The last straw…

^{Exodus 5:18} ”Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks.”

(Note: If you feel the temptation to raise an eyebrow, let me encourage you to take the time to mouse over and/or follow the links.)

In Ancient Egypt, Pharoah had a problem: the people of God, they were his problem. Sure Joseph had been one of them and he was pretty cool, saved the nation and all that. . . but then they were multiplying like locusts and well, that’s a problem.

You see the Pharoah’s family needed clean water, land to settle, and then there was that carbon dioxide output issue. . . so he came up with a brilliant plan to get rid of the Hebrews. He had a two point plan, 1) Kill the newborn males 2) Make the Israelites miserable so they wouldn’t want to bring kids into the world. It was his Population Control Agenda.  If his plan worked, then their numbers would never grow to be a threat to him militarily and they would not compete with Egyptians for critical resources.

^{Ex: 1: 11} So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. ¹² But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites ¹³ and worked them ruthlessly. ¹⁴ They made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labor the Egyptians used them ruthlessly. ¹⁵ The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, ¹⁶ ”When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”

Today, there are those in the world who continue to follow the two-step plan.

Step 1: Limit the flow of new babies through medical intervention

There are many advocates for population control including Obama’s recently appointed Science Czar John Holdren. United States tax payers unknowingly funded forced sterilization in China and continue to fund the promotion of abortion internationally.

Theresa Okafor, a director of the Foundation for African Cultural Heritage and organizer of the 2009 World Congress of Families Dialogue of Civilizations in Abuja, Nigeria, said Africans emphatically reject the “conspiracy to strip Africa of its cherished values by international organizations like Planned Parenthood and the United Nations.” http://www.lifenews.com/int1502.html 

Step 2: Make people miserable so they won’t want to have children

Pharoah simply withheld the straw for their bricks and kept the expectations high. Unreasonably high so that not only were they physically exhausted trying to achieve the number, they would also be mentally, perhaps even spiritually broken by their failure to measure up.

The rise of  terror, the slow motion fall of the global economy, and the hysteria of man-made global warming are all carefully orchestrated and promoted on state-run television to achieve the desired effect.

In “The First Global Revolution,” published by The Council of the Club of Rome, an international elitist organization, the authors note that: “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine, and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention …The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”

Today in the United States, the real purchasing power of the USD has been shrinking since the formation of the Federal Reserve. The standard of living in the United States is actually moving in the wrong direction pretty quickly as well. Americans have been getting by using home equity loans and credit cards which has led to a form of debt slavery not unlike the situation in Egypt.

But “the worst is yet to come,” according to Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, who believes American’s standard of living is undergoing a “permanent change” – and not for the better as a result of:

• An $8 trillion negative wealth effect from declining home values.
• A $10 trillion negative wealth effect from weakened capital markets.
• A $14 trillion consumer debt load amid “exploding unemployment”, leading to “exploding bankruptcies.”

“The average American used to be able to borrow to buy a home, send their kids to a good school [and] buy a car,” Davidowitz says. “A lot of that is gone.” And with that many people stopped having babies... During the first year of the great recession, the birth rate dropped 2% in the U.S. and it is expected to fall further. 

So who is behind this strategy? That’s easy to figure out..

John 10:¹⁰ The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy;

Satan is the enemy of God’s people and he is constantly seeking to kill and destroy. So are there willing human accomplices? In a word, Yes.  Consider that  Ecclesiastes says there is “nothing new under the sun“.  Pharoah was an accomplice. Stalin, Lenin, Hitler were accomplices. Moving on to discuss who today’s accomplices might be is tricky business because the media and the government have waged an impressive campaign to marginalize those who consider “conspiracy theories”. In reality, we know the nature of man is sinful, we know the enemy comes to kill and destroy, and we have history as our guide. Conspiracy theories are sometimes nothing more than sunlight exposing evil intentions before the plan has fully played out.  After the plan has played out, it is called history (and is quickly forgotten).  For instance here are 9 instances of what was formerly called conspiracy theories, that are now known to be true. And below is one recent historical footnote to help you consider the risk to you and your loved ones in the not too distant future.

“One has only to learn what really happened to the Christians in Rwanda between April and July of 1994 to imagine what may lie in store for Christians here in America at some time in the not-too-distant future.  After the Christian Tutsis had been disarmed by governmental decree in the early 1990s, Hutu-led military forces began to systematically massacre the defenseless Christians. The massacre began in April 1994 and continued until July 1994. Using machetes rather than bullets, the Hutu forces were able to create a state of abject fear and terror within the helpless Christian population as they systematically butchered hundreds of thousands of them. The United Nations immediately convened hearings on the genocide taking place in Rwanda, but Madeline Albright, the American Ambassador to the United Nations, argued strenuously that neighboring African nations should not be allowed to intervene until the “civil war had come to an end.” In reality, of course, there was no civil war since those being slaughtered had no weapons with which to defend themselves; it was simply a matter of mass murder.” http://www.radioliberty.com/pca.htm

In Egypt, Pharoah didn’t get his way because God intervened. More specifically, the people of God cried out to Him for deliverance and he intervened. They didn’t pretend they still had straw, they didn’t make fun of those who thought the Pharaoh was trying to thin the herd. They acknowledged the very real threat and they took it to the Lord together. Then they took bold action which included considerable risk and lifestyle change.  They relocated and they reduced their dependence on everyone who hated them. It seems clear that they did not have the option of gaining their freedom where they were.

The danger of staying put, staying quiet, and being uninterested in “political affairs” should by now be apparent. Believers in Rwanda, and more recently in Nigeria, the Philipines, and Indonesia were simply cut down. Some allowed themselves to be disarmed and were run off their land before they had time to realize that “this is the last straw…”