THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH:
Bush & "God"
By Gillian Norman

For this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should 
believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the 
truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. The transgression of the 
wicked says within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. 
2Th 2:11  

No longer do the image-fakers depict the Saviour of humanity as 
meek and mild, white-robed with golden aura and upturned spaniel 
eyes. Move over wimp-face, as the newly recreated testosterone-tough 
tyrant-killer descends from the clouds like Zeus from a prayer breakfast 
on Mars, with a mission of Messianic Redemption.  

Flags are waving, crowds cheer, adulation unrestrained heralds the glad 
tidings that the revolutionary Empire Builder with a Moral Mandate has 
arrived to depose dastardly dictators, to end states that sponsor terror 
and to foster freedom and democracy for the soul-dead and the captive 
blind.  

The insidious tentacles of the octopus of globalist control, fictionalised 
in C. S. Lewis' book, "That Hideous Strength", pictures the rebirth in our 
times of Lucifer's Babylonian System, which began on the Plain of 
Shinar, now Iraq, shortly after Noah's Flood. Enticed by power, a young 
journalist is used to distort truth and promote the Luciferian Empire to 
the mind-controlled and manipulated masses:  

"The time was ripe. From the point of view which is accepted in Hell, the 
whole history of our Earth had led up to this moment. There was now at 
last a real chance for fallen Man to shake off that limitation of his 
powers which mercy had imposed upon him as a protection from the full 
results of his fall. If this succeeded, Hell would be at last incarnate. Bad 
men, while still in the body, still crawling on this little globe, would enter
that state which, heretofore, they had entered only after death, would 
have the power of evil spirits."

Like the propagandist in Lewis' futuristic novel, whose only aspiration 
is to belong to the clique of Insiders, how many more have fallen prey 
to the strong delusion which perpetuates the goals of that Hideous 
Strength?  

Pastor David Meyers, a former occultist, writes in the oLast Trumpetoe: 
oNever has there been such a blindness and lack of discernment among 
the vast majority of the people of this so-called "Christian" nation and 
the entire world. It is truly that strange time of gross darkness and 
deception when you can sell lies, but you cannot give the truth away. 

The reason for the existence of this strange condition is simple; people 
in ever-increasing numbers have been continually rejecting the true 
knowledge of God and have been going through a deceptive orientation 
of a false light of satanic origin. We must remember that Satan was 
once Lucifer, which means "holder of the light" or "son of
the morning." 
Something very strange happens to people when they enter into the 
realm of that strange light. Everything looks different when it is 
back-lighted by Satan, and people find themselves in the realm of 
half- truths, deceptions, misunderstandings, and ambiguity. 

It is upon these destructive building blocks that Satan has built 
his kingdom with its religions, governments, economic systems, 
schools and universities, and all other endeavours. People have 
bought one lie after another for so long that they cannot recognize 
truth when it is laid directly before them. They are under a different 
light, a light that Jesus called darkness; in fact, He said, "How great 
is that darkness."  

Meyers dares to denounce the delusion: "While many ministries are 
taking the side of President Bush and endorse war as some kind of a 
'holy Christian war', the truth is that it is an Illuministic war 
designed to bring forth a new world order and a new Aquarian age of 
witchcraft."  

Ingenuous Christians, lured by the promise of faith-based federal 
funding, have been lulled into the conviction that at long last a true 
Believer has taken up the mantle as leader of the imperial superpower, 
one who would lead the world in truth and righteousness. But is 
President George W. Bush truly a Christian, or is he a well-scripted 
pretender?  

Remember Christ's admonition, "by their fruits you shall know them."
Not all who claim to be Christ's "born-again" followers are recognised 
by Him. We are judged not by our mendacious claims, but by what in fact 
we do. "Beware of false prophets," Christ said, "who come to you in 
sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. You shall know 
them by their fruits. Not everyone that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall 
enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father 
which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we 
not prophesied in your name? And in your name have cast out devils? 
And in your name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess 
unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity."

According to Bush's biography, "A Charge to Keep," there was "no 
magic moment of decision" in 1984-1985, when, he says, "Jesus 
changed his heart". By his own admission, the experience didn't at 
all change his drunken lifestyle. During the pre-election debate 
George Bush claimed that he considered Jesus to be the "greatest political 
philosopher", but he has never, ever, publicly affirmed - as a true born-
again believer would - that "Jesus Christ is my Lord". Consistent as this 
testimony may be with liberal ecumenicalism, it is certainly not a 
genuine fundamentalist Christian expression of repentance, restitution 
and transformation.  

William Rivers Pitt, in a perceptive Truthout article, "George W. 
Christ?" observes that the same man who pretends "conservative 
compassion" yet viciously mocked reformed Texas death row inmate 
Karla Faye Tucker, is now intent upon making war on as much of 
the Muslim world as he can put his hands around, while wrapping 
around himself the image and prophesies of Jesus Christ.  

Bush donned another mask on the deck of that aircraft carrier, the 
Abraham Lincoln, one whose implications are dire and disturbing: "In 
his remarks, Bush closed with a paraphrasing of the Book of Isaiah: 
"In the words of the prophet Isaiah, 'To the captives, 'come out,' and 
to those in darkness, 'be free.'"

This was a misapplied quotation of the words Jesus Christ used when 
He presented Himself as the Son of God, proclaiming that Isaiah's 
messianic prophesies had been fulfilled.  

It has been oft-reported that Bush witnessed the attacks of 9/11 and 
came to believe that God Himself, and not Scalia and the rest, put him 
into the Presidency for the sole purpose of pursuing this war against 
terrorism. It has likewise been oft-reported that Bush is an evangelical 
Christian of the vigorous Billy Graham stripe. We have witnessed the 
failure of every rationalization for making war on Iraq -- the WMDs, the 
terrorist connections -- and are left now with the rhetorical argument that 
we did the whole thing to 'save' the Iraqi people. Ergo, Bush positioned 
himself on the deck of that aircraft carrier as a saviour.  

We are talking about a man who wears masks for the sake of political 
opportunism, and to survive moments when he has to address himself in 
the bathroom mirror. Does this newest mask have George W. Bush 
taking on the mantle of Jesus Christ, Saviour and Redeemer?

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