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idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither
did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
And they were haughty, and committed abomina-
tion before me: therefore I took them away as I
saw good.
(Ezekiel 16:49,50 KJV)
17. Down with the CIA
An inevitable sign of judgment is the loss of national
will and an unwillingness to defend against oncoming
tides. Security systems are tht to fail, as in the days
of King Belshazzar. While the leaders of the land, the
business tycoons, the armed forces captains, all drank
and played, enemy armies were just outside the gate,
unnoticed and undetected. No security guards, no spies,
no warning system to let them know the enemy was di-
verting the river that protected them. Babylon's security
system broke down in the final hours of the empire.
And I will make drunk her princes, and her
wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her
mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual
sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is
the Lord of hosts.
(Jeremiah 51:57 KJV)
Babylon was crushed because it lost its will to defend
itself. Corrupted by ease and alcohol, the men became
"as women" and sought only the comforts of home and
the pleasures of the city. All defenses were broken
down. She became weaker than her enemies: "There-
fore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her
men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord"
(Jeremiah 50:30 KJv).
Isn't this exactly what is happening right now? We
have cut our intelligence forces to shreds. We will soon
be unable to detect the enemy forces at our gates. We
are becoming weaker than our enemies, and our will to
defend is waning. Our armies have become soft and in-
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did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
And they were haughty, and committed abomina-
tion before me: therefore I took them away as I
saw good.
(Ezekiel 16:49,50 KJV)
17. Down with the CIA
An inevitable sign of judgment is the loss of national
will and an unwillingness to defend against oncoming
tides. Security systems are tht to fail, as in the days
of King Belshazzar. While the leaders of the land, the
business tycoons, the armed forces captains, all drank
and played, enemy armies were just outside the gate,
unnoticed and undetected. No security guards, no spies,
no warning system to let them know the enemy was di-
verting the river that protected them. Babylon's security
system broke down in the final hours of the empire.
And I will make drunk her princes, and her
wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her
mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual
sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is
the Lord of hosts.
(Jeremiah 51:57 KJV)
Babylon was crushed because it lost its will to defend
itself. Corrupted by ease and alcohol, the men became
"as women" and sought only the comforts of home and
the pleasures of the city. All defenses were broken
down. She became weaker than her enemies: "There-
fore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her
men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord"
(Jeremiah 50:30 KJv).
Isn't this exactly what is happening right now? We
have cut our intelligence forces to shreds. We will soon
be unable to detect the enemy forces at our gates. We
are becoming weaker than our enemies, and our will to
defend is waning. Our armies have become soft and in-
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