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"Star Spangled Banner" Banners - By Terry James - https://www.raptureready.com/2020/07/01/star-spangled-banner-banners-by-terry-james/ Now they are determined to do away with the "Star Spangled Banner." The suggestion, among other maddening ones, is that we replace it with John Lennon's "Imagine." It is the latest wickedness from the same minions-the human ones-who follow the dictates of the minions-the demonic ones-who reside in the "high places" of Ephesians 6:12. We see the modern incarnation of ancient rebellion each and every day as the anarchy takes on greater intensity by the hour. The following news excerpt reflects that rebellion. The woke libs are on a roll. They've progressed from tearing down Confederate statues in the name of racial justice to targeting statues of the president who waged war againstthe Confederacy to free the slaves, all in the name of some indecipherable cause that is presumably noble and beyond the comprehension of the unwoke masses. But even when all the Abraham Lincoln statues are torn down and Mount Rushmore is firebombed into oblivion, the woke scolds still won't be satisfied. A recent poll foundthat more than 40 percent of Americans who identify as "very liberal" want to change the name of our country and the design of its flag in the name of "pro-diversity cultural deconstruction." Some 80 percent of "very liberal" respondents also want to change the national anthem, so it was only a matter of time before the cancel mob came for slave owner FrancisScott Key and "The Star-Spangled Banner." In fact, they've already begun. A statue of Key was toppled in San Francisco over the weekend, and a high school student in New York recently refused to sing the anthem at her (virtual) graduation ceremony to avoid"being complicit to a system that has oppressed people of color." (Andrew Stiles, "John Lennon's 'Imagine' Tops List of Woke National Anthem Alternatives," Washington Free Beacon, June 25, 2020) Those who would now ban the "Star Spangled Banner" as America's national anthem would prefer that the world anthem written and performed by the former Beatle should takeits place. Like Lucifer, who convinced one-third of Heaven's angelic body to rebel, then humanity to try to usurp God's authority by creating a one world order with the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11), the America-as-founded-haters want the United States undercontrol of the globalists-elite. Those desecrating the flag and demolishing statuary of the nation's past actually haven't any idea in most cases of why they do what they do. But the nucleus of their ilkserves their masters, those globalists-elite aforementioned. They serve their master-the same one the fallen angels followed into perdition and an ultimate fate in the ake of fire. It is a worldwide insanity that has taken hold. We are witnessing the wind-up of history this side of the Tribulation. Lennon, according to his lyrics, wanted us to imagine that God is a liar. Actually, the inference to be drawn from his lyrics is that there is no God. There is no Heavenand no Hell. We can just live in peace and harmony once we throw off the shackles of any pretense of there being a deity to rule over us. As we can look around us at the present hour and see the increasing violence and tumult, we can agree that Lennon was right-to this point, anyway. It is the difference inbelieving in there being a God who rules and those who want to be their own gods that remains the reason there is no peace on planet earth. There are those of us who still believe there is a God and Heaven, and there remains a Hell to shun. Therefore, there is constant conflict between these two realities. Thereare those who follow the ways of Heaven and there are those who foment the wickedness of the Hell-bound. Of course, sadly and tragically, there are many in between, who are headed down that broad road-those who the powers and principalities in high places of Ephesians 6:12are determined to keep herding toward the eternal abyss. There is no peace to be found within the wickedness that prevails in today's world. That wickedness is prophetically scheduled to get worse-much, much worse. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. (2 Timothy 2: 13) While the presidential election of 2020 approaches, the battle for the spiritual hearts and minds of this nation in particular will be fierce. Satan is desperate to bringAmerica into his globalist mold for launching his hellish world dictator-Antichrist. America's autonomy and sovereignty must be destroyed. The devil's mantra has been fully adopted and the heathen are indeed raging. But be assured, all of this madness hasn't taken the Lord of all Creation by surprise. Here,once again, is what God Himself has said in recognition of exactly what will be going on when He next intervenes into the attempt to establish a one-world order like in the time of the Tower of Babel. Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and castaway their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. (Psalm 2:1-12) Let us put our trust in the Lord Jesus. He is on the very brink of taking charge. He will begin doing so by removing His Bride, the Church, from this evil earth-system andplacing her into the heavenly dwelling places He has prepared.