No Fear

We see it on T-Shirts and bumper stickers, even on the back windows of some trucks or across the top of windshields, No Fear! While reading news on the internet last night, that phrase came to me. Its a phrase that should apply to every Christian especially when one considers the times we live in. A few months ago Pastor John Hagee, a well known Bible teacher and end times speaker came out with a book entitled 'Jerusalem Countdown'. In the book he quotes military personnel and even a former CIA director who says that the U.S is sure that radical muslims have smuggled nukes into our country prior to 9/11. The former CIA director went so far as to say that they believe these small nukes, which are in suitcases and had been developed by the old Soviet Union, are in six or seven major cities. He also named the cities. When asked why the government didn't go after them, they said they only know they are hidden in Mosques and they can't raid every Mosque. Last night I was reading an interview conducted by a well known Middle Eastern reporter who has been the only one to interview Bin Ladin and others within the AL Queida organization. He was interviewing a high ranking official within the Al Queida organization and he had a message for American Muslims. He was telling them they need to get out of Washington and New York, and that soon the nukes that have been smuggled into America would be detonated. He also said that soon another tape from Osama Ben Ladin would be coming out with a final warning. As I thought on these things I kept thinking, No Fear. As Christians we are not to fear what might or might not happen. Personally after reading John Hagee's book and now the article on the internet, I believe that we will see some of the same carnage in America that other nations have experienced. Like the CIA director said, its not a matter of 'if', but of 'when'. Yet knowing that, I don't fear, God has always intended His people live like we're citizens of another country. Jesus even said, "Don't fear those who can kill the body, but fear Him who has the power to kill both body and soul". I write these things so people won't be caught off guard. For those who think that God would never allow such things to happen to America, then I remind you of what He has already allowed in our nation, some things very recent, others many years ago, such as the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and World Wars 1 and 2. God never kept His people 'from' bad times, He has always seen them 'through' bad times. When He judged Egypt, He kept Israel safe 'through' it, and He'll do the same for us who walk with Him daily! And that my friends is the reality of it!