The Politics Of Repudiation

It is indeed a sad state of affairs in this nation when a majority of one of the two major political parties' voters is so fed up with "politics as usual" that they seem to be only interested in candidates who have never run for office before, and have not before even considered political office as a reality. But the Republican electorate seems to be so fed up with the Obama Administration, and the Republican Congress's inability to reverse the Administration's collective incompetence, and the betrayal of our "conservative" Supreme Court, that they seem to be only interested in putting forward one candidate for President: Mr., or Ms. "None Of The Above". When I was in school, we used to joke about electing Mickey Mouse, but now after nearly 8 years of his Presidency, I can see why the voters are fed up! Frankly, I think "Pluto", or "Goofey" might make a better President than Obama.

Perhaps that's why Donald Trump seems to be running away with the Republican nomination. It seems to be a three-way race between Trump, Carly Fiorina, and Ben Carson, since they're the only candidates who are running whose hands are not "tainted" by previous political experience. What's even sadder is I suspect that they will all lose to another Disney-cartoon-Democrat, in 2016.

I've already stated that I believe America must decline in geo-political importance for the prophecied one-world economic system to rise to power, with the also prophecied Antichrist as it's head. I can't see any logical reason for our voters to elect such a blatantly incompetent Administration as our present one, unless God were allowing Satan to deceive us to the point that we would elect our "own worst enemies" into office to be our leaders, so that God could show us what it's like to try and live without Him. I know this sounds cynical, but as Christians we must realize that Jesus is our King, and Heaven is our home; not the President of the U.S., or America. I believe we should support the best candidate, and vote for the candidate of our choice, but not be surprised if the majority of our blind, and deceived electorate vote in another "Obamanation" as our next president, in 2016! Let's face it...what are we praying for when we ask God to revive this nation? Are we asking that He give us a brilliant President, who will confound our enemies, restore our economic preeminence, and rebuild our military to be the most powerful in the world, so we won't have to use it? If God blessed us to restore America, how would the Antichrist be able to assume power? And, more importantly, how would your most stubborn Atheistic, and Humanistic neighbors, and relatives be shocked enough to admit that we as human beings are too corrupt to rule our planet without God as our Savior and Lord? If everything was restored to being "all right", we would simply take the credit for it all ourselves, and make God wait another thousand years to establish His Kingdom on Earth. Is that really what we want, our should we just grit our teeth, say a prayer, and "get it on", now? I'll chose the latter, thank you very much.

So, if the Democrats win in 2016 it will be horrible news for America, but remember that true revival needs a common crisis, or at least the perception of one to shock the most complacent out of their "reality" and onto their knees! And, again, that's when we should really, "look up, for (our) redemption drwaeth nigh"!

Out Of Political Chaos...Comes More Chaos

Sorry, Karl Marx, but your professed formula for the establishment of political "order" doesn't work today, any more than it did in the 1917 Russian revolution, nor the 1931 election of Adolph Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany. Sure, it may get your despotic followers to wrest political power from wishy-washy democratic officials, who run on a campaign designed to preserve their governmental jobs perpetually, without actually having to do anything positive for their constituents. But to say that true political relief for a frustrated, and overburdened national voting public can come through your divisive policies is an outright lie.

Case in point: Hillary Clinton has vowed to come to the "rescue" of our poor downtrodden academicians in all the country's Community Colleges, and Universities that are struggling to pack their lecture halls with students who are desperate to find the education they need to get descent jobs in the workforce, when they graduate. Her "solution" if elected president, would be to get Congress to fund a $350 billion bailout to the above mentioned school systems in order to provide government funding for more student loans, to pay tuitions for more students, who will be enslaved to their student debt for decades, even allowing "free" tuition for Community College students. If that doesn't sound like Welfare for college professors to you, it sure does to me. The whole problem with the U.S. colleges today is not the lack of students, but the high cost of College Education, and the relatively few students who can afford tuition, without locking themselves into decades of debt, accrued in obtaining an education that qualifies them for nothing more than participation in Marxist demonstrations to force the government to give them more bailouts, of taxpayers' money. So, what is Hillary's solution? More government bailouts, which will further weaken the value of everyone's dollars, but will guarantee that our "poor" college professors do not lose their bloated-salary jobs, teaching their students how to be good little socialists, and also guaranteeing that their colleges, and universities will not only maintain their exorbitant tuitions, but will actually raise them in the near future, to cover their "high" costs of educating our children to be able to do nothing but protest for bailouts to go back to school and earn more useless degrees. These so-called "high costs" are directly related to the projected inflation of their professors' salaries, which they will demand, once they realize that their schools are getting a "windfall" of government guaranteed student loan payments, and they want their "cut" of the "windfall". And the universities will keep paying their inflated salaries because they feel assured that the government will give them more "bailouts" of student loan guarantees, so they can enslave more of our children with more debt. What a cruel, and vicious cycle! The government pays "bailout" money to the schools, which don't teach our children how to earn a good living in a free market, leaving our children enslaved to the government to pay off their student loans, which many can't because they were not taught relevant professions, or trades. So, they default on their debts, but Hillary doesn't care, because she expects to be out of office by that time.

It's clear that the "Perpetual-Education" Lobby, in Washington, is running amok, and will continue to scream for more, and more bailouts to pay for worthless educations, until someone has the courage to tell them to "shut up!, and get a real job". Then, if they turn a deaf ear to the Education establishment's endless appeals, like Hillary apparently can not do, we will see a closure of the less relevant Colleges, across the country. Then the next level of irrelevant Colleges will wake up, and fire all the overgrown "Hippy" professors who have been living off of their government protected salaries, since they graduated in the irrelevant 70's, (and are still looking for the communist revolution they expected back then) and will pay only those professors who actually teach their students how to be productive employees, and business owners in a robust economy, that will provide more jobs for the rest of us, producing goods and services that are in high demand, because they actually work for the purchasers. That's the formula for building a robust economy; unfortunately it will necessitate the closing of many of the more irrelevant schools (except for those that have built up generations of undeserved reputations, like Harvard, which will be available to the obscenely wealthy, only). Then we'll have plenty of street protests from the Harvard-educated Constitutional law students, who can't get elected President, and are unqualified for a real job! All they're qualified for is protesting for more government bailouts!!!

Bring It On; The Invasion of the Middle-East, And Israel

No, I am not a blood thirsty warmonger, as the above title might suggest. I simply am anxious for this war to develop in a way that I am reasonably certain that I know how it will end. God has prophecied, in Ezekiel chapters 38, & 39, that He will bring the invasion, "upon the mountains of Israel", with their clear intent of committing mass genocide upon Israel, and killing every single man, woman, and child that draws breath among God's chosen people. Can you imagine the horrible slaughter that this would bring upon the Jews of Israel? How horrible to contemplate such a thing! It seems that this is (almost) the last straw with God's patience for these perverse people!   (Armageddon will be His really "last straw"!)  He has promised to turn their evil ways back on themselves until they have killed each other to the extent of nearly 85%, leaving only enough of their forces to tell those at home what happened. Then after perhaps the seven year period of the Antichrist's brief one-world rule, perhaps a new generation may try futilely to "finish the job" their predecessors started, only to have God finish the job on them, in a battle that has come to be referred to as "Armageddon".

Those of us who know the Lord, and have received Him as our Lord, and Savior will likely watch the second, and final battle from a safe distance as we will most likely have been "Raptured" home to be with Jesus some time after the conclusion of the Ezekiel prophecied invasion. Perhaps that is the source of my apparent excitement in anticipating, not the bloodshed that has been prophecied, but the "Rapture" that will follow.

The reason I am expounding (again, I know) on this now is because of the recent travel to Russia of the Iranian General in charge of their "elite guard" Army, known as the "Quds". Perhaps they should call themselves the, "think they 'Quds'", because after the Lord gets finished with them, it will be clear that they "Qud not"! (Sorry about that!) Any way, this Iranian general has an international warrant out for him as a war crimes violator, and a "no travel" ban that no other country, but the eternally arrogant Putin's Russia, would dare violate. I suspect that even Putin would not bother to bring the international condemnation upon himself that this will certainly bring, unless they were planning something really big (like perhaps an invasion of the whole Middle-East, which Putin probably feels will result in Russian conquest of the oil fields of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the other Persian Gulf emirates). Iran probably feels it will result in the capture of Kuwait's, and Iraq's oil fields, secondarily, but primarily the complete massacre of the nation of Israel and the capture of the land that God has promised shall be theirs for a "perpetual possession". That sounds like a pretty long time to me! And I don't think the Koran has any contradiction to this promise that is going to sway God from His original promise to, "the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob", or the Jews of Israel. These idiots mean to fight Israel's Army, but they will shortly find out that they are really fighting against God, himself, and His name is not "Allah". Surprise, surprise! Good luck finding your 72 virgins where you're going!

Anyway, this trip the Iranian general took to Russia may well be the first step in beginning the "Gog/Magog" invasion, as it is called, and the timing of it is appropriate for two reasons. First, both Russia is feeling the stress of the economic sanctions placed upon them by the Western powers for their invasion of the Ukraine, and Iran is feeling the stress of the likewise sanctions placed upon them, to force them to reach a non-nuclear proliferation agreement, which was recently reached by American diplomats, and the diplomats of five other major powers. This agreement is perhaps acceptable to our idiot diplomats, but it's looking increasingly like the U.S. Congress is not willing to sign off on the deal, which they must for it to become law. Therefore, both Russia and Iran can expect a continuation of their sanctions, and they may feel that an invasion of the Middle-East, conquering 3/4ths of the world's productive oil fields, and an excruciating oil embargo that follows will end the sanctions and allow both Russia and Iran to do just about "whatever the Hell (pardon the expression) they want", without interference from the Western nations. They're probably right, except for God's intervention against them, to protect His "chosen people". Secondly, this is the optimal time of year for a Middle-East war, historically, as the hot weather will facilitate the rolling of tank treads, and truck wheels across dry deserts, which will have dried out from the muddy quagmires they become every Spring.

I may well be reading too much into all this, but then, again, I may not. We'll know soon enough, one way or another, and if I'm right, as I keep quoting the Lord, "...look up, for your redemption draweth nigh"!!!

Was Trump Trumped Last Night?

In spite of the nauseating reports on Fox News today, Donald Trump did not have a good night last night. He was okay, mostly, but nothing spectacular, as one might reasonably gather by watching Fox News reports today. It's clear that what's-his-name, the owner of Fox, and their parent corporation (News Corporation), which also owns The Wall Street Journal is not above playing the William Randolph Hearst roll, in which Hearst told his California newspaper dynasty to, "Puff Graham", when he was impressed by a young, North Carolina Evangelist by the name of Billy, in the 40's, or 50's ( I forget which). But his intent to lend publicity to the early years of the Billy Graham Crusade, in Los Angeles, was clearly more God-inspired than any "Puff Job" could be touted for Donald Trump last night. He was clearly out-classed by at least three, and perhaps more of his peers, and "Milk-Toast Conservative" Jeb Bush was definitely not one of them! I personally was most impressed by Sen. Ted Cruz, who was one of the few candidates to use his final appeal minute to list his goals for what he intended to do, if elected, while most of the others simply listed their "qualifications" (which they seemed to consider time to list their previous job experiences). This gave Dr. Ben Carson the opportunity to inject a little humor into the proceedings by saying, "I'm the only one up here that has separated conjoined Siamese twins...", with no contradiction forth coming. But Sen. Cruz listed goals that would motivate his intended Administration from day one, including placing a hold on every Presidential Executive Order from the previous Administration, including "Obama Care", and that he would build a wall across our southern border, with Mexico. That's a pretty good start right there, if you ask me (which I did, since this is my blog), and I didn't hear too many like commitments from the rest of them.

Other that that I thought that Mike Huckabee came across as pretty genuine, as well as knowledgeable of current issues, as did Governor Scott Walker, and Sen. Marco Rubio, though he is reputed to be a bit soft on the immigration issue, which I guess is to be expected being a second-generation immigrant from Cuba, himself, and not wanting to alienate his Cuban immigrant constituency in South Florida. But the issue of illegal immigration has become too toxic in recent years to allow for his soft tendencies, or Jeb Bush's either. So, I personally would disqualify both of them right there. I thought that Dr. Ben Carson came across as rather cerebral, which could only be expected for the former head Neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University, and I was pleasantly surprised by the occasionally intelligent answers given by New Jersey Gov., Chris Christy, though I remain suspicious of his ability to remain composed in a crisis, and not to take revenge upon those who resist him (like we all know that he "didn't" last year, in the turnpike scandal). I thought Carly Fiorina came across well in the "Jay-vee Debate", at 5:00, and I wouldn't be surprised to see her in the top-ten format, in future debates.

All that brings me to the point of guessing what God has in mind for this up-coming election, if I may presume that much (which I do, because remember, it's my blog!). I still have to think that America must be in the midst of a desperate decline, and that third-world status is what we have to look forward to. I feel that the international situation is setting us up for the rise of the Antichrist's one-world government (probably in the European Commonwealth) and I don't see that as possible if America is able to reverse the horrendous failure of Obama's Administration. If I am unfortunately correct, and lets all hope I'm wrong, that would mean that most of the candidates I've mentioned would have to be excluded from the possibility of winning election, as they each would probably do a good job of reversing the quagmire that Obama has put us in.

With a little imagination, one might expect a good candidate to win the Republican Primary, with a bitter Donald Trump splitting the vote in the election, as a third party candidate. That doesn't strain the credulity too much, and the idiot Democrats would love to see it happen, so that they could elect "Hillary Obama, Jr.", or some other nitwit liberal who would complete the job that Barack started. Remember God's ways are not our ways, and if He has prophecied that the Antichrist's rise to power must happen, at least for seven years, then our prayers for the restoration of this country's righteousness may not be answered, politically at least. It may be that America is so evil that He is forced to bring His judgment upon us, lest He must apologize to Sodom, and Gomorrah. If that's true, I'd expect Him to "Rapture" His church (all those who have committed their lives to Jesus, and are "born-again" believers) shortly after the degradation of America becomes obvious to all. So, I wouldn't be surprised if the "Damnocrats", (pardon the typo) win the election in 2016, but lose the eternity!!!

As for the rest of us, if we lose the election in something like I've imagined, then I'd say it's really time to "look up, for your redemption draweth nigh!", as the Lord said!!!

The Storm Before The Calm

It seems that God delights in working in ways that are opposite of what we would "naturally" expect. Or perhaps I should more accurately say that He allows Satan to work his evil temptations to lure those of us whom he can to expect the world to work in ways that are contrary to the plan of God. Either way, we tend to see things deteriorating around us (as we certainly do today) just before He brings us the victory that we are desperately praying for. Most of the wars we've fought have started out disastrously, before we won great victories sometimes over the superior forces of the enemy. Our Revolution was absurd even to contemplate that this upstart colony could take on the most powerful army, and especially their navy, and provide a reasonable challenge for them, let alone succeed in victory, guaranteeing our independence, which we succeeded in defending in 1812, after our governmental seat was virtually destroyed by the British invasion. The civil war was almost lost before we started, in the first, and second battles of "Bull Run", near Manassas, Va., and many other Confederate victories, before the Union forces final figured out that war was a dirty business and should be fought that way, rather that considering it a fun opportunity to receive prestige, and glory.

Perhaps this is the case, spiritually, as we readily see our country descending into a pit of moral depravity that is fairly nauseating to behold, all the while we are expecting to see the evidence of the great spiritual revival that the Bible assures us is to come in the last days, before Christ's return. This great awakening is reputed to be on the greatest scale the world has ever witnessed. Well, lets hope so, because we certainly do need it!

I am on record as stating that I can't see the Antichrist's rise to power to control the whole world as being possible if there is an America that stands for even a reasonable level of righteousness. We must be rendered irrelevant, if not absolutely destroyed (as I suggested a bitterly defeated Russian army might launch a nuclear first strike, before burrowing into their fall-out shelters for a thousand years; I know this sounds absurd, but the prophecies of Ezekiel 38, & 39 seem to suggest that will occur, perhaps in conjunction with the Lord's "Rapture" of His Church). I don't make this stuff up, folks, I "just calls it likes I sees it". So, the Antichrist's rise to power will seem like a great victory for him, temporarily, then (7 years later?) he is in for a big surprise, when the Lord returns to set up His Kingdom of Heaven on earth, casting the Antichrist into the Lake of Fire. So the pattern of God bringing great victory out of apparent defeat is continued,... on steroids!!!

The Politics Of Divisiveness

There was a time when the only viable politics in America was racist political rhetoric, bent on promoting white supremacy, especially in the southern states. In reaction to the obvious injustice of this condition, the Democratic party found it to be politically expedient to promote African-American favoritism as a staple of their political platform. It got a lot of white politicians elected and re-elected over the last several decades, while they posed as Liberal, free-thinking politicians, who were characterized as having a heart, as opposed to their opponents, who were logically considered heartless bigots, and racists. Now we are in danger of going full circle into a reverse-racist political quagmire, that could be just as dangerous for our country as a Neo-Nazi, white supremacist take-over of the federal government.

The problem for our country is not white racism, against black Americans, or the reverse (black racism against white Americans, with other races choosing up sides, whichever way they prefer to go). The deeper problem is the whole concept of political divisiveness. We as a nation seem to have forgotten that the concept of Unity is the only thing that kept this country strong through times of great hardship, and struggle. We got along well enough for the first 80 some-odd years, confining our racism to the southern states, until the injustice of it rose up to the point where we were willing to risk the destruction of our Union in order to legally abolish it. And we came very close to destroying that Union in the process.

Afterwards, we struggled through more than 100 years of unofficial racism in the southern states (primarily, but not exclusively), which was supported, paradoxically, by the Democratic party. Then the Democrats decided that supporting legitimate welfare for the downtrodden blacks was politically expedient, and that white politicians who supported these efforts could get re-elected repeatedly by doing so. Eventually, these legitimate welfare concerns became a corrupt obsession, and any democrat who wished to get elected to a powerful position simply ran on the platform of giving more taxpayers' money to "the poor", which the black population accepted as a welcome bailout, in place of decades of discriminatory hiring practices in the general economy. By now it has degenerated to the point where many black Americans feel they are owed a living (albeit a small subsistence one at best), simply because they exist, and the only alternative is some form of illegal activity, like drug sales, or prostitution, etc. The occasional black American who recognizes that the best way to climb out of poverty is through educational excellence and successful competition in the free market economy, (like Dr. Ben Carson), is the rare exception. Not because they can't do it, but because our Welfare-State government has made it easier to just ride with the system, or try and cheat against it, often with disastrous results. That's the real reason there is such a disproportionate level of black prisoners in jail, not so much because of continued racial discrimination in the criminal justice system. I've even heard blacks complain that when they were in school they were "A- students" in the early years, until they were bullied into accepting the role of the "under-achiever" by their black friends, who pressured them into fitting into the stereotype rather then be ridiculed as an "Uncle Tom", or a geek, or something. Media advertisements were insufficient to keep them from living out the axiom, "a mind is a terrible thing to waste!"

Now we have a sitting black President who would seem to be the antithesis of the above (a Harvard educated Constitutional Lawyer), who seems bent on destroying our Constitutional form of government. What an embarrassment to have the President of the greatest Christian nation the world has ever known visit an African nation that is probably less than 200 years from Pagan domination (Kenya) try to lecture them on the morality of equal treatment of Homosexuals in their judicial system! The response was polite resentment, as it should have been! One has to wonder if he studied voluntary lunacy, and stupidity at Harvard rather than Constitutional Law. Or perhaps the curriculum at Harvard just tends to point in that direction to the willing student. Perhaps their idea of Constitutional Law involves teaching how to destroy the law, rather than how to administer it. I think the lunacy, and stupidity aspect must come naturally from too much association with other like-minded students, before and after graduation. Et tu, Bill and Hillary???

Different Reactions To The Same Evil

As the nation grieves for the horrible evil that takes place with increasing regularity at various places around the country, most recently in Lafayette, Louisiana, it seems imperative that perspective must be kept in order to understand why this is happening. Besides the obvious evil of the I.S.I.S. inspired calls for "Lone Wolf" violence in America (to distract us from defeating the Middle-East evil of their efforts to take control of the entire region, and wiping out Israel in the process) there is a basic, fundamental reaction to the evil of the day that is different, but is inspired by the same source (Satan). It is what apparently caused the rampage Thursday, at the movie theatre in Louisiana. It is the reaction of a man who recognized the obvious, that America is drifting rapidly into a period of moral decline that will most likely cause us to be shocked at our loss of influence in the world, which has probably already begun at the hands of our present Administration, and will likely be increased by the next (whomever wins in 2016). His mistake was not in recognizing the problem, but in thinking that random violence would in any way solve the problem. He was reportedly depressed by the state of decline in America today, and he took out his frustrations on those who were close at hand, regardless of their innocence, or guilt in the matter.

This is why the Lord said to His disciples, "Judge not, lest ye be judged". I don't presume to know whether this man knew any of the Bible, or not, but if he did, he certainly did not act upon it. The evil that we see in the world today was prophecied nearly 2000 years ago, by the apostle Peter, and others when they talked about the end times becoming so evil that even some Christians would be tempted to turn away from their previously held faith (one can already hear the weak believers saying, "How can a loving God allow..."etc.). We must remember that God wants to save not only the people who want to be good, but also those who are bound up in their evil ways. If that were not so, then He would not have save one of the most evil men of his day, along the road from Jerusalem to Damascus, and the Apostle Paul would never have been available to write nearly half of the New Testament. Can you imagine how that would have effected the growth of the Christian Church over the last 2000 years??? The difference between God and us is that He knows what He can do with an evil person, once they have truly repented of their sins, and asked Jesus to forgive them, and take control of their lives from that point on, as the Apostle Paul so obviously did! We are too quick to judge an evil person as being hopelessly sinful, but God knows who still has hope, and who doesn't (especially since He is the source of all Hope).

Apparently this gunman in Louisiana had lost all hope in himself, and presumed therefore that all hope was indeed lost. Then he simply took out his frustration on anyone around him. But God is the source of all Hope, and he warned us through the prophecies of the Bible that these evil days would come upon us shortly before His return to both save His believers, and judge the rest of the world for their evil ways. Unfortunately, when one decides to take the "Law into his own hands", and kill innocent people, just because he is angry at the decadence of others, he has joined the ranks of those whom God will judge, rather than those whose hope of salvation rests in Jesus. Then, by killing himself he has indeed foiled all of us who wish to see him punished by our laws, only to rudely discover that God still exists, and that He reserves all ultimate judgment for Himself. And His judgment is both permanent, and eternal. I'm sure this guy is very sorry now for what he did, and he will be for a very long time!