We
Americans are a peace loving people; we don't envy our neighbors
their land or their wealth. We make no wars of conquest, so we find
it hard to believe that others would attack us. We become
involved in defensive wars because we suffer so much wrong without
resistance that our long patience is mistaken for cowardice.
Our enemies, both in other lands and within our own nation, take
advantage of this. They know they can always lead us into
traps by pretending they want peace. Russia is hard at this old
trick right now, in the United Nations, vigorously helped by the
so-called neutral nations. How can there be any neutrality
between good and evil? Yahshua said he who is not for Me is
against Me.
Most of our churches are to blame for our failure to recognize
this devil's trap for what it is, for it is clearly stated in the
Bible, that book they so seldom read to you in church. As for
the United Nations, that palace of strangers cursed by Yahweh, the
prophets exposed their talk of peace 2,500 years ago. Psalm
28:3 calls them, "The workers of iniquity, which speak peace to
their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts". Jeremiah 9:8
says, "Their tongue is an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one
speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart
he lyeth in ambush".
We see
this at every session, Cuba and Venezuela talking loudly of peace,
while they plot an invasion of Nicaragua. Nassar's Egypt plotting
the murder of the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Panama
organizing the theft of the Panama Canal from us because we connived
with Egypt for the similar theft of the Suez Canal. All over
Africa, the Negroes are planning wholesale murder of all the whites
who brought them the only civilization they ever
knew.
Isaiah
57:20-21 saw this restless evil, "The wicked are like the troubled
sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There
is no peace, saith Yahweh, to the wicked". In that parliament of
evil, who exposes these plots, who demand the liberation of Eastern
Europe, who frankly calls a spade a spade? No one! Isaiah 59:4,8
tells about it, "None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for
truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies. The way of
peace they knoweth not: and there is no judgment in their goings
they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not
know peace".
Why
haven't the preachers of our churches taught us peace only comes
from Yahweh, not from Russia? The Bible has told about it
from the beginning. In Leviticus 26:3,6 Yahweh promises us,
"If ye walk in My statutes and keep My commandments and do
them: I will give peace in the land and ye shall lie down and
none shall make you afraid". Psalm 119:165 says, "Great peace
have they which love Thy law: and nothing shall offend them".
Isaiah 48:18 states, "O that thou hadst hearkened to My
commandments! Then had thy peace been as a river and thy
righteousness as the waves of the sea". Instead of Yahweh, our
people worship F.D. Roosevelt, Kennedy, Stevenson and Bridges,
who tell us that the only way to peace is by surrender to
Khrushchev's demands. The devil's peace on the devil's terms.
Hungary and Tibet know what kind of peace it is; yet many red
clergymen and corrupted churches support this!
This
also is in the Bible. Jeremiah 8:10-12,15 records, "For every
one, from the least even unto the greatest, is given to
covetousness; from the prophet even unto the priest every one
dealeth falsely. For they have healed the hurt of the daughter
of My people but slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no
peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. We
looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health and
behold trouble". Ezekiel 13:8-10 says to these ministers,
"Because ye have spoken vanity and seen lies, therefore behold I
am against you saith Yahweh. And Mine hand shall be upon the
prophets that they see vanity and that divine lies: they shall not
be in the assembly of My people, neither shall they be written in
the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into
the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am Yahweh. Because,
even because they have seduced My people, saying peace; and
there was no peace". There cannot be peace with evil.
Yahshua warned us always to oppose and fight evil. In Matthew
10:34 He said, "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth.
I came not to send peace, but a sword."
We
turn our backs on Yahweh and walk blindly into the trap every time
some obvious villain says peace. Daniel 8:23-25 tells us, "And
in the latter time of their kingdom, when transgressors are come to
the full, a king of fierce countenance and understanding dark
sentences shall stand up". Never before have transgressors so come
to the full. Khrushchev's scowling face and communist double talk
fulfill this to the letter. Daniel continues, "And his power
shall be mighty and he shall destroy wonderfully, and
shall prosper". Never in all history has a nation risen to such
power and destroyed so many nations by infiltration, corruption
and treason, always delicately called liberalism.
Remember Khrushchev, drunk with power, strutting boastfully in the
United Nations, and in the same breath talking peace and threatening
destruction! Daniel says, "He shall magnify himself in his heart,
and by peace destroy many". Weigh those words carefully, "Peace
shall destroy many". By the infamous peace of Potsdam, Russia was
allowed to swallow all Eastern Europe and North
Korea.
Because we preferred Satan's peace to that of Yahweh, Russia
was given China, Afghanistan, Tibet, Iraq and now Cuba. Now our
politicians want to talk disarmament with Khrushchev, knowing that
he has never kept his word on anything! About the time Franklin
Roosevelt came to power here, Dmitri Manuilsky said in Moscow,
"War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is
inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to
attack. Our time will come in 20 to 30 years. To win, we shall
need the element of surprise. So we shall begin by launching the
most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be
electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalistic
countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their
own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As
soon as their guard is down, we will smash them with our clenched
fist."
Today
this time has come. Everyone knows communists never keep their word
in anything. They want us to disarm while they keep their secret
stores of weapons, rockets and nuclear bombs to attack us with.
Yet, our political leaders still propose to go through with this
treachery. What is our reward for this folly? Isaiah 33:7 tells
us, "Behold their valiant ones cry without: the ambassadors of peace
shall weep bitterly. The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man
ceaseth; he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities,
he regardeth no man".
Devastation will come upon us from Russia's treacherous nuclear
bomb attack, which she will not fear to make after we have largely
disarmed. Our military men are aghast at the treason and its
consequences. Our diplomats wring their hands in hypocritical
horror at the inevitable fruit of their connivance with evil. They
appear shocked that the obvious result of their folly has come upon
us, what reason is there for surprise? Our attempt to make the
devil's peace could not possibly have any other
result.
We
read in the newspapers and we hear people say, we must keep on
negotiating with Russia. As long as they are talking, they aren't
fighting. People also say, let's make an agreement with Russia so we
won't have war. Making an agreement with Russia is exactly what will bring on war, Yahweh warns us of that. When we
make a treaty with Russia for disarmament, millions of thoughtless
fools will say, now we are safe, there won't be war. But war will
swiftly follow after that. The apostle Paul tells us in
Thessalonians 5:3, "For when they say peace and safety, then sudden
destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child: and
they shall not escape".
Evil cannot be presented first in all its naked ugliness, but
must first be disguised as good. Even then, those who read
Yahweh's warnings are not deceived. The fools who put expediency
above right, who will abandon principle to get the support of
minority groups, who put a political party above Yahweh, will this
time pay the penalty of death. "By peace he shall destroy many."