Disconnected with reality - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com
When we look at the anarchists making fools of themselves in the streets of America, protesting anything and everything against President Donald Trump, the question often arises about how these people actually view the world. Do they see things from an ethical, moral or truth foundation, or are they emotionally driven and disconnected with reality? The answer is obvious to many, but a recent Rasmussen poll sheds light on how these people think. Rasmussen found that 62% of likely US Voters believe Christians living in the Islamic world are treated unfairly because of their religion. Rasmussen reported, "Just 17% disagree, while 21% more are undecided." But the details of the survey reveal something shocking.
Rasmussen reports, "By comparison, 39% feel most Muslims living in the United States are treated unfairly because of their religion. That's up from 31% last year and is the highest finding in surveys to date. A plurality (46%) still believes Muslims are not treated unfairly because of their faith, while 15% more are not sure." But here is the shocker: "Fifty-six percent (56%) of Democrats, however, believe most Muslims in this country are mistreated, a view shared by only 22% of Republicans and 39% of voters not affiliated with either major party. Fewer Democrats (47%) think most Christians are mistreated in the Islamic world, compared to 76% of GOP voters and 64% of unaffiliateds."
Thereligionofpeace.com, a site that is concerned with Islam's political and religious teachings according to its own texts, reports, "since 9/11, an additional 145 Americans have been killed in 50 separate acts of deadly Islamic terror or Islam-related honor killing in the United States. Hundreds of mass murder plots have been thwarted or botched. The real story is not "Islamophobia" but American tolerance - which rightly refuses to punish the individual based on group identity." Indeed, around the world Muslims are the majority perpetrators in killing Christians. Pew Research says that close to 100,000 Christians are killed each year because of their faith. Jihad Watch reports that the Christian population in Iraq is now between 50,000-250,000, down from 1.4 million in 2003-"They were either massacred by jihadist or abducted."
It is not debatable that Islam relentlessly persecutes Christians. That the vast majority of Democrats (56%) don't believe it is an incredible disconnect with reality. It serves as a prime example of how liberals process information and reject what they don't want to believe, even though it is indisputable. This is the same mentality that we are facing as a nation with those who are protesting the crack down on illegal immigration and bringing in people from terrorist-sponsoring Islamic states. Their "truth" is what they believe, not what is actually true. As is said in 2 Timothy 4:4, "And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." This is what those of us with a sound mind are dealing with.
Beautiful friendship with dangers lurking in the background - By Caroline B. Glick - http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0217/glick021017.php3
Netanyahu to meet with Trump at White House. How he should prepare
Less than a week after he was inaugurated into office, President Donald Trump announced that he had repaired the US's fractured ties with Israel. "It got repaired as soon as I took the oath of office," he said.
Not only does Israel now enjoy warm relations with the White House. When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in the US capital next week, he will be greeted by the most supportive political climate Israel has ever seen in Washington.
It is true that dangers to Israel's ties with America lurk in the background. The radical Left is taking control of the Democratic Party.
But the forces now hijacking the party on a whole host of issues have yet to transform their hatred of Israel into the position of most Democratic lawmakers in Congress.
Democrats in both houses of Congress joined with their Republican counterparts in condemning UN Security Council Resolution 2334 that criminalized Israel. A significant number of Democratic lawmakers support Trump's decision to slap new sanctions on Iran.
Similarly, radical Jewish groups have been unsuccessful in rallying the more moderate leftist Jewish leadership to their cause. Case in point is the widespread support Trump's appointment of David Friedman to serve as his ambassador to Israel is receiving from the community.
Whereas J Street and T'ruah are circulating a petition calling for people to oppose his Senate confirmation, sources close to the issue in Washington say that AIPAC supports it.
Given this political climate, Netanyahu must use his meeting with Trump to develop a working alliance to secure Israel's long-term strategic interests both on issues of joint concern and on issues that concern Israel alone.
The first issue on the agenda must be Iran.
Since taking office, Trump has signaled that unlike his predecessors, he is willing to lead a campaign against Iran. Trump has placed Iran on notice that its continued aggression will not go unanswered and he has harshly criticized Obama's nuclear deal with the mullahs.
In the lead-up to his meeting with Trump, Netanyahu has said that he will present the new president with five options for scaling back Tehran's nuclear program. No time can be wasted in addressing this problem.
Iran continues spinning its advanced centrifuges.
The mullahs are still on schedule to field the means to deploy nuclear warheads at will within a decade. Netanyahu's task is to work with Trump to significantly set back Iran's nuclear program as quickly as possible.
Then there is Syria. And Russia.
On Sunday, Trump restated his desire to develop ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Netanyahu must present Trump with a viable plan to reconstitute US-Russian ties in exchange for Russian abandonment of its alliance with Tehran and its cooperation with Iran and Hezbollah in Syria.
Here, too, time is of the essence.
According to news reports this week, President Bashar Assad is redeploying his forces to the Syrian border with Israel. Almost since the outset of the war in Syria six years ago, Assad's forces have been under Iranian and Hezbollah control. If Syrian forces deploy to the border, then Iran and Hezbollah will control the border.
Israel cannot permit such a development. It's not just that such a deployment greatly expands the risk of war. As long as Russia is acting in strategic alliance with Iran and Hezbollah in Syria, the deployment of Iranian-controlled forces to the border raises the real possibility that Israel will find itself at war with Russia in Syria.
Then there are the Sunnis. For the past six years, Netanyahu successfully withstood Obama's pressure by developing an informal alliance with Sunni regimes that share its opposition to Iran and to the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to sources aware of the Trump administration's strategic plans, the administration wishes to integrate Israel more strongly into Washington's alliance structure with Sunni regimes. Israel, of course, has good reason to support this plan, particularly if it involves extending the US military's Central Command to include Israel.
There are, however, significant limitations on the potential of Israel's ties to Sunni regimes. First, there is the fact that all of these regimes are threatened by Islamist forces operating in their territory and on their borders.
As Israel Air Force commander Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel warned this week, Israel is concerned that in the event any of these regimes is overthrown, the advanced US weapons it fields will fall under the control of Islamist forces.
Then there is the fact that in exchange for taking their relations with Israel out of the proverbial closet, the Arabs will demand that Israel make concessions to the PLO.
This then brings us to the only subject the media is discussing in relation to Netanyahu's upcoming meeting with Trump: Will Trump push Israel to make concessions to the PLO or won't he? The short answer is that it doesn't appear that Trump has the slightest intention of doing so.
Over the past week, the administration has made three statements about the Palestinians.
First, of course, was the White House's statement about the so-called Israeli settlements that came out last Thursday.
Although nearly all media reports on the statement claimed it aligned Trump with his predecessors in opposition to Israel's civilian presence in Judea and Samaria, the fact is that the statement was the most supportive statement any US administration has ever made about those communities.
Obama, of course rejected Israel's right to any civilian presence beyond the 1949 armistice lines, including in Jerusalem. In his final weeks in office, Obama joined the international mob in falsely castigating Israeli communities in these areas as illegal.
George W. Bush for his part, made a distinction between the so-called settlement blocs and the more isolated Israeli villages in Judea and Samaria. He gave grudging and limited support for Israel's right to respect the property rights of Jews in the former. He rejected Jewish property rights in the latter.
Trump repudiated both of these positions.
In its statement on Thursday, the administration made no distinction between Jewish property rights in any of the areas. Moreover, the statement did not even reject the construction of new Israeli communities.
According to the text of the statement, "the construction of new settlements or the expansion of existing settlements beyond their current borders may not be helpful in achieving" the goal of peace.
But, then again, they may be helpful. And then again, they may have no impact whatsoever on the chance of achieving peace.
Not only did the administration's statement not reject Israel's right to build new communities, it rejected completely the position of Trump's predecessors that Israeli communities are an obstacle to peace.
In the administration's words, "We don't believe the existence of settlements is an impediment to peace."
After renouncing the positions of its predecessors on Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, the administration then refused to say whether its vision for peace includes a Palestinian state.
In line with the Republican Party's platform that makes no mention of support for Palestinian statehood, the Trump administration continues to question the rationale for supporting a policy that has failed for the past 95 years.
Finally, the administration said it had no comment on the regulations law this week regarding Jewish construction rights in Judea and Samaria.
All White House spokesman Sean Spicer would say was that it would be discussed in Trump's meeting with Netanyahu.
This brings us back to that meeting, and how Netanyahu should broach the Palestinian issue.
Both from statements by administration sources since the election and from the administration's refusal to speak with Palestinian Authority officials since Trump's electoral victory, Trump and his top advisers have made clear that they see no upside to US support for the PLO.
They do not want to support the PLO and they do not want to be dragged into fruitless discussions between Israel and the PLO. For the past 24 years, US mediation of those discussions has weakened America's position in the region, has weakened Israel and has empowered the PLO and anti-American forces worldwide.
According to sources with knowledge of the administration's position, Trump views the Israeli- Palestinian conflict as an internal Israeli issue.
He expects Israel to deal with it and do so in a way that stabilizes the region and keeps the Palestinians out of the headlines, to the extent possible.
In this vein, sources with knowledge of administration considerations claim that last Thursday's White House statement on Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria was in part the result of exasperation with Israel's inability to keep quiet on the issue. Had Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman not announced that they were issuing permits for thousands of building starts in Judea and Samaria, the White House wouldn't have felt compelled to issue a statement on the matter.
The administration's desire to disengage from the PLO is well aligned with Israel's strategic interests. No good has ever come to Israel from US support for the PLO. Moreover, Israel has achieved its greatest strategic successes in relation to determining its borders when it has kept its moves as low key as possible.
Israel confined to occupied territories, doesn't dare act against neighbors - http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-News/Iran-Israel-confined-to-occupied-territories-doesnt-dare-act-against-its-neighbors-480951
Following Trump's threats, Iranian defense minister touts his country's deterrence power against the US and Israel.
Israel and the US are the greatest threat to the Middle East, but Iran has the power to deter them, Iranian Defense Minister Brig.-Gen. Hossein Dehqan said on Wednesday.
Dehqan's comments came amid heated rhetoric between US President Donald Trump and the leadership of Iran, which last week carried out a ballistic missile test that the US administration saw as a provocation.
After Trump said last week that Iran had been put "on notice," Dehqan was quoted by Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency as replying, "We don't consider the regional countries as a threat, and the main threats are the US and the Zionist regime and we are preparing ourselves in conjunction with these threats. Of course, today we are enjoying a (high) level of deterrence."
Dehqan suggested that Israel is too busy with its conflict with the Palestinians to serve as a realistic threat to Iran.
"Israel today is confined to the occupied territories and doesn't dare to act against its neighbors," Fars quoted him as saying.
"The existence of this regime in the region is a destabilizing factor, and any individual with human senses would reject Israel's savage behavior," Iran's Tasnim News Agency quoted Dehqan as saying.
Dehqan accused Israel, along with the US and the Gulf states of backing terrorist groups in the region.
On Tuesday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed Trump's saber-rattling on Iran's missile tests, calling on Iranians to take part in demonstrations on Friday, the anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, to show they were not frightened of American "threats."
"We are thankful to (Trump) for making our life easy as he showed the real face of America," Khamenei told a meeting of military commanders in Tehran, according to his website.
Trump responded to a Jan. 29 Iranian missile test by saying "Iran is playing with fire" and imposed fresh sanctions on individuals and entities, some of them linked to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
The White House said the missile test was not a direct breach of Iran's 2015 nuclear pact with six world powers, but that it "violates the spirit of that."
When asked about Khamenei's comments on Tuesday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Iran must recognize that the United States is under new leadership.
"This president is not going to sit by and let Iran flout its violations or apparent violations to the joint agreement," Spicer said at a briefing. "I think Iran is kidding itself if they don't realize there's a new president in town."
Looking Ahead Across the Sea - Clouds on the Horizon - by Sean Osborne - http://www.raptureready.com/2017/01/28/looking-ahead-across-the-sea-clouds-on-the-horizon/
28 January 2017: The election and inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the President of the United States of America appears to have thrown, pardon the pun, a gold-plated monkey wrench into the whole gamut of many esteemed eschatological narrators or interpretations going back several decades of recent memory.
The most glaring of these appears to be the eschatological narrative which held that because United States of America is not specifically mentioned in any of the texts of Bible prophecy that its future would not be one of a globally dominant political, economic and military superpower -that its reduction would be to a level of near-certain irrelevance on the world stage. Perhaps these were man-made narrative interpretations instead of the binding inspired word of the Holy Spirit in interpreting Bible prophecy?
I tend to believe so and here's why. The Word of God is a literal, living thing; the ancient texts are alive; always have been alive and always will be alive through the power of the Holy Spirit. As we all know, the Lord's words will never pass away, and therefore they live in powerful resonance today as surely as the moment He spoke them. I don't know about anyone else, but when I read the Bible I hear the voice of God speaking. I pray you do as well.
To continue, there is the fact that the Eschatology Today blog has expressed a strongly dissenting view with this particular "America is done" narrative from the get-go as all conscientious readers here are very well aware, even in full consideration of the effect that the Harpazo of the bride of Christ will have upon the United States and the world-at-large.
Pre-Harpazo, I have always believed that the United States of America is one of the young lions (one of many former colonies) of the western European "Tarshish" sea-faring mercantile nations mentioned in Ezekiel 38:13. This is as close to a Biblical mention of this nation as I have found within the Word of God. And it is no accident that western Europe and its former colonies are closely tied to Sheba and Dedan in this verse. This has been a fact since the overthrow of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I in 1918 and the establishment of the "Tarshish" mandate territories in the Middle East immediately thereafter. It was these same nations of 'Tarshish' which were also critical in bringing about the re-birth of the State of Israel just 40 years from the end of World War I in 1918.
Post-Harpazo, I believe the United States of America, based upon the obvious rationale, will have a very large role in global affairs within the last days fourth beast empire. I believe America is one of the toes or the right foot of iron and clay per Daniel 2; one of the 10 and then 7 horns on the head of the western beast per Daniel 7.
As I read the angel Gabriel's thunderous prophetic instruction to Daniel (Daniel 8:15-23) there exists no disconnection whatsoever between verse 22 and 23, between the ancient Greek Empire, and its subsequent heir in the Roman Empire, and in the continuation of western dominance to the present day which Gabriel describes as "the latter time of the indignation." From the Lord's timeless perspective, those ancient kingdoms continue into our own. Ancient ruins in Greece and Italy do abound, but their modern versions were seen on globally broadcast living color television this past week coming from Washington, D.C. If Alexander, Antiochus IV Epiphanes or Caesar were alive today, they'd feel right at home among all those white marble columns. So too, I believe, will their soon-to-arrive heir.
At the present, a look ahead reveals there are a couple of items to be aware of. One item is that the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States is back. A "Tarshish" nation and the largest of its "young lions" together again. The United States hopes to assist in making Britain Great again. This is evident in the fact that Winston Churchill's bust is back in the Oval Office where it belongs thanks to President Trump, who is of Scottish ancestry and was seen holding hands with PM Theresa May at the White House yesterday. Additionally, at the conclusion of the Paris conference of the week prior, the United Kingdom's representative refused to sign the final communique which spelled out the meeting's blatantly anti-Israel findings. This is a significant departure, and a possibly strong indicator that Great Britain may be finally shaking off the Islamic-inspired rhetoric and influences of previous years.
Another item to watch develop is what is being said by many of the worlds monetary experts who closely follow and forecast the potential effects of the populist revolts going on across the EU. There are elections coming in France (FREXIT) and Germany (GEREXIT) which could have a significant potential to radically alter the near-term viability of the European Union. Italy has already seen the result of a populist vote bringing down their charismatic pro-EU Prime Minister Matteo Renzi just six weeks ago. In Great Britain, the populist BREXIT vote will be challenged, after just five days of discussion, by a Parliament vote on invoking Article 50 for British withdrawal from the EU. These experts are strongly suggesting that the Euro currency could collapse within the next 18 months as a result of the changes expected in the ruling parties through the votes of the general populace.
The new Trump Administration is just a week old and already has become a change-agent like the United States has not seen in a great many decades. It is no exaggeration to note the President Trump has done more in a week to rebuild America than President Obama did in eight years trying to tear us down to a third world status. A look ahead shows great changes coming, and if the current trend is any example, these changes will occur on a very compressed time scale. One might say the days are being shortened. So much to do, so little time left.
Marana'tha!
Sean Osborne
When resistance crosses the line - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com
We have seen peaceful supporters of President Donald Trump being verbally attacked, physically beaten, hair set on fire, and demonized by the news media-all the while the perpetrators of such violence are labeling the victims as haters, extremists, and fascists. So, when does resistance cross the line and become treason or sedition? The Constitution guarantees the right to free speech and peaceful assembly. But historically, the Founders were very wary of those elements in society that were trying to tear down the Republic or overthrow the government. They likely would not have accepted contemporary political norms of communism, socialism, and Islamism somehow coexisting with the Republic.
Article I Section 8.15 of the Constitution says Congress shall have the power "To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions." Article 3 Section 1.1 defines treason as, "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." Section 4 states: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
In his 1796 farewell speech, George Washington warned that parties and factions were a danger to Liberty, "They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests." This is exactly what is happening today-an artful minority attempting to impose its will against the people.
So when does it go too far? I would suggest that the answer is found in the very mission statements of the groups instigating this nationwide rebellion. Communist Party USA, Islamic Society of North America, Council on American Islamic Relations, Moveon.org, Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood, National Education Association, and the factions that work with them-all contain language, subtle or direct, that is against the Constitutional Republic form of government. Just as they spew the very hate they accuse others of doing, their brand of "patriotism" is of a similar nature against our guarantees of liberty. It has already gone too far. As Jesus said in Matthew 7:16, "You shall know them by their fruits."
Israel's inaction in Syria may open Golan to Iran - http://www.debka.com/article/25917/Israel's-inaction-in-Syria-may-open-Golan-to-Iran
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has given "diplomatic priority" to stressing the perils posed by Iranian-sponsored terrorism and its nuclear-capable ballistic weapons, and placed them at the top of his talks with British premier Theresa May in London Monday, Feb. 6, and with President Donald Trump in Washington on Feb. 15.
But it stands to reason that their national security and intelligence experts have advised the US president and the British premier that Netanyahu has been firmly advised up to the present day to stay clear of military involvement in the Syrian conflict by the IDF high command and his past and present defense ministers, Avigdor Lieberman and Moshe Ya'alon.
Israel therefore stands to be excluded from the practical deliberations ongoing for Syria's future. Jordan in contrast has stepped forward as the key Middle East player in the pacts and military understandings shaping up between the US, Russia and Turkey for throwing Iran out of Syria.
Jordan's King Abdullah swallowed his pride and took the initiative of flying to Washington last Thursday, Feb. 2, to buttonhole President Trump. From their brief conversation, he became the first Middle East ruler to win a green light from the US for an air strike against the ISIS ally, the Khalid Ibn al-Walid Army, which occupies the triangle formed by the Syrian, Jordanian and Israeli borders. Israel has never attacked this force in the five years since it moved into that part of southern Syria.
debkafile"s military and intelligence sources disclose that Abdullah informed Trump that the air strike would take place under the supervision of the US, Russian and Syrian commands, making it the first instance of US-Russian support for a Middle East army's action against ISIS in Syria.
And so, on Saturday, Feb. 4, six Royal Jordanian Air Force F-15 fighters and five drones bombed seven Khalid Ibn al-Walid positions. This air strike most probably heralded more bombardments to come. Jordanian commando units are also likely to mount raids, in concert with the Syrian rebel militias they have trained, to seize the ground occupied by ISIS' offshoot.
And on the diplomatic front, the US President authorized Jordan's attendance at the Syrian peace talks that are ongoing under Russian sponsorship at the Kazakh capital of Astana. The Jordanian delegation was deputized to act on America's behalf to monitor the process for determining the future of Syria.
This move came a week after the British prime minister was urged by Trump to fly straight to Ankara after their talks in Washington in search of a military collaboration deal for Syria between the UK and Turkey.
The onset of Jordan's military action in Syria has pumped up to seven the number of foreign armies involved in that country's conflict: Russia, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, pro-Iranian Shiite militias from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Lebanese Hezbollah, US forces, the Turkish Army and now Jordan.
Synchronously with the Jordanian air strike in southern Syria, President Bashar Assad announced that its launch makes it possible for Syrian civilians who fled from the Islamists to start returning to their homes, starting with the Quneitra region of the Syrian Golan. He was talking about 30,000 refugees.
It is obvious to anyone familiar with the Syrian scene that this population shift is an open invitation for thousands of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps members and Hezbollah terrorists to take the opportunity of stealing into the Golan, in the guise of returning refugees.
Israel, aside from providing an intelligence service on Syria to coalition forces, finds itself left out of any say in the currently evolving peace process. While ISIS may be rooted out of this border area at some point, the Netanyahu government's military inaction risks exposing the Golan to another attempted incursion by Iranian and Hezbollah forces by covert means.
The diplomatic prioritization of the Iranian threat, coupled with talks with US president Trump and deals with Russian President Putin, amount to a policy that has gone bankrupt for Netanyahu and his security chiefs. The powers who will determine what happens next in Syria are bound by military cooperation and action. Because Netanyahu's rhetoric about the perils posed by Iran is not backed by military action, Israel has no influence on coming events, and faces the very real risk of being faced with an Iranian presence on its northern doorstep.
Trump, Globalism and National Sovereignty - By M. Smallback - http://www.newswithviews.com/Smallback/MSmallback100.htm
The ongoing battle for control of the United States of America
Surely we are living in the immediate days before Christ's return. The signs are everywhere, and just as Christ and the prophets foretold, the mass of the people are ignorant of it. The subject in this paper is globalism vs. national sovereignty, and the ongoing battle for control of the United States of America.
America seems about as divided as it could be, perhaps equaling the days leading up to and involving the Civil War. The battle lines are not as clear, and the battle ground is muddy from propaganda, lies and half-truths. I'm going to tell it like I see it and it will be difficult for some people to receive and/or even understand. Regardless, this is my current viewpoint and understanding of what we're facing, as 2017 kicks off with Trump at the helm and a fury of antagonists raging across our land.
Simply put, there are people who want to control the world as they see fit. Money and power go hand in hand. Money buys and corrupts power, and power takes money. It's an epic game of rock, paper, scissors, with two of the powers trying to eliminate the third. If the third can be eliminated, really only one will remain. For the sake of this allegory we'll call it money, power and freedom. If money and power can eliminate freedom, the battle is over because the money and power merge and there's nothing left to overcome. If freedom can manage the money and/or power, freedom will keep things better balanced, or at least keep money and/or power at bay.
Today, January 25, 2017 in America, we have a five-day old President who at his inauguration declared war on the establishment of political power in Washington D.C. He said, and I quote,
"...today we are not merely transferring power from one Administration to another, or from one party to another - but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People."
Why, oh why, did a huge percentage of Americans NOT rejoice at those words?? This is the closest thing to the American spirit that I have heard in my lifetime, and in my studies of history, I can't recall a time so epic. (And there are some epic times in America's history!)
This President has basically waged war on the establishment. To understand the ramifications of this, you have to have some understanding of what the "establishment" is. The establishment is not the Democratic Party and it's not the Republican Party. It's a small group of people who may identify with one of those parties or the other, but their agenda is the same. Their agenda is to own the wealth of the world and control its population. And they have a massive game plan to accomplish this. They don't care which political party is in the White House. It's irrelevant to them. They use their wealth and their power to control, intimidate, bribe, blackmail, or kill to meet their objectives. From my own studies, there hasn't been an American President since Woodrow Wilson that was not controlled and/or run by them.
IF Trump cannot be controlled by them, America is in the best place it has been since the early 1900s. Their tentacles are far-reaching and they have agents in almost every possible sphere they can (CIA, FBI, NASA, military, House, Senate, DHS, etc.) Some of Trump's appointments seem weak (comparatively) or controversial, but at a nominal glance I'm encouraged because they seem to be outside the establishment circle.
In a perfect world, globalism would make sense: "the belief or advocacy that political policies should take worldwide issues into account before focusing on national or state concerns". [Encarta] If all nations and all areas of the world had the same objectives of honoring life, personal liberty, and the overall well-being of humanity, this would be somewhat simpler to do. However, this is not the case. Realistically, personal responsibility MUST take place before a corporate vision can be successful.
Our family decided to adopt a child out of the state system. We brought the child into our home. The child refused to follow our rules. The child was violent and destructive, deceptive and two-faced. The child began very damaging behaviors to our children already in the home. It was with excruciating emotional angst that we had to discuss the possibility that maybe we should NOT take this child in. We wanted to give the child a home. Our family was willing to love and support this child, but this child was unwilling to alter behavior or thoughts to be healthy in our home. We made the extremely difficult and painful choice to NOT adopt this child after all. The health of our family was at stake. The lives of other children would be so altered (was already happening) as to change their course. We simply could not do it. Globalism would have done it. That's the difference between globalism and national sovereignty.
Had we gone ahead with the adoption, the dynamics of our family would have changed drastically and dramatically in the coming months and years, altered actually for the rest of our time on earth. Abuse was a part of this scenario, and abuse carries afflicters and victims with their varying circumstances. Our family identity would not be the same. Ever. As the head of our home, we had to decide to take care of the needs in our family first, and not damn the needs of our family for the sake of the destruction that would come simply from embracing things counter to our convictions.
Nations are nations because of cultural needs and identities. A people group that associate with one another form a nation, set up a boundary and governing laws, and then protect those boundaries in an effort to protect its citizens. That's healthy. Boundaries are enforced and protected from those with harmful or destructive intentions. That's healthy. The needs of my family may not be the same as the needs for yours. Am I supposed to alter my family's needs to accommodate yours? I happen to follow the God of ancient Israel, the Creator of earth. If you follow the gods of Egypt, should I have to embrace your gods in my family? It would change the construction and fabric of our identity. Liberty tells me I should be able to worship my God and not have to worship yours. Globalism tells me I have to incorporate your beliefs into my own. And whoever is in power can then tell everyone what beliefs are to be adhered to.
Now if I decide I don't like my current beliefs but like yours, then I can change my mind and I might want to move to become your close family friend to appease my new beliefs. That's called changing citizenship. With personal autonomy and national sovereignty, we can do that. We have that choice. I just move to the country, state or neighborhood that aligns better with my new convictions. With globalism, that change is unnecessary and not possible because we're put under one umbrella and must placate and acquiesce to whatever the standing rule is. There's no protection for personal liberty in globalism. There's no room for personal growth. The rule of thumb becomes what's best for the community, and what's best for the community is dictated by the ones with the power (which usually equates to those with the money).
America was the great experiment in personal liberty. And that experiment has afforded generations of Americans to exercise their rights in ways other parts of the world had never had the opportunity to do. It grew a nation of inventors and creators and scientists and authors (and the list goes on and on), and a nation that quickly rose to the top of affordable living, affluence, accessibility to needs and wants, and was dubbed the "land of opportunity" because it was founded on personal liberty. [And yes, many of those liberties were fought for, i.e. race and gender issues, etc., and yes there is much blight on our record, but our record still stands above every other nation of the world.]
Freedom is the enemy of absolute power. Period. And there is a growing group of people who want absolute power. They have diligently passed this baton on down several generations in the ultimate desire to have ultimate control for personal gain, at the expense of those they are attempting to control or govern.
As a Christian this is so easily identified in God. God is the ultimate power. He created all things and has power over all things. Yet He has given His creation freedom and chooses to not intervene with His power just to be "in control". We are not His puppets. We are not killed or waylaid if we do not act in accordance with His character. My belief or unbelief in Him does not change His purposes or His plans. As Christ said, "He sends the rain on the just and the unjust."
The spirit behind those who would want ultimate power and control is completely contradictory to God, who has ultimate power and control yet chooses to yield it in favor of personal liberty. (This is why Christianity is so offensive to Islam. We do not require your beliefs and we do not demand your allegiance. We give you the information we have and let you choose.) The spirit of globalism is the antithesis of freedom. It destroys individuality and creativity. Its agenda is power and control over people, but it masquerades as a "community" idea.
Globalism is the spirit of Babylon. This is Genesis 11 and Revelation 17-18. It is a people who do not want the rule of God. They want to call the shots, and they don't want anyone to tell them their shots are in conflict with God. So they silence, contain, and/or eliminate the opposition. The American spirit and the Constitution of the U.S. give its citizens the freedom to believe as they believe and do as they are convicted, as long as their beliefs and convictions don't harm another. The globalist spirit will dictate beliefs by dictating laws aimed at behaviors, and this works well if you're of the same convictions as the globalists' laws. If not, you have no liberty to do or believe differently.
Trump's first actions were to secure national sovereignty. He removed the U.S. from TPP, which gives America sovereignty back in its trade policies, and not under the rule of a non-American entity. He is renegotiating (with the threat of removing America altogether) NAFTA to restore America's sovereignty to dictate its own trade arrangements. He instated a temporary ban on Middle East refugees in order to vet the immigration process more diligently for the security of America. These are areas the prior POTUS and the establishment set out to strip America of its power and wealth. If America can be stripped of its power and wealth (remember the rock, paper, scissors analogy?), it can be stripped of its ability to ensure freedom and can be removed as a hindrance to the globalist agenda to rule the world.
Unfortunately, the screaming tantrum voices of an ignorant population of Americans are insistent on making this election about personal pet issues.
Obamacare was designed to ultimately fail, but not until it had stripped Americans of their wealth and the federal budget of its wealth. Trump wants to repeal Obamacare and replace it with healthcare that is not contingent solely on the federal government. He wants to enable states to meet the need of its citizens' healthcare. We've mastered the art of being offended in America this past decade. We're so busy being offended we're unable to see what's really going on. Obamacare was never about providing healthcare to American citizens. It was about removing autonomy from doctors, removing wealth from citizens and private sectors, and dictating mandates while stripping its citizens of their voice.
The media is owned and run by the establishment. They direct our attention where they want it to be and deliberately misinform areas they can't completely hide or control. There is a deliberate effort to divide Americans, and depicting scenarios that trigger emotional responses to people's pet issues (that have really just become idols) seems the easiest way to fool the people. People jump on these bandwagons with personal offenses and neglect to see they've played right into the establishment's hands, like puppets on a string.
As Christians, we need to seize this opportunity before us as the Israelites did when Cyrus proclaimed Jerusalem was to rebuild the house of the Lord. The Scripture plainly says "the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus" and the people were called to respond. Not everyone responded, just those who understood the significance of the moment. While the details are different, the essence is the same. God has moved to stay the hand of the globalist agenda in America; we must respond. The spirit of globalism will prevail until our Lord's return, but He plainly says He will bring this spirit down. (Revelation 18)
We do not need to declare America a "Christian nation". That is unnecessary and will stir up the opposition faster than anything. We simply need to BE a nation of Christians. We need to live according to the mandates of our faith. We are to be the city on a hill, the light of the world, the salt of the earth. Then those who are lost will go to the hill, those who are blind will go to the light, and those who are tired of the drudgery of the world will go get salt.
The Scriptures are pretty clear about how this is going to go down. We're going to be co-laboring for Christ at the same time the world is partnering with darkness. It's all going to be going on at the same time when He returns. (Matthew 24:36-51) Christians are ambassadors of Christ. (Ephesians 6:20) We represent Him, His interests, and His Kingdom in the nation we're a foreigner to. We don't really have the same customs as the world we're posited in, but we exist there anyway until Christ brings our Kingdom. God ordained the nations and gave them their boundaries (Deut 32:8, Acts 17:26), and America is ours. We are to "occupy until He [Jesus] comes" (Luke 19:13) - and "occupy" there means "to busy oneself with, i.e. to trade" (Strong's). So we're to be busy with our trades, our gifts and abilities, being light and salt, declaring the Kingdom of God as we know it, and representing Christ here in America.
Time is short. Let's be about our King's business.
Heating Up - By Daymond Duck - http://www.raptureready.com/2017/02/05/heating-up-by-daymond-duck/
My threescore and ten years will arrive in about 30 months and I can honestly say that I have never seen anything like President Trump's first week in office.
I try to keep up with the news that appears to be related to Bible prophecy, but his first week seemed to come like birth pains: faster and faster. That is one of those Biblical things.
Pres. Trump did several things that caused me to bow my head and say, "Thank you God."
"Thank you for giving America a leader with enough courage to remove the Muslim prayer rooms from the White House."
"Thank you for giving America a leader with enough courage to cut off the flow of money to foreign and domestic groups that fund abortion."
"Thank you for giving America a leader with enough courage to select strong Christians and people that love Israel to help him rule over America."
"Thank you for giving America a leader that is willing to give Christians who seek to legally immigrate to the U.S. priority."
"Thank you for these, and all of the other, blessings that you have bestowed upon America."
Your Word says, "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much" (James 5:16), and you have answered the prayers of multitudes."
Nevertheless, we should not overlook the fact that the election of Donald Trump is causing the temperature to rise all over the Middle East. In fact, the fulfillment of other prophecies may be appearing on the horizon.
Pres. Trump's promise to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is causing tempers to flare. Palestinian (and several Arab) leaders have already said it will be "a declaration of war."
These persistent haters apparently don't believe or don't know that dividing Jerusalem will be a declaration of war against Jesus (Joel 3:2).
Pres. Trump's condemnation of the UN's anti-Semitic Resolution 5334 that calls East Jerusalem and the West Bank "occupied territory," and his statements of support for Israel, have been interpreted by the Israeli settlement movement as permission to build more housing in East Jerusalem.
In the first week of Mr. Trump's presidency, 566 construction permits were issued for new homes in East Jerusalem. Also, Prime Minister Netanyahu promised the soon approval of wide-scale building in all of the settlement blocks.
The Palestinians and other Arabs are going to have to act soon or their much desired two-state solution will essentially be a dream that never came true. And no matter what they do, when Jesus comes it will be gone forever.
As my good friend Don McGee recently said in the January 2017 issue of his Crown and Sickle Ministries newsletter, "The city of Jerusalem is called 'the city of the great King' (Psalm 48:2), and that great King is Jesus, not Allah or Mohammed or any other pagan religious icon."
Then, there is Prime Minister Netanyahu's upcoming visit to the White House (in early February, date not announced). Mr. Netanyahu said he will discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the situation in Syria, and the Iranian threat. That is the Psa. 83 war (if there is one), the destruction of Damascus (Isa. 17) and the battle of Gog and Magog. (Ezek. 38-39).
In 1995, Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act that requires the U.S. government to move the Embassy to Jerusalem unless the president of the U.S. signs a waver that is good for six months.
U.S. presidents have signed a waver every six months since then. Pres. Obama signed the current waver and it is good until June 1, 2017.
Pres. Trump will have to decide whether he is going to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem or sign a waver by then.
He hasn't said what he intends to do, but the IDF is planning for trouble on several fronts (Arabs in Israel, Arabs in Gaza, nations on Israel's border, attacks on Israelis in other nations, etc.) in case Pres. Trump decides to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
It is not unreasonable to believe that the situation in the Middle East could quickly turn hot, several wars could take place, cries for a peace treaty could increase, or even that "a man with a plan" could be standing on the sideline.
Pray for Pres. Trump, but know that the future is in God's hands and all of His prophecies will be fulfilled.
Prophecy Plus Ministries
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