Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Revelations 13:10
In America's history, things occurred that ended up being repealed. For example, the Prohibition went in force after intense work by the Temperance movement. The Prohibition was a noble idea, but people are weak and fall back into the forces of the Adversary.
Alcohol in moderation, that is, don't get drunk, is tolerable. However some people cannot reach a reasonable level of alcohol consumption. Some folks always go to the extremes and get very drunk and do stupid things, like trying to drive their car safely.
Michael and Pamela reached a good level of safety. Because Michael's Great Grandfather was an alcoholic, after seeing a show on the Public Broadcasting Network, he decided he needed to be a teetotaler. The show showed the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brainscan of a normal person and an alcoholic. They showed very different brains. They contrasted like night and day! They were not the same. So Michael and Pamela decided to not consume any alcohol at all.
But as the Prohibition happened, and presently, some other forces were working in America to change the country. One example is when the Pope visited America back in 2008. When he made an appearance, there were usually a huge amount of people to see the Pope! That means that a lot of Americans see him as he proposes; the Pope claims to be the oneandonly earthly representative of God!
President George W. met him at the airport! Pat Robertson met with him and after the meeting, stated that the two had the SAME beliefs! And in the recent years past, there was a movement to MAKE America a Christian nation. The people behind the America Christian Nation movement failed to see that such an action needs to start from the bottom up. For the same reason, that's why the Prohibition failed. It couldn't be 'force fed' to the American society.
But as a 'topheavy' movement, this MAKE America a Christian nation movement, was forcefed to the American society! Now, because the Vatican compromises with the humanists of the world in accepting Darwinism and evolution, in essence, the Catholic earthly 'God' does not believe the Bible as the Word of God!
When the world civilization settled, Europe and England were settled before America. Along those lines, often social developments and habits occur first in Europe. This also happened regarding religion. For example, Christianity started in the Mideast first, then traveled to England and then North and South America. Islam is in the same process now, first developed in the Mideast, Europe, England and then America.
Michael and Pamela finished their first year at their property. They are able to garden and obtain a fair amount of food. They go to the local grocery store only once a month or so. Michael is able to do enough coding to allow a minimum sort of income to allow the couple to purchase some basic staples to live on.
Everyday, Michael looks at an Internet news page to see what is rumbling in America and around the world. The economy has been in bad shape in America, but Michael and Pamela are able to survive. But Michael sees that like a dysfunctional family's members become interdependent for the wrong reasons, the global economy has made most countries interdependent also.
We liked NAFTA so well, get ready for GFTA, the Global FreeTrade Agreement! We suffered disabled economies from NAFTA, now we can share disabled economies around the world! Singapore, Australia, China, you name it, GFTA can claim it!
The worldwide economy was very poor. The starvation rate was always fair in Third World countries, but now it was much higher in developed countries like the North American Union and the European Union. Michael announced to Pamela on day that they can go on as usual.
“We can still raise food in our garden and purchase what is lacking at the grocery store” said Michael.
Through the Web, Michael finds some actions of the Moral Police. In the United States of Islam, the State Religion is Islam and proselytizing anything besides Islam is illegal. All Christian ministries have been warned to stop proselytizing. The ministries that continuously proselytize are Mormon missionaries and Jehovah Witness missionaries. In recent situations, the consequences range from a warning, jail, or execution.
“This looks exactly what the atheist monarchs are looking for. They see nothing believable in Christianity and they like seeing Christians executed.” said Michael.
Michael and Pamela read the news from new President O'Patrick's Web page. All news came from government sources; all private news sources came to an end. Past Socialist and Communist parties were very happy with the O'Patrick/Pope implementation of a collective 'theocracy.' People no longer had the chance to privately own anything. Michael and Pamela were far enough out of town to continue with private ownership.
Pamela mentions her perception of the news on the government page.
“The whole system, the 'powersthatbe,' seems a bit like the Three Musketeers story: 'All for One, and One for All!' We are far enough away from urban cities in Deseret that the Moral Police don't have a chance of visiting us yet.”
Michael sternly replies to Pamela, “Honey, that is a matter of time. The Moral Police will make their way to the outskirts of Wyoming. We are on the border of the United States of Islam (USI). But I think they will come in by force. The local people around here are pretty good sharpshooters. A couple of guys were snipers in the Marines. They completed two tours of duty, when we invaded Iraq back in '03. Average military bullets per enemy death is about six per corpse. With the snipers, it's 1.3 per corpse. They are good.”
“Okay Honey, you've got me there. I guess I can dig up my old VHF/UHF scanner from the old days when anything 'ontheair' was legal to receive. Then the 'invasion of privacy' people were armed with lawyers to convince the FCC to make cell phone and other transmissions illegal to listen to. I can scan some, but we are too far away from anything to receive a high frequency. Let me get a hold of the BeeHive Net that has a major population in Salt Lake City or some other USI illegal amateur radio people.”
With the new socialist doctrine, amateur radio was made illegal. But there were enough Constitutionalists sort of amateur radio people that private communication continued. Oftentimes, the Moral Police tried a communication jammer, a 10 kw 5 mhz wide noise generator.
The amateurs were able to QSY, change frequency, enough to miss the jamming. But sometimes the Moral Police would use some radio locater equipment and able to locate the amateur and either execute if the operator resisted arrest or put the operator in jail.
Most Muslims had no problem submitting to Moral Police, and many Catholics had no problem submitting to Moral Police because it was commanded by the Pope. However, some Catholics that were well read of the Bible, saw how the merge of Islam and Christianity was wrong. Then they saw directly how the manmade image of God's Church was exactly out of Revelation 13.
Even some agnostic people saw how Academia had tried to choke a State Religion down their throats. Some agnostics gave God's Son a name: Jesus. They saw the personal choice to be made. Citizens can submit to the rule of Moral Police, or reject the rule of Moral Police and suffer the results. Rather than the mark on the right hand, keeping the Sharia, or on forehead, thinking the Sharia, they take the mark of God on the forehead and guaranteed eternal life.
Michael commented “Honey, because we are on the border of the USI and the Republic of Deseret, the Moral Police do not frequent our area much. From the Deseret News out of Salt Lake, Warren AFB in Cheyenne has joined with Hill, Mountain Home, and Nellis AFB as the air powers of Deseret. And besides Deseret military opposition, there are many homegrown militias causing problems for the Islam Militia.”
The Muslim favorable President O'Patrick needed a quick solution. It had become much more difficult to control the people of the North American Union. He flew to the Mideast to meet his Middle Eastern leader contacts, and a quick solution was found. The solution would happen within two weeks.
Twelve days later, Pamela watched news on the Web and it appeared that some communication problems had arisen from New York City, Washington D.C, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angles and Seattle. All communication modes had stopped within 30 minutes of each other. No radio, video, Internet, amateur radio, or cell phone communications occurred.
However, after visual reports from the neighboring towns and extreme seismic readings noticed at almost all university geology departments and satellite photos of those cities, the Web news agencies concluded that nuclear explosions had taken place. All downwind weather departments began to report nuclear fallout.
Michael and Pamela looked at each other after the network news announced their conclusion. With hazy eyes, Pamela slowly recites what the broadcasters had said about populations of those cities, “Over 84 Million people are gone.......many of our friends and relatives practically vaporized. Then at least that many or more will suffer the after effects of fallout.”
Pamela finds out the difficulty of ham radio contact for a few weeks. Remaining medical facilities are swamped as fallout has effects across intermountain west, Midwest and northeastern parts of America. All major electronic communication doesn't work. No major television network is operational in airwaves, and major hub centers for cable networks were destroyed. Major American Internet hubs were destroyed. But there were enough smaller metro area left to allow minimum Internet operation.
Michael, from an intermittent web communication, was able to find out that most of the federal government leadership ability was fragmented. The President, Vice President, Majority Leaders of Senate and House died. The Governors of New York, Virginia, and Washington were killed. The remaining Governors of the USI communicated between themselves and with the Prime Minister of Deseret.
The Prime Minister of Deseret made it known that any travel from or to the Republic of Deseret was to be stopped until any form of peace existed in USI. The Republic was able to provide food, safety and medical services for its citizens. But the small country suffered to results of fallout.
Therefore, the Governors of USI put together a form of Federal Government to lead what was left of the United States of Islam. Any travel from the country was denied by all foreign countries and no foreign citizens wanted to help USI. The country was as if it was the only country on the world. The world's citizens were either Muslim, dead or dying from nuclear fallout, or a Jew in Israel.