{"id":1846,"date":"2014-08-18T11:43:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T16:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2014-08-18T12:52:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:52:57","slug":"pope-francis-australia-france-and-england-get-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacyinstitute.org\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/pope-francis-australia-france-and-england-get-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis, Australia, France and England Get Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Jerusalem<\/a>
Jerusalem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Luke 21:20
\n<\/strong>And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.<\/em><\/p>\n

I know that the armies are not yet at Jerusalem\u2019s doorstep (Hamas being the closest so far), but things are beginning to gel for the end time conflict of armies in the Holy Land.\u00a0 ISIS, now called the Islamic State, is continuing its advance and ethnic cleansing efforts in northern Iraq.\u00a0 The attacks on Christians and Yazidi minorities continue.\u00a0 The men are killed.\u00a0 The women and young girls enslaved.\u00a0 Children are being beheaded.\u00a0 Those who do not convert must flee for their lives or die.<\/p>\n

The Kurds have opened a corridor to Kurdistan in northern Iraq which they are defending so that the Christians and Yazidis can escape.\u00a0 But they are outgunned by the more sophisticated American weapons of the ISIS forces that were captured in Mosul, Kirkuk and other areas defended (I use that word loosely!) by the Iraqi Army.\u00a0 I wonder whose brilliant idea it was to leave all those weapons behind when the U.S. pulled out?\u00a0 Why didn\u2019t they just blow it all up so it wouldn\u2019t fall into the radical\u2019s hands.\u00a0 Obviously, the Iraqi Army was incompetent or even complicit in the loss of billions of dollars of modern weapons and ammo.\u00a0 We are not talking about antiquated M-16s.\u00a0 ISIS got howitzers, armored Humvees, rockets, and enough arms and ammunition to supply an army of 200,000! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Now U.S. arms and ammunition are being used to murder Christians and other minorities \u2013 men, women and children.\u00a0 Contrary to all logic, the U.S. arms its own enemies.\u00a0 Thankfully, the Kurds are there to help save some.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has been dropping food, water and tents to those surrounded and trapped on Mt. Sinjar.\u00a0 Then the U.S. planned a rescue mission \u2013 then they didn\u2019t.\u00a0 But at least half of the 40,000 Yazidis trapped on the mountain have escaped through the Kurdish corridor into Kurdistan.\u00a0 The Kurds crossed over from Syria and fought their way to the trapped refugees and created the escape route.\u00a0 We should thank God for the Kurds.\u00a0 Old men and young boys have taken up arms and joined the Kurdish Peshmerga regulars to fight ISIS and save the fleeing and starving refugees still trapped and not yet able to make it to the Kurdish Corridor.<\/p>\n

(Please see http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/aug\/10\/kurdish-rebels-yazidi-iraq-isis<\/a> <\/strong>for a very good update on the situation in northern Iraq entitled, Iraq: US plans rescue mission for besieged Yazidi refugees.\u201d<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

The British joined the U.S. in dropping supplies.\u00a0 The French have decided to now join[1]<\/a> and are preparing to also airdrop supplies of food and water to the fleeing refugees and those who have already made it to Kurdish cities.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has finally started ratcheting up it\u2019s, up until now, pin-prick bombing strikes on some ISIS targets[2]<\/a> and is weighing the option of sending Special Forces to fight ISIS.\u00a0 The problem as usual is the U.S. administration has dithered around \u201cweighing options\u201d while children have been getting their heads chopped off, little girls getting raped, and ISIS\u2019 power continuing to grow.\u00a0 It will be much harder to deal with them now.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Congress should be outraged that we have not done something sooner.\u00a0 What if the U.S. would have helped stop Hitler at the beginning?\u00a0 Thousands of young American men and women would not have died.\u00a0 What if the U.S. would have stopped Hitler before the extermination of the Jews of Europe really got under way?\u00a0 Where have been the intense and non-stop cries to save these poor children? \u00a0Doesn\u2019t anyone care anymore?\u00a0 As a people, it appears we have lost our moral compass.\u00a0 Could that be because we are too busy removing Bibles from Navy desks and the 10 Commandments from our government buildings and parks?<\/p>\n

Wake up America.\u00a0 This is what happens when you kick God out!\u00a0 Women and children are butchered, Christians are crucified.\u00a0 Innocent people are dying, and the President and the U.S. Congress waste time \u201cweighing options\u201d or go on vacation.\u00a0 Now the evil has grown exponentially and looks unstoppable with billions of dollars in financing and modern U.S. war weapons.<\/p>\n

God help us because we have lost our way.<\/p>\n

\"Pope<\/a>
Pope Francis I<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pope Francis[3]<\/a> has called for the world community to fight the ISIS terrorists who are committing demonic atrocities in Syria and Iraq.\u00a0 I suspect the power of the Pope\u2019s call will bring a reaction from especially the Europeans.\u00a0 The French Foreign Minister has already flown to Kurdistan.<\/p>\n

Please pray for the innocents and pray for Jerusalem, the stated goal of the Jihadi Islamic State.\u00a0 And please pray that God open the eyes of the leaders of the United States of America, and the people who put them in power.<\/p>\n

In Jesus, the King of Jerusalem\u2019s Holy Name,
\n\"\"
\nT. Leon Sexton<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> http:\/\/english.cntv.cn\/2014\/08\/11\/VIDE1407721442906402.shtml<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> US Strikes Iraq With Land-Based Bombers, Newser, <\/strong>http:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/192589\/us-strikes-iraq-with-land-based-bombers.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=united&utm_campaign=rss_topnews<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Iraq: Pope Francis Urges World Action Against Islamic State
\n<\/strong>https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/iraq-pope-francis-urges-world-action-against-islamic-163202091.html#metksvF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Photographs: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Jerusalem:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Description<\/td>\n\n
English:<\/strong> Jerusalem Old City from Mount of Olives.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Author<\/td>\nWayne McLean<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nPope Francis I:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Description<\/td>\n\n
English:<\/strong> Pope Francis, Private audience of Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice CAPP at Clementine Hall, Vatican City<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Date<\/td>\n25 May 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Author<\/td>\nChristoph Wagener<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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