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Kerry and Martin Indyk, right, while returning from a trip to Jordan and Saudi Arabia,
at Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv Israel, on Sunday Jan. 5,
Martin Indyk briefs Jewish leaders on two-state proposal, says Abbas may let remaining settlers stay as Palestinian citizens if they wish.
Kerry, left, walks with US Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Martin Indyk, right, while returning from a trip to Jordan and Saudi Arabia, at Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv Israel, on Sunday Jan. 5,
The US is pressuring Israel to ignore its security concerns and persuade a skeptical Israeli public to accept US Secretary of State John Kerry's plans, which include Israeli withdrawal from the Jordan Valley in stages over the next 10 years, according to recent reports by Channel 2 news.
US head envoy over the peace talks Martin Indyk has met with senior IDF generals in recent days according to the report, urging them to accept the deal.
Further, Indyk and his staff have reportedly told generals to "go to the media and be interviewed and respond, because they have the impression that the Israeli public has doubts about the subject."
IDF Military Intelligence Director Major General Aviv Kochavi, August 08, 2013.
(photo: FLASH90)
Aviv Kochavi lists missile threat ahead of Iran nuke program; says in time, though, cyberwarfare will prove most dramatic change on battlefield
The head of Israel’s most powerful intelligence agency depicted Wednesday a changing battlefield in which offensive cyber capabilities will, in the near future, represent the greatest shift in combat doctrine in over 1,000 years. For now, though, he said, the 170,000 rockets and missiles pointed by enemy states at Israel represented the most pressing threat, a danger he placed even above Iran’s rogue nuclear program
“Cyber, in my humble opinion, and you don’t have to agree with me, will be revealed in a not very long time as a revolution greater than the creation of gunpowder or the usage of the aerial space at the start of the past century,” said Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, the head of the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate. Kochavi, a former infantry officer, called the possibilities inherent in cyber warfare “nearly limitless, and that is not a metaphor.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting,
November 17, 2013. (Photo credit: Yossi Aloni/POOL/Flash90)
Session spurred by Dutch firm’s decision to cut ties with Israeli banks over government’s West Bank policies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene a meeting Wednesday morning with senior ministers in order to discuss growing concerns over European sanctions against Israel
The session will include most of the government ministers, Haaretz reported, including Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Finance Minister Yair Lapid, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Education Minister Shai Piron, and Science and Technology Minister Yaakov Peri.
Military Intelligence, Foreign Ministry, Mossad and Shin Bet representatives will also attend, as will the Attorney-General and Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.
Koenig: The extremely weak EU economies will be 'toast' if boycotts hurt Israel!
Finance Minister says European boycotts will ‘hit every Israeli,’ hike up living costs and cut government budgets
A boycott of Israeli products by European countries, in the event that peace talks fail, would be a dramatic blow to the Israeli economy, Finance Minister Yair Lapid warned on Wednesday, in his address at the Institute for National Security Studies conference
Based on an evaluation prepared by the Finance Ministry’s chief economist, Lapid said that even a low-scale boycott would “hit every Israeli citizen directly in his pocket.” The cost of living would rise, and education, security, health, and welfare budgets would be slashed, he said.
Furthermore, exports would face a loss of NIS 20 billion, GDP would likely be lowered by NIS 11 billion a year, and 9,800 workers would be laid off immediately.
“We must recognize that if the talks fail — and the world will believe they failed because of us — there will be a price, and it’s best we know what that price is,” Lapid said.
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| Friday, Jan 31, 2014 03:39:08 AM EST Indyk to Jewish leaders: Framework peace plan to arrive in weeks | Friday, Jan 31, 2014 01:34:46 AM EST Kerry mulls speech to Israelis in hopes of mustering support for concessions | Friday, Jan 31, 2014 01:21:26 AM EST IAF strikes Gaza after rocket fired at Israel |
| Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 03:17:42 PM EST Demonstrators rally at Western Wall against peace deal with Palestinians | Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 01:36:19 AM EST Americans Support Israeli Positions Overwhelmingly | Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 01:23:37 AM EST Israel as ‘major strategic ally’ bill passes key House panel |
| Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 12:53:38 AM EST 'Kerry Plan’ said to include shared Jerusalem, Jewish state recognition | Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 06:59:25 PM EST Iran can now build and deliver nukes, US intel reports | Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 01:41:16 AM EST Hamas Cell Nabbed on Temple Mount |
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| Friday, Jan 31, 2014 04:05:01 AM EST Top Obama aide predicts drama-free U.S. debt ceiling increase | Friday, Jan 31, 2014 03:48:37 AM EST Obama will nominate Navy Vice Adm. Rogers to head NSA, an Expert on Cyberwar | Friday, Jan 31, 2014 03:21:18 AM EST McConnell: Obama, IRS Fight to Keep Conservative Nonprofits from Forming |
| Friday, Jan 31, 2014 01:22:44 AM EST Obama says Walmart, Apple, others to help jobless | Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 03:05:28 PM EST No, we’re not a normal family, says Obama’s Jewish half-brother | Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 03:04:27 PM EST Sharansky: If Obama had backed Iran’s dissidents, Arab Spring might have looked different |
| Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 01:24:30 AM EST Obama to host Jordan’s King Abdullah in California | Thursday, Jan 30, 2014 12:55:58 AM EST The State Of The Union Address In 3 Minutes (video) | Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 01:18:05 AM EST Six things we learned from the State of the Union |
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Inspired by God
"The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day." - E. M. Bounds
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| Friday, Aug 16, 2013 01:44:04 AM EDT January 31: Quietness - Streams in the Desert | Tuesday, Mar 05, 2013 02:57:42 AM EST January 31: Do You See Your Calling? - Oswald Chambers | Tuesday, Mar 05, 2013 02:56:46 AM EST January 31: The Blessings of God - Charles Stanley |
| Thursday, Mar 12, 2009 10:36:42 AM EDT A.W. Tozer's Daily Devotional | Thursday, Mar 12, 2009 10:35:45 AM EDT Charles Spurgeon's 'Morning and Evening' Daily Devotional | Thursday, Mar 12, 2009 10:34:26 AM EDT Daily Light 'Morning and Evening' Devotional - Jonathan Bagster |
| Friday, Aug 08, 2008 08:36:37 AM EDT Charles Stanley's Audio Messages | Sunday, Dec 09, 2007 08:35:44 AM EST McLean Bible's Internet Services - Pastor Lon Solomon: Services are "live" Sunday' at 9 am, 10:45 am, & 12:30 pm (Eastern-US), rebroadcast Monday at 2 pm (Eastern-US) | Wednesday, Jan 31, 2007 04:14:46 PM EST Pastor Lon Solomon, McLean Bible Church, McLean, Virginia - Sermons by Date, Series and Podcasts |
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Stanford law prof: Second Amendment is about restricting gun rights
John J. Donohue, a member of the Stanford Law School faculty, made his remarks during a debate with attorney Donald Kilmer, an adjunct professor at Lincoln Law School of San Jose.
Syria peace talks due to end in Geneva
The current round of peace negotiations on Syria is due to end in Switzerland later on Friday, with little or no progress expected on core issues. After a week of talks at the UN headquarters in Geneva, the opposing sides are still stuck on the question of how to proceed. UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said he hopes for more progress in next week's second round of talks.
UK floods: More weather warnings for south and west
More rain, high winds and high tides are set to hit the south and west of the UK, causing further flooding. The Met Office is warning of heavy rain in southern England - including the already flooded Somerset Levels - south Wales and parts of Northern Ireland. The Environment Agency, which has issued numerous flood warnings, said many coastal areas would be affected by high tides in the coming days.
Germany calls for rethink of Eastern Partnership
The EU was wrong not to have analysed possible conflicts with Russia before offering the so-called Eastern Partnership to countries like Ukraine, Gernot Erler, Germany's new chief of relations with Russia and the eastern neighbourhood told journalists in Berlin on Thursday (30 January). Barely a day in his new job, he said that being labelled as "someone who understands Russia" does not offend him.
IDF: Dramatic increase in Gaza terror in January
There was a dramatic increase in terror activity from Gaza in January, according a press release from the IDF Spokesperson's Office put out on Friday. Fourteen rockets landed in southern Israel, and five were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system as they were approaching the area surrounding Ashkelon, the statement said.
24 killed in Iraqi suicide bomb attack
SIX suicide bombers burst into an Iraqi ministry building, took hostages and killed at least 24 people including themselves before security forces regained control. The attack, on the building belonging to the Ministry of Transportation in north-east Baghdad, coincided with a month-long stand-off between the Iraqi army and anti-government fighters in the western province of Anbar.
Federal prosecutors to seek death penalty against Marathon terror bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
US Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has authorized federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the young man accused in the Boston Marathon terror bombings in April that killed three people, injured more than 260 others, and sent a wave of shock and fear through the region.
Vodka blamed for high death rates in Russia
The high number of early deaths in Russia is mainly due to people drinking too much alcohol, particularly vodka, research shows. The study, in The Lancet, says 25% of Russian men die before they are 55, and most of the deaths are down to alcohol. The comparable UK figure is 7%. Causes of death include liver disease and alcohol poisoning. Many also die in accidents or after getting into fights.
Syrian government 'demolished thousands of homes'
The Syrian government has been "deliberately and unlawfully" demolishing thousands of homes, a new report by Human Rights Watch says. Satellite images appear to show large-scale demolitions with explosives and bulldozers in opposition strongholds in Damascus and Hama in 2012 and 2013. The report says the apparent wanton destruction of civilian property and collective punishment are war crimes.
US warns Moscow of concern over cruise missile test
The United States has raised concerns with Moscow over a reported Russian test of a cruise missile and is evaluating whether it breaks a 1987 treaty, a US official said Thursday. Washington has raised "the possibility of... a violation," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, amid reports that Russia had tested a new ground-launched cruise missile.
NYC school cuts popular gifted program over lack of diversity
A popular gifted-student program at a New York City elementary school is getting the ax after school officials decided it lacked diversity. PS 139 Principal Mary McDonald told parents in a letter Jan. 24 that Students of Academic Rigor, or SOAR, would no longer accept applications for incoming kindergartners, the New York Daily News reported.
‘Drone warfare helps sell wars to a domestic audience’
Development of modern drone technologies will never eliminate civilian collateral damage in conflict deployment, Michael Raddie, antiwar activist told RT, arguing that investing in drones makes warfare more acceptable for general public.
Genetically modified monkeys created with cut-and-paste DNA
Researchers have created genetically modified monkeys with a revolutionary new procedure that enables scientists to cut and paste DNA in living organisms. The macaques are the first primates to have their genetic makeup altered with the powerful technology which many scientists believe will lead to a new era of genetic medicine.
Norway blacklists Africa Israel Investments
Norway has blocked its $820 billion pension fund from investing in two Israeli companies because of their construction activities in East Jerusalem. The Foreign Ministry this week blacklisted Africa Israel Investments and its subsidiary, Danya Cebus, on a recommendation from the fund's ethics council.
San Jose looks to tap into residents’ private surveillance cameras for police use
A new proposal in the San Jose, California City Council would allow residents to voluntarily offer police access to their private video surveillance camera recordings. Authorities say the program would only be used for investigatory purposes.
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Margaret MacDonald is not the mother of the pre-tribulation rapture
I have visited just about every anti-rapture web site on the internet. One common point used on nearly every one of these sites to oppose the pretribulation doctrine is the claim that the rapture theory was started by a Scottish girl named Margaret MacDonald. Many critics of the rapture declare that MacDonald received her vision from demonic origins, and that she then passed on the message of that vision to infect the Church. Being a staunch pretribulationist, I'm at a loss to explain the connection between Margaret MacDonald and my beliefs in the rapture. I cannot recall ever hearing pre-trib prophetic speakers say, "I believe in the rapture because Margaret MacDonald told me so."
After reading and listening to a number of web sites, books, and radio programs that promote the idea that Margaret MacDonald started pretribulationism, I decided to look into the matter.
To be certain that I made no oversight, I searched through my library of prophecy books for references citing Margaret MacDonald as the founder of the rapture teaching. My hunt turned out to be in vain. It was like looking for the cartoon character "Where's Waldo." Only in this case, no Waldo was to be found.
If MacDonald was the founder of the pretribulation rapture, as most anti-rapture proponents say, then someone needs to explain why rapturists have failed to give her credit. You would expect to find dozens of books that expound upon her every word. From reading the writings of anti-rapture authors, one would think we pre-tribbers would be reverencing MacDonald as Catholics do Mary. But clearly we don't. Pre-tribbers don't go around reciting, "Hail Margaret full of grace, blessed art thou among visionaries, pray for us sinners at the time of the rapture." If MacDonald were the founder of the doctrine of rapture, the lack of recognition we rapture believers pay her would be comparable to the modern Mormon church failing to recognize Joseph Smith as its founder or to the Jehovah's witnesses neglecting to identify Charles Russell as that group's originator. Poor Margaret MacDonald, she gets all of the blame, but none of the credit.
After having examined the claims of those critical of the rapture, I have found holes large enough to drive a dump truck through in their so-called evidence:
The first problem with the MacDonald origin is the fact that she wasn't the one who widely taught the doctrine of the pre-trib rapture. A man named John Darby is believed by many to have sparked modern interest in the rapture. The question here is how Darby came to hear of MacDonald's vision. Proponents like Dave MacPherson and John L. Bray have never been able to prove that Darby had ever heard of MacDonald or her vision.
Darby himself claims the revelation of the rapture came to him when he realized the distinction between Israel and the church.
Darby reported that he discovered the rapture teaching in 1827, three years before MacDonald had her vision.
When one closely examines MacDonald's vision, it becomes clear that her vision could not have been a pretribulational one. MacDonald looked for a "fiery trial which is to try us," and she foresaw the Church being purged by the Antichrist. Any pretribulation rapturist can tell you the Church will be removed before the advent of the Antichrist. John Bray, an anti-rapturist, said himself that Margaret MacDonald was teaching a single coming of our Lord Jesus. This contradicts current rapture doctrine, which teaches a two-staged event - first, Christ coming for His Church and second, seven years later His return to earth. With so many contradictions between MacDonald's vision and today's pretribulationism, it is difficult to see any linkage.
By far the biggest mistake post-tribulationists have made attacking the rapture is claiming that the pretribulation rapture wasn't taught before 1830. In fact, John L. Bray, a Southern Baptist evangelist, offered $500 to anyone who could prove that someone taught the rapture doctrine prior to MacDonald's 1830 vision. Bray was first proven wrong when he wrote in a newsletter, "Then my own research indicated that it was Emmanuel Lacunza, a Jesuit Catholic priest, who in the 1812 book The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty, first taught this theory." Bray stuck his neck out again when he made another $500 offer to anyone who could provide a documented statement earlier than Lacunza's 1812 writings. Apparently he had to cough up the 500 bucks. I quote him again: "I offered $500 to anyone who would give a documented statement earlier than Lacunza's time which taught a two-stage coming of Christ separated by a stated period of time." No one claimed that offer until someone found writings that forced Bray to write the following: "Now I have the Photostat copies of a book published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1788 but written in 1742-1744 in England, which taught the pretribulation rapture before Lacunza." Lately, a number of other sources have been located that teach the pretribulation rapture--some written as early as the second century. Where does this leave Margaret MacDonald?
In my life here on earth, I've made a number of observations that I regard as undeniable truths. One of these is the fact that the truth will suffer attacks with no one defending it, while a lie will be allowed to proliferate with no one challenging it. This seems to have taken place in the case of the rapture. For years on end, anti-rapturists have been allowed to attack pretribulationism freely. One assailant called the rapture the mark of the beast while another remarked that when Jesus returns at the battle of Armageddon, He will fight against those who believe in the rapture. The people who should have been contending for the rapture, for the most part, just said, "That may be your opinion."
Finally, it appears that those who hold to a pretribulation rapture are beginning to counter the ridiculous charges. A number of books have been published that cite several pre-MacDonald sources describing a raptured Church. Author Grant Jeffrey deserves a good deal of praise for his work in discovering many of these sources.
As far as being able to find the pretribulation rapture in the Bible, we don't need to be rocket scientists to discover it. For me, locating the rapture doctrine in the Bible was as simple as finding evidence that Jesus Christ is Messiah.
The evidence that Christians believed in the rapture long before MacDonald does not seem to have sunk into the minds of those opposed to the rapture. They still teach that she is the founder of pretribulationism. When someone is presented with overwhelming proof that he or she is wrong and refuses to accept that truth, then we certainly may conclude that he or she is in spiritual darkness.
I would like to conclude by saying that no evidence whatsoever points to MacDonald as the source of pretribulationism. Every major prophetic author alive today claims the Word of God as the foundation for belief in the rapture. Both Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul made statements that clearly establish the rapture doctrine. Jesus said, in Matthew 25:13, "Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh." Paul affirmed in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18: "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
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What Secret Rapture?
Many Christians in the prophetic realm today believe that when the rapture takes place, very few individuals left behind will understand the true reason for its occurrence. The common reasoning portrays the people left behind as being stunned at first, but then quickly developing some sort of amnesia. The idea that no one will pay any lasting attention to what would have to be a cataclysmic event seems hard to believe. This is especially true since so much information about the rapture has already been disseminated in the form of millions of books, radio or TV broadcasts, and even in the form of bumper stickers: "In Case Of Rapture This Car Will Be Unmanned."
How the Idea of a Secret Rapture Became Predominant
Most Christian writings, when it comes to the world's reaction regarding the rapture, paint a picture of total ignorance of what has happened. The common understanding is, in order to have the Antichrist come to power, a blanket of ignorance needs to be thrown over all tribulation events. The unsaved typically say, "Where did everyone go?" This thought process has dominated rapture writings for the past 25 years. I believe the whole purpose of the rapture is to get people's attention. In contrast to what some authors think, information about the rapture permeates society, so much so that the occurrence of the rapture will likely cause a good deal of weeping and wailing.
Will the World Take Notice of the Rapture?
The world will most certainly take notice when the rapture occurs. If the Statue of Liberty suddenly vanished from New York Harbor, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN would break from regular programming to cover this marvel. To have millions of people disappear without a trace, the media storm cannot be imagined. If one car or airplane crashed without a driver or pilot, it would be a major news item. After the rapture, the media will have thousands of examples to choose from. Think of the vital positions that Christians hold in the workplace. Many businesses will be paralyzed by the loss of key personnel; the economy will suffer a devastating blow; and millions of people, who had friends and family members raptured, will be terrified. The rapture will create a media event that will rival any breaking news event from the past. If you turned on your television, you would find 24-hour-coverage on every channel. The President would be calling emergency meeting after emergency meeting, and churches would be filled to overflowing.
How the Devil Will Deceive the World
Right after the rapture, millions of people will find "religion," repenting of every sin they have committed--and of some they haven't. The prophecy section in all Christian bookstores will be cleaned out, and you may need reservations to attend Sunday church services. Well, maybe not at all churches. The world will be in a state of supreme chaos, and out of this mess will arise the man who will have an answer to every question. This man, the Antichrist, has been repeatedly mentioned in the New Testament. Paul the Apostle spoke of him frequently. The Antichrist will be the greatest salesman in history because he will sell the people the biggest lie ever. Satan will be so impressed with him that he will give this man his full power. Paul also stated that because the people will have no pleasure in the truth, God will send them strong delusion that they may be damned. Exactly what that delusion is, we can only guess. What methodology the Antichrist will use to explain away the rapture, I have no idea. Some say he will cite space aliens as the reason, and some say the explanation will be that they went into another dimension to receive better understanding. If we are truly grounded in the Word of God, no lie, no matter how beguiling, will be able to shake us loose from the truth.
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Jan 27, 2014
Obama Is Getting His Dictatorial Ducks in a Row
On the Brink of Crisis
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Cauldron: Supernatural Implications of the Current Middle East. I use it in this Nearing Midnight column space this week because of the very recent remarks by a major one-world builder. His remarks are given below this excerpt from my book.
Obama Is Getting His Dictatorial Ducks in a Row
One thing that has made the United State a great nation is the stability of our government. Some nations are so unstable that their governments can barely go a year without collapsing. If it wasn’t for the Civil War, our record would be nearly spotless.
The fact that this year will mark our 238th year of independence from Britain doesn’t ensure we will celebrate our 239th milestone. Freedom doesn’t come with age; it has to be maintained with vigilance. It deeply concerns me that this generation will mark the point where liberty stumbles and America becomes just another banana republic.
I don’t place all the blame on President Barack Obama for the erosion of our freedoms. George W. Bush should be noted for setting into motion a number of programs that put our liberties at risk. I think the biggest mistake of his term was the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
As much as I disapprove of George W. Bush, I would gladly turn back time and add two more terms to his presidency. Bush may have made many mistakes, but at least he meant well. Obama appears only to be out for himself. I think the American people have made a huge error in giving power to a man who is so lacking moral character. He has been one of the most deceitful president’s in our nation’s history. Not only has he been repeatedly proven to be a liar, he has allowed a culture of dishonesty to permeate Washington D.C.
At some point we have to ask ourselves, “What danger does Obama pose to our liberties?” Even the tiniest indication of despotism on his part needs to be challenged. Once you lose your rights, it often requires the shedding of blood to get them back. Here are five signs that have me most worried about Obama’s commitment to Democracy:
1. The first problem I have with Obama is how much he has the liberal media in his back pocket. It’s no wonder that our nation is a mess when you have the press unwilling to directly criticize the president for his disastrous policies. The NSA scandal, the IRS scandal, Obamacare, Benghazi, and Syria have all been huge failures that should have deeply marred Obama’s presidency. If the liberal media is willing to give him a pass on these major missteps, I have to wonder if they would say anything negative if Obama decided do something crazy like make himself president for life.
2. Obama’s obsession with surveillance should worry people who care about their freedom. All police states need a good spy network to maintain order. Obama keeps telling us that the target of the NSA is terrorists. The Snowden revelations should trigger a major reassessment of the government’s role in our lives. Any system that requires enslavement to maintain security is a cost that is too high.
3. Another fixation with Obama is getting revenge on people or organizations that dare cross him. When S&P downgraded the ranking of America’s debt, the Justice Department indicted the firm, leaving two other rating agencies untouched. Just last week, Dinesh D’Souza, the maker of an anti-Obama movie, was charged for giving too much money to a candidate who sought to replace former New York Senator Hillary Clinton. Anyone who leaks information to the media has to do so knowing that the White House will go to any length to find them out.
4. I’m also troubled by Barack Obama’s use of executive orders to set policy. He has already told Senate Democrats he plans to use his executive authority to act in 2014 when Congress stands in his way. The reason why the Founding Fathers made it so only Congress can write laws, is to avoid autocratic rule. When you allow the president to be a dictator in some areas, you set into motion a process that will quickly give him power over all areas of government.
5. The move that makes me the most suspicious about Obama’s intentions is his mass firing of military leadership. The president has the highest record for firing generals than any in living memory. Things have gotten so bad that a number of retired generals are publicly speaking out about the “purge” of the U.S. military that they believe is taking place. Since the military leaders are sworn to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic it’s necessary to weaken the resolve of the military ranks.
Our nation is ripe for political turmoil. Despite all the claims of an economic recovery, a record percentage of the population is dependent on the government for some form of welfare. We have so thoroughly set our course with decades of harmful fiscal policies, the collapse of the dollar or banking system is only a matter of time.
One of the reasons I am so concerned about the government’s encroachment on our civil liberties is the likelihood of what will happen in the coming financial calamity. If President Obama is able to clip-away at our rights in good times, I hate to think what will happen when things turn desperate.
--Todd
On the Brink of Crisis
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Cauldron: Supernatural Implications of the Current Middle East. I use it in this Nearing Midnight column space this week because of the very recent remarks by a major one-world builder. His remarks are given below this excerpt from my book.
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America moves ever farther away from the solid moorings provided by the founding fathers through the stabilizing pillars of the Constitution. More significantly, the nation’s leadership and its citizenry have moved away from the God of Heaven. Such rebellion is the poisonous prescription for cultural and societal disaster.
“Change” was the promise of the winning political party’s campaign in the 2008 presidential race. This is one promise President Barack Obama has kept 100 percent. The change his administration has brought has been staggering in its direction and scope. The intervening years since that election have taken America and her people on a downhill run toward socialism more destabilizing than that which has brought Europe to the very cusp of collapse. And, the architects of the blueprint for the promised change haven’t let up on the throttle as the nation hurdles toward the economic abyss.
At the heart of the drive to bankrupt America—which, in effect, has already been accomplished—is the president’s “affordable health care law.” That massive grab of the taxpayers’ financial security known by all as “Obamacare” has usurped one-sixth of U.S. private industry by starting the collapse of the insurance companies in order to bring about single-payer, government-run insurance that is socialism at its worst.
Despite the so-called roll-out of the program that proved to be an unmitigated disaster, beginning with a nearly $700-million website that went nowhere in helping people sign up for the insurance that was so confusing and inaccessible that it also went nowhere, mainstream media and those wanting the “change” doubled down on efforts to indenture every citizen to government healthcare welfare. It was welfare paid for by the working taxpayers, who proved in poll after poll that they preferred by large majority their health insurance and the healthcare industry as it was before the president’s political party, with a majority in both houses prior to the 2010 elections, steamrolled Obamacare through Congress.
The “change” that has taken place since the Obama administration began its attempt to bring America into a socialistic model has strapped working citizens, their children, grandchildren, and beyond with trillions of dollars of debt that can never be repaid. Many believe this has been done deliberately in order to bring the United States into configuration like and compliance with the New World Order the world’s elite financiers and governmental leaders want to construct.
The American political process at the presidential and congressional levels stands starkly in the way, however. Every two, four, and six years, there is the possibility of turnovers in political aims and ideologies. Competing ideas and desires are, by the nature of our Constitution, allowed to disrupt any government voters perceive as going in the wrong direction. That includes the ability to disrupt the New World Order plans to reshape the nation into a world government designed by the global elitists. Thus, we see in this present hour a lawlessness beyond any that could have ever been tolerated by the founding fathers as possibly ripe for disruption by the voters. The founding fathers did imagine such governmental tyranny; therefore the safeguards of the Constitution against such tyranny are assured in the founding documents of the nation.
Now we see the reason those safeguards were put there. We also understand why there is the incessant tearing away at that Constitution—the consistent and constant bypassing and ignoring of that all-important document at every turn by this president and the sycophantic media (which, incidentally, is owned and/or controlled for the most part by elitist, globalist types). These who want an ever-growing big government to control buying and selling through redistribution of wealth and harsh regulation must somehow do away with constitutional safeguards that protect the rights of the people. The ability of the masses to vote these central-planning, big-government controllers out of office must be eliminated.
There can be sensed a growing dissatisfaction with the anti-constitutional direction into which the nation was swept in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. Fear is that the forces, national and international, having made enormous inroads in bringing America the “change” they intended, now sense those gains losing ground. The worry is that these forces, having demonstrated a complete disregard for lawfulness and constitutionality, won’t hesitate to do whatever is necessary to prevent losing those gains.
Therefore, it is more than possible, in the thinking of many, that as the midterm and presidential elections approach, if it looks like their socialist ideology will lose at the ballot box, the administration and its political party will do whatever it takes to control the outcome. Illegal voters and voter intimidation have become an increasing part of election fraud. It is suspected that methods much more dangerous to our representative democracy are being planned as the anti-constitutionalists see the possibility of the changes they’ve begun to slip away.
Specifically, there is suspicion, whether based in truth or paranoia, that those “change” agents, so intent on altering America to fit their socioeconomic reconstruction, will create a crisis of magnitude serious enough to issue an executive order suspending elections. Martial law!
One such crisis, it is thought, might involve creating an economic situation dire enough to suspend welfare payments. This could, some believe, cause civil unrest even worse than what occurred in Greece and other places in Europe when state-provided funding was cut off some months ago. A financial fiasco of even greater dimension and scope might be forthcoming, it is supposed, because of other manipulations by those who are in control of government.
Rumors abound, as anyone who has access to Internet will attest, that Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is reported to be preparing for civil disasters and/or unrest of some sort.
Be watchful for a crisis of some sort to develop that the media will assist in magnifying, if the political fortunes of those in political power begin losing ground in the polls. All of the internal goings-on in America constitute a pressure cooker almost as incendiary as the cauldron that the Middle East troubles represent.
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I find my thoughts, written some time ago for the new book, more than validated with recent remarks by one of the top globalist-elitists. The following is an introduction to him.
Writing for the Atlantic Council, a prominent think tank based in Washington DC, Harlan K. Ullman warns that an “extraordinary crisis” is needed to preserve the “new world order,” which is under threat of being derailed by non-state actors like Edward Snowden. The Atlantic Council is considered to be a highly influential organization with close ties to major policy makers across the world. It’s headed up by General Brent Snowcroft, former United States National Security Advisor under U.S. Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush. Snowcroft has also advised President Barack Obama. (Paul Joseph Watson, ""Think Tank: 'Extraordinary Crisis' Needed to Preserve 'New World Order,' Infowars.com, 1/17/14. My thanks to Christopher Mangan for the article.)
Ullman was the author of the term you would remember had you watched coverage of the assault that finally took down Saddam Hussein. “Shock and awe” was the term used to frame that truly spectacular, mesmerizing assault launched during George W. Bush’s presidency.
The article exposing the growing concerns regarding power slipping away from the world’s power elite, thus the need for a “crisis,” continues.
In an article entitled "War on Terror Is Not the Only Threat," Ullman asserts that “tectonic changes are reshaping the international geostrategic system,” arguing that it’s not military superpowers like China, but “non-state actors” like Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, and anonymous hackers who pose the biggest threat to the “365 year-old Westphalian system” because they are encouraging individuals to become self-empowered, eviscerating state control.
“Very few have taken note and fewer have acted on this realization,” notes Ullman, lamenting that “information revolution and instantaneous global communications” are thwarting the “new world order” announced by U.S. President George H. W. Bush more than two decades ago.
“Without an extraordinary crisis, little is likely to be done to reverse or limit the damage imposed by failed or failing governance,” writes Ullman, implying that only another 9/11-style cataclysm will enable the state to reassert its dominance while “containing, reducing and eliminating the dangers posed by newly empowered non-state actors.”
Ullman concludes that the elimination of non-state actors and empowered individuals “must be done” in order to preserve the new world order. (Ibid.)
There is a "crisis” coming for the neo-Babel architects. I believe it is to be found in Bible prophecy--specifically in 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.
-- Terry
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Who Do You Blame? - Ron Graham - www.straitandnarrowministry.com
"And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat." Genesis 3:11-12. It is human nature to blame someone when things go wrong. This finger pointing started with Adam. God asked him a simple question and Adam blamed the woman for giving him the forbidden fruit to eat, but he also blamed God. He points out that God gave him the woman in the first place. Was it really God's fault? Let's back up a little and see who really was to blame.
God made a beautiful place for Adam to live. There was plenty to eat and all of his needs were provided for, but God gave him one rule: "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Genesis 2:16-17. Eve wasn't around yet, and God made it very clear to Adam what he was allowed to eat and that the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil was off limits. "And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man." Genesis 2:21-22. Sometime later Eve had a chat with Satan, who twisted God's words. He convinced her to eat the forbidden fruit. Adam hadn't instructed Eve clearly enough regarding God's "rule". Eve made the mistake of talking with Satan and believing his lies over God's truth. Satan convinced Eve that God really didn't mean what He had clearly said, and that twisting of Scripture still happens today. Eve asked Adam to join in the sin and he chose to go against God's will by also eating the fruit. Adam and Eve learned that God meant exactly what He said and was not exaggerating when He said that if they ate the forbidden fruit they would die. God had no choice but to remove them from the Garden. Death and suffering now touched every part of creation. Is God to blamed for any of this? He isn't, yet we see God still being blamed for the troubles in this world. If our first parents had listened to God instead of Satan, humanity would still be living in that beautiful garden without pain, suffering, or death.
God created mankind gave us free will. He loves us enough to give us a choice as to whether we love, accept, and obey Him. If He hadn't given us the right to make that choice we would be nothing more than robots programmed to obey. God wants us to love Him by choice. Jesus said "If ye love me, keep my commandments." John 14:15. When Adam sinned the fellowship he had with God was broken; a gulf was created that mankind could never cross. God had a plan of redemption, and it would take the ultimate act of love by God to accomplish it.
Even though Adam and Eve no longer were living in the Garden of Eden, God did not abandon them. The rebellion that started in the Garden continued and got worse. "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them." Genesis 6:5-7. Adam lived a very long life and we can only imagine how he felt as he watched the result of his sin grow to the point that God had to destroy man, beast, creeping things, and fowls of the air. I wonder who he blamed now. Did he still blame "woman whom thou gavest to be with me" or did he see the blame of his own choice? I wonder if he ever came to understand that the father of all lies is the one to blame. Still God loved His creation and Noah, his immediate family, and some animals were saved through God's judgment. It was time for a new start.
Noah had seen the wickedness that caused God to send the Flood but chose not to be a part of it. When he, his wife, their sons and their wives stepped out of the Ark they had a fresh start. They had seen firsthand what full blown rebellion to God looked like and now they had the choice of rebelling or choosing to obey God. The sin nature was still there. Sin and death were still very real. As the population grew so did sin. Sin was so rampant in Sodom and Gomorrah that God had to destroy those cities. Satan was still spreading his lies and mankind still believed him instead of God. Who did these post-flood people blame? Did they blame God?
God still loved His creation, and as rebellion continued He began to put into effect the plan of salvation that He had devised even before Adam sinned. God's plan was to become one of us and shed His precious blood to redeem us. This was the only way to bridge the gap that Adam's sin had created. First the ground work had to be laid. Mankind had to be taught exactly what God views as sin. Man's rebellion had grown far beyond eating the forbidden fruit and God gave the Law to the Jewish people to teach them and us what God sees as sin and what He required to cover it. "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith." Galatians 3:24. The giving of the Law was only a step in God's plan of redemption. The Law and all of the sacrifices could never take sin away. It could only cover sin. God would have to enter His creation and become man in order to give mankind the only way to salvation. "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." John 1:14. The "Word", of course, is Jesus who is the second person of the Holy Trinity...God the Son.
God loved His creation and still does. He loves us so much that He allows us to choose to accept Him and His love rather than programming us to love Him. He gave us free will even though He knew before the foundation of the world that Adam would choose to sin and that He, God Almighty, would have to enter His creation as a man to save us from sin and death. Only a perfect God could become a perfect man in order to redeem His once perfect creation.
"Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God." 1 Peter 1:18-21. God has done everything He can do for you. First, He gave Adam and Eve a perfect place to live. They chose to believe Satan's lie and sin and death entered God's perfect creation. As people continued to follow Satan's lies, God put His plan of salvation into effect by giving a very detailed list of His requirements. People still chose to rebel. Finally, He gave Himself. How can anyone blame God for the evils and the hurts in life? When something goes wrong in our life we often ask "Why would a loving God allow that". Did God make you smoke cigarettes so you got lung cancer? Did God force you to into that homosexual lifestyle so you got AIDS? No, it is the individual who chooses to reject God and follow Satan's lies. Do not blame God.
If sin had not entered into creation there never would have been any suffering. It seems that blaming God has become commonplace among men and women everywhere. Because the blind and lost sinners of this world blame God for all evil, they want to eliminate Him from our culture. We only need to look back to the way life was prior to the Flood to see what happens when mankind, led by Satan, ignore God and attempt to remove Him from their life. That's a big mistake. Now read the news headlines and ask yourself if things are much different in today's world. Though mankind is still wicked and rebellious, God still holds all things together. "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;" Hebrews 1:1-3. God's judgment came once by a worldwide Flood. His judgment is coming again. Right now Jesus is "...upholding all things by the word of his power..." One day soon He will loosen His hold and judgment will come. "Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." 2 Peter 3:6-7. Only those who have stopped blaming God for all the problems in their life and have accepted the free gift of salvation through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ will escape that final Judgment.
It is certain that every person will one day either die or be taken in the Harpazō. If you die without accepting Christ as your Saviour, you will spend eternity in the Lake of Fire. You will only have yourself to blame because you, like Adam, made the wrong choice. Only born again Christians will be taken in the Harpazō and those who are left will face the worst judgment that has ever been. In Jesus' words "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be." Matthew 24:21. If you have not accepted Christ's free gift of salvation, you need to do that right now at this very moment. Don't put it off because tomorrow may be too late. If you find yourself left here and facing the Great Tribulation, you cannot blame God. He gave His life so you would not have to face His wrath. Blame Satan and the lies he spreads. Ultimately, though, it is your choice and you can only blame yourself for making the wrong choice. Instead of blaming God who loves us, we should be praising Him. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:" Ephesians 1:3.
So, who do you blame?
God bless you all,
Ron Graham
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