IN the NEWS - Another Week... What is up?

For nation shall rise against nation,

and kingdom against kingdom:

and there shall be famines,

and pestilences,

and earthquakes,

in divers places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Matthew 24:7,8

We should be careful NOT to do Prophecy by Headline---but it would seem the last 3 weeks of worldwide calamities may be a taste of what is to come in the near future. The Question is: Is it beginning? Or just a Taste of the Future?

THIS WEEK:

U.S.A: Massive Flooding in Texas washing away people at night while sleeping and a children's summer camp. Massive Flooding in

New Jersey, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Massive wind and sand storm severely damaging Las Vegas. Red Alert issued in Hawaii due to a volcano "rising, shifting and cracking."

Italy: Of those more than 15,000 quakes in southern Italy over the last 2 months now the largest yet to rattle Naples hit along with a piece of Italy's coast breaking off and slipping under the waves. In the north multiple landslides and mudslides filling city streets.

Greece: The Island of Crete rattled by multiple quakes surrounding the island. Tourists evacuated.

Austria: Massive Landslides and military sent in to evacuate.

China: Several more Massive Flood outbreaks. Severe wind and

rain storms near Shanghai and Beijing closing the airports. Out of control Wild Fires still raging. Parts of China from the air looks like an ocean.

South Africa: Cape Town flooded by rains and a tidal wave.

Japan: Over 900 minor quakes with prediction of the big one coming.

Tonga: Rattled by an earthquake.

Indonesia: Moderate earthquake---but this is on the heels of last

weeks volcanic eruption.

Turkey: Small quake---but not far from the seismic activity rocking Italy and the Greek Islands the last 2 months.

Mexico: Tropical Storm floods east coast.

Moon: Prediction that an asteroid may be heading for the moon and striking it within a few years.

Thailand/Cambodia: Border Clashes. Massive floods in Thailand.

For the Last 2 Weeks SEE Links Below:

IN the NEWS - There's More..... (plus a sidenote)

Dig Deeper: IN the NEWS - There's More..... (plus a sidenote)

IN the NEWS - Don't Panic: All these are only the BEGINNING of sorrows

Dig Deeper: IN the NEWS - Don't Panic: All these are only the BEGINNING of sorrows

"Brother #1" and the Messianic Marxist [Jer. 17:9 Case Study - The Killing Fields]

The heart is deceitful above all things, 

and desperately wicked....

Jeremiah 17:9

 

Q: What led to the pseudo-intellectual path to Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodians) Killing Fields of Cambodia where nearly a fourth of the nation's population were slaughtered or starved

to death? 

 

Starting with Marxism, there were two major Communist philosophies competing during the Cold War. Those of the Lenin/Soviet Model (a class based struggle of the urban labor union proletariat) and the Mao/Chinese Model (a more rural peasant based one).

 

Enter the warped thinking from the faculty lounge of the mind of Pol Pot, who had been educated within the western halls and walls of

academia. He eventually blended the two types of Leninism and Maoism with a heavy dose of Albania's Hoxha. (Hoxhaism was the Communist view of Albania's Communist dictator that the brutal regime of Stalin was real Communism and that the new crop of Communist leaders in the Soviet Union and elsewhere were going soft). Eventually as for Lenin vs. Mao, Pol Pot leaned toward Mao with Pol Pot's focus on the rural idyll....accompanied by Hoxhaism on Steroids.

It became an extreme for of Communism that regulated forced labor, hair cuts, where you lived, what and when you ate and who you married. Children were taken from their parents and taught that the state was their parent. It took Communism to it's ultimate Logical Conclusion.

 

*From the Faculty Lounge of the mind of Pol Pot came forth the referring to himself as "Brother Number 1" as he restarted the calendar with Year Zero. 

*All those not useful to the Revolution should be eradicated. 

*The Khmer Rouge portrayed themselves as the Messianic figures of Marxism. 

*The Khmer Rouge believed in the purification of the masses via massacre.

A secret clique, a faceless regime, ran the country known as the

Angka (the organization) which included Khieu Samphan who had been educated in Paris. Ieng Sary. Chhit Chhoeunn, a Bhhudist Monk known as Ta Mok the Butcher. Nuon Chea, the mastermind of Khmer Rouge philosophy of isolating Cambodia from the world stage and eliminating money. And finally, Saloth Sar, educated in Paris and known by the name Pol Pot. The Angka was talked of in spiritual terms as an omnipresent entity. The one time that atheistic Communism tried to set itself up openly as a deity. People feared the Angka could read their minds. People were taught to pray to the Angka for the blessings they received in food and clothes.

A Khmer slogan sums up their worldview: “It is better to arrest ten people by mistake than to let one guilty person go free.”

So basically what led to the Horror of the Killing Fields of Cambodia

was Pol Pot sitting around in the Academic Faculty Lounge of his own head debating the Marxist philosophies of Lenin, Mao and Hoxha.....and for a moment got to play a man-made deity.

IN the NEWS - Old Fashioned Paganism to Fight COVID thrives in 21st Century

 This goes back many many moons ago when their ancestors, after leaving Babel, turned from God...Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. 2 Peter 2:15

"Amid the rising coronavirus COVID-19 cases across the world,

farmers in this Asian nation has deployed a floral-shirted scarecrow with a plastic pot to ward off the deadly virus.

Known as "Ting Mong...Cambodians are strongly attached to animism and the practice is incorporated into the daily lives and rituals of Cambodians. It is to be noted that majority of Cambodians believe that spirits are tied to places, animals and things."

ZeeNews

 

an·i·mism

/ˈanəˌmizəm/

noun

noun: animism

1. 1.

   the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.
2. 2.

   the belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe.

   "a village steeped in ancient animism and rituals"