The Fifth Column

During the Second World War, there excisted individuals who betrayed their country by becoming spies for the Occupying Japanese Imperial Army in the Philippines. These traitors were referred to as the "Quinta Columna" or the "Fifth Column" by the Guerilla Forces. The idea was for them to wear a mask made out of a paper bag with two holes enough for their eyes to view and identify those whom the Japanese Army suspect to be part of the Guerilla Movement. Some of them used to be members of the Movement but had departed, blinded by their own delusions of gradeur and have grown impatient of waiting for the promise of salvation from the Allied Forces. The information they shared with the Japanese Army dealt a big blow to the Guerilla Forces and cost the lives of many even the innocent ones. But in the end the Philippines was liberated, most of those who were with the Fifth Column suffered long years of imprisonment and some who were captured by the guerillas suffered the very unfortunate fate of being killed.

Apostasy- the word translated "falling away" is the Greek word apostasia. The root word means to depart.

2Thessalonians 2:3