
BEYOND 
Ancient Prophecy and
Modern Conspiracy Collide
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Beyond 
Ancient Prophecy and Modern Conspiracy Collide
ISBN 1-59379-010-4
Copyright © 2003 by 
Published by White Stone Books, Inc.
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This book is dedicated to the great men and women who do not seek the praises of men, but who desire to remain in the shadows... the glue that holds great nations together... "A" players in the chess game of life who chose to remain in "C" roles ... those who will not compromise moral principles and biblical values, and are determined to light a candle rather than curse the darkness... believing that prayer is not the last resort, but the first, and most important resort.
Acknowledgments
 Special thanks to my publisher, whose faith in me and this book, and whose amazing gifts, made it all happen. To all the team at White Stone Books who were a tremendous support. To my beloved wife, Carolyn, who endured my 20-hour writing days, and who pulled all-nighters with me. To my executive assistant, 
Contents
Answering the Wake-Up Call from Hell
The Line Drawn in the Sand
The Sword's Edge: The Palestinian Liberation Organization
A Blood-Soaked History; A Blood-Soaked Future
 The Road Through 
What Lies Ahead for the US.?
Preparing for Our Lord's Coming!
Endnotes
Appendix A:
OFFICIAL:
A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent
Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Appendix B:
 Petition to Defend 
Appendix C:
 Join the 
About the Author
The CIA
Etched into the wall
To characterize the intelligence mission of a free society
"And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."

Preface

I looked deeply into the intense smiling eyes of 
 To be quite honest, I don't even remember what it was, because as 
 "Will terrorism come to 
"Yes, I fear it will come in time."
"Where will it come?" I asked him.
 He thought for a moment. `
 Suddenly I remembered the exact date of the conversation. It had taken place on September23, 1980.[1] "Thanks, Mike," 
I had completely missed his answer! I would have died of embarrassment if he had known that I was having a flashback-more like a nightmare-right in the middle of his response.
 As I stood and shook 
 Our meeting was on 
 As 
 As it turns out, 
 As I was finishing the chapter in this book on how the road map from Baghdad leads to Jerusalem and what the prophetic implications of that could be, I reviewed my notes on the man that the Quartet (Russia, the E.U., the U.N., and the U.S.) had approved as the Palestinian Authority's new Prime Minister: Mahmoud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen). He was Arafat's longtime Deputy-a shady character at best. He believes that the Holocaust was a myth and stated, "The intifada [the Palestinian uprising against 
 Turning briefly from my notes to collect my thoughts, I noticed the face of Secretary of State Colin Powell on a small TV I normally leave on to C-Span to catch the latest from Washington, D.C. I suddenly jerked forward and turned it up a little so that I could hear him better. Little did I know that like two prophets, each would touch the nerve centers of prophecy-darkness and light- 
"I am very pleased to be sharing this stage with my new colleague, Minister Silvan Shalom....
"War and force were not our first choices. We gave diplomacy a chance."
He continued on:
 "
Again he continued:
"Once the new Prime Minister is confirmed in office [referring to Abbas, who had not yet been confirmed as Palestinian Prime Minister by the Palestinian Legislative Council], we will present both sides with the Road Map we have developed to restart the movement toward peace.... The Road Map-that we have developed in close consultation with the parties: our friends in the region and our partners in the Quartet-describes that journey and the mutual obligation both sides must meet if we are to reach our shared destination."[3]
 I looked on in shock. What shared destination? Not 
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom then stood and began to speak:[4]
 "It is a special honor to greet 
 Only five days after these speeches by 
 "The following is an unofficial translation of the 
As I read through the Road Map I noticed the last words on page 10:
 "AMEMBASSY 
 Then a few days later, on 
 In its quest to liberate 
Who are the players behind this collision between ancient prophecy and modern conspiracy?
What is the Road Map and why is it a threat to the lives of all Americans?
 Is 
 Could 
Could this be the beginning of the struggle that will set the stage for Armageddon?
If we look closely at the evidence, the answer to most of these questions may very well be a resounding, "Yes."
Good Friday/Passover
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ANSWERING THE WAKE-UP
CALL FROM HELL
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"September 11th was a wake-up call from hell that has opened our eyes to the horrors that await us tomorrow if we fail to act today."
Then Prime Minister of Israel, speaking before the 
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No one could ever have predicted that the beginning of the 21st century would find the 
 Today terrorists have access to chemical and biological weapons that can kill tens of thousands in a matter of minutes. Extremist Islamic terrorist organizations nullify the need to have air power or intercontinental missiles as delivery systems for an Islamic nuclear payload. The terrorists themselves will be the delivery system. In the worst of such scenarios, the consequences would be not a car bomb, but a nuclear bomb. With the new threat of thousands-if not millions -dying at a time in the case of terrorists employing chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons, the only logical alternative has been to seek out the terrorists before they strike and eliminate the governments or powers that enable them. Many would think that 
Why Was the War on Terrorism
Taken to 
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Osama bin Laden, who is believed to have been the "godfather" behind the September 11th attacks, issued a statement called the "Nuclear Bomb of Islam." In it he said, "The international Islamic front for fighting the Jews and Crusaders is the duty of all Muslims." He called on all Muslims to "prepare for as much force as possible to terrorize the enemies of Allah."[7]
 Terrorism is now a direct confrontation against "The Great Satan-America," who in the eyes of the bin Ladens of the world is desecrating the cradle of Islam. Bin Laden's terrorist network Al-Qaida ("The Base") is a coalition of the most diabolical terrorist organizations in the world, all linked together with a common cause-to attack what they believe to be the kingdoms of evil-the great 
 Today is 
 And, the search for Osama bin Laden continues. With the release of an audiotape from bin Laden on 
 Even in 
Terrorism shows itself to us today with a 21st century makeover. Today, terrorist states generally don't take hostages. Incognito-invisible-they can pose greater psychological damage by paralyzing, confusing, and diminishing the ability of a nation to retaliate. Young terrorists are used as Jihad bait by elusive terrorist states and organizations. It's a "don't ask, don't tell" world where the sponsors, with tears in their eyes, innocently express their condolences to victimized countries.
Organized crime is about greed. Terrorism is about glory-the glory of humiliating "The Great Satan -America," the glory of believing that all of the terrorists' family members are guaranteed a place in Heaven because of their acts, and that, as young men, they will be greeted in Heaven with a room full of voluptuous virgins.
 Does it seem a little strange that 
 "We demand the 
 The terrorist crosshairs are on 
 When I asked a Saudi General during the Gulf War, "Why are the 
 "But why do they hate you, Mike? Because your country is so powerful, and 
 The 
 PBS, in a piece aired in 1994,[16] described the terrorist team effort. The documentary revealed the threat of a quilt-work of Islamic groups and terrorist sponsors that have sprung up across 
On September 11th, Al-Ayyam, Arafat's P.L.O.-controlled newspaper said, "The suicide bombers of today are the noble successors of the Lebanese suicide bombers who taught U.S. Marines a tough lesson. These suicide bombers are the salt of the earth, the engine of history. They are the most noble people among us."
If 
As if good terrorist organizations must be rewarded and bad ones punished! We will be sending a signal to millions of raging Islamic fundamentalists that we fear them and they will come upon us like a plague. No, not with big bombs, but little ones-bombs strapped to the backs of suicide bombers-the most dangerous weapon on the planet, which cannot be defended against either in Iraq or America! This weapon of choice works best when things are calm. Prayer is needed now more than ever. It has been said that the only thing needed for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.
Yet as strong as we are in the natural, this is a spiritual battle.
As Paul said:
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Pat on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:10-12
 Unless God-fearing Americans fall on their knees and pray, our victory in 
 For his part, 
 In a televised speech on 
 In defying this final ultimatum, 
 The Coalition forces have cut a smooth and clear line in the Iraqi sand on their way to 
As Bible-believing Americans we must realize that this is a battle between politics and prophecy. We must not sleep in a time of war. The battle is raging and we must pay the price. It's up to us now to take the high ground-and stand up and speak up and pray up!
By faith these people overthrew kingdoms, ruled with justice, and received what God had promised them. They shut the mouths of lions, quenched the flames of fire, and escaped death by the edge of the sword. Their weakness was turned to strength. They became strong in battle and put whole armies to flight.
Hebrews 11:33-34 NLT
This book is a spiritual call to arms, because the real battles are spiritual ones and won through prayer. Only those who will not compromise moral principles and biblical values and will value prayer more than pleasure will be able to truly win this war!
 According to the book of Revelation, there are forces beneath 
If so, there is much more at stake here than just the end of terrorism -and if so, that line in the desert will not just divide the sides of this battle, but may determine which side nations will be on for the final battle of the ages.
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do."
God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear
Even though the earth be removed,
And though the mountains be carried into the must of the sea;
Though its waters roar and be troubled,
Though the mountains shake with its swelling.
Psalm 46:1-3
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A WAR OF BIBLICAL
PROPORTIONS
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 And another angel followed, saying "
Revelation 14:8 [emphasis in bold added]
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The Bible has much to say about the land known today as 
 Meeting under heavy security at Tallil Air Base here in the presence of American, British, and Polish diplomats, the Iraqis called for an end to the violence and looting that have ravaged the country since the collapse of 
 The most common biblical name for this region, however, is 
 In Scripture, 
 While ancient 
 The burden against 
"Wait for the day of the LORD is at hand!
It will come as destruction from the Almighty....
 And 
 Will be as when God overthrew 
Isaiah 13:1,6,19
He also relayed the final outcome for the man who would be a modern Nebuchadnezzar and threaten all of creation with his terrible weapons:
"I will rise up against them,"
declares the LORD Almighty.
 I will cut off from 
her offspring and descendants,"
declares the LORD.
I will turn her into a place for owls
and into swampland;
I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,
declares the LORD Almighty.
Isaiah 14:22-23 NIV
Daniel's Prophecies
 First was Daniel's prophetic response to the king of 
`And in the days of these kings the God of Heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. "
Daniel 2:44
Daniel revealed that a stone would crush all the kingdoms at the end of the age. Likewise, Jesus spoke of the end times in which we are indeed living: "The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. ' Whoever fails on that stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder" (Luke -18).
Is the world rushing like a whirlwind toward this amazing prophecy? `Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near" (Luke ).
Daniel's Seventy Weeks
 During a time of prayer, the angel Gabriel appeared to Daniel and revealed a timetable of coming events that would especially affect 
 In Daniel 9:27, the prophet revealed that the specific marker that will begin the final seven-year period of the seventy weeks is the making of a covenant of peace between 
 At first everything will appear to be going well. The centuries of armed tension will be relieved. By the peace imposed through the power of the Antichrist, 
 But just when peace seems to have come for 
I said, "The same way the rest of the world will -with terror."
 Yes, I truly believe that 
 For behold I will raise and cause to come up against 
An assembly of great nations from the north county,
And they shall array themselves against her;
From there she shall be captured.
Their arrows shall lie like those of an expert warrior;
None shall return in vain.
Jeremiah 50:9
There is no way Jeremiah could have been able to understand what the U.S. was going to do with laser guided bombs that indeed were "expert arrows" that did not return in vain.
 Again, another of Jeremiah's amazing prophecies in the 51st chapter is quite astonishing; the world sees the images of Saddam falling all over the 
"Therefore behold the days are coming
 That I will bring judgment on the carved images of 
And all her slain shall fall in her midst.
Then the Heavens and the earth and all that is in them
 Shall sing joyously over 
For the plunderers shall come to her from the north, "says the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:47-48 [emphasis in bold added]
Isaiah the prophet also described an amazing sight:
For thus has the Lord said to me:
"Go, set a watchman,
Let him declare what he sees. "
And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen,
A chariot of donkeys, and a chariot of camels,
And he listened earnestly with great care.
Then he cried A lion, my Lord!
I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime;
I have sat at my post every night.
And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!"
Then he answered and vain
And all the carved images of her gods
He has broken to the ground. "
Isaiah 21:6-9
 He says it's a "lion" and goes on tell about a "chariot of men with horses" -perhaps an Abrams tank! He goes on to say, 
Who will ever forget seeing the fall of 
Nor the plundering of Al-Qurna (the Garden of Eden) that has turned it into a wasteland.
 Nor will anyone forget the tragic plundering by a lawless society of 170,000 ancient and priceless artifacts on 
 Does the New Testament also predict the destruction of 
"Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, amid has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!...
"Therefore her plagues will come I'll one day-death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire....
 "Thus with violence the great city 
Revelation 18:2,8,21
 Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the f our horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet Release the four angels who are bound at the great river 
Revelation 9:13-16
Before the final battle, four demon spirits that are now bound in the River Euphrates that runs through Baghdad will be released and marshal an army of 200 million that will kill a third of the world's population-by today's standards that would be two billion people! Though the nature of these "horsemen" is not specified, I could easily see it being a terrorist army riding their suicide bombs to the destruction of ten times their number. And I can think of nothing that would more please the Saddams and Osamas of today.
 In fact, biblical 
 And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon. Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the 
Revelation 16:16-19
 When the final battle lines are drawn, 
Nebuchadnezzar Reincarnate
 It should be obvious that the wickedness of Babylon-past, present, and future -is personified in 
 Saddam has already used weapons of mass destruction on 200,000 Kurds. Because of his refusal to confirm the destruction of these weapons, 
 According to a New York Times article dated 
 "
 "Saddam has spent billions rebuilding the ancient city of Babylon, preparing to crown himself king and rule over an expanded 
 "Since his defeat in the Gulf War in 1991, 
What the World Was Never Told
 After the Gulf War, U.N. officials gained access to a top-secret classified report. According to 
On 
 Israel's most respected military affairs commentator, Ze'ev Schiff had predicted: "If Iraq strikes at Israel with non-conventional warheads, causing massive casualties among the civilian population, Israel could respond with a nuclear retaliation that would eradicate Iraq as a country."' In other words, Bible prophecy would be fulfilled and 
 In early December 2002, a ship that was bound for 
It is believed that these weapons of mass destruction may be in the hands of the terrorist group Hizbullah. 
The Syrian aid to 
 Secondly, the 
 Thirdly, Black Gold was used to finance the terrorist war that had to be stopped, not just in 
 Democracy in 
 American Special Ops in 
 In addition, there is a bounty out in the millions of dollars for Saddam. 
 Expect a "head-fake." 
 On 
Zechariah describes the severe circumstances the future holds for those who fight against 
 And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the people who fought against 
Zechariah 14:12
 This description of the plague on all nations who fight against 
 Do you now see how the stage is set? If we are headed for the final battle and it will be between Babylon and Jerusalem, is the U.S.-led Coalition's war just a future echo of Armageddon or the first step on the road there? With the line drawn in the sand, on whose side will we ultimately end up? Remember, 
It is my belief that a critical time of choice is upon us.
"In doing God's work there is no substitute for praying. People of prayer cannot be replaced with other kinds of people-people of financial skill, people of education, people of worldly influence-none of these can possibly substitute for people of prayer."
E. M. Bounds
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses;
But we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
Psalm 20:7
 What as all the commotion in the city? What is that terrible noise from the 
Isaiah 66:6-8 NLT
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THE LINE DRAWN
IN THE SAND
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"We must never despair; our situation had been compromised before; and it changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times."
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This line drawn in the sands of the 
Get Out of 
I mentioned before that the city of 
Now the Lord had said to Abram:
"Get out of your country...
To a land that I will show you.
I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. "
Genesis 12:1-3
 The land Abraham went to was 
Genesis 15:18
 The size of the land 
Ishmael and Isaac
Abraham's descendants today include both Arabs and Jews, offspring of his sons Ishmael and Isaac. Ishmael was born to Hagar, the maid of Abraham's wife, Sarah. The Angel of the Lord appeared to Hagar and said to her:
"Behold, you are with child,
And you shall bear a son.
You shall call hid name Ishmael
Because the LORD had heard your affliction.
'He shall be a wild man;
His hand shall be against every man,
And every man's hand against him.
And he shall dwell in the presence of all hid brethren
Genesis 16:11-12
Few would disagree that this is a fitting description of the Arab terrorists with which we are afflicted today. Nevertheless, God made the following promise to Abraham regarding his son Ishmael: "I will ... make a nation of the son of the bondwoman [Hagar], because he is your seed" (Genesis , author's insertion).
After Ishmael was born, Abraham's wife, Sarah, bore Abraham a second son, Isaac. It was to Isaac-and not Ishmael - that the covenant promises were passed: "In Isaac your seed shall be called" (v. 12).
 The same blessing that was passed on to Isaac was passed on to his son Jacob. Jacob in turn passed the blessing on to his heirs, the patriarchs of the twelve tribes of 
 I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. Also I will give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the 
Genesis 17:7-8
 Regardless of the opinions of man and what the media says, God said the 
Ishmael's Bitterness Is Turned to Counterfeit
 To understand the force of the Islamic fundamentalist's worldview, we must backtrack to the birth of Islam. Muhammad, who was born in about A.D. 570 in 
Muhammad meandered with the trade caravans, exposing himself to the philosophical debates of the 
Muhammad "retired" from the life in the fast lane of camel driving when he married a wealthy widow. Muhammad's newfound security allowed him to spend time in the desert contemplating and praying. One of these periods of meditation lasted six months, and climaxed with, according to Muhammad, the appearance of the angel Gabriel. Gabriel commanded Muhammad to "proclaim."
Muhammad had his commission to "proclaim." Now he needed some substance to bolster his proclamation. The period of revelation ensued. Over a span of some 23 years, "Gabriel" dictated the 114 suras, or chapters, of Islam's Koran, or holy scriptures, which are about the same length as the New Testament. According to Islamic teaching, the Koran is the decisive revelation of the divine will of Allah, superseding all previous revelations, including the Old and New Testaments.
 Yes, it is true that the majority of Muslims are not terrorists in any form, but it is also true that the majority of Islamic fundamentalist hate everything the West stands for, and that hatred is so violent that it has birthed the terrorism that we fought in the streets of 
As amazing as this sounds, I had a Saudi prince tell me that if the troops had bacon with their eggs, it could mean the end of his regime. Permitting infidels on his soil was bad enough, but for them to bring their unclean ways was something that could not be tolerated. "Your people like bacon! This is a greater threat to our survival than Saddam." he said.
 Muhammad realized that a religion is worthless without converts. His first disciple was his wife Kadijah. He won a few morn converts, but Muhammad's proselytization success was limited. The commercial prosperity of 
 On 
The Ultimate Prophet
 After his takeover of 
Interestingly, Abraham, the father of the Jews, is also considered the grandfather of the Arabs. Ishmael, Abraham's first son, became the father of the Arabs. Muhammad declared that since Abraham had submitted his first son, Ishmael, as a sacrifice, that the descendants of Ishmael should be known as the sons of God. Thus, the assumption among Muslims that they are the "true" sons of God. They see the Jews as invaders, as they do the West. In their eyes the infidels are to submit to them, and it cannot be the other way around.
The Koran
 At Muhammad's death in A.D. 632, the Islamic juggernaut was poised to strike at neighboring nations. But Muhammad did not just leave a legacy of an Islamic fighting machine. He also left the Koran, which means the "
To understand the Islamic mind-set, it is imperative to enumerate the fundamental doctrines of Islam, which are based on the Koran.

The belief in one god, Allah, who rules the world.
The belief in angels who do Allah's bidding.
The belief in the major and minor prophets. Among the major prophets, Muhammad listed Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus-and of course, himself, the final prophet. He taught that every country had a national or local prophet.
The strong belief in the Day of Judgment. True believers were to be rewarded in paradise, a "garden of delight." Unbelievers would suffer the torture of the Seven Terrible Hells.
The belief in determinism. Muslims believe nothing happens in the world unless Allah wills it, including September 11th.

The Five Pillars of Islam
What must a Muslim do to enter the blissful "garden of paradise"? Islam embodies five stringent tenets that all good Muslims must heed. In carrying out these five tenets, many Muslims display a fervor lacking in many Christians. Tepid Muslims are a disdainful to Allah, according to Islamic teaching, as lukewarm Christians are to Christ.
The following are the Muslim's "Five Pillars of Faith":

Confessing with heart and lips the shahada: "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger."
Saying five daily prayers while bowing in the direction of . The worshipper is to pray standing, bowing down, prostrating, and sitting. Prayers are to be offered in the morning before sunrise, just after , late afternoon, at sunset, and at night. (Incidentally, the refusal by the Jews to bow down in the direction of Mecca infuriated Muhammad. Instead, the Jews prayed in the direction of Mecca , in the direction of the Jerusalem .) Temple Mount
Muslims are expected to fast 28 consecutive days every year during the month of Ramadan. A fasting person cannot eat, drink, smoke, or engage in sex from dawn until dusk, although he can do these things at night.
Every adult who is physically and financially able is to make a pilgrimage, or haj, to at least once in his life. Mecca
Islam requires that every believer give a portion of his earnings to charity. Omar IIsaid: "Prayer carries us halfway to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, almsgiving lets us in."

Islamic Law
In addition to the Koran and the basic tenets of Islamic faith, the followers of Muhammad have developed a complex code of ethics, morality, and religious duties. The teachings explicitly explain even the most mundane matters of conduct.
One of Muhammad's written works contained a code of behavior that was said to be "a rigorous, minute, specific codification of the way to behave in every conceivable circumstance, from defecation to urination, to sexual intercourse, to eating, to cleaning the teeth."
Like the governments it has spawned, Islamic law is authoritarian. According to Islamic law, thou shalt not engage in: frivolous pleasures, singing and playing of musical instruments of any kind, gambling, the use of liquor, slander, lying, meanness, coarseness, intrigue, treachery, disloyalty in friendship, disavowal of kinship, arrogance, boasting, obscenity, aggressiveness, and tyranny.
No matter how noble these principles, however, following them would no more lead to righteousness than the laws of the Old Testament-human desires and selfishness were still in the way. Because of this, Islam was soon turned from a path of liberation and devotion to a means of controlling others. Islam turned to the "law of the sword" that exemplified Muhammad's first major conversions.
Jihad was born.
Christianity Versus Islam
Christianity differs from Islam as day differs from night. Whereas the Bible admonishes the followers of Christ to "turn the other cheek," the Koran, the Islamic handbook, urges adherents of Allah to "make war on those who believe not ... until idolatry is no more and Allah's religion reigns supreme."
We only have to look at the inception of Christianity to distinguish the basic difference between the two religions. The appearance of the Messiah was foreordained before the formation of the earth. The Old Testament gave precise references to the appearance of the Messiah. Therefore, there was no great surprise when the angel Gabriel appeared to a young Jewish lass some two thousand years ago announcing the birth of the long-awaited King of Kings. Gabriel's pronouncement fulfilled hundreds of Old Testament prophecies. Christianity had its origin in the heart of God.
"Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails."
E. M. Bounds
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JIHAD: A TRULY
UNHOLY WAR
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"Oh people of the book,
do not go beyond the bounds in your religion and
do not say about Allah anything but the truth.
"There is no God but Allah
He has no co-partner.
The messiah, Jesus, son of Mary,
is but a messenger of Allah and His word
which he cast upon Mary and a spirit from Hun.
"So believe only in Allah and of his messenger but do
not say three (trinity) and it will be better for you.
"Allah is only one God
far be it from His glory that He should have a son.
Verily the religion in Allah's sight is Islam. "
Translation of an inscription in Arabic
from the wall of The Dome of the Rock Shrine
The 
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Where conversions by the sword replace persuasion and the seeking of truth, Islam turns from its lofty guidelines to the law of the bullet, militancy, treachery, terrorism, and violence between Islamic factions as well as toward all non-Muslims. These brutal Islamic concepts can be traced back to Muhammad' writings in the Koran that urge the waging of jihad, or holy war, against all non-Muslims. As holy war was an integral part of Islam at its onset, so it remains to this day.
The Koran's admonition to wage holy war is clear. The Koran contains such statements as, "Make war upon those who believe not ... even if they be People of the Book (that is, Christians and Jews). Make war on them until idolatry is no more and Allah's religion reigns supreme."
Islamic scholars have even concocted a dogma for holy war, based on the Koran's teachings. The scholars contend it goes against Islamic law to retreat from jihad and adopt peace unless the Islamic force is weak and the opponent is strong. After renewed preparation to wage jihad, the Muslims can reconvene the hostilities.
According to Islamic law, jihad will never cease -it will last to the Day of Judgment. War forms the basis of relationships between Muslims and their opponents unless there are justifiable reasons for peace; i.e., when the opposing force has more firepower.
Islamic Imperialism
From the start, Islam realized success with its "conversion by the sword"' policy. Muhammad blessed those "converts" who accepted Islam peaceably. But to those who rejected Islam, Muhammad sent word that, "I, last of the prophets, am sent with a sword. The sword is the key to Heaven and hell; all who draw it in the name of faith will be rewarded."
 Muhammad, and later his followers, first unsheathed their swords in the regions adjoining 
 But the menacing Muslims had entrenched themselves firmly in the Mediterranean world. Islam's sphere of influence stretches from the 
 When 
Collaboration
 Throughout the 13-plus centuries of Islamic existence, the Islamic world has relied on a disparate lot of collaborators to destroy the Jews through holy war. The Jews have been persecuted wherever they have wandered. 
 During the later Middle Ages, 
 Today, there is another international power allied with the Islamic world that is wholeheartedly committed to eradicating the Jews in a frighteningly unholy holy-war alliance. That great power is the former 
Black Gold
 The Muslims could be infuriated until their turbans tattered, but resentment alone could not help them wage a successful jihad without the modern-day weapons of war. The jihad of the Muhammadan era is impossible today. Holy war can no longer be fought by Muslim warriors astride sturdy camels, their razorsharp swords glistening in the scorching desert sun, with cries of Allah-hu-Akbar?" (Allah is Almighty!) piercing the still air. No, 20th and early 21st century wars are fought with bombs, machine guns, bazookas, mobile missile launchers, hand grenades, and tanks. But where would these poor Muslim desert dwellers get the money to finance modem war? Unbeknownst to even the 
 The very ascendancy of the West paved the way for the reemergence of the Islamic world. The West began its climb to the top of the world heap with the onset of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century. The inventions and techniques of the Industrial Revolution allowed the 
 After World War II, relative tranquility returned to the Western world, and the 
Islamic Blackmail
 Throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s the 
However, the Muslims didn't deal their slick oil card until their disastrous defeat when they attacked the Israelis in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. How well I remember filling up my gas-guzzling car with gasoline selling at 26 cents a gallon. But then came the OPEC oil embargo in the autumn of 1973 and double-digit gasoline prices became as rare as snow at the equator.
 The Arab oil-producing countries finally realized they had the West's head in a noose. The oil price escalations induced a worldwide recession. Prices for petroleum, goods made from petroleum such as plastics, and goods produced by petroleum skyrocketed. But while the industrialized nations reeled under excessive oil payments, the coffers of the 
Holy War Rekindled
 In the last century we have witnessed a resurgence in the Islamic quest to wage holy war. There are a number of reasons for this. The Muslims have felt humiliated by the emergence of the West as the world leader. But the overriding factor that has united the Islamic forces for holy war in the 
 The Islamic dictators in the 
 The renascent 
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within."
Will Durant
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
You have covered my head in the day of battle.
Psalm 140:7
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A FURTHER
DISTORTED ISLAM
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"The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies - civilians and military - is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it."
From a Fatwa (an Islamic decree or teaching)
issued by Osama bin Laden
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 This chilling "teaching" by the man believed to have orchestrated the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks is based upon the most murderous and misguided version of Islam: Wahabism, from the Wahabis tribe in Saudi Arabia. The Wahabis themselves had been branded heretics in hundreds of Fatwas issued by mainstream Muslims. Despite this, however, it has taken root among enough Muslims to become the greatest threat to 
 Wahabism began as a movement propagated by warrior-preachers in the 18th century. It interprets the Koran in its most literal form and is the most uncompromising, fundamentalist type of Islam. For many centuries, it was a relatively small sect, mainly among the one tribe from which it derived its name-the Wahabis -and was generally dismissed by all other Muslims as heretical-until it struck oil. Lots of oil. The Wahabis were insignificant Bedouin nomads on the 
 One year after the terrorist attacks on the 
Islam and the Infidels
 On the morning of 
 Last September 11, Islamic terrorists finished the job. No one wants to admit why Americans were attacked, just by whom they were attacked. But Osama bin Laden is only the vanguard of a religious hatred that originates in the 
 An earlier campaign in the same war began in 
 From scenes of Palestinians dancing on 
 On 
 But there is nothing coincidental in such attacks, for they are aimed both at murdering Israelis and at the same time humiliating the Great Satan. The only thing American brokering has done is weaken its greatest ally in the 
 Well, those critics aren't smirking anymore. Until the events of September 11, 
 Islamic fundamentalism will be the greatest challenge to the democratization of 
 The Islamic clerics are already preaching a strict adherence to Shariah, the Islamic legal code based on the Koran. In their minds, democracy is a threat to Islam and an invention of infidels. There is little wonder that there are no real democracies in the 
 Already, the Shiite clerics of 
 In their minds, they are on a mission from God, an opportunity" to "seize the moment," and restore pride to their humiliated people. The clerics believe that Islam, the only religion of Allah, was given to the first man, Adam, who was the first prophet of Allah. They believe it is the religion of all true prophets sent by Allah to mankind. According to Islam, "Abraham was not a Jew, nor a Christian; but an upright Muslin." (
 This is the reason that moderate 
There will be a call for another "Operation Iraqi Freedom" with Islamic fundamentalists fighting for the minds and bodies of Iraqi citizens. Remember, the Taliban were Wahabists, as were the 19 homicide bombers of September 11th, as is Osama bin Laden.
 Wahabist clerics will flow into 
 "Where's the Outrage?" was the title of another article I wrote for the Wall Street Journal. It was about Arabs who were killed by the P.L.O. in the 
The "Sword of Oil"
 Today, 
 The striking paradox about Saudi Wahabism is, however, that although it is home grown, it is aimed exclusively for export to certain key areas of the world. In mosques and Islamic centers throughout the world are former students who were given free tuition at 
 The true believers of Wahabism who are exported by 
 Nor is the export of Wahabism by any means random. Its strongest centers are in 
 Initially this campaign appeared to be succeeding. The Saudis, in an effort to help stem the spread of godless communism, helped create a new force in 
Some of the practices of the Taliban were grim illustrations of how far Islamic teachings had been distorted and imposed by this fanatical dictatorship. Nowhere in the Koran or the Sunna (the teachings and practices of the Prophet Muhammad) does it say that women should cover their faces and hands, or that women cannot work, or that the beard must be long, or that men must be beaten for not praying publicly, or that women must be kept locked in their homes. Jihad is purely and simply the worst kind of murder-no matter what your beliefs or religion. The distorted teaching has boomeranged to threaten world peace, not to mention the true interests of all Muslim nations in achieving progress for their citizens.
The Wahabi teaching on martyrdom takes the hatred it engenders to the next level and this is the mind-set that the West cannot understand. Perhaps we can get our thoughts around the supposed promises of this self-sacrifice: that they will be granted eternal life, a crown of glory before Allah, 72 virgins as their concubines, and there holy blood will atone for the sins of 70 of their relatives exempting them from the horrors of hell. Yet even if we in the West believed our self-sacrifice would bring us these rewards, would we do it? Personally, I don't think so. What we don't understand is the process of indoctrination -the lies -that are told these pawns in the hands of their teachers from the time that they are small children. The lies and false promises that are told them by their parents and relatives. The day-in, day-out promises of bliss and supreme ecstasy that they will experience at the moment of the blast that will kill them and as many others as possible. The way they make it sound, you would think it was some kind of extreme sport instead of what it actually is: murder and a one-way ticket to the hell they were promised they would escape."
While the political threat of Wahabism has been flaunted perhaps most blatantly by the Taliban in providing refuge to bin Laden and his closest followers in Afghanistan, its hatred and willingness to murder indiscriminately regardless of the cost is also reflected in the almost daily atrocities committed by Hamas and Islamic Jihad against Israel, to cite just two of the fundamentalist organizations that receive Saudi support. Since September 11, most of the non-Islamic world have come to see Islamic fundamentalism as holding it hostage via a diabolical combination of terror, dogma, and the willingness to be killed to kill. This threat is, of course, perceived most poignantly by Americans who fear correctly that the forces of evil represented by bin Laden are still poised to strike-perhaps worse than before. This "cult of the suicide bombers" has stripped the face from war and put it on the person sitting across from you on the bus. It has taken our daily routines and made them a gauntlet of fear. With the feeling that they could strike anytime, anywhere, we can become crippled more completely than if they just took out a gun and shot us.
The Power of Petrodollars
 Petrodollars have harmed the Muslim states as much as they have helped them. Is the war in 
 The two greatest weapons in the Islamic war chest against 
A Little History
 The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was created in 
 The first was in 1973 when OPEC triggered an Arab oil embargo and the Arab states vowed they would drive 
The second was in 1978 at the outbreak of the Iranian revolution. Oil prices increased and the Arab oil states became a political and economic force as they had never been before in the modern era. It was also the real beginning of their covert financing of terrorist organizations.
 Personally, I believe that the days of OPEC blackmailing the West have ended, along with OPEC's ability to use black gold to finance terrorism thanks to a very courageous 
 However, the Islamic world still wants to bring 
Red-Hot Flames
To review, there are three main reasons why the flames of Islamic jihad flicker so brightly in our present time, and why Wahabism has found such fertile soil in which to plant hatred and terrorism:

The Islamic world resents the preeminence of the Western world. At one time the Islamic/Arab world was the center of culture and science, but in recent centuries the Islamic world has become a cultural and scientific backwater.
The Islamic world resents the rebirth of , probably the only single event that has pulled the Muslims together into some semblance of unity. The Muslims hate the Jewish state. Jihad participants say they will not cease their struggle until Israel "disappears." Without an enemy, there is no one to blame except rich Arab dictators. Israel
The Islamic "sword of oil." Petrodollars have given their ill will away. What the Islamic world cannot accomplish militarily, they will try to achieve through economic leverage. As long as petroleum remains the most important fuel in the world, the Islamic oil producers will be able to fill their treasure chests with more petrodollars. The Muslims will attempt to blackmail the West into disdaining . They will also use their petrodollars to finance a terrorist jihad against Israel and the West-and what the West spends on one "smartbomb" can pay for hundreds if not thousands of suicide bombers. Israel

Those in rule have learned many things in these centuries of jihad, not least of which is protecting their own interests and using others as pawns to take the risks that will ensure they remain in power. Direct, personal conflict is only one way of conquest, but if I can send my "brother" to fight for me, so much the better-and I will gladly pay his way and supply his weapons.
The Saudi Wahabis have mastered this new style of "jihad behind the boardroom doors." They have bred an insane death cult with Modern Islam as its Trojan horse. On one hand they negotiate and sell oil to their enemies as if they were friends, while with the other they take the money from those transactions and feed it to the terrorists who murder those same enemies or use it as economic power to further their visions. In this way they stay away from the tip of the spear and the edge of the sword, and keep their hands relatively clean. After all, their pawns will draw enough blood for all of them.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your nays acknowledge Hint,
And He shall direct your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6
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THE SWORD'S EDGE:
THE PALESTINIAN LIBERATION
ORGANIZATION
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`Hitler first killed Jews, then he killed Christians. Our culture and our democracies are the root of [the terrorists'] rage. If we're right, then they are wrong. "
Founder of the Israeli Intelligence Agency, Mossad'
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Although most Arabs would like to do away with 
The 
 The Palestinian Liberation Organization was first organized in 
 This document has been revised several times, but still contains twenty-three articles that reject the Balfour Declaration (the 1917 document that supported the formation of the nation of 
The P.L.O. in 
Things began in earnest to change after the Six Day War in June of 1967. Around the time of this war, the Fatah (The Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine) headed by Yasser Arafat, began to take control of the P.L.O. Arafat maintained his base of operations in those days in Jordan, as had his predecessors in the P.L.O.
 Please note that the P.L.O. claims to represent the Palestinians, but in fact does not. The largest percentage of Palestinians are 
 In any event, the P.L.O. continued to tax 
Israelis Fight Back
 In 1968, the Israelis finally fought back, warning civilians to evacuate Karamah. That alerted 
Approximately 320 members of the P.L.O. were involved. The Israelis surrounded and destroyed al-Fatah installations, killing about 200 terrorists and taking the remaining120 prisoners. But, as they withdrew from Karamah, they met Jordanian troops and the battle was on.
 Twenty-six Israelis were killed and 70 were wounded in the fighting. They also lost a considerable number of armored vehicles. Arafat escaped to the town of 
 The terrorists decided to stay in 
Hostages Taken
 Finally, in June 1970, 
With that, George Habash -the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which was also part of the P.L.O. at this time-announced they would kill the hostages and blow up the hotels if the Jordanian troops didn't back off. Habash and Naif Hawatmeh-the leader of another P.L.O. subgroup, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) -both received funding from the Soviets. They could afford to attack an Arab head of state.
 Since Arafat's money came from the Arabs, he sought to be more conciliatory. Nevertheless, the fury of the confrontation pushed Arafat more and more toward Habash and Hawatmeh.2 (Arafat is the Blockbuster of the 
 Altogether they had 445 hostages whom they threatened to blow up in the planes if imprisoned terrorists in 
 Finally, on September 16, over Radio Amman, Hussein announced a military government to restore order to his troubled land. The next morning he unleashed the Bedouin Arab Legion in a full-scale operation against the P.L.O. Tanks demolished every building in 
 Hussein's action prompted an immediate reaction from 
 From 
 When Palestinian Arabs fled 
 All the while, the Lebanese Muslims argued for unification with Muslim Syria. They did not have much regard for 
 The Palestinians decided to disturb the Christian/Muslim balance in 
 The Lebanese government was faced with a dilemma: to drive the P.L.O. out would anger the Muslim population, yet to let them stay would enrage the Christians. Therefore the Lebanese prime minister denied their existence in public and negotiated with Arafat to limit raids into 
 While 
 Consequently, terrorism inside Lebanese borders revived. On 
 The Lebanese Muslim community sided with the P.L.O. and, in 1975, civil war erupted between the Christians and Muslims in that country. Christian apprehensions were expressed by several spokesmen. 
 Now I can understand why 
 As fighting between Muslims and Christians intensified, the President of Lebanon, 
 The Lebanese had given them a refuge, and our reward was the destruction of 
 Official appeals for help were made to the 
 The net result was a near takeover of 
An Extraordinarily Brave Man
 Once while I was in 
 My visit with 
Haddad looked sad and said: "I would like them to come here and see who is controlling the area. Then they will know that the P.L.O. terrorists are making the rules. The south has become a big base of terrorists. If we are shooting, it is to defend ourselves against these terrorists. For five years we have been cut off from all sides, except the south. The P.L.O. wants to exterminate our people and nobody cares."
"Have you captured many of the P.L.O. Arabs?" I asked.
 Haddad's eyes narrowed seriously. "Do you think I'm fighting Arabs on the front line? Far from it. I'm fighting terrorists from all over the world. 
"Why do you think we support them?" I asked.
 "I'll tell you why. The terrorists are frightening the rich Arab countries, so they give the P.L.O. money, as much as they want, because they are desperate to keep them away from their country. Then the rich Arab countries turn around and put pressure on 
 "But they are not good! They are criminals. Look at 
 "That's why they don't attack 
 "The Christians of the world should wake up and help their brothers in 
 "And what the terrorists have done here in southern 
"What about the U.N. forces north of you?" I asked. "Are they helping to keep peace?"
"The U.N. is doing nothing. They are just there for show. Worse than that, sometimes they are covering for the P.L.O. The area where the U.N. troops moved into used to be clean of P L.O., but not anymore. The P.L.O. moved in and they have camps inside the U.N. area from which the P.L.O. makes terrorist actions.
"They came from there to one of the villages and planted mines Four people were killed in that village. And last night, at exactly , they fired rockets from Dar Amish, which is in the U.N. area. If we trusted the U.N. forces to protect us, we would all be dead. We have to count on ourselves."
 "What about 
 "That's the only country that cares for us. Without 
 "We are not ready to face that. It must not happen to our children and our families. That is why we are so thankful for 
Land for Peace!
It was sometime around this time (1969 to 1973 or so) that the CIA created a secret liaison with the P.L.O. in the hope of stopping them from murdering American diplomats and military personnel overseas. That dangerous liaison continued both officially and unofficially until 1988 when open negations with the P.L.O. began and once Arafat had said the magic words, "I denounce terrorism."
 The sinister alliance started back in 1969 when 
It was another decade before the Wall Street Journal broke a story on the C.I.A./P.L.O. agreement bringing it to the attention of the American public for the first time.'
"But Arafat Seems So Sincere"
 One of the greatest tricks of the 20th century was the transformation of 
 On February 12, 1986, forty-seven senators sent a letter to the U.S. Justice Department demanding the indictment of Yasser Arafat for the brutal murders of Ambassador Cleo Noel and charge d' affaires C. Curtis Moore in Khartoum, Sudan." Nothing has been done yet-but there is no statute of limitation on murder. One chilling piece of evidence incriminating Arafat is an audiotape of him giving the order to have the American diplomats killed. 
 If 
1. An official end to the intifada (the Palestinian uprising against 
 When coupled with the 
 Why discuss the P.L.O. in a book about the 
 Remember, the P. L.O.'s terrorism activities have not only affected 
Never was there a more important time for moral clarity and for God-fearing people everywhere to rise up! If America chooses to side with the very terrorists we say we are out to eliminate, we can only welcome more attacks within our borders in an ever increasing magnitude -a sure guarantee that the war on terrorism will be a very long and protracted ride on the back of the terrorist tiger.
For 
And her salvation as a lamp that burns.
Isaiah 62:1
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A BLOOD-SOAKED HISTORY;
A BLOOD-SOAKED FUTURE
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`My brother and I will fight my cousin. My cousin and I will fight a stranger. "
Arab saying
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 One of our biggest mistakes, however, is to see them as unified. Their holy war is not just limited to indiscriminate Islamic attacks against 
 For example, 
The Unifying Power of a Common Enemy
 Despite their hatred of one another in the past, however, 
 Every possible attempt will be made to create a civil war in 
 In late March of 2003, an Israeli general told me that one nod from Saddam-or one of his demonic heirs - could begin a world terrorism crisis unlike any that has been seen before, and as invisible as a stealth fighter jet and many times more deadly. While the 
Islam's Deadly "H" Bomb
 On 
 Only a week later on 
 I was in 
 I was also in 
This is the jihad's "H" bomb-the terrorists' "smart bomb"-that our Western mind-sets have yet to recognize or comprehend -human beings willing to sacrifice their lives for the glory of murdering others. We still cannot accept that fact that the religion of Islamic fundamentalism (Wahabism) can kill. These "Human" bombs give their lives willingly believing that they will be received into paradise as martyrs because of the corrupt teachings of their leaders, but when they wake up in the afterlife, it won't be God the Father who greets them. They have been deceived, and the consequences are not only gruesome and devastating for those who are left to care for their victims on earth, but are eternal for the misinformed bombers themselves.
The Weapon that Chased 
 The portent of an Islamic "H" bomb is the most ominous sign of holy war. They started most notably in 
 When the 
 When the 
 The West's idealistic intention that they could undo centuries of hate in a matter of months shattered in the early hours of 
A few other Islamic terrorists realized their "greater glory" simultaneously with their brother bombers at the U.S. Marine headquarters. The same grisly performance also took place at a French military barracks. Fifty-eight French paratroopers were killed. This was no ordinary Sunday of morning worship for the French and Americans, but a full day of Sunday mourning.
Overall, 
Same Tactics; New Century
 This is precisely what the world of terrorism will hope to accomplish in 
Captain Andrew Valles of the First Brigade, a civil and military affairs officer, responded as most of us would to the taxi explosion of March 29, 2003: "I don't know what motivated this guy to kill himself."' The truth is, it is estimated that approximately 10 percent of all of those who practice the Muslim religion believe in this form of "martyrdom"-not as a form of suicide, because they don't believe they are killing themselves, but as a glorious sacrificing of their lives for Allah. Iraqi TV said of the suicide attack by this taxi driver, "It is the blessed beginning; he wanted to teach the enemy a lesson in the manner used by our Palestinian brothers."
 In February 2003 before the war in 
Saddam's Real Threat: Suicide Bombers Armed
with Weapons of Mass Destruction
 There is no question that 
"When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, 7 will return to my house from which I came. 'And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation. "
Matthew 12:43-45
Thus the call to spiritual warfare and battle is not hopeless; indeed the key is the human heart and the human spirit, which as much as it is the root of their rage, it is also the place of transformation through the wonder-working power that operates in the realm of the unseen. All battles on earth are first won or lost in the heavenlies before their results are felt on earth.
 No longer do terrorist-harboring states need nuclear reactors to produce the deadly material necessary for atomic bombs. It can be produced in centrifuges the size of washing machines.' The most massive inspection would never find it. 
Israeli intelligence is concerned with the possibility that terrorists, after pledging to give their lives as suicide martyrs, will inject themselves with smallpox, or expose themselves to SARS, then mingle with people in greatly populated areas. Slowly dying, they will go about in crowds, breathing on people. They will become biological H-bombs (human bombs). Without the power of prayer, the world will be left with a marching army of human corpses dispensing the plagues of the book of Revelation, but through the power of prayer a revival like the world has never seen can truly sweep the planet and transform hatred into hope.
The Spiritual "H" Bomb Brings Life, Not Death
 The power of prayer is greater than the greatest war strategies, global-satellite-guided precision strikes, and the greatest 21,000--- pound "Mother of All Bombs" combined, and is the most effective weapon against any level of terrorism. 
The reason for this is that we cannot defeat the terrorists; we have to defeat the spiritual forces behind them. As Paul said:
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:12
 Are demon spirits behind orchestrating the terrorist threat? Yes, of course. Where did the demons go that possessed the 19 terrorists on September 11th? What demon is resident in 
 Adonai 
The LORD will give strength to His people;
 Adonai Yevareeh et 
The LORD will bless His people with peace.
Psalm 29:11
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THE ROAD THROUGH
TO 
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`You declare, my friends, that you do not hate the Jews, you are merely anti-Zionist. And I day, let the truth ring forth from the highest mountaintops. Let it echo through the valleys of Gods green earth. When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews. Zionism id nothing lead than the dream and ideal of the Jewish people returning to live in their own land. "
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Even as the war began, all eyes were already turning to its end. At this writing, the siege of 
 And it will always be 
The End of the Road
 The end of the road is coming eventually in 
 Whatever domino effect a developing Iraqi democracy may have among other Arab or Muslim countries, the first entity to benefit from the defeat of 
 Blair responded by noting a date for the public debut of the Road Map: "We both share a complete determination to move this forward. It is, indeed, often overlooked that 
 But 
 Bush has confronted Saddam, the godfather of Islamic state-sponsored terrorism, declaring, "It's time to show your cards." Whereas, the State Department is eager to reshuffle the deck in order to quell the anger throughout the Arab world over the war in 
 The State Department's "Road Map" plan partners us with the U.N., the E.U., and 
 Arafat challenged me at the U.N. in 
 And 
 How will Bush reconcile his faith in the Bible, where Christianity was born in east 
Looking back to Genesis 12:3 we read God's words to Abraham: "I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you." Fortunately, the 
 However, there has always been an undercurrent of opposition to 
 The policy fight, and the underlying spiritual struggle behind it, continues to this very day. With an eye on the flow of Arab oil supplies and wealth, many major corporations and one-world globalists are especially critical of 
 The 
 But the facts are clear. Various 
 Since its establishment in 1948, the State of Israel has sought peace with its neighbors through direct negotiations. However, its efforts have not been met with similar cooperation from surrounding Arab countries. Since 
 An exception to this occurred in the 1970s when 
The Fallacy of "Land for Peace"
 In a nutshell, the whole "land for peace" issue can be summed up as follows: The P.L.O. wants to control 
The sticking point for the Jews is that God gave them that land and forbade them to sell it.
The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are stranger and sojourners with Me.
Leviticus 25:23
 It is no secret that even supposed friends of 
The Bottom Line!
 The goal of the Road Map is the creation of "A Two-State Solution to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict," in other words, The Palestinian Authority would get land within the present borders of 
 Another of the first goals is to have an international conference (like 
 The Quartet is the instrument by which a sovereign 
2. 
3. Concerning the declaration of a 
4. The Quartet will guarantee that all sides implement all obligations simultaneously. This totally contradicts 
5. The Quartet will initiate an International Observer Force. 
6. The Quartet, not 
7. The Road Map also totally ignores Israeli demands such as cessation of terror, collection of illegal armaments, and cessation of incitement-in other words Israel's decision-making control is severely restricted.
 How will the Quartet attempt to force 
The Quartet simply has to say, in a whisper, "Obey the Golden Rule: we have the gold; we will make the rules and you will follow them. If you don't, then, sorry, we cannot allow your exports into our countries. You see, we have tariff and trade issues to deal with. It has nothing to do with blackmail."
The Bible predicts a day when the Antichrist will do something similar: And through his policy also he shall cause craft [trade] to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many, he shall stand up against the Prince of Princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
Daniel KJV [author's insert]
The Quartet's Makeover of the P.L.O.
 As 
 As you may remember from the Preface, Abbas was crucial in the P.L.O.'s rejection of 
 The majority of Abbas' new cabinet members are also from Fatah. Though he has yet to be labeled a puppet of Arafat, it is unclear what his role will be as Arafat will still be directing all of the Palestinian Authority's foreign affairs, including the PA's negotiations with 
 This sham might actually be comical, if it didn't appear that the 
 Soon after that, on 
· Any step forward made in the plan must be made as a result of actions, rather than a set timetable; · a settlement freeze will only take place after a prolonged period of security quiet; · the Saudi Arabian peace proposal will not be considered as a starting place for negotiations; · a Palestinian state can be established, with temporary borders, only after the destruction of the terror infrastructure in the territories; and only with 
 The 
 This same response was echoed on 
However, the Terrorists Remain Undeterred
 The strangest part of this entire theater of the absurd and festival of hypocrisy is that while the U.S. State Department has been moving forward all through the war with their plan, so has the 
 "The Arabs had one case, that of 
 Meanwhile, on the same day, the leader of the Syrian-backed Islamic Jihad organization in the Gaza Strip, Abdallah al-Shami, described the collapse of Saddam's regime as an "earthquake." He said the end of the war in 
 Islamic Jihad was also one of two Palestinian groups that recruited volunteers to fight against the American and British forces in 
 The Hamas terrorists also vowed to step up attacks on 
 "Iraqis should prepare explosive belts and would-be martyrs [suicide bombers] to combat the 
"The American aggressors, the American invaders are now on Iraqi soil; therefore, Iraqis must confront them with all possible means, including martyrdom [suicide] operations."
 Nor were 
 Syrian military analyst Hitham al-Kilani said in an interview on al-Jazeera on March 24 that, "The Syrian border was opened to Syrian, Arab, and Muslim volunteers wishing to reach 
 Around the same time, Ha'aretz Daily newspaper reported that in the months prior to the war, 
 On April 13th, White House officials said Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, nicknamed "Chemical Sally," and 
 Another report by The Jerusalem Post stated that American and British forces were attacked by Palestinians and Jordanians who had come to 
 Later it was revealed that Iraqis surrendering to 
 Despite these actions, further evidence that the U.S. government is already taking steps to support this Road Map is apparent by the fact that the United States is still withholding its nine billion in loan guarantees and one billion in aid from Israel at this writing (April 2003). (A similar $10 billion carrot and stick game was played in 1991 forcing Israel to the Madrid Peace Conference so that they could force Israel into a land giveaway.) The financial assistance was being denied until a new government was formed following the Israeli elections on 
 At that time, the State of Israel voted in favor of the Likud government that opposes a Palestinian state. 
 The Labor Party consists mainly of liberals who do not believe the Bible and who will accept a Palestinian state. (This was the same party that was willing to accept the plan presented by former 
 According to sources in 
The New Middle East will not evolve in response to a Security Council resolution or a public relations campaign by the European Community. It is not the proverbial diplomatic omelet that can be created only by breaking eggs. The eggs must indeed be broken-but, as at the beginning of new life, from the inside.
 The only Road Map for peace is the Bible. Years ago in the White House, the then-National Security Advisor told me that the status of 
 On his kibbutz before he died, 
 I also remember discussing scripture and praying with 
 I looked across and as 
 Forty-four 
 As I watched the funeral of fallen 
Around the graveside stood people who had withstood coup attempts, had bravely stood against public opinion, had survived ruthless media assaults, had looked dead into the eye of nuclear war and had not flinched. Some of these men and women literally have their ringer on the button that could touch off global nuclear war and devastation of unprecedented proportions and beyond the imaginations of even the most horrific fiction writers.
The gathered dignitaries controlled economies that measure in the trillions of dollars every single day. Every day they deal with pressures most other people on the planet can only have breathless nightmares about.
 Literally at the snap of their fingers, the gathered world leaders can command millions of soldiers into battle-they could embroil the entire world into war in a matter of hours. They have faced down scandals, assassination attempts, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters. But as I scanned the powerful men and women staring impotently down into the grave of 
 I have been to dozens of funerals over the years in 
We need to believe the Bible-all of it-simple as that-which includes the story of the Promised Land and the Ten Commandments-especially the one that says, "Thou shall not kill."
Politics or Prophecy?
 Can the 
I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. "
Genesis 12:3
We can ill afford to turn our back on Abraham and his descendants.
 Can we as Americans maintain our faith and not support and protect 
"And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledge the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of nations, and who has at times been revealed in our county's history; let us invoke His aid and His blessing upon our labors."
 Grover 
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WHAT LIES AHEAD
FOR THE 
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Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense
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In October of 1991, a Middle East Peace Conference was convened at the 
 To this day, 
 Later at that same conference, I stood in shocked silence as I looked into the eyes of 
 The 
As a nation, we are treading on extremely thin ice. A turn against 
 For he who touches you [
Zechariah 2:8-9 [author's insert]
We Must Look Back to See Forward
 The world really has not changed since the attacks of September 11th, it is just that 
 Operation Iraqi Freedom will not end with victory in 
 First of all, as the Iraqi war ends and things begin to settle down, Muslim terrorists will lay the same explosive groundwork for civil war in 
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
 A free, democratic 
The 
 For this reason 
 The only alternative is for praying saints to take the new front lines. What we may well be seeing in 
We may be able to liberate their lands, but we cannot liberate their hearts-only God can do that.
The Fall of Hussein Is Not the Fall of Terrorism
 That the war on terrorism could turn into a "holy war" between the East and the West, I don't doubt, but I am not convinced it needs to either. The prophecies in the Bible will happen, make no mistake about that, and our prayers will not change that, but they will affect how smoothly we approach that time and it will also affect how smoothly we make it through. This is not Armageddon's season, nor was September 11th to be-but regretfully praying Christians in 
 The words of 
 This book is a call to action. The words of 
 I stated at the beginning of this book that on the walls of the CIA building in 
 Let me make this point before I go on. Many seem to take the stance that since the Bible foretells us that the end is coming, they might as well throw up their hands and let it come. This is not the right answer and totally misses the heart of God. As individuals have the decision whether or not to follow God, so do nations. We may definitely be heading towards Armageddon, but what will happen next is not Armageddon -that is a long way down the road in prophecy. Without prayer the real battle against terrorism cannot be won. That battle will not end with 
"When you hear of wars and commotion, do not be terrified; for these things
must come to pass first, but the end will not come immediately....
`But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing,
drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.
For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all
 these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of 
Luke 21:9, 34-36
 With this in mind, I want to note that I don't think we necessarily will have to go into open warfare with all of these nations. We still have a major trump card we can play, and control of 
 Proverbs says, "The wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous." Under Iraqi soil lies more than 112 billion barrels of oil-the world's second largest reserve behind 
 In addition and despite the threat of terrorism in the region, 
 I looked at him questioningly, not understanding his comment. Harel said, "Mike, if the Islamic fundamentalists who are controlling your embassy in 
 There will be a major attempt to pressure the President to pull out of 
 Terrorist cells thrive in secret and need money and state sponsorship to survive. All of that could change with a free, democratic 
 But, there is something to consider, however. A democratic, empowered 
 Since the Islamic revolution in 
We need to make sure we haven't just replaced Saddam's regime with something worse, or just laid the groundwork for civil war. A war cannot be partially won; the victor is determined by who wins the last battle. We must see this war through until the end, or the next time we have to fight terrorism it could be much worse.
We Need God's Wisdom for Our Leaders
I am not proposing these possibilities as the solutions -this book is not a word from the Lord about every detail of how we are to proceed in Operation Iraqi Freedom or in our war on terrorism. What it is, though, is a call to turn back to God, repent, and pray. Without God's guidance, I sense disaster for our country and our world. On my part, I am not willing to let that happen, thus my passion for writing this book and starting the Jerusalem Prayer Team ministry.
We have so many promises in the Bible of what will happen if God's people turn to Him in prayer that I don't have space in this book to quote them all. All you need to do is open your Bible and you will find them. But I will leave you with this one:
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. James 1:5
In these times we need God's wisdom more than ever. It is time we get on our knees and faces and go after it.
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THE WAKE-UP CALL
FROM HEAVEN:
PREPARING FOR OUR
LORD'S COMING!
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 "So you also, when you see these things happening, know that the 
Luke 21:31,36
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Can the war on terrorism be won while God's people sleep? No! A thousand times NO! September 11th was planned, fought, and won before it ever happened. God-fearing Americans were asleep at their posts while demons were working diligently. On September 12, we arose, shook ourselves, and began to cry out to God. But we soon fell asleep again within weeks.
 I am sure that the Jews in 
There is a war on between light and darkness. The battle did not begin on September 11th. It was planned years before. If the eyes of the Church had been open, perhaps the battle could have been fought and won in prayer before September 11th. The 19 who executed this demonic plan had to have been inspired and directed for a long period of time.
I am certain that the terrorist attacks of our day are not the prophetic will of God for this time, but are the will of hell. Prayer is not the best answer; it is the only answer. It is not the last resort; it is the only resort.
Many of us casually clicked off the images of our troops on the front lines of Operation Iraqi Freedom each night thinking that they will take care of it, but the fact is that we have a front line of our own to hold and the fighting needs to be on our knees and faces before God. The American military must fight for our freedom, but it is up to God-fearing Americans to fight for our soldiers' lives and that the peace they win will be lasting.
In the Old Testament, the word watchman is often used for those called to intercessory prayer for their people. Just as a watchman in a city stands at the gate to warn the people of a coming enemy and to be the first line of defense, so intercessory prayer warriors are the first line of spiritual defense for our nations and communities. What happens when the watchmen don't do their jobs?
But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes the life of one of them, that man will be taken away because of his sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.
Ezekiel 33:6 NIV
Yes, in many ways the blood of those killed in suicide bombings is on our hands, just as the blood of Christians was on Paul's hands. So what did Paul do about it? What did he say?
Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.
Acts 20:26-27
Paul declared himself sinless because he turned from his killing ways to saving ways! He repented and followed God. We must turn from apathy to steadfast prayer in the same way! We must get before God and plead our case for the realization of His promises!
Daniel's Example
 In the midst of 
After seventy years are completed at 
Jeremiah 29:10-14
God had a plan for their deliverance from before they went into captivity! But the fact of the matter is, over seventy years later, they were still in captivity. What had happened? Did God forget to set His alarm clock and sleep through freeing His people?
No. The answer is, although God had a plan for their rescue and had even given them the timetable for it through Jeremiah, nothing would happen until someone prayed it back to God! God's people needed an Advocate on earth to ask for the fulfillment of God's Word. (As James 4:2 says, "Yet you do not have because you do not ask.')
In this case, that someone was Daniel:
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans -in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the LORD through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolation of Jerusalem. Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplication, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
Daniel 9:1-3
 After Daniel had read the prophecy in Jeremiah 28:10-14 that the time of the captivity was to last 70 years, he must have done a quick finger count and realized the time was up. Did this make him angry at God for the evil that had been done to them by 
 Daniel knew that his most important assignment was prayer. That was confirmed to him by the battle in the heavenlies between demons and angels, between good and evil. The city of 
 Just as 
Welcoming Back the King!
 Pray for the peace of 
May they prosper who love you.
Peace be within your walls,
Prosperity within your palaces.
For the sake of my brethren and companions,
I will now' say, "Peace be within you."
Because of the house of the LORD our God
I will seek your good.
Psalm 122:6-9
 When we pray for the peace of 
 The Messiah is indeed coming back, and He is coming to 
 Our Lord was asked by His disciples in Matthew 24:3 KJV, "What shall be the sign of thy coining, and of the end of the world?" He clearly gave them the signs beginning with the destruction of the 
 It was 597 B.C. in the days of Nebuchadnezzar in 
 A generation is most often defined as 70-80 years. If a person had been 10 years old in 1948 when this prophecy was fulfilled, that person would be 55 years old at the time of this writing. There is no question that we will not know the day or the hour, but Matthew 24 seems to indicate that we are very, very close to the Messiah's return. The events in the 
Our response to the war that began on September 11th will indeed echo throughout all eternity.
 We have a date with destiny! When we support 
I Will Bless You
 There is a selfish reason why we should wholeheartedly support the Jewish people and their beloved country, 
Ignorant failure or refusal to support the Jews and their right to return to their ancient homeland can cause us to miss the blessings of God. But it can do more than this-it also places us in danger of being cursed by our Creator. God Himself warns humanity of this danger: And the one who curses you, I will curse" (Genesis 12:3).
By contesting the right of Jews to live in their covenant land, and thereby going against God's holy Word, many are opening themselves up to be cursed! Therefore, anyone who seeks the blessings bestowed by our Heavenly Father should make sure they are obeying His command to bless His special covenant people.
 As we have seen, both the Old and New Testaments make abundantly clear that Christians must support 
 Yet if we touch 
Comfort 
"Comfort, yes, comfort My people!"
Says your God.
 "Speak comfort to 
That her warfare is ended,
That her iniquity is pardoned;
For she has received from the LORD's hand
Double for all her sins."
Isaiah 40:1-2
This prophetic word is a God-given mandate to Christians to offer comfort, encouragement, and emotional and financial support to the suffering House of Israel. If this scripture is not for Christians, then for whom? Nation after nation has turned its back on the Jewish people-we cannot do the same.
God said, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Isaiah cried out, "Here am I; send me." The Lord is saying, "One million praying Christians can win the war that is being fought right now in the land of the Bible. Wake up, the mighty men; wake up, the mighty women! Wake up the Esthers and Nehemiahs!"
But the people know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.
Daniel 11:32
The word "everlasting" has nothing temporary or conditional about it. It clearly means, "lasting forever." And although Jews are found today in North and South America, Australia, Russia, Europe, many parts of Africa, and virtually every other continent on earth, their historic spiritual and physical center was, and always will be, the Promised Land of Israel.
 God's eternal covenant with the descendents of Abraham featured the promise to give them the 
 I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the 
Genesis 17:7-8
He Will Raise Up Intercessors!
 I have set watchmen on your walls, O 
They shall never hold their peace day or night.
You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent,
And give Him no rest till He establishes
 And till He makes 
Isaiah 62:6-7
Nothing is more important to God than prayer. God will do nothing without prayer. The fuel that moves the engine of humanity is prayer.
 Even as Jeremiah prophesied to the Jewish people during their captivity in 
"Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know."
Jeremiah 33:3
 Daniel in 
Darkness flees when we pray! Demons tremble when we pray. Heaven moves when we pray, and angels receive assignments when we pray. Prayer affects three realms: The Divine, the Angelic, and the Human. Without it, demons rule uncontested. (See Ephesians 6.) We cannot make contact with God without prayer. If we don't make contact with God, no matter how sincere our intentions are, we will not see a change in the circumstances of life.
God has watchmen on the wall. We call them Esthers and Nehemiahs ... members of the Jerusalem Prayer Team ... people like Corrie ten Boom, and hopefully, people like you.
The world has been scratching its head trying to find an answer to the crisis in the Bible land. That answer is in your hands and mine--we just have to fold them together to get it!
Blow the Trumpet
It is time for Christians to rise up and blow the trumpet! The Church must return to its first love. We must stand in the gap, pay the price, and become watchmen on the wall.
The Bible is filled with stories of believers prevailing in prayer and the Lord winning the battles. You and I can prevail too. The hour is late, but it is not too late to stand in the gap! If prayer was the most effective weapon for Daniel, then prayer must be our most important priority now!
 Indeed, 
 The question is clear: Will you rise up, put on the armor of God, and do your part in waging 
The 
 Pray for the peace of 
Psalm 122:6
 After sixty-one days of fasting and prayer, God spoke the vision for the Jerusalem Prayer Team in my heart. This was to be God's dream, and God's team. After I heard from Heaven, I flew to 
 Christians from all over 
Osama bin Laden had verbally attacked 
I am certain God has raised up Nehemiahs and Esthers to do just that.
 The vision of the Jerusalem Prayer Team is to have one million intercessors praying daily for the peace of 
Praying for the peace of 
 The pastor of Corrie ten Boom's grandfather went to him and told him that his church was going to pray for the peace of 
Would you become a Jerusalem Prayer Team member, and would you encourage others to do so? You can email us at jpteam@sbcglobal.net, or write to: The Jerusalem Prayer Team,
 The House of Israel is in a state of terror, as are all the children of the Bible land. They need the Lord to answer them in their day of terror. They need the God of Jacob to defend them. They need help from the sanctuary, and strength out of 
If you will pray daily, if you will be a part of the Lord's answering this prayer, and a part of touching the destiny of the City of David, then contact me at The Jerusalem Prayer Team, P.O. Box 910, Euless, TX 76039.
 The Corrie ten Boom House in 
Corrie would say to the Jews in the hiding place, "Don't worry, angels are around this house. You may not see them, but they are there, protecting you." Not one Jewish person they protected was caught ... even the ones in the hiding place escaped after the Nazis came to arrest the ten Boom family.
 Over the years, a great number of Jews were hidden in the clock shop, many for just a few days as they headed for 
 "It was the last time the ten Boom family would be together... Opa, his children, and one grandson. One hundred years before, almost to the day, in 1844, his father had started a prayer group for the 'peace of 
 One of the four was a Jewish rabbi who vowed he would come back, and sing the praises of God. On 
 In March 1974, he went to Corrie ten Boom's room, and with tears of joy streaming down his face, sang to the Almighty in Hebrew. The rabbi's life had been saved through the power of prayer. To his amazement, Corrie walked into the clock shop. As he walked downstairs, Corrie stood smiling at 
movie, The Hiding Place.
 For approximately 100 years, from 1844 to 1944, the ten Booms conducted meetings to "pray for the peace of 
At that time Michael, shall stand up,
The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people;
And there shall be a time of trouble,
Such as never was since there has a nation,
Even to that time.
And at that time your people shall be delivered,
Every one who is found written in the book.
"And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
Some to everlasting life,
Some to shame and everlasting contempt.
"Those who are wise shall shine
Like the brightness of the firmament,
And those who turn many to righteousness
Like the stars forever and ever.
"But You, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the
end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase. "
Daniel 12:1-4 [emphasis in bold added]
Behold the nations are as a drop inn a bucket,
And are counted as the small dust on the scales;...
All nations before Him are as nothing,
And they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless...
Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
But those who wait on the LORD
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:15,17,30-31
Prayer Team began when I resumed the one-hundred-year-prayer meeting in the home of the ten Boom's.
Appendix A
OFFICIAL:
"A Performance-Based Roadmap to a
Permanent Two-State Solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"
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The document below is the official "Road Map" plan.
Is there a difference between the "UNCLASSIFIED" Road Map plan; the draft that printed from my fax machine a few days after the speeches by Secretary of State Powell and Foreign Minister Shalom, before Abbas was confirmed; and the Official Road Map? In substance, no there is not.
They both call for
1. official recognition of a 
7. 
8. 
(Released April50, 2005)
The following is a performance-based and goal-driven roadmap, with clear phases, timelines, target dates, and benchmarks aiming at progress through reciprocal steps by the two parties in the political, security, economic, humanitarian, and institution-building fields, under the auspices of the Quartet [the 
A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will only be achieved through an end to violence and terrorism, when the Palestinian people have a leadership acting decisively against terror and willing and able to build a practicing democracy based on tolerance and liberty, and through Israel's readiness to do what is necessary for a democratic Palestinian state to be established, and a clear, unambiguous acceptance by both parties of the goal of a negotiated settlement as described below. The Quartet will assist and facilitate implementation of the plan, starting in Phase I, including direct discussions between the parties as required. The plan establishes a realistic timeline for implementation. However, as a performance-based plan, progress will require and depend upon the good faith efforts of the parties, and their compliance with each of the obligations outlined below. Should the parties perform their obligations rapidly, progress within and through the phases may come sooner than indicated in the plan. Non-compliance with obligations will impede progress.
 A settlement, negotiated between the parties, will result in the emergence of an independent, democratic, and viable Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with 
The Quartet will meet regularly at senior levels to evaluate the parties' performance on implementation of the plan. In each phase, the parties are expected to perform their obligations in parallel, unless otherwise indicated.
Phase I: Ending Terror and Violence, Normalizing Palestinian Life, and Building Palestinian Institutions-Present to May 2003
 In Phase I, the Palestinians immediately undertake an unconditional cessation of violence according to the steps outlined below; such action should be accompanied by supportive measures undertaken by 
At the outset of Phase I:
• Palestinian leadership issues unequivocal statement reiterating 
• Israeli leadership issues unequivocal statement affirming its commitment to the two-state vision of an independent, viable, sovereign Palestinian state living in peace and security alongside Israel, as expressed by President Bush, and calling for an immediate end to violence against Palestinians everywhere. All official Israeli institutions end incitement against Palestinians.
Security
• Palestinians declare an unequivocal end to violence and terrorism and undertake visible efforts on the ground to arrest, disrupt, and restrain individuals and groups conducting and planning violent attacks on Israelis anywhere.
• Rebuilt and refocused Palestinian Authority security apparatus begins sustained, targeted, and effective operations aimed at confronting all those engaged in terror and dismantlement of terrorist capabilities and infrastructure. This includes commencing confiscation of illegal weapons and consolidation of security authority, free of association with terror and corruption.
• GOI takes no actions undermining trust, including deportations, attacks on civilians; confiscation and/or demolition of Palestinian homes and property, as a punitive measure or to facilitate Israeli construction; destruction of Palestinian institutions and infrastructure; and other measures specified in the Tenet work plan.
• Relying on existing mechanisms and on-the-ground resources, Quartet representatives begin informal monitoring and consult with the parties on establishment of a formal monitoring mechanism and its implementation.
• Implementation, as previously agreed, of 
• All Palestinian security organizations are consolidated into three services reporting to an empowered Interior Minister.
• Restructured/retrained Palestinian security forces and IDF counterparts progressively resume security cooperation and other undertakings in implementation of the Tenet work plan, including regular senior-level meetings, with the participation of 
• Arab states cut off public and private funding and all other forms of support for groups supporting and engaging in violence and terror.
• All donors providing budgetary support for the Palestinians channel these funds through the Palestinian Ministry of Finance's Single Treasury Account.
• As comprehensive security performance moves forward, IDF withdraws progressively from areas occupied since 
Palestinian Institution-Building
• Immediate action on credible process to produce draft constitution for Palestinian statehood. As rapidly as possible, constitutional committee circulates draft Palestinian constitution, based on strong parliamentary democracy and cabinet with empowered prime minister, for public comment/debate. Constitutional committee proposes draft document for submission after elections for approval by appropriate Palestinian institutions.
• Appointment of interim prime minister or cabinet with empowered executive
authority/decision-making body.
• GOI fully facilitates travel of Palestinian officials for PLC and Cabinet sessions, internationally supervised security retraining, electoral and other reform activity, and other supportive measures related to the reform efforts.
• Continued appointment of Palestinian ministers empowered to undertake fundamental reform. Completion of further steps to achieve genuine separation of powers, including any necessary Palestinian legal reforms for this purpose.
• Establishment of independent Palestinian election commission. PLC reviews and revises election law.
• Palestinian performance on judicial, administrative, and economic benchmarks, as established by the International Task Force on Palestinian Reform.
• As early as possible, and based upon the above measures and in the context of open debate and transparent candidate selection/electoral campaign based on a free, multi-party process, Palestinians hold free, open, and fair elections.
• GOI facilitates Task Force election assistance, registration of voters, movement of candidates and voting officials. Support for NGOs involved in the election process.
• GOI reopens Palestinian Chamber of Commerce and other closed Palestinian institutions in 
Humanitarian Response
• 
• AHLC reviews the humanitarian situation and prospects for economic development in the 
• GOI and PA continue revenue clearance process and transfer of funds, including arrears, in accordance with agreed, transparent monitoring mechanism.
Civil Society
• Continued donor support, including increased funding through PVOs/NGOs, for people to people programs, private sector development and civil society initiatives.
Settlements
• GOI immediately dismantles settlement outposts erected since March 2001.
• Consistent with the 
Phase II: Transition -June 2003-December 2003
In the second phase, efforts are focused on the option of creating an independent Palestinian state with provisional borders and attributes of sovereignty, based on the new constitution, as a way station to a permanent status settlement. As has been noted, this goal can be achieved when the Palestinian people have a leadership acting decisively against terror, willing and able to build a practicing democracy based on tolerance and liberty. With such a leadership, reformed civil institutions and security structures, the Palestinians will have the active support of the Quartet and the broader international community in establishing an independent, viable, state. Progress into Phase II will be based upon the consensus judgment of the Quartet of whether conditions are appropriate to proceed, taking into account performance of both parties. Furthering and sustaining efforts to normalize Palestinian lives and build Palestinian institutions, Phase II starts after Palestinian elections and ends with possible creation of an independent Palestinian state with provisional borders in 2003. Its primary goals are continued comprehensive security performance and effective security cooperation, continued normalization of Palestinian life and institution-building, further building on and sustaining of the goals outlined in Phase I, ratification of a democratic Palestinian constitution, formal establishment of office of prime minister, consolidation of political reform, and the creation of a Palestinian state with provisional borders.
• International Conference: Convened by the Quartet, in consultation with the parties, immediately after the successful conclusion of Palestinian elections, to support Palestinian economic recovery and launch a process, leading to establishment of an independent Palestinian state with provisional borders.
• Such a meeting would be inclusive, based on the goal of a comprehensive 
• Arab states restore pre-intifada links to 
• Revival of multilateral engagement on issues including regional water resources, environment, economic development, refugees, and arms control issues.
• New constitution for democratic, independent Palestinian state is finalized and approved by appropriate Palestinian institutions. Further elections, if required, should follow approval of the new constitution.
• Empowered reform cabinet with office of prime minister formally established, consistent with draft constitution.
• Continued comprehensive security performance, including effective security cooperation on the bases laid out in Phase I.
• Creation of an independent Palestinian state with provisional borders through a process of Israeli-Palestinian engagement, launched by the international conference. As part of this process, implementation of prior agreements, to enhance maximum territorial contiguity, including further action on settlements in conjunction with establishment of a Palestinian state with provisional borders.
• Enhanced international role in monitoring transition, with the active, sustained, and operational support of the Quartet.
• Quartet members promote international recognition of Palestinian state, including possible UN membership.
Phase III: Permanent Status Agreement and End of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict-2004-2005
Progress into Phase III, based on consensus judgment of Quartet, and taking into account actions of both parties and Quartet monitoring. Phase III objectives are consolidation of reform and stabilization of Palestinian institutions, sustained, effective Palestinian security performance, and Israeli-Palestinian negotiations aimed at a permanent status agreement in 2005.
• Second International Conference: Convened by Quartet, in consultation with the parties, at beginning of 2004 to endorse agreement reached on an independent Palestinian state with provisional borders and formally to launch a process with the active, sustained, and operational support of the Quartet, leading to a final, permanent status resolution in 2005, including on borders, Jerusalem, refugees, settlements; and, to support progress toward a comprehensive Middle East settlement between Israel and Lebanon and Israel and Syria, to be achieved as soon as possible.
• Continued comprehensive, effective progress on the reform agenda laid out by the Task Force in preparation for final status agreement.
• Continued sustained and effective security performance, and sustained, effective security cooperation on the bases laid out in Phase I.
• International efforts to facilitate reform and stabilize Palestinian institutions and the Palestinian economy, in preparation for final status agreement.
• Parties reach final and comprehensive permanent status agreement that ends the Israel-Palestinian conflict in 2005, through a settlement negotiated between the parties based on UNSCR 242, 338, and 1397, that ends the occupation that began in 1967, and includes an agreed, just, fair, and realistic solution to the refugee issue, and a negotiated resolution on the status of Jerusalem that takes into account the political and religious concerns of both sides, and protects the religious interests of Jews, Christians, and Muslims worldwide, and fulfills the vision of two states, Israel and sovereign, independent, democratic and viable Palestine, living side-by-side in peace and security.
• Arab state acceptance of full normal relations with 
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[3] The U.S. Secretary of State made this speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual policy conference in 
Transcript courtesy AIPAC.
[4] Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom made this speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual policy conference in 
[5] Minister Shalom's reference is from Isaiah 50:9.
[6] Italics added. For the complete text of this transmission, please see Appendix A.
[7] On or about May 29, 1998, bin Laden issued a statement entitled "The Nuclear Bomb of Islam," under the banner of the "International Islamic Front for Fighting the Jews and Crusaders," in which he stated that "it is the duty of Muslims to prepare as much force as possible to terrorize the enemies of God," U.S. Department of State, http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/99I 29502.htm
[8] "Before the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam's wealth was estimated at $10 billion by a senior Iraqi defector. But after more than a decade of sanctions, he is no longer as fat a cat. The State Department's 
[9] WASHINGTON, 13 April 2003 (AFP) -U.S. President George W. Bush said Sunday that Syria has chemical weapons, and warned Damascus anew that it "must cooperate" with Washington as it continues its effort to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq.
[10] "Sally's In Syria," The Mirror, 
[11] "France urges U.S., U.K. to ensure Iraqis' security," by Paul Taylor, CAIRO, 12 April 2003 (Reuters) -France urged the United States and Britain on Saturday to ensure security for the Iraqi people after scenes of looting and lawlessness following the fall of President Saddam Hussein.... Villepin and Maher stressed the urgency of reviving 
[12] "Latest bin Laden Tape Release," by BBC NEWS Tuesday, 08 April 2003, at 03:56 a.m.-An audio recording said to be of Osama bin Laden has emerged in which he urges Muslims to rise up against their governments that support the war on Iraq.... In February 2003, an audiotape purporting to be by bin Laden called for attacks on 
[13] On October 7, 1985, one of the P.L.O.'s factions, the Palestine Liberation Front, hijacked the Italian cruise ship Aehille Latin, and demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. 
[14] "Fighting Terrorism," by 
[15] Ibid.
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[18] Address by Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom to the AIPAC Policy Conference, 
[19] "U.S. Troops Enter Tikrit with Only 'Light Resistance,"' The Washington Post, 14 April 2003-Iraq has the world's second-largest proven crude reserves, at 112 billion barrels, but its pipelines, pumping stations, and oil reservoirs have suffered for years from a dearth of funds and lack of maintenance. In recent years, oil has accounted for 95 percent of 
[20] "The 

