In view of the recent hostilities between Russia and Georgia, I want to here remind you of Mikkel Dahl's insight regarding
the Russian Bear, her whelps, and these momentous end-times in which we live. - JRW
The "Bear Bereaved of Her Whelps"
by Mikkel Dahl • edited by Jon R. Welker
"I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour
them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them." Hosea 13:8
HOW RUSSIA BECAME A BEAR AGAIN
newsblog by Peter Walker
It's like the Cold War never ended. To the UK press, Russia is once again a fierce grizzly bear.
Let me introduce you to a measure used by the west to guage levels of suspicion about Russia; the Bear Index.
The method is simple - the more references, oblique or direct, to Russia as a bear, whether cuddly or fierce, the
greater the mistrust of Moscow. Well, today the Bear Index went off the scale.
...The [Daily Telegraph] is among a series of titles to feature a bear in its main cartoon. This one, disturbingly,
has Vladimir Putin's face and is stomping on Georgia.
The Times's caroon bear also has its claws on the country, while the Independent's version is a growling, caged
beast which savages Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili - but only after George Bush prompts him to goad it with a stick.