Joseph Herrin (03-22-2010)

Zechariah 11:4-6
Thus says Yahweh my God, “Pasture the flock doomed to slaughter. Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished… And their own shepherds have no pity on them. For I shall no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,” declares Yahweh.

Some things are so overtly symbolic that they cannot avoid drawing attention, contemplation, and conclusions. Consider the events of September 11, 2001. On thats day America was struck by evil men and the entire world watched as the World Trade Towers came crashing to the ground. It was immediately noted that the date was 9-11. These are the same numbers used throughout America to contact police, firemen and ambulances in an emergency. Since that day the phrase 9-11 has become synonymous with this day of great slaughter.

Isaiah 30:25
And on every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streams running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

What kind of streams run on a day of great slaughter? They are streams of tears. The proud, the lofty, and the exalted ones will run with rivers of tears.

When I heard that the Democratic members of Congress and President Obama had found a way to pass healthcare reform, circumventing both the spirit and the letter of the Constitution, I could not help but note the prophetic name given to the scheme they employed. Republicans called it “The Slaughter Solution” as it was set forth by New York Democrat Louise Slaughter who is the Chairwoman of the House Rules Committee.

This “solution” avoids the need for a regular vote on the passage of the bill which would normally require a 3/5 majority, or 60% voting in favor of it. Instead, the Democratic controlled House of Representatives adopted a “Deem and Pass” methodology where only a simple majority is needed (50% plus one vote). The website American Thinker has an interesting article on this procedure. They suggest you should say “Deem and Pass” three times quickly. It sounds like “Demon Pass.”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/the_demon_pass_and_its_selfexe.html

This Deem and Pass procedure is termed a “Self-Executing Rule.” I hope by this time you are beginning to see a parable in all of this. The American people are voting for their own Slaughter. They will be able to blame only themselves for the demise of both the populace and constitutional government. I found it telling that Louise Slaughter strenuously objected to any limitations being written into the healthcare bill that would limit the government’s ability to use public funds to pay for abortions.

What do you suppose God thinks of 50 million babies being aborted in America since Roe v. Wade passed in 1973? There word “SLAUGHTER” comes to mind. Now Yahweh will give a people over to their own judgment.

Matthew 7:2
For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

There is coming a great slaughter in this nation, and we should not suppose that it is the fault of the Democrats, or the Republicans, or even of a diabolical group of global elite who are pressing for a New World Order that includes an 80% reduction in world population. The slaughter coming to America is the judgment of God upon a people who have slaughtered tens of millions of their own children, far exceeding even the atrocities of Hitler’s Third Reich. For this reason alone God would be justified in making a great slaughter of the populace, yet America has added transgression upon transgression.

The litany of abominations in the nation have been cited before. Homosexuality, murder, theft, fornication, adultery, idolatry, pornography, child abuse, sorcery, and on and on the list goes. An evil body of rulers would not have been given the reins of power, and the ability to carry forth their wicked schemes had not God chosen to deliver America over to judgment.

Ezekiel 21:31-32
I shall pour out My indignation on you; I shall blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and I shall give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction. You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land…

America has executed herself. Her wealth is being given into the hands of others who are looting her pockets. Millions of Americans are losing their homes, and nearly a fifth of the population is out of work. The freedoms and protections of the Constitution are being stripped away systematically and quickly. A once proud and free people are being reduced to poverty and slavery. What we see now is only the beginning.

Kitty Werthmann

This morning I found in my inbox a writing forwarded to me that I want to share with you. It is truly prophetic of those things coming to America. It was written by Kitty Werthmann who lives In Pierre, South Dakota. She is the State President for Eagle Forum, which was started by Phyllis Schlafly. Kitty Werthmann emigrated to the United States from Austria in the 1950s. She has written about her experience of seven years under German rule from 1938 to 1945.

by Kitty Werthman

I am an eyewitness to history. I can tell you that Hitler did not take Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide – 98% of the vote. I’ve never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.

In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates. Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people – about 30 daily.

The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna, Linz, and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted.

We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany, where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn’t have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group – Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria. We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany.

We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.

After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.

Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn’t support his family.

Hitler Targets Education-Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children:

Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn’t pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang “Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,” and had physical education.

Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail. The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.

My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn’t do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun – no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn’t exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.

Equal Rights Hits Home

In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn’t work, you didn’t get a ration card, and if you didn’t have a card, you starved to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn’t have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men.

Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.

Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare:

When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.

Health Care and Small Business choked by Government Controls:

Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna… After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.

As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.

We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn’t meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control.

We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, and then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.

“Mercy Killing” Redefined:

In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps. The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.

As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.

The Final Steps – Gun Laws:

Next came gun registration. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.

No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.

Totalitarianism didn’t come quickly; it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria. Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.

After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria. Women were raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn’t destroy, they burned. We called it “The Burned Earth.” Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn’t, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians. This is an eye witness account.

It’s true. Those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity. America Truly is the greatest country in the world. Don’t let freedom slip away.
[End of Writing]

People of God, America’s freedom has already slipped away. America has already been handed over to judgment, and she is at this moment being sacked and looted by international bankers and having her laws and entire society altered in radical ways. Barack Obama promised “Change” and he has been granted authority by God to bring this change to America. It will not be the change America seeks. It will not be the utopia of universal healthcare, housing, food, prosperity, ease and comfort that her citizens are anticipating.

Consider the following parallels to Hitler’s Germany and the United States at this hour. Barack Obama has suggested that all youth in America should serve a year of compulsory community service. He would establish an organization similar to the Youth Corps of the National Socialist Party of Germany. Following is an excerpt from an article posted last year.

The House passed a bill yesterday which includes disturbing language indicating young people will be forced to undertake mandatory national service programs as fears about President Barack Obama’s promised “civilian national security force” intensify.

The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act, was passed yesterday by a 321-105 margin and now goes to the Senate.

Under section 6104 of the bill, entitled “Duties,” in subsection B6, the legislation states that a commission will be set up to investigate, “Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.”

Section 120 of the bill also discusses the “Youth Engagement Zone Program” and states that “service learning” will be “a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency.”
[Source: http://www.infowars.com/house-passes-mandatory-national-service-bill/]

One of the first acts of the 111th Congress, which is currently in session, was to establish regional detention camps across America that could be scaled up quickly in a national emergency to house a vast number of Americans. You can read about “The National Emergency Centers Establishment Act” at the following government link:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:h645:

On the very first day of the 111th Congress a gun registration act was introduced. It is H.R. 45, called “The Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act.” You can read about it here:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-45

Last year I included the following excerpt in a blog post. The author indicates that the military is being instructed to prepare for major civil unrest ahead.

Yes, U.S. Officials Are Quietly Preparing for BIG Trouble Ahead

A new report by the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute states flatly the U.S. military must prepare for “a violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States” that could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.”

Late last year, The Washington Post noted the incoming Obama Administration is going to “earmark” at least 20,000 troops returning from Iraq to deal with “domestic emergencies.” Since then, the Army Times has broken the story that the domestic emergency army unit has been increased to 80,000 troops, who are being trained right now in Georgia.
[Source: http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/04.09/pandemonium.html]

I recommend the following Blog Post to understand the trend that has been occurring whereby the government is preparing for very violent and calamitous days ahead for America.

https://heart4god.ws/wordpress/2009/10/sinister-deeds.html

People of God, as days pass it is becoming more evident that the plans of wicked men who have been given control of this nation are advancing quickly. The day of slaughter is drawing ever closer. It is not my intent to excite with rhetoric, but rather to stir the saints of God out of their lethargy and slumber. If you are pursuing the American Dream, if you are focused on your next entertainment, or pleasure, or are living to pursue the things that your soul desires, then you will not be prepared to spiritually survive those things that are coming swiftly.

This is an hour of preparation before the storm hits. It is a season to be getting your spiritual house in order. Yahweh is leading His people to surrender their lives to a complete and abandoned pursuit of His will. He would have you to learn what it is to hear His voice and obey. He would instruct you in trusting Him for the necessities of life. He would lead you into a life of faith and obedience, if you would seek Him.

I am not advocating that any believer should quit their job, cancel their healthcare, or make other radical steps. I am declaring that all believers should be seeking the will of the Father at this hour. What He says, do. Where He directs, go. Be attentive to the voice of the Spirit. Press into the Father. Ask Him to prepare you that you might stand in the day of slaughter that is coming.

In a day of great judgment many will perish, yet a remnant will be purged, purified and refined. We live at the end of the age when the earth must experience her birthpangs. Do you see the signs of the times all around you? Are you living as a wise man or woman, making the most of these days before the darkness falls?

As the flock of Christ you need to be attentive to your Shepherd’s voice. There is a flock that is doomed to slaughter. Pray that you might escape these things.

Zechariah 11:4-6
Thus says Yahweh my God, “Pasture the flock doomed to slaughter. Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished… And their own shepherds have no pity on them. For I shall no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,” declares Yahweh.

Truly the shepherds of this nation have no pity on those whose lives are in their hands. They will not be moved by the suffering of the masses. God has delivered America into the hands of the pitiless and the cruel for she has slaughtered her own children and shown no pity. Day by day the slaughter continues, and soon a new slaughter will begin.

Mark 13:19-20
For in those days there will be tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the creation which God created until this time, nor ever shall be. And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake, whom He chose, He shortened the days.

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