A Message for Christians and the Upcoming Election

I was just sent this article by a patriot and Christian friend and because I thought it was well worth reading I am sharing it.  Thanks for reading.  

Before you vote please read this article .... it won't take you long, and if you agree, please send it on to your friends.  

This may be the best and most honest political promotion statement you will ever read.  It decidedly does not brush objections aside. You hate Hillary?  READ it.  You hate Trump?  READ it.  You think there's no choice?  READ it.  And, read it with your grown-up hat on. 

We've all been dealt huge responsibility with this election.  The first step toward accepting responsibility is accepting it, and the first step toward accepting it is recognizing it.  READ THIS.  Read every single word.  It'll take you about three minutes. Be sure to read to the end. 

Are you sickened and despondent with the current campaign and upcoming presidential election? I consider myself a conservative and do truly believe our country is at a political/economic/moral/ social crossroads. I need to let you know I could/would never vote for Hillary Clinton to lead this country.

To me, she represents everything that is wrong with our current political structure.  On the flip side, I look and listen to Donald Trump and I cringe at every rude, insulting comment he makes. 

If you find yourself in a similar state of mind, please read the following article: A Message For Christians About Donald Trump 

Here's a famous joke about God and how he talks to us. "A deeply faithful Christian man is stuck on roof at home with massive flooding up to the 2nd floor. Rowboat comes. He says "No, I'm waiting for God. I prayed and I know he's coming."  2nd Rowboat. "No, I'm waiting for God." 3rd Rowboat. "No, I'm waiting for God." Water rises. The man drowns. Now he's meeting God in heaven. The religious man says, "Where were you God? I prayed. I was faithful. I asked you to save me. Why would you abandon me?" God says, "Hey, I sent you 3 rowboats." Did you ever consider Trump is our rowboat?

Maybe God is trying to tell us something important--that now is not the time for a "nice Christian guy" or a "gentleman" or a typical Republican powder puff. Maybe now is the time for a natural born killer, a ruthless fighter, a warrior. Because right about now we need a miracle, or America is finished. Maybe the rules of gentlemen don't apply here. Maybe a gentleman and "all-around nice Christian" would lead us to slaughter.

Or do you want another Mitt Romney, Bob Dole, John McCain, Gerald Ford or Paul Ryan? Did any of them win? Did they lead the GOP to "the promised land?" Did they change the direction of America? No, because if you don't win, you have no say. Paul Ryan couldn't even deliver his own state, Wisconsin! And as leader of the House, Paul Ryan rolls over to Obama like my dog rolls over for a scrap of food, or a steak bone.  Nice, but obedient. I mean Paul Ryan...not my dog. My dog is actually a pretty good defender and loyal.

Maybe God is knocking on your door loudly, but you're not listening. Maybe God understands we need a "war leader" at this moment in time. Maybe God understands if we don't win this election, America is dead. It's over. The greatest nation in world history will be gone. Finished. Kaput. Adios. And with one last breath, maybe what we need to save us at the last second, is someone different. Someone you haven't ever experienced before-- because you weren't raised in rough and tumble New York where nothing good gets accomplished unless you're combative, aggressive, outrageous, on offense at all times, and maybe just a tad arrogant too.

Someone with a personality you've never seen on stage at your church. Maybe, just maybe, being a nice gentlemanly Christian would not beat Hillary and her billion dollars, and her best friends in the media who will unleash the dogs of hell upon the GOP nominee.

I guess you think God is only nice and gentlemanly. Really? Then you've missed the whole point of the Bible. When necessary, God is pretty tough. When necessary, God strikes with pain, death and destruction. When necessary, God inflicts vengeance.

Maybe you think God couldn't possibly be associated with someone like Trump. Trump is too vicious, rude and crude. When we won WWII, was God "nice?" Were we gentlemanly when defeating Hitler? Were we gentlemanly when firebombing Germany? Were we gentlemanly when dropping atomic bombs on Japan? Is God ever "nice" on the battlefield? Or does he send us vicious SOB's like General George S. Patton so the good guys can defeat evil? It's pretty clear to me God sends unique people to be "war leaders." That's a different role than a pastor or church leader. God understands that.

And maybe it's time to re-define "nice." Maybe Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan aren't nice at all--because they led us to defeat. And losing again would mean the end of America. And God can't allow that. Maybe Romney and Ryan mean well, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Or maybe they're just jealous they had their chance and blew it. Maybe they'd rather help elect Hillary than allow a Trump victory that would make them look weak, feckless and incompetent. "Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint." (Isiah 40:30-31)

God is about miracles. We don't need a "nice guy" or a "gentleman" right now. It's the 4th quarter and we're losing 14-0. We need a miracle.

When is a Lie Not a Lie

Have you noticed how often the word “lie” is coming up in this presidential campaign? Both candidates have charged the other as being a liar. As they say, “all’s fair in love and war and politics.” That’s to be expected. But among most commentators, the majority of whom appear to be anti-Trump, I’ve noticed three things. First, they keep expanding what counts as a lie. Second, although they accuse Donald Trump of lying, they never use that word when referring to Hillary Clinton, even though they admit that a good deal of what she has said is not exactly true.  Instead, Hillary is “cagey”, “deceptive”, and sometimes speaks “shades the truth”– but apparently she doesn’t actually “lie.” Third, they think the commentators are engaging in a “false equivalence.”

I think these folks have it exactly backwards. That may be understandable. As the polls ebb and flow the Hillary zombie like supporters are candidly freaking out. Most of Donald Trump’s controversial statements are uninhibited oversimplifications or hyperboles or the result of faulty recollection or inadvertent misstatements of fact or mere blow hard statements. If Trump were on the witness stand and testifying under oath, almost nothing he has said in his presidential campaign would put him in jeopardy of a charge of perjury. The same cannot be said of Hillary Clinton.

But first, what is a blow hard statement? I liken it to a “puffy” assertion. This has long been recognized in the law of contracts. Common law regards statements like that as expressions of opinion, not warrants of fact. Puffing or blow hard statements are a subset of a class of statements that “no reasonable person” would take literally in any normal context. In no courtroom in America would any of these statements be taken as assertions of fact. It’s too bad more members of the chattering class didn’t take a course in business law as I, prior to changing majors following my first year of college.

The Lion has Roared...

With nations warring over biblical battlegrounds, traditional morality under assault, and the civilization once called Christendom teetering on the brink of collapse, it's a time of confusion and fear for believers worldwide. "The lion has roared - who will not fear? The Sovereign Lord has spoken - who can but prophesy?" Amos 3:8

When I first began to contemplate, study and debate these matters, the Internet and cellphones were just coming into their infancy. Neither had pervasive 24-hour cable television news broadcasting become commonplace. The Middle East had not yet imploded and Christian genocide was not underway. Russia and China had not shown up with their militaries in Syria. Russia and Iran had not made military compacts. The formally democratic and U.S. ally, Turkey, had not become a rogue state seemingly determined to recreate the Ottoman caliphate. News flash: All of these things are underway, and you have to be pretty much blind, deaf and dumb to ignore their prophetic significance.

I argue, Christians had long suspected these kinds of events would unfold because of predictions in Scripture, but few could have predicted the speed with which everything is unfolding. Think of it! The Gulf War, Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Arab Spring, the birth of ISIS and the creation of a caliphate, the international refugee crisis, and the radical movement to promote transgenderism. Few could have dreamed of all this even a short time ago. But some of us did, not in exact detail, but we knew something like it was on the way. Because the Word of God said these events are coming. It is my hope, as prophecy continues to unfold, the purpose of this post is to help believers decode the biblical significance of the extraordinary news which seems to arrive with each new day.

Some claim we are yet in the midst of a major Shemitah event missed by most of the world - but still reverberating. Are we not also witnessing an unprecedented and exponential explosion in technology developments that tie, for the first time in history, directly to biblical Last Days prophecies? At present, are we not witnessing the alignment of the Ezekiel 38? Are not the nations in the Middle East in the process of forming a great alliance against Israel? 

From what information, slim as it may be, I am able to gather, major globally influential entities are fervently calling for the marking of every man, woman, and child on the planet - and plans have been laid, in conjunction with international tech companies, to make it happen within the next decade. 

Every day, I become more convinced a great apostasy is engulfing much of the church even as a great awakening is sweeping the planet. Are not events taking place in the world today a clarion call to attention for the church, I believe is far too complacent about the importance of prophecy and eschatology, especially when it comes to the time of challenges which I and others before me argue is in store for believers? Many theological and biblical scholars are absolutely alarmed by what they are seeing - yet the largest part of the church remains silent. They appear to barely even notice the apostasy from within. It is my passion, and in a sense duty, to in the least, bring awareness to the church - from the lectern, the pulpit, to the pew - not in an alarming and sensational way - but in a sober, balanced, logic, and biblical manner. This is why I have written these particular remarks.

Practically every single thing the Bible said would happen in the last days has happened and/or is happening right before the eyes of the world, and at breath-taking speed! And it has all rolled in like Noah’s flood waters, all since the return of Israel in 1948. Following extensive study, I knew in my spirit that the unprecedented event of the revenant nation of Israel was the start-watch for dramatic end time prophecy revealing. However, I could never have guessed how quickly it would come.

Even when writing the post, I found the world was changing so rapidly and prophetic happenings were advancing so disturbingly that it was hard to know where to start and quit writing. I assert, one does not need to be of a particular denomination or even a believer to profit from this writing. This post does not require that the reader hold to any one schema of eschatology. It does not insist upon a certain timing of the rapture event - rather I simply take what the Bible clearly says would be markers of the last days and then line those prophecies up with the continually unfolding and corresponding mainstream news reports of current events.

Denying Accommodation for Religious Conscience

Nearly 225 years after the ratification of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the cause of conscience protected by the principles of “no establishment” and “free exercise” may be losing support in the minds and hearts of the American people. Appeals by religious individuals and groups for exemption from government laws and regulations that substantially burden religious practice are increasingly unpopular and controversial. So much so that many in the media have taken to using shock citations excerpts, transforming religious freedom into “religious freedom.”

Earlier this month, the Obama administration released a report with recommendations clearly and unequivocally bidding to deny Americans’ cherished religious liberty. The lengthy new report, titled “Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling Nondiscrimination Principles with Civil Liberties,” came from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (whose membership the President appoints). The report represents the most blatant and open attempt by federal officials to subjugate religious liberty to the current phase of sexual social revolution. The commission chairman wrote what I contend are antagonistically, aggressive and argumentative language in his personal statement in the report: “The phrases ‘religious liberty’ and ‘religious freedom’ will stand for nothing except hypocrisy so long as they remain code words for discrimination, intolerance, racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia or any form of intolerance. … today, as in past, religion is being used as both a weapon and a shield by those seeking to deny others equality. In our nation’s past religion has been used to justify slavery and later, Jim Crow laws.”

Ironically, slavery and Jim Crow laws were wholly Democratic Party institutions. Democrats created them, perpetuated them and enforced them with the aid of their own military wing. The military wing which, in addition to lynching blacks, systematically murdered those opposing their ideology. Here is a fact that most of the left fail to mention. It was Christians and Jews for the most part that led the fight against slavery – on biblical grounds – as well as the civil rights movement of the 1960s? Makes one wonder if the left, to include Obama and Hillary have actually read any speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.?

Now the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights appears to be recommending that we make it official: Our first freedom is first no more. According to a commission report, “civil rights protections ensuring nondiscrimination, as embodied in the Constitution, laws, and policies, are of preeminent importance in American jurisprudence.” If we accept this assertion, it means that conflicts between religious freedom and nondiscrimination principles are resolved by denying accommodation for religious conscience — except perhaps in very rare and narrow circumstances.

Vigorous protection for civil rights is, of course, essential in a democratic society. But so is protection for liberty of conscience. Despite dark chapters of religious discrimination, the United States has a long and honorable history of taking claims of conscience seriously. From conscientious objection to war to religious accommodations in the workplace, the American experiment in religious freedom seeks (on our best days) to ensure that people are free to follow the dictates of conscience in matters of faith.

Yet Another Manifistation of America's Fall

Has America gone to the devil? Christian leaders are speaking out – and they are guardedly saying it has. Do you not think the rise of Satanic worship is an ominous development?

Historian Arnold Toynbee famously declared “countries crumble from within…” I believe we are nearing the end of that same course in our nation that once represented a light of hope and freedom to the world. Fact: America is no longer a Christian nation. And Christians need to wake up.

For a country and people who have historically valued life more than death, truth more than deception and the rule of law and common sense more than tyranny or hedonism, the rise of Satanism probably comes as a shock. But for those who have watched the promotion of occultism, spiritism, demonism and hedonism in the media in the name of ‘pluralism’ are not surprised. It is simply more evidence of our culture’s fascination with narcissism, death and rejection of common sense.

Of course, the Satanic Temple says it does not literally worship the devil. Instead, Satan and demonic imagery are used as a formidable weapon to fight for separation of church and state. Does one really believe the use of this kind of imagery is innocent?  

It is yet another manifestation of America’s fall from God. It is no accident that we are seeing more and more displays of Satan in America’s public life. This is an unprecedented development in American history. This could not have taken place in earlier days. And it’s no accident that this is happening in the same America that is increasingly removing any display concerning God or faith from the same public square.

I argue, no society can simply become “secular.” Instead, as a society declines, it calls what was once evil good and good evil. The result is nothing less than a total societal transformation. It is not another sign of the increasingly powerful position and brazen stance of evil, immorality, ungodliness and anti-Christianity in the new America? That which in former days existed only in the shadows and in the periphery of American culture is now in the spotlight and center stage – and seeks to drive that which was formerly in the spotlight and center stage of American culture to the periphery and into the shadows. And you know what? It won’t stop there.

What happened when ancient Israel turned away from God? Did it not turn to the god Baal? One of the names of Baal was ‘Baal Zevuv,’ or ‘Lord of the Flies.’ When that Hebrew name was translated into Greek and then English, it became ‘Beelzebub’ – the name of Satan. So it is no accident that we are now seeing in America the same thing. When one drives God out of one’s life, when a nation drives God out of its national life – it opens the door to Satan and all that accompanies the fallen one.

Hillary, It's Time to Come Clean

To quote Matt Barber, “I can’t wait for ‘Weekend at Chelsea’s’ to hit the big screen.CNN and the rest of Hillary Clinton’s slobbering media sycophants have already written the script. If this woman, God forbid, dropped dead on the sidewalk tomorrow, these doting suck-ups – these mass media strumpets whose voter trust has, understandably, reached an all time low – would dutifully parrot the Clinton campaign talking points and call it a ‘minor setback’ to her ‘inevitable’ victory.” 

Is it not about time the Clinton campaign comes clean? Don’t hold your breath, they won’t, but they should. I wonder what official “diagnosis” we’ll get the next time Hillary seizes up and collapses into the arms of unnervingly calm Secret Service personnel acting as though they’ve been there a hundred times before. The point is that, once more, by lying about illness, Mrs. Clinton has bolstered (and justified) concerns about both her physical and moral fitness to serve as president. She’s proven, yet again, that she can’t be trusted. She has confirmed a number of pre-conceptions that voters, as revealed by her historically low approval ratings, have formed relative to her health and character. She’s a liar. That’s her default mode. She’s crooked. And she’s sick. She puts her own personal political ambition and lust for power above all else – including the best interests of the nation, and one might conclude, even her own life. 

Indeed, Mrs. Clinton has had her ups and downs over the past several weeks. But her poll numbers are above the Mendoza line (baseball slang for poor performance), admittedly just a hair above Trump's. Her recent medical crisis coupled with her stepping in it by smearing half of Donald Trump’s supporters as a “racist” and “irredeemable” “basket of deplorables,” has only served to accelerate the downward plunge. 

Perhaps this is because of the glaring hypocrisy associated with such a statement – especially by this particular woman. the same woman whose Democratic Party opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act while Republicans, not unlike those she just slandered, worked hard to pass it. Finally, and going back a bit further, this is the same Hillary Clinton whose party fought a war to maintain slavery in the U.S. while hundreds-of-thousands of Republicans gave up their lives to free them.  

Despite her obvious character flaws and eversion to the truth I’m praying for Hillary Clinton. The reader may ask, why pray for someone as hateful or evil as she?  I ask, why not pray for her?  Despite what her campaign and worshipful media disciples are peddling, and notwithstanding her being caught in lie after lie, our eyes have been telling us the truth for months, maybe even years now. To watch this increasingly frail, bitter and elderly woman stiffen up, convulse and collapse into the arms of well-practiced staffers is hard to stomach. You can’t help but feel some degree of compassion for her, malicious though she may be.

With Clinton There is No Chance

I have to say, I pretty much think that if Hillary Clinton, is elected, the path America is currently on will continue and will inevitably lead to catastrophe. If we don’t right the ship now, we’re headed to be like socialized Europe — religion pushed out of everyday life and a financial disaster getting worse by the month. Even reaching problems likened to Argentina's current plight, where they are literally fighting for food, is not out of the realm of possibilities. It’s that bad.

Don’t think it can’t happen here. The bottom line for me is that I love this country and our Constitution more than I dislike Trump’s sometimes antics and ego. I believe Trump will attempt to change the direction that Godless liberals and their lapdog-media have led this nation. With Trump we have a chance.  With Hillary Clinton we have no chance. Be thankful we still have a chance and vote this fall. The future of our country in general and our religious liberty in particular depend on every Christian and Jew being registered to vote -- and voting. I do respectfully, recognized some of my conservative peers feel different. I submit to them, think about what is said above. Let your conscience be your guide and peace be with you.