air on radio warning that a foreign nuclear missile was headed your way? You turn on the

television, and a special news bulletin is already advising the public to evacuate the city

and get "as far away as possible and as quickly as possibly if you still can". In a hurry,

you gather your family, everyone gets into the car, leaving everything behind. You notice

your neighbors speeding away in their cars at speeds up to 85 mph in a 35 mph zone,

running down everyone and everything that gets in their way, and some of them ramming

past other cars in a mad rush to get ahead of one another. You didn't take notice when

when they began, but off from the direction of downtown you hear air raid sirens blareing

away. As you speed out of your driveway, one of your friends from down the street comes

speeding on his way to leave town in his SUV at 75 mph and rams your mid size car out of

his way. Your family is now injured and your car disabled, and your use to be friend

continues speeding on his way in his damaged SUV, trying to save his own family and self.

And no one else will stop to offer you any help. They just keep speeding by, and would run

you over as an obstacle in their way if you tried to waive sombody down. After a while, you

notice far off in the western sky, the appearance of something re-entering the earth's

atmosphere. You and your family were left behind in what rocket scientists call the

"KILL-ZONE". MOST LIKELY, THAT SCINARIO WILL NEVER HAPPEN. In the event of a

nuclear attack, your government will not panic it's people who they cannot save anyway.

THERE WILL BE NO WARNING. Hence if you are not a spiritually born again christian, you

will not have warning that you better make that last minute repentence. The flash will hit.

You're suddenly in Hell. You don't know what happened. You just know it's to late to accept

Christ as your saviour by then. Meanwhile the thurmosphere explosion is scortching away

the ground where your hometown was only seconds before. If you are a christian, your next

concious thought will be you in Heaven. The enimy who fired that missile will have done

themselves more harm than they'll ever do to you. But if you are NOT a christian, that

enimy will do more harm to you than they'll do to themselves. That is because as long as

they are still in this life, they still have a chance to accept God's free gift of salvation

through the blood of Jesus…That is if their heart isn't to hardened to do so. The nonbeliever

who dies in a nuclear strike (or of anything for that matter) has his chance of being saved

from Hell taken from him for ever. Think of what it would be like to spend eternity in Hell

with the dictator of a country who sent a nuclear strike against your people and killed you.

Here's even a worse irony…After you died in a nuclear attack as a nonbeliever, The dictator

of the country who sent that nuclear strike, by some unlikely miracle, realizes where he

stands spiritually, his heart is not quite to hardened, and accepts Christ and becomes a

christian. On Judgement Day, you will watch that former dictator be welcomed into Heaven

while you are being bound up to be cast into the Lake of Fire. SOUNDS UNFAIR???

ACTUALLY, IT IS FAIR AND JUST. That lost soul in Hell has had every opportunity to turn

to Jesus Christ and have his or her sins forgiven as anyone else had. One's own self

rightousness will not make it into Heaven. Someone depending on self will not make it into

Heaven either. Only the rightousness given by Jesus Christ can get you into Heaven. The

invitation is open to everybody. There is nothing unfair about it. The only thing that will make

the difference between Heaven and Hell is if you were a born again christian before you left

this life. If you go to Hell some day, you will remember every time someone spoke to you

about your spiritual condition…including your memory of this comment.

Maybe Obama always had in mind cuts like this in the past when he mentioned cutting missile defense. — I'm skeptical, however. Obama has talked as if he is gunning for more.

It could easily be a case of Gates doing what he can while he can.

Time will tell…