WILL CHINA SWALLOW UP TAIWAN (CONTINUED)

In 539 BCE, Judea, under the reign of its new king, Hezekiah, attempted to change the status quo. To discontinue being a vassal kingdom of the Assyrian empire. In response the Emperor Sennacherib sent a large military expeditionary force. Which captured all the surrounding fortified towns and villages. That were satellites of Jerusalem. King Hezekiah sued for peace and in order to secure it the Assyrians exacted tribute amounting to thirty talents of gold and three hundred talents of silver. One talent of gold today would be equivalent to 1,927,289.36 USD. A talent of silver would be worth today US$1,400,116.57. This was an oppressively heavy tax for any nation to have to cough up. Consequently, Hezekiah even had to resort to removing all of the gold from the doors of The Solomonic Temple. To find the means to pay the tribute demanded by Sennacherib. This has always been the practice of world empires. To demand exorbitant sums of money from the nations they subjugate. To facilitate their military expansion, continuation of world dominion; and the unbridled hedonistic indulgence of their ruling classes.

The love of money was not only pervasive in the ancient world it is also deeply entrenched in modern American society. Insomuch that business leaders are willing to sacrifice our national security just so that they can earn countless millions in China. “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” 1Timothy 6:10. Historically America has been a nation with a powerful Christian heritage. However world events have clearly demonstrated that whenever a nation moves away from principles of righteousness then disasters invariably ensue. That is exactly where America is today. The national debt is spiraling out of control. The business elite is shoveling billions of dollars into China’s coffers. Which the communists are utilizing to manufacture weapons of mass destruction. Which will ultimately be used against us. China is not just a threat to Taiwan. They are an existential threat to every democratic country on planet earth.

“The greatest long-term threat to our nation’s information and intellectual property, and to our economic vitality, is the counterintelligence and economic espionage threat from China. It’s a threat to our economic security—and by extension, to our national security… We’ve now reached the point where the FBI is opening a new China-related counterintelligence case about every 10 hours. Of the nearly 5,000 active FBI counterintelligence cases currently underway across the country, almost half are related to China. And at this very moment, China is working to compromise American health care organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and academic institutions conducting essential COVID-19 research” (FBI News, July 7, 2020). We don’t know everything about the malign activities of The CCP in the U.S.A. What we already know is extremely serious. What we don’t know might very well be catastrophic.

Our most serious problems are presented by insiders. Blind and dumb business leaders who are fraternizing with the enemy. In my opinion they have in the past and are presently conspiring with the Chinese to destroy America’s middle class. How can that economic group survive, if American jobs are continuously being shipped to China? I suppose they will only be finally satisfied. When China begins to fly military jets over American territory, as it is currently doing to Taiwan. Demanding that the government in Taipei acquiesce to Chinese demands and recognize Peking. As its only source of government and legislative authority. If the present trends continue throughout America’s business community, The U.S.A. will one day be ruled from China. We know that Trump was corrupt, had a long history of criminal conduct, and powerful dictatorial and authoritarian instincts. But at least he recognized that the USA had to decouple economically from China.

“Nearly three dozen of the nation’s most influential business groups—representing retailers, chip makers, farmers and others—are calling on the Biden administration to restart negotiations with China and cut tariffs on imports, saying they are a drag on the U.S. economy. The tariffs on electronics, apparel and other Chinese goods, which are paid by U.S. importers, were kept in place in part to ensure that China fulfills its obligations under its 2020 Phase One trade pact with the U.S. In a Thursday letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the business groups contend that Beijing had met “important benchmarks and commitments” in the agreement, including opening markets to U.S. financial institutions and reducing some regulatory barriers to U.S. agricultural exports to China.” (Wall Street Journal, August 6, 2021). When will this country learn and fully understand that China is a Communist State? A substantial portion of the profits they make will be used to strengthen their military industrial complex. At some future point in time China will become a far greater existential threat to all western democracies. Even more so than it is today.

But how did Ancient Judea get into the predicament of being so enfeebled and vulnerable to the ascendant world empire of that era? We are informed in scripture, “Ahaz (732-716) was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord his God, as his father David had done. But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed he made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel. And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.” 2Kings 16:2-4. (NKJV). In summary Hezekiah’s father, Ahaz, was a rebel against the government of Heaven. He offered human sacrifices, and engaged in other forms of wickedness which The Lord Almighty hated. That seems to be where America is headed today. At present some politicians don’t even know the difference between right and wrong. They indulge in the advocacy of brazen lies while claiming that they are telling the truth. Is it any wonder therefore that large areas of the U.S.A. are experiencing prolonged drought? That there is a major unemployment problem throughout this country and that poverty is on the increase?

Our decisions and actions have consequences. After several years of violating God’s Covenant. The Lord Almighty finally but reluctantly. Turned Judea and it’s pagan hearted king over to the power of their enemies. The Lord Almighty is a God of Truth and righteousness. The eternal principles of doing what is right. Are clearly defined in the sacred law which Jehovah Himself declared from the towering heights of Mount Sinai. When Judea abandoned those principles they effectively turned their backs on God. The resulting consequences were disastrous.

“Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war; and they besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him. At that time Rezin king of Syria captured Elath for Syria, and drove the men of Judah from Elath. Then the Edomites went to Elath, and dwell there to this day. So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, ‘I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.’ And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasuries of the king’s house, and sent it as a present to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria heeded him; for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it, carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.” 2Kings 16:5-9. (NKJV). Because of their unfaithfulness to God and their perversity, Judea lost its independence and became a vassal state of the Assyrian empire.

(TO BE CONTINUED)