U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Commander Admiral Samuel Paparo delivers his speech during an international military conference organized by the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
These things, this information does not appear here to cause fear or to spread rumors. But merely to inform, to help make ready, to show events unfolding in these last of the last days.
For believers to remain steadfast, secure, diligent, pressing onward daily fighting the good fight. With great hope and assurance. With peace within as the world erupts in violence, death, destruction, war, pain and suffering. Knowing all the while that God is in control on His throne in heaven. His will be done on earth, as in heaven, His kingdom come.
For the unbelieving, of the world, in darkness while being the darkness? Loving the darkness and resisting, running from the Light, the Truth, and the Way instead of running to the Lord Jesus Christ and falling before Him, embracing and understanding Who He is and what He did for a sinner such as you?
Well, I’d say “good luck,” but you see there is no such thing as luck. The imaginary “luck” is a human construct that is a myth. A fantasy. There is no “good luck,” or “bad luck.” There is truth. Reality. There is the lie. There is accountability. Repsonsibility. There are consequences for actions taken or not taken. There is a heaven, there is a hell, and everything, every word within the Word of God is living and true.
Perhaps it’s time, pagan unbeliever, and yes, you are a pagan unbeliever and not a “good person” as everyone imagines themselves. There is no such a thing as a “good person” in the sight of God. And you aren’t greater than God though imagining you are and aren’t in need of Him, perhaps don’t even believe in Him or His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ [although he who you serve, Satan, knows and believes, as do all the demons, but for some reason you continue to fail to read the memo and even acknowledge that which your master knows! Imagine that!].
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
Romans 3:23
I’m a sinner who has fallen short and needs the Lord. So are you. So is everyone that has been ever born. Doesn’t matter if you agree with that, like it, or deny it, it’s FACT. It’s TRUTH. Time to face facts and deal with the truth. While the Good Gracious Loving Lord blesses you with your next breath, your next heartbeat, every morsel of food you eat, every dollar you make or have. It’s the Lord…not you. Time to wake up and smell the reality!
There are only two kinds of people that exist on earth. Only two kinds of people. Period.
God’s true people.
Everyone else.
And going to church, wearing some shiny tree of shame around your neck on a fine chain, reading a minute-long devotional each day, pretending ain’t cutting it if not truly born anew. Changed from within. Changed in the heart, in the mind, in the spirit, in the life. Leading to eternal life.
Yeah, the rebellious and denying towards the Lord and His Word have much to fear.
God’s people? Nothing to fear.
As the world implodes, people are given over to their reprobate minds and we all witness the unfolding of Bible prophecy in our time as it happens.
Atrophy. Destruction. The Second Death.
Or hope, peace, true peace, assurance, faithfulness IN JESUS CHRIST, the object of THE faith, and eternal life.
God is only going to seek, to ask for so long, and then, well, the heart so hard, so dark, so cold, so dead will not hear “Come” and will be forever lost. Eventually, due to negligence and loving the darkness and the world more God’s vice will become dimmer and dimmer in the ears of the heart and mind.
Tragically.
Maybe it’s time to turn up the volume on the spiritual hearing aid of the heart and mind and hear the One True God, of the Lord Jesus Christ, of the Holy Spirit while able, eh?
Just saying.
Because I may not know you but that doesn’t mean I don’t care about where you spend eternity.
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Ken Pullen, Wednesday, October 30th, 2024
World War III Update:
Global military threats to U.S. are increasingly linked, Adm. Sam Paparo says
Indo-Pacom chief warns of growing China, Russia, Iran and North Korea ties
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
By Bill Gertz
Reprinted from The Washington Times
Communist China poses the major security threat to the United States and the danger is compounded by Beijing’s growing links with Russia, North Korea and Iran, according to the admiral in charge of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
“The security environment that we’re living in right now is incredibly challenging, but you should be confident that we’re going to prevail,” Adm. Sam Paparo said in a speech last week in Honolulu.
The global security environment has grown increasingly disordered and chaotic. Wars are raging in Europe and the Middle East and the danger of future conflict with Communist China is growing, he said in an address to a conference on information operations.
Israel’s war against Hamas following the Oct. 7 terror attack in Gaza has evolved into “multi-party proxy war” with Hezbollah in Lebanon and Houthi rebels in Yemen, he said. North Korea continues large-scale ballistic missile testing and is enhancing its nuclear arms development, even as it forces close military, economic and diplomatic links with Russia.
In Communist China, the People’s Liberation Army is engaged in the world’s largest military expansion since World War II, Adm. Paparo said.
“The PRC ’s coercive campaign of pressure against Taiwan continues, and the PRC ’s revanchist, revisionist and expansionist claims in the South China Sea could very well be the next flashpoint,” he said, using the acronym for the People’s Republic of China.
Adm. Paparo said none of the threats are contained to “a stovepipe” — disconnected from other geopolitical crises.
“They’re increasingly linked, and our would-be adversaries in cases have formed transactional and symbiotic, ’no-limits’ relationships,” he said.
Adm. Paparo singled out North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for supplying ballistic missiles, artillery and now troops in the Ukraine war. Iran also is providing weaponized drones and recently delivered several hundred close-range ballistic missiles to Russia for the conflict in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian recently announced closer ties after an October meeting. After the meeting, Mr. Putin said the two nations would seek to overhaul the U.S.-led international order.
Iranian ties with Communist China also helped Tehran undercut U.S. sanctions against Iran and helped boost Iranian influence throughout the Middle East, Adm. Paparo said.
“So, you see the PRC, Russia, Iran and North Korea are collaborating and cooperating together to oppose the United States, our allies and our partners, like-minded democracies, every single day,” he said.
Command structure
The admiral noted that the world is not divided in ways that conform to the American military’s current unified command plan – the network of global combatant commands covering regions such as Africa, the Middle East or Latin America.
“The world is increasingly connected. Our economies are increasingly connected, and conflict is increasingly connected,” the four-star admiral said.
In addition to the new axis of adversaries, advanced technology is adding a new layer of threats, Adm. Paparo said, including major shifts in the use of autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing, hypersonic missiles, nanotechnology, directed energy, large data computation and, in the future, quantum technology.
All are combining with and contributing to global conflict and disorder.
“Threats are increasingly connected. The technology is demonstrating greater speed and greater effects,” Adm. Paparo said. “Given the security mission, the security environment, the PRC’s increasingly aggressive behavior, more than any other time in recent history our ability to deter the PRC may have never been more urgent, nor more critical.”
Deterrence of a U.S. war with Communist China contains three elements, the admiral said.
First is having powerful military capabilities and second is the willingness to use those capabilities.
“That last thing is your would-be adversary’s awareness of it. Without that, all the capability and all the will in the world is the tree that falls in the forest. Does it make a sound? Who knows, if there’s no one there to hear it?” Adm. Paparo said.
To support the deterrence mission, the Indo-Pacific Command is boosting its information capabilities. The goal is to let China and other adversaries know that the risk of military defeat, economic loss, diplomatic isolation or a combination of those factors will outweigh any expected gains.
“Only by being ready can we deter, and by that I mean there’s no bluffing this,” he said.
Robust information operations must be backed by credible combat power and a clear realization among potential enemies that U.S. and allied forces are ready to fight and win, he said.
To support that, the command’s “No. 1 line of effort” is launching campaigns of integrated and impactful information operations, he said.
Propaganda disadvantage
The United States and its allies, however, are at a disadvantage in the information wars: Chinese and other authoritarian regimes that tightly control all news and propaganda “in ways that we cannot, and we will not,” he said.
The U.S. government is constrained to using truth and a free press for its information operations, he said.
“That is not the case for our would-be adversaries, who are absolutely free to lie and have a constrained press,” he said.
Authoritarian regimes “lie at will” and exploit the open information environment in doing so, he noted.
For the West, the long-range advantages of living in a world with highly accountable governments and a free press ultimately will provide greater advantages.
To overcome the challenge posed by adversaries’ unconstrained use of propaganda, U.S. government information operations must be clear in telling “our strategic story,” Adm. Paparo said.
“Our story — it’s not a fake, it’s not a narrative, it’s not an info op. It’s real. It is underpinned by combat, credible operations. It’s underpinned by values. It’s underpinned by the values that bind us all,” he said.
To better conduct information operations, the Pacific Fleet set up the Information Warfare Command Pacific in 2022. The unit centralized several disparate information operations units spread throughout the military. A two-star general, Air Force Maj. Gen. Neil Richardson, was named the command’s senior leader for information operations.
The command also is working closely with allies and partner governments and militaries to better synchronize information operations, including programs currently underway with Japan, Australia, Philippines, Singapore and South Korea.
“Our network of alliances and partnerships is a strategic and asymmetric advantage,” Adm. Paparo said.
The key to success is belief in America’s founding principles, including accountable government, freedom of speech and a free press.
“Have faith that we’re going to prevail. I do,” the admiral said.
• Bill Gertz can be reached at bgertz@washingtontimes.com.
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