There is a great mystery on the earth today, cloaked in darkness. How could a Nazi like war break out in Europe today? To make the mystery even greater, the nation we are told is acting like Nazis fought against Nazism with great loss in World War II. How could the Serbs have fallen so far?
Here is another mystery: Why is it taking so long for the full fury of NATO to break the will of a small country like Yugoslavia? NATO is a global power, created to fight a global war, against another global power. NATO’s life long mission has been to win a global war in weeks. But the bombing of tiny Yugoslavia went on for months, and she did not even fight back, and she was not broken.
Here is another mystery: Long time allies have become enemies, and long time enemies have become allies in these wars.
The greatest mystery: Are we truly in the end times? If we are, there are empire builders who are on the scene. Satan and his princes must fully establish their domain. Do you believe that we are in the end times? If you were going to conquer the world, how would you go about the task? How would you line up resources? Who would be your enemies? Who would be your allies? How and when would you refine your methods? Were would you attack first? How would you launch your attack?
This first letter is a spiritual perspective on American action in the Balkan wars. It will disclose the catastrophic result of fundamental changes in international policy by the present U.S. Administration. It will identify the misguided humanistic beliefs behind the nature of this change. Then it will disclose how the new policy has forced the Administration to pursue a course of deceit toward the American people and the United States Armed Forces. Finally, it will describe how this ill-conceived policy has back-fired on the international scene and has already set in motion events that can not be reversed and are going to bring woe of prophetic magnitude on the whole earth.
The events of the recent months have been so confusing no one seems to be able to make sense of what is going on. Our Christian media has been put to sleep, and the secular media cannot see into the spiritual realm, and is even party to the deception. All of America, including the church leadership, has been caught off guard. We are a democracy, and we are not accustomed to being so deceived and used by our government leaders. The result is as if the eyes of the church are cloaked to the spiritual nature of the events.
American Christians have already been used in the Balkan wars to further two global agendas. Both of these agendas are in opposition to the true interests of the United States of America, and are at spiritual war with the church.
The first agenda has grown out of the humanist dream of a peaceful and just world. This is a noble dream and, in itself, is the great desire of the nations. Christians also have this dream, but the road to the kingdom of peace the humanist has chosen has already sent us down a road of no return.
Humanists are generally nothing worse than kindhearted dreamers, and intelligent, but sometimes stubborn, liberals. They do not all think alike in a unified block. They just think it is wrong to consider God in any of their equations. Their intelligence enables them to think on the grand scheme of things; they want to solve the world's problems. There is camaraderie of spirit between them that draws them together like a brotherhood. Some have formed various think tanks and para-governmental organizations to work toward their humanitarian goals. In these ivory towers, they are constructing the humanist version of the road to the kingdom of peace—but it is the road of false hope, and betrayal, and calamity. Unintentionally, the humanist has set the world down the final road to Armageddon.
Many of these humanists have looked at the warring nations and decided that the nation is the source of international conflict. They see the root of war in the two doctrines that the current world order is built on: 'national self interest' and 'national sovereignty'. These doctrines are seen by the humanist as nothing more than base selfishness.
They presume that the selfishness nurtured by this frame of reference is at the root of our universal ability to dehumanize anyone we believe violates our self-interest. Once this process takes place, they believe we are then able to attack our perceived enemies with a clear conscience. These humanists have concluded that national sovereignty will have to be abandoned before we can have peace and justice in the world.
Those who embrace this conclusion have traditionally been called internationalists. Again, this is not wrong in itself. In the Kingdom of God, all the nations will loose their sovereignty and be under the reign of the true Global Power, who will call the nations to Jerusalem for justice.
When the internationalist is asked how he will accomplish his goal, he provides a ready answer. He will accomplish his work through education, negotiation, and international associations like the UN. With an open and willing spirit he reveals his motives and methods in his answer. His transparency shows that he is not hiding ulterior motives.
However there are some humanists who have despaired of achieving their goal through these failed, straightforward methods. This group has concluded that the nations will have to be forced to accept a new order. This is a much more aggressive approach. They want to get down the road to a new world order as fast as they can.
This type of humanist is willing to threaten and even wage war to achieve the breaking of the nations. The buzz-word in Christian circles for these people is globalists. They have essentially become anti-nationalists and could be identified as radical humanists. They are not even true humanists, just radical secularists. They do not even deserve the name of humanist for they deceive even their humanist brothers.
When you ask the radical how he plans to accomplish his goals, he has to be guarded in his answer, cloaking his intentions so the motive behind his actions will not be exposed to anyone. Most people will not accept his willingness to go to war. So he has to cloak his actions with deceptive doctrines that are acceptable to 'Christian nationalist' and 'humanist internationalists' alike.
These doctrines do not reveal anything about his true motives or any of his actions, including going to war. The nation is obsolete to the radical and he has really become a militant globalist. As incredible as it sounds, you will soon see how the current United States president is in the spirit of this kind of radical.
Before we get too deep into the agenda of the Radical, we need to step back and trace the development of a second agenda that will merge with, and give great strength to the Radical’s work.
The second agenda that Christian solders have unknowingly served is the Muslim version of the kingdom of God. Like the humanist, these Muslims dream of a world of peace and justice. These activist Muslims are disciples of the Jihad, or Holy Muslim War. Their goal is the global nation of Islam. There are Muslim nations that hold international conferences formulating their grand plans of global conquest. They are actively pursuing their dream and are now causing armed conflict in many nations across the globe, from Indonesia to India, and from Russia to the Sudan, and from the Caucasus to the Balkans. Yet the western media, for some inexplicable, or even darker reason, chooses to ignore the roots of these many conflicts.
The Muslim religion was established in 630 AD in Arabia, under the sword of Mohammed, when he conquered Mecca. The religion is essentially this one man’s reaction against the divinity of Christ. Incredibly, in only one century the Muslims conquered the Middle East to the Indus River, much of Asia Minor, and all of North Africa. In Western Europe their armies had conquered Spain and Portugal, and were attacking France! All this was achieved by the power of the gospel of war, in contrast to the gospel of peace. The gospel of war even has a special Muslim name—the Jihad. When the Jihad began, all of these lands were Christian.
The Muslims had a simple goal—conquer the world. The plan was to destroy the Christian world within the first hundred years of Islam. New Rome, which the west called Constantinople, was the capital of the Christian world. The Muslims set their sights on conquering this capital.
Constantinople was also the fortress capital of the great Roman Empire. It’s celebrated natural harbor was known throughout the world as the Golden Horn. Contrary to the self-centered assumptions of westerners, the greater population of Rome, the strength of Rome, the economy of Rome, the wealth of Rome, the thought of Rome, the culture of Rome, the religious vitality of Rome, and even the capital of Rome, were all in the eastern half of the empire. Much of the west had been and always remained the frontier. This was simply because the west was much lower in population and a millennium behind the east in development.
Of the Roman world, the west was more agrarian, less educated, always poorer, and never the center of religious or cultural thought. The great cultural strength the west did have was ‘imported’ from the east. Roman culture was firmly rooted in Athens, in the eastern half of the empire, in the southern Balkans, and close to Constantinople. The weaker western empire collapsed under the same pressures the eastern half stood under. The eastern empire even stood against the power of Attila the Hun after the western half succumbed to the barbarian invasions.
The plan was for the western armies of the Jihad to sweep across Europe from Spain while the eastern armies were to march west. The two Muslim armies were to meet at Constantinople and pinch the city to death. Why Constantinople? Simply, because it was the capital of the Roman and the Christian world. Both Muslim armies would be needed. Constantinople was on the eastern edge of the Balkan Peninsula. It was a tremendous fortress that had withstood the armies of several barbarian invasions. It had a harbor that is large enough for even a modern navy. At the time was the largest, most powerful city on earth.
Disaster struck the Muslims. The armies of the western Jihad were stopped and destroyed at Tours, France in 732 AD, by the armies of Charles Martel. If it had not been for this stand, the Muslims may well have accomplished their goal of destroying the entire Christian world.
The armies of the eastern Jihad had trouble in conquering Constantinople without the western Jihad. The downfall of Constantinople did not come until after the Muslim’s introduced gunpowder to warfare. The first cannons were used against Constantinople. In 1453 the eastern half of the Roman Empire finally died, one thousand years after the western half fell to the barbarian invasions.
The eastern armies of the Jihad were going to do what the western armies could not. After the fall of Constantinople, the next goal of the Jihad was Vienna, Austria. This city is in the heart of Europe and is the crown jewel of Germanic culture. The road from Constantinople to Vienna goes straight through Kosovo. The battles in the Balkans raged for two hundred thirty years. The Slavic Serbians fought to the death. Their survival, and the survival of Christianity was at stake.
John Sobieski (So bies’ ki), a Slavic Ukrainian finally repelled and broke the Jihad at Vienna in 1683. The Ukrainians are close cousins to the Serbians of Kosovo. They are both families of Slavic lineage. The Russians are also Slavic. Their common heritage and experience with the Jihad is the basis for Russia’s opposition to NATO’s actions in Kosovo. The breaking of the eastern Jihad by Sobieski was as significant an event as Charles Martel’s breaking of the western Jihad. After a thousand years, 1683 marks the year that Europe was finally free of the threat of the Jihad—until the 1990’s.
In 1683, another watershed event significant to today’s conflict in Kosovo took place. It was the same year John Locke, the father of the Enlightenment, formulated the doctrine of human rights. Locke’s political ideas fired the growth of the Whig party and provided the intellectual arguments at the basis of Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence.
Human rights was the ‘gunpowder’ for the ‘shot heard `round the world.’ It is the most important political doctrine ever to develop in the western world. It alone gave rise to western liberal democracy, which created the environment for the freedoms so cherished in the west today. These freedoms are even cherished by the Serbs of Yugoslavia. But the Muslims of Albania—the ones the secular media calls ‘ethnic Albanians’—and their allies in Iran, are not impressed with western secular doctrines.
Western writers have played down the significance of the Jihad in Muslim thought for several decades now. This misguided attitude is only serving to enable the Jihad to come much closer to our lives without the western public realizing what is happening. The Jihad is a duty of all Muslims, whether they are mainstream Sunni or fundamentalist Shiite. The Jihad is fulfilled by four means: the heart, the tongue, the hand, and the sword. The Jihad has never been reduced to three means. The sword of the Jihad is taught as the responsibility to wage war against all non-Muslim nations.
This doctrine is not dying out. On the contrary, it is resurgent throughout the Muslim world. Every Muslim nation in the world serves to prove this point. All Islamic nations reject the western doctrines of secularism. In contrast to the western nations, there is no thought of the separation of ‘mosque and state’ in the Muslim world. Western freedoms are mocked as pure decadence. To the Muslims, the doctrine of secularism is a doctrine of infidels.
All Muslim states see the commands of their god, revealed in the Koran, as the law of the realm. The current constitutional structure of all Muslim states has been forged in the last few decades, and all are rooted in a resurgence of Islamic law. Islamic law requires a state of war be declared against the non-Muslim world.
By Islamic law, the whole world is divided between the abode of Islam and dar al-harb which is ‘the abode of war.’ The abode of war is all non-Muslim nations. You and I live in dar al-harb. All Muslim governments have declared a state of war against all non-Muslim nations in the world. The Muslims also single out Israel for destruction. Their declarations of war are not secrets. They are very serious. They are contained in their constitutions!
All adult Muslim males must take part in the Jihad against the non-Muslim nations. Islamic law requires the ultimate submission of all nations to the abode of Islam. Only then can the Jihad end. Any agreement with infidels is a temporary expedient. The agreements are to stand only until the Islamic warriors can regroup. Regrouping is to be accomplished in seven years. This is the reason there are so many terrorists from the Muslim world.
The Muslim believer can of his own, without any higher sanction, push the Jihad forward. When he dies, he is not scorned as a terrorist, he is seen as a hero of the Jihad. He even receives a special place in heaven, with his own harem.
To the faithful Muslim, the Jihad is the sixth pillar, or sacrament, of Islam. The pillars of Islam are as important to the Muslims as the sacraments are to the high church. For the Muslim faithful, who are called the submissive ones, the way to achieve the kingdom of peace is to expand the Islamic nation. The goal is one global Islamic nation.
The achievement of this goal, of necessity, is at the expense all other nations. They must be subjected or destroyed. This is the point at which the radical humanist and the radical Muslim have a common goal, the breaking of all the nations by force. This common goal is the basis for their willingness to work together.
The successors to Mohammed’s office are called Caliphs. A Caliph holds an office similar to that of the Cesar of Rome. It is a title of empire. Through the centuries, the Caliphs followed the change in the locus of political power. During the great expansion of Islam, the power of the Caliphate traveled northward toward the fertile crescent. Remember this: in prophecy, the horn represents the ruler, or prince, of an empire.
Islam was not unified. Because Mohammed had no sons, there were two main pretenders to the title, the Sunni Caliph and the Shiite Caliph. During the expansion, both Caliphates passed from Arabs to Turks and Persians. After the conquest of Constantinople, the office of the Sunni Caliph moved to that city.
The Sunni Caliphate was the largest of the Islamic empire builders. The Caliph needed to be at the center of the greatest economic and political power in the Muslim empire. That center of power was, and still is Constantinople. The Muslims changed the name of the city to Istanbul. This means that the Sunni Muslim ‘capital’ is in the Balkans. The Shiite Muslim Caliphate, or capital, is now in Iran, which is Persia.
Even with the split between Sunni and Shiite Islam, there has always been the desire for the long awaited lamb of Islam. This lamb is to be the last Iman, or prophet of Islam. He is to be the emanation of god to man. Many Muslims believe he is on earth now and are awaiting his unveiling. They believe he will unite Islam and lead it to global victory by his prophetic powers.
The Iman is a two horned lamb, and he speaks with the mouth of the serpent. He is the ‘Lord of the Jihad.’ He is the prophesied beast of the land. He is the lamb with two horns and a mouth that speaks like the serpent (Rev. 13). The beast of the land makes a pact with the beast of the sea, and the beast of the sea gives all his power and authority over to be used by the beast of the land.
The Balkan Peninsula today is the region where the Muslim east meets the Christian west—or what use to be the Christian west. This meeting is really a collision, for it is the root of the numerous wars throughout the region. The Orthodox Christians of the region have had to fight hard for their survival because the Balkan region is the furthermost penetration into central Europe the Jihad has been able to maintain. The Christian West seems to have forgotten that it owes a great debt for its very existence to the stand by the Orthodox nations of this region.
Christians in the Balkan region go back to Bible times. Seven books of the New Testament are addressed to Christians in the Balkans. The Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts were written to a Roman official who lived in the Balkans. In these two books, Luke described more prophetic events than anyone else in the Bible, including Isaiah and Jeremiah. If you count, you will also find that one in every three pages of the New Testament was written to Christians in the Balkans.
Five of Paul’s epistles are included in this group of scriptural writings to the Balkans. Paul made an incredible proclamation, as if it were his epitaph, when he was concluding his epistle to the Romans (Even this letter was written from the Balkans). In the final portions of the letter to the Romans, Paul described the accomplishments of his life, because he thought he was to soon die at the hands of his opposition:
“I have finished spreading the gospel of Christ from Jerusalem to Illyricum. My goal was to spread the name of Christ where it was not known, least I should build on another man’s work.” (Romans 15)
Where is Illyricum? You can get a good answer by going to a church in Kosovo and asking someone, but an easier way would be to look in a good Bible Atlas:
ILLYRICUM:--Roman
province in what is now W. Yugoslavia and Albania. Paul evidently visited it on his second and/or third journeys.
(Zondervan
NIV Atlas of the Bible, 1989)
Kosovo lies between “what is now W. Yugoslavia and Albania.” The atlas further states that Paul probably traveled to the region from Berea on the Egnatian Way, one of the famous Roman roads, and that he may have also written II Corinthians while in Illyricum.
Paul also sent Titus to Dalmatia to do follow-up work. Titus would have had the same kind of responsibilities to organize the church in Dalmatia as he did in Crete (II Tim. 4 and Titus). In the 10th century Croatia and Serbia divided Dalmatia between them. In 1918, Dalmatia was at the nucleus of the formation of the new Yugoslavia.
This means that the map-makers of the journeys of Paul need to re-check their work. Paul’s own testimony—on at least two occasions, including one of which could be considered his chosen epitaph—documents that he carried the gospel into the heartland of the Balkans, the land of Kosovo.
The land we now know as Kosovo is also on the northern edge of Macedonia, which is the land of the famous vision of the Macedonian call. The importance of this call can be understood when you realize that it gives birth to the European church. In the vision, two men entreated Paul to come over to Europe and help them. Luke was an eyewitness to how serious Paul took that vision (Acts 16).
Macedonia is the home of Lydia, the first of the European converts, the Bereans, the Thessalonians, and the Philippians. Philippi was the capital city of Alexander the Great and his father, Philip of Macedon. Alexander the Great set out from this city to conquer the world.
Alexander the Great was tutored in philosophy by Aristotle, the foremost of the Greek thinkers. Alexander was much more complex than the average general, he set out to conquer the world with a unique mission. He took Greek philosophers with him on his conquests and set up Academies throughout the conquered lands.
Alexander the Great’s method of cultural conquest can be equated to setting up universities throughout the world today. The result was that Alexander the Great conquered the world in two ways—with armies, which did not last and with Greek education, which did last.
Alexander’s efforts became the means by which the Greek method of education was established in numerous lands. The Greek worldview mastered many of the cultures of the world. This process happened throughout the east, and included north Africa, hundreds of years before the west was culturally conquered.
When Greek culture did conquer the west, it conquered it in a grand way. Greek concepts and curriculum controlled all of western education up until the opening of the twentieth century. The Greek culture is the origin of the idea of nature and the idea of philosophy. The modern world owes its existence to these two doctrines, and they came out of the Greek world of the southern Balkans.
Alexander the Great is the leopard with four wings in the first vision of Daniel. He is the Goat in the second vision
Incredibly, two of the capitals of the four empires of Nebuchadnezzar’s great image are in the Balkans. The first was the capital city of Philippi, the home base of the Grecian Empire of Alexander the Great. The Grecian empire is the bronze section of the belly and thighs in Nebuchadnezzar’s vision. The second capital in the Balkans was the capital of the Roman Empire. This empire constitutes the iron legs of the colossus.
The Greek Empire unified and conquered the eastern world—this is the bronze belly of the statue. Later it conquered the western world culturally, beginning with Rome, and became the bronze thighs of the statue. The Roman Empire of iron legs grew out of the Greek Empire, and was always divided between the east and west. Ancient Rome was always more eastern than western. Most of the spirit that gave strength to the empire was eastern and this was one of the reasons that Constantine moved the capital eastward to New Rome.
After the collapse of the Western Empire the citizens of the Eastern Empire continued to refer to themselves simply as Romans. To them, their capital was New Rome. We now know New Rome as Istanbul. Westerners in their hubris call the Eastern Roman Empire the Byzantine Empire and its capital of New Rome we called Constantinople.
Remember this: The new empire of the tribulation will have many of the same characteristics of the ancient Rome. It will be the two feet of the colossus that rises up and stands like a man. The two feet represent two very different cultures under one empire. They are not joined at the hip the way the old Rome was, but they are united for the same cause. They give their power to the beast to accomplish two very different—but at the same time—strangely common goals.
Make sure note of this: The eastern foot has five toes. The western foot has five toes—not ten. The toes are nations. Make sure note of this: just as the ancient Roman Empire moved its capital eastward, (and at times there were two) so will the new Roman Empire move its capitals. One will be New Rome, which is now Istanbul. New Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire, dominated the kings of the Earth longer than Italian Rome.
Remember this, the Radical and his beast will be shape shifters. They want to remain cloaked throughout their global conquest. They will manage to stay cloaked until after the ambush has been completed and their global conquest commences.
The early church in the Balkans was instrumental in the writing of the ancient, great confessions of Christendom, including the Nicene Creed. This church eventually became know as the Eastern Orthodox Church. It has always been independent of Roman Catholic Church authority. Throughout the first millennium of Christendom, it was much larger and wealthier than its younger Roman Catholic sister.
The Roman Catholic Church claims supremacy in the Christian world. This doctrine developed because Peter taught in Rome and was martyred there. If you compared the time the apostles spent in the city of Rome to other cities and regions, then Rome would be far down the list for a senior title. The European church was born in Macedonia, not Italy. There was one letter written to the Italian church that constitutes scripture, there were at least seven written to the Balkan churches.
During the early centuries of Christianity, there were five major church centers around the Mediterranean. They were Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, New Rome (Constantinople, which is now Istanbul), and Old Rome. The only center of Christianity with a smaller ministry than Italian Rome was Jerusalem. Why? Quite simply, population distribution.
Christians need to be aware, Constantine had moved the capital of the Roman Empire to New Rome in the Balkans nearly a century before the fall of the Italian city of Rome in 410 AD. The dominant role that the Orthodox Church played in religious politics is one of several reasons Constantine moved the capital of Rome eastward.
The following section is significant because it enables you to see the meaning behind symbolism of the great harlot in chapter seventeen of Revelation.
The religious decrees of Constantine were issued from Constantinople and were in consort with the Orthodox Church, not the Roman Church. This relationship of the empire with the eastern church gave rise to the decrees that opened the door for the development of the new doctrines of Mariology.
At the time of Constantine, the church was struggling over questions about the true personality of Jesus? This struggle also gave rise to questions about the personality of Mary. These two issues took much of the Church’s energy for two hundred years. What characteristics did Jesus have to have to be the Savior? Was Jesus truly God? Was Jesus truly man? Could He be both at the same time? If yes, How? What did the special nature of Jesus mean about the nature of Mary? Was it necessary that she have special characteristics so she could be the one to give berth to Jesus? If so, what were they? Was she sinless?
After much theological turmoil over the nature of Mary, she was declared by the eastern church to be the Theotokos. Theo-tokos is Greek and means ‘God-Bearer’ or ‘Mother of God’. This decree was issued under the umbrella of the Orthodox Church at the third ecumenical Council of Ephesus in Asia Minor.
The doctrine of the Theotokos was proclaimed to triumph over the doctrine of the Christotokos. Christo-tokos means ‘Christ-Bearer’ or ‘Mother of Christ.’ The decision of the church meant the mother of God was more than just the Christ Bearer, she was supra-human in her own nature. She was the Queen of Heaven. Soon after the decree of the council, ritualized prayers began to be offered to Mary.
Ephesus was the site of the temple to the goddess Diana and her followers, many of who were converted to Christianity by Roman decree, were able to insure that doctrines of their female deity were incorporated into the church. The temple to Diana was one of the seven wonders of the world. It was the largest, most grand temple on earth.
What kind of goddess was Diana to deserve such adoration? Why did people, including kings, come from all over the world to worship in her temple? Because she was the greatest of the orgiastic goddesses. Worship in her temple was nothing less than ritualized prostitution pressed upon the most beautiful young women of the region. Here priests were panders and the thousand priestesses were fine silken harlots giving to all initiates drink from golden ritual cups—constituting induction into their mystery religion. Communion graces began in the cup.
In comparison, Sacramentalism is church doctrine about the means of grace. The issue at question is “What is the means of receiving God’s grace?” This is the same question as “What must I do to be saved?” The answer given by the apostate church is that grace is dispensed in the sacraments, or the cup. The doctrine that grace is dispensed in the cup is the most significant heresy of the early church. It arose even before the issue of the nature of Christ arose. The answer given to the question of the means of grace made all other questions moot. With a false doctrine about the means of grace, nothing else mattered, even if you described the nature of Christ perfectly, and Mary’s relationship to God without fault.
Sacramentalism is eastern in spirit. It teaches that grace is dispensed through the performance of the sacraments. The sacrament is believed to convey the reality it represents. The Divine Liturgy, or Eucharist, is the ritualized offering of wine and bread, and the sinner is taught that partaking of it effects his union with Christ. The naive sinner, or communicant, comes to believe that salvation is gained by faithfully performing these rites. Anyone who falls prey to this doctrine, and who is concerned for the well being of his own soul, will be in church to partake of the Eucharist every week.
The holy grail, which is the challis, which is the golden cup, held by the great harlot, who gives false hope, is the mystery representation of sacramental theology. This theology subverts the belief in salvation by grace through faith. The sinner’s trust is misplaced and made worthless in a heinous act of spiritual sabotage by the great harlot.
The very one the sinner believes he must trust for spiritual guidance is the one who betrays him and sends him down the winding path to sure destruction. Sacramentalism requires penance but only assumes repentance; it offers hope, but gives despair. It has done more to destroy the spirit of redemption in the church than all other false doctrines combined, including Maryology.
The matters of the spirit are the matters of faith. The matters of faith are the things believed. The things believed determine your destiny. How is grace dispensed? “What must I do to be saved?” What you believe to be the answer affects your eternity and the flow of all history.
The means of grace is the most significant issue in the whole world. The answer is found in the Gospel of Peace. It is the good news is that God has made peace between you and Him; this peace is made by your Representative. He is the One who has paid your debt for you. The good news is the testimony of God; it is about what He has done for you. He has sent the Kinsman Redeemer to pay the debt you could not pay. If you truly believe His testimony, then you will also be able to testify about the good news and what He has done for you. If you can not testify, then you have not truly believed.
This gospel is entrusted into the hands of the church, and relies on the feet of the church for its spread. This is the good news that was proclaimed by the apostles, believed on, and brought joy to the world. To proclaim the means of grace for fallen man is to proclaim the Gospel of free grace for you, it is not to proclaim the sacraments. It is the heart of the testimony of God about his work with fallen humanity.
The two false systems of Sacrametalism and Mariology are the means by which the primitive church was transformed into the medieval harlot of detestable doctrines, the giver of false hope, and the pursuer of material pleasures. Sacramentalism and Mariology both saw their full development in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The capital of this church was the seven-hilled city of Constantinople, not Rome. These doctrines came into the Christian world through the Orthodox Church first, and then they spread to Rome.
Remember this, in the vision of Nebuchadnezzar, the old Rome consisted of two legs and the revived Rome consisted of two feet. Like the city of Rome, Constantinople is a city set on seven hills. For a thousand years it was the largest, greatest, and wealthiest city in the world, it has dominated more kings of the earth than Rome, and it is on the southeastern edge of the Balkans in the region of Macedonia.
Kosovo seems like a remote land to us, but we are the ones who are remote. Kosovo is in the heart of the Balkans. The ancient trade route between the Orient and Europe passes through the Balkans. The Silk Road and the Spice Road crossed into Europe at the Balkans. The celebrated Roman Road crisscrossed the Balkans. The Muslim armies of the Jihad took this road as they marched from Constantinople to Vienna. The famed Orient Express transverses the Balkans. Finally, the most famed road of all—the road to Armageddon—begins in the Balkans. Paul traveled the gospel road from Jerusalem to Illyricum. Two thousand years latter, the judgment road travels from Illyricum back to Jerusalem.
The Serbs are members of the Slavic family of nations. This is the most populous family group in Europe, numbering over two hundred fifty million people. It is believed the Serbs came from the Ukraine and Russia a millennium and a half ago. The Serbian home is Kosovo.
Names have meaning to the Lord, and they also have meaning to the Serbs. Kosovo's full name is Kosovo-Metohija. During an extended time of peace their culture was spiritually nourished and flowered. They built so many magnificent monasteries that the region became known as Metohija, which means “The Land of the Monasteries.” Today, this would be the equivalent of naming a country “The Land of the Christian Schools.”
In a land no larger than Connecticut, one thousand five hundred monasteries, and even more ancient churches, still stand. There are so many buildings still standing that Kosovo now has the greatest concentration of historic Christian structures in the world. In the early centuries, Metohija, a land we have never heard of, had become a center of Christian culture and thought.
Kosovo is the newer part of the name for the region. It also has a Christian foundation, but drawn from an era of war instead of peace. Kosovo is the name of the field of battle where, in the fourteenth century, the prince of the Serbs, when given the Muslim ultimatum, chose beheading rather than conversion to Islam. Kosovo's original meaning is "Field of Black Birds" now it means "The Land of the Christian Martyrs." All Serbs will tell you today that Kosovo is their "Wailing Wall". It is the most important location in their national religious history, and is next only to Golgotha, where the martyrdom of the Savior took place.
The Orthodox Church has had to do battle with the Muslim Jihad for a thousand years. This is why the Russian Orthodox, the Greek Orthodox, and all Orthodox Churches world wide, including in the United States, have been so appalled by the NATO bombing. The conflict is not because the Albanians are "ethnic". There are twenty-six ethnic groups in Yugoslavia, twenty of which live in Kosovo. This ethnic diversity makes it impossible for Kosovo to be ninety percent Albanian as we are told in the secular media.
If there are twenty ethnic groups in Kosovo what is it that makes the Albanians so unique that they are at the center of conflict? The key to the unique character of the “ethnic” identify of the Albanians is their Muslim religion. The spirit of the Muslim Jihad is growing throughout the region in several nations. The ethnic identity of each of these groups is not the key to the conflict, it is their revolutionary—and expansionist—ground control religion.
The fall of the Soviet Union opened the door for countless opportunities for the ambitious. Muslims throughout the Balkans were left in a daze, but outsiders came in and seized the moment. Iranian "missionaries" arrived with a strong since of destiny, and a vision for building the global nation of Islam. The local Muslims were supplied with gifts of weapons and money.
They were taught a theology of the Jihad. It included how to form liberation armies, how to write revolutionary constitutions, how to use terrorism to destabilize the situation, how to ‘tax’, how to deal with those who will not convert, and most important of all, how to cloak your actions (propaganda). This last point is the key new feature added to the Jihad by another unexpected friend of the Iranians.
The 'missionaries' wanted to begin the struggle before the new free democratic governments could take root. However, events did not go as planned. Most of the initial efforts of the revolutionaries failed. The majority of Muslims in the region were not interested in revolutions. Even though turmoil was created in numerous Balkan countries, the new democracies were able to stand and began to clamp down on the rise in the acts of violence and terrorism. The revolutionaries found it very hard to crack the nations. They had to regroup.
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