In this and the next [message], I am going to deal with the aliens or the foreigners which, for the most part, have taken over our land.

As we look at the situation in this country we see a deterioration from within and from without. From within we have a government as a beast gone mad, as demonstrated by the Ruby Creek slaughter and the massacre at the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco, Texas.

We see other signs of internal decay in the massive amount of forfeiture laws on the books, the rise in the crime rate, and enormous amount of abortions, among other social ills. And none of these ills will ever be solved by President Clinton, or any other president for that matter, for the cause of these ills must be corrected and it will do no good to treat the symptom of the disease.

The national well-being of this nation in foreign matters is also laced with disaster, and for all the same reasons. We forged our way into WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Kuwait, and now Somalia. All of these were bloody disasters, literally and figuratively. All of these things seem to be like one gigantic thorn in our side.

And for the most part, we have many of these problems because we, like our forefathers in the land of the promise, have failed to follow the word of God.

Our forefathers were specifically told in Numbers 33:52-53

"Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
"And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

Thus our Israelite forefathers, were warned against the remnant of the pagan people in Palestine who were to become a snare to them and a thorn in their flesh if they should remain in the land. They were told to drive them out or face the consequence for their actions. Verse 35 and 36 contains the penalty for failure to perform:

"But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell."
"Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them." Numbers 33:55

God thought to dispossess the Canaanites from the land and Israel was to be the instrument of God's hand. While they dispossessed most of them from the land, they did not drive them all out and they became a thorn in the side of Israel.

Likewise with Israel, in 745 to 721 B.C., Israel was to be dispossessed as a nation, but they would not be destroyed as a people and they became the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

The subject of aliens being thorns goes clear back to Genesis 3:8 where God said:

17 "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 "Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field." Genesis 3:17-18

Now if you have never worked the ground, this will be difficult to appreciate. Where we live we have all kinds of thorns and thistles and they grow and grow and grow. When nothing else will grow thorns and thistles will grow, and of course seed and seed and seed, and you can imagine what happens the following year. The point being that thorns and thistles are forever a problem when tilling the soil. You can never ever really eliminate them completely. They are always something to be reckoned with.

As this pertained to Adam, he would now be confronted with a problem in growing food for the rest of his life, and his children, the their children would also have the same problem.

So from this example comes the usage of thorns and thistles as idioms representing the sticking, stinging troubles of life which came upon us all because of the curse associated with the fall of Adam.

I might even go so far to suggest that these problems can be equated in magnitude to the thorny plants. For example,

If we stop to think for a moment, a crown of thorns was placed on Christ's head and He suffered the greatest and most severe of all troubles that could possibly come upon a person as He bore the sin of all creation upon His shoulders.

We have already looked at Numbers 33:55 and saw that the aliens would be "pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell."

We find a like warning in Joshua 23:11-13

11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

In verse 11 Joshua says to take heed. To be careful. To watch out. That is, if you love the Lord. And if you love the Lord then you must be obedient to His ways. But if they failed to be obedient to the Lord then they could "go back" and cleave to the heathen nations.

However, if the latter is your choice then the Lord God will not drive them from among you and they shall be snares, traps, scourges, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish off the land.

You know it's bad enough getting thorns in you hand, but can you imagine the continual pain and distress to the eye from a thorn in the eye? I have never experienced this but I know from having them in my hands that I never, and I mean NEVER, NEVER, NEVER want a thorn in my eye.

In this regard, Lamsa states of thorns:

The word 'thorn' here means grievance, worry, or annoyance. In the East, even today, we often say, 'He has been a thorn in my flesh.' This is because in that part of the world people suffer from thorns and briers. In the olden days, when surgical instruments were unknown, thorns remained in the flesh until they decayed. Once the thorn was in, it was difficult to get out."

But in getting back to Israel, they had two choices: 1) to love and follow the Lord, or 2) to "go back" to the ways of the heathen. And if they went back to the ways of the heathen, then God would preserve the heathen to distress and punish Israel. Israel would become well grounded in their ways and thus the way of the Lord will be driven from them. I guess we could say that they would lose their eyes of understanding.

So the warning is given in the last two chapters of Joshua and now we can look at JUDGES 2:1-3, where this time, we see more than just a warning. We see the results.

ALIENS AMONG US: PART 2

In our last [message] I began dealing with the aliens or the foreigners which, for the most part, have taken over our land.

I stated that as we look at the situation in this country we see a deterioration from within and from without. From within we have a government as a beast gone mad as demonstrated by the Ruby Creek slaughter and the masssacre at the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco, Texas.

I mentioned other signs of internal decay in the massive amount of forfeiture laws on the books, the rise in the crime rate, and the enormous amount of abortions, among other social ills. And none of these ills will ever be solved by President Clinton, or any other president for that matter, for the cause of these ills must be corrected and it will do no good to only treat the symptoms of the disease.

I also said that the national well-being of this nation in foreign matters is laced with disaster, and for all the same reasons. We forged our way into WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Kuwait, and now Somalia. All of these were bloody disasters -- literally and figuratively. All of these things seem to be like one gigantic thorn in our side.

And finally, I stated that for the most part, we have many of these problems because we, like our forefathers in the land of the promise, have failed to follow the word of God.

We left off in our study looking at what Joshua told the children of Israel and we saw that Israel had two choices: 1) to love and follow the Lord, or 2) to "go back" to the ways of the heathen. And if they went back to the ways of the heathen, then God would preserve the heathen to distress and punish Israel. Israel would become well grounded in their ways and thus the way of the Lord will be driven from them. I guess we could say that they would lose their eyes of understanding.

This warning was given in the last two chapters of Joshua, and now we can look at Judges 2:1-3, where this time we see more than just a warning. We see the results as promised:

1 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gil-gal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

In verse 1, is the confirmation that God is not a covenant breaker. In verse 2, we are given some more things which Israel was not to do, and of course, which they must have done, which means the people of Israel were covenant breakers

Then in verse 3, we have the promise repeated that God would not drive out the heathen and they shall be as "thorns in your sides."

The lesson throughout the book of Judges is all too obvious. When Israel rebelled from His ways, He abandoned them, and they fell prey to their enemies. But when they repented, God performed a divine interposition in their behalf and they were again blessed, until the next falling away. This cycle repeats itself over and over and over again in the Book of Judges, and thus the enemies of Israel were a continual thorn in their side.

Applying this to modern days, I think that if we are going learn the ways of the heathen, which we have, then we can expect our land to be invaded by the heathen, they shall be as a thorn in our sides, and we shall become subject to their whims.

The difference between our forefathers in the days of Israel and us is that they were told to drive the Canaanites from the land and failed to do so. However, in our case we settled the desolate heritage and pretty well eliminated the Indians, but we made a bigger mistake. We did not have Canaanites to drive from the land, but we made the colossal blunder of importing and inviting the modern-day type of Canaanites into our land.

If you know anything about the history of this country then you know that it was settled by Anglo-Saxon peoples, and the Constitution of the United States was written by Anglo-Saxons, for Anglo-Saxons, and for no other people or race. While this may sound shocking to some people, this is exactly what the United States Supreme Court stated in the Dred Scott decision.

It was not until after the Dred Scott decision and the great Civil War that the 14th Amendment was adopted. The 14th Amendment granted all races, other than the Anglo-Saxon race, the status of citizens.

I know that we were taught that this country was a "melting pot" for all peoples, but that simply was not true. It was founded by and for Anglo-Saxon peoples. The first great influx of foreigners, of course, came with the blacks from Africa, and with the westward expansion into California, it was the Chinese. And in our lifetime, we have seen the invasion of other Asian peoples and Mexicans.

In short, there is no nation left for the Anglo-Saxons to live by themselves. China is a country for the Chinese people, Korea is a country for Korean people, Japan is a country for the Japanese people, India is a country for the Indian peoples, and Africa has many countries for black people. But where, I ask you, is the country for the Anglo-Saxon peoples? There is none. The Anglo- Saxon countries have long since been integrated by peoples of other nations. We, the Anglo-Saxon peoples, have no desire to integrate the other nations of the world, and yet we have no place where we can, if we so desire, live among our own kind.

Then we have to ask, what effect has this had on the Anglo- Saxon peoples. Well their influx has taken jobs from the Anglo- Saxon peoples. Their influx has caused them collectively to become greater in numbers than the Anglo-Saxon peoples.

Among other problems came integration in the public schools and other places. Then came equal opportunity, and now many Anglo- Saxons are not employable because they are of the wrong race, as industry strives to meet federal mandates to employ so-called minority groups.

Through these means the Anglo-Saxon peoples have become infiltrated and the alien people have become a perpetual thorn in our sides as we now cater to them by mandate of law. For example, recently in Texas the federal government took over a housing project because it catered to an all-white population.

In short, their influx has had a dramatic effect on the Anglo- Saxon society. You see, for all practical purposes, there is no longer an Anglo-Saxon society. Our land has become invaded. This was not an invasion by a military force, but an invasion by immigration as all the alien peoples of the world flock to our door, and we continually let them in. And what has been the result?

The god of the aliens among us is the state, and their state god has destroyed us nationally, just as surely as we were destroyed as a nation when Assyria invaded our land and took our forefathers into captivity and subjected them to the ways of the heathen.

Today the Anglo-Saxon people are fast becoming a minority population in our own land as the aliens among us reproduce at a much higher rate than we do. How many years will it be before the aliens have total control over our country? How long will it be before we will have to apply for a minority status in our own country from the aliens? These questions cannot be answered but according to the last population increase figures I saw, it should happen in the very near future, that is in the next 20 to 50 years.

Things have become so bad that the aliens among us have become very populous in some areas of the country and actually control the political process. And thus the heathen rule over us. Oh, yes some of these heathen profess to be Christians, but we again need to look at their political ideology and works. They are contrary to the teachings of God, and thus through legislation they control our beliefs. For if you change your law -- you change your God. Your beliefs must follow those whom you obey, and folks, for the most part we obey the state and therefore we believe in the state. And thus, "they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you."

Please do not misunderstand me, I do not hate blacks, orientals, or Jews for that matter. But as an Anglo-Saxon, I do resent the fact that I am forced to live with people who are not my people. I resent the fact that my children are forced to attend schools with aliens. I resent the fact that Anglo-Saxons are denied employment based upon their race. And finally, I resent the fact that the Anglo-Saxon people have no country of their own where they can reside among their own kind in the same fashion as do the Chinese, the Japanese, the Indonesians, and the Blacks.

Yes, only a very few people know and understand what has really happened and are still attempting to be faithful to the true God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.