sovereignty, both from the left and the right. I was watching late night TV and I saw an Islamic organization with the ACLU and Homeland Security promoting the Islamic agenda. The right wing is working hard to bring our nation under the umbrella of the Internationalists. I do not have a good feeling for the future of our country. Now these movements I have mentioned are working toward bringing us into captivity, and they are being aided by the prophetically blind right wing Christian Coalition. Now, what choice do we have? Either live by the sword, or go into captivity of Islam? I believe there is another option. As I have said in my other blogs, this warfare is spiritual in nature and so must be dealt with on the spiritual level. The third alternative is to empower Holy Spirit filled evangelists to go into all the world and preach the gospel of the Kingdom of God. Islam must bow to the name of Jesus for He is King of Kings and Lord of Lord's. We must be willing to give our lives for this cause.

THE INDIAN LEADERSHIP VOID

2007-08-04T12:55:00.000-07:00

Where has Tribal leadership disappeared to? During the last century Native American leaders have looked a lot more like General George Armstrong Custer than like the great Chiefs of the past, leading our people to our "Last Stand"! Our modern Indian chiefs lack prophetic insight and strategic vision that is necessary to position our Indian Tribes in a competitive position for today's world. While Black leaders command the media, Asian leaders economics, and Hispanic leaders liberal politics, our Native leaders maintain the "Victims Complex" for Indian people. We are the Commanders of the Welfare Syndrome! Indian leaders fail to grasp principles of leadership that can leverage the advantages that are inherent to Indian people and Indian reservations. Tribal councils consistently seek for a messiah to turn things around on the reservations. The last half century they put their hopes on liberal politicians who would bring home the bacon, back in the seventies it was energy development, then the gaming messiah got everyone excited. We Indians are always hoping for "de claim, de claim". I think Sitting Bull had it right. He was prophetic, he had strategic vision, he was able to leverage power, and his ambitions was for the good of the people and not personal. Indian leaders need to transition from a local (tribal) worldview into a global vision. Tribal leaders need to escape from a victims mindset into an attitude of empowerment. That means trust and responsibility. If we don't do it for ourselves we will find ourselves in museums. "If the blind be the leaders of the blind, both will fall into the ditch!"

Revealing the Spirit of Anti Christ

2007-07-16T17:27:00.000-07:00

How can you win a war when you do not know what you are fighting? Our President Bush insists that al Qaida is our major threat and by defeating al Qaida in Iraq we will achieve victory in the Middle East. Bush is either unwilling to admit or ignorant to the truth that we are engaged in a warfare of ideologies. On September 11, 2001 we were awakened to the fact that al Qaida had declared war on the United States and was actively engaged in pursuing the goals of advancing Islamic supremacism. We had no idea we had an enemy who was actively at war with us. When are we going to awaken to the fact that our real enemy is not al Qaida, but the Spirit of Anti Christ that has risen in this last hour and revealed himself through the teachings of Mohammed and through the actions of the Islamic nation (world wide Muslims)? Even if al Qaida is defeated in Iraq the spirit of Jihad will continue to pursue global ambitions. We are seeing the resurection of the Spirit of Islam who declared war on Christiandom in the Seventh Century. As I have said in my previous blogs, "We are engaged in a spiritual warfare," therefore, we must understand spiritual realities and dynamics. Islam is the Spirit of Anti Christ!!! What do I base this revelation on? First of all, we must understand that in Mohammad's revelation; the centrality of which declared that "Allah is God, he has no children," Mohammad proclaimed a monotheistic theology and declared Christians to be apostate since they believe in the trinity. Anti Christ, means; those who oppose Jesus as Messiah. Yes, the spirit of Islam will admt that Jesus was a man and a prophet, but emphatically denies that Jesus is Messiah. Since its inception Islam has followed on the heals of Christianity and has risen to supplant Christian civilization at every opportunity whether by warfare, subversion or conversion. At its core Islam and Anti Christ are connected in ambition, in ideology, in methodology, and in activity. We know that Anti Christ is of the devil, and his power is derived from Satan. Jesus said, "You are of your father the devil, who was a murderer from the beginning." Mohammad advocates"casting terror into the hearts". Jihad (struggle) is the central duty of every Muslim, "Jihad (holy war) is our path, and martyrdom is the deed we seek." The moral fabric and cultural values of Muslims are twisted until they believe that evil is good, and good is evil. As a Native American the Holy Spirit has taught me that many of our cultural values were twisted. For instance, we highly valued stealing horses, and taking the scalp of our enemies was honorable. Yet the spirit of Islam promotes violence, murder, and terrorism to advance their twisted vision of an Islamic Caliphate. The Spirit of Anti Christ advocates for a one world government; Islam advocates for a one world government. The Spirit of Anti Christ denies that Jesus is Messiah; Islam denies the deity of Jesus. Islamists believe Al Mahdi will sit on the throne of a one world government; the Spirit of Anti Christ will one day rule over a one world government. The Spirit of Anti Christ is the father of lies, and is a murderer and terrorist; the followers of Islam embrace the spirit of deception and give permission to or participate in muderer and terrorism. The only solution is to outlaw the, so called, peacful religion of Islam. The precedent for this has been established when the United States government outlawed Indian religion. The government feared the religious practices of the Indians was instigating rebellion and generating militancy among the Indians, so they outlawed the practice of Indian religion, the Sun Dance, and the Ghost Dance. The only other solution is to promote Holy Spirit revival, raise up evangelists and intercessors who will be willing to give their lives in preaching the gospel to the Muslim nations. We must engage in "Spiritual Warfare" or we will bowing to the name of Allah.

THE BOOK OF HEAVEN STORY

2007-07-07T09:24:00.000-07:00

My wife Traci's Grandfather was the son of the last Assiniboine Chief Redstone. They are members of the Assiniboine clan known as the Wadopana or Canoe Paddlers. The Clan name came from the story of early Assiniboines warriors who went on a long journey across the sea in round hide boats. The warriors had been selected by the Medicine Man who had a vision in which the Great Being (God) appeared to him and gave him instructions to take a long journey to the land of other human beings. The long journey was harsh and they encountered harsh conditions surviving attacks by sea monsters and camping on islands that dotted the great sea. After many days, the party arrived on shore and saw other human beings, but their faces were covered with hair like on their heads. During the night the Great Being visited the Medicine Man and said, "You have arrived at the end of your journey. These people you see will not harm you but will help you and your people live better." After many days, the party returned to their people but when they arrived they found no one in sight. The people had feared the party had been killed on their journey and that these were their spirits. When a spokesman finally came forward he discovered that these were indeed the loved ones they had sent. The Medicine Man spoke up, "It is I and my four young men, we have brought our people good words, we have brought friends who will teach us many new things." These types of stories are common among the Native people. Long before the White Man arrived Native prophets and holy men had received visions and dreams of a new race of people who would come. Many of the visions were of the "Book of Heaven", and others were of Holy Men coming to teach the people how they may better serve the Creator. The hearts of the Native people were being stirred to receive the message of the Son of God and His gospel. Among the Plateau Tribes in the northwest the influence of prophetic visions was especially strong. Many of the tribes like the Spokanes, Nez Perces, Salish were so desperate to see the prophesies fulfilled they gathered around the coucil fire and made plans to travel to the land of the White Man to get the Book of Heaven and to bring missionaries to teach the people. A Spokane Prophet by the name of Siimxnotylmilakobok received many of the earliest recorded revelations; among them was the vision of the Book of Heaven which would teach the people how to better serve the Creator. A Pondera Prophet by the name of Shining Shirt received visions of Black Robes who would come and teach them the right way. It was these types of prophesies that fueled the expectations of the western tribes. In 1831 a delegation of Nez Perces warriors set on a journey to find the Book of Heaven. Two of the party were killed by attacks from hostile tribes, and four arrived in St Louis and began to inquire about the Book of Heaven. Because of their strange language it was difficult to communicate and so they were brought to Captain William Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The Discovery Expedition had been rescued from starvation and assisted on their journey by the Nez Perces. Lewis and Clark promised the tribe that after them men would come with the Book of Heaven. The Native party weas put in contact with the Catholic church and came away disappointed when their request for the book and their Macedonian call was rebuffed. During the winter two more of the warriors died in St Louis leaving two to carry the sad news back to their people. Captain William Clark reported that the delegation had inquired about the White Man's Book of Heaven and had requested missionaries to come and teach them the right way. In departing they made this speech, "We came to you aver a trail of many moons, from the setting sun. You were the friend of our fathers who all have gone the long way. We came with our eyes partly opened for more light for our people who sit in darkness. We go back with our eyes closed. We made our way to you with strong arms, through enemies and strange lands, that we might carry much back to them. We go back with arms broken and empty. Our people sent us to get the White Man's Book of Heaven. You took us where they worshipped with candles but the book is not among them. We are going back the long sad trail to our people. When we tell them, after one more snow, in the big council that we did not bring the book, no word will be spoken. One by one they will rise up and go out in silence. Our people will die in darkness and they will go the path to the other hunting grounds. No White Man will go with them, and no Book of Heaven will make the way plain. We have no more words." The picture of the Bible on the healingforthenativesministries.org home page is an authentic 1832 Bible from St Louis. The incredible story of how this Bible came to us in 1999 is a supernatural story of how God never forgets His promises. I received a revelation in the fall of 1998 to hold a camp meeting on the Agnes Vanderberg campsite on the Flathead Indian reservation; this revelation was confirmed by three native brothers who came to visit me. The purpose of the camp was to call together Native leaders to hold a council on how to reach our Native people with the gospel of Jesus. In July of 1999 we set a gospel tent up at this traditional campsite. This was the first time a Christian event had been held on this traditional native ground where tribal members go several times a year to conduct jump dances and sacred ceremonies. You could sense the ominous presence of evil spirits and spiritual strongholds. We began to pray over the land, and as we prayed over a sweat lodge the largest ugliest toad I had ever seen jumped out of the lodge. This was the beginning of many spiritual battles we would go through on this ground. We had just set up our cook tent when an older Ford pickup with tepee poles on top pulled into the camp. A man jumped out and approached a group of us with greetings. He explained to us how the Holy Spirit told him to come to this camp and asked if he could camp with us. I said, if the Holy Spirit had sent him he was welcome. As we talked I noticed he had a leather pouch hanging on his side with a bible in it. I inquired about the book and he said, "This is an 1832 Bible from St Louis." This statement almost floored me! I asked, "Do you know the story of the natives seeking a bible in St Louis." He answered that he was not really familiar with it but that he was retracing the journey of Father DeSmet and he knew the Indians had gone to St Louis. I told him the story, I shared above, and how the Indians returned heart broken and empty handed. I also explained that our campsite was on traditional Salish ground and that they were one of the tribes who had desperately sought for the Book and for missionaries. I asked, "Why do you think an 1832 Bible from St Louis would come to the land of the Natives who were searching for it over a hundred years ago." The Holy Spirit fell upon all who were there, and Brother Jeff Sindelar fell on his knees and with tears said, "Brother, I believe God wants me to give you this Bible." You must understand that this Bible had been in his family for over one hundred years. His family had settled in St Louis at the turn of the nineteenth century and this Bible was one of their most precious possessions. This Bible was in St Louis when the Indians were there searching for the Book of Heaven. For Brother Jeff to give me the Bible was a tremendous sacrifice. I asked the Lord, "Why Me?" I believe this was a prophetic message from God that He has not forgotten the Native people. Even after one hundred and sixty seven years He was answering the cry of the Native people. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness for the Church of America to return to her original mission to the Native Americans. During this campmeeting there were several manifestations of angels. The unique thing about these angels is that they were all dressed in Indian regalia and had horses. As the services increased in intensity these angels would gallop around the tent like a whirlwind. On the last day of the meetings the Lord instructed us to command these angels to return to their reservations and to prepare them for revival. Now it is up to the Church of America to respond to the call of God to fulfill the mission He originally sent them to do. Why should God give us another mission if we have not obeyed the first?

Who Told You

2007-06-24T17:14:00.000-07:00

Who told you you can only belong to one American Indian Tribe? I am an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe, but my Dad is Cree, and I am also Gros Vent re. My kids are enrolled in the Haida Tlingit Corporation, but they are also Blackfeet, Cree, Gros Vent re, and cannot qualify to be enrolled in a recognized American Indian Tribe. However, my kids were raised on the Blackfeet Indian reservation and they identify with and claim the Blackfeet tribe as their heritage. As a Tribal member I have always taught my kids that they are Blackfeet, and as my children, they can lay claim to their cultural heritage. We as Indian people have been duped into discriminating against our own people. Our ancestors would never cut their children or grandchildren from their heritage because of blood quanta. In the early days of drafting our tribal constitution our leaders innocently bought into blood quantum requirements for enrollment, and institutionalized the one tribe requirement. This requirement was done ignorantly by tribal leaders in order to protect tribal sovereignty. What they did not realize was that down through the years tribal mixing would become a common occurrence. Their original fears became obsolete as blood quantum requirements and the one tribe policy became threats to tribal populations. It has been statistically proven that eight out of ten American Indians are of mixed blood, and in the near future nine out of ten will be of mixed blood. Its a fact of life we must deal with. When are we going to wake up and understand that blood quantum and one tribe requirements were a part of the assimilation effort to get rid of Indian reservations. In todays world what is going to protect tribal sovereignty is increasing and large populations. We must compete with other minorities and growing immigrations populations. Numbers and votes are what will get attention. Power comes from larger tribal roles protected by language, borders, tradtons and culture. Blood Quanta Intertribal and interracial mixing was common among Native American tribes making it difficult to clearly identify which tribe an individual belonged to. Bands or entire tribes occasionally split or merged to form more viable groups in reaction to the pressures of climate, disease and warfare. A number of tribes practiced the adoption of captives into their group to replace their members who had been captured or killed in battle. These captives came from rival tribes and later from European settlers. Some tribes also sheltered or adopted white traders and runaway slaves and Native American-owned slaves. So a number of paths to genetic mixing existed. In later years, such mixing, however, proved an obstacle to qualifying for recognition and assistance from the U.S. federal government or for tribal money and services. To receive such support, Native Americans must belong to and be certified by a recognized tribal entity. This has taken a number of different forms as each tribal government makes its own rules while the federal government has its own set of standards. In many cases, qualification is based upon the percentage of Native American blood, or the "blood quanta" identified in an individual seeking recognition. To attain such certainty, some tribes have begun requiring genetic genealogy (DNA testing).[28]. Requirements for tribal certification vary widely. The Cherokee require only a descent from an Native American listed on the early 20th century Dawes Rolls while federal scholarships require enrollment in a federally recognized tribe as well as a Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood card showing at least a one-quarter Native American descent. Tribal rules regarding recognition of members with Native American blood from multiple tribes are equally diverse and complex. Wikipedia.com/American Indian/Blood Quanta

END TIME PROPHETS WRONG

2007-05-24T16:19:00.000-07:00

There is a story in the Bible (1 Kings 22) where King Ahab seeks counsel from four hundred preachers. These preachers proceed to prophesy encouraging Ahab to go to war and predict that God will give him a great victory. Fortunately, one of Ahab's allies, King Jehoshaphat, asks if there is another prophet in the house? The prophet Micaiah comes forward, and after being threatened not to contradict the other prophets or face consequences, he warns Ahab that he will face destruction if he goes to war. Micaiah goes on to explain that a lying spirit has influenced the preaching of the other prophets to seduce Ahab into his own destruction. I believe when we all get to heaven there are going to be a lot of embarrassed end time eschatologists. In fact, if you ask me, you can throw away ninety nine percent of the end time books and prophecy written in the last fifty years. Most of these writers have no vision from God, they do not speak for God, nor do they stand in the presence of God. The message they preach is motivated by marketing and profit, and most of them vamp off each other, and they have no real revelation of their own. It is the same old headline wrapped up in different packages; "ISRAEL RETURNS TO HOMELAND" "EUROPEAN UNION RISES" "ANTI CHRIST IS ABOUT TO TAKE OVER" "ON THE VERGE OF ARMAGEDDON". These kind of prophets are a dime a dozen and have been around for a long time. In the early Nineteenth Century they predicted that Napoleon was the Beast. In this century they said Hitler and Mussolini, were the rise of the Anti Christ. Later on, when I first got saved, they were pointing to Russia and Communism as the Red Beast of revelation. In more recent years the emphasis has been on Israel and the European Union. The problem is that these prophets have been reading the bible and dissecting end time eschatology through an intellectual and rational interpretation, but have ended up with an irrational revelation. The real threat to our generation is the rise of Radical Islam; Islam is an evil political ideology disquised as a religion, and is empowered by spiritual darkness, the goal of which is a world wide Islamic Caliphate. The beasts of the Bible originated in the Middle East and will once again rise in the Middle East. When you understand the nature of the threat then your only alternative is to find the right solution. If the root of the problem originates and proceeds from the spiritual realm then you must understand that any solution must originate in the spiritual realm. Prophecy must be understood in the spiritual realm. We must understand the mind of God and grasp spiritual realities. For instance, Israel; in the mind of God, the democratically elected government of Zionist Israel does not represent the Kingdom of God; yet most modern prophets swear that the most important prophetic event in the last century was the creation of the modern State of Israel. Modern false prophets will lead you to believe that the next most important event will be the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, when in fact; the return of Temple worship and animal sacrifices will be an abomination in the eyes of God. The point I am trying to make is that a lying spirit influences this generation of end time prophets and today we need a company of prophets to rise up like Micaiah and tell the truth. Yes it is easy to fall into the web of bible prophesy that is out there today but I encourage you to take another look. We need men like Micaiah who will stand in the face of opposition and go against the popular preaching of the day.

Jesus, the 12th Imam

2007-05-11T12:25:00.000-07:00

Out in the world we are being led as lambs to the slaughter. In my past blogs I identified the true nature of Islam, as the spirit of Anti Christ, and challenged Christianity to make a commitment to the evangelization of Muslims worldwide. There is a Muslim extremist jihad underway which aims to destroy western civilization and establish an Islamic caliphate. As it was created, as it has existed for 1300 years, and as it exists now, Islam is an evil political ideology empowered by spiritual darkness, the goal of which is a world wide Islamic Caliphate. An Islamic Caliphate is a world wide reign of Islam. The overwhelming majority of Muslims around the world embrace Islamic law or Shari’a as divine and authoritative. This law mandates a world wide Islamic Caliphate as a reality in the here and now, and is the underlying motive of most Muslims. Shiite writings describe events surrounding the return of the Mahdi in apocalyptic terms. The Imam Mahdi believed by Shiites to have disappeared as a child in A.D. 941. When the Mahdi returns, they contend, he will reign on earth for seven years before bringing about a final judgment and the end of the world. According to Shiite tradition, Imam Mahdi will appear on Judgment Day to herald a truly just government. The 12th imam will prompt a global battle between good and evil (with striking parallels to biblical accounts of "Armageddon") resulting in an Islamic Caliphate. Even more controversial is Iranian President Ahmadinejad's repeated invocation of Imam Mahdi, known as "the Savior of Times." Surprise, surprise! Ahmadinejad and all of his evil cohorts are going to be surprised when they discover that the next caliphate is going to be under the rule and reign of Yeshua, the Son of God. The Bible in Ephesians 1:10 declares that in God's economy and under His management of the culmination of times that Jesus would sieze the headship bringing all rule and power under His dominion. The interesting thing about this passage of scripture is the use of the word caliphate in the original Greek language. The bible uses the Greek word "kapale" which means to strike on the head, seizing the head. The picture we are given is that of Jesus seizing the spiritual headship. In the spiritual realm, Jesus is laying hold of the ruling spirits, the Prince of the power of Persia, throwing them down and taking the headship as Chief, or the ruling authority. His dominion, Daniel 7:14, is an everlasting dominion, and all peoples, nations, and languages will serve Him. Yes there will be a caliphate but it will be under the rule of Yeshua the Son of the living God, and not the usurper of authority, Allah.

Reservation Myth Busters

2007-01-05T19:24:00.000-07:00

We hear tribal politicians campaign on the slogan of change, but in reality nothing ever changes. Things on the rez go on as usual, just the faces around the council feed trough change every two years. The promises of change vanish as soon as the new council is sworn in. Change is just a myth! Here is a list of popular myths on the rez:

Myth #1 The Tribal Council is the primary creator of economic development on the reservation. Myth Buster 1: In reality reservations operate under a communist economic system. Under communism everything is created for the state and by the state. This type of system operates under the assumption that individual Indian people are too dumb to do anything on their own. Most councilmen believe that it is the duty of the Tribal Council to create new business owned and operated by the Tribal Council. They believe that if the tribe can create new tribal businesses it will translate into jobs for the people. Unfortunately this logic usually ends up translating into minimum wage jobs for the Indian people and fat paychecks for consultants and high roller executive types.
Myth # 2 Indian people are dumb and lazy and can't be trusted. Myth Buster 2: I was once asked if I would rather be dumb and ugly or poor and lazy? Not a very good choice, but it does reveal some of the choices Indian people are handed. It is true, the economic climate on reservations for individual Indians is very dismal. We have been handed the short end of the stick as far as economic opportunities are concerned. However, I have worked with and met some of the most talented, hard working, intelligent, friendly people on the planet, if only they were given the chance to excel. I believe Native people are a sleeping giant waiting to be unleashed. We should never allow our disadvantages to become our prison. We can defy the odds and become a prosperous people if we are willing to rise to the challenge.
Myth # 3 There are no opportunities on the reservation. Myth Buster 3: We have been programmed to believe that opportunity is created by the tribal council. We take all of our best ideas and present them to the council and hope they will embrace and approve our schemes. Not! Opportunity comes out of creativity! You are limited only by your imagination and your willingness to take a leap of faith. Some of you are sitting on million dollar ideas.

TRIBAL ENROLLMENT CALAMITY

2006-11-13T16:49:00.000-07:00

"Old Man was sittin by the creek gazing into the water when a reflection of a branch of dark ripe choke cherries caught his attention. Old Bear was sittin close by watching the Old Man enjoy the summer sweetened berries. "Go ahead, you can have those berries down there" Old Man said pointing to the relection in the green hole. Old Man laughed as Bear dove in." Have you ever noticed Indians are always expecting something really good only to discover broken promises? The story of "Old Man" contains elements of deception, gullibility, greed and unfulfilled expectations all too familiar to Indian people. Indians have been doped into believing that the maintenance of a high degree of Indian blood among members will protect tribal soveriegnty, guarantee federal treaty rights, and increase their share of payouts. Indian tribes zealous to protect land base and soveriegnty have adopted racist policies that has resulted in the loss of future generations. Blood quantum enrollment requirments is institutionalized bigoty and has poisoned the American Indian psyche with a racist under-current. Tribal populations have become infested with prejudice and discrimination toward their own children and have left a generation of youth with no identity. Shame, shame! Native people are quick to accuse White people of racism but are blind to the fact they are resposible for racism and bigotry toward their own children. Who is or what is an Indian? There are four basic ways Indians have been defined. First through blood quantum - the cut off is established by individual tribes, and is restricted to those meeting enrollment criteria, 1/4, 1/2, 1/16 etc. Secondly, the federal government define Indian as a person with at least one quarter degree Indian blood or is a member of a federally recognized tribe. Thirdly, lineal descent is described as being anyone who has an ancestor who was a full blood member of a tribe. The fourth way is subjective identification or a person who believes they are Indian, whose friends believe they are Indian, are considered Indian by the white community and are accepted by the Indian community. These synthetic definitions don't come close to defining what an Indian is; they fail to describe the emotional and cultural bonding that occurs when one is born into an Indian community. Tribal ancestors were much wiser in determining membership; they were more concerned with the well being of their children and the perpetuation of the tirbe then with artificial cut off numbers. Being Indian was a matter of kinship and family bonding, a common ancestory and a shared history. A tribal elder would never consider severing their children from their linage. Membership in communtiy is the right of every person born within an ethnic group and they have the right to lay claim to the history, traditions, heritage, symbols, and land of its people. I propose that it is the parents and the culture a child is born into who determinies ethnicity. Citizenship is not deterined by the division of blood but belonging to family and culture, and choosing to participate as a citizen. Our ancestors practiced inclusion. Membership was based upon an individuals right to lay claim to the community, culture and language of their people and not by division of blood. This guiding principle kept tribes strong and population growth guaranteed protection against other tribes. The ancestors never referred to ones blood degree, nor were they concerned with purity of race, but a stong cultural base was maintained through tradition. A vision for a generation of Native people thriving in a global community in the Twenty First Century must emerge. A new definition must emerge in a new imaginative way linked to the wisdom of the past. Tribal leaders must reject policies born out of fear and prejudice by embracing descendents and instilling Indianness into the culture. A visionalry leadership will assure a futute for its members.

My Feelings Got Hurt

2006-02-14T12:32:00.000-07:00

My feelings got hurt because a man called me "Split Feather" and "Squatting Bull". Every where I went this guy would show up and yell across the room, "Hey Split Feather". I was embarrassed and belittled by his constant public harassment. With so many Euro Americans surrounding me I wasn't sure of how I should react. At first I ignored him, then I laughed at him, next I called him a "Honky", none of this seemed to work, and his barrages continued to get worse. What could I do? Should I hang my head and let him bully me? Should I take on a belligerent attitude and join in his verbal insults? Or maybe I should kill him, cut his head off and spit down his throat? Human dignity is a precious gift. We can give it away so easily by reacting to insults and accusations. I chose to keep my dignity and this man went on to embarrass himself, and lose his own dignity. I think we are seeing Islam expose itself with its reaction toward the news paper's caricature of Mohammad. My feelings get hurt everyday, but does that give me a right to threaten, kill, or destroy property. Don't you think God is big enough to take care of Himself? Your actions reveal what is in your heart.

Global Voices Online

2006-02-14T12:29:00.000-07:00

Global Voices Online BEING AMERICAN INDIAN IS A MENTAL DISORDER I saw a book recently that helped me formulate a title that accurately describes the modern reservation Indian experience; the title of the book, "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder". Taking my writers privilege I expanded on the idea and changed it to, "Being American Indian is a Mental Disorder". There is an insane Indian world view that is vastly different than the Euro American perspective. We Indians are quick to point out that according to the White Man's world view, he sees the world and time in a linear fashion, while Indian's way of thinking is a circular perspective. I don't know if this is good or bad, but it leads me to believe that we Indians pretty much have the view, that what goes around comes around. Maybe this is why some things never seem to change in Indian country. I was broke this year, I was broke last year, and I suppose I'll be broke next year. The old Tribal Council ripped us off, the current Tribal Council is ripping us off, and I suppose the next one will rip us off too. A friend of mine shared the definition of insanity with me, "When we do the same old things, the same old way, and expect different results, this is insanity. The truth is, if we do the same things the same way, we can expect to get the same results." This pretty much sums up the the rationale of leadership in Indian County. Every two years we hear the call for change from Indian polititians. Voters, frustrated with the old regime throw out the old council in hopes that new faces will improve the quality of life on the rez. Hello! When are we going to wake up to the fact that the system we have been handed keeps us in a perpetual cycle of curruption and failure? For two hundred years we have been standing in line playing, "Mother May I", with the federal government and its representatives. Our Tribal governments are laughable. With shrinking federal funding our reservations are caught in a pythons grip, dying a slow death. The only hope Indians have, is that maybe the Democrats will get into power next election. This also is insanity, what have the democrats done for Indians that has improved the quality of life on the rez? Nothing! Real change will not come under the current system. Indians love to use the word "Sovereignty". But I think it is too long a word for us to grasp what it really means. Until we are ready to change the way we see things we will continue to be caught in the same old rut. The more I think about it, truly, "Being American Indian is a Mental Disorder">

Reply to "The Bible and Self Defense"

2005-08-29T12:07:00.000-07:00

This post is a reply to an email message "The Bible and Self Defense" by Don Walker that was posted by the Visionary Advancement Strategies website www.vision2acvance.com. My response was to the spirit of his message from quotes such as the following, " The greatest problem with this viewpoint is that neither Christianity nor the Bible teaches non-violence or pacifism. The Bible shows us in both the Old and New Testaments that our God of love is also capable of violence, retribution, and vengeance. Force is never condemned in the Scriptures – only the misuse of force. Love and force are not incompatible in the mind of God, neither are justice and force. In each situation they are only opposite sides of the same coin. Religious humanism has put all the emphasis on the side of love and pacifism, most of which has been drawn more from Mahatma Ghandi rather than the Lord Jesus Christ and a clear Biblical standard. " Dear Brother Walker, I was disturbed by the spirit of your message on. "The Bible and Self Defense". The thing that troubles me is that it represents the militant attitude that is prevalent in the American Christian community. This mind set has given place to the unjustified killing of countless innocent people around the world, and we will give an account for what we have given permission to. Yes, I would protect my family if an intruder broke into my home. I am a firearm owner, and a veteran of the Viet Nam war. I am also an honored warrior of the Blackfeet Indian Nation. As a Native American the Lord revealed to me the National mindset and attitude of the Christian world during the conquest of North America. We must step back sometimes and take a look at the bigger picture of what is going on in the spiritual realm. One of the tactics of the enemy is to create a mindset where we justify the killing of our enemies. He creates a frame of mind to where we dehumanize and vilify other human beings. And we as Christians use the Bible to justify the invasion of sovereign powers, and conquest of other nations. I can see in your rationale that you have been influenced by satanic scheme of militarism. You have been poisoned by the spirit of American imperialism that is perpetuated by the media that is owned and controlled by the American Military Industrial complex. The business of war is being generated by the rich elite, who are expert at manipulating and controlling the masses through propaganda and lies. These same tactics were used in the conquest of the Native Americans. I am astounded that the western Christian world has not been able to discern between good and evil. I believe that the need for the violent self defense you are advocating is because of the failure and disobedience of Christianity to follow the ways of the Lord Jesus. We have failed in the arena of spiritual warfare, evangelizing the world, and walking in apostolic authority. What we fail to confront today in the spirit realm will come back tomorrow and haunt us. This is revealed in the rise of militant Islam. Christianity failed in the times of the Crusades because they chose militarism as an answer to their problems. They justified the taking up of the sword and the killing of multitudes in the name of the Lord. We have created a modern day city of Babylon with our mega churches and prosperity doctrines. We are comfortable and have need of nothing. We sit in our pews and are spoon fed pop psychology and inner healing. I believe God is going to scatter our over fed, over seminar attending, selfish church. Jesus says, "After you have received the Holy Spirit you will receive power to become martyrs." This is the kind of attitude He is looking for. People who will lay down their lives for the propagation of the Gospel. We must fight this war by God's standards. I sincerely remain, His servant. Please take this email in the spirit of love for which it was intended. Pastor Lockley Bremner

CALLED TO MARTYRDOM

2005-07-21T09:16:00.000-07:00

In my last post I identified the true nature of Islam, and its true enemy(Christianity). In this post I want to discuss strategies and remedies for the cancer of Islam. In general, the modern Christian world has been asleep, ignored and underestimated the threat of Islam. Islam has spread like an undetected cancer, infesting most of the western world. Today Islam worldwide holds over a billion and a half souls in its python grip. Western Europe has fallen under its influence and polititians offer policies of appeasement and political correctness. In the US Muslims number over six million, with over twelve hundred mosques. With its rapid population growth Islam has become the fastest growing religion in the world. At that rate you can plan on loosing your head or bowing down to Allah in the not too distant future. So what can we do to face this threat? I have always said, "What you fail to face today, will face you tomorrow." Historically Christians have confronted Islam militarily. The goal of the Crusades was focused more on the liberation of the Holy Land than on stopping Islam. Today, George W. Bush has resurrected the mantle of the crusades and like the crusaders of old has achieved some military success, but has failed in winning the hearts and minds of the Muslim people. Military planners fail to see the beast they are fighting. Islam is like an octopus with her tentacles spread around the world. You cut off one tentacle and there is another one to take its place. At the rate we are cutting tentacles we will exhaust our resources and energy before we win the war. I believe God has allowed the rise of Islam to provoke the Body of Christ into arising into her destiny. In the book of Revelations 19:10, "the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophesy;" I have paraphrased this verse, "The martyrdom of Jesus is the judicial decree of heaven that is shaping the destiny of the nations." God has a plan to bring the entire universe under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and has chosen the church of Jesus as His instrument to accomplish this purpose. In many ways the church has failed miserably in her mission of evangelizing the world. As a Native American I have many bones to pick with Western Christianity on the way they evangelized my people, or should I say subjugated the Indians. Much of the energy and resources of missionary organizations has focused on East Asia and Africa, but very little in the direction of the Muslim world. While our attention has been diverted elsewhere, Islam has crept in the back door. Fear is one of the reasons Native Americans were not evangelized, and I believe fear is the main reasons we have not evangelized the Muslims. The image of heads being cut off, and Christians being jailed and killed is enough to strike fear into our hearts. In the book of Acts 1:8 Jesus said, "I have given you power to be my witnesses." A correct interpretation of that scripture should be, "I have given you the grace to be martyrs for me." I believe the church will not come into the glory and power of God until we have surrendered our lives to this cause. Islamists have perverted the doctrine of martyrdom for their evil purposes while we Christians sit in our air conditioned auditoriums listening to prosperity preaching. As I said in my last post that the true nature of Islam is spiritual and therefore we can only achieve ultimate victory through spiritual warfare. Yes, God has given our nation authority to use the sword to combat threats, and I believe we must use that sword to survive as a people, but the ultimate victory can only be won when the church of Jesus rises up into her destiny and wins the battle on the spiritual playing field. In my next post I will define spiritual warfare, and strategies for winning the victory.

WAKE UP OR LOOSE YOUR HEAD

2005-07-20T09:06:00.000-07:00

The Christian world has buried its head in the sand, and is not facing the war that is being waged against it through radical Islam. God has allowed Islam to raise its ugly murderous head to shake up a Christian world that has been sleeping. While Christianity plays with her sermonettes and indulges in her delicacies, Islamic mullahs are fueling the flames of hatred and murder in her constituencies. There are several points I would like to make to wake us up to the Islamic threat. I watched a large powerful man get taken out by a smaller weaker opponent. Ultimate Fighting is a sport where participants are allowed to use any style of combat, including boxing, wrestling, karate, jujitsu, etc. There was a huge man, six foot eleven, weighing two hundred and eighty pounds fighting a smaller man two hundred and ten pounds. The large man was very powerful and intimidating. He pounded the smaller man around the ring and appeared to have the advantage due to his strength, coordination and power. From the first round the smaller man, being weaker absorbed much of the punishment, but every chance he would get he kicked the large man in the knee. At first it didn't seem to do any damage, but the smaller man was persistent kicking the larger man time after time. The large man didn't seem to defend against this attack because he was punishing his opponent around the ring and seemed to have the advantage. By the end of the second round the large man had a slight limp as he returned to his corner. As the fight progressed the knee became very painful and the large man would bend over to guard his sore knee, each time he bent over, smack, the smaller man would hit or kick him in the head. The large man began to drag his sore leg behind in order to protect it. Finally, smack, the small man with one powerful kick, buckled the large man into a pile of pain. He had worked on this one soft spot until he finally knocked his more powerful opponent into submission. Islamic militants know that militarily they are weaker, as a result, they have resorted to the strategy of terror. By striking vulnerable innocents they instill fear and paralyze the hearts and minds of ignorant westerners. If we don't wake up to what is going on, one day this whole western civilization is going to crumble. Who is the real target of Islam, and what is the true identity of Islam? Jihad, Holy War, of Islam is in reality a spiritual warfare, and their true target is Christianity. Islam at its root is antiChrist! The only reason they have single the United States out is not because of Hollywood or American foreign policy, but because this country is the heart and soul of Christianity and world wide revival. The Koran spells out and identifies Jews and Christians as infidels that must be killed. The true goal of Islam is world control and domination, and they will use any means to accomplish their ultimate plan. The smoke screen that has gone up that Islam is a peaceful religion is a lie, because the mullahs and mosques are the incubators that spawn radical Islam. Deep down Muslim clerics are giving permission to the propagation and spread of Islam through terror, war and any other means. In reality Islam is not a religion. The true identity of Islam is a death cult! The demon of Islam can only by pacified by the shedding of innocent blood, especially Christian blood. Using the definition of a cult more closely identifies Islam than by using the definition of religion. However, Islam is much more subtle and deceptive than most cults, posing as a peaceful religion. Some cultic characteristics of Islam are; spirit of control, isolation, rule by fear, intimidation, brainwashing, radical and controlling leaders, suicide pacts. Islam fears and suppresses individual libery, individual identity and free thinking. The worldview of the Islamic world has been shaped and warped by the inhuman, antiChrist spirit that controls their ideology. Christians wake up, Islamists are out to kill you, your lifestyle, and your children. In my next post I will reveal the only way to defeat Islamic terror.

BEING INDIAN IS A MENTAL DISORDER

2005-05-05T14:11:00.000-07:00

I saw a book recently that helped me formulate a title that accurately describes the modern reservation Indian experience; the title of the book, "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder". Taking my writers privilege I expanded on the idea and changed it to, "Being Indian is a Mental Disorder". There is an insane Indian world view that is vastly different than the Euro American perspective. We Indians are quick to point out that according to the White Man's world view, he sees the world and time in a linear fashion, while Indian's way of thinking is a circular perspective. I don't know if this is good or bad, but it leads me to believe that we Indians pretty much have the view, that what goes around comes around. Maybe this is why some things never seem to change in Indian country. I was broke this year, I was broke last year, and I suppose I'll be broke next year. The old Tribal Council ripped us off, the current Tribal Council is ripping us off, and I suppose the next one will rip us off too. A friend of mine shared the definition of insanity with me, "When we do the same old things, the same old way, and expect different results, this is insanity. The truth is, if we do the same things the same way we can expect to get the same results." This pretty much sums up the the rationale of leadership in Indian County. Every two years we hear the call for change from Indian polititians. Voters, frustrated with the old regime throw out the old council in hopes that new faces will improve the quality of life on the rez. Hello! When are we going to wake up to the fact that the system we have been handed keeps us in a perpetual cycle of curruption and failure? My daughter recently asked me if I would go to the Indian clinic, and pick up a prescription for her. What an eye opening experience! When I got to the pharmacist window there were at least fifty Indians standing in line waiting for their medicine. I was praying no one would have a seizure before they got to the window. When I stopped to say hello to an old friend the whole line bristled, thinking I was cutting in line, or as they say on the rez, I wuz cheezen in. This was pretty scary seeing there was some pretty big mean looking Indian women in that line. My point is, why are there so many sick Indians and why do they have to stand in line for their medicine? Two points; first, we Indians are use to standing in line, and second, reservation life is filled with stress. We are like an abused woman, we feel like this is what we deserve. I had a philosophical dispute with a young Indian leader recently. He had just been promoted to a position of authoriy, representing Indian people, and was seeking council on how to approach this new position. I advised him to take full advantage of his position, and he has the authority to act and make decisions to benefit his Indian constituency; by virtue of the position and authority he was appointed to. He responded by saying that before he made any big decisions it was necessary for him to make friends with the superior authorities. That was two years ago, and the last I saw, he was still rubbing up to the big wigs, and not much happening at the bottom of the food chain. Ever since Indians first came into contact with the White Man we have been trying to gain favor. For two hundred years we have been standing in line playing, "Mother May I", with the federal government and its representatives. Our Tribal governments are laughable. With shrinking federal funding our reservations are caught in a pythons grip, dying a slow death. The only hope Indians have, is that maybe the Democrats will get into power next election. This also is insanity, what have the democrats done for Indians that has improved the quality of life on the rez? Nothing! Real change will not come under the current system. Indians love to use the word "Sovereignty". But I think it is too long a word for us to grasp what it really means. Until we are ready to change the way we see things we will continue to be caught in the same old rut. The more I think about it, truly, "Being Indian is a Mental Disorder">

I Killed a Dog

2005-04-02T10:44:00.000-07:00

When I was a young boy living on a reservation farm I murdered a dog! This dog followed me around for days. A stray that had innocently wondered into my territory. I didn't want him, but he wouldn't leave me alone. His soft brown eyes looking for my attention, wanting a pat on the head. He never did anything to provoke me to anger. He never complained or criticized me, just wagged his tail and begged for a pat on the head. One day I was out shooting gophers, and this brown dog followed me. I couldn't get rid of him. I was setting there waiting for a gopher to pop up and this brown dog looked me in the eye. Right there, I judged him, condemned him, and executed him. I shot him right between the eyes! How does that make you feel? It makes me sick to my stomach to remember that incident. I have confessed my sin and acknowledged my guilt to the Creator, and I believe His forgiveness is there for a rotten low down sinner like me. What about Terry Schiavo? She was more helpless and more pitiful than that dog! It made me sick to my stomach to watch an innocent woman being starved and dehydrated to death. She couldn't speak for herself; she couldn't protect herself. But just like that dog, standing there with his soft brown eyes looking at me, Terry laid in her bed and smiled, her soft brown eyes lovingly looking at her so called protectors. What crime did she commit? What law did she break that was deserving of the death penalty? Yet, we sentenced her, and put her to a slow death. I did nothing to help her. I wanted to go down there and forcibly rescue her, but I did nothing. I am just as guilty as the rest. We kill our innocent, our helpless, our most defenseless. We will be judged for this. One day we will all stand before our Creator and give an account for what we are responsible for. We cry and bemoan the killing of animals, but what about our invalid and helpless?

INDIANS & AMISH Part 2

2005-04-01T08:48:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday a Healing for the Natives ministry team traveled to the Amish settlement and spent a day with our Amish friends. During the three hour drive home I contemplated what had just taken place. How could a bunch of crazy Indians hold a meeting for these devout pious modestly dressed people? We sang, played the drum, danced, shouted, rejoiced, preached, and these Amish couldn't get enough. They were enthusiastic and animated. They responded to the word preached, and basically put most, so called charismatics to shame by their sensitivity to the anointing of the Holy Spirit. One lady commented, "your people are very different than ours." Laughing, I said, "Yeah, we are very loud." She responded, "Yes, and we are very quiet, but we need to learn how to be loud." These Amish people are desperate for God. They are desperately hungry for a move of the Spirit, and they are encountering severe persecution from their own people for this. The most recent charge brought by their denomination is called, the "Swiss Kiss"; basically an attack on the reconciliation movement between the Swiss National Church and our Amish friends. The traditional Amish leadership has singled out this new movement and have attacked the principles of forgiveness and unity that are behind the reconciliation movement. I spoke to several young Amish people who have recently joined the new movement and they explained how they are rejected and shunned by their people for following Jesus. How many of us are willing to pay the price that these Amish people are paying just to follow the Lord? Just for them to open the door for Indian Christians to come to their camp and preach was a huge step. But their love for the Lord is greater than what man can do to them. Two years ago I received a phone call from Robert, an Amish Elder, who very gently and humbly explained to me how God was leading them into reconciliation with the Bride of Christ and healing ancient divisions in the Anabaptist community. He went on and asked if they, the Amish group, could attend our annual camp meeting. Robert humbly begged, "We desired to be reunited with the Bride of Christ, and we would like to reconcile with our Native American brethren. We have seen how this country has treated the Native American people. How your land was taken, even the land we now live on, and now we want to ask you for your forgiveness?" Immediately my head started spinning and my heart pounding, old prejudices rising up inside of me. I remembered the hurtful comments of the Hutterites and my anger over the land they were intruding on. These people who spoke with German accents and reminded us of the European invasion wanted to reconcile with me! I sat stunned. The Holy Spirit urged me to welcome these new brothers with open arms. When the campmeeting arrived we had the most wonderful time of reconciliation and foot washing. The presence of the Holy Spirit fell upon us as they asked us to forgive them for the atrocities against Native Americans, and I asked them to forgive us of our prejudice and resentment. What a time of crying and rejoicing we had. The Amish brothers danced harder than the Natives that night as we played victory songs and celebrated the glory of the Lord. This unlikely reconciliation of people who are so different was a great lesson for us, and as I will explain in a future blog was an important part in the fulfillment of our destiny.

2005-03-26T20:50:00.000-07:00

Two Worlds

Reservation Suicides

2005-03-26T11:57:00.000-07:00

While driving nine hundred miles home, from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in South Dakota in the middle of a snow storm, I was trying to make some kind of sense of the mind boggling number of violent deaths that are occurring on our Indian reservations. News had just come in about the school shooting on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota. What would possess a fourteen year old boy to kill his grand parents, a teacher, a security guard, five fellow students, and then to turn the gun on himself and take his own life? I spent the night in Poplar Montana, tribal headquarters for the Fort Peck Indian Rez, with my inlaws. My sister inlaw who works as a jailer reported to us that they had booked eleven people into jail that night. The majority of incarcerating on the reservations are drug, alcohol, and violence related. The next day I continued my journey through the snow storm, watched a speeding van hit the ditch on the Fort Belknap rez, and finally had to hold up because of the storm in Browning on the Blackfeet Rez. I spent the night at my sons house. A few people stopped by to visit and shared some shocking statistics from a public health forum they had attended that day. On the Blackfeet rez in the last three years there have been nine hundred plus suicide attempts and over sixty successful. From 1998 to 2002 on the Standing Rock rez there has been over six hundred attempts and two hundred twenty four successful. On New Years night 2004 on the Standing Rock there were six attempts. For the four year period Standing Rock had the highest teen suicide rate per capita in the USA. That's not all, while on Standing Rock a friend came to visit and shared shocking news from the Fort Thompson rez in South Dakota. Fort Thompson has now taken over as the suicide capital of the US. Reports are now coming in that the Alaska natives and Eskimos are taking their own lives in shocking numbers. What is going on? To give a little perspective, since the beginning of the Desert Storm there have been fifteen hundred American soldiers killed. That is about the same number of Indians that have been killing themselves or each other in the same time period. Nobody seems to care if an Indian blows himself away, but we rise up in protest when one American soldier is killed. Maybe its because, since we haven't been able to assimilate the Indians into the larger culture we will just let them blow themselves away. The federal government has sent in teams of experts without much success, tribal governments are ineffective, no one seems to be offering a solution that is more powerful than just turning out the lights. In my first article, "NO MORE MULLAHS", I spoke about empowering. The idea of empowering is to invigorate, to enable someone to succeed. But the opposite of empowering is to weaken, to disable, impotence, ineptitude, incapacitate. I think the latter describes the Native American reservation experience. What I see is a people who have been stripped of their identity. Author, Kent Nerberg described it best in his book "Neither Wolf nor Dog". Nerberg illustrates the life of a people who are walking the edge of the dominant culture and desperately trying to cling to the old ways that are slipping away. In observing the reservation youth I see our young people imitating gang bangers, MTV culture, Goths, the drug culture, rappers, and more or less the culture of death. The values of past generations, and the identity of Native cultures has lost it's impact on the youth. Our reservation fathers and mentors are lost in a perpetual state of adolescence and offer no positive direction. So what am I trying to say? Its time to wake up. We have a real problem and the sugar coated solutions of the past are not working. We need a revolution of ideas. We need to break out of the mold and we need to be empowered.

2005-03-12T21:35:00.000-07:00

Amish at Healing for the Natives Campmeeting

Indians & Amish

2005-03-12T20:59:00.000-07:00

Indians & Amish Who would ever make a connection between Native American people and the Amish people? Both of these people groups have one thing in common, disentanglement from the world. Both groups fiercely protect their cultural boundaries and try to live within the safety of what they have created. They are like water and oil; they just don’t mix. Having spent the majority of my life on the rez there is a sense of comfort and safety when I return. I remember the day I returned home from four years of military service. My eyes searched the horizon for a glimpse of mountain peaks off in the distance. When I crossed that rez line I felt the security of home. When I was growing up on the rez we encountered strange people called Hutterites. The Hutterites, Mennonites, and Amish are branches of the European Anabaptists. Hutterites settled mostly in the Midwest and Canada where they operate collective farms. Well, the Hutterites would stop by our dusty little farm house and sell my mom vegetables. I remember the dogs going crazy when these men in black clothes and black hats with long beards would come knocking on our door. We couldn’t understand their strong Germanic accent and they couldn’t understand our Indian lingo. I remember the boss man always called my mother, Mrs Hubberd. It was probably because he saw twelve kids and no food in the cupboards. I never did know the reason my dad took to chasing one of them around their truck one day. It’s a good thing he didn’t catch him, but there was one scared Hutterite. When I got older I had my own encounter with the Hutterites. They were building a new colony and several contractors had bids on their buildings. Being a builder myself I put a bid in on their work. That day I developed a deep prejudice in my heart when the job boss told me, “We don’t want any of you Indians working around here, the last Indian we hired took his first paycheck and went on a drunk.” Growing up rez has a way of spawning prejudice towards any one different, Mexicans, Blacks, and especially the White Man. Indians are so prejudice we hate each other. We hate Crows, Crees, Flatheads, those short west coast Indians, Cherokees, and any other tribe. We are even prejudice against our own children and grandchildren. Full bloods hate half breeds, half breeds hate full bloods, Catholics hate Pentecostals, Pentecostals hate traditionalists, and traditionalists hate them all. With all this prejudice going around who could ever imaging Indians and Amish coming together. Of all of the Anabaptist groups the Amish are the most separate of them all. They do not want any contact with the outside world unless it is unavoidable. They fiercely maintain their ancient traditions and religious practices. They have no electricity or modern equipment, such as cars and trucks. They still drive the horse and carriage and have maintained their traditional wardrobe. Men have beards, the ladies wear bonnets, and they continue to speak in their native German language. One thing about the Anabaptists, they love Jesus and remain devout pious Christians. I think God looked down from heaven one day and said, “I’m going to stir things up a little bit.” I’ll tell you about it on my next post.

2005-03-12T16:12:00.000-07:00

Healing for the Natives Campmeeting

No More Mullahs

2005-03-05T02:16:00.000-07:00

NO MORE MULLAHS It is high time American Indian people take a good look at themselves and the river we have been sold down. The Bush Administration is pumping billions of dollars and countless lives into the rebuilding of Babylon. The 2005 budget for Afghanistan and Iraq is well over seventy billion dollars. The investment in lives and blood cannot be calculated. This lofty price for the ideals of freedom and democracy is gaudy but to reservation Indians it seems empty and hypocritical. How would it look if we applied American Indian Policy to the rebuilding of Iraq? It has been interesting observing the evolution of the American Government policy regarding the people of Iraq. As best as can be described, US policy appears to be; the empowerment of the Iraqi people to become an independent sovereign nation, to govern internal affairs, economy and security. American policy has taken painstaking efforts to recognize and honor the divergent ethnic groups and unite them under one banner of Iraqi democracy. For the most part Iraqis have responded positively by stepping up to the plate and taking their future into their own hands. How their version of democracy plays out will be directly connected to their ability to consolidate power, security, and economic independence. With the American financial engine behind them rebuilding infrastructures, training security forces, stimulating the economy, and restoring oil production; Iraqis should be well on their way to establishing national sovereignty. Iraq is testimony to the premise of empowerment. But just for the sake of speculation, let’s apply the principles of American Indian policy to the Iraqi equation. In order to establish American supremacy we must make them into a domestically dependent nation. We can accomplish this by first of all, destroying all cultural identity, humiliating traditional leadership, banning all religions, and making English the official language. By doing this we can take their land, superimpose our culture and values upon them, and strip the land of its natural resources (oil). To the victor goes the spoil! Remember the superiority of western civilization and the doctrine of manifest destiny. Surely we should replace the old fashioned middle aged eastern civilization with a more highly civilized democratic society. What happened to the good old policy of greed? Next we can subjugate each tribal group or sect by putting them on their own land, we can call them reservations. A small tract of land can be given to each family (to teach them the work ethic and to encourage the concept of ownership). Preferably, put them in the desert or in the mountains. Give them a monthly ration. Just enough to keep them going, but we don’t want to make them lazy, and preferably a high carbohydrate diet to keep them warm. We will set up medical clinics so we can practice the latest medical techniques, train doctors, and experiment with the latest pharmaceuticals. No more Mullahs! We must outlaw all religions and religious practices. Do away with mosques and shrines, and no more loud speakers in the streets. Instead give them a bland sterile form of westernized religion, something that will keep them poor, guilty, and subservient to the cloth. We must not allow pride or nationalism to rise up, and we surely do not want any free thinkers. We can allocate a religious denomination to each tribal group to facilitate control until they can be fully absorbed into normal society. Make sure the religious fathers continually remind them that their culture is from the devil. Use fear to suppress any form of personal expression, and they must always think they are dumb and lazy, and unworthy. An important element in destroying their cultural identity is to take their children away from them and educate them in the western model. Make sure they do not use their indigenous names or speak their native language; always let them know that English is a superior language. By teaching them the superiority of western culture we can degrade their native culture, and be assured they will be ashamed to be called Iraqis. By taking the language, we take the identity. Create a system of government for them that gives the illusion they have power and sovereignty, but in reality they are the scum of the earth. Create a maze of rules and regulations that will keep them in confusion and under stress. Allow a few of them to become experts at running the maze and they will become the best enforcers of the system. As long as we can keep them running the maze they will have no time to lift their heads up to see the light. Remember, who ever holds the purse strings, holds the power. Throw them a bone every now and then and let them think you are the benevolent father looking out for their well being. When you throw a bone into a bunch of hungry dogs you can watch them fight and tear each other up. You can depend on this kind of leadership to destroy each other. Keep their eyes on the bone. Native American people are the weakest people on earth. We have been exposed to and submitted to unimaginable betrayals. Its time to wake up. We see the nations of the world rising up and taking destiny into their own hands. Why can't we? I am sick and tired of Indian leaders kowtowing to a system of failure. It is time for a revolution of ideas. Ideas that will set the captives free.