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April 2, 2016

Aung San Suu Kyi set to get PM-type role in Myanmar government

Bill to appoint Nobel laureate as powerful state counsellor, bypassing ban on her becoming president, passes upper house

Published: 1 Apr 2016

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“I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word ‘hope.’ I don’t believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want.”
—Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Dear Friends and Fellow laborers,

I am receiving emails asking me what this means for Myanmar (Burma) and will it affect any COG members there.

My answer is somewhat complicated unless you know something about the recent history of Myanmar.

Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi derives her power in Myanmar because she is the beloved daughter of General Aung San, a hero of Myanmar independence.  In World War 2, the Japanese invaded and conquered Myanmar.  They were later driven out by the combined forces of the British, Americans and Chinese.  However, Myanmar remained a part of the British Empire.

Aung San, the father of Aung San Suu Gyi is recognized as the founder of the Union of Burma because he organized the various ethnic groups into a cohesive political force to pursue independence from the British.

On January 27, 1947, an agreement was signed with the British Prime Minister Clement Atlee to declare Burma’s independence within one year.  Aung San was assassinated soon after.

After his assassination, political unrest and insurgencies plagued Myanmar until Ne Win’s coup d’etat in 1962 which established a military controlled government.

Aung San Suu Gyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party has been the leading voice of dissent.  This has posed quite a dilemma for the military government who, since 1989 have kept her in prison or under house arrest.  She is dangerous to their remaining in power and yet, she is loved by all the people.

There remains a static stand-off in which the military and the NLD do not want to push too hard.  The military has the guns after all.  The military proved in the 1988 protests that they were willing to kill hundreds, even monks, to maintain their power.

This recent election changes things for the better.  Aung San Suu Kyi will be given real power, even though she does not hold the presidency.  It is one of her party members who is president.  The military still holds a great deal of power in the legislature and they still have the guns.

However, this change will allow Aung San Suu Gyi to influence a slow opening of more human rights for the people of Burma.  Even more important, money will now pour into Burma.  Aung San Suu Gyi is loved all over the world.  She is the only non-Head of State ever to address the U.S. Congress[1].

This move will do more than anything else to legitimize the rogue military regime in Myanmar.  Since the generals and their families all have major stakes in businesses with international aspirations, this is a smart move on their part.  They give up a part of their political power and gain a lot by legitimizing a once pariah nation.  International sanctions are already being lifted so foreign concerns can gain access to the riches of Myanmar’s natural resources which include oil and gas, gold, platinum and gems, Rare Earth Minerals (REMs) and even uranium.

This year Myanmar holds the chairmanship of ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations), and Myanmar is ready to put on a smiling face.  But there are still problems under the whitewash.

This is real progress.  More economic opportunities are opening up.  Here in Thailand, many migrant workers are going back to find work in Myanmar.

The COG brethren will benefit from economic development.  Some Legacy grads perhaps will find good employment due to their English language skills.  We will know more after our trip to Myanmar for the Spring Holy Days.

Warmest regards to all,

T. Leon Sexton

[1]

Her speech can also be viewed on Youtube:  https://youtu.be/zH61i6zQ4c0

19 Sep 2012 … Nobel Laureate and Burmese Opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi received the Congressional Gold Medal for her commitment to democracy

Pope Francis, Private audience of Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice CAPP at Clementine Hall, Vatican City. (Attribution: Christoph Wagener)

‘The Vatican says Pope Francis and the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church will meet in Cuba next week in a major step to heal the 1000-year-old schism that divided Christianity between East and West’. (Washington Post, Friday, February 5th, 2016)

Vladimir Putin with bishops of Russian Orthodox Church. (Attribution: Kremlin.ru)

Rev 13:3-4
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

In 1054, the Catholic Church split into two parts. The Eastern part, known as Orthodox or Greek Orthodox under the Patriarch in Constantinople and the Western part under the Pope in Rome. This was due to irreconcilable differences.

Those differences included whether or not the Pope in Rome had the Pre-eminent jurisdiction in the Church, and the place of the See of Constantinople in Church hierarchy. The doctrinal differences included who or what was the source of the Holy Spirit and whether leavened or unleavened bread should be used in the Eucharist.

The Greek churches in southern Italy were forced to close or accept the Latin liturgy. Michael Cerularius, the Patriarch of Constantinople ordered closure of all Latin churches in Constantinople in retaliation.

Pope Leo IX sent a Papal Legate to Constantinople to remove the title of Eccumenical Patriarch from Michael Cerularius, and insist he accept the authority of the Pope as Head and Mother of the churches. Cerularius refused and the Papal Legate Cardinal Humbert excommunicated him. Cerulariuas in return excommunicated Cardinal Humbert and the other Legates.

These opening shots began a century long rift that ended in a complete schism that has lasted to this day.

This schism not only affected the church, but human politics as well. Remember, The Roman Empire had been divided into two parts. Rome remained the Capital of the Western Roman Empire; and the Eastern Roman Empire, centered in Constantinople, became known as the Byzantine Empire. Each division has it’s own Emperor and it’s own laws.

Several attempts have been made over the thousand year schism to bring about some form of reconciliation, but to no avail.

Will these men bring it about? Only time and God’s will can tell.

Leon Sexton

Legacy Institute

China’s currency has now been included into the basket of currencies that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) uses to back up its Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), which is actually a new World Currency. This is a huge triumph for China. This move puts the Chinese Yuan on the same par as the U.S. Dollar, the English Pound, the Japanese Yen and the E.U. Euro. This makes China a major player in the world’s financial arena.

The U.S. Dollar will soon be replaced as the World Reserve Currency. Until now, all international transactions have to be done in U.S. Dollars. How does this work?

If I want to send money to Myanmar (Burma) or anywhere else for that matter, I take Thai Baht to the bank and set up a wire transfer to a local bank in Yangon (Rangoon). The Thailand bank must first convert the Thai Baht into U.S. Dollars for the international transfer. When the receiving bank gets the wire in U.S. Dollars, it then converts the Dollars into the local currency, in this case the Burmese Kyat. Each time the money is converted there is a fee.

Being the World Reserve Currency made the U.S. Dollar king. But that is all ending. The U.S. Dollar will soon be replace by a new World Reserve Currency, possibly the SDR (1) (Special Drawing Rights) currency of the IMF. China would like it to be the Yuan. That is why China is buying up as much gold as it can. They want to be able to back up their national currency with gold. This would make the Yuan much more valuable than the paper fiat money of the U.S. which is being printed by the wheelbarrow loads at the Federal Reserve.

What is backing the U.S. Dollar? Nothing. It is thin air. The only thing that keeps the Dollar afloat is confidence in the U.S. economy. But that confidence is quickly drifting away.

Once the Dollar is replaced by something else as the World Reserve Currency, it will not be worth the paper it is printed on. The Dollar will collapse and with it, the American economy. It is only a matter of a very short time.

We must all remember that God will take care of all those who put their trust in Him. Faith is a living dynamic. We show we have faith in God by believing His promises and demonstrating active obedience in our everyday lives.

How long before the collapse of the Dollar takes place? I don’t know. But it is coming soon.

Jesus told His disciples:

(Mark 13:28-29) Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.

If you are watching world news, you can see the obvious signs. One of the biggest signs is the enormous debt the U.S. owes to China and other countries. It will be nearly impossible to pay it all back. Congress just keeps kicking the can down the road.

Believe God. Instead of America praying and getting Him to help us even more, we are driving Him out of our schools and universities, cities and towns, government agencies and departments, even graveyards and war memorials. The more we defy the Great God, the greater the crash will be. The Salt of the Earth must draw ever closer to Him and petition His divine intervention and great MERCY!

We pray for all of you. And we thank you for your prayers for us.

T. Leon Sexton

(1) SDRs were created in 1969 just before the U.S. dollar went off the international gold standard. This timing was not likely a coincidence. This reserve asset was created to stabilize international currency markets. SDRs can be used by governments as a supplemental form of reserves to cover any shortfalls they may have. Dec 4, 2015 Wealth Daily. China Hits the Big Time by Geoffrey Pike.

Photo: Forex Money for Exchange in Currency Bank, Courtesy: epSos.de https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forex_Money_for_Exchange_in_Currency_Bank.jpg  https://www.flickr.com/photos/36495803@N05/8463683689/

Dear Friends and Fellow laborers,

Satan never sleeps. We are under constant attack and meet roadblocks thrown in our way. Fellow laborers generously donated to get Kawn Yee and Toomya Shwe to attend a Thai language school in Chiang Mai so they could acquire an ED education visa from the Thai government. Then they could come to Thailand, study Thai, and attend classes at Legacy too.

In order to obtain an ED visa, we had to pay the full fees to the Thai language school. They then wrote a letter of request for an ED visa from the Thai Embassy in Laos. Kawn Yee and Toomya Shwe went to Laos accompanied by Adja and Oom, two of our Legacy employees. All the paperwork was correct, including the letter from the Thai school, and fee money ready to pay for the ED visas. But the request for ED visa for Toomya Shwe was rejected. They said he had studied Thai long enough since he had been in Thailand on an ED visa for one year already. They refused to give Kawn Yee an ED visa with no explanation.

What a disappointment! We all were dumbfounded. There is no known reason for the change.

They were able to get a 2 month tourist visa with a one month extension from the Immigration office in Chiang Mai. After 3 months they must return to Burma and we start the process all over again. Thailand red tape can be extremely frustrating, especially when the rules constantly change.

Kawn Yee and Toomya will stay at Legacy for the three months and then go back to Burma for the Passover and Days of Unleavened Bread. We must then figure out another avenue for them with the help of Almighty God. Kawn Yee is in her first year. Toomya will graduate in February and I had wanted to keep him for one more year of education before sending him back to Burma. But perhaps that will not be possible now. At least he will be graduating before his tourist visa runs out.

Please remember these 2 young people in your prayers to God. And remember others God may want to bring from Burma to learn His Way of Life at Legacy. It is getting harder and harder and more and more expensive each year to sustain our school. Now we have to deal with more stringent immigration laws.

It will soon be time to send funds to Burma for the expenses of COG operations. The members there are only just learning the importance of tithing. Many feel that they are too poor to tithe. That mindset is difficult to break when a person has grown up in poverty. Those that understand the importance of tithing do what they can in tithes and offerings, but it is not nearly enough to be self-sufficient. What this means is that we must subsidize the church in Burma. We will need to wire money there in January. In February we have the expense of our graduation. Then we will have the Spring Holy Days in April. Gloria and I plan to go to Burma for the Passover and U.B. All expenses for the meetings and meals must be supported by Legacy. As you can see, between now and the end of the Spring Holy Days we have many financial responsibilities. These expenses are all above and beyond the day to day operations of our Legacy school.

Please remember Legacy in your prayers. Ask Our Heavenly Father to supply all our needs. We rely solely on donations from individuals and small congregations. We have no large COG organization funding any of our projects in Thailand or in Burma. The brethren in this part of the world earn little or are subsistence farmers.

We have been doing God’s Work here in Thailand for over 16 years now and God has always supplied our needs, sometimes in the eleventh hour! But God also tells us to knock on the door. I have had people tell me, “please let us know what your needs are so we can help you.” So, I am letting you know our needs at this time.

Time is short. Prophecy is racing ahead. Jesus admonishes us to work while it is day, because the night is coming when no man can work. There is so much to be done here and it is important we train up workers for the Lord’s harvest fields.

We keep pressing forward.

In Jesus the Christ’s service,

Leon Sexton

The death toll is over 120, mostly innocent concert-goers, including dead Americans. Some of the terrorists behind the bloody and cowardly attacks have been caught. Others are still loose and they are armed. These atrocities were done by ISIS, the Islamic Caliphate which is at war with Western civilization. French President Francois Hollande has declared a state of emergency and closed the borders. It appears the terrorists came into France among the thousands of refugees fleeing Syria. They were armed and financed by ISIS which has terror cells across Europe and even in the USA!

While the U.S. is playing “pattycake” with ISIS in Syria and Iraq, they are killing innocent civilians in Paris, including Americans. When is the U.S. Congress going to wake up and get serious about an enemy intent on killing or enslaving ALL AMERICANS!! It is just too insane to believe! Paris is the Capital of France. Does any thinking brain fail to believe that Washington, D.C. isn’t on the hit list? One of the Paris terrorists said, “Soon we will be drinking American blood. It tastes the best.”

President Hollande called the killings “an act of war.” and vowed a ruthless response(1).

What will be the results of these acts of terror in Paris?

I believe it will act as a wake-up call for Europe. Liberal leaders have been foolishly permitting thousands of Syrian, Iranian and other Muslim refugees to flood into Europe for “humanitarian” reasons. How many among them are trained terrorists intent on killing Europeans? No one knows since the vetting process is a joke. Germans, Austrians and other Europeans are buying guns to protect themselves from knife wielding Muslim gangs of young military age “refugees.”

People are afraid. They are rapidly losing confidence in their liberal leaders that have allowed a Muslim invasion of their countries. This will allow for the rise of strong, Right Wing leaders. People like Angela Merkel will fall and be replaced by a Chancellor that will deal swiftly and decisively with the Muslim “invaders.” Poland has already moved to a right-wing government:

A new political era began in Poland on Thursday with the swearing in of a parliament dominated by a right-wing party, signaling a major power shift in the European Union’s largest eastern member(2).

Muslim refugees are faced with strong, anti-Muslim sentiments in Germany, so much so that some want to return to Syria or Iraq. Anti-Muslim sentiments will only increase in Europe. Europe is getting fed up!

ISIS also brought down a Russian passenger plane full of tourists over the Sinai and all aboard died, including infants.

It is no doubt that Putin will react with deadly force. These terrorist acts could actually be the “pushing” of the King of the South that brings about the whirlwind invasion of the Middle East by the combined forces of the European King of the North lead by NATO.

(Dan 11:40) And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

It has traditionally been Christian Europe against Islam. Islamic armies tried three times to invade (push into) and conquer Europe. These “pushes” were stopped in their tracks. The first time was at the Battle of Tours in what is now present day France in 732. The Frankish army that defeated the Moors (Muslims) from out of Spain) was led by Charles Martel, the grandfather of Charlemagne.

The Muslim Turks were finally able to bring down the walls of Constantinople in 1453, and invade Europe. They were stopped twice at the gates of Vienna: First in 1589 when Vienna was attacked and besieged by Sultan Suleiman I (the Magnificent). Suleiman was finally forced to retreat due to running out of food for his animals and heavy rains forcing the Turkish army to abandon many large siege cannon to the mud. The second time Vienna was besieged by the Turks was in 1683 with 140,000 soldiers. The siege was lifted when Polish King Jan Sobieski arrived with an army of Poles, Austrians, and Germans. King Jan Sobieski finally broke the lines and destroyed the invading Turks with the largest cavalry charge in history, he himself at the head of his own Polish Winged Hussars. This was the high water mark of Muslim encroachment into Europe.

The Muslims have always set their sights on conquering Christian Europe, their chief rival for world domination. And do not fall for the false propaganda that Islam is peaceful. It is the goal of Islam to create a worldwide Caliphate under Sharia Law and force everyone to become Muslim.

The terror in Paris will also wake up many Americans to the threat of Islamic radical terrorists infiltrating into the United States with the intent of repeating Paris in America. Now President Obama wants to bring as many as 250,000 Muslim refugees to settle in the U.S. How many of these are part of a Trojan Horse invasion of America?

Prophecy marches on. Keep watching the news every day. The End of the Age is unfolding before us.

In service to the soon coming King of Kings,

T. Leon Sexton

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(1) http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/14/world/paris-attacks/

(2) http://news.yahoo.com/members-polands-wing-parliament-sworn-124838492.html