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Understanding What Is Happening in America
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There’s an evil logic behind the riots, flag burning, and statue-toppling, and it’s not just America that’s under attack—it’s the Christian faith that’s under assault.
Last week I gave a keynote address at a gathering of conservative Christian Americans in a Birmingham, Alabama hotel. Although social distancing regulations dictated the grand ballroom’s capacity be greatly reduced, it was a sold-out crowd.
The atmosphere was electric. No doubt that was because many were breaking quarantine for the first time. But I attribute the atmosphere chiefly to the fact that many Americans of this ideological stripe are on edge. They are worried that the America they love is committing suicide, and they are looking for answers and direction.
I gave my address the same innocuous title I have given this article. That presentation was motivated by the fact that I see so many Christians and other conservatives who are confused about what is happening in the culture, and quite rightly. There is so much to be confused about.
Part of the reason I think so many are confused is because, on the surface, there appears to be no logic to what is happening. Have you found yourself wondering, What is the goal of these protests? What do the protesters want?
Is it about justice for George Floyd?
Is it about ending police brutality?
Is it about ending racism?
Is it about equality?
Nope.
None of these keys unlock the mysteries of the political and societal puzzle we are witnessing. In this essay, I hope to make sense of the apparent chaos that fills our streets, the headlines, and the halls of government. I hope that when I’m done the tumblers will line up and we’ll have a key to understanding this moment in our history.
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Perhaps the evilest character in all of fiction appears in Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello.
Unlike the typical evil characters in fiction, he is neither a thief nor is he a mass murderer. He is neither a rapist nor a cannibal. His evil isn’t so overt. Indeed, his treachery is hidden from all but the audience throughout most of the play.
His name is Iago, and he is a close associate of the great Moor and Venetian general, Othello. So subtle are Iago’s deceits, so devious are his schemes, that all who know him, trust him.
But he is not what he appears to be.
Iago secretly hates Othello. And for reasons that are never fully revealed, he is determined to destroy him through rumor, inuendo, and a word dropped here and there to various parties, sowing seeds of discontent and pitting people against one other. Like Satan in the Garden of Eden, Iago slithers into Othello’s idyllic world, destroying his marriage and ultimately his life.
Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom calls him “an artist of evil” and “a pyromaniac who wishes to set fire to everything and everyone.” I shall call him a maestro of evil. Rather than executing the wicked deeds himself, he manipulates others to do the dirty work for him while he directs his orchestra of evil.
Iago has come to mind many times as I watched events unfolding in the streets of America and throughout the Western world. Behind it all is the Iago-like maestro, Marxist political theorist Saul Alinsky.
Alinsky (1909-1972), an American of Jewish parentage who was born and raised in Chicago, dedicated his life to Marxist thought, writing, and political agitation. He was a great admirer of not only Marx, who was, like himself, merely a theorist, but he was also of Vladimir Lenin, who was a practitioner of Marxist thought.
Alinsky authored two books that have become (un)holy writ for the Left:
Reveille for Radicals (1946)
Rules for Radicals (1971)
Both are openly, proudly, Machiavellian in nature: The end justifies the means. That concept (if not the phrase) was given to posterity by Niccolo Machiavelli in his handbook for tyrants The Prince. Alinsky loved it and built on it as a foundation for everything he wrote.
Reveille for Radicals is a primer for organizing labor unions in American industry.
Rules for Radicals—meant to be a sequel to Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto—is a how-to manual for the destabilization and overthrow of existing power structures and the seizure of power.
If we are to properly interpret modern events, we must understand how the thought of Saul Alinsky is driving them, because his writings have been enormously influential on the radical Left. His influence on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has been well documented. But now a new generation seeks to put into practice the play this dead maniac drew up on the chalkboard.
Perhaps you are thinking, as so many are, there is no rhyme or reason to what is going on! It is just anarchy! But I assure you that those organizing it—as opposed to those who are simply caught up in it—are following a carefully prepared strategy.
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As the title of his book suggests, Alinsky laid out a number of “rules.” Rather than binding myself to his verbiage and his characterization of those rules, I will offer you eight rules presented in a straightforward reading of Alinsky as well as in the historical observation of the tactics employed by the figures he so admired.
- Divide and conquer
This is done through carefully targeted agitation of various people groups, playing on their latent fears and suspicions of one another: black vs white, rich vs poor, Red States vs Blue States—it doesn’t matter so long as it brings conflict. It is the opposite of the “Melting Pot” philosophy and E Pluribus Unum—“Out of Many, One.”
Diversity—perhaps you’ve heard this word tossed about?—is emphasized over commonality. The idea is to stress differences and perceived inequalities. Finding a loop rope handle in a NASCAR garage, calling it a “noose,” and sensationalizing it as a hate crime is a perfect example of this tactic. Why? Because it plays on the fears of those who really believe a segment of society is out to lynch them.
This is what Iago does: he successfully drives a wedge between Othello and his beloved wife, Desdemona, by convincing Othello of her treachery. After that, he needed only to sit back and watch them destroy themselves.
- Create scapegoats
In his magnum opus Let History Judge, Russian historian Roy Medvedev writes, “Every despot building the cult of his own person needs a scapegoat.” Perhaps you think I am referring to President Trump. Not at all. I am referring to the Democrat Party.
While Alinsky proudly asserts his kinship to Marx, he undoubtedly learned this strategy from Joseph Stalin and the man whose political ruthlessness Stalin admired: Adolf Hitler. In creating a vast, scary enemy in the public mind it unites your side in hate if not in an actual principle, and it offers them an excuse for their own failures. Are you poor? Have you been denied a promotion? Has success in life eluded you? It’s not your fault! It’s theirs! For Stalin and Hitler, the scapegoats were both imaginary and real, but always demonized and greatly exaggerated: chiefly, the Trotskyists, Jews, and the Church.
For Democrats, the scapegoats are Trump, evangelicals, white people, a “vast right-wing conspiracy,” Russian collusion narratives, white supremacists, Red State Americans, non-Democrat minorities—they have all become scapegoats.
- Create chaos
Riots, looting, and other criminal activity is to your benefit because it undermines your in-power opponent, making him look weak, indecisive, and incompetent. If, however, he does respond decisively, so much the better! Now your narrative becomes that he is a violent oppressor of the people.
- Make it a movement
The Bolsheviks were always about the seizure of power in Russia. That was the goal. But to rally proletarians to their banner, they hid that agenda in a clever slogan: “Peace, Bread, Land.”
Who could say they were against that? So, you’re against the Bolsheviks? I guess you’re against peace! I suppose you don’t think I deserve land to feed my family!
This tactic, almost always successful, gives a virtuous veneer to a sordid agenda with mass appeal. Those unwary souls who flock to your cause are what the late economist Ludwig von Mises called “useful innocents.” (Others call them “useful idiots.”) Soon they’ll be hanging red banners, swastikas, or posting black squares on social media, wholly unaware that you are using them to accomplish something altogether different from the stated purpose of your movement.
- Political trash talk
How many times has this scenario played out during the course of a football game:
Player A sucker punches Player B or refers to his mother in unflattering terms.
Player B hits Player A back.
The referee, who didn’t see that the conflict was instigated by Player A, throws Player B out of the game.
Alinsky’s radicals are coached to use the tactics of Player A: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon,” he wrote, because “it is almost impossible to counterattack.” Furthermore, “it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
This is what you’re seeing in all of those videos of the woke mob shouting at police and counter-protesters. As Project Veritas has demonstrated, they are being trained to do it. And they are doing it with a modern twist: they are equipped with GoPro and phone cameras. When someone reacts, it’s all captured on video and is then edited to cut out the provocations of Player A.
This is what happened to St. Louis’s embattled couple Mark and Patricia McCloskey—Players B in this scenario—who had the nerve to stand ready to defend their home when protesters trespassed the property of their gated community. The McCloskeys have been held up for public ridicule by a vicious, demeaning, and grossly unfair media.
Again, Alinsky takes a page from Hitler, who, as a vagabond in Vienna, observed the power of the Social Democrats to create a political movement and intimidate their rivals. Years later he would write in Mein Kampf:
I understood the infamous spiritual terror which this movement exerts, particularly on the bourgeoisie, which is neither morally nor mentally equal to such attacks; at a given sign it unleashes a veritable barrage of lies and slanders against whatever adversary seems most dangerous, until the nerves of the attacked persons break down … This is a tactic based on precise calculation of all human weaknesses, and its result will lead to success with almost mathematical certainty …
I achieved an equal understanding of the importance of physical terror toward the individual and the masses … the defeated adversary in most cases despairs of the success of any further resistance.
This is precisely what happened to Drew Brees, too. He makes some rather innocuous remarks about the flag and its meaning for him. He is savagely attacked with “a veritable barrage of lies and slanders,” his nerves break down, and he offers no further resistance. Mission accomplished.
- Disinformation
Maintain an unrelenting campaign of public disinformation while accusing your enemies of deception. The more outrageous the accusations, the better. Keep them busy defending themselves against lies while you move forward with your plans.
I recently reread (for the third time) William L. Shirer’s classic The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. For the uninitiated, Shirer was a correspondent posted in Berlin in the years leading up to the Second World War. The parallels are striking. Here’s a passage about the Nazi propaganda machine:
I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state. Though unlike most Germans I had daily access to foreign newspapers, especially those of London, Paris and Zurich, which arrived the day after publication, and though I listened regularly to the BBC and other foreign broadcasts, my job necessitated the spending of many hours a day in combing the German press, checking the German radio, conferring with Nazi officials and going to party meetings. It was surprising and sometimes consternating to find that notwithstanding the opportunities I had to learn the facts and despite one’s inherent distrust of what one learned from Nazi sources, a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one’s mind and often misled it. No one who has not lived for years in a totalitarian land can possibly conceive how difficult it is to escape the dread consequences of a regime’s calculated and incessant propaganda. Often in a German home or office or sometimes in a casual conversation with a stranger in a restaurant, a beer hall, a café, I would meet with the most outlandish assertions from seemingly educated and intelligent persons. It was obvious that they were parroting some piece of nonsense they had heard on the radio or read in the newspapers. Sometimes one was tempted to say as much, but … one realized how useless it was even to try to make contact with a mind which had become warped and for whom the facts of life had become what Hitler and Goebbels, with their cynical disregard for truth, said they were.
The Left, with a propaganda machine to rival that of Joseph Goebbels, has just the same disregard for the truth. History and facts that are inconvenient are disregarded or distorted. Remember, the end justifies the means.
- “The thing is never the thing”
Many thought they knew what this was all about in the beginning: police brutality. But then they were caught off guard when the protests took an unexpected turn and began attacking not just perceived racism, but America in general.
This was the mistake of Tucker Carlson recently when he wondered why Black Lives Matter protesters were tearing down the statue of Colonel Hans Christian Heg, an abolitionist. Ann Coulter wondered the same thing.
The idea is to obfuscate the issues by continually moving the goalposts. Keep your enemy frustrated in his search for what you want. Don’t give him the endgame he seeks. Don’t be reasonable, but continually accuse him of being unreasonable. If he meets one demand, make another. And then another. And still another.
To quote Alinsky, “The thing is never the thing. The thing is the revolution.” Alinsky, whatever his skill as an agitator, wasn’t a great writer, and this is a bit nonsensical. But you get the point. The goal is power, not social justice or black lives or racial equality—power. Writes Alinsky, radicals must remain “flexible and opportunistic and say anything to get power.”
This is what happened to Senator Tim Scott last week when, during discussions with Senate Democrats on the so-called “Justice Act,” they refused to discuss it. Said Scott: “I offered to include an amendment for every concern that was presented by Democrats. They offered zero and walked out.”
Says Alinsky: “You cannot risk being trapped by the enemy in his sudden agreement with your demand.”
- Seize power
This is done by presenting yourself as the solution to the chaos you created. Your bargain with the public is essentially this: you will have no rest until we are in power. In a recent interview with Fox News, a Black Lives Matter spokesman said if America “doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system.”
This is precisely what the Democrats are doing with Biden. Have you noticed his message has been about “unity” and “peace” and blaming the absence of both on Trump? Be it knowingly or not, this tactic is consistent with the teaching of the Quran on the same subject. Surahs 8:12 and 8:39 essentially say that the unconverted are to be terrorized and given no rest until they submit.
To recap: you set fire to your neighbor’s house and then extort him for the water to put it out!
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What fascinates me about Alinsky’s program is what is implied about the enemy he describes. His strategy for the seizure of power—and that of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler before him—assumes the opponent is motivated by some semblance of moral principle. His are, in effect, immoral tactics to be used against moral opponents. It’s a bit like the TV trope where an evil criminal is finally cornered by the good guys and, as they point their guns at him, the baddie says something like, “You won’t shoot me. You can’t. Your conscience won’t let you.” The Black Lives Matter and Antifa terrorists are counting on their enemies being bound by a moral code. This is why they can taunt police with confidence. If your enemy is as unscrupulous as you are it won’t work. Try taunting police in, oh, Iran or China or any of a hundred other countries and see what happens.
Kneeling, Flag Burning, Statue-toppling, and the Christian Connection
Where does the attack on America fit in all of this?
This is the part that has confused so many. Whether you agreed with it or not, toppling statues of known racists had a certain logic to it in the wake of George Floyd. But then it morphed into a much broader attack on America and her heroes in general. None, it seems, are to be spared. What’s this all about?
It has long been maintained by Marxist theorists that for socialism to truly work it must be implemented globally, thus achieving the highest stage of socialism: communism. Indeed, this was Marx’s own contention. There can be no free, capitalistic outliers, especially if they are successful in the manner that America surely is. I mean, how will you ever convince the impoverished masses that they live in a workers’ paradise if they can look over the fence and see that their neighbor has a pool, a shiny SUV, and a wife with all of her teeth? To put it in Hegelian terms, there can be no “antithesis,” and America is a swaggering anthesis.
The problem for Marxists, however, is that Americans are traditionally a deeply patriotic people. We wave our flags, shoot our fireworks, and sing our national anthem with brimming emotion. We celebrate our victories and our national heroes. Simply put, we love our country. Patriotism is contrary to the globalist spirit so necessary for socialism to flourish—or so the theory goes. So, it naturally follows that American patriotism, rooted as it is in a Judeo-Christian worldview, is the worst kind of poison to socialism.
It is for this reason that globalists—i.e., Marxists—have set out to destroy patriotism under the acids of cynicism. This was done more than two generations ago in Europe where, in the post-war era, patriotism was equated with the fascist nationalism of Nazi Germany, thus paving the way for the European Union. You’re proud of your country? You’re a fascist! is typically the way the conversation goes.
In America the process is repeating itself with alarming rapidity. If I can make you feel ashamed of your country, I can destroy your patriotism. You like Washington? He owned slaves! Lincoln? He was a racist! Teddy Roosevelt? He was an animal killer! Eisenhower? He had an affair! The idea is to erode the pillars of patriotism until the whole of it crumbles under a cynical application of a retroactive law. (I discussed this here.)
So, when a radicalized Colin Kaepernick (the subject of an earlier column) takes a knee during the national anthem and the raising of the flag, and his defenders claim, as a foolish Aaron Rodgers did, that “It has NEVER been about an anthem or a flag,” they couldn’t be more wrong. It has everything to do with both, because both represent America in all of her patriotic glory.
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But what about America’s past sins? Do we just ignore them?
Earlier this year I concluded a three-year, 35-country, around-the-world expedition to compare America to her would-be rivals. I have written a book about it that will hit shelves in October. (By all means, pre-order it.) At journey’s end, I love what my youngest son Zachary said:
“America is the greatest country in the world because of the idea of America.”
Margaret Thatcher once said, “Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.” Bono, the lead singer of the Irish band U2, said something very similar: “America is not just a country; it is an idea.” But it was G. K. Chesterton who identified the philosophy, the idea to which Thatcher and Bono referred: “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence …”
Lord of the Flies author William Golding argued that the problems of human society are the problems of human nature. Let that sink in. It is a profound observation. Whether a country is predominantly Christian, aggressively secular, Muslim, fascist, Hindu, Buddhist, socialist, Confucian, or obsessed with Kim Kardashian matters because those ideologies will either serve to restrain that nature or exacerbate it.
If you visit Germany as I have many times, you can feel that it is a nation still trying to come to terms with her past. Even generations that had absolutely nothing to do with the Holocaust wallow in the guilt of it, crying into their beer steins. As a consequence, they are rendered incapable of sound moral judgments that are in the interest of national security. Their guilt has been weaponized and used against them. They fear calling out evil within their own society because they fear the specter of Nazism. All of this is because they don’t have the antidote for their collective sin as a nation. They don’t know how to move past it because they have no national philosophy of redemption. Europe long ago abandoned it in favor of secular gods that can offer no remission of sin.
America is different.
Not because America doesn’t have sins in her past. She does, as the Left never tires of reminding us. Rather, it is that in America, a country with the largest Christian population in the world, the prevailing worldview has historically been guided by that religion above all others. Thus, every great reform movement in our history has appealed to the laws of God, not to the laws of men or to some vague, anchorless altruism. It is encoded into our national DNA:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
This is what Chesterton meant. This is the standard that we have aspired to as a people, so that even in our darkest days of civil war, Jim Crow, a world war, the Great Depression, another world war, and the civil rights movement, healing was found not in our inherent goodness, but in the goodness of God. That goodness may be summarized in a single, theologically pregnant word: grace.
Grace is a word that carries so many ideas rolled into one—unmerited favor, forgiveness, reconciliation, and restoration—and it has served to guide, as Lincoln put it, “the better angels of our nature.” Americans, made in the image of their God, have been a forgiving people; forgiving not only one another, but their enemies, rebuilding and restoring them to the community and fellowship of nations. That quality, above all others, has enabled Americans to move forward with an eye toward the past, but not to be mired in it. It has served as a bulwark against the barbarism that is engulfing the rest of the world.
Now, the self-righteous types filling the ranks of Democrats, BLM, Antifa, and the radical Left in general, themselves wronged by no one and possessed by a hateful, secular, utopian ideology absent any notion of grace, see themselves as the embodiment of retribution and national reckoning. They are determined to keep America’s sins—both real and imagined—ever before her, reminding her, flogging her, as a means of reducing us all to a pathetic national guilt that will be leveraged for evil purposes.
Don’t fall for it.
America paid for and repented of the sins of slavery and racism long ago. And a tenet central to the Christian faith—and, incidentally the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution—is that one is not tried twice for the same offense.
Last week Daily Wire published a column with the headline: “Trump is Our Only Hope.” This headline is problematic in more ways than I care to name. Suffice it to say that President Trump, meaningful as his role is, is not the repository of our hope. It is more than any mere mortal can bear. Furthermore, no legislation, no executive order can save this country if it is, in fact, hellbent on suicide. There is one thing and one thing alone that can heal America’s deep divisions. Indeed, what Americans need individually is what they need corporately:
The grace of God.
Larry Alex Taunton is the Executive Director of the Fixed Point Foundation and a freelance columnist contributing to USA Today, Fox News, First Things, The Atlantic, CNN, Daily Caller, and The American Spectator. He is also the author of The Grace Effect, The Gospel Coalition Book of the Year The Faith of Christopher Hitchens, and the soon-to-be-released Around the World in (More Than) 80 Days. (Available for pre-order now) You can subscribe to his blog at larryalextaunton.com and find him on Twitter @larrytaunton.
Letter to Christians in troubled times
https://larryalextaunton.com/2020/11/letter-to-christians-in-troubled-times/
The following article by Larry Taunton was published just prior to the last American election on November 8, 2020:
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Larry Alex Taunton is the Executive Director of the Fixed Point Foundation and a freelance columnist contributing to USA Today, Fox News, First Things, The Atlantic, CNN, Daily Caller, and The American Spectator. He is also the author of The Grace Effect, The Gospel Coalition Book of the Year The Faith of Christopher Hitchens, and the soon-to-be-released Around the World in (More Than) 80 Days. (Available for pre-order now) You can subscribe to his blog at larryalextaunton.com and find him on Twitter @larrytaunton.
THE RAPTURE
WHY IS ALL THIS STUFF HAPPENING?
THE RAPTURE
Part II of “Why is all this stuff happening?”
The Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Quaker, etc, reject the idea. of an “ascension/snatching away” (Raptura in the Latin Vulgate – Harpazo in Greek) of Christians to meet Jesus in the Clouds and members of these denominations have never received teaching on this particular potential phenomena. There are three divisions of teaching on this phenomena called PreTrib, MidTrib, and PostTrib.
This writer favors the PreTrib because: 1. A Bridegroom would never subject his fiancé to physical/emotional abuse prior to marriage. 2. Re. Mid Trib.: There cannot be an Antichrist signing a treaty until the “restrainer” (Holy Spirit God) allows it. Holy Spirit God is Yeshua’s engagement gift) who lives in Christians. (2Th 2:6 “And now you know what is restraining,” 3. Post-Trib is a yoyo effect – i.e. Yeshua comes down to pick up His people, goes on up, turns around and comes back down to earth with his people behind him in white robes, carrying swords and on horses. Really?
The word “Mystery” is used in Paul’s letters: Scripture: 1st Cor. and 1Thess (see scripture below).
The word refers to something in the beliefs of those following the Three-In-One God, which is now understandable but was not understood in the past.
Other references are noted as follows from www.biblegate.com:
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be “caught up” – Insert: (Greek-Harpazo) together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. … (Insert: “clouds” not earth).
1 Corinthians 15:51-53 ESV Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
Revelation 3:10 ESV Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.
1 Thessalonians 5:2 ESV / For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
Titus 2:13 ESV Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
1 Thessalonians 5:9 ESV For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, (Note: “wrath is used in Revelations 6:17 for the time of Jacob’s Trouble.) (Note – he will be saved out of it: (Jer 30:7 How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it.)
Philippians 3:20-21 ESV But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Luke 17:34-37 ESV / I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left. There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.” —
Matthew 24:27 ESV / For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. (Note: And so it would seem, Jeshua (Jesus) will come from the” east” in the clouds/sky. However, this passage most likely applies to the Second and Final Coming).
John 14:3 ESV And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Luke 21:34-36 ESV “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap. For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth. But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.” (Note: Those who meet Jeshua/Jesus “in the clouds” would not go through “wrath” or “tribulation”.)
1 Thessalonians 5:3 ESV /While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. (Note: This refers to those left in Jerusalem after Jeshua/Jesus has come in the clouds (Rapture) for His people and may also be after Israel signs a peace treaty with the Antichrist).
The following Scripture cannot occur as long as Christians are on earth:
2 Thessalonians 2:3 ESV /Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, (Note: “Rebellion” refers to such things as taking God out of schools and courts and in general the population turning away from Him, i.e. Apostasy. It would appear that to be Politically Correct (PC) is to be AntiGod, AntiChrist, AntiSemitic, etc. but the love of Jesus expressed through His true followers may lead the politically correct crowd back to God). (Additional printed information on political correctness and the Christian available upon request – from www.biblegateway.com).
Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. …
(Note: Jeshua/Jesus is the Bridegroom. The Bride (all Gentile and Jewish followers of Yeshua Messiah) accepted His engagement gift which was Holy Spirit God. What this verse says, is that just because He is delayed over 2000 years, He is still coming for His own.
If a Jewish woman accepted the wedding proposal a chalice of the “fruit of the vine” as noted in Matthew, Mark and Luke was offered to her. If she drank, the Bridegroom would say, “I will not drink of this again until you are in my Father’s House” and then his earthly father would give her a dowry perhaps consisting of a large amount of money to keep her safe in case he died. Then the Bridegroom would leave and fix up a really nice place for her attached to his father’s house, This might take up to a year).
Romans 10:9 ESV /Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Matthew 16:27 ESV For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
Matthew 24:44 ESV /Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
Matthew 24:37-42 ESV /For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. …(Note: this passage could refer to both being “caught up” as well as the Final time of the End of this age).
The following two passages refer to the End of this Age – The Second Coming:
Jude 1:14 ESV / It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones,
Revelation 19:14 ESV And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. (Note: The armies of heaven include the followers of Jeshua/Jesus).
The Second Coming of Jesus to Earth:
Mark 14:62 ESV / And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”
Daniel 12:1-13 ESV /“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” —
(Note: Knowledge has increased tremendously even to the point of commentators realizing Daniel and Revelation can be studied together.)
A Rapture passage:
John 14:1-31 ESV “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do.
A Scripture of Hope:
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV /He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
(Note: King David had the Ark of the Covenant in his tent on the West wall which ended the earth/land – a valley existed below. He would raise the West tent wall in the afternoon when the sun was setting, get on his knees and rest or pray in the shadow of the wings of the Cherubim that were on top of the Ark. )
SIGNS OF THE END OF THIS AGE
Dr David Jeremiah (10) described the previous historical “raptures” as follows: “Enoch, Heb 11:5, Elijah, 2Kings 2:11, Paul, 2nd Cor. 12:2-4 and Jeshua Messiah (Jesus) Acts 1: 10-11. In addition he mentions there are 350 plus prophecies of Jeshua Messiah’s First Coming, and 1,843 references to His Second coming.
Dr. Jeremiah in his book “The Book of Signs” (2) lists these signs of America decay:
- Abortion
- No-fault divorce
- Meaningless marriage rites/ceremonies
- Defamation of past national heroes
- Acceptance of alternative marriage forms
- Propagation of antifamily sentiment
- Acceptance of most forms of adultery
- Rebellious children
- Increased juvenile delinquency
- Common acceptance of all forms of sexual perversion
2nd Timothy also lists the following, some of which may be repetitious:
2Ti 3:1 “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God–“
In a less direct fashion, perhaps in our existing churches we see the following as fairly explicit:
2Pe 2:1 “But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them– bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2 Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3 In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.”
One cannot help thinking of the leaders of those who riot and destroy, (Socialists, Communists, Islamists, Marxists) when reading the follow scripture:
2 Peter 2:10: “Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11 yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12 But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13 They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
14 With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed– an accursed brood!
15 They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
16 But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey– a beast without speech– who spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
17 These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
18 For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error.
19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity– for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.
21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.
22 Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
(NIV)
America‘s increase in multiple religions is reminiscent of Israel as it had absorbed some of the people God allowed it to conquer. Israel then was always led to go against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, instead worshipping the false gods of those who now dwelled in their land. Simply stated, diversity will reduce the influence of Christianity. Beyond the false façade of smiling “peaceful” religions is a demonic purpose leading to a one world religion.
Although America seem to have been convinced by the Prince of the Power of the Air (Satan) via all TV, books, movies, songs, etc., that Islam is a religion it should be noted that numerous publications exist actually showing Islam as a political ideology and not at all a “religion”, much less “peaceful” religion as follows:
Ben Carson: Islam isn’t a religion, it’s a life organization system
Islam is a Political Ideology Disguised as a Religion
Don’t Be Fooled By The Nice Talk: Islam Views Christianity As The Enemy
Islam Is Not A Religion, It Is Foreign Law
Anyone Using The Phrase ‘Islam Is A Religion Of Peace’ Needs To Read This:
Islamic Deception: What Is Taqiyya?
http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2015/06/what-is-taqiyya.html
https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/78443/muslims-may-wear-cross-deceive-christians-
The site http://www.answeringmuslims.com/ as listed above is “filled” with articles on Islam as follows: Allah, Christianity, Women, Muhammad, Quran, Debates, Islam, Dearborn, etc. The founder of this site David Wood has converted quite a number of Muslims because he is an “apologist”, which means he is knowledgeable about many faiths as compared to Christianity and has decided to take the time to explain to individuals where they are wrong in their thinking.
One more internet site containing perhaps the most knowledge of Islam and it’s murder of the infidel (you) is titled as a web page: “What Makes Islam so Different”? -link: https://thereligionofpeace.com. This site lists articles on the following: Terror Attacks (year, or day, or month), Muhammad, Islam, Quran.
A complete historical book (15) was recently released by Robert Spencer, titled “The History of Jihad”, From Mohammed to Isis“, and details “the comprehensive history of the role of war and terror in the spread of Islam”.
In an interview with The Real News, Patrisse Cullors, who is credited as the co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM), confirmed “the movement was conceived by ‘trained Marxists’ pushing an agenda of Communist Revolution.” Cullors stated, “We actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and BLM co-founder, Alicia Garza, in particular are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists.”
But Marxism is not the only political ideology using African Americans for their own agenda. Islam has also proudly made that claim as they work to manipulate the black community for their own purpose.
Hamas leader Nihad Awad, co-founder and CEO of Council on American-Islamic Relations, spoke at the Mascina Convention, where he instructed other Hamas members, “We have to invest in the political process. You have to build relations. You have to run for public office. Minorities will play a major role in Black Lives Matter. It is our campaign.”
There is an unholy alliance behind Black Lives Matter and Antifa, Marxism, Islam and even other governments intent on bringing down America as they use the offense and naivete of the social justice movement to create chaos and destruction. https://www.bustle.com/p/where-did-antifa-come-from-the-movements-origins-go-back-to-germany-76340
Even as BLM insists it is “protesting police brutality and racial injustice” with “peaceful protests” another picture has emerged which the media continues to try to cover up:
In its 65th night of rioting and protests, Portland BLM protestors burned Bibles and the American flag as they continued their attack against police and set fires in downtown.
Fraudulent President Joe Biden, rather than denouncing the ongoing riots and destruction of federal buildings and attacks against the citizens of Portland, slammed federal officers claiming they were brutally attacking “peaceful” protestors.
In Oakland, CA, Mayor Libby Schaaf’s home was vandalized as BLM and Antifa activists sought to intimidate her as they splattered red paint and sidewalk graffiti messages on the front of her home stating, “Wake Up, Libby” and “Black Blood on Your Hands.” According to a Bay area report, “the vandals allegedly shot projectiles at the Mayor’s house and set off fireworks.”
“Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King urged demonstrators to tear down Jesus Christ statues and murals because he said they are ‘a form of white supremacy’ on Twitter.
While Confederate monuments are being taken down all over the country, Christian statues are also reportedly being vandalized and churches have been set on fire,” reported the U.S. Sun.
Black Lives Matter protesters interrupted a Sunday worship service at Grace Baptist Church in Troy, New York and verbally assaulted and tried to intimidate worshippers as they harassed them.
One worshipper responded to the assault saying, “Jesus loves you” to which a BLM member responded, “Jesus don’t love you.”
What does this have to do with their supposed objective of stopping police brutality?
Business leaders in Seattle filed a lawsuit against Seattle officials for allowing BLM and Antifa activists to “turn the city into a nightmare” as they took over a roughly 6 block area which they renamed CHOP (Capitol Hill Occupied Protest) after activists kicked out police. (Two people were killed and numerous injured during the weeks long takeover.)
“The mayor and City Council abandoned this neighborhood,” stated Bill Donner whose custom printing and decals business employed 70 people. However, it wasn’t until BLM activists marched to Mayor Durkan’s personal residence to further their demands accompanied by Muslim councilmember Kshama Sawant, that the mayor finally took action to bring order back to the neighborhood.
In a speech, Seattle’s Muslim Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, who under the guise of BLM and the death of George Floyd led the takeover of the CHOP “no police” zone, vowed to overthrow the United States to replace the government and society with a “socialist world.” (Note: Argentina is now a Dictatorship. It was a “socialist” nation). However, if Sawant is truly a Muslim, her duty would be to kill most of the Infidels, leaving only enough to work for her and the other Muslims. Well, then there are the sex slaves, kitchen slaves, cleaning slaves, etc. per Sharia law.
When she speaks, (see above) there is no word about black lives. Instead she makes it clear this is about a government takeover.
What is Sharia Taquiya?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsaohoSbcrA
In New York a video shows BLM rioters receiving a shipment of baseball bats before their well-organized attacked against police on the Brooklyn Bridge. The attack injured four officers, including Police Chief Terence Monahan who had taken a knee with Black Lives Matter protesters prior to the attack. Taking a knee as it regards Jesus/Yeshua, Php 2:9 “Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,” —
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, state Sen. Tim Carpenter (D-WI) was headed to work at the Capitol when he snapped a picture of protesters gathered outside the building. “The next thing, I’m getting five-six punches, getting kicked in the head,” Carpenter told the newspaper.
The connections between Black Lives Matter to Antifa, Islam, Marxism and their goal to overthrow the American government is clear by their own words. But other governments are also manipulating the movement for their own aggression against America.
According to The Ukrainian Weekly, Russia also has its hooks in the actions of BLM and Antifa.
“The anarcho-communist movement is decentralized, composed of small cells, some of whom openly vow to engage in an armed struggle to trigger a civil war to abolish the current system and replace it with communism. Although they claim to be antifascists, in reality they are fascism personified.
“Despite abundant evidence that neo-Marxists have a hand in these protests and riots, very few journalists have been willing to expose the truth. Mainstream (always leftist, antiamerican, usually DFL) media portray them as a well-meaning alliance of idealists who seek nothing more than to thwart the evils of right-wing ‘fascism.’
“Although the Black Lives Matter movement has become mainstream, it’s unfortunate that so many well-intentioned Black and other good people have been duped into helping achieve Antifa’s nefarious ends. In truth, recent riots have little to do with race and everything to do with regime change and revolution.” https://newsmaven.io/americanminute/american-history/hitler-s-brownshirts-used-antifa-tactics-to-overthrow-germany-s-republic-d-day-B-YhR8qHLUO7VMEa8x7ceQ
As the destruction of property continues against federal buildings, businesses, churches, and the call for removal of any statues of Jesus, Ken Blackwell, a board member of the American Civil Rights union and former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission explained, “These folks have an agenda, which is to fundamentally transform America.
Scripture regarding “wrath” and the decline of morality:
Ro 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities– his eternal power and divine nature– have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator– who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
SUGGESTED PRAYER: ”Lord, we pray that the truth is coming to light. We pray that You would open the eyes of those who have aligned themselves with Black Lives Matter out of a true desire to see racial healing in our nation.
Lord, let them see and hear what even Black Lives Matter says about itself, as an organization that promotes a destruction of the nuclear family, promotion of abortion and homosexuality and the ideology of its Marxist leaders. Lord, You said we are to be ministers of reconciliation. That is the job of the Church.
So may we do that to pray for healing not only between the races, but also between the black community and the police. Lord, we pray for revival to transform hearts, which will bring the true healing that is needed in every area of these riots and protests.
Author and lecturer Aviv Lipkin links the destruction of historic American monuments to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is a group connected to the Terrorist Organizations Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Black Lives Matter.
According to Lipkin, Islamic leaders boast of how they use black Americans to be the first to “take the fall for Allah as they work to convince them that fighting the whites, Jews, the Christians, America is beneficial to them.”
In reality it is beneficial to Islam.
Assuming John 3:3 and John 14:6 are understood, Yeshua Messiah/Jesus states in Mt 25:31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory.
32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.
35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,
36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?
38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?
39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,
43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
(NIV)
Because of the strong possibility of future Apostasy, Peter was impelled by Holy Spirit God to write the following:
2Pe 3:2 I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.
3 First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”
5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but In everyone to come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.
11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives
12 as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.
13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.
14 So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him.
Yeshua Messiah/Jesus states in Matt. 25, “it will be as in the time of Noah”.
Dr. Jeremiah, in The Book of Signs (2) writes:” Eating, Drinking, Marrying, Having Kids, Raising Kids, Working 9-5, Kicking back on the weekends, Life goes on. —And we drift along with the prevailing culture, the prevalent attitudes, And the Bible tells us that is the way it will be when Jesus comes again.”
Question: “What the difference between ignorance and apathy?”
Answer: “I don’t know and I don’t care”.
Nobody wants to hear about a Rapture or a Second Coming. Noah preached for 120 years and not one person believed him concerning the flood. Then God, not Noah, closed the door to the Ark. That was it.
Question: Does it make any difference whether I believe in the Rapture or not? Answer: No. Not Really. As long as you are a true Christian.
Amir Tsarfati (11) in writing of the Rapture states that when Prince William or Prince Harry married their various duchesses, they did not put them through a trial by ordeal to prove their faithfulness. Amir finds two fatal flaws to the “post-tribulation” theory, i.e. “the first is the belief that the church is not worthy to marry the Savior and the second is Jeshua’s promise to keep us from the coming wrath: Re 3:10 “Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.”
The Holy words of 2 Chronicles 7:14 are now repeatedly seen in nearly all publications having to do with the end times, or the end of the age, or in America‘s case, it’s disintegration. Many people cannot believe God would destroy America, however God did destroy the city He loved – Jerusalem, as well as His own Temple. Billy Graham said that if God did not punish America, He would have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.
( 2Ch 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.)
Amir Tsarfati notes in his Devotional Bible Bites in August -2020,
“The first coming of Jesus was to His people for the issue of sin. Then He’s going to come in the clouds, according to 1 Thessalonians 4, for His church.
But, He’s not going to make landfall. And it’s going to be, “Ding”, we’re gone, in the twinkling of an eye as 1 Corinthians chapter 15 says. We will change, we will disappear. But, when Jesus comes back (Second Coming) with His saints– with us, and His feet will stand on Mount of Olives, as Zachariah 14 says, the whole world will see it. So, for the church, the coming of Jesus to take us will be very, very swift and this is called The Rapture.
Nobody will manage to even notice that. But, for Israel, the coming of the Messiah at the end of the Tribulation will be something no one can be able to miss.”
“And ladies and gentlemen, look what He says, Matt:24:29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light. The stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven.
And then the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send his angels with great sound of a trumpet, and what? And they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the ends of heaven to another. Now, it’s the church, this elect is the church. Why? He’s gathering them where? From heaven.” (Note: “the tribes” include Israel).
Encouraging scriptures
1.) Fear not [there is nothing to fear], for I am with you; do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you; yes, I will hold you up and retain you with my [victorious] right hand of rightness and justice. – Isaiah 41:10 AMP
2.) Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. – Joshua 1:9 ESV
3.) God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble. – Psalm 46:1
Proof of God’s faithfulness
In spite of the difficulties and the situations that confront us, there is proof of God’s faithfulness
4.) No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful and he will not let you to be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will provide a way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. – 1 Corinthians 10:13
5.) The Lord also will be a refuge and a stronghold for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble; And those who know your name [who have experienced your precious mercy] will put their confident trust in you, For you, O Lord, have not abandoned those who seek you. – Psalm 9:9
6.) Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generation. – Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV
Ps 9:9 The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
10 Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
We must never lose hope
7.) Now may God, the source of hope, fill you with all joy and peace as you believe, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. – Romans 15:13 ISV
8.) Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you are involved in various trials, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. But you must let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. – James 1:2-4 ISV
Don’t allow anything to distract you
9.) Shout for joy, you heavens; rejoice, you earth; burst into song, you mountains! For the Lord comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones. – Isaiah 49:13 NIV
10.) Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. – Colossians 3:2 NIV
11.) Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters. – Colossians 3:23
To focus our minds on the human nature leads to death, but to focus our minds on the Spirit leads to life and peace. – Romans 8:6 ISV
His [God’s] promise to guide
12.) I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. – Psalm 32:8 ESV
13.) Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. – Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV
14.) His word is a lamp unto my/your feet and a light to my path. – Psalm 119:105
God’s everlasting love and His covenant
15.) No power in the sky above or the earth below – indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 8:39
16.) For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. – John 3:16 NASB
In the midst of all the noise, chaos and confusion, God hears and answer prayers.
17.) Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know. – Jeremiah 33:3 NASB
18.) This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. – 1 John 5:14 NIV
19.) When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble, I will rescue and honor them. – Psalm 91:15 NLT
Be patient while you wait
20.) Be still in the presence of the LORD, and wait patiently for him to act. Don’t worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes. – Psalm 37:7
2 Peter 2:9 —-then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
Re 3:10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.
In the Biblical book of Daniel – Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego are a good picture of being saved from having to bow down to someone other than Yeshua.
In 1984 Slick Willie “I never had sex with that woman”, proclaimed June as Gay and Lesbian month. The same template for former President Clinton as King Ahab in the Old Testament was used in that Clinton was the first American President to be truly impeached and Ahab was told by a prophet of God that he would die and all of his 70 sons would be killed. It happened!
When President Trump rose to power in 2015, the temple of BAAL in Syria was completely destroyed except for the front Arch, which was smuggled into New York and dedicated – not far from Government offices.
Elections are not the answer.!
The answer always is:
2Ch 7:14 “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
President Trump was a “window” of time to begin the process of repentance and taking back the land of America from the evil corrupt deep state in which it now stands. The true Christian and Patriots are the Elijah’s of this time.
The reader really must read 1 Kings 18:20-40 for a story of encouragement over the Jezebel of this time. Elijah took on the 450 priests of Baal who killed babies and young children. God answered his prayer and these priests were utterly defeated.
Silence of conservatives will bring swift defeat.
There are no literal or prophetic events to be fulfilled before the Rapture of all those who follow Yeshua Messiah.
In the meantime, however, these followers can expect increased persecution — Christians, Messianic (believers) Jews, and Non-Messianic Jews — in the form of no more bibles, no prayers, and eventually jail or death for being a follower of Jesus/Yeshua or an Orthodox Jew.
Otherwise, there are no dates provided in Scripture, but the words spoken by Yeshua about nation against nation disputes, deception, delusions, devastation, famines, illnesses, more pandemics, earthquakes, bad weather, and so on – all gradually increasing over time are things to be watching. After everyone you know looks like 2 Tim. 3:1-4 -( whoops, guess they already are), you will become aware of how close to the end we are.
CLOSING REMARKS:
Cahn, in his closing of The Oracle, (1), in speaking of God calling us back to Him uses the following words, which may also be seen in many areas of scripture, describing our God of Love:
“I have known you from the beginning, from before you took your first step, before you breathed your first breath, before you were even conceived. I have seen all your tears and have known all your sorrows and wounds and pain, all your longings and hopes, all your fears, your dreams and heartbreaks, your burdens and weariness, your times of asking Me why, your cries of loneliness and emptiness, your times of separation, your mornings for what was lost, your weaknesses and failings, your wanderings, your sin and shame….And I have still loved you with an everlasting love.
And now I call you to leave the darkness, and all that is passed, and all that I never willed, or purposed for your life…that the days of your separation will come to an end. It is time now to return. It is time to come home…to enter the inheritance of blessing you never knew but were born to enter. It is time for your Jubilee.
Come to me and I will not turn you away but will receive you. And I will wipe away all your tears. I will forgive all your sins. I will heal all your wounds. And I will turn all your sorrows into joy. And you will forget your days of darkness and wandering, the days of your separation. And I will make all things new.
And I will bring you into a land where the crippled walk, where deserts bloom, where the blind see, where the defiled become pure, and where that which was lost is found again. I will bring you to a place you have never known and yet have always longed to be, to your Promised Land. And I will never leave you. And you will never again know what it is to be lost. For in that day, you will have come home. You will be mine and I will be yours…forever.
The Iowa State Senate Prays to Allah – Twice
The Iowa State Senate opens each daily session with a prayer. On February 8, State Senator Sarah Trone Garriott (D) “shared a prayer” written by one of her constituents who was a Muslim. The prayer was to Allah and included references to a number of Allah’s 99 Names.[1] It is interesting that the Iowa State Senate prayed to the Muslim god Allah, even though there are no Muslim members of that Senate. And it is even more interesting that these state senators bowed their heads in prayer to a god who curses Christians and Jews and condemns them to Hell.
Here is what Allah has to say in the Koran about Christians and Jews:
Allah states that the only religion acceptable to him is Islam (e.g., 3:19 and 3:85); Christians and Jews are disbelievers[2] (e.g. 2:120, 3:99, 3:110, and 5:65), and Jews are among the worst enemies of Muslims (5:82); Allah curses Christians and Jews (9:30) and states that those who believe that Allah had a Son commit the one unforgivable sin in Islam, Shirk[3](e.g. 4:48 and 4:116); Allah states that those who commit Shirk will go to Hell (e.g. 3:151 and 5:72-73); Allah states that Christians and Jews are among the worst of creatures and “will abide in the fire of Hell” (98:6); Allah specifically forbids Muslims from being friends with Christians and Jews (5:51), and instead commands Muslims to fight Christians and Jews (9:29).
Christianity is considered to be a false religion because Allah states that Jesus was not crucified, but it only appeared so (4:157-158). Islam teaches that Allah took Jesus bodily into paradise and made one of Jesus’ disciples look like Jesus; it was that disciple who was crucified. So Muslims who know their religion look at a crucifix or a painting of the Crucifixion and see an imposter hanging on the cross. And of course, if there was no Crucifixion, there was no Resurrection. So Islam teaches that Christianity is a false religion based on a fraud.
According to Koran 4:80, Muhammad spoke for Allah. Here is some of what Muhammad had to say about Christians and Jews:
- Christians and Jews will take the place of Muslims in Hell: Abu Burda reported on the authority of his father that Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: No Muslim would die but Allah would admit instead of him a Jew or a Christian in Hell-Fire.[4]
- Muhammad said that Christians and Jews who remained with their respective religions and did not believe in Islam would go to Hell: It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: By Him in whose hand is the life of Muhammad, he who amongst the community of Jews or Christians hears about me but does not affirm his belief in that with which I have been sent and dies in this state (of disbelief), he shall be but one of the denizens of Hell-Fire.[5]
- Muhammad said that Christians and Jews were inferior to Muslims: It was narrated from ‘Amr bin Shu’aib, from his father, from his grandfather, that the Messenger of Allah ruled that the blood money for the People of the Book is half of that of the blood money for the Muslims, and they are the Jews and Christians.[6]
- Muhammad said Muslims must not be the first to greet Christians and Jews: Abu Huraira reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) had said: Do not greet the Jews and the Christians before they greet you and when you meet any one of them on the roads force him to go to the narrowest part of it.[7]
- And on his death bed Muhammad had this to say: It has been narrated by ‘Umar b. Al-Khattab that he heard the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) saying: I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslims.[8]
Here is what Allah’s prophet Muhammad specifically said about Jews:
- Kill the Jews: Narrated Abu Hurairah: Allah’s Messenger said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight against the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.’”[9]
- Muhammad said the Jews were grave robbers. Al-Bukhari reported this hadith under the heading of What has been said about Bani Israel: ‘Uqba bin ‘Amir said, “I heard him [Muhammad] saying that the Israeli used to dig the grave of the dead (to steal their shrouds).”[10]
- Muhammad even said that Jews would be accompanying the anti-Christ: Anas b. Malik reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: The antichrist would be followed by seventy thousand Jews of Isbahan wearing Persian shawls.[11]
This was not the first time the Iowa State Senate had opened a session by praying to Allah. On April 7, 2014, the opening prayer for the Senate that day was given by Des Moines Imam Mohammad Khan. In Arabic Khan recited the first chapter of the Koran – Al-Fatihah (this was confirmed by a native Arabic speaker).[12]
Al-Fatihah consists of only seven verses. Let’s focus on the last two verses. In Verse 6 Muslims ask to be guided to the Straight Way. Allah’s prophet Muhammad said the Straight Way (or Path) was Islam.[13] The modern Tafsir Ahsanul-Bayan explained the meaning of the Straight Path:
The Straight Path here means the religion of Islam as enshrined, enunciated and explained in the final Revelation, the Qur’an, and the authentic sayings and acts of Allah’s Messenger, called hadeeth.[14]
In Verse 7, Muslims then ask not to be guided to the way of those who have earned Allah’s anger or to the way of those who have gone astray. So who are those who have earned the anger of Allah? Allah’s prophet Muhammad said they were the Jews.[15] And who has gone astray? Allah’s prophet Muhammad said that those who had gone astray, or were misguided, were the Christians.[16]
The Muslim scholar Ibn Kathir explained these two deviations from the Straight Way:
These two paths are the paths of the Christians and Jews, a fact that the believer [Muslim] should beware of so that he avoids them. The path of the believers is knowledge of the truth and abiding by it. In comparison, the Jews abandoned practicing the religion, while the Christians lost the true knowledge. This is why ‘anger’ descended upon the Jews, while being described as ‘led astray’ is more appropriate of the Christians…We should also mention that both the Christians and the Jews have earned the anger [of Allah] and are led astray, but the anger is one of the attributes more particular of the Jews.[17]
So Allah is actually angry with both the Jews and Christians!
On two different occasions now the members of the Iowa State Senate have bowed their heads and prayed to Allah, the god of Islam, who curses the Christian and Jewish senators in that body and condemns them to Hell. It takes some thick skin to be a Christian or Jewish elected official in the Iowa State Senate.
Dr. Stephen M. Kirby is the author of six books about Islam. His latest book is Islamic Doctrine versus the U.S. Constitution: The Dilemma for Muslim Public Officials.
[1]https://www.legis.iowa.gov/dashboard?view=video&chamber=S&clip=s20210208125917369&dt=2021-02-08 – it starts at 1:07.
[2] For an in-depth look at how the Koran and Muhammad differentiated between the “believers” (Muslims) and the Jews and Christians, see my article “The Fantasy Islam of the University of Chicago’s Fred Donner (Part 1),” Jihad Watch, January 30, 2019, https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/01/the-fantasy-islam-of-the-university-of-chicagos-fred-donner-part-1.
[3]Shirk: polytheism, worshipping others along with Allah, and/or ascribing partners to Allah (including ascribing a Son to him). By believing that Jesus is the Son of God, Christians commit Shirk.
[4] Abu’l Hussain ‘Asakir-ud-Din Muslim bin Hajjaj al-Qushayri al-Naisaburi, Sahih Muslim, trans. ‘Abdul Hamid Siddiqi (New Delhi, India: Adam Publishers and Distributors, 2008), Vol. 8, No. 2767R1, p. 269.
[5]Sahih Muslim, Vol. 1, No. 153, p. 103.
[6] Muhammad bin Yazeed ibn Majah al-Qazwini, Sunan Ibn Majah, trans. Nasiruddin al-Khattab (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007), Vol. 3, No. 2644, p. 521.
[7]Sahih Muslim, Vol. 6, No. 2167, p. 439.
[8]Sahih Muslim, Vol. 5, No. 1767, p. 189.
[9] Muhammad bin Ismail bin Al-Mughirah al-Bukhari, Sahih Al-Bukhari, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 1997), Vol. 4, Book 56, No. 2926, p. 113.
In another hadith, Muhammad said that the Jews would hide behind stones and trees, and these stones and trees would call out,
Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.
Sahih Muslim, Vol. 8, No. 2922, p. 349.
[10]Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 4, Book 60, No. 3452, p. 413. Bani Israel, or Banii Israa’iil, is an expression used in the Koran to refer to the early Jews. See the entry for Israa’iil in Mahmoud Ismail Saleh, Dictionary of Islamic Words & Expressions, 3rd ed. (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2011), p. 102.
[11]Sahih Muslim, Vol. 8, No. 2944, p. 366.
[12]https://www.legis.iowa.gov/chambers/video/archive?chamber=S&ga=85; click on the link to the Senate session on April 7, 2014 at 1:12 PM.
[13] Abu al-Fida’ ‘Imad Ad-Din Isma’il bin ‘Umar bin Kathir al-Qurashi Al-Busrawi, Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged), abr. Shaykh Safiur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, trans. Jalal Abualrub, et al. (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2000), Vol. 1, p. 84.
[14] Salahuddin Yusuf, Tafsir Ahsanul-Bayan, trans. Mohammad Kamal Myshkat (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2010), Vol. 1, p. 23.
[15] Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ansari al-Qurtubi, Tafsir Al-Qurtubi: Classical Commentary of the Holy Qur’an, Vol. 1, trans. Aisha Bewley (London: Dar Al Taqwa Ltd., 2003), p. 127; Abu ‘Eisa Mohammad ibn ‘Eisa at-Tirmidhi, Jami’ At-Tirmidhi, trans. Abu Khaliyl (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007), Vol. 5, No. 2954, p. 281; Interpretation of the Meanings of The Noble Qur’an, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan and Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007), n. 1, p. 12; Safiur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, The Sealed Nectar (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2008), p. 493; Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 4, p. 410; and Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 6, Book 65, No. 4475, p. 22.
Commentary about the Jews being those with whom Allah is angry is found in: Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 1, p. 87; Tafsir Ahsanul-Bayan, Vol. 1, p. 24; and Jalalu’d-Din al-Mahalli and Jalalu’d-Din as-Suyuti, Tafsir Al-Jalalayn, trans. Aisha Bewley (London: Dar Al Taqwa Ltd., 2007), p. 2.
[16]Tafsir Al-Qurtubi, p. 127; Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 4, p. 410; Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 6, Book 65, No. 4475, p. 22; Jami’ At-Tirmidhi, Vol. 5, No. 2954, p. 281; Interpretation of the Meanings of The Noble Qur’an, n. 1, p. 12; and The Sealed Nectar, p. 493.
Commentary about the Christians being those who had gone astray is found in: Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 1, p. 87; Tafsir Ahsanul-Bayan, Vol. 1, p. 24; and Tafsir Al-Jalalayn, p. 2.
[17]Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 1, p. 87.
Today ‘violent extremists,’ means patriots
When the current regime in Washington, D.C. says they are ‘going after violent extremists,’ they mean patriots
When the current regime in Washington, D.C. says they are “going after violent extremists,” they mean patriots.
Three weeks ago, President Obama’s “Counter-Terrorism Czar” and the former Director of Central Intelligence, John Brennan, spoke on MSNBC and stated the Biden team is moving in “laser-like fashion” to identify “religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, and even libertarians” who constitute, in Brennan’s words, a great threat to the Republic. He said that the civilian enforcement and intelligence agencies, as well as the military, are and should be working to root out this “threat.”
In describing the threat, Brennan specifically mentioned the previous administration and its supporters.
Two weeks ago, the Biden Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin, warning of “objections” to “governmental authority.” The report states in part: “Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence.”
Who are the “violent extremists” they are discussing?
Constitutionally-minded patriots.
Not sure of that?
Last week, Robert Grenier, the former CIA Station Chief for Pakistan/Afghanistan told NPR that the U.S. needs to handle people such as those who “stormed” the U.S. Capitol on January 6 the same way the U.S. government handled insurgents in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In other words, kill them.
Also last week, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered a sixty-day military-wide “STAND DOWN” order so that the military can purge “extremists” from its ranks. In his confirmation hearing, Austin said, “If confirmed, I will fight hard to…rid our ranks of racists and extremists…”
A noble effort.
So how are we defining “extremists?”
Remember: during the Obama administration, “extremists” included military veterans returning from combat.
From where did the term “violent extremist” come?
First, let’s back up to a few years after September 11, 2001, when the U.S. government brought the “Countering Violent Extremism” (CVE) program to the United States from Britain.
The CVE program in Britain was created by Muslim Brotherhood groups, including the Muslim Council of Britain, the Muslim Association of Britain, and others.
U.S. officials, thinking anything the Brits do must be awesome, literally bought this program in its totality and brought it back into the FBI, DHS, CIA, et al.
The main purpose of CVE is to define threats as “violent extremism” so that intelligence and law enforcement agencies target “extremists” instead of jihadis, communists, and other definable threats.
If you cannot name the threat, you cannot target the threat, and, therefore, you can never defeat the threat.
Also, the DHS CVE Working Group has included jihad enablers such as Mohamed Elibiary, Mohamed Magid, and others, who were given secret clearances during their tenure at DHS.
So here we are, 20 years after 9/11, and not only is America much farther away from defeating the jihadis and communists, the communists just seized executive power in the United States one month ago.
On January 30, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace suggested that Trump supporters who “incited violence” at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 be convicted just like Al Qaeda’s leader in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who also “incited violence” and was killed in a U.S. drone strike in September 2011.
Put aside the fact for a moment that Nicolle Wallace lied when she said that al-Awlaki was killed because he “incited violence.” Awlaki was actually killed because he was the leader of Al Qaeda in Yemen and responsible for jihad attacks inside the United States.
The fact that the propaganda arm of the U.S. communist/jihadi cabal, the traditional media, is openly calling for violence against Americans exercising their unalienable right to freely express themselves and hold the federal government accountable when it is ruled by those hostile to the Constitution should alarm and alert all thoughtful patriots.
The point is clear. The U.S. government under the current communist regime in the White House will use and is using its full power to suppress and eliminate opposition.
The communists/democrats did it to President Trump when they traitorously and unlawfully used the FBI, CIA, DNI, and other agencies to spy on him, his family, and his staff.
They are doing and will do it to citizens.
For those unable to see this unfolding before them, Understanding The Threat (UTT) encourages you to attempt to educate yourselves and join the patriots who are working diligently to reestablish a republican form of government at the local and state level right now around America.
From:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/02/when-the-current-regime-in-washington-d-c-says-they-are-going-after-violent-extremists-they-mean-patriots?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_2021_02_14_jihad_watch_daily_digest&utm_term=2021-02-14
Statement by Donald J. Trump Feb. 13, 2021
February 13, 2021
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
“Our cherished Constitutional Republic was founded on the impartial rule of law, the indispensable safeguard for our liberties, our rights and our freedoms.
“It is a sad commentary on our times that one political party in America is given a free pass to denigrate the rule of law, defame law enforcement, cheer mobs, excuse rioters, and transform justice into a tool of political vengeance, and persecute, blacklist, cancel and suppress all people and viewpoints with whom or which they disagree. I always have, and always will, be a champion for the unwavering rule of law, the heroes of law enforcement, and the right of Americans to peacefully and honorably debate the issues of the day without malice and without hate.
“This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country. No president has ever gone through anything like it, and it continues because our opponents cannot forget the almost 75 million people, the highest number ever for a sitting president, who voted for us just a few short months ago.
“I also want to convey my gratitude to the millions of decent, hardworking, law-abiding, God-and-Country loving citizens who have bravely supported these important principles in these very difficult and challenging times.
“Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun. In the months ahead I have much to share with you, and I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all of our people. There has never been anything like it!
“We have so much work ahead of us, and soon we will emerge with a vision for a bright, radiant, and limitless American future.
“Together there is nothing we cannot accomplish.
“We remain one People, one family, and one glorious nation under God, and it’s our responsibility to preserve this magnificent inheritance for our children and for generations of Americans to come.
“May God bless all of you, and may God forever bless the United States of America.”
https://canadafreepress.com/article/statement-by-donald-j.-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america