Iran Pact Reached

by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2015, all rights reserved.  

Chapter 1

It was announced today that an agreement has been reached with Iran about their nuclear activities.  

The desire was to make sure that Iran won't be getting nuclear weapons.  

Secretary of State, John Kerry, and various envoys from other nations have been negotiating for this agreement.  

Congress now has sixty days to consider this agreement.  

There are those who consider this agreement to be a significant milestone in diplomacy.  

And there are many who don't.  

On hearing the news, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, expressed his strong disapproval of the agreement.  

Netanyahu said, "The world is not as safe a place today as it was yesterday."

Netanyahu referred to Iran as "The world's foremost sponsor of international terrorism."  

The agreement, while supposed to prevent Iran's obtaining nuclear weapons, nevertheless provides a path for their getting nuclear weapons, if they wait the appropriate amount of time.  
And maybe they'll just pretend to be waiting, while actually not waiting at all.  

If Iran seems to be in compliance after six months, they stand to receive $150 Billion dollars in money that has been frozen by sanctions against Iran.  

Based on past experience, Iran will probably use at least some of that money to advance terrorism, as it has in the past.  

Former CIA Director James Woolsey called Iran "The Leading Terrorist Country in the World," today on the PBS Newshour.  

Other panelists on the Newshour were General Hayden, former CIA Director, Dennis Ross, former Middle East Peace Envoy, and Sandy Berger, former National Security Adviser.  

The consensus of the four panelists was that this agreement does not prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons.  

Some have said, "Oh, we can be sure that Iran is in compliance because of the inspection provisions in the agreement."  

Oh really?  

In some cases, a panel must decide to approve the inspection, and then Iran would have another thirty or thirty five days before the inspection takes place.  

That seems like plenty of time for Iran to just pack up the facility, and move it to a different location.  Then, when the inspectors get there, the facility is found to be a warehouse for baby food.  

Is baby food a threat to the world's security?  No, but whatever was moved out of there could easily be.  

One of the agencies that would perform inspections is the IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Agency.)

He may have been replaced by now, but a former head of the IAEA was a man named Muhammad.  

And what kind of name is Muhammad?  Well, that's a Muslim name.  

So, if the inspector is a Muslim, what is the likelihood that he might find justification to find Iran to be lily white at a time when it is actually very dirty?

Chapter 2

Do you remember, a while back, an event now referred to as "Bridgegate?"

It was a traffic jam engineered by people who worked for Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.  

Apparently a New Jersey Mayor wasn't cooperating as desired, so they blocked access to the bridge.  

Christie denies knowing anything about it.  But maybe he should have known about it, as Governor of that state.  

Now if politicians in the U.S. can create traffic jams that block traffic, can't the government of Iran do the same thing, and give the "run around" to the Inspectors?

Of course they can.  

They have a word over there, tahis, that means lying to the Infidels.  (Lying to the Infidels is encouraged.)

The Infidels are everyone who is not Muslim.  

I remember a case a while back where a Muslim man proposed marriage to an American woman.  

One of her big concerns was that after they had children, he might try to take the children and disappear back to his native Muslim nation.  

She made him swear on the Koran that he wouldn't do that.  

Later, after they had children, he did exactly what he had sworn not to do.  

So the woman followed him to that Muslim nation and sued him in court there.  

The court held that his swearing to her about this matter was invalid since it was an oath to an Infidel.  

In other words, when you think you have an agreement with Muslims, you don't really have an agreement, because you are an Infidel, as they see it, and not a Muslim.  

Iran is a large nation.  Can you imagine how many thousands of locations Iran could find to have nuclear facilities?

I understand they already have a nuclear facility inside a mountain.  

Can mountains be hollowed out?  Yes they can, but if you don't want them to collapse, better shore them up with construction materials.  

But how do we know which mountains are the real mountains, and which are the hollowed-out mountains?

Well, yes, that could be a problem.  

Here's a brief passage from Proverbs--

___Proverbs chapter 23
 1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you,
 2 And if you're a man given to appetite, put a knife to your throat.
 3 Don't be desirous of his dainties, for they are deceitful food.

This passage warns us about when you eat with a ruler.  

How much more, when you're sitting at a negotiating table with your enemies who hate your guts, and would prefer that your nation be destroyed, and would probably initiate the attack if they had suitable weapons?

Iran, by the way, also hates Israel.  

This agreement reminds me of the paper held in his hand by Neville Chamberlain of England, thinking that he had obtained an important agreement with Adoph Hitler, as he climbed the stairs to board a plane, a smile on his face for the cameras, in old newsreel footage that I saw years later.  

But when it became a convenient time, Hitler boldly violated the agreement, and did whatever he wanted in Europe.  

Chamberlain's paper was worthless.  

Hitler, of course, was insane.  He was demon possessed, as I think are the leaders of Iran.

They worship a false god, and follow the false prophet Muhammad.  

In a recent TV talk show, they were discussing Vladimir Putin of Russia.  

One of the panelists said that Putin is rational.  

No, I think that statement is incorrect.  

Putin may give the appearance of being rational, but I think Putin is irrational because I believe he has demons in him.  

Demons are fallen angels, and make a person irrational.  

I believe Putin has demons because he is not a Christian.  

(Of course, even Christians could have some demons.  Demons don't leave a person just because he becomes a Christian.  Demons must be cast out.)

Jesus taught that you're either with him, or against him.  

Putin couldn't be a Christian because of his unchristian behavior, as demonstrated in his illegally taking of the Crimea away from Ukraine.  

Subsequent to that, he is trying to take Eastern Ukraine.  

A Christian wouldn't be doing that.    

And so, as the unbeliever that he is, Putin just automatically has demons.  

He has rejected the fear of the Lord.  

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." (Psa 111:10)

Putin doesn't have the fear of the Lord, but rather, leans to his own understanding. (Prov 3:5,6)

Similarly, the leaders of Iran have rejected the Lord Jesus Christ.  

They say that Jesus is one of their prophets, but they don't really take the Prophet Jesus seriously, and don't know what the Prophet Jesus has said, because they don't read the Bible.  

If you're going to rely on the Koran to tell you what Jesus said, you're going to miss a lot of what Jesus said.  

So then Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Iran are in the same boat.  A boat on its way to hell.  

And I fully expect that boat to arrive in hell.  

In the Old Testament, there were a lot of battles.  But there wasn't a lot of negotiating between enemy armies.  

Of course, a weaker army could surrender to a stronger army.  

In fact, God told an Israeli king to surrender to Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian.  

But here in the nuclear age, we find ourselves negotiating with strangers because these nuclear weapons can destroy nations, and in fact, civilization itself, if God permits.  

Another example from the Old Testament is King Hezekiah.  Visitors from another nation came, and Hezekiah showed them everything he had. (2 Kings chapt 20)  

A little while later, they came back and took away everything that he had.  

Wasn't that rather careless of Hezekiah to reveal to the enemy all that he had?  

This agreement gives Iran the relief that it desires from the sanctions, but it doesn't really give us what we wanted.  


___James chapter 1
 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are dispersed around, greetings.
 2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations,
 3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience.
 4 But let patience have its perfect work, so you'll be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives to all men liberally, and won't find fault, and it shall be given to him.
 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.  For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
 7 For let that man not think that he'll receive anything from the Lord.
 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
 9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,
 10 But the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he'll pass away.
 11 For the sun has no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes, so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
 12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for after he's been tested, he'll receive the crown of life, that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man,
 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
 15 Then when lust has conceived, it produces sin, and sin when it's finished, produces death.
 16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.
 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.
 18 He chose to father us with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
 19 So, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
 20 For the anger of man doesn't accomplish the righteousness of God.
 21 So, lay apart all filthiness and the unnecessary naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man seeing his natural face in a mirror,
 24 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
 25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
 26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is for nothing.
 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

___James chapter 2
 1 My brothers, don't have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
 2 For if a man with a gold ring comes to your assembly in fancy clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes comes in also,
 3 And you have respect to him that wears the fancy clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,"
 4 Aren't you then partial in yourselves, and have become judges with evil thoughts?
 5 Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn't God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
 6 But you have despised the poor.  Don't rich men oppress you, and bring you before the judgment seats?
 7 Don't they blaspheme that worthy name by which you're called?
 8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor like yourself," you do well,
 9 But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as sinners.
 10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
 11 For he that said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not kill."  Now if you don't commit adultery, yet if you kill, you've become a breaker of the law.
 12 Speak in such a way, and do, as those who'll be judged by the law of liberty.
 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy, and mercy rejoices against judgment.
 14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works?  Can faith save him?
 15 If a brother or sister needs clothes, and lacks daily food,
 16 And one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you don't give them the things that are needed for the body, what good is that?
 17 Even so faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead, being alone.
 18 Yes, a man could say, "You have faith, and I have works, show me your faith without your works, and I'll show you my faith by my works."
 19 You believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils also believe, and tremble.
 20 But don't you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
 21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar?
 22 Do you see how faith worked with his deeds, and by works faith was made perfect?
 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God."
 24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
 25 Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
 26 For like the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

___James chapter 3
 1 My brothers, don't be many masters, knowing that we'll receive the greater condemnation.
 2 For in many things we offend all.  If any man doesn't offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
 3 See, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so they'll obey us, and we turn around their whole bodies.
 4 Look also at the ships, which though they're so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they're turned around by a very small helm, wherever the captain wants.
 5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things.  See how great a matter a little fire kindles!
 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, so is the tongue among our members that it makes dirty the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell.
 7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of snakes, and of things in the sea, gets tamed, and has been tamed by mankind,
 8 But no man can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
 9 With it we bless God, the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.
 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.  My brothers, these things ought not to be.
 11 Does a fountain send out at the same place sweet water and bitter?
 12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, produce olive berries?  Or a vine, figs?  So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.
 13 Who is a wise man, possessing knowledge among you?  Let him show out of a good lifestyle his works with meekness of wisdom.
 14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't glory, and don't lie against the truth.
 15 This wisdom doesn't descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be reasoned with, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those who make peace.

___James chapter 4
 1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from?  Don't they come from your lusts that war in your members?
 2 You lust, and don't have, you kill, and desire to have, and can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you don't ask.
 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask wrongly, so you can consume it on your lusts.
 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God?  Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God.
 5 Do you think that the scripture says for nothing, "The spirit that lives in us lusts to envy?"
 6 But he gives more grace.  So he says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.  Resist the devil, and he'll run away from you.
 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.  Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.
 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and cry, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he'll lift you up.
 11 Don't speak evil about each other, brothers.  He that speaks evil about his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil about the law, and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge.
 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy, who are you that judges someone else?
 13 Go on now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we'll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit,"
 14 Actually, you don't know what will happen tomorrow.  For what is your life?  It is a puff of steam, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
 15 For you ought to say, "Lord willing, we'll live, and do this, or that."
 16 But now you rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil.
 17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

___James chapter 5
 1 Go on now, you rich men, cry and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.
 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your clothes are moth eaten.
 3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire.  You've heaped treasure together for the last days.
 4 See, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you've kept back by fraud, shouts, and the shouts of those who've reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.
 5 You've lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you've nourished your hearts, like in a day of slaughter.
 6 You've condemned and killed the just, and he doesn't resist you.
 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord.  See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.
 8 You also be patient.  Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is getting near.
 9 Don't grudge against each other, brothers, so you won't be condemned, see, the judge stands at the door.
 10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who've spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
 11 See, we count them happy that endure.  You've heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
 12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you don't fall into condemnation.
 13 Is anyone among you afflicted?  Let him pray.  Is anyone merry?  Let him sing psalms.
 14 Is anyone sick among you?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he'll be forgiven.
 16 Confess your faults to each other, and pray for each other so you'll be healed.  The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is does a lot of good.
 17 Elijah was a man subject to the same kind of passions that we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.
 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
 19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and someone converts him,
 20 Let him know, that he that converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.