How the Annual Hiroshima and Nagasaki Apology Campaign Will Lead to the Tribulation

Nearing Midnight: How the Annual Hiroshima and Nagasaki Apology Campaign Will Lead to the Tribulation - Todd Strandberg - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/ The 6th and 9th of August marked the 75th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Days before reaching the diamond milestone in the annual blameAmerica for using the bomb, I knew the liberal media were going to run headlines like "Were Hiroshima and Nagasaki War Crimes?" or "Should we Apologize?" At the time, the news of the nuclear weapons that demolished Hiroshima, and three days later Nagasaki, was greeted with enthusiasm by an American public that felt vindicatedin its war against an implacable foe that did, after all, start the war. Americans at home were relieved that, with Tokyo's imminent capitulation likely, their sons would not have to face the grim prospect of invading Japan after the heavy toll already takenin the Pacific fighting. Someone of the baby boom generation might think that the left is wasting its time in trying to shift views on the bomb's use. America is always wrong in their view, so weshould expect each year to read negative headlines about Hiroshima and Nagasaki every August. The truth is that the liberal media have had steady progress in rewriting history regarding this matter. The conviction that the U.S. was justified in dropping the bombs has been relentlessly chipped away over the years. A Gallup poll taken in 1945 showed that 85 percent ofAmericans supported the atom-bombings. But over the past 75 years, public opinion has shifted significantly. By 1995, only 57 percent supported the nuclear strikes, a decrease of almost 30 percent. When President Obama visited Hiroshima in 2016, a CBS Newspoll found a virtual split on the issue: 43 percent approved, 44 percent did not. Polls are increasingly siding with Japan because the past sins of that nation are not reported in history books. We now have multi-generations that don't know that the UnitedStates was fighting an implacable military dictatorship whose forces had inflicted a wave of atrocities in their wake, from the rape of Nanking (200,000 victims) to the Bataan Death March to the sacking of Manila (100,000 dead). In contemplating an invasion, American planners had to consider the bloody price paid by U.S. forces as they seized Japanese-held islands across the Pacific. On Okinawaalone, Americans suffered upwards of 50,000 casualties, more than 12,000 fatalities. The Japanese defenders were virtually wiped out, losing 110,000. Worse still, they sacrificed their civilians; at least 60,000 died on Okinawa. On Saipan, almost half thecivilian population of 20,000 committed suicide, indoctrinated to be fearful of falling into American hands. Wherever the Japanese could no longer evacuate their troops, the garrisons fought to the death. A key problem with the fading memory over why we bombed Japan with atomic bombs is the eventual repeating of the same mistakes. Since we are now in the nuclear age, theerrors would be far greater. If Japan decided to become a nuclear power, it has enough plutonium to make 6,000 atomic bombs. The dozens of nuclear reactors around the nation consume uranium in a waythat produces plutonium as a waste product. By reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, Japan has a surplus of 47 metric tons of plutonium that it claims will someday be used for a new type of reactor. The option to produce nuclear weapons is an obvious reason why Japan keeps unintentionally accumulating large amounts of plutonium. Japan even plans to start commercialoperation in 2021 of a domestic reprocessing plant that would produce up to an additional eight metric tons of plutonium annually. The Bible warns that a 200-million-man army will one day rise and unleash their deadly weapons to kill 1/3 of the world's population. The description of this vast army asthe "kings of the East" strongly implies that China and Japan will be working together. Since China's nuclear arsenal is currently at 300 warheads, access to Japan's stock load of plutonium would be the most logical explanation for how it gains the abilityto kill such a large portion of the global population. An alliance between China and Japan would be hard to imagine without years of propaganda to smooth over the bad blood from World War II. "And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose thefour angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousandthousand: and I heard the number of them" (Revelation 9:13-16). "And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared" (Revelation16:12).