The Schiff people say - Bill Wilson -
There are some outrageous claims being reported and passed on by the news media that probably shouldn't even be stories. On a Friday evening interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said over 50,000 Americans have died because the US Senate didn't vote to remove President Donald Trump from office in February. He said that House democrats believed Trump could damage America, but "I don't think we had any idea how much damage he would go on to do in the months ahead. There are 50,000 Americans now who are dead, in significant part because of his incompetence, because of his inability to think beyond himself and put the country first."
Let's unpack this statement. Schiff, who led a relentless impeachment effort against Trump, is saying that Trump and the Republican-led Senate are responsible for all the American COVID-19 deaths-the Senate because it didn't remove Trump from office, and Trump, because of his alleged incompetence. This inflammatory and extremely outrageous statement should be reason enough to remove Schiff from office. Instead of puffing their chest out in agreement, the news media should be pointing out how ridiculous Schiff's statement is and how it does not remotely have any factual basis. It is less factual than saying had the House not been vigorously prosecuting impeachment, Trump may have prevented COVID-19.
Here is a chronology of House actions provided by Breitbart News: "The House-after a four-week delay-transferred the articles of impeachment to the Senate on Jan. 15, the day the first coronavirus patient arrived in the U.S. from Wuhan, China. Congress did nothing about the pandemic during the trial. Meanwhile, the president formed the coronavirus task force the week of Jan. 27 and imposed the travel ban on Jan. 31. The Democrat-controlled House held its first hearing on coronavirus on Feb. 5- the day Trump was acquitted in the Senate. Schiff, who said nothing about coronavirus in its early days, is now pushing for legislation to create a "9/11 commission" for evaluating the president's response to the pandemic."
There is going to be a lot of Schiff talk between now and the election. Very little of it will have anything constructive to return our country to work safely. The Democrats seem only able to criticize without providing solutions. When Trump acted to ban travel from China, the Democrats said he was overreacting. Then they blame him for not acting sooner. James 1:5-8 says, "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways." What about an entire people group, or political party, that is double-minded and lacks wisdom? More trouble ahead.
The Pandemic and the Protests - Terry James - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/
Shedding light on a dark, dark agenda - Bill Wilson -
President Trump and others have said something to the effect that damage done by the coronavirus to society, culture, and the economy might be more horrific than the damage to health done by the disease in America and around the world. By this, I infer that the statement means that by completely shutting down society, culture, and business, the resultant damage will be far worse than if the COVID-19 pandemic was handled like other severe outbreaks of history. Those, for the most part, eventually killed many, but life went on pretty much as normal, and the diseases became much less virulent when the so-called herd immunity kicked in.
The herd immunity is, as I take it, when the point is reached in the spread of disease that human immune systems biologically learn to resist whatever strain of virus or bacteria is involved.
A growing, uncharted-in-America side-effect of the present epidemic crisis is the psychological stress suffered around the country. This nation has never been locked down to any extent, except in rare instances and isolated places. The closest the US has come to this sort of restrictiveness, enforced by government, was during the Civil War when President Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and restricted other areas of life that run counter to the Bill of Rights.
At that time of the nation being at war with itself, it was argued that locking down civil and other liberties would lead to dictatorship. Many historians now agree that, had it been a president other than Lincoln, with his great, personal character at the time, the unthinkable would possibly have eventuated. We might now be living under dictatorship.
Governments, once they have been allowed powers to control, rarely relinquish that power when things return to normal. As Lord Edward Acton said, "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely." Or. as one geopolitical figure of our time, Henry Kissinger, has said: "Political power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
We can all, if we're honest, attest to the veracity of those statements. We can, I believe, get a hint of the truth in those words by what is happening around the nation in some areas with regard to governors and their draconian steps during this "crisis."
The Michigan governor, for example, has forbidden many things of normal life by shutting the facilities where people normally go for essential services. At the same time, she is keeping abortion clinics, bars, and even places to buy lottery tickets open, calling them "essential services."
Protests are ramping up around her capitol, as American citizens are demonstrating against what they perceive as tyranny. Apparently, she is on a power trip, as Lord Acton or Dr. Kissinger would say.
The president has said that he feels these protests are in many cases justified. The nation must begin opening up. This shutdown to prevent the virus spread can't go on without irreparable damage to the economy, thus, to the people of America.
Agreed. It is un-American. It is antithesis to the nation's principles of freedom. The shutdown must be brought to an end. To do otherwise brings a genuine threat from ideologies that would bring Machiavellian controls that "the prince that shall come" will one day use in his Antichrist dictatorship.
I received the following excerpt of an article in the American Thinker. The thoughts expressed present a solid case for suggesting that all of us seriously consider what this crisis might mean in total context for future national life as we've known it.
When societies lose their freedom, it is not ordinarily because autocrats or tyrants have forcibly taken it away. It is usually the result of the population willingly surrendering their freedom in return for protection against an external threat. While the threat is oftentimes real, it is invariably exaggerated.
This is what we in the United States are experiencing. The general public has been stampeded by the fear mongering in the media into demanding action from the politicians at both the state and federal level. The politicians respond and do not pause to ask whether these actions will work-just do something! They do not ask if the financial and societal cost to the nation is worth the unknown and perhaps nebulous return.
In its 244-year history the United States has weathered seven of the worst pandemics in world history without the hysteria and loss of liberty and freedom. All indications reveal that the Coronavirus will be exponentially less life-threatening than any of these previous pandemics.
Is the Coronavirus pandemic serious enough to warrant putting much of the nation's population into house imprisonment, or wreaking the economy for an indefinite period of time, or prohibiting worshipers from attending their churches, synagogues or mosques, or outlawing freedom of assembly and travel, or destroying businesses that have taken years to build up, or saddling future generations with unfathomable debt? The nation is choosing to plunge millions of people into depression, heart attacks, suicide and unbelievable distress, though they are not especially vulnerable and will only suffer mild symptoms or none at all.
This is what a police state is like. It is a nation in which the government can issue orders and edicts or convey preferences with no legal authority. Yet, it appears the majority of the American people are willing to sacrifice their freedoms and way of life in order to empower such a potential police state in the guise of conquering a pandemic. Governments never give up power once attained. They only seek to normalize it and now they have in their toolbox the knowledge that the citizenry will meekly acquiesce to any national emergency being declared an existential crisis which requires government to unconstitutionally impose its will on the people. (Steve McCann, "How a Police State Is Formed," American Thinker, https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/how_a_police_state_is_born.html )
Such a police state-and much, much worse-is coming, according to God's prophetic Word. However, we have the right to defend against (and especially to protest against) such tyranny before that time of Antichrist, a time that will be beyond our control.
Accepting Christ for salvation assures that one will not face that ultimate dictatorship.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13)
Shedding light on a dark, dark agenda - Bill Wilson -
Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden held a You Tube virtual town hall on the impact of COVID-19 on women. The town hall revealed several dark, dark agendas of Biden and his party that are worth mentioning. Throughout the town hall, the National Domestic Violence Hotline number was displayed on the screen. In addition, failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made an appearance endorsing Biden and noting that COVID-19 shows universal health care is badly needed for women. She said "that this would be a terrible crisis to waste." Think about the optics of this: National Domestic Violence Hotline, Hillary Clinton endorsement, socialist healthcare, terrible crisis to waste.
The National Domestic Violence Hotline is aimed at assisting those who are impacted or threatened by domestic violence and sexual assault. Statistics indicate that many women are at higher risk during the COVID-19 lockdown. Biden is under attack the past two weeks for allegedly sexually assaulting his Senate staffer in 1993. He has denied the allegation. Having Clinton on his town hall is curious to say the least. Clinton is known for persecuting the many women who claimed her ex-president husband sexually assaulted them, while at the same time adopting the "believe them" theme when a Republican is accused of the same. These people say they are against domestic violence and sexual assault, yet infer women are liars if Democrats are accused.
Clinton also used the occasion to endorse Biden for President. She said, "I want to add my voice to the many who have endorsed you to be our president...I am thrilled to be part of your campaign. To not only endorse you but to help highlight a lot of the issues that are at stake during this presidential election." One issue that is highlighted is the charade of being against sexual assault for everyone except them. Another issue is that of socialist healthcare. Clinton said universal health care is needed as shown by the pandemic, concluding, "So I can only say, "Amen," to everything you're saying, but also to, again, enlist people that this would be a terrible crisis to waste, as the old saying goesWe've learned a lot about what our absolute frailties are in our country when it comes to health justice and economic justice."
Two things here: First, countries with universal/socialist healthcare, like Italy, fared far worse during the COVID-19 crisis. Second, the communist idea of not allowing a crisis to go to waste is hard-wired among Democratic leadership: In March, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) also said, "This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision." They use the tragedies of others to advance a dark agenda, while saying that they are advocates of the little guy. Similar to Jeremiah 6:13-15, "Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is given to greed...Everyone deals falsely. They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, Saying, 'Peace, peace!' When there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed." So sadly true.
Socially acceptable hatemongering - Bill Wilson -
It was the liberal left that wanted all hate speech banned, yet they demonstrate hate on a daily basis. Over just the past two days, here is some of what people are saying about those with whom they disagree: Rutgers Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Brittney Cooper, "F**K each and every Trump Supporter." Hollywood Filmmaker Rob Reiner, "For 3+ years, there's been a cancer on this Presidency. But this cancer has spread throughout America." On Vice President Mike Pence not wearing a mask while visiting Mayo Clinic, actress Kristen Johnston sarcastically tweeted: "Jesus is his vaccine." Filmmaker Judd Apatow tweeted: "If they do not lose in a landslide our country has lost its mind."
Former Obama administration deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes said, "No terrorist could ever kill 50,000 Americans. It's impossible, right?... with Trump it's almost like this ghoulish numbers game in an effort to make sure someone looks good or bad." House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY): "The president is trying to impose artificial politically motivated deadlines so that the economy can look good before the third quarter for the election, but if that happens, we'll simply get a lot - thousands and thousands of more people dead, and we can't do that." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), "I have ice cream in my freezer. I guess that's better than having Lysol in somebody's lungs as he [Trump] is suggesting."
Drexel University professor Robert Zaller, "We are fighting not one plague now, but two...[Trump] has been responsible for 90 percent of Coronavirus deaths in the country, he will surely cause many more." New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, "My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed. I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups." MSNBC, anchor Nicolle Wallace: ""So the president and vice president have really revealed themselves as this wacky combination of conspiracy theorists, quack medical proponents and truthers."
And finally, this tweet from Comedian Billy Eichner referring to Trump supporters and conservatives: "I hate these people. Hate. HATE!!!!!!!!!" These quotes are just in the past two days. In the context of each vile criticism, not one, I'll write that again, NOT ONE suggestion on how to make things better. Just tearing people down with hateful and spiteful words. Some hate-filled person says it. A hate-filled media person reports it, then it lodges in some hate-filled heart. As 2 Timothy 2:16 says, "But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as does a canker." This is not how we come together as a nation to defeat a deadly threat. Remember who you are and who you serve that you might be that light in the darkness of these perilous times.
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