Since it is now common knowledge on the stock market, I admit to starting PsychoSearch some years ago. For those not yet acquainted with the service, allow me to go back to the beginning by way of explanation:

With my background in both science and the social sciences, especially psychology with an emphasis on the paranormal, I realized that regression to past lives held the promise of regression to lives that might have been lived. With the rapid progress of computers, this great dream of mine was finally realized.

The classic study of Arnie Schmartzkoptfer is now well known. Arnie's case seemed ideal to me to test my hypothesis that a person cannot only be regressed like Shirley McClain to past lives, but with the computer power now available could be regressed in such a manner as to predict what that person's life might have been had circumstances been different.

The cause of Arnie becoming a mass murderer, killing over seven hundred elderly people in various nursing homes before being apprehended, was well publicized. But a few harping critics wondered how it took so long for Arnie to be apprehended. This was explained very satisfactorily when it became known that the homes in which Arnie was employed used the same methods and criteria for determining qualifications for personnel as those of Social Services, particularly Child Protective Services.

As Arnie's trial dragged on with great publicity attached, it became clear to me that something had happened to Arnie as a child that caused him to act out this kind of antisocial behavior toward the elderly. And having honed my hypothesis with the customary rats, guinea pigs, and grad students, I was ready for Arnie.

My reputation was sufficient to gain me entrance to the poor fellow while in prison (the jury had found him guilty of mass murder but innocent by reason of insanity). Of course, the conditions for testing were ideal since he was confined to the psychiatric ward of the prison.

After days of testing, I discovered Arnie had come to this sad pass because of chalk dust. Or, rather say the lack of chalk dust. Arnie's first grade teacher, a Miss Granola, was quite elderly and well past retirement. But she used dustless chalk for writing on the blackboard.

During Arnie's regression to that point of his life, I discovered that had Miss Granola not used dust free chalk, Arnie would have been chosen to shake out the erasers. Deprived of this special privilege of responsibility, Arnie had subconsciously known he was being cheated. And cheated by an elderly person. What Arnie did not understand was that he was being cheated of the life he might have lived had he been able to shake out those erasers.

With these facts in hand, it was no trouble at all for me to convince a fine lawyer to undertake for Arnie. A new jury acquitted him on the basis of my findings and a superb defense by this fine lawyer.

So it is that PsychoSearch came into being and is now available to all that have been unjustly incarcerated for having been deprived of the lives they should have lived had they not been cheated by those like Miss Granola and dust free chalk.

But no sooner had this groundbreaking case become known to the general public by being well publicized, here came the carping critics finding fault with my efforts to restore Arnie as a productive citizen to society. However, I do want to thank our fine local paper, the Kern Valley Sun, for bringing my noble efforts in freeing that poor misunderstood and tortured soul and mass murderer, Arnie Schmartzkoptfer, to the public's attention. Where but in America would such a triumph of justice have prevailed?

But being the sensitive soul that I am, I was grieved to the quick that some few would misunderstand and misconstrue my noble efforts through PsychoSearch to the point of suggesting that I am a few feathers short of a full duck. Some even suggested (benighted souls they) that Arnie did not deserve to be set free. Fortunately for Arnie, cooler, and may I say more scientific heads prevailed. And I notice that the willow flycatcher here locally in the Kern River Valley is being subjected to the same abuse as I have been by misguided people who think they are more important than birds.

It is too easy to get caught up in emotions, trivia and peripheral issues and miss the larger picture. After all, were it not for fine legislators, a Supreme Court that cares about America, and my friends like those of the ACLU, caring, knowledgeable and sensitive people just like myself, where would America be today? Would neo-Nazis and homosexuals be free to march, publish, broadcast, and exercise their Constitutional rights as citizens of our free nation? Would the entertainment industry be free to tell children that perversion, gratuitous sex and violence are perfectly acceptable in our great society? Would our teachers be told to teach our children that homosexuality is a perfectly acceptable alternative to normal sexual behavior?

When well meaning but misguided adults and parents try to keep such things away from children, don't they understand that children know they are being cheated, deprived of the total experiences and realities of life? Such things will always lead to warped psyches and the poor Arnie's that engage in anti-social behavior.

Granted that a few eggs are broken in making an omelet, like the 700 plus elderly that Arnie dispatched (mercifully, by the way), how can it fail to grieve sensitive people that the real blame was that of a society that simplistically, even callously, failed to take his feelings into consideration? What can you say of a system that would fail poor Arnie in such a manner? This was a miscarriage of justice that cried out for amelioration!

Fortunately, most of the response to my being instrumental in freeing Arnie was quite positive. Not a few commented on the constructive action of his making so many beds available (which are becoming a premium) in nursing homes, savings in Medicare, SSI, etc. In fact, not a few suggested... but I digress.

I only regret that PsychoSearch and my services were not available for another poor misunderstood victim of society, Jeffery Dahmer. How that cruelly tormented man must have suffered! No one seemed to take his side. Imagine if you will, suffering the addiction of cannibalism. You develop a sweet tooth for something like this and few trouble themselves to understand the control it has over your life. But where was the compassionate understanding of our justice system in his case? Conspicuous by its absence!

In correspondence with George Bush while governor of Texas I made it clear to this fine presidential candidate that he needed to take another look at the death penalty. Far too many in Texas were being executed, innocent victims like Arnie, that if my talents and PsychoSearch were put to use, would be found to be stellar citizens if society had not failed them in the way it failed poor Arnie and Jeffrey.

But how many are inclined to think of such people as victims? We should beware of the labels given such people, labels like “mass murderer, rapist, serial killer,” labels that are strictly detrimental to justice and mental health, labels that deny the merits of the individuals and beat down their self-esteem. How can clear-headed people fail to see how this produces victims like Arnie? Would space allow, I would take up the case of the LAPD and police brutality in general, how many otherwise fine upstanding citizens... but alas.

Regardless the slings and arrows of the misguided, PsychoSearch (with the continued help of the ACLU, Supreme Court, Alec Baldwin, Tom Cruise and Hollywood in general, and People for the American Way) will carry on in the cause of fair play and justice for all.

    You know folks; I really don't understand my detractors. If being elderly is the excuse for running down innocent people with a car and Alzheimer's is an excuse for running over a young girl and killing her, if “insanity” is the excuse for a parent drowning five innocent children, if a prescription is the excuse for killing your own infant daughter, if alcohol and drugs are the defenses for countless murders, if an underprivileged childhood is the rationale accepted by courts to excuse crime in so many cases, why are people upset with my defending people like poor Arnie for mercifully practicing group euthanasia on the elderly and poor Jeffrey for developing a sweet tooth for eating people? But then, there were many that took Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal seriously. And if we look to the political scene, nobody is responsible or to be held accountable for anything.

During WWII there were a great number of activities for those of us on the Home Front, by which contributions were made to the war effort giving us the sense of participation, of doing things useful in fighting the war. Some of these activities enabled even children to make their contributions, things like peeling foil from gum and cigarette pack wrappers, rolling it in a ball and turning it in to a scrap metal collection center. I would help grandad flatten tin cans with hammer and anvil for the same purpose. Many children were also turning in metal toys for the war effort, most of which would command a very high price today as “collectibles.”

 Few people today would think about wire clothes hangers being hard to come by, but even such a mundane though utilitarian item was scarce at the time, so grandad made them.

Grandad being a jack of all trades, building our house, the church and grocery store in Little Oklahoma (Southeast Bakersfield) there were construction materials around the place before the war, and having a roll of wire on hand grandad fashioned a jig out of a board and nails, then cutting the wire to the proper length he would twist it around the jig and voila; a wire clothes hanger. Grandad was always doing things like this that made him my idol; grandad could do things, really fascinating and useful things, and he took the time to teach me to do things as well.

In so very many ways those of us living the events of WWII were made to feel useful in the war effort; we were making a contribution to defeat the Axis powers. Rationing was hard on many, but more were making jokes about it than complaining. After all, our boys overseas were fighting and dieing; what were the hardships on the home front compared to that, especially when those small flags with gold stars in the windows of homes in the neighborhood reflected the reality of the ultimate price being paid by so many?

You could depend on the funny papers, The Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s Magazine having cartoons about rationing; but very little of poking fun in such a way was of “gallows humor.” Most certainly there was no humor to be found in those fighting and dieing overseas. Any such attempt at humor would have been met with an army of home front folk bearing tar and feathers.

Even Bill Mauldin was sensitive enough to know better than make light of the actual grim realities of what was happening on the front lines, though we all blessed him for the humor he was able to convey through “Willie and Joe” in the face of such grim realities. Which makes it all the more to be wondered why anyone would attempt “humor” in any fashion concerning 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, the war Israel is fighting?

Much in the way of the preamble to Gone With The Wind, the way of life in the America of my generation of WWII is quickly passing away never to be seen again, a time of the Greatest Generation of a Norman Rockwell America where people believed in virtue, believed crime did not pay, that honesty was the best policy. These values were taught in the homes and schools throughout that America. We trusted our leaders to have the best interests of America in view at all times in making decisions, passing legislation and making policies; it was a time when the courts had more concern for victims than for criminals, a time when any hint of politicians refusing to secure our borders when America was threatened would have been met by disbelief at the very least and more likely shouts of TREASON!

Notwithstanding the legitimate faults and weaknesses that are to be found, my generation was a time reflecting the values of our Founding Fathers, whom we still held in the highest esteem, still reflecting the best of Christian Western Civilization in our schools and society. Little did We the People realize that even at the time when Kate Smith’s “God Bless America” brought a lump to the throat the America we loved and believed in and sacrificed for was already being sold out and betrayed by the universities and their product politicians.

Life in the country has many rewards in exchange for the advantages of city living. A few of these rewards are the first blossoms appearing on the nightshade plants here on my property, and the annual event of momma and poppa quail bringing their newly hatched babies to the water I supply them. To watch these tiny creatures with their proud momma and poppa teaching them the quail trade is a real delight, and I never cease to enjoy watching them go about the yard like diminutive chickens.

Here in the Sequoia National Forest we have the California quail- distinguished by their muted but still beautiful colors, the cute topknots and marvelous, varied sounds they make. Being precocial, the babies are hatched covered with down and can very nearly fly from the time they come out of their shells.

Having no need of hunting for the family pot any longer, I simply enjoy watching the quail and beautiful gray tree squirrels hereabouts, notwithstanding my having once supplied the quail for a Thanksgiving Dinner baked with dressing in our wood stove one year and I used to make a very creditable squirrel stew with dumplings (a former life). Now there are few things that gladden my heart more than to simply watch and listen to the various critters the forest supplies. Granted, I would enjoy it far more were it not for Nature red in tooth and claw that shows no mercy for baby quail and baby ducks for example.

But I don’t like zoos. In my opinion, wild animals should not be caged. A pen pal recently wrote me about her desire for a raccoon when she was a young girl. Her doting father acquired one for her, and in no time at all the whole family discovered how quickly a raccoon could rearrange the furniture in a house. In regard to these cute masked bandits, I tried a fish pond once here at my place, stocking it with a dozen large goldfish. The very next morning every single fish was gone and the tracks of raccoons gave away the “fishing experts.”

I love watching the critters hereabouts, but having lived in a wild forest environment those years ago on the mining claim here in the Kern River Valley I suffered no illusions about having a bobcat as a “pet” for example. Much as the big pussycat was fascinating to watch in the wild, it never crossed my mind it would accommodate itself to a bowl of milk and “Here kitty, kitty” in our cabin.

Not altogether abandoning the desire for “exotics” I did have my share of experiences with critters like the skunk that went off in our cabin one night, the porcupine I lassoed and observed for a short time close up, a baby great horned owl I raised, but people that want a lion or tiger for a “pet” have just got to have rocks in their head.

    But when it comes to catching critters none can best my daughter Karen catching the Colorado Cottontail barehanded when she was a little girl. Never could figure out how she did that. But one time I came close with a baby California quail.

From the window here where I write I saw the quail enter the yard, momma and poppa with their brood of chicks, when out of nowhere came the resident cat scattering the quail. Quickly on my feet and going outside to intervene I caught sight of the cat chasing what looked like one of the tiny mice I see occasionally. Not so, it was one of the baby quail that had become separated from the rest.

The chase was on around the pressure tank for my well. When I reached the spot I saw the baby hunkered down under the large water line going into the tank.

No one is going to catch a baby quail by chasing it. But under certain circumstances some critters will allow a very slow approach. The little thing didn’t stir as I very slowly lowered my hand over it; when close enough I made a quick grab capturing it.

This presented a problem. While the tiny chick quickly settled down within the warmth and darkness of my hand gently closed around it; what does anyone do with a baby quail in hand, particularly with a cat in residence believing it has a vested interest in said baby quail? How best to return the tiny chick to its family with the cat about?

I waited for the cat to visit her food dish; something I could depend upon. Knowing where the momma and poppa quail had come from, when the cat was in the house I shut the door and carried the baby quail to its point of origin. Once the tiny chick was released it took off at warp speed, seeming to know exactly where it needed to go.

Some will think this is much ado about nothing. Just look at the great number of quail throughout the Valley; what is one baby quail more or less? Henry Thoreau remarked on his “wild chickens,” the partridges of Walden. He commented on the innocence to be seen in the eyes of these partridges that seemed to reflect all that was best to be found in Nature. If you can understand this, you can understand how the eyes of a single, baby quail can melt the heart, stirring a response of what is the best in humankind as well.

“Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.”

This affirmation of faith by Francis Church to little Virginia of those things “most real” that are unseen but believed continues to warm the hearts of those who can relate to holding a rainbow or a little stardust in their hands, those who continue to marvel with wonder at the beauty of butterflies and hummingbirds, a field of flowers and a canopy of stars at night, the magical laughter of children at play and so much more of Creation. But it was for good reason Jesus pointed to children as the example of those who enter the kingdom of heaven, that unless adults have the believing faith in God of a child they will not enter into this kingdom.

    Two of the most endearing qualities of a child are trust and imagination. They will believe in magic, they thrill to stories of fairies and enchanted lands. Christmas, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, stories of birds and animals, enchanted islands and forests; these are the domain of childhood.

    We don't forsake these things in adulthood. We continue to want our Merlins, Camelots, and enchanted glades. As parents, we enjoy making things like Santa with his elves and reindeer, that magical fairyland of the North Pole and letters to Santa real to our children. All too quickly we find ourselves adults and learn of the fantasies of childhood, but the intent of parents in wanting their children taught and exposed to the myths is the innocence of goodness.

    Santa is the ultimate angel to a child. There isn't the slightest trace of evil connected to Santa; he could never do anything wrong or anything to hurt a child. Santa believes in children, in the innocence of childhood. Our desire, as adults, to believe in angels follows the same pattern. We grow into adulthood and have to leave the myth of Santa, but we desperately want to continue holding on to what Santa represents.

As a minister my greatest “sermon” was one I preached to my little girl Karen. When she asked about our being made of dust I told her “Sweetheart, God made us out of the same stuff he used to make the stars; and that makes you my little star.” Karrie giggled at that, and climbing down off my lap went away happy with what I have ever since considered my most profound exposition of Genesis. Children are born believing, and Jesus gave the most somber words of warning to those that would abuse a child, and such abuse can take the form of abusing children of those things of faith properly the domain of childhood.

Detractors are certain to attack the teaching of “lies” to children. But such critics should learn the distinction between lies meant to do harm or take advantage common to the domain of Satan rather than the stories told children by those who love them, stories meant to encourage the best attributes of virtue for example.

When I wrote an essay in defense of Santa pointing out to my Christian friends they should not consider him in an adversarial position to Christ but quite the contrary, there were many who took exception. But for me the fact Santa appeals to the very best of us as human beings, that even when we become adults accepting the denouement of Santa we do not want to give up the best of childhood, and yes the best of adulthood he represents.

Watching the “Today Show,” I found it comforting to see a group of women discussing the merits of anti-aging creams. In the midst of so much bad news abounding here in America that there is still a place for such a thing cannot but warm my heart. And while the cynical would point the accusing finger of vanity, that the gentler things of women concerned for their appearance should still have a place in a world seeming to be going mad gladdens my heart. In some such manner those things having to do with Santa, with butterflies and rainbows continues to be a kind of anchor to my soul.

Were it not for the fact that I have never lost the best of the man, the child within, there might be some justification for detractors claiming I’m among those who grow old reverting to a childish faith. But the best of what we are as human beings, the best of those things believed by little Virginia and affirmed by Francis Church neither grows old nor do they become childish.

But I want to address another matter that weighs heavily upon me. In the midst of oppressive heat and being elderly, living alone and without A/C or even a swamp cooler the incongruity of mentioning Santa Claus at this time is not lost on me. But being acutely aware of the many hazards the elderly in my circumstances face especially those living alone and without any neighbors I at least find comfort in those things taught me as a child by loved ones I fully expect to see again. As I mentioned to one pen pal it is all well and good for me to live with ghosts but this will never take the place of a much needed hug.

For those my detractors that believe I’m simply “religious” I would disabuse these of the notion. In fact, few have more reason to find fault with the churches than me. I have one friend that comes by about once a week to check on me, another who calls occasionally, but strangely enough I have sought in vain to find a church here in the Kern River Valley with an in home ministry to the elderly. Or it may be they simply want nothing to do with an elderly smoker. But then, this thing of being a pariah because of smoking has become a monumental problem for those like me irrespective of any religious beliefs and I expect at any time those in control of our lives like the present Triune Dictatorship to declare people like me “Enemies of the State.”

I have this at least; in my circumstances it no longer matters to me the floor does not get vacuumed.

This may more properly belong in the “Faith Forum,” but I’m not sure how many of those folks believe in ghosts. So, I’ll put it here. But I believe there is what the poets call the “Universal Lyre,” answering to thoughts of a “Sea of Consciousness” permeating the universe. Is this the domain of ghosts and Einstein’s “spooky communication at a distance” in which there is no limitation of time in such communication?

Perhaps it would be more accurate to refer to ghosts as spirits, since the Bible credits such spirits, and even the name Holy Ghost is more commonly rendered Holy Spirit. Whatever the source of the myths, fables and legends, the fact remains from the earliest of human history the stories are there of angels and demons, of creatures good and evil. The Bible has it the creation was blasted by sin and the whole world groans waiting for its redemption. To consider nature red in tooth and claw and the wars of men, the monsters among us in human guise without conscience is to credit the thought.

The many popular TV shows like “In Search Of, History’s Mysteries, SciFi” and so many more fuel the fires of imagination. But with the loss of so many loved ones and friends when I tell people I live alone with only ghosts and the resident cat for companionship here in my small place in the country it is not with the intention of convincing anyone such is the case. But if you do a study about ghosts you will quickly find there are thousands of books on the subject, and in all honesty you have to wonder whether there is any scientific basis for the actual existence of ghosts. My own belief is that my loved ones and friends did not depart from me but remain with me, their spirits their real “selves” having never departed from me. What is this that I am but the spirit within me, that “fire” of life and self-awareness we carry about in our bodies the Bible describes and Emerson referred to?

In the realm of science if you look up the words “energy” and “life” in an encyclopedia or do an online search of the words you quickly discover the material on these two subjects is in fact encyclopedic. But you don’t have to read far until you will discover science has no real understanding of what, exactly, these two things are; that they are in fact “mysteries.” One idea is that they properly belong to that estimated 94% of the universe unknown and perhaps unknowable. And while things like “string theory” are fascinating, they remain theories, subjects for research, speculation and conjecture.

The subjects of Psi, the paranormal, things that go bump in the night that excite our imagination may like economics be subjects of levity, but are not so easily disposed of. The religious beliefs that evolve into dogma generally lack any scientific basis, but those things that contribute to religious beliefs are generally real enough, much like the lost facts of those things that become fables and legends.

Science has not provided answers to the questions of Who am I, where did I come from, and where am I going? And lacking the science, these questions are the subject of philosophical and theological speculation. The one scientific certainty is that once you are “here” you will die. It’s the “Then what?” that becomes of consuming interest resulting in so many superstitions and beliefs, and not a little of scientific inquiry.

It is most unfortunate the materials available through the Creation Research Society are not made available in the public schools. When it comes to matters of science, just why are children being cheated of the scientific material contradicting the superstitions of Darwinists? In a word: Satan. It is this evil entity, I believe, that has been so enormously successful in peddling the “gospel” of evolution.

The Bible has it that God is a Spirit, and those who worship him do so in spirit and in truth. We also read it is the spirit of God that quickens, that gives life; that the flesh profits nothing. The opening chapters of Genesis have God creating the Adam by breathing the breath of life into his creation and the Adam became a living soul. At this point, volumes have been written concerning a pre-Adamic creation the creatures of which did not possess the soul of the Adam made in the very image of God, and thereby becoming the very children of God. The later passage having to do with the commingling of the sons of God and the daughters of men may be fact, a fact resulting in the violence that filled the earth and the monsters in human guise, children of the Devil among us. The Genesis account may also be the answer to how after millions of years of various creatures and hominids Modern Man (the Adam?) and civilization arrived so abruptly on the scene a scant few thousands of years ago.

Nature red in tooth and claw is, I believe, the result of war in the heavens brought to earth as the Bible has it. The pre-Adamic creation would seem to be a diabolical one, and one in which the monsters like dinosaurs were the rule, perhaps the creation of Satan. The Bible declares Satan is the god of this world; that the whole world is his domain and lies in wickedness and Satan empowers his servants giving them positions of authority directed toward the suffering of the children of God.

The book of Job is thought to be the oldest book of the Bible. When the sons of God appear before him Satan is among them. And the narrative has it Satan had come from his domain of the earth to appear before God.

You will note that in the “Temptation” when Satan offered Jesus the kingdoms of the world telling him these were Satan’s to give to whom he would Jesus did not dispute the claim. But for a child of God, in the words of Jesus “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose one’s soul, or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” In short, Satan had nothing of value to offer Jesus. Nor does he have anything of real and genuine value to offer any true child of God. But he is not only a murderer from the beginning as Jesus said, but the Father of liars and the arch deceiver. And though the elect are said to be undeceived by the Devil and his angels, that the children of God are not ignorant of the devices of the Devil nevertheless the children of God are supposed to be vigilant and constantly on guard against the Accuser and Adversary of humankind.

Whatever their source and despite the claims of our contemporary witch doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists, none can dispute the fact that there are “soulless” monsters among us in human guise, monsters without conscience preying on women and children especially. But the Bible also declares Satan knows his end is coming, that God and the children of God will eventually triumph over Satan and his servants. But in the meantime, knowing his end is sure Satan goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. To doubters a perfect example of this is Hitler. Knowing his end was sure he would destroy Germany, a perfect example of satanic thinking: “If I can’t have what I want, if I can’t have things my way I’ll destroy everything!”

The Bible declares “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” That this death is the “second death” of Scripture is something Christians believe. But you neither have to be a Bible-thumping dispensationalist nor one making fun of beliefs such as the Rapture to know you are going to die, and as we also read in the Bible: “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.” You may not believe the second, but the first is certain. So believe or don’t believe what and as you will, but I would ask detractors to at least try to be civilized in your unbelief rather than attacking in poor taste those like me who believe because “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he” and a person is known by their manner of speaking as much or more than by what they say.

The inebriated fellow in Hitchcock’s “The Birds” cracks me up with his “It’s the end of the world.” Keith Olbermann mimics this marvelously, and I wrote and told him so when I first heard him use it.

Nobel-winning physicist Michio Kaku in his book “Visions” expressed the thought that if other civilizations did exist elsewhere in the universe, the reason we have not heard from them is the possibility they reached our stage of nuclear “development” and destroyed themselves, a path of destruction not a few scientists and just plain ordinary people are concerned about right now with so many itchy fingers on nuclear triggers. But there is a thought that like Superman escaping his planet before it destructed, Atlantis might have been the home of space immigrants. Unfortunately for planet earth, the “monsters of the Id” as per “Forbidden Planet” would seem to have come with those who founded and built Atlantis if such were the case.

The beginning Chapters of Genesis are amenable to understanding many of the myths and legends surrounding the beginnings of life on earth, and further parts of the Bible give credence to “extraterrestrials.” But the Biblical prophecies, all the eschatological references concerning the End Times?

 Were it not for the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, who knows but Muslims right now would “eradicate” Israel and turn it into glass? But what if a bunker buster should “accidentally” hit the Dome of the Rock? A very interesting scenario for speculation.

Newt Gingrich did not invent WWIII; it has long been the stuff of apocalyptic preaching and a great number of books and films. But for those not familiar with the basic text here it is— Revelation 16:12-16: And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

WWIII was the thought in the minds of many of us who were Biblically knowledgeable, and we were anticipating it from the very moment the State of Israel came into existence. The prophetic scenario seemed plain enough to those of us who knew the Scriptures “able to make one wise unto salvation.” And with the otherwise unthinkable coming to pass, unthinkable to those who did not know or believe God intended to bring such a thing to pass, suddenly after so many centuries there it was: The State of Israel!

However, none can fail to understand that were it not for America the tiny nation of Israel would be doomed. But in order to understand the relationship of America and Israel one must understand the history of the development of Christian Western Civilization that resulted in America being absolutely essential to Israel becoming a nation, and the reason Israel can only continue to exist because of America.

All the university-bred revisionist “histories” cannot dispel the fact that were it not for America’s influence following WWII that vote would not have gone in favor of a “Homeland for Jews.” But were it not for America’s very roots in the Bible, virtually every document and person of note being grounded in the Bible and trusting its influence for good, whether Christian or Deist, an America that would become the one essential thing for Israel becoming a nation would never have happened.

Despite all the arguments against it, the truth of the matter is that America is a nation of the Book, the Bible, and everything leading up to the founding of America has its basis in the Bible. And despite the rocky beginnings of Christianity once all the witches were hung, drowned, or pressed and the heretics burned, for the better part notwithstanding those holdouts like Cotton Mather Christianity became a civilized religion that gave rise to the greatest advances in the arts and sciences the world had ever known. And America would become the preeminent world power as a result of the Bible’s influence throughout.

But at the same time, I am a believer that no good person wants power and authority over others, that those who seek wealth and power over others have made their deal with the Devil in order to attain such positions, that graft and corruption among those that attain power over others and abuse that power to their own ends is a given when you consider who they serve as master.

While the Roman Church long continued to persecute Jews, Protestant theologians eventually began to support the “Chosen People” idea as one in which God’s blessing or cursing would depend on how Christians treated Jews as the “Apple of God’s eye.” In this manner Protestant theologians began to favor Jews as “People of the Book,” though they would be “incomplete Jews” still in need of confessing Jesus as their Messiah.

But it would take another “People of the Book,” Christians with their influence throughout despite the dark motives of the children of the Devil in the process, to make the modern nation of Israel possible; and it would take the centuries dedicated to the progress of doctrine with its civilizing influence to bring into being an America that would make the new nation of Israel possible. And while Satan has a firm grip on education in America today, to deny the evidence of America having its beginnings in the Bible and its very foundation as a Christian nation is to deny the thousands of historic documents to the contrary.

The result of all of this is now playing out on the world scene, and the time will come when people’s hearts will be “failing them for fear,” that they will cry out for the rocks to fall upon them to hide them from the wrath of God to come! The advent of the “bomb” and “Israel,” the nuclear threat of making the “elements melt with a fervent heat,” of the nations of the world opposing America and Israel and gathering themselves together for WWIII, with the purpose of America in all of this now playing out on the world scene is inescapable to those who believe. And for those who do not? There is nothing they can possibly do to prevent what the Bible has declared will happen.

There is a fascinating study going on in Germany called the Neanderthal Genome Project. But scientists from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology engaged in the project admit “There are no firm answers yet about how humans picked up key traits such as walking upright and developing complex language.” Anthropologists believe Neanderthals were “relatively sophisticated” but did not have the higher reasoning functions of what is called “Modern Man.” One scientist speculated some years ago that Neanderthal may not have had the physical capability of intelligible speech, which of itself would have doomed any progress of the species, and as to the chimp genome it “led to literally too many questions, there were 35 million differences between us and chimpanzees — that’s too much to figure out,” Jonathan Rothberg, 454's chairman, said in a telephone interview…

Too much of what evolutionists have successfully propagandized without any scientific validity would have you believe Modern Man and civilization sprang from the mind of their version of Zeus. No, I believe it came about by God’s determinate action, an action that began with war in the heavens brought to earth. And the “end of all things” as the Bible has it and as many like Michio Kaku have cautioned may very well be at hand.

There is no fanaticism to being a child of God, a person to whom believing is as natural as breathing, a person who only wants to live in peace. The fanaticism is all in the Devil’s camp, a fanaticism playing itself out right now among those that preach a doctrine of appeasement leading to the destruction of America and Israel. But while God’s children would far rather live in peace, His children are not fools and God expects those who believe in Him to keep their powder dry, the Father of our country, George Washington proving the point.