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September 8, 1998
The Moment Of Truth


The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because
our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.  The
night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside
the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Romans 13: 11-12

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a
revolutionary act.

George Orwell

The game is up.  Bill Clinton has been told by the power-brokers
who run America that he must go.  He is preparing his exit
strategy.  In a few days, we'll know which method he has chosen.
As some know, real decisions in America are made not by the
President, Congress or any elected official, but by a small group
of powerful people who control the media, the energy, the
electoral system and much else.  Presidents are elected by and
serve solely at the pleasure of this group.  Because Bill Clinton
was so closely connected with the late Winthrop Rockefeller - it
is said that Clinton is his illegitimate grandson - he had always
thought he would be immune from the consequences of his actions,
and from the wrath of the ruling elite.

As in so many other matters, he was greatly mistaken, as perhaps
were they to entrust him with such power.  As William Rees-Mogg
wrote in The Times yesterday: "It is not a good idea to make a
charismatic sociopath the leader of one's party, or the President
of one's country.  He has no moral compass; he does not know
right from wrong."  He almost committed the ultimate sin:  for
the first time since Woodrow Wilson's unguarded remark in 1912,
he publicly alluded to their existence.

In WorldNet Daily yesterday, Missy Kelly wrote of Mr. Clinton's
weekend indiscretions in Ireland, where he made one of the most
reckless remarks of his life: "You know, by the time you become
the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.
You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual
prime ministers, virtual everything."  Mr. Clinton thus
acknowledged that he is as irrelevant as he feared three years
ago, but for a different reason:  he is irrelevant to the agenda.
He has contented himself with a decadent life in the White
House, enjoying the trappings of power, bombing the odd country
here and there, molesting a few women on the side and puffing at
his now-famous cigars.  He wasn't advancing "the Agenda" but
wasn't really harming it either.  This weekend though, he made
what will prove to be a fatal error.

The power brokers know it all: they know about the Waco massacre,
the death of Vincent Foster and the subsequent cover-up,
Whitewater, Castle Grande, drug-smuggling through Mena Airport,
Hillary Clinton's cattle futures miracle, a thousand purloined
FBI files, Billy Dale and the other Travel Office firings,
Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Monica Lewinsky,
adultery, lying under oath, the 107 dead bodies, drug use in the
White House, threats by James Carville ("Ken Starr is one mistake
away from having no knee caps."), Ron Brown's unresolved death,
William Colby's unresolved death, "I didn't inhale.", "I never
had sex with that woman.", "My answers were legally accurate.",
treason by selling America's nuclear secrets to the Communist
Chinese, and much, much more.  And through carefully orchestrated
leaks down the line of command to the media in the days ahead,
they will begin to reveal the truth about one after another of
these matters until they shame Mr. Clinton into resignation.  And
if he persists, he runs the risk of being added to the list of
Arkancide victims.

As Missy Kelly writes:  "By his own admission, he was a front,
with no power to make decisions.  By his own admission, they were
made for him, by 'someone else'.  Bill's job was to pretend -
pretend he was the leader, pretend he was in charge - maintain
the façade of a 'virtual' president in a 'virtual' democracy
where a 'virtual' rule of law exists. In fact, the levers of
power were already controlled - controlled so precisely, in fact,
as to make the president irrelevant, controlled by people who
have never been elected to office, and whose names we do not even
know."  Well, we know some of them.

That's why there cannot be impeachment hearings.  In Mr.
Clinton's present defiant mood, he could spill the beans
altogether, the last thing that would be permitted.  If Hillary
has sworn allegiance to the global elite and their communist
agenda, as we believe, she will be rewarded, and may even have
negotiated the job as Al Gore's Vice-President.  It could happen
within the next two weeks:  such a  maneuver would be a virtual
coup d'etat, especially if Mr. Gore is then obliged to resign
too.  But it would be risky.  The safer choice would be a
peaceful transition of power and the planned succession of Gov.
George Bush in 2000.  Resignation is the only way for now.  And
it will be sooner rather than later, probably within a few days.
And if he doesn't stop his loose-lipped blathering, the elite
will have to find a way of stopping it for him.

The world, Russia and America in particular, is under the
fiercest spiritual attack.  The battle is raging as the unseen
powers of evil change the scenery in order to hold on to power.
If America is to learn its lessons from the tyranny of the
Clinton regime, we must watch carefully as the transition takes
place and watch how God reveals to us lesser mortals the secrets
that, until now, only a few have known.

There is a great temptation to believe that the next regime will
be less evil than the outgoing one.  It will be less blatant, but
the fall of Bill Clinton, so long in coming and now apparently so
near, marks merely the end of one especially sordid chapter.  It
does not mark the end of the reign of evil, nor of the control of
America by the dark forces behind the scenes.

For the past three years, we have devoted many columns to
exposing the deeds of darkness here in Washington.  We have been
accused, ridiculed and marginalized for doing so, but not for one
moment have we ever contemplated diluting or falsifying the
facts.  Never have we been discouraged, deterred or shaken,
because we knew the mission that had to be accomplished.  As
ever, only the truth, and the whole truth, can set us free.  And
though Mr. Clinton has seemed determined to ensure that the real
truth remained secret, he has lost control of his situation, and
may now at last perform a real service for his country by shining
the light of truth into the darkest place.  Now we stand at a
historic moment:  the whole of America and the world will learn
in the coming days much of what Exegesis readers already know.
And there will be profound shock.  It is our prayer that the full
truth be revealed, because only with all the facts before us can
we take stock of where we are and readjust our moral periscopes.

Soon, time and effort must be invested to rebuild the walls of
the damaged city.  First though, we must focus on the transition.
Which mode of exit will Mr. Clinton choose?  Like most bullies,
he is not a brave man and his personal preference will be to
manipulate the facts to earn his much-desired place in history. 
That option, though, is no longer available to him.  He will have
to settle for second-best:  A timely resignation blaming the
'vast right-wing conspiracy'?  An 'accident'?  In a very few
days, we shall know.

In the midst of the battle, where are the Christian politicians?
Few have stepped forward to say what must be said. "After you",
they say, "No, after you."  And so it was not a Christian at all
who spoke the first words.  It was Senator Joseph Lieberman
(D-CT), an Orthodox Jew, who called the President's recent
conduct "a serious challenge to our democracy".

He repeated his concern that America's moral standards are
sinking, and mentioned that he had previously held the
entertainment industry responsible.   "And now," he added,
"because the President commands at least as much attention and
exerts at least as much influence on our collective consciousness
as any Hollywood celebrity or television show, it is hard to
ignore the impact of the misconduct the president has admitted to
on our culture, on our character and on our children."

In words any believer would have been proud to use, Senator
Lieberman continued:  "I know that the President is far from
alone in the wrongdoing he has admitted. We as humans are all
imperfect. We are all sinners. Many have betrayed a loved one and
most have told lies.  Members of Congress have certainly been
guilty of such behavior, as have some previous presidents. We try
to understand - we must try to understand the complexity and
difficulty of personal relationships, which should give us pause
before passing judgment on them. We all fall short of the
standards our best values set for us. Certainly I do."

Bravo, sir!  But where are the believers?  Was there not a single
Christian who could have said that?  Are they hiding in
embarrassment or overcome with shyness?  This is a time for
strong hearts, clear heads and a fast finger on the remote
control, lest children be watching the TV news.  Who has the
courage to tell the truth?  The one who comes closest to telling
the truth may be, of all people, Bill Clinton himself, not
because he has courage but because he feels vindictive.  He may
reason that he no longer has anything to lose.  And telling the
whole truth, all of it, will certainly earn him his place in
history.

The other night, I dreamed the world was in chaos:  that Russia
was ruled by a power-crazed alcoholic and America by a sex-crazed
lunatic who had to settle for bombing a medicine factory, a few
tents and a herd of goats thousands of miles away when he
couldn't bomb the home of Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr, as
may have been his real desire.  Incidentally, if the target was
really Osama bin Laden, perhaps Mr. Clinton's Administration
would care to explain why the US Government gave his family the
contract for building a US Air Force base in Saudi Arabia after
the 1996 bombing of Khobar Towers in Dhahran.  Mr. Clinton's
recent misadventures in Sudan and Afghanistan cost the taxpayers
at least $500 million;  and this same fellow complains about a
$29.6 million investigation which has resulted in a dozen
convictions so far and is about to ensure his downfall.  Maybe
I'll drink some warm milk before bed in future.

There has been another shining light on Capitol Hill:  Majority
Whip Tom DeLay, who has remained true to his Christian ideals,
and we salute him. "What makes DeLay different than many of his
colleagues is that he doesn't operate out of fear," wrote Paul
Weyrich recently.  By contrast, Speaker Newt Gingrich has
appeared to shy away from the idea of impeachment, saying he
would want to see "a pattern of felonies" before taking action.
But the power has been taken out of Newt's hands, even though
there was an extremely long pattern of felonies from which he
could have chosen.

This dangerous moment in world history demands solid leadership.
Instead we have a pair of disgraced addicts in the White House
and the Kremlin. Beloved, we must be in prayer for the world and
we must start to take stock of the real truth.  As Franklin
Graham so succinctly wrote in the Wall Street Journal last week:
"If Mr. Clinton will lie to or mislead his wife and daughter,
those with whom he is most intimate, what will prevent him from
doing the same to the American public?"

As Mr. Graham knows, Mr. Clinton and his colleagues have lied so
grossly to the American public that you will be able to hear the
gasp of shock from across the Atlantic when Kenneth Starr's
report becomes public.  And, as often in such cases, perhaps Bill
Clinton's worst lies were told to himself.  Most recently, he
told himself the lie that he could outfox the global elite.  And
he is about to pay the price for that one.

Franklin Graham again:  "Mr. Clinton's sin can be forgiven, but
he must start by admitting to it and refraining from legalistic
doublespeak. According to the Scripture, the president did not
have an 'inappropriate relationship' with Monica Lewinsky - he
committed adultery.  He didn't "mislead" his wife and us - he
lied.  Acknowledgment must be coupled with genuine remorse.  A
repentant spirit that says, 'I'm sorry. I was wrong.  I won't do
it again.  I ask for your forgiveness,' would go a long way
toward personal and national healing."   It may be too late to
save his presidency, but the Arkancide scenario aside, it isn't
too late to save the man and, most importantly, to save his soul.

National healing there must be, but first there must be a time of
truth-telling and a clear-cut farewell to Mr. Clinton, whichever
way he chooses to depart.  America is still a great country, with
immense wealth in its people, a national spirit of hard work and
goodness and a deep desire to succeed.  And perhaps there will
now be a reassessment of national feeling and a new desire to
recapture lost freedom, honesty and morality.  Can it be done?
Indeed it can, and it is part of our mission to encourage and
point the way.

Last week, Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gave a
rare interview to The Times of London.  Europe, she said, has
been in her lifetime "the source of our problems, not the source
of our solutions. It's America and Britain that saved the world."
Speaking of the European Union, and perhaps of other
international elite groupings of nations and business leaders,
she added:  "We don't want to be dissolved into any amorphous
group.  We wish to keep our [national] identity, our language,
our pride, our customs and to co-operate with nations with their
own pride, own monarchies, own customs.  We are no longer free,
and I think it's got to stop."  It is in our hands to seize back
what has been lost.

We know how the story will end for the evil ones.  Here's a sneak
preview: "And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the
lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had
been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and
ever." (Revelation 20:10)

We also know that it is in God's nature to show mercy if only we
will turn to Him and confess our sins and our inadequacy.  After
Jesus was tempted by the devil and sent him away, a verse in the
Gospel shows God's ever-present lovingkindness: "Then the devil
left him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him."
(Matthew 4: 11).  Thus will the angels minister to America if we
will turn back to our Heavenly Father.  We have tried the way of
the devil.  Now, it is time to try God's way.  ‡  Steve Myers ×
Editor

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