THE DECEIVERS
Update: 6/6/10
In Dave Wilkerson’s message “Iron Chariots ” found on page 12 of his audios on sermonindex.net, he makes an incredible statement that is so true.
He was preaching from the time of the judges when the children of Israel again and again would do evil in the sight of the Lord when their Godly leaders would die.
He said,
“God’s word says the children of God are always bent on backsliding! That is why God has to raise up voices that provoke us to righteousness because there is something in our nature that when we don’t hear the sound of thunder, when the waters are coming at us, we have a tendency to gravitate to our sins and God has to keep the pressure on. Constant reproof keeps the pressure on.” (Judges 4-6 the iron chariots)
It was during one of these times in my life when I heard a sound of thunder from the watchmanscry.com and it was so loud this is what I heard.
Eze 14:21 “
For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?”
I was listening to the watchman speak about the 4 sore judgments of the Lord and how he described the noisome beast as evil men among us.
While in the same time frame of listening to this message I watched (in the sight of the Lord) a movie called The Deceivers with Pierce Brosnan.
My eyes became completely opened ( Luk 17:24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one [part] under heaven, shineth unto the other [part] under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.)
To this principle of how God could use evil men to carry out His judgment upon a disobedient and gainsaying people and also how He uses knowledge and understanding to protect the obedient from this terrible, horrible judgment that has been unleashed in the land.
This movie, The Deceivers, is a biography of a very dangerous cult of criminal castes that killed for Kali, the goddess of Death herself.
They were roving bands of men who were called Thuggee, or thugs for short and they operated in India as early as the 13th century and into the early part of the 19th century.
Even though British India, in process of time, was able to squelch the thuggie of their day the thuggie is alive and well and operating in our day in the lives of the most valuable people on earth. The people with the breath of God.
The Thugs strangled hundreds, thousands, and even millions of Indians during their reign of terror.
They would lure travelers off the road, often feigning friendship, and strangle their victims with a thick handkerchief, known as a rumal and they continued for centuries until its overthrow in British India.
In the heyday of Thuggee activity, travellers were typically part of a travelling group, so the term Thuggee typically referred to killing of a large number of people in a single operation.
“The scourge of the Thugs was one Major General William Henry Sleeman. This man, who set out to the east to earn his fortune in the service of the British Empire, turned out to be the first Briton to uncover the network of adherents to Kali, as well as the nature of her worship and the ways her followers conducted their nefarious crimes.
His undercover career enabled him to penetrate the mysterious ranks of Thugs and equipped him with the knowledge to combat the cult. And combat the Thugs Sleeman certainly did. Over the next few years, he ordered hundreds of them to be hanged or else exiled for life sentences to the hated prison camps on the Andaman Islands.
Read more: http://indian-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_thugs#ixzz0SmhVkjN3
This is what Wikipedia has to say about them and even though it is a long read it holds within the context vital information for all who would be knowledgeable about the times we are living in:
(The enemy cannot work in the light because he is exposed. You can see all he is doing in the light.)
“At the time, most travelers in India would travel in caravan for mutual support and security, since travel meant the crossing of difficult terrain before the coming of metalled roads, the passing among different races, religions and castes, at a period before police forces were formed. In order to attempt the massacre of an entire caravan, the Thugs needed to be numerous and well-coordinated. They also needed to be sufficiently stealthy, at least in the early stages, to begin their slaughter without rousing all at once. This required a high degree of planning, organization – including props and patter – timing, teamwork and discipline. With anything less than complete success a survivor could escape to raise a hue and cry. These horrendous but sophisticated operations lay somewhere between organized crime and paramilitary activity and were far removed from the ordinary criminal in the audacity, magnitude, and ruthlessness of the enterprise.
The modus operandi was to join a caravan and become accepted as bona fide travellers themselves. The Thugs would need to delay any attack until their fellow travellers had dropped the initial wariness of the newcomers and had been lulled into a false sense of security. The Thugs first needed to befriend the travellers and win their trust. Once the travellers had allowed the Thugs to join them and disperse amongst them (a task which might sometimes, depending on the size of the target group, require accompaniment for hundreds of miles), the Thugs would wait for a suitable place and time before killing and robbing them.
There were obviously variations on a theme. When tackling a large group, a Thuggee band might disperse along a route and join a group in stages, concealing their acquaintanceship, such that they could come to outnumber their intended victims by small, non-threatening increments. If the travelers had doubts about any one party, they might confide their worries to another party of the same Thuggee band. The trusted band would thus be the best placed to deal with these members of the caravan at the appropriate time, but might also be able to advise their colleagues to 'back off' or otherwise modify their behavior, to allay suspicion.
The killing place would need to be remote from local observers and suitable to prevent escape (e.g., backed against a river). Thugs tended to develop favored places of execution, called beles. They knew the geography of these places well—better than their victims. They needed to, if they were to anticipate the likely escape routes and hiding-places of the quicker-witted and more determined of the travelers.
The timing might be at night or during a rest-break, when the travelers would be busy with chores and when the background cries and noise would mask any sounds of alarm. A quick and quiet method, which left no stains and required no special weapons, was strangulation. This method is particularly associated with Thuggee and led to the Thugs also being referred to as the Phansigars, or "noose-operators", and simply as "stranglers" by British troops. Usually two or three Thugs would strangle one traveler. The Thugs would then need to dispose of the bodies: they might bury them or might throw them into a nearby well. [The leader of a gang was called the 'jemadar': this is an ordinary Indian word and is now used as the rank of an Army officer (Lieutenant), who would command a similar number of men to a Thuggee gang-leader. An English equivalent term might be 'the Boss' or 'the Guv'nor' (Governor).
As with modern criminal gangs, each member of the group had his own function: the equivalent of the 'hitman,' 'the lookout,' and the 'getaway driver' would be those Thugs tasked with luring travelers with charming words or acting as guardian to prevent escape of victims while the killing took place.
They usually killed their victims in darkness while the thugs made music or noise to escape discovery. If burying bodies close to a well-travelled trade-route, they would need to disguise the 'earthworks' of their graveyard as a camp-site, tamping down the covering mounds and leaving some items of rubbish or remnants of a fire to 'explain' the disturbances and obscure the burials.
One reason given for the Thuggee success in avoiding detection and capture so often and over such long periods of time is a self-discipline and restraint in avoiding groups of travelers on shorter journeys, even if they seemed laden with suitable plunder. Choosing only travelers far from home gave more time until the alarm was raised and the distance made it less likely that colleagues would follow on to investigate the disappearances. Another reason given is the high degree of teamwork and co-ordination both during the infiltration phase and at the moment of attack. This was a sophisticated criminal elite that knew its business well and approached each 'operation' like a military mission.
Reasons for British success included:
•\tthe dissemination of reports regarding Thuggee developments across territorial borders, so that each administrator was made aware of new techniques as soon as they were put in practice, so that travelers could be warned and advised on possible counter-measures………
•\tat a time when, even in Britain, policing was in its infancy, the British set up a dedicated police force, the Thuggee Department, and special tribunals that prevented local influence from affecting criminal proceedings…….. (watchmen)
•\tthe police force applied the new detective methodologies to record the locations of attacks, the time of day or circumstances of the attack, the size of group, the approach to the victims and the behaviors after the attacks. In this way, a single informant, belonging to one gang in one region, might yield details that would be applicable to most, or all, gangs in a region or indeed across all India.
The initiative of suppression was due largely to the efforts of the civil servant William Sleeman, who started an extensive campaign involving profiling and intelligence…….”
End of Wikipedia account:
After watching this movie, combined with the watchman’s thundering message of Gods judgment upon our land I happened to glance over and see on my daughter’s coffee table the latest rag magazine filled with the latest celebrity gossip and Suddenly I saw a THUGGEE in our midst.
I looked at the television and I saw a THUGGEE in our midst. What better way to kill a large number of people at one time? They are everywhere and they are strangling the life out of God’s unsuspecting people. They don’t know they have been infiltrated by Thuggee’s.
The fodder of this world, the t.v. the movies, the celebrity gossip….it is all the devils junk, the strongest drug known to man. Unlike Heroine that only goes into the blood stream This drug goes all the way to the spirit of man and strangles him from the life of God. I saw all of this in a moment of time! It is some deadly stuff and an unsuspecting church gets their “fix” almost everyday.
It is guaranteed to put you to sleep as quickly as one program. Depending on the addiction level and with our bent for sin we need to heed the word of God, “touch not the unclean thing.” Don’t buy into the devils lie that some of it is good. If the caboose is evil then none of it is good. As children of God we are no longer to eat from the tree of good and evil but the tree of Life, Christ, and His Righteousness.
I hope this experience of mine will help to wake others up who are still in a deep deep sleep.