The Blood of Iraqis Cries Out To ALLAH

You Are The Man

The Old Testament Prophets greatly emphasize the primacy of ALLAH's Justice. For instance, the Holy Quran and the earlier Scriptures both teach about ALLAH's deep concern for the widow and the orphan. GOD emphasizes that when widows and orphans cry out, their cry will be heard by Him. (Exodus 22:22-27.) Similarly, Genesis 4 is explicit that when Cain murdered his brother Abel, it was GOD Himself who held Cain accountable. It was recorded that GOD heard Abel's blood crying out to Him from the blood soaked ground.

The Lord said: "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground."

So the Scripture emphatically reveal that the innocent blood of Abel was very personal to GOD. It was as though Abel's blood continuously kept crying out to Him. We must realize that to GOD it was not Cain abstractly and impersonally breaking one of His laws by murdering innocent Abel. Rather, GOD had actually seen the murder occur. So Abel's innocent blood continued to relentlessly cry out to the very Creator and Sustainer of the entire Universe. It was truly expected that it would be ALLAH Himself who would avenge Abel's innocent blood.

So these thoughts were occupying my mind on Thursday, May 10, 07, when I went to bed. Yet, additional thoughts had been planted in my mind by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann from "Count Down." He had faithfully reminded me that it had been one thousand four hundred and seventy one days since our arrogant Commander and Chief had naively announced to the world with T.V. cameras rolling that Americas mission had been successfully completed in Iraq. With great pomp and ceremony on the flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier he falsely announced to the world:

"Mission Accomplished"

So a few hours after Mr. Olbermann's 9pm program, either my own conflicted sub conscience or ALLAH Himself spoke a very explicit message about the guilt of my President and other leaders. Also, in the dream or vision I experienced, I do not believe I personally have ever spoken with such deep conviction or animation. The emotional proclamations which burst forth from my own lips were so real it was as though the event was actually occurring.

The setting was that I was being interviewed by someone from T.V. or radio regarding my own views on my nation's involvement in Iraq. In response to the interviewers question I answered with not my own views but what I was convinced were GOD's views on what was occurring in Iraq. Suddenly it was though a tiny fraction of the ALMIGHTY's anger was being expressed through me. I felt like an enormous damn had burst inside of me and the rage could not be constrained. (Significantly, this was occurring only a few hours after I had experienced great relief when I had convinced myself that I had totally finished all of the writing for my website about the Iraq war etc.)

But now I was raging more strongly that I had ever written. And this raging was not my making general observations but were directly spoken to the persons whom I think that GOD Himself holds personally responsible for the terrible suffering and death in Iraq.

"President Bush, GOD hears the blood of the Iraqis crying out to Him against you just like He once heard the blood of Abel crying out to Him against the murderer, Cain."

"President Bush, GOD hears the blood of the American military crying out against you."

"Dick Cheney, don't you know that GOD hears the blood of thousands of Iraqi innocents crying out to Him against you?"

"Oh, people of America, are we unable to hear the blood of tens of thousands of Iraqi's crying out to GOD against our collective guilt?"

"Oh Military-Industrial Complex, people's blood is crying out against you!"

Then I didn't continue to say the same sentence over and over but the other names that I remember that I wanted to cry out against for the innocent blood that was crying out to GOD to be avenged, were Carl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearle and Donald Rumsfeld. I distinctly remember that my fist went up in the air and came crashing down with a loud bang on whatever surface that was there in order to emphasize the fury that I felt was partially being released through me of the ALMIGHTY's angry emotions.

Then, as I lay there half awake and half sleeping, the reality from Heschel's book, "The Prophet," about GOD's view of History as revealed by the ancient Prophets in contrast to man's view of history, would not leave my mind. Heschel states:

"To the prophets, GOD's judgment of man's conduct is the main issue of history; all else is marginal."

"The Prophet perceives the whole (historical) world in terms of Justice and Injustice."

As these thoughts of injustice verses justice and the decisive choice by the U.S. to spill innocent blood in Iraq swept through my mind I made more additions. I further included the United Nations, Israel, and Al Qaeda, as well as Sunnis and shia in my raging against innocent bloodshed. Suddenly, it seemed as though my raging became GOD's speaking.

"Oh U.N., do you not realize that the innocent blood of Iraqis is crying out to Me against the U.N. You did not stand up against the Bush Gang in their wicked insistence on invading an innocent nation though that nation knew they used a blatant lie to link Iraq with Al Qaeda.

Oh Israel, don't you realize that the future blood of thousands is crying out to GOD against you for the symbolism of the racist, expansionist flag your nation flies. For you arrogantly boast through your national flag of conquering others' land from the Nile to the Euphrates. You wrongly assume that it is My Will that you kill innocents to achieve this. For the two blue stripes on your flag boldly symbolize these two great rivers where the land now belongs to other people, many of whom now honor Me much more then you now honor Me.

Oh Al Qaeda, do you truly think that you are ALLAH and that I, ALLAH, am your obedient servant. The innocent blood you shed cries out to Me. Change your ways before you enter a lost, hopeless eternity.

Oh Sunni and shia, the innocent blood you shed and the anguished cries of your tortured victims are continuously heard by Me. Do you truly believe that specifically which Muslim brother assumed the leadership role of the Prophet Muhammad when he died is more important to Me than Mercy, Love, Forgiveness and Justice. Repent of your evil. Join hands with your brothers in following My Own Anointed Risen Man from West Bank Bethlehem. Your present wickedness as Muslim brothers with your detestable hate for one another brings Me deep anguish.

On and on the list could go of those who are causing their victims blood to cry out to our Compassionate GOD who hates evil. But at this point the greatest wickedness is coming from my own hypocritical nation whose coins mockingly proclaim, "In God We Trust."

So great is our national guilt due to our leaders blatantly lying in order to initiate this bloody, unjust war in Iraq that the punishment due our nation is likely to affect the future location of the entire U.N.

Therefore, the United Nations would be very wise to take the following precautionary step because of the severe judgment that my own nation very soon deserves. Move the entire United Nations out of U.S. territory where it would be much less likely to experience the destructive effects of dreadful Judgment. Because such Judgment is due a prosperous, relatively enlightened nation whose leaders have been ungrateful to GOD for their own nation's abundant prosperity. Instead of being grateful, we have blatantly challenged GOD to totally expose our deplorable depravity and punish us.

GOD's Care For ALL His People

For those who may have the mistaken idea that the ancient Hebrew Prophets were only interested in the welfare of the Hebrew people and neglected caring for non-Jewish people, five vivid examples from the Old Testament Scriptures should totally dispel that misconception.

GREAT MERCY

First of all we will consider the amazing prophetic book of Jonah. When people consider the teaching of the Jonah book, regrettably, we often get side-tracked on whether a big fish could actually swallow a man and have that man survive such a traumatic experience. To be preoccupied with this question is to totally miss the point of exceptionally penetrating writing about the poisonous evil of debilitating racism. So even if the Book of Jonah is considered to be an allegory rather than a true story of what actually occurred, that is okay. Because the main point of the story itself is not about GOD's ability to preserve a Prophet's life inside of a big fish. Rather, it is a story about how GOD's compassion is able to burst through wicked racial barriers.

Since the writer was obviously Jewish, the story was a brilliant penetrating expose' about the xenophobia that existed among some ancient Jewish people. So great was their hatred of the Assyrians that they considered it preferable for the people of Nineveh to experience GOD's awful wrath than to change their behavior so that they would reap the full benefits of His overwhelming mercy and compassion. So 120,000 people as well of thousands of animals were spared Judgment due to GOD's compassion for the Assyrian people after they repented because of Jonah's powerful warning.

His Own People Attempted to Murder ALLAH's Messiah

Publicly describing in his home synagogue the true accounts of these next two examples of GOD's extraordinary love for a pair of non-Jews almost resulted in ALLAH's Bethlehem man being murdered. He told one true account about a foreign Sidonian woman receiving special care from the Prophet Elijah during a severe famine. Then he told about a despised foreign Syrian military officer being healed of leprosy by the Prophet Elishah. He pointedly explained to listeners in his Nazareth synagogue that at the time of both of these divine interventions, there were many, many Jewish people who did not receive similar divine aid.

Telling these two stories about GOD's intervention to help non-Jews while GOD did not similarly help Jews, caused his racist Jewish audience to make a crude attempt to murder him by throwing him off a cliff. But at that time they were unable to carry out their hateful murder.  Significantly, in the other three injeel (gospels) of the New Testament, these two divine interventions by God to help non-Jews when He did not similarly aid Jews, were not told. It is likely that these true accounts are only told in Luke's book since it was only Dr. Luke who was himself a foreigner and not a Jew. So the other three writers who were themselves Jews, were possibly reluctant to tell such stories about God helping non-Jews for fear these historical events would offend Jewish readers.

Another example of how our GOD revealed in the Old Testament Scriptures that His care is not confined to only Hebrew people, is about a woman of Moab. For it was a lovely Moabite woman, Ruth, whom ALLAH chose to experience the historical honor of being the great, great grandmother of King Daoud/David, the most beloved King of Israel.

A Hittite IDF Member

Significantly, this last Old Testament Scripture story is about a non-Jewish military man who faithfully served in the service of the extraordinarily significant King, King David (King Daoud.)

David himself, before he became Israel's second King, had many meaningful interactions with non-Jews. But it was his own treacherous murder of a non-Jewish, Hittite soldier that brought a most severe rebuke for King David. His severe punishment seriously impacted him, impacted his lover, Bathsheba, impacted his family and impacted his kingdom. It was GOD's faithful Prophet Nathan whom GOD sent to confront the King regarding the severe punishments for his well thought out choice to murder one supposedly insignificant foreigner.

That foreigner was Uriah, a Hittite soldier who faithfully served King David as a member of the then equivalent to today's IDF (Israeli Defence Force.) So the King's own unrestrained lust for the beautiful wife of another man led this otherwise honorable King to make a huge err in moral judgment. He "despised" GOD by disregarding how precious the life of this one foreign man was to our Merciful God. But GOD, through His faithful Prophet Nathan, very quickly made David aware that he had despised GOD by committing the despicable crime of murdering this one foreign man and stealing his wife. David may have figured out how to temporarily become a Carl Rove like spin doctor. But what was acceptable spin to the lustful King was deplorable wickedness to both God and His Prophet. (Are you listening, Mr. Rove and Mr. Wolfowitz? You both must realize the thousands and thousands and thousands of deaths of innocent foreigners you are indirectly responsible for because of the evil you implanted in the limited mind of George W. Bush.)

So the Prophet Nathan sternly informed the King through a simple story that the King thought was a true story, how monstrous the crime was of murdering this one relatively poor foreigner and stealing his wife. The Prophet informed him that his despising GOD by committing this despicable crime would cost the King, the King's lover, the King's family and the entire Kingdom, an awful cost. (Are you, George Bush, and you, Dick Cheney, and you, Carl Rove, and you, Paul Wolfowitz, and you, Richard Pearle, and you, Ahmed Chalabi paying attention to this awesome precedent? If judgment to a leader in Israel then to the U.S. for the murder of one foreigner, why not judgment now for the murder of thousands upon thousands of Iraqis?)

This horrible news was delivered by GOD to King David by this unique method. ALLAH directed His trusted Prophet to pay a visit to the King in his oval office in the White House, I mean in his own palace office. Then Nathan told the King a story that the King was led to believe was true. It was about a rich man in his Kingdom who owned many, many sheep and lambs who needed to cook only one of them for a meal for a guest. But instead of cooking one of his own sheep for the unexpected guest, he stole the one little lamb which belonged to the very poor man. Then he callously cooked the poor man's beloved lamb instead of one of his own sheep.

When King David heard this story that he assumed to be true, he "burned with anger." He then announced that this rich man "deserved to die."

Then, without warning the Prophet immediately shocked the powerful King. He suddenly pointed his finger at the very King of Israel and sternly said to him:

"You are the man!"

The Prophet proceeded to vividly portray the specific evil the King had done in callously choosing to strike down Uriah the Hittite with the sword as well as stealing his wife who was portrayed as his one beloved lamb. Among three additional punishments that the Prophet announced were coming to the King, he told him that the sword would never depart from his house due to this horrible crime. But he also revealed to the King that the main reason for all of this extreme punishment was that in killing this one innocent foreigner and stealing his wife, that these two crimes culminated in an even more sinister crime. The Prophet bluntly revealed to him that the evil he had done vividly demonstrated that he, the King of all of Israel, "DESPISED GOD."

It takes virtually no imagination to realize that if today the Prophet Nathan had access to the U.S. President Bush the way that he had access to the Israeli King David, he would pay our President a similar grave visit, like the shocking visit he paid to the trembling and guilty David. Undoubtedly Nathan would explain how he as our wealthy leader of our prosperous nation had absolutely no moral right to invade the weaker, poorer foreign nation of Iraq in order to accomplish our own unacknowledged geopolitical goals. He would explain that we have callously chosen to carry out an invasion and occupation that has been far more evil in its consequences than the crimes which he had confronted King David of having done to the one foreigner, Uriah the Hittite.

Then the Prophet Nathan would undoubtedly point directly at the bullet proof covered chest of our arrogant President and proclaim:

"President Bush, you are the man most responsible for all this unnecessary, despicable bloodshed in Iraq."

Then he would list the punishments that this President and his nation will receive for despising GOD by what we as foreigners have done to the Iraqi people in their own sovereign nation.

Next, the Prophet would go to the office of Dick Cheney, to the office of Carl Rove, to the office of Paul Wolfowitz; to the office of Donald Rumsfeld, to the office of Richard Pearle and finally to the office of Ahmed Chalabi.

In each office the enraged Prophet would tell the same despicable story of blood and injustice. Then he would look the shocked man in the eye and point to his chest and say:

"Dick Cheney, you are the man! You are guilty!"

"Carl Rove, you are the man! You are guilty!"

"Paul Wolfowitz, you are the man! You are guilty!"

"Donald Rumsfeld, you are the man! You are guilty!"

"Richard Pearle, you are the man! You are guilty!"

"Ahmed Chalabi, you are the man! You are guilty!"

Then each man would hear their appropriate eternity impacting punishments for despising GOD and bringing enormous bloodshed to an innocent people.

It is inconceivable that the One True GOD who does not change, could be so forceful in unanimously and sternly condemning and punishing unnecessary bloodshed in Old Testament Times and then suddenly be totally apathetic and neutral regarding worse bloodshed in these present days as practiced by the U.S.

(By some kind of mystical lunacy our leaders have virtually brainwashed our nation. They have us believing that because of our nation being supposedly virtuous and powerful, GOD has granted us an exceptional entitlement. That is, when it serves our nation's geopolitical needs, we have His implied approval to exploit, manipulate, terrorize and even brutalize a weaker nation.)

The reality is that GOD disapproves of and despises this innocent bloodshed now just as much as He did then. Thus, His certain punishment for the gross injustice in Iraq is now hovering over the U.S. like a giant, dark cloud which is ready to burst. For if such certain punishment took place against King David, his family and his kingdom so as to hold him accountable for the death of one supposedly insignificant foreigner, how much sterner punishment can our nation expect for the needless unjust deaths of well over 500,000 times as many Iraqis as King David killed? Also, it is significant that King David received his protracted punishment even though he contritely confessed:

"I have sinned against the Lord!"

Consequently, should not all of us in the U.S. be violently trembling at the prospect of the terrible punishment that at the very least, our leaders deserve? Yet, it appears our leaders do not even think they have done any wrong so they have not confessed this despicable sin to our GOD. They naively think He approves of what they have done. Or, do they think that He is blind so he cannot see their blatant, unconfessed crimes?

Oh GOD, please have mercy upon us. We have no idea of the horrible crime we are committing against you, against the people of Iraq and against ourselves.

I especially plead to the voters of the U.S. who voted for Mr. George Bush and Mr. Dick Cheney in their second election. For it was a normal mistake to have voted for these two con men in their first election. But by the second election it was quite clear regarding the innocent bloodshed they supported. It was also clear that their reasons for invading Iraq were based on false and distorted premises. So a conscious vote for them in the second election was a vote to continue to shed innocent blood.  This means that there must be sincere cries from all of us to the people of Iraq, to our own military personnel and to GOD Himself, for forgiveness.

As for those voters who were intimidated by some flavor of Christianity which persuaded them that a vote for John Kerry would have been a vote to murder unborn babies, that was a false distortion of Mr. Kerry's own anti-abortion but pro-choice stand in a multi-cultural, diverse, pluralistic society. But for those who truly could not bring themselves to vote for Kerry because of the abortion issue, it would have been far preferable if they had refrained from voting. For it is morally wrong to put the democratic process above GOD's moral law. So a vote for Bush and Cheney caused voters to support the immoral bloodshed of innocent Iraqis which these two amoral leaders strongly appear to stand for.