Introduction

America's situation in today's world is far more dangerous than in the past because our present enemies will soon come into possession of deliverable atomic bombs. No long term fully effective method of preventing that from happening has yet been developed. There are thousands of such weapons throughout the world and more are being built every day.

We have no foolproof defense against a nuclear attack by land, by sea or by air. New York City, on 9/11, lost several buildings and thousands of people lost their lives, but an atomic attack in the future will destroy the entire city and cost millions of lives. An attack on Washington, DC, would destroy the Pentagon, both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the White House. All with one huge explosion.

The leader of one of the world's largest religions recently said that a long time enemy of the human race was present and fully active in both Hitler and Stalin's regimes as they both wreaked havoc, death and destruction on the human race. He said that:

"The force of the red dragon^[1] was brought into existence once again in the great dictatorships of the last century: the Nazi dictatorship and the dictatorship of Stalin.^[2]"

The "red dragon" (known as Lucifer in the Bible and Iblis in the Qur'an) has allied himself again with those who are working to destroy us and the democratic way of life. Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and others of his minions are just as intent on destroying us and ruling the world as the Nazis and Communists ever were.

Lucifer is a real force in the development of history and he has had both feet in the camp of our enemies for at least the last 100 years. He is out to destroy democracy and the democratic way of life completely and he would not hesitate to slaughter our people by the millions to achieve his objective of world conquest.

Since he can no longer bring together a coalition of strong, multi-national military powers as he did in the past, Lucifer instead is busy persuading and preparing his present day criminal allies to destroy us with nuclear weapons. America is his prime target and he has again found minions to help him attain his goal.

In the spiritual struggle, as it is often called, in which we are now engaged Almighty God and Lucifer do not engage each other directly. The struggle takes place by conventional means, through human forces. Whether or not Lucifer's criminal allies know they are representing his interests is immaterial; they both have world domination as their goal. They are his minions, knowingly or unknowingly.

An atomic attack would come suddenly and with little or no warning. Our ability to completely prevent a widespread or even a limited attack is very uncertain. A predicament is fast approaching that only Almighty God can prevent. He is already moving in that direction and has been for more than two centuries.

[1] Apocalypse 12:7-9 Satan is referred to as "the dragon."

[2] Pope Benedict XVI (CNS) Castel Gandolfo, Italy, August 15, 2007.

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