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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

THE MURDER OF GENERAL PATTON

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General Patton, after whom the Patton tank is named, was the most outstanding, the most daring, the most original and the most honest allied General during World War II. On account of his fiery integrity, brilliance, and exceptional bravery, lesser generals like Eisenhower, even though they were senior to him, feared General Patton. His successes had made him a legend during his lifetime. It is now known that General Patton was murdered on the express orders of the chief of OSS - Office of Strategic Services, the precursor of CIA - General "Wild Bill" Donovan. The British tutored and controlled the OSS through him and Britain was controlled by the "High Cabal", a term used by Churchill during World War II. The "High Cabal" is also known as the One World cabal or the Elite in literature. The "High Cabal" of Churchill was controlled by the Rothschilds because they controlled Britain's money line. Donovan was thus an agent of the Elite, the One World cabal of international bankers, and their allies.

The murder of General Patton was made to look like an accident. General Patton's death, attributed to an "embolism", was announced on December 21, 1945. He had met the "accident" on December 9, 1945. It is said that he had suffered a broken neck in the accident but was reported to have recovered and was to be flown to the US on December 22, 1945. The murder of General Patton, which touches the hearts of even non Americans 65 years later, also establishes that the Elite and its stooges have absolutely no loyalty to any country and that their ruthlessness, planning, cohesion, penetration, anonymity and cunning makes them the most dangerous and persistent foe of humanity. Betrayal and treachery is not unique to developing societies - US history is replete with the most sordid and supremely concealed betrayals that are never revealed or taught in highly controlled US academic institutions. "Democratic" USA was always an insidiously and increasingly controlled state - it is now, for all practical purposes, a totalitarian state and the fig leaf is gone. It is most likely that other "Wild Bills" adorn the US military and intelligence leadership of today, as future historians will establish. And then there is a battery of court historians who subtly, and not so subtly, try to plant disinformation in books, newspaper articles and articles on the internet.

That General Patton was killed is now fairly well established. There had always been a suspicion that he was murdered, but a book "Target: Patton: The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton", published in 2008, reveals this with hardly a doubt. Interestingly Wilcox's book was greeted with silence by the US media. The Western Australian newspaper published an article on the book on December 22, 2008 on page 16! On December 25th Bob Patterson wrote for OpEdNews: "Two days after the article appeared, a search of Google-news provided several suggested links to other stories on the same topic, but they were for sources outside (italics added) the United States. Why then isn't this story being reported by the Huffington Post and /or New York Times so that a Google-news search can prove that it isn't up to a blogging columnist in Australia to bring this newsworthy book to the attention of an American website's audience? Could it be that the managing editors of the most influential newspapers have suffered a plague of simultaneous misjudgment or what? Bill O' Rielly will continue to criticize New York Times and the stories it runs, but it seems very unlikely he will plug this column and this website. " So much for the integrity of the mainstream US media, a propaganda organ of the Elite.

The author Robert Wilcox was able to repeatedly interview an OSS agent, a decorated marksman named Douglass Bazata, who admitted to having arranged the "accident". In this accident no one except General Patton was hurt, and once the accident had taken place, Bazata claimed to have shot General Patton with a neck breaking low velocity projectile. [1] Bazata passed away in 1999. According to Bazata the job was finished by the Soviet NKVD (the precursor of KGB) while Patton was in hospital. Whether it was the OSS, or the OSS-NKVD acting jointly that completed the murder of Gen. Patton as Wilcox indicates, the fact is, as we point out, both, the US and the Soviet Union, were controlled by the same Elite. It was the Elite that wanted to kill Patton.

Bazata told Wilcox that Donovan had told him that he had clearance from his superiors about the mission. Bazata also told an interviewer for the magazine The Spotlight that Donovan used to get his orders directly from the President and therefore he understood that Patton's murder had the approval of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). "Since Donovan was directly responsible to the President I assumed [FDR] knew and had authorized the action. " He told the interviewer "They thought Patton disobedient, disruptive, and uncontrollable and were going to stop him with or without my help. " That FDR worked for the Elite is something that is known among writers who deal with such matters. Eustace Mullins and Anthony Sutton in particular have revealed devastating facts about FDR's corrupt collusion with the bankers.

In a story of December 20, 2009, a Sunday Telegraph reporter quotes Wilcox as having said that he believed that Bazata was a "sterling guy" and that Bazata "was struggling with himself, all these killings he had done. He confessed to me that he had caused the accident, that he was ordered to do so by Wild Bill Donovan. " That Bazata had inner conflicts is also indicated by his diaries. He writes: "Why am I so bad? None know my inner struggles, the restless nites - not even my wife I am plagued by doubts between the so-called right and so-called wrong I have no confidant save my God. " No wonder in 1979 Bazata stood before an audience of 450 or so ex intelligence agents in a gathering at Hilton Hotel Washington D.C. , to announce that he had been entrusted with the job to kill Patton by OSS Chief Donovan. He was, according to his dairies, and according to Wilcox, angry with Donovan, who, in his view, had betrayed him with false promises. He was angry that he was not even allowed to work for the CIA. On the surface of it, this is very surprising but in view of the fact that he was involved in and aware of a great crime committed at Donovan's behest, he had to be kept at a distance, lest the knowledge be passed on to more workers of the agencies bringing Donovan and his masters in the Elite in criminal limelight. It might have led to patriotic agents initiating a complete unmasking of the intrigue that led to Patton's death. The Elite always strives to conceal because it is guilty of horrific crimes.

In fact it was in 1972 that Bazata had revealed to a British born writer Joy Billington, on condition that she would not publish it, his involvement in the Patton murder. Billington was doing a story on his art - Bazata paradoxically was an excellent artist who had had solo exhibitions with personalities like Princess Grace of Monaco and the Duchess of Windsor. Joy Billington's story on Bazata's artistic work appeared in the Star-News of 17th September 1972. She was later to tell Wilcox that she could hardly believe her ears when Bazata mentioned his involvement in Patton's murder. When, in 1979, Bazata went public on the issue, he actually did so by managing to get Billington at the Hilton Hotel gathering in Washington D.C. He then made her ask him a question about the Patton murder. Bazata's word for word statement made at the Hilton Hotel goes as follows:

"For diverse political reasons, many extremely high-ranking persons hated Patton. I know who killed him for I was the one who was hired to do it. Ten thousand dollars. General William J. 'Wild Bill' Donovan himself, Director of OSS, entrusted me with the mission. I set up the 'accident'. Since he didn't die in the accident, he was kept in isolation in the hospital, where he was killed with a cyanide injection. "

This story was a bombshell that was completely ignored by the mainstream media. Why? The complete silence with which the mainstream media dealt with this bombshell of a story is very intriguing, to say the least. [2] In an obituary published a month or so after his death in 1999, the New York Times mentioned that Bazata was the son of a Catholic clergyman. This is confirmed by Wilcox who also mentions that Bazata's grandfather had emigrated from Czechoslovakia. However at numerous places on the internet it has been stated that Bazata was a Lebanese Jew. Why? The New York Times story failed to mention Bazata's highly newsworthy claim that he was involved in the murder of General Patton. This omission is highly significant since Bazata's claim to fame rests on his penitent confession about Patton's murder. DidNew York Times publish obituaries of all OSS agents and if not why did Bazata deserve that 'honor'? Or, was the Elite carrying on its media tradition of honoring only those who unscrupulously serve its interests?

Wilcox had a series of interviews with Bazata. Further, Bazata, who at one time wanted to write his biography, handed over to him his private and highly confidential diaries that he had maintained - these were about forty notebooks - "ledgers" as Wilcox calls them. When Wilcox cross-checked what Bazata had told him about his own past and what was mentioned in the diaries, with the available archival records he found that Bazata was indeed being truthful. In fact, for his interview with The Spotlight in 1979, Bazata passed the lie detector test. Bazata was indeed an OSS assassin and was a highly decorated officer who had carried out numerous assassinations.

Not relying merely on Bazata's confession and diaries, the author has collected other circumstantial evidence supporting the contention that Patton was indeed assassinated. He also interviewed a counter intelligence agent Stephen J. Skubik who stated that he repeatedly informed Donovan of a threat to Patton's life. In fact Skubik's family has set up a website where a privately published book authored by Skubik can be found. The book is titled: Death : The Murder of General Patton. Skubik's daughter states that her father had told her that "the OSS under Bill Donovan, actively ignored credible threats against Patton's life. My dad used to refer to Bill Donovan as 'that son of a bitch', for his role in Patton's death. " Wilcox has pointed out that instead of being grateful to him for providing valuable information about a threat to Patton's life, Donovan had Skubik jailed. When Patton was murdered Skubik had to flee for his life and stayed underground for five years in USA. Interestingly an article on Wilcox's book in the Daily Telegraph, perhaps the only article on the book in a major newspaper (but still outside the US), merely states that Skubik was sent back to US by Donovan when he informed him of the threat to Patton's life. Donovan did not control Skubik who worked, not for OSS, but for CIC (counter-intelligence corps). But Donovan was extremely angry each time Skubik brought up the threat to Patton's life. This anger is inexplicable unless Donovan felt threatened in some way.

Skubik has given an interesting detail. He writes: "I have spoken to Bert Goldstein, one of Patton's bodyguards during that time. Bert told me that Patton's life was threatened, that he was vulnerable to the ever present danger. Bert states, that had the bodyguards not been removed Patton would not have been murdered. He is convinced that his favorite general was murdered. " So why the body guards were removed when it was known that his life was in danger? When Kennedy was murdered his body guards, the "human shields" were withdrawn at the very moment his car started rolling. [3]
All files pertaining to on the scene investigations have disappeared. Wilcox has pointed out that at least five crucial documents have been removed from the files pertaining to Patton's accident. He remarks that if it were one or two files one could accept that they had been misplaced. He writes: "All such primary, close-to-the-crash documents have vanished. One or two being lost or misplaced is understandable. But five? That's a cover up. They 've been removed - except for quoted bits and pieces that have survived as parts of other documents. "

As if the removal of documents was not enough, the car at display in the Patton museum at Fort Knox, in which Patton was supposed to have met the accident, is not the actual car. This was established by the author Wilcox through the help of a Detroit Cadillac expert. Wilcox states: "After his examination he told me the Cadillac at Fort Knox was not a 1938, but a doctored 1939. Among other incriminating details, he showed me where the car's hard to find vehicle identification number (VIN) had been crudely filed off the metal chassis. Every vehicle has a VIN so it can be traced or verified for potential buyers. The museum wasn't aware of the fraud until we informed them of our findings. So if the museum's car wasn't the Cadillac in which Patton was injured, where then was that car? I believe it disposed of in an effort to destroy evidence. " Why were the documents removed and why has not the actual car been put on display? What is it that the establishment wishes to conceal? It is also interesting to note that according to Wilcox "Patton's driver, who couldn't avoid the crash would later privately tell his son that the truck had been waiting for them on the side of the road as they 'd started up from a railroad track stop. "

It is odd that although the accident took place at a rather isolated place away from populated areas, a large number of apparently military personnel appeared out of nowhere. Wilcox writes in an article dated December 21, 2010: "Although the crash occurred on a quiet no-work Sunday morning, a large crowd of mostly military personnel quickly descended on the scene. These included: a brigadier general accompanied by a major; two sets of military police who, it is written, made official reports; a mysterious "Lt. Valandingham" who appears to have been a clandestine; a lone provost marshal, and various groups of helpers, all military, including a set of medical officers with an ambulance whose officer in charge opted for the lengthier trip to Heidelberg than to nearby Mannheim."

The truck driver Thompson was whisked away to England for four days before being brought back to Germany. Why? The excuse provided is lame - they took him away to prevent him from being attacked by those who loved Patton. But Patton died 12 days after the accident. So the driver was taken away and then brought back well before Patton died! Was he briefed or debriefed in England? Why England? Why not in some safe place in Germany or in some part of Europe? Thompson's wife told Wilcox that he "always felt like a murderer. " Remarkably, Wilcox was able to get his hands on a scrapbook maintained by Thompson. The scrapbook contained clippings and included a clipping of Bazata's 1979 claim that Patton was murdered. Why did Thompson not deny this when he was himself driving the truck that hit Patton's car? A family member, wife of Thompson's stepson, was present when Thompson died in 1994. She said: "It was a short illness. For some reason the doctors could not determine what was wrong with him. He had a lot of pain in his stomach. They were running tests and such. The day he died he suffered terribly. " So Thompson died a painful death after a brief illness the cause of which remained undetermined!

Then there is the mystery of Joe Scruce (written incorrectly, as Wilcox points out, as Spruce). Scruce was driving behind Patton carrying guns for hunting and knew the destination where they were headed - Patton's driver was not familiar with the destination. Just before the accident Scruce moved ahead of Patton's car. He never returned to the scene of the accident and simply disappeared. Why? Scruce's daughter, who was very young when he died, talked to Wilcox. He writes: " because of certain other things that she knew about him, she said she became worried that her father may indeed have been involved in a plot to kill Patton, if only peripherally. " She was so scared that she asked Wilcox not to use her name in the book! Scruce's wife wanted to have a party for his 51st birthday on March 11, 1952. When she told him so, he became deeply perturbed and told her firmly: "No party. I won't live to see it. " So there was no party. Scruce was a very fit person and in his entire service record there was only one day off. He could "run miles without even panting. " He told his wife suddenly that he could not feel anything in his left body and then began hemorrhaging profusely. He bled so much that blood was gushing forth. The ambulance took 45 minutes to come! Wilcox writes (italics added): "Army doctors later told her he had suffered a brain aneurism - a burst blood vessel. Symptoms include a sudden, severe headache, which he did not have, but sometimes paralysis on one side of the body, which he did. Such gushing of blood however, I could notfind in any description of the illness. As in Patton's death there was no autopsy. " So Scruce died a very mysterious death in 1952. Mystery compounds mystery!

Mullins has stated that a few months before he was killed, General Patton's driver of five years, Master Sergeant John L Mims, was transferred. A day before Patton was to return to USA he was "asked by Major General Gay to accompany him on an excursion of a few hours. " What or who prompted General Gay to ask General Patton for a surprising excursion, a hunting trip, just a day before Patton's departure for the US is unknown. Whether these questions were asked of General Gay is also unknown. What was the background and career trajectory of Major General Gay is also something not dealt with by historians. Mullins writes:

"At 11.45 a.m. , in clear weather and a straight stretch of road, the driver of a GMC military truck turned his vehicle directly into the side of the 1938 Cadillac 75 special limousine in which Patton was being driven. Patton was the only person injured."

Mullins also emphasizes:

"Patton was a vigorous sixty years old with enormous reserves of energy, who seldom needed more than a couple of hours sleep at night. Not only did the US Army make no investigation into the 'accident' which had put him into the hospital, but no questions were raised about his 'embolism'. On previous occasions when attempts were made to kill him, no investigations were made, despite the fact that he was one of the most popular and most powerful figures in American history."

In his diary Patton had noted that on one occasion an RAF Spitfire attacked his private plane in an attempt to shoot it down but fortunately crashed after missing. He also mentioned that while his plane was being attacked he saw another four planes hovering overhead. Mullins writes: "The story was later put out that a Polish flyer had been piloting the Spitfire. " Why was no investigation conducted by the US Army into this very serious incident? This is in itself indicative that the powers that be wanted to get rid of Patton. This is a very serious omission that cannot be put down to negligence. And if an inquiry was conducted where is the report? On another occasion a tractor with a huge scythe like object suddenly charged at his vehicle - Patton was saved from being decapitated by "inches". No investigation again!

Patton paid a visit to his family in US during July 1945 after a gap of about three years. Before returning to Europe he told his two daughters that they will never see him again! When they protested he replied: "My luck has run out. I 've used it all up like money in the bank I 've had increasingly narrow escapes. It's too damn bad I wasn't killed before the fighting stopped, but I wasn't. So be it. " Was this a premonition? Was it that he had sensed that the powers that be were after his blood? Was it, as Bazata had told Wilcox, that he had warned Patton? It is difficult to say because Bazata did not reveal the exact or approximate date on which Donovan directed him to get rid of Patton. Because if this was before Patton went to US it meant that it took another four to five months for 'them' to get him. He died in December and he was in US in July. Skubik's sources revealing that Patton was a marked man were all Ukrainian. However Skubik's files on Patton were stolen at some point and he only found out later. Apparently he had not looked at them for a while and when he looked they were gone.

Why was the "fightingest" of all allied Generals, who stayed on the battle ground very close to his troops during combat, instead of staying at a far away and safe distance from them, assassinated? In fact even in his death he chose to stay close to his martyred soldiers. He had willed that he be buried in Europe - he was buried alongside other fallen US soldiers in the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial. In order to understand why Patton was murdered one has to understand the highly suppressed reality that not only is the US and Europe controlled by a supremely rich cabal that has learned the value of secrecy and anonymity, but more astonishingly, the Bolshevik revolution was funded by Wall Street and bankers from within Europe. Trotsky was paid by Rockefellers and issued an American passport on the orders of that great stooge of bankers Woodrow Wilson. Lenin was funded by the bankers, and earlier, Karl Marx was funded by the US bankers as well as the Prussian elite.

Books of historians who were able to dig out this reality are not only suppressed in US, the authors themselves were made to suffer. Men like Anthony Sutton and Eustace Mullins were thrown out of jobs repeatedly on the express instructions of agents of the Elite. Ezra Pound was confined for 13 years in a mental institution when in fact, according to those who visited him regularly, he was in perfect mental condition and, acting as their mentor, suggested to many of them avenues of highly important research. Four people he mentored went on to win the Nobel Prize in literature. His "crime" was that he wanted to expose the big bankers for having manipulated to bring about the two world wars. He also wanted to dig out the truth about the Federal Reserve, a task he then assigned to Eustace Mullins. No wonder Professor Peter Dale Scott talks of "deep" or suppressed history.

The Elite divides mankind and brings about major wars so that it can bring all sides under debt, earn profits, and enhance its control over increasingly large chunks of humanity. The ultimate aim is One World Government, under its control, through wars, economic crises and panics, as enunciated by Mayer Amschel Rothschild in a meeting of the twelve richest men in Prussia as far back as 1773. The Bolsheviks were funded by the bankers and at one point, when the Bolsheviks had spent the money given to them, President Wilson gave them 20 million US dollars from a special fund at his disposal, as established from Congressional records. The Elite wanted to build the Soviet Union, whose leadership it controlled, as a great power, incredible as it might seem. It earned profits by doing business with the Soviet Union. At the same time it wanted to deceive mankind by creating a managed "threat" of Communism against Democracy - today the managed conflict is the "Terrorism" versus "Civilization" ploy. General Patton knew that the allied forces could take Berlin and Prague if their leadership wanted to. But the allied leadership did not so desire and in doing so allowed Communist Soviet Union to emerge as one of the two superpowers.

It was this reluctance on the part of the leadership to really fight communism at a time when the communist state could be fought, and his deep knowledge of the ground realities that first led him to suspect that the leadership was permitting communist Russia to become a great power as revealed in his diaries and letters to his wife. In fact, when, during a Press Conference on May 18, 1945 he was asked as to why Prague was not taken by US forces, General Patton replied: "We were ordered not to. " Eustace Mullins has put it in the following words: "Eisenhower's refusal to allow Patton to take Prague and Berlin, holding him back while the Russians occupied these critical capitals, remains one of the greatest performances of treason since Benedict Arnold, like Eisenhower, sold out to the British. " Patton foresaw the communist enslavement of Eastern Europe. To quote Wilcox:" Patton saw this coming and wanted to head it off by going to Berlin, as he had been briefed was the Allied plan, and capturing it before the Russians did. But he was stopped by Eisenhower for reasons that are still controversial today. " Eisenhower could not be acting on his own but at the dictates of superior authorities. No wonder the docile Eisenhower, who was junior to Patton, who was by far a better general than him, had been elevated earlier above Patton and went on to become the President of the United States. His road to Presidency was paved by the Elite by murdering the exceptionally popular, loved and forthright Patton.

In his diaries Bazata has mentioned that the Allied authorities made special efforts to retard the advance of Patton's armies. Bazata told The Spotlight that the top brass tried to stop Patton "militarily". In his diaries he notes that Patton's truckers were encouraged to sell off "gasoline, clothing and food" on the black market, to deliberately send trucks with black marketers as drivers, etc. He notes in his diaries that the British wanted to prolong the war - he did not know that it was not just the British. He writes that he first noticed this when Donovan asked him to "stop" Patton and when, to quote Wilcox, the "British refused to take the surrender of large number of Germans he captured during the war. " Historians have noted, as Wilcox points out, that Patton was militarily stopped when Eisenhower allocated scarce gas to Montgomery instead of Patton. However Mullins has stated this more emphatically. He writes:

As a result of Patton's bold advances in France, Field Marshal Montgomery persuaded Eisenhower to issue one of the most amazing military orders in history. All Allied Armies must advance exactly abreast so that no one (meaning Patton) would receive "undue credit".The effort to retard Patton was made because, as the "deep" historians have already uncovered in a different manner, the powers that be i.e. the Elite, wanted to prolong the war, not merely to earn more profits from defense sales and to add more to the debts of fighting nations, but also to allow for the emergence of the Soviet Union, as a major global power. That would lay the basis of future conflict and a repetition of the same cycle of war through communism versus democracy conflict.

One of the most important aspects of Wilcox's work is the deep link between Donovan, the Soviet NKVD, and his British promoters. In fact many reputable writers even go as far as saying that Donovan was a British agent. Bazata also believed so. In fact it was the British envoy to US Sir William Stephenson, himself an intelligence operative carrying the codename Intrepid, who worked towards convincing the US President, in an intricate and involved manner, of the need of setting up an intelligence organization, which was then named OSS. He maneuvered to get Donovan appointed as Chief of OSS and triumphantly reported to Stewart Menzies, the British intelligence chief: "You can imagine how relieved I am after three months of battle and jockeying for position that our man [Donovan] is in a position of such importance to our efforts. " Anyone, and there are not too many, who is aware that the Elite controls UK and US agencies, that it brought about the two World Wars, that it brought about the Bolshevik Revolution and controlled the Bolshevik leadership, that it funded Hitler, will easily understand that all these agencies and Heads of State work for the Elite. The collaboration between OSS and NKVD during WWII, over and above the heads of important US military leaders therefore becomes unsurprising. Through its agents on all sides, the Elite pulls the strings as part of a larger design.

Finnish freedom fighters had captured Soviet codebooks and these were available for sale. Donovan was advised by FDR not to buy the Soviet codebooks, and decryption documents - about 1500 documents in all (why?). Yet Donovan did so (why?) and then handed those codebooks to the NKVD (why?). He did not consult with the US military leaders (why?) who were very angry. According to archival records dug out by Wilcox, the Joint Chiefs wrote to Donovan on August 18, 1945 (italics added): "The action of the Office of Strategic Service which led to the Russians being informed of Hoettl network was not coordinated with the War and Navy Departments and has not been confirmed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff as required. " Why did Donovan breach established policy or rules or SOPs involving the highest level of US military leadership?

It was against this background that General Patton came into contact with Germans and displaced Jews, and realized, as he put it in a letter to his wife: "The Germans are the only decent people left in Europe. " It gradually became clear to him that the politicians (actually the Elite, but he was not fully aware of this) had used the US army for the wrong end - they had destroyed Europe and allowed communism to emerge. He did not know that this was by design, but he did conclude that that was the end result of the official policies and he was very vocal in his opposition. His opinions about the Jews he dealt with were not very flattering as his diaries reveal. At the same time, his diaries, and his letters to his wife also reveal, that he was disgusted with the highly preferential treatment that was being accorded, under orders of Washington, to displaced Jews. On August 29, 1945 he noted in his diary: "Today we received a letter to give the Jews special accommodations. If for Jews why not Catholics, Mormons, etc."

Patton had apparently written to Secretary of War Stimson "on the question of pro-Jewish influence in the Military Government of Germany" as noted in his diary of August 31, 1945. He probably did not know that Stimson was a member of the secret society named Skull and Bones and was therefore an agent of the Elite, an Elite with a Jewish component which is richer than the Gentile component, an Elite which has secret societies and organizations working for it, an Elite that stays faceless and anonymous. Thus the Elite had direct and almost complete knowledge of his views. In fact Kissinger, a German born Jew, who was only in his twenties at that time, fought to wrest control of Germany from Patton. And the war criminal Kissinger, as everyone aware of such matters now knows, is a great stooge of the Elite, the deeply concealed cabal of international bankers like Rothschilds, Warburgs, Schiffs, Morgans, Rockefellers, etc. The so called Eastern US establishment meshes with all these through the Yale secret society Skull and Bones, as well as the British Group established at Oxford during the times of Sir Cecil Rhodes - all part of the One World cabal or the Elite. The other secret groups in US and Europe, the Freemasons, the Illuminati, etc. are also interlaced in this web to form this well knit, deeply embedded, anonymous and ominous cabal. The Elite-dictated Washington policy was to divide Germany geographically, destroy it economically, to expel German population from their homes and to starve them. This was the so called Morgenthau Plan. Simultaneously the Elite wanted to create Soviet Union as a power equal to that of the US.

Patton, though he never disobeyed orders, had an independent opinion about how to deal with Germans. While the Washington policy towards the Germans was dictated by the secret societies cum super-rich-Jew dominated Elite, Patton was an honest and forthright American and therefore had an approach based on fair play, justice and humane principles. He was reluctant to evict German families in order to accommodate displaced Jews in their homes. Only after repeated promptings from Eisenhower did he agree to evict German families from their homes to accommodate the Jewish displaced persons. He was also critical of the orders to blow up German factories. In his diary he notes:

"I doubted the expediency of blowing up factories, because the ends for which the factories are being blown up - that is preventing Germany from preparing for war - can be equally well attained through the destruction of their machinery, while the buildings can be used to house thousands of homeless persons."

Patton also wrote in his diaries: "Actually the Germans are the only decent people left in Europe. It's a choice between them and the Russians. I prefer the Germans. " Two days later (September 2, 1945) he noted: "What we are doing is to destroy the only semi-modern state in Europe, so that Russia can swallow the whole. " He probably did not know that the Elite had planned to make Russia a superpower opposed to the US and control both, through the antagonism they planned to maintain between the two powers. He was probably not aware that, as writers like Mullins and Sutton were to dig out later, that the vast majority of concentration camps were controlled by Jewish administrators who were responsible for the deaths of around sixty to seventy million Christians in these camps between 1917-1967, that the Bolshevik revolutionaries were funded and controlled by the Elite, and that their sole aim was to usurp power, keep the aristocracy intact while destroying the middle class as a political factor. The concentration camps were full of working people. The destruction of the middle class is currently being pursued by the banking cabal in the US, as pointed out forcefully by Congressman Bernie Sanders of Vermont on December 2, 1910 in a speech before a stunned house, a house full of stooges and agents of the Elite masquerading as "representatives" of the people of the US.

Patton however was on the opposite track as far as his mindset was concerned. He criticized the use of POWs as slave labor - slave labor is a hallmark of the Elite approach to human kind and such camps are likely to be set up in the coming decades in the US, no matter how far-fetched it might seem at present. So many things have happened in the US in the past 15 years or so, that were unthinkable at one time, from unbridled domestic spying to the awesome powers of FEMA, etc. In fact one of Eustace Mullins pamphlets addressed to fellow Americans carried the title There is a Gulag in your Future. Patton wrote:

We are turning over several hundred thousand prisoners of war to be used as slave labor in France. It is amusing to recall that we fought the Revolution in defense of the rights of man and the Civil War to abolish slavery and have now gone back on both principles.

He was right. He also wrote:

If what we are doing [to the Germans] is 'Liberty' then give me death. I can't see how Americans can sink so low. It is Semitic and I am sure of it.

He was on the right track and the Elite always fears those who stand for the truth in the best American traditions. The Elite has, at least in the last two hundred years or so, used assassination repeatedly to eliminate those who stand in its way. Patton was to become one such martyr.

As the above quotes show, Patton was deeply critical of the Morgenthau plan to destroy Germany. Henry Morgenthau was a ruthless Jew and was the US Secretary of Treasury and a close "friend" of Roosevelts since 1913. Both, Roosevelt and Morgenthau were agents of the Elite. In fact Morgenthau was so loyal to the banking families that he had foreknowledge of the 1929 crash of Black Friday. As Mullins describes it, Morgenthau came to Guaranty Trust and ordered the close down of 60 million dollars worth of securities in Guaranty Trust within three days! When the officers at the Guaranty Trust tried to remonstrate he became furious and shouted at them: "I didn't come here to argue with you. Do as I say!" A few days later the crash occurred. The Morgenthau Plan envisaged partitioning of Germany, internationalization of the rich Ruhr region and the destruction of Germany's factories. His "plan" was the command of the Elite for which he and Roosevelt worked. That Morgenthau was Jewish meant that there was absolute congruence between the desire of the Elite and his own tribal instincts. Patton saw clearly that the Washington policies were aimed at damaging the working relationship of the US army and the Germans. The Americans were ordered not to fraternize with the Germans. Patton wrote to his brother in law:

I think this non-fraternization is very stupid. If we are going to keep American soldiers in a country they have to have some civilians to talk to. Furthermore I think we could do a lot for German civilians by letting our soldiers talk to their young people.

But this was not what the Elite and its stooges in Washington desired.

Joaquin Bochaca wrote in his book Los Crimenes De Los Buenos (published 2001) :

"The abuses committed by the forces of occupation in Germany reached bestial extremes that various people in the Allied command structure opposed it - or tried to Lindbergh mentioned how the American soldiers burned the leftovers of their meals to keep them from being scavenged by the [starving] Germans who hung around the garbage barrels."

Bochaca quotes Colonel Lindbergh, the famous American hero:

"In our homeland the public press publishes articles on how we 'liberated' the oppressed peoples. Here, our soldiers use the word 'liberate' to describe how they get their hands on the loot. Everything they grab from a German house, everything they take off a German is 'liberated' in the lingo of our troops. Leica cameras are 'liberated', food, works of art, clothes are liberated. A soldier who rapes a German girl is 'liberating' her. "

Bochaca further quotes Lindbergh:

"There are German children who gaze at us as we eat our cursed regulations forbid us to give them anything to eat I remember the soldier Barnes, who was arrested for having given a chocolate bar to a tattered little girl. It's hard to look these children in the face. I feel ashamed. Ashamed of myself, my people, as I eat and look at those children. How can we have gotten so inhumane?"

The Elite policy was designed to destroy the innate humanity of the US soldiers and to create a wedge between the US army and the German people. An army devoid of humane sentiment is a mercenary machine. The Washington policies, dictated by the Jew-dominated One World cabal, were demoralizing and degrading the US army. Patton was very sensitive to this. Bochaca writes:

"General Patton, perhaps the most popular of the American generals, immediately opposed the total or partial application of the Morgenthau Plan in his sector of occupation. Soon he had a run-in with another general of higher rank: General Eisenhower. It's well known what extremely violent debates they had about how the civilian population of Germany was to be treated. Patton was sentenced to death by the directors of the scenario. "

Patton's dissent was unacceptable and in view of his great popularity and integrity and his absolute fearlessness, he posed a threat to the plans of the Elite. As the Elite and its agents in Washington became more aware of Patton's clear views, he became a marked man. The Elite controlled media began a campaign against Patton by planting false or highly distorted stories about him. At a press conference on May 8, 1945 Patton was asked whether he intended to treat captured SS troops differently he replied: "No. SS means no more in Germany than being a Democrat in America - that is not to be quoted (italics added). I mean by that that initially the SS people were special sons of bitches, but as the war progressed they ran out of sons of bitches and then they put anybody in there. Some of the top SS men will be treated as criminals, but there is no reason for trying someone who was drafted into this outfit. " However his off the record remarks were picked up by the Elite controlled press and his statement was distorted so as to damage his prestige.

On September 22, 1945, the forthright and direct Patton response to questions by the Elite owned media reporters about his attitude towards Germans, was twisted by the Jewish controlled media. A reporter asked the following, presumably inspired or prompted question: "After all General, didn't most Nazis join their party in about the same way that Americans became Republicans and Democrats?" Patton responded "Yes, that's about it. " The Jewish New York Times headlined Patton as having said: "The Nazi thing is just like a Democratic-Republican fight. " The content of the headline was then taken up by the national press. The Jewish leaders like Morgenthau, Chief Justice Felix Frankfurter, Bernard Baruch who financed the great Elite stooges Wilson and FDR, all of them, and others wanted Patton's head. The whole furor appears managed to the trained eye. General Patton had noted in his diary:

"There is a very apparent Semitic influence in the press. They are trying to do two things: first, implement communism, and second, see that all business of German ancestry and non-Jewish antecedents are thrown out of their jobs. They have utterly lost the Anglo-Saxon conception of justice and feel that a man can be kicked out because somebody else says he is a Nazi. They were evidently quite shocked when I told them when I told them I would kick nobody out without the successful proof of guilt before a court of law. "

So Patton had realized that the "Semitic" influence was in the direction of building communism and destroying Germany economically, the only European nation with the qualities required to fight off communism. If one substitutes the word "Elite" for "Semitic" one may notice that he was as close to the truth as was possible in the world of those days and that was dangerous.

Earlier, on September 14, 1945, he had noted:

"I am frankly opposed to this war criminal stuff. It is not cricket and is Semitic. I am also opposed to sending POW's to work as slaves in foreign lands, where many will be starved to death. "

To quote Mullins: "As a result of Patton's opposition to the Kissingers, who believed they had won the war and should rule Europe, a furious press campaign was launched against him. " This campaign was orchestrated and coordinated at the highest level. According to a Patton biographer Farago the reporters were pawns in the hands of Eisenhower et al. He included General Walter Bedell Smith, whom Patton hated, as among the planners who destroyed Patton. Walter Bedell Smith was appointed Eisenhower's Chief of Staff when Eisenhower became Commander of the European Theater of Operation. Eisenhower requested his appointment on grounds of proven ability to work with the British. Smith was a very close friend of Donovan and, after the war, became US ambassador to Russia. In 1954 Walter Bedell Smith became one of the founders of the Bilderberg Group - a position reserved for the deepest agents of the Elite.

Earlier in the war, when he was posted in Africa, Patton had slapped two soldiers, whom he considered cowards, on different occasions. The incidents took place in Sicilian hospitals. Wilcox writes: "Because one of the soldiers was rumored to be Jewish there were also whispers of anti-Semitism. " Now a couple of years later there was again a campaign against him. In response to the manipulated press campaign the compromised and docile General Eisenhower relieved General Patton of his command of the Third Army. Eisenhower was sleeping with Kay Summersby, seemingly his secretary. However, in reality, she was a British intelligence agent. She had been planted to ensure that instead of British troops, Eisenhower would employ more Americans so that further British loss of life could be avoided. Mullins states that this tactic cost about a 100,000 American lives in battle. Patton was Governor of Germany by virtue of being commander of the Third Army, an army that he had commanded so successfully and brilliantly. He was appointed Commander of the Fifteenth Army. On September 29, 1945 Patton wrote to his wife that he preferred being moved from his position instead of acting as "executioner of the best race in Europe. "

It must be emphasized that Patton was not anti-Semitic or a racist. Wilcox has quoted historian Victor David Hanson:

Patton's bombast supposedly proves that he was anti-Semitic, but a prominent trusted military aide, the intelligence officer Col. Oscar Koch was Jewish and beloved by Patton - as was his official biographer Martin Blumenson. Patton was reportedly racist, but most than other commanders he admired black units ("I don't give a damn who the man is. He can be a nigger or a Jew, but if he has the stuff and does his duty he can have anything I 've got. By God I love him!"), insisted on the presence of some black officers as judges of military tribunals involving black defendants, and spent more time with his African-American aide Sergeant Meeks, than with almost anyone else while in Europe, developing a relation of mutual respect that transcended that of a general and his valet.Many Jews served with him and won his loyalty - as he did theirs.

These things were surely known to his superiors as well as the intelligence community, and therefore the Elite. He was killed because he could have stood in the way of allowing Russia to become a major power and thus could have foiled the design of the Elite to plunge mankind into a new era of confrontation. He would have exposed them too.

Patton represented the true spirit of America, a spirit that the Elite wanted to strangle and degrade, strangulation and degradation that is going on till today, strangulation that has brought the US public to its knees. He was upright and honorable, hated intrigue, stood for justice, was fearless, and wanted to be on the attack against wrongdoing no matter how powerful the wrongdoers were. In so doing he was inviting death. The Elite wants to rule a world comprising of individuals who are afraid of them, will obey their orders, will not think, will not question, will be selfish and will work against fellow humans for the ruling Elite. Integrity and clarity of thought are the greatest foes of the Elite and must be destroyed. Fear and mental confusion are two very important weapons of the Elite. Patton was clear headed because he had integrity and because he never feared death. A speech delivered to American troops before the invasion of Europe Patton revealed his inspiring thought. He said:

"You are not all going to die. Only two percent of you right here today will die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Death, in time, comes to all men. Yes every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he is not he is a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even when he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood. Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and removes all that is base. Americans pride themselves on being He Men and they are He Men. Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are, and probably more so. They are not supermen. "

The Elite was frightened. What if a man of such integrity and honor were to become President of the United States? He had to be pre-empted, like many others before and after him.

In October 1945 Patton wrote to Maj. Gen. James G Harbord (1866 - 1947) back home in US condemning the Morgenthau Plan and announcing his intention of fighting back. Just like his letter to the Skull and Bones member, Secretary for War Stimson, this letter was also sent to the wrong person. A search on Gen. Harbord reveals that he was a Freemason. They are all part of the networks of the New World Order or the One World cabal - Skull and Bones, Freemasons, Illuminati, Jewish and other agents of the banking cabal, etc. In his book Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Freemasonry, Albert Pike (1809 - 1891),[4] a Freemason of the 33rd order, has pointed out that a Freemasonic Lodge is always regarded as "representing some part of the Temple of Solomon". Is the Temple of Solomon not a sacred temple of the Jews? The penetration and control of US and European institutions by the secret society brotherhoods is astonishing. [5]

Patton wrote to Harbord:

I shall resign, not retire, because if I retire I will still have a gag in my mouth I should not start a limited counter attack, which would be contrary to my military theories, but should wait until I can start an all-out offensive.

Of all the people in the world he had, unknowingly, addressed the letter to a Freemason! This was most unfortunate. Patton was very happily married to Beatrice Ayer one of the richest women in US and was therefore secure financially - he did not need a pension. The Elite does not allow anyone to stand in the way of its evil designs. In an article Wilcox states that a number of people in positions of importance where one may get to know things have come to believe that Patton was murdered. Skubik has mentioned that Robert Patton, the General's cousin who served with General Patton, told him that the family of General Patton believes that he was murdered. In fact Patton's wife Beatrice Ayer hired a private detective to look into the death of her husband. Wilcox mentions that a Patton contemporary Lt. General George E. Stratemeyer was convinced that Patton was murdered. He chose to inform the FBI that in case he was himself found dead it would be because he espoused the viewpoint that Patton was murdered.

In a postscript to his book, written October 2010, Wilcox mentions a letter written to him by a former OSS agent Ralph de Toledano. The letter was written in January 2005 but Wilcox did not use the information provided by de ToledanobecauseToledano had not allowed him to use his name. Toledano passed away in 2007. Ralph de Toledano, a very important investigative journalist, a "walking encyclopedia" on 20th century politics, had written of numerous important individuals who had told him that Patton was assassinated by OSS. Among them one may mention the following:
Raymond Murphy, head of State Department security during and after WWII;

John A. Clements who was part of a very secret Marine Corps intelligence operation, told de Toledano that Patton had been murdered by an OSS-Rote Kapelle (Red Orchestra, the chief Soviet operation in Germany) team;

Lt. Igor Guezenko the Soviet code clerk who broke up Soviet atomic espionage, told de Toledano that he had also picked up the Patton case

Richard Nixon, two of whose books were written by Toledano, also told him that OSS was involved in Patton's murder

Louis Nichols, de-facto second in command of FBI Director J Edgar Hoover

The much maligned Senator Joe McCarthy also told de Toledano that his investigators were working on Patton's murder and that he planned hearings on Patton's death. That may well be the main reason he was demolished so thoroughly by the Elite that even today his name is associated with "witch hunts" against communists. The Elite will go to any extent to destroy those who seek to expose it.

There are a few more names but the above list gives us a fair indication of many insiders who were aware that Patton was murdered and that the OSS was involved. Someone from the Mannheim region, where Patton met his accident, wrote to Wilcox after reading his book, that it was widely rumored in the Mannheim region immediately after his death, that Patton had been assassinated. Wilcox mentions that there are others who believe that Patton was murdered and are in a "position to know". He has summed it up very well in a December 2010 article:

Rumors that Patton was assassinated have grown since his death. Although I 've mentioned a few, motives to kill him abound. It seems clear what actually happened to him has been covered up. The disappearance of all reports and investigations from that fateful day, as well as the car in which he was injured, are strong indications of foul play. Add two credible witnesses testifying to a plot to kill Patton, the inconsistencies surrounding the accident itself and his questionable death in hospital, and there are compelling reasons to initiate an official investigation even sixty-five years later.

At least the book should have prompted an official investigation. But the US is in complete control of the One World cabal, stupefied through consent engineering techniques and media manipulation. When the Elite kills, the sources are removed or suppressed and the media also kills the stories that reveal the truth. Wilcox's very well researched book has been met with complete silence in the mainstream US media - no reviews in the major newspapers - nothing whatsoever. That silence in itself speaks volumes of foul play and of the deep and bloody involvement of the Elite.

[1] A secret Assassination Manual of the CIA, reproduced in the book, 63 Documents the Government Doesn't want You to Read (Skyhorse Publishing 2011) by Jesse Ventura and Dick Russell, states: "Absolute reliability is obtained by severing the spinal cord in the cervical region. This can be done with the point of a knife or light blow of an axe or hatchet. "

[2] In his book The Secrets of the Federal Reserve (Bridger House Publishers 1991) Eustace Mullins states: "The media monopoly deals with its opponents in one of two ways; either frontal assault of libel which the average person cannot afford to litigate, or an iron curtain of silence, the standard treatment of any work which exposes its clandestine activities. "

[3] Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=215cs8SrVd0

[4] Albert Pike had written on January 22, 1870 to the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini: "We must create a super rite, which will remain unknown, to which we will call those Masons of high degree of whom we shall select. With regard to our brothers in Masonry, these men must be pledged to the strictest secrecy. Through this supreme rite, we will govern all Freemasonry which will become the one international center, the more powerful because its direction will be unknown. " It has been commented by an anonymous writer in the journal "Michael" Oct-Nov-Dec issue of 2002: "This is why 95% of the men involved in Masonry don't have a clue as to what the objectives of the organization actually are. They are under the delusion that its just a fine community organization doing good works. "

[5] FDR was a Freemason of the 32nd degree and so was his Vice President (1940-1944) Henry Wallace, credited with placing the pyramid and the "all-seeing eye" on the dollar bill. Harry S Truman, FDR's successor was also a Freemason. Henry Wallace is now said to have links with NKVD according to researchers. This is not surprising in view of the fact that Elite was building the Soviet Union and that the White House was under its control. The Elite had, in accordance with their dialectic Hegelian philosophy, brought about controlled conflict between Hitler and the Allied powers and was at the same time laying the foundations of the next controlled conflict viz. Communism versus Democracy. It then used the opportunity of Afghan war to dismantle Soviet Union and end Communism and begin the new controlled conflict of Terrorism versus Civilization!

The Man Who Refused To Lose

By Eustace Mullins

General Douglas MacArthur
He Wanted To Win ... His Government Did Not

Thousands of American boys died on barren Pacific sandpits during World War II, never knowing they had been condemned to die because of the hatred the Communists felt for their commander, General Douglas MacArthur. Let us go back to Washington, D.C., for the birthpangs of this hatred; the time, July 28, 1932. The nation is in the depths of an economic depression brought on by classic gold movements of the international bankers. Some gold bricks had been moved from one section of the Federal Reserve Bank vaults in New York City to another section a few feet away; this seemingly insignificant act brought on a contraction of credit and the puncturing of the Wall Street boom. Eighty-five billion dollars in inflated stock values vanished into the vaults of the bankers, leaving the American Middle Class a robbed and beaten people. Since this middle-class created the jobs, the workers were now without employment and were in an ugly mood. This was the background of the dispatching of a special Communist task force to Washington to take over the Bonus March of the American veterans, provoke a massacre by local police or troops, and begin a conflagration which would quickly sweep the country and deliver us into the waiting hands of the Communists.

It was a simple technique, which had worked marvelously well in Czarist Russia. Some people were idling around in front of a bakery, a few Communists in the crowd threw stones at the Imperial Guard, shots were fired, and a few people were killed. Within weeks, the Imperial Government was no more; and the Czar and his wife and children were locked in a cellar, waiting to be executed by their captors.

There was no reason to suppose that this technique would not work in America, where the Communists were a well-organized, militant group. They had survived the "Palmer Raids" of the nineteen twenties with their revolutionary organization intact; despite the moans of the bleeding hearts that civil liberties had been violated, the Party had been strengthened by the arrests of a few hangers on and would-be Communist sympathizers, who were an embarrassment to the genuinely dedicated conspirators.

A detachment of American troops, neatly dressed and marching in perfect order, came through the streets of Washington, led by Major George Patton and General Douglas MacArthur, then Chief of Staff of the United States Army. The soldiers ignored the taunts and threats of the Communists sprinkled in the crowd. Suddenly a fat man dashed into the well disciplined ranks. "Shoot, damn you, shoot!" he screamed. The soldiers shoved him aside, not even bothering to poke a rifle butt into his protruding stomach. Disappointed, the man shook his fist. "We'll get you for this, MacArthur !" he shouted. The General, erect on his charge, stared straight ahead. He could hardly know that the man's threat would cloud the last two decades of his brilliant career and cost the lives of many thousands of his men.

The man was David Neyhus, who had accompanied the large detachment of Communists from New York. Although the revolutionaries were under the command of a well-known Communist leader, Emmanuel Levin, Neyhus was the Moscow contact, who dictated the strategy of the operation. Levin disappeared from history, but Neyhus, using the name of David Niles, became an influential White House advisor and the principal architect of national policies during the Truman Administration.

The Bonus Marchers were unemployed veterans from World War I, who had been ruined by the Crash of 1929. Some sixty thousand of them had come to Washington for an orderly protest against Congressional reluctance to grant them a bonus for military service. Superintendent of Police Pelham Glass had only six hundred policemen to contain this huge force, but he gave them $733 from his own pocket, raised $2500 more to feed them by staging boxing matches for them, and enlisted the aid of Evelyn Walsh McLean in helping them.

The leader of the marchers, Walter W. Waters, was dedicated to maintaining an orderly protest, but on June 1, 1932, the Communist detachment arrived from New York with instructions to provoke a riot. Waters had his men arrest them; they were court-martialled, sentenced to fifteen lashes each, and their literature was burned. Nevertheless, they hung around, hoping that things would turn their way, as the men grew more disillusioned. The Communists chose John T. Pace, as the leader of their group, hoping to make a better impression than the lisping aliens. Pace testified in 1949 before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, "I led the Communist section of the Bonus March. I was ordered by my Red superiors to provoke riots. I was told to use every trick in the book to bring about bloodshed ... General MacArthur put down a Moscow-directed revolution without bloodshed and that's why the Communists hate him."

One can only shudder to think that a Dwight Eisenhower, had he been in command of the troops in Washington, might have panicked and ordered the men to fire, and provoked a revolution. General MacArthur maintained perfect discipline, and not a shot was fired. Some of the Communists occupied an armory building, in a classic technique of revolution; and when the police tried to evict them, Glassford was attacked and his clothes torn off. The Communists gleefully exhibited his gold badge, which they had ripped from him; it was then that the Commissioners of the District of Columbia asked President Hoover for troops. Hoover conveyed the order to the Secretary of War, Patrick Hurley, who passed on the request to General MacArthur as Chief of Staff. Although it was unheard of for the Chief of Staff of the United States Army to lead a riot patrol, MacArthur was determined that none of the marchers should be hurt, for many of them were men he had commanded in the Rainbow Division in France. He knew that his prestige would be placed on the line; for if a disaster should occur, he would be held personally responsible. Nevertheless, he did not hesitate to risk his career. Leading about one thousand soldiers, he marched them through the crowds of marchers, and on to the Anacostia flats, where the marchers had made their encampment. The camp was methodically torn down and the Bonus March was over.

The Communists, seeing their plans for revolution going up in the smoke of the burning Ana costia camp, went into paroxysms of fury. They immediately unleashed a terrible campaign of vilification against President Hoover, branding him as the "mass murderer" of the Bonus Marchers and a tyrant who had used armed force against peaceful demonstrators. This was the first really vicious propaganda campaign in the history of American politics. Based entirely on lies and personal attacks on Hoover, it swept him out of office and inaugurated as President, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Roosevelt never forgot that it was the Communist support which turned his campaign from a lackluster effort against a wellentrenched incumbent into a national sweep to victory. Forty of the Communist members who had infiltrated the Bonus Marchers were appointed to government posts during Roosevelt's first year in office, while the national policies of Roosevelt's Administration were largely formulated and executed by members of the top secret Harold Ware cell of Communists, which comprised the Underground Cabinet of the Roosevelt White House. One of the Harold Ware cell's first goals was to reduce the size of America's already small Army. The Communists considered the Regular Army as Cossacks, or an Imperial Guard, which was a counter-revolutionary force, and which, of course, had thwarted their plans during the Bonus March.

Soon after Roosevelt's entry into the White House, he summoned General MacArthur to inform him that the Army was to be cut by fifty per cent. MacArthur immediately contested the decision, arguing with Roosevelt while the cripple grew purple with rage in his wheelchair. Finally, Roosevelt agreed to reconsider his decision, and Secretary of War, George Dern, complimented MacArthur, saying, "You have just saved the Army." However, MacArthur states in his memoirs that he was made physically ill by this encounter with the Great Cripple, and that he vomited on the steps of the White House, overcome by nausea and disgust at the thought of his native land being subverted by this man.

In 1941, Roosevelt maneuvered the Pacific Fleet into Pearl Harbor to await the Japanese attack, while MacArthur warned him of the Japanese buildup and was puzzled that he received no answer from the White House. When MacArthur assumed command of the defense of the Philippines, he anticipated little difficulty in halting the Japanese advance. The entire Japanese strategy had been detailed many years before by the brilliant American strategist Homer Lea. Knowing the Japanese plans, MacArthur was ready to thwart them. However, he was never informed of a high-level decision in Washington, soon after Pearl Harbor, that American military power would be concentrated on the defeat of Germany, in order to save Soviet Russia and the Jews from the German armies. General MacArthur was left holding the bag in the Philippines, while Churchill, Marshall and Roosevelt sent America's military aid to Russia. As a result, many thousands of MacArthur's men were doomed to die in the infamous Bataan Death March, after their capture by the Japanese, because their own President had abandoned them to the enemy.

Meanwhile, the Communists, firmly in command of the American press establishment, carried on a furious campaign of hate against MacArthur. Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to leave the Philippines and go to Australia, and the White House immediately leaked to the press that MacArthur was running away ! Reporters printed wild stories that the departing general had planes carrying his grand piano and other possessions. In fact, MacArthur left with nothing but the clothes on his back, and lost most of his personal possessions in the Philippines. It was at this time that the Communist press coined the most cruel epithet of all, "Dugout Doug", implying that MacArthur was a coward, when in fact the General risked his life many times before enemy fire. MacArthur himself was unable to understand the press' vicious hatred of him. He had forgotten the encounter with David Niles and the other Communists in 1932, and in any case he was incapable of understanding such subhuman feelings.

Although MacArthur had by 1930 been considered America's most brilliant military mind, throughout World War Two he was never invited to participate in a single high-level conference ! The war was run strictly by Roosevelt's Communist advisers, principally Lauchlin Currie and Harry Dexter White, a Lithuanian man whose real name was Weiss. It was "White" who thought up the infamous "island hopping" plan of fighting the Pacific War. The Japanese had occupied and fortified a number of Pacific islands between Hawaii and Japan. MacArthur devised a plan for mounting massive strike forces against the Philippines and against Japan herself, forcing an early end to the war. Roosevelt was upset by the plan, foreseeing that such a brilliant victory would make MacArthur a powerful political rival. Weiss immediately devised a counter plan, which delighted Roosevelt. Instead of leaving the little Japanese Maginot Lines to wither on the vine, it would play into the Japanese hands by mounting huge assaults on each little island. The MacArthur Plan was never acknowledged by the White House, and instead, the Pacific forces were committed to a series of operations later called "Feeding the Fishes", whereby many thousands of American boys were shot down in the water while trying to storm almost impregnable Japanese island redoubts. The names of Iwo Jima and Tarawa recall the incredible heroism of American youths who gave their lives attacking these fortresses, but they also recall the incredible infamy of a sinister Lithuanian man whose only purpose was to bleed this country to death and weaken it for a Communist victory at some later date. The island hopping campaign ensured that MacArthur would have no great victory and that the losses in these battles would cause Americans to think he was a poor strategist. Nevertheless, Roosevelt, always a coward, continued to fear MacArthur as a political rival; and in 1944 he wrung from an astounded MacArthur a pledge that he would not be a candidate that year !

Despite his limited resources, MacArthur performed brilliantly throughout World War Two. He was able to make good his prophetic statement, "I shall return", when he left the Philippines at Roosevelt's order. His successful campaign to retake the Philippine Islands is regarded as a classic of military strategy.

Despite the Communist press vilification of MacArthur, he was repeatedly decorated during World War Two for his victories and for his bravery in combat. For instance, he won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his defense of the Philippines, he was awarded the Air Medal for personally leading the attack on Nadzab airstrip on Sept. 9, 1943, and he received the Distinguished Service Medal three times. Of course, the American public, like MacArthur himself, never realized the background of the press attacks on him, which continued unabated throughout the war.

With the conclusion of the war, the Communists feared more than ever the return to America of a victorious MacArthur. Once again "White" conceived the brilliant plan of ordering MacArthur to become Commander of the occupied nation of Japan, effectively removing him from the American political scene. Accepting this order without question, as he always did, MacArthur devoted himself to rebuilding a shattered Japan while his own nation, which solely needed him at home to counter the growing power of the Communists, was denied his services.

Beginning in June, 1949, MacArthur began to submit reports to Washington that the Communists in North Korea were building up forces for an assault on the non-Communist nation of South Korea. All of these warnings were ignored. When the Communists swept through South Korea, MacArthur was asked to stop them, but, as in 1941, was given insufficient forces. Making up for his lack of strength, MacArthur broke the Communist attack by a magnificent stroke, the Inchon landing. Admiral Halsey wrote to him. "Congratulations. Characteristic and magnificent. The Inchon landing is the most masterly and audacious strategic stroke in all history." President Truman wired him, "I know I speak for the entire American people when I send you my warmest congratulations in the victory which has been achieved under your leadership in Korea." A few weeks later, Truman fired him. What had happened ? MacArthur was doing the unforgivable; he was beating the Communists. Truman summoned MacArthur to a conference at Wake Island. Truman later told a number of lies about this meeting, boasting that he had circled for an hour making MacArthur wait for him, and in another version said MacArthur had made him wait by circling above his plane. Others present said they had arrived at the same time. Nothing was discussed at the conference, and MacArthur surmised Truman had summoned him merely to bolster a faltering Congressional campaign at home.

A series of directives now came from Washington forbidding MacArthur from "hot pursuit" of enemy attackers, or from bombing their marshalling yards, or bombing the hydroelectric plants in North Korea. The entire conduct of the war became a dress rehearsal for the Vietnam War, in which American commanders were forbidden to inflict any real damage on the Communist enemy. MacArthur asked to be relieved from command, as he could not fight under these restrictions, but Marshall begged him to stay on. Meanwhile, General Walker complained to MacArthur that his operations were known to the enemy in advance through their sources in Washington. MacArthur began to attack the Communist forces without revealing his plans to Washington. He won a series of stunning victories, whereupon the Communists insisted that MacArthur be removed.

Now David Niles would have his revenge for 1932. It was he who ordered Truman to relieve MacArthur from command. On April 11, 1957, Truman, with deliberate malice, held a press conference in Washington announcing that he was recalling MacArthur and relieving him from command. MacArthur heard the decision on Radio Japan ! MacArthur noted in his Memoirs a significant comment, "Moscow and Peiping rejoiced. The bells were rung and a holiday atmosphere prevailed."

Certainly the Communists had reason to rejoice. The greatest anti-Communist soldier in the world had been fired. Now they were safe. Thus we come to the great final act of this hero's life. A military plane roars in from the Pacific, sighting the California coast. Aboard it is the world's most famous soldier, General Douglas MacArthur, with a trusted staff of aides. The plane continues high over the nation, bound for Washington. MacArthur believes that when he lands, a delegation of loyal Congressman will meet him with a request that he form a Provisional Military Government, and that he must arrest the pitiful Communist traitors who demanded his removal. In Washington, among the subhuman filth which has infested the offices of the nation's capital like some medieval plague of diseased rats, each bearing fearful contamination in its mangy hide, the treasonous garbage cowers in helpless fear, awaiting the inevitable landing of the exterminator. The fat alcoholic, David Niles, the Moscow Communist who had ordered MacArthur's dismissal, is now collapsed in a drunken stupor in his White House room. The members of the Harold Ware cell of Communists, who have directed America's national policies since 1933, have, according to prearranged plans, gone into hiding. Harry Truman impassively awaits the end, playing poker with a few cronies on the second floor of the White House. Described by the poet Ezra Pound in the Cantos as "always loyal to his kind, the underworld", Truman has little fear of arrest; it is part of a criminal career. He began his life as a bagman for the Kansas City brothels; his mentor, Boss Prendergast, has been in prison for years, having been convicted of stealing forty million dollars. However, some of the Communists had not given up. Desperate promises were made -- threats, deals, blackmail. When MacArthur landed, the expected Congressional delegation was not there. Supposing that he had already been named Provisional Governor, MacArthur proceeded to Capitol Hill. He was amazed to find that nothing had been done ! There was no proclamation; his strongest supporters in Congress were strangely evasive. MacArthur, the greatest military strategist, found that he had no strategy for forming a government. After wavering for several hours, he was dissuaded by none other than Senator Robert Taft. Taft boldly declared that America must solve her problems at the ballot box, and that MacArthur could run for President and cure the nation's ills. Had MacArthur known that Taft was echoing the advice of Rabbi Hillel Silver, his mentor, he might have countered with the statement that Washington did not use a ballot box at Trenton or at Valley Forge. But MacArthur had been away from his country for many years. He still did not know what was going on behind the scenes. He supposed that there were only a few principal Communists behind Truman. He had never heard of the Harold Ware cell; he knew nothing of the Communists placed strategically in every major government office.

The moment passed. MacArthur made a stirring address to the Congress, and retreated to New York to await the still expected call to national office. It would never come. Instead, the communists double-crossed Taft, who had been promised the Presidency for diverting MacArthur from the takeover, and instead brought in the servile Eisenhower, who had already proven his willingness to serve his Communist masters, or anyone who was willing to accept his professional acts of self-prostitution. While MacArthur was making his address to Congress, the Communists were already coming out of their hiding-places and resuming their offices in Washington. Nothing had changed. In retrospect, we see that we Americans must now inaugurate a national campaign to honor MacArthur's memory by expelling the Communist rats from their holes. How much blood should we shed to avenge the dead of Iwo Jima and Tarawa, murdered by the Communist plotter Harry Weiss ? We have only to recall that when a MacArthur Memorial Museum was proposed for Washington, the Communists boasted that it would be bombed within a week of its opening. The fearful government officials then moved the MacArthur Museum to Norfolk, where it remains today. Even in death, MacArthur could not win over the Communist traitors. In respect to his memory, and in order to save ourselves, we must unite in a massive national effort to defeat the traitors in our midst. Today it is not MacArthur who is in peril, but each of us, daily assaulted by vicious Communist officials from Washington who seek to strip from us the last of our personal property and our self respect.

England's leading military writer, Lord Alanbrooke, wrote of World War Two, "MacArthur was the greatest general and the best strategist that the war produced. He certainly outshowed Marshall, Eisenhower, and the other Amencan generals, as well as Montgomery. In all of these operations I never felt he had the full support of the American Chiefs of Staff. I am convinced that, as the war can be viewed in better perspective, it will be agreed that the strategic ability shown by MacArthur was in a class of its own."

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

The Stories Jesus Told: The Wheat and the Weeds, Matthew 13:24–43


by P. Amsterdam
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The parable of the wheat and the weeds, which only appears in the Gospel of Matthew, shares some similarities with the parable of the seed growing1 in Mark chapter 4 in terms of vocabulary used and ideas expressed, but it is also significantly different. Such similarities are to be expected in the ministry of an itinerant preacher who shares similar teaching on different occasions, sometimes repeating it word for word and other times varying the wording and the emphasis.2 The thirteenth chapter of Matthew contains eight parables, and in that line-up “the wheat and weeds” directly follows another parable that has to do with sowing seed—“the sower and the seed.”

Let’s take a look at the parable:

Matthew 13:24–30

He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’”

Unlike the farmer in the parable of the sower and the seed, who actually did the sowing himself, the man in this parable was a man of means, a landowner who had servants who did such tasks. In the story, after the good wheat seed was sown, an enemy came in the night and sowed weed seeds in the same field.

In the ancient world, when there were rivalries between farmers, they would sometimes sow harmful seeds in the field of their enemy. Though Roman law prohibited this, it still happened.3 The weeds (tares in some translations) referred to here were likely darnel—a poisonous weed which is related to the wheat family and grows plentifully in Syria and Palestine. In its early stages of growth, darnel resembles wheat; though it’s easy to distinguish between the two later, as darnel produces a smaller ear.4

No one noticed that the man’s enemy had sown the darnel until months later,when the plants came up and bore grain. It was at that time that the weeds appeared, and until then it hadn’t been obvious that the wheat and weeds were growing together.

The master of the house recognizes that his enemy has sowed the weeds, and also knows that it would be futile to pull out the darnel. Any effort to enter the field and pull out the darnel plants at this stage would damage the wheat as well, since their roots would be completely intertwined. Instead, he decides that when the time of harvest comes, the harvesters will do the laborious task of harvesting twice, first gathering the darnel and then the wheat. The darnel will be bound in bundles to be burned, probably as fuel. The wheat will be gathered and put into the barn.

As with the parable of the sower, Jesus didn’t give an explanation of this parable to the crowds, but later He explained it to His disciples.

Verses 36–43

Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field.” He answered, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels. Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age. The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.”

The field is the world, in which the Son of Man, Jesus, sows “the sons of the kingdom.” However, the Devil has sown “the sons of the evil one” in the field as well. The expression “sons of…” in this sort of context is a familiar phrase in Hebrew or Aramaic, meaning “someone who belongs to.”5

Let’s take a look at the differences within the parable between the sons of the kingdom and the sons of the evil one.

The sons of the kingdom were sown by the sower (Jesus), God is described as “their Father,” they are called “righteous,” and they will “shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.” In contrast, the sons of the evil one are “sown by the enemy” (the Devil), called “lawbreakers,” or in other translations, “those who do evil,” and the end result for them is described as being “thrown in a fiery furnace” where there will be “weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Through this parable, Jesus was dealing with a mystery of the kingdom.

How could the kingdom be present when evil was still present? Though the kingdom was present because of Jesus’ ministry, it was different from what was generally expected. The Jewish expectation was that the Messiah would separate the wheat from the chaff in order to establish a pure community. Jewish writings of the day spoke of the expectation that the Messiah would purge Jerusalem of Gentiles, drive out sinners, gather a holy people, and be intolerant of the unrighteous. None of these things were happening in Jesus’ ministry, yet He was proclaiming the kingdom’s presence.6

According to Jesus, the Jewish expectation was incorrect. Good and evil would continue on side by side within the world. Evil would not be purged from humanity until the close of the age, the Day of Judgment. Jesus made it clear that on that day all the causes of sin and all those who sin will be cast out. The Greek word used for causes of sin (stumbling block or offenses in other translations) refers to any person or thing by which one is drawn into sin. So those who do evil, and those things which are the cause of sin, will be cast out. The darnel which grew alongside the wheat will be gathered, bundled, and burned. While wheat and weed grow side by side for a while, the time will come when there is a separation, and the fate of each will be different.

The imagery Jesus uses for the weeds is of them being thrown into a fiery furnace where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. This imagery for hell comes from the Hebrew word Gehenna, which was originally the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where the filth and dead animals of the city were cast out and burned. It was used as a symbol of the wicked and their future destruction.

By contrast, the imagery for the fate of the wheat that is gathered into the barn of the landowner is one of glory. The language reflects Daniel 12:3:

Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

This parable is one of three that focus on the final judgment.7 It tells us that sons of the kingdom and sons of the evil one coexist in this world and that it will remain that way until the Day of Judgment. While the kingdom had come into the world through Jesus’ ministry, it didn’t come in its fullness. Both good and evil cohabit this world, but in the future those who are evil and the causes of evil will be cast out—and at that time, the fullness of God’s kingdom will be present.

We see a similar message given in the parable of the dragnet, which Matthew includes just a few verses later.

Verses 47–50

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind. When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad. So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Jesus was referring to fishing with what today is called a seine net.8 This type of net can be deployed from a boat or used from the shore. It has cork floats along the top and lead weights along the bottom. It can be stretched out between two boats or laid out from one and then pulled to shore by ropes. Everything in its path is caught as it’s pulled in.9

This type of net doesn’t discriminate between fish, so any of the twenty-four known species of fish found in the Sea of Galilee could have been caught.10 Once on the shore, the fish would be sorted. While fishermen in general sort their catch between edible and inedible fish, Jewish fishermen needed to further differentiate according to their dietary laws, which forbade the consumption of certain edible fish.



Deuteronomy 14:9–10

Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat. And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

The good fish, those that were clean, were put into containers, perhaps baskets or crates; while the bad fish, those which were unclean, were thrown away.

The Jewish listeners would have likely thought of judgment, since the imagery of a net, whether for fishing or hunting, is linked within the Old Testament with God’s judgment, as seen in Hosea and elsewhere.11

Hosea 7:12

As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.

While the parable of the wheat and weeds speaks about the righteous shining like the sun, as well as the fate of the lawbreakers, this parable focuses solely on the destiny of the evil or wicked. We again hear of the angels separating the evil and throwing them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. In telling this parable, Jesus was saying there will be a separation process and that judgment will occur. At that specific time, the end of the age, evil will be excluded from God’s kingdom.

I have to admit that I don’t like to think about the judgment that is woven throughout the entire Bible and was often spoken about by Jesus. As C. S. Lewis said:

There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than this, if it lay in my power. But it has the full support of Scripture and, specially, of our Lord’s own words; it has always been held by Christendom; and it has the support of reason.12

In Matthew’s Gospel alone, there are 21 separate instances when Jesus speaks directly about or infers judgment.13 Judgment isn’t a popular topic, and it has wrongly been used as a scare tactic by some within the body of Christ, both past and present. But however much we might not like the concept, it is undeniably a central feature of Jesus’ message, both with regard to Israel and as part of His preaching about the kingdom.14

Future judgment is a reality, and it is precisely the reason Jesus came to earth and sacrificed His life for all of us. Every human being deserves judgment because of our sin, which separates us from God. God doesn’t want that separation, but because He is complete holiness, nothing unholy can be in His presence. However, because of His love for humanity, He made a way for us to be redeemed and pronounced pure—through Jesus’ death on the cross bringing forgiveness of our sins. Due to this, we are counted as righteous; and at the separation at the end of the age, those who have entered a relationship with God through Jesus will not share the same fate as those who haven’t.

This truth does two things for me: First, it makes me so grateful that I had the opportunity of hearing the gospel in a manner which led me to believe in Jesus and enter into a relationship with God. Second, it presses me to share the message with others. I have some friends who are not Christians and whose personalities, mindsets, and experiences are such that a direct challenge to believe would not be well received and might close the door altogether. Theirs is a relational witnessing type of situation. I really want them to receive the Lord, but it’s not going to happen quickly; so I find myself asking the Lord to keep and protect them so that they don’t die before coming to know Him. The thought of judgment looms, and its inevitability motivates me to do what I can to bring them into relationship with God.

The imagery of a fiery furnace and a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth used within both of these parables is just that—imagery. It shouldn’t be taken literally that the afterlife for those who reject the message of the gospel will be one of flames and burning. However, whatever the exact circumstances will be, it will be a separation from God and from those who love God. When we consider all the things that God is—love, beauty, goodness, mercy, holiness, kindness, justice, righteousness, trustworthiness, and so much more—thinking of being in a place where the things that God is are not present because He is not present is harrowing.

People need God. He doesn’t want anyone to perish but rather, as the apostle Peter wrote, desires that all should reach repentance.15 We who have experienced the love and mercy of God have been asked to share the news of God’s love with others, and when we do, we bring them the opportunity to be in company with those who will eternally be in a place that is full of all that God is. May we do our best to share God’s love and message with others.

The Wheat and the Weeds, Matthew 13:24–30, 36–43

24 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field,

25 but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also.

27 And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’

28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’

29 But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them.

30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’”

36 Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field.”

37 He answered, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.

38 The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,

39 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.

40 Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age.

41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers,

42 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.”

Note

Unless otherwise indicated, all scriptures are from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.


1 Mark 4:26–29. See also: The Stories Jesus Told: The Seeds and the Leaven.


2 David Wenham, The Parables of Jesus (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1989), 57.


3 Craig S. Keener, The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary(Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009), 387.


4 R. T. France, The Gospel of Matthew (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007), 526.


5 Wenham, The Parables of Jesus, 59.


6 Klyne Snodgrass, Stories with Intent (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008), 206.


7 The other two are the dragnet (Matthew 13:47–50) and the sheep and the goats (Matthew 25:31–46).


8 Photo by C. Ortiz Rojas, NOAA.


9 Snodgrass, Stories with Intent, 486.


10 Joachim Jeremias, The Parables of Jesus (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1954), 226.


11 See also Psalm 66:10–11; Isaiah 51:20; Lamentations 1:13; Ezekiel 12:13, 17:20.


12 The Problem of Pain (NY: HarperCollins, 2015), 119–20.


13 Matthew 3:10–12; 5:21–26, 29–30; 7:13–14, 19, 23, 24–27; 8:11–12; 10:15, 28, 32–33; 11:20–24; 12:31, 34–37; 13:39–43, 49–50; 16:27; 18:6–9, 34–35; 22:13; 24:51; 25:30, 41–36.


14 Snodgrass, Stories with Intent, 492.


15 2 Peter 3:9.

Of Sowers and Reapers

By Maria Fontaine
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“So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor.”—1 Corinthians 3:7–81

The Lord has called us to be faithful witnesses, in season and out of season, whether people receive the gospel or not. So don’t be discouraged when people reject your witness or don’t seem to receive it or respond to it. We need to keep in mind that some of the great missionaries like Hudson Taylor and Adoniram Judson and scores of others labored for literally years before they led their first soul to the Lord. They went to pagan lands where bringing Jesus to the people was considered anathema. It was an intrusion, where they considered Him a foreign God who was there to bring evil instead of good, disturbing their customs and uprooting their ways of doing things. They made it as difficult as possible on the missionaries.

Those dear missionaries went through all kinds of terrible hardships and persecution and illnesses, and even deaths of their family and loved ones. They went through disappointments; people whom they thought they had led to the Lord turned on them and betrayed them. People spat in their faces and rejected them year after year. And some of them did not lead a single person to Jesus for years. So when you get discouraged that your witness is not bringing the results you had hoped for, just remember those dear men and women of God who labored for years and years before they ever made any progress as far as winning even one soul to the Lord.

Even though you don’t see the results right away, in some way you’re getting results. God has promised that His Word will not return unto Him void; it will accomplish His purpose.2 You will not see some of the results until you get to heaven because you don’t always know the results of the seeds you plant in someone’s heart, how or when they will take root. Perhaps the person you have witnessed to will eventually find the Lord or your witness will have worked in their heart to cause them to be more open and receptive when some other Christian witnesses to them.

We can’t always expect to be the sowers and the reapers, because the Lord said that some sow and some water, but God gives the increase.3 Sometimes we enter into other men’s labors and sometimes others enter into ours. Sometimes we share a witness with people that have been a long time in preparation, people who perhaps for their whole lifetime have been going through things where the Lord was bringing them gradually to the point where they would be willing to yield their lives to Him; and we come along at that point and we invite them to receive Jesus, and they do. We are just brought by the Lord at that time in their life after they have gone through a long period of preparation, and we’re able to enter in to all that has been sown and watered by others.

Sometimes we enter the scene somewhere else in the growing process. We may come in at the beginning, as the sowers, where we plant the initial seed. Or who knows, maybe we’re coming in somewhere in the middle and we’re watering the seed that was planted in their heart by someone else. We’re answering another of their questions, and we’re showing them a little more of Jesus’ love, and that will continue to work in their heart, even if they don’t immediately manifest what it meant to them. Perhaps we may never see them again, but the Word and the love we showed works in their heart and the Lord uses it as one more step in bringing that person to Him. Their eventual salvation will partly be a result of our faithfulness to show them His love and tell them His message.

A person’s salvation is often the result of many ways that the Lord has already worked in their life. We may just be one in a succession of people who have tried to reach them. We have a small part in their salvation, along with others who have also had a part in preparing the person by perhaps being an example of God’s love and concern, by sharing the Word personally, or giving him a tract, or poster, or preaching on a Christian TV program that he has watched. In other cases perhaps that person was never witnessed to by another Christian, but the Lord, in various ways, has been directing them to search for the truth. Of course, it makes us feel especially good when we know someone has given their life to Christ, but it’s our job to be a witness, whether or not they are prepared to receive the Lord or ever will be.

Of course, we rejoice more over someone who gets saved, and it’s quite an occasion for joy when we know they’re safely in God’s kingdom. But whether or not a person makes the decision to receive Jesus and become a child of God, our job is to be a witness in whatever ways He shows us to, and to share His love and reflect His light to the world around us.

It’s the Spirit that does the work in people’s hearts. Our part is to be faithful to do what we can to try to win them to the Lord. We do our part by sharing the witness and being a living example of our faith, and the Holy Spirit will do the rest. It does not matter if you’re a great speaker or preacher; all that matters is that you do your part to share the Good News and be a living example of your faith. If we’re faithful to do our part, we can rest assured that ultimately it’s the Holy Spirit that’s doing the work to win the souls to the Lord.

Originally published May 1992. Adapted and republished November 2015.
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1 NIV.
2 Isaiah 55:11.
3 See 1 Corinthians 3:6.

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