Persecution Is Coming by Mark Watson

http://www.markswatson.com/perscoming.html

http://www.markswatson.com/spiritwar2.pdf


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One of Mark Watson's best quotes in the previous PDF file:

"...America was a shining beacon to the world. She was a nation that was founded firmly on the God of the Bible. While it is true that some of her founding fathers were Freemasons, it is also true that a great many were not. What is clear is that the men who founded this nation were men who respected Christ and the Bible and even prayed openly before deliberations and at important solemn events. From the times of the pilgrims, America was founded by and for Christians but always maintained a degree of tolerance for others who were willing to respect and honor America's once great traditions. Such a nation was from the day of its inception in the crosshairs of the evil one. He used the most time honored and successful tool in his weapons arsenal, the spirit of Mammon. This is a subject that has received a great deal of attention but rarely as a spiritual entity. Usually the discussion centers around wealth the creation of it, banking, central banking fiat currency, the Federal Reserve and 'real money'. The debate is germaine here insofar as the nature of money and the ability to manipulate it and the power over nations that it gives to banks and bankers. This is a system. This is a very important system in terms of the end times because it is that system of usury and commerce that runs that end times system. It is the system we see today.


But that system will one day come to a sudden and violent end and when it does another system will be put in its place. Watson's Web has talked about this many times before and will not belabor the point here. Suffice it to say that it was necessary to corrupt the old order where Christianity reigned and where goodness, freedom and justice were prevalent. The way to do that was with greed and the spirit of Mammon. From this spirit, mammon comes every sin imaginable. Money corrupts everything and the love of it is the root of all evil. This is how and why Satan has had America and the west in his wicked cross-hairs. It was essential to his strategy. Christianity had to be undermined and the Godly spiritual stronghold (Christians who influenced government and policy) had to be attacked. This is what he did since America's inception. This is one of the key things that most Americans (who reject Christianity) will never understand. The world before Christianity was a very dark, hard and terrible place. Raw power, blood and brute force were the way things got done. Morality was measured purely by utility and by force. It is strange to hear people rail against Christians and Christianity today. Clearly
they have not been to other parts of the world where Christianity has no sway. Slide over to Bangledesh, large swaths of India, Sudan and other places and figure out what the world is like outs and slowly jettisoning. Making their nations more and more socially chaotic, poorer, corrupt and repressive. Places where ordinary people are treated like cattle (or worse) and ignorance2 are the watchword for the ordinary person.

Christianity's detractors rail against Christianity because of the most basic moral restraints that it demands3. Restraints that Western Law has (until recently) codified. But this too was necessary. America could not be overtaken from the outside until there was sufficient rot from within. For a long time this has been happening on multiple levels in America. On the spiritual level, on the economic level and on the social level. All of these have worked together to undercut America's foundational principles in favor of a new poorly defined and unenforceable 'global ethic'. This new ethic is being embraced because it is ill defined and 'tolerant'. Tolerant of everything except Biblical Christianity4. This is the trend in the world and was predicted long ago by Christ and his holy Apostles.

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. - (John 3:13)

If the world hate you, ye know that it
hated me before it hated you. If ye were
of the world, the world would love his
own: but because ye are not of the world,
but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you.
Remember the word that I said unto you,
The servant is not greater than his lord.
If they have persecuted me, they
will also persecute you; if they have
kept my saying, they will keep yours
also. But all these things will they do
unto you for my name's sake, because
they know not him that sent me. If I had
not come and spoken unto them, they
had not had sin: but now they have no
cloke for their sin. He that hateth me
hateth my Father also.
2 Another key tool of satan.
3 Do not lie, do not steal, do not kill, do not commit adultery, honor God, do not covet, etc.
4 A very strong argument can be made Islamic extremism as well, but here the lines are more about politics that religion
per se.
(John 15:18-23)


The new ethic should not surprise us. It has been in evidence in America for the past few decades. One of the saddest parts of this trend, in my estimation is the rejection of 'anything Christian' in mainstream circles. This, despite what many think, is a relatively new trend. Christians and pastors were once listened to and respected in the public debate, back when America was strong and free. Today, any mention of God, Christ or the Bible automatically places you in the 'fringe' category. This too, was very important in the devil's stratagem. It was most necessary to negate the message of God to replace it with the the devils message. It has been playing for sometime in America.

 Greed is good.
 Lies pay.
 Hate as a lifestyle
 Ignorance wins popularity.
 Christ is 'uncool'.
 Sex sells.
 Killing the innocent makes us safer and richer.

These and other social cues are largely responsible for America's spiritual decline. Once again the kind of mindset that is the result of the above modern axioms gives rise to the kind of society America has become. A heavily indebted, largely ignorant, hedonistic and self-destructive nation. All of this has given rise to a generation of moral cowards. People who are too afraid to
speak out about something that is wrong unless they can find comfort in a crowd of like minded people. It is the mentality of 'group think', with socially enforced intellectual non-sequiturs that is destroying the nation and its moral foundations. These things are destroying Christians as well as the Church. As I watch our new President break almost every single promise he made to Americans, the very Americans who once railed about polices such as torture, prosecution of Bush administration officials who engaged in it, the domestic spying apparatus that was railed against that is now defended by the Obama administration, the government openness that still hides things like copyright treaties that has nothing to to with national Security. These things should make any thinking person wonder what the the brainwashed American people who now sit still for all of this really had against Bush.

That is what it all boils down to - Moral cowardice. No one wants to say what needs to be said, honestly and truthfully and forthrightly unless they can get psychological support from others. There is no real moral outrage, any outrage expressed is only displayed when it is politically correct in ones social/racial/economic/political groups to express it. In short there is no real outrage, only 'theatrical' outrage that can keep one acceptable to ones own social groups. Today Americans are waiting to see which way the mass media wind will blow about the new administration. Why? Americans have no mind of their own. Of course there are a few (very few ) exceptions, but by and large Americans have the cattle mentality. They are driven by expert 'herdsman' in the media who guide the dumb animals where they want them to go. Where the dumb animal knows not, it only knows that that is where the rest of the herd is going and remains content therewith. Dear reader, I hope that does not describe you. If so, you will find that the herdsman is really devil and like all cattle drives, the destination is the slaughterhouse. The need to remove individual and independent thinking was an imperative and it was largely accomplished through the public education system. As one educator said in an audio file posted on Watson's Web, our system is not set up to ensure that a Washington, Franklin or Jefferson never arises in America again and the plan is working wonders. Thus, the seeds of American destruction were seeded long ago and given new impetus during the 20th century of which the fruit can be seen now in the very fist decade of the 21st Century. The time is perfect in the devils plan for now we are witnessing the rise of the Spirit of Islam. Timing is everything and by the time America had sown the seeds of her own destruction, a new force was ready to come onto the scene to supersede the old order she once led. Just as the forces of darkness planned, God allowed and the scriptures foretold. Satan's plan is right on schedule and I have news for him and my readers, so is God's.

God has not quite yet allowed the 10 kings to launch their conspiracy against the great harlot, but I think the plans will soon be set in motion. But know this - God has revealed these things to any and all who really wants to know and there are no innocent American bystanders 5 . Those who have given into the spirit of America (greed, violence, ignorance, theft, lies, fraud, sodomy, fornication, adultery, lust) will not escape what the Lord is preparing for America and most importantly, Americans..."