This is a very interesting piece, China's move to associate themselves with
the Panama canal is a lesson without words and the gaining of power beyond
action which ultimately could be seen as the highest wisdom in empowering a
nation.

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>Subject: 'UPS' & 'DOWNS' OF A SUPER POWER! What,Where,When.Why and How?!
>           Hello Reasons!
>Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:34:54 -0800
>
>             By Gerald Flurry
>              Building the Panama Canal was one of the greatest chapters in
>American history. It helps to reveal how America became a superpower, if we
>understan the complete history. Today we see an almost totally different
>spirit in our leaders. The meaning behind that change contains the
>strongest warning ever for America!
>
>How much do Americans understand their own history? We are called the
>world’s greatest superpower ever! But how did we rise to such heights? Most
>Americans are ignorant of how it all happened. And that ignorance places us
>in grave danger!
>
>Our building and now surrendering of the Panama Canal reveals a large part
>of the story. It gives a powerful insight into the rise and fall of the
>world’s greatest superpower.
>
>President Theodore Roosevelt led our people to build the Panama Canal. He
>had a spirit and courage that I don’t see in our leaders today.
>
>Why would he struggle against great opposition to build one of the foremost
>symbols of America’s power? And why do our leaders today have a peculiar
>zeal to surrender the Panama Canal?
>
>What does it all mean to you? We need to understand, because it will affect
>all of us in a terrifying way.
>
>A Noble Project
>
>Edmund Morris wrote in The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt that “Roosevelt has
>been accused of having…contempt for international law, ever since that
>afternoon in 1903 when he allowed a U.S. warship to ‘monitor’ the
>Panamanian Revolution. If [Roosevelt] loses any sleep over his role in that
>questionable coup d’état, he shows no sign. On the contrary, he glories in
>the fact that America is now actually building the Panama Canal ‘after four
>centuries of conversation’ by other nations. A few weeks ago he visited the
>Canal Zone (the first trip abroad by a U.S. president in office), and the
>colossal excavations there moved him to Shakespearean hyperbole. ‘It shall
>be in future enough to say of any man “he was connected with digging the
>Panama Canal” to confer the patent of nobility on that man,’ Roosevelt told
>his sweating engineers. ‘From time to time little men will come along to
>find fault with what you have done…. They will go down the stream like
>bubbles; they will vanish. But the work
>  you have done will remain for the ages’” (pp. 11-12).
>
>Roosevelt gloried in our building of the Panama Canal! There had been talk,
>talk, talk about building the canal for years by other nations. Teddy
>Roosevelt built it! He believed there was a certain “nobility” in this
>mighty undertaking. The work of those laborers remains to this day as a
>monument of a rising superpower. America felt a strong desire to build the
>canal to serve the whole world.
>
>What would Theodore Roosevelt think of our leaders today who have a passion
>to surrender such an awesome possession?
>
>Our leaders are ashamed to provide the leadership that a great nation
>should. What a dramatic change from Roosevelt’s administration! This change
>portends a grave danger for the U.S.
>
>Do we understand, even slightly, why our leaders are so different today?
>
>Mr. Roosevelt said there would be “little men” who would criticize the
>canal project. He would clearly label our present leaders who surrender
>this awesome canal as “little men.”
>
>My purpose is not to play politics. But if Teddy Roosevelt was right,
>“little men” will lead our nation to disaster.
>
>Our history books thunder that he was right. Great nations led by “little
>men” end up on the trash heap. How can we so easily push aside the deep
>wisdom of one of our greatest leaders?
>
>The Rough Riders
>
>Theodore Roosevelt demonstrated the same spirit when he led the “Rough
>Riders” to drive Spain from Cuba. Noel F. Busch wrote in T.R.—The Story of
>Theodore Roosevelt (emphasis mine throughout): “In 1897, just before his
>39th birthday, Roosevelt was summoned to Washington again, this time as
>assistant secretary of the Navy. Twenty months earlier, Cuba had risen in
>arms against her Spanish masters, and the United States had made plain that
>her sympathies were on the Cuban side. Roosevelt believed that the best way
>to win, or to avoid, a war was to be prepared to fight one. Accordingly, he
>saw his task clearly: get the Navy ready for possible war with Spain….”
>
>Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders went to Cuba. “The order came to
>attack, beginning for Roosevelt what he termed ‘my crowded hour.’ Leaping
>astride his horse, he began pushing his men forward from the rear of the
>regiment, ‘the position in which the colonel should theoretically stay.’
>But under his urging the rear rank moved faster than the others, closing
>with the ranks ahead. Brashly breaking through the line, Roosevelt found
>himself not only at the front of his own regiment, but jammed up against
>the regulars ahead who were firing on the hills from the cover of the
>jungle.
>
>“‘I spoke to the captain in command,’ Roosevelt wrote, ‘saying that we
>could not take the hills by firing at them, we must rush them.’
>
>“The captain hesitated; he had no such orders. Roosevelt asked for his
>colonel, but the man was not in sight.
>
>“‘Then I am the ranking officer here,’ Roosevelt declared, ‘and I give the
>order to charge. Let my men through, sir!’
>
>“With that, he parted the ranks and rode on, followed by the grinning Rough
>Riders.
>
>“It was too much for the regulars. ‘They jumped up and came along, their
>officers and men mingling with mine, all delighted at the chance.’ And, as
>Roosevelt waved his hat and shouted orders, the troops advanced up the
>hill, cheering, firing, running forward in a spirited charge….
>
>“As he set out again, the men of the various regiments came on in a rush,
>charging across a wide valley toward the Spanish entrenchments. But before
>they reached them, the enemy ran. Not content, Roosevelt charged again, and
>by the end of the day the Rough Riders found themselves atop a chain of
>hills which looked down on Santiago. The battle was over.
>
>“Two days later the Spanish fleet ventured out of Santiago harbor to its
>complete destruction, and shortly afterward the city surrendered.
>Roosevelt’s entire experience in battle had consisted of a week’s campaign
>and one hard day of fighting, but that was sufficient to change the course
>of the coming century. For it was this victory which first made the United
>States a great world power, and Roosevelt—now the beloved ‘Teddy’ of San
>Juan Hill—was a national hero who would soon guide the destinies of that
>power.”
>
>That is how Teddy Roosevelt led America to solve the Cuban crisis, and that
>is the same spirit he manifested in solving the Panama problem.
>
>That was America on the rise to becoming a superpower. Today we see America
>going in the opposite direction. And no amount of intellectual reasoning
>will change that sickening fact.
>
>Something horrifying has happened to America.
>
>Where do we find such a leader today? Roosevelt was a man who wanted to
>lead his country in battle—not avoid his country’s warfare!
>
>What a contrast to today.
>
>It takes courageous leaders like Teddy Roosevelt to lead a nation to
>greatness! It takes that kind of leadership to deal with Cuba or Panama.
>Theodore Roosevelt once wrote, “I preach to you, then, my countrymen, that
>our country calls not for the life of ease, but the life of strenuous
>endeavor. The 20th century looms before us big with the fate of many
>nations.
>
>“If we stand idly by…if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win
>at hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then the
>bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves
>the domination of the world….
>
>“We are face to face with our destiny, and we must meet it with a high and
>resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of
>duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the
>risk of wearing out than rusting out.”
>
>He called upon Americans to “hazard…their lives” for their country.
>Politicians today fear risking any American lives—and our enemies know it!
>They exploit that weakness continually.
>
>A serious military threat will inevitably happen in Panama. America can’t
>respond with an attack from the air as we did in the Persian Gulf and
>Kosovo. We would have to risk the lives of American soldiers. Our
>politicians have already shown the world that we fear such bloodshed.
>
>The truth is, we are surrendering the canal because of that very fear! So
>we get American soldiers out of Panama to avoid such a clash. Then we just
>act like the canal is unimportant. But we still fantasize like children
>that we are a superpower. No real superpower acts that way!
>
>Was Roosevelt a warmonger? While he was president, the U.S. didn’t have to
>fire one pistol. America was at peace.
>
>Do you know why? Because the whole world knew he and America were prepared
>for war and had the will to fight. Today the world knows America is
>unwilling to risk lives in defense of freedom.
>
>On December 16, 1999, we surrendered the Panama Canal. Now “bolder and
>stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the
>domination of the world”—because of America’s weakness!
>
>Teddy Roosevelt demonstrated the spirit that made America great. Any good
>history book should teach us that America has changed radically since the
>time of Theodore Roosevelt. If he was right, we are about to lose our
>superpower status—and a lot more!
>
>American Decline
>
>During the past 200 years, at the height of their power and prior to their
>recent decline, Britain and America possessed nearly every major sea and
>land gate in the world (see map).
>
>When Britain truly “ruled the waves,” its naval forces controlled
>Gibraltar, Malta, the Dardanelles, the English Channel, Suez, the Gulf of
>Aden, the Andarman and Nicobar Islands, Zanzibar, Cape Town, Ceylon (Sri
>Lanka), the Straits of Malacca, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Falkland
>Islands.
>
>America had control of the great Pacific sea lanes by possessing the
>Aleutians, Hawaiian Isles, Midway, Guam, Wake Island, the Philippines and
>the Panama Canal.
>
>Panama is, by far, of the greatest strategic importance to the U.S. It is
>the gateway controlling access to and from the two greatest oceans—the
>Atlantic and the Pacific. This great sea gate has for almost 85 years
>controlled most of the flow of goods by sea from the eastern to the western
>hemisphere and from the West to the East.
>
>Although the French began the project in 1879, it was the U.S. which funded
>and completed the Panama Canal. The U.S. concluded the Hay-Bunau-Varilla
>Treaty with Panama in 1903. This treaty granted the U.S. control of the
>ten-mile strip stretching across the Central American isthmus, designated
>the Canal Zone. We paid $10,000,000 to Panama for this grant of sovereignty
>“in perpetuity.” (That sum was more than we paid for Alaska and Florida.)
>Additionally, the U.S. gave compensation to the owners of the land which
>comprised the Canal Zone and thus obtained complete ownership of the land
>within the Canal Zone.
>
>American taxpayers funded the canal project to its completion. The finished
>project included port facilities at both the Pacific and Atlantic ends of
>the canal, three major locks and all associated equipment to power, operate
>and maintain these facilities. As President Reagan stated, “We bought it,
>we paid for it, it’s ours, and we are going to keep it.”
>
>He had been pre-empted, however, by President Jimmy Carter, who, in 1977,
>concluded dubious “treaties” with President Omar Torrijos of Panama,
>promising to give the canal to Panama at noon on December 31, 1999. The
>fact that two thirds of the American people were opposed to these
>“treaties” did not faze President Carter at the time. Subsequent research
>has thrown doubt on whether the treaties were legal within the context of
>both the U.S. and Panama constitutions.
>
>Even though two thirds of the American people were opposed, Mr. Carter
>undemocratically led us into a shameful treaty!
>
>The undemocratic process continues. Now we surrender the canal when most of
>the Panamanian people don’t even want us to leave. That is because they
>understand the danger better than our leaders do!
>
>Is this the act of a superpower?
>
>History clearly demonstrates the kind of spirit and courage it takes to
>build a superpower. But we are ignoring this history; American leaders are
>naively dismantling the number-one superpower in a world full of tigers.
>
>Still, this descent goes even deeper than our history books could ever
>reveal.
>
>Building the Canal
>
>Charles Dorothy wrote in The Plain Truth magazine, November 1965, when
>Herbert W. Armstrong was the editor in chief: “The American (California)
>gold rush in 1849 caused urgent need for a quick route to the West Coast.
>By crossing the isthmus at Panama (territory owned by Colombia), travelers
>from the American East Coast to the west could save 8,000 miles!
>
>“The dense, humid isthmian jungle gave way to swinging axes and dynamite as
>gleaming railroad tracks joined the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. 1855 saw
>the completion of the $7,500,000, 471/2-mile Panama Railway—the first
>cross-continental railway ever built.
>
>“America built that railroad.
>
>“The success of the American railroad in turn encouraged the building of
>the canal. But America was not interested in, nor able to build a canal.
>God’s time had not come.
>
>“Try as she might, however, America could not pull out of the isthmus.
>
>“Between 1850 and 1904, there were ten separate landings of American troops
>on Colombian (Panamanian) soil to preserve peace and order, to keep the
>railway open, to protect the lives of American citizens.
>
>“In his book Fear God and Take Your Own Part, pages 313-317, President
>Roosevelt lists the ten landings, along with 53 revolutions, revolts,
>unsuccessful rebellions, uprisings and other outbreaks in Panama between
>those same years—53 riots in 53 years!”
>
>Ten times America had to send troops to protect the Panama Railway. The
>uprisings were stopped because the rebels knew America would not tolerate
>it. That is how America did things in our past as we rose to greatness.
>
>Even the railway would not have been built today. Which of our leaders has
>such a global vision today? We can never serve the world without using our
>God-given power.
>
>Fear God and Take Your Own Part sums up the firm convictions of
>Roosevelt—his belief in God and in taking a strong role in world affairs.
>The fruits of that understanding were magnificent. But which of our leaders
>looks to his example?
>
>Surrendering the Canal
>
>“September 24, 1965, saw the startling announcement...that the
>Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is to be abolished! The U.S. will give up whatever
>semblance of ‘ownership’ it has left.
>
>“The new treaty will effectively recognize Panama’s sovereignty over the
>area of the present Canal Zone….
>
>“As James Kilpatrick reports: ‘What kind of bargaining is this?… The
>defense and canal installations represent an investment of billions of
>dollars in American tax funds…. It is not accurate to describe this treaty
>as a sell-out, for a sell-out implies some payment in return for principles
>yielded. This is surrender, abject surrender, to a gang of blackmailers
>whose bluff came down to this: Throw in your hand or we’ll riot again’ (Los
>Angeles Times, Oct. 5, 1965).
>
>“Remember, it is not the Panamanian people who are blackmailers; it is the
>crooked political leaders.
>
>“History proves we will lose the canal. We negotiated a defeat with Panama
>on July 28, 1926, again in 1936, and again in 1963 when riots broke out
>over the question of flying a Panamanian flag in the Canal Zone. The United
>States has done nothing but hedge, crawl, dodge, yield, relinquish, back
>down and give up ever since we began to build!…
>
>“One of the greatest engineering masterpieces the world has ever seen, one
>that has ‘served the United States and the world well for 50 years,’ one
>that played a big hand in raising America to the top of the world, is going
>down the drain….
>
>“The Panama Canal stands as one of America’s foremost symbols of greatness
>and power. Our ‘pride’ is largely Panama” (ibid.).
>
>This was written in 1965! James Kilpatrick called the rebels “a gang of
>blackmailers.”
>
>History did indeed prove that the U.S. would lose the canal as our
>leadership got weaker and weaker. Now watch and see what a disaster the
>Panama Canal becomes for the U.S.
>
>Few of our people are deeply concerned about the canal today. That is
>another sign that we have lost our world vision and are bogged down in a
>greedy present.
>
>I predict—based on history and the Bible—that the Panama Canal area will be
>a great curse to America in the near future. And that curse has already
>begun!
>
>Enter China
>
>Through an underhanded deal struck by a money-grasping Panamanian
>government and the giant Hong Kong-based Hutchinson Whampoa conglomerate,
>control of the Panama Canal virtually went to a declared enemy of the U.S.
>at the canal’s handover.
>
>The Panamanian government sold two prime U.S.-built port facilities to a
>Chinese company, which many say operates as a front for the Chinese
>Communist Party. The 50-year contract between Panama and Hutchinson Whampoa
>effectively places the ability to open and shut this great sea-gate into
>the hands of an enterprise based in, and subject to, the influence and
>direction of Communist China. Not only has Hutchinson Whampoa been granted
>full control over the ports at both entry and exit points of the Canal, the
>Panamanian government has granted long-term options to this Chinese
>enterprise for the takeover of a number of military installations scheduled
>for evacuation by the U.S.
>
>Any student of military strategy should see the startling possibilities
>which are opened up by such a deal. At 12 noon, December 31, 1999, an
>enterprise of China, the nation possessing the world’s largest army, which
>is aggressively expanding its navy and air force, took control of the major
>sea-transit gateway between East and West. In effect, this gave Red China
>the power to deny the U.S. Navy right of access through the Panama Canal.
>Transit of military matériel, personnel and provisions via the canal was
>crucial to the U.S. strategic efforts during World War II, Korea, Vietnam
>and the Persian Gulf.
>
>It is feasible that this secret, illegal deal between Panama and the
>Chinese will open up a base for Chinese warships, submarines and bombers
>only 900 miles from Miami. Should the Red Chinese choose to base their J-11
>attack jets in Panama, ostensibly to promote the “security” of the canal,
>this would place them within striking distance of the U.S. mainland. The
>potential threat to U.S. and world security posed by the Panama-China deal
>is difficult to fathom!
>
>Recently the current U.S. administration abandoned one of its strongest
>Asian allies. The U.S. president renounced the old alliance with Taiwan,
>reading from a prepared script concocted by the Red Chinese leaders! To
>make genuine mistakes in dealing with foreign policy through
>misunderstanding, or even incompetence, is one thing. To make public
>statements, over a period of time, in a manner which encourages the known
>strategy of an enemy, is another!
>
>China has already declared their plans to take over Taiwan—by war if
>necessary. Would we defend Taiwan as we have in the past? Not likely.
>Especially since China could now attack us from Panama!
>
>Many believe this whole affair is tied to illegal political contributions
>by the Chinese in the last U.S. election. Regardless, the rotten fruits of
>this whole China-Panama deal smell to high heaven!
>
>It is a colossal disaster that will haunt us to the very end. It will play
>a key role in destroying America as a superpower.
>
>The American people are being bombarded with foreign-policy surrenders on
>the part of their leaders!
>
>It is reported that last summer, in a closed session with the Senate
>Foreign Relations committee, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, USN (Ret.), former
>chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned of grave security risks
>brought on by the Chinese takeover of the Panama Canal. The admiral
>declared, “I’m an old sailor now, but I know trouble when I see it…trouble
>that could evolve quickly into a conflict in our own hemisphere with
>worldwide implications…. I speak of the transfer of the Panama Canal to the
>Panamanian government under the circumstances which now exist. There’s far
>more going on there than meets the eye” (WorldNet Daily, Oct. 19, 1998).
>
>One of the most strident voices speaking out on the Panama Canal issue over
>the past 15 years is G. Russell Evans, Captain, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.). In
>the preface to his recently published book, Death Knell of the Panama
>Canal, Captain Evans states, in relation to the Panama/Hutchinson Whampoa
>deal, “If this scandalous swindle is consummated, Americans will have
>surrendered the greatest single achievement of our 221-year history, the
>most meaningful contribution ever made by one nation for the benefit of all
>nations, and most important, we may have ‘written the final chapter in the
>history of America’s greatness as a world power’…and it will all have been
>done by deliberate violations of the Constitution of the United States”
>(pp. xxi-xxii).
>
>Please read that again.
>
>Admiral Moorer, in his 1978 Senate Armed Services Committee testimony,
>said, “The defense and use of the Panama Canal is wrapped inextricably with
>the overall global strategy of the United States and the security of the
>free world.” Twenty years later, Admiral Moorer declared to the Senate
>Foreign Relations Committee, “We are talking about the control of a
>strategic part of the world in our hemisphere, shortly to be controlled by
>the largest country on earth, Communist China…. We have dropped the ball in
>the Canal Zone, and the game is almost over.”
>
>These are frightening words from an important authority on the subject.
>
>Sin Against Our Birthright
>
>Here is how James J. Kilpatrick analyzed the conflict: “There comes a time
>when great powers must behave as great powers. Not every source of conflict
>can be removed. Some conflicts must be endured; they must be lived with.
>Not every wounded sensitivity can be soothed.
>
>“When every reasonable and prudent concession to Panama has been made, a
>line has to be drawn: No more.”
>
>America has shown little or no resolve regarding the Panama Canal. Will our
>surrender of the canal win us respect from Latin Americans?
>
>One expert on U.S.-Latin American affairs said in 1965 (in the April Plain
>Truth magazine): “Americans should not accept the superficial view about
>the ultimate reaction in Latin America to the giveaway of the canal. The
>Latins respect power. What they distrust and deride is weakness,
>appeasement and surrender. I can assure you that they will look upon
>American withdrawal from Panama with incredulity and contempt.
>
>“Besides, their own security is clearly involved. It’s a slur on their
>common sense to assume that Latin Americans could really welcome control of
>this all-important commercial and naval passageway between the Atlantic and
>Pacific by a small, weak and chronically unstable country.”
>
>Will America win respect from Latin America and the world? No, just
>“incredulity and contempt.” America refuses to see that we have become a
>spineless spectacle before the world. That is the way the world sees us.
>
>All the Panamanians had in 1965 was a 6,000-man national guard. They had no
>army! They have not even had a military since 1989. But America backed down
>in 1965 and continues to do so today!
>
>We are demonstrating a military weakness this world has never seen before!
>How disgustingly weak can we become?
>
>America the superpower has a terminal illness and is about to die. All you
>need in order to understand that is a basic education in history.
>
>If you understand Bible prophecy also, you absolutely know our days are
>numbered.
>
>How can Panama, a tiny country of 2.8 million people and no military,
>possibly protect the canal and those great military bases left behind by
>the U.S.?
>
>These jewels will attract terrorists or nations who have the power and
>vision to see their value!
>
>Our problems in Panama are just beginning!
>
>What few people realize is that the Panama Canal was a part of our
>birthright from God.
>
>Write for our booklet The United States and Britain in Prophecy. It will
>fully explain what is happening to America and Britain today.
>
>“That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy
>seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea
>shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies” (Gen. 22:17).
>The major “gate” spoken of here is the Panama Canal. This is what was
>prophesied to befall us in “the last days” (Gen. 49:1). God gave us these
>blessings, and now He is taking them away because of our sins.
>
>These words of Moses contain great prophecies for the end time. The prophet
>Daniel, whose message is for the end time, tells us so (Dan. 9:12-13; 12:4,
>9).
>
>“And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as
>iron, and your earth as brass” (Lev. 26:19). God has “broken” the pride in
>our power. That is why our people are not stirred by what is happening in
>Panama. Something is terribly wrong with us! We are afraid to use the power
>God gave us. Our immediate future is very bleak unless we turn to our great
>God, and not to some false religion that professes to follow the Bible, but
>really doesn’t. That includes any leaders who surrender the Panama Canal
>and call our weakness righteousness!
>
>Why is the canal so unimportant to us and so important to the Chinese?
>Because the Chinese have pride in their power and a world vision!
>
>China deceitfully established themselves in Panama even before we left. Our
>politicians should have made a deafening outcry over this
>nation-threatening disaster. But they didn’t.
>
>Why don’t they respond as Theodore Roosevelt did? Because he had a pride in
>our power that they simply don’t have.
>
>Our sins have made us a weak spectacle before the world.
>
>We are too foolish to realize that a superpower can’t run and hide like a
>child. Several nations lust for the renown of destroying the world’s only
>superpower!
>
>“And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into
>their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf
>shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they
>shall fall when none pursueth” (v. 36). Today we flee from a shaken leaf!
>From a tiny nation with no military! How shamefully weak! A few students,
>or thugs, rioted against us in Panama, and we fled in fear! Just as God
>said we would.
>
>How shameful an end to such a great power.
>
>Assistant Secretary of State William Rogers said in 1965 that if the U.S.
>failed to recognize Panama’s full rule or sovereignty over all its
>territory, it could “lead to a confrontation with Panama…and a real
>possibility that the canal would be closed in the process.”
>
>We cowered before their 6,000-man national guard! Can’t we see what has
>happened?
>
>How pathetic! Teddy Roosevelt would have bitterly scorned such weakness.
>One man helped greatly in building a superpower—Fear God and Take Your Own
>Part. The other one helped to tear it down.
>
>We have such problems because our leaders have less and less faith in the
>God who gave us our birthright.
>
>“And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced
>walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he
>shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord
>thy God hath given thee” (Deut. 28:52). God said our enemies would surround
>us—we are becoming besieged as a nation and besieged in such sea gates as
>the Panama Canal. This is happening in the land “God has given” us. Therein
>lies the problem. We don’t know that all these blessings came from God. So
>now God is replacing the blessings with curses.
>
>How long must God curse us before we awaken? That is the big question each
>one of us must answer. The decision is in our hands—nationally and
>individually.
>
>If the nation won’t heed, you can do so individually, and God will protect
>you. But you can’t be weak like the U.S. God wants us to be strong,
>physically and spiritually.
>
>The whole world is watching. Unless we repent before God, they will see our
>ignominious end! And so will you.
>
>Thankfully, America’s downfall will usher in the return of Jesus Christ!
>
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