YES VIRGINIA, THERE ARE FALSE PROPHETS AND FALSE TEACHERS....here is one....this Tweet from early this morning...."Virginia, (the commonwealth) with all of the massive amount of defense and other work I brought to you, and with everything planned, go out and vote Republican today."......."That 'I' brought you?".......You don't see a problem here? You don't see the arrogance....the delusion of grandeur? When in reality he came in on the coattails of what others had fought for....and constantly exalts himself with greatness. Really....you don't see the problem here?
It is my opinion that Donald Trump didn't love America back in the 1960s nor does he love it today. Fifty books on him (seventy today) since he showed his cards in early 2017 on who he really was showed me that....but we think that all these books are fake news don't we? It rings cavernly hollow in my ears when at rallies he will so softly and gently say...."we love our country." A better man would see how nearly half of America literally despises him....and for the betterment of this country that he supposedly so loves.....would at the very least take himself out of the 2020 race. Even LBJ...the biggest back-room brawler of them all did that. That was my hope anyway.d when anyone builds a wall, behold, the plaster it over with whitewash...that he would just let someone else take the helm....that he would retire gracefully with the great personal accomplishment of becoming the 45th President of the United States....but the charade gets worse as time goes on. Imagine for a moment.....free if possible of the fear of a President Warren or any of these candidates....imagine a second term for Trump....he being free then of any commitments to conservatives....this a mbler.....finding fault....arrogantly flettereing people for the sake of gaining advantage......divisions....worldy minded....devoid of the Spirit....causing man who demands total loyalty but possesses none? Force yourself to at least consider this....he won't need you at all! This fear of losing Trump....absurd in itself....in place of common sense....is dominating our life and destroying our discernment....this when we have no fear of God....nor of standing before Him in Judgment....nor of His many warnings....and when we are anything but...."looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus. " (Titus 2:13)
Folks...I vented a little in this following opening paragraph....and probably here also....and I'll tell you why. I'm on a treadmill at a gym fairly often and can see but not read from a distance....Fox And Friends on the wall TV....or whatever they are called....and I may catch a glimpse in the mornings on vacation.....and all I ever see is a pair of legs in the middle and three laughing faces on top. Sometimes there are three frowns as a horror story might be in the news as it was today in Mexico....then a commercial and three laughing faces again as baby turtles waddle to the surf.....or some such story. We have successfully compartmentalized the news and everything in our lives.....war bad.....Steelers....yea! Church....hallelujah....politics....boo! All this while we apparently haven't the slightest idea what God has been saying to us for fifty plus years.....let alone 2000 years. So that story headline about the three Fox news personalities not understanding how a baseball team going to the White House can be controversial was hard to digest. We have a man in the White House who thinks that he is some kind of God. Do you read his tweets? This is not a normal person. There is trouble here. It doesn't matter what I'm doing on any day....raking leaves....watching a movie....in the car.....visiting with friends....(I think I have three left)....at these times and all times my mind is never far from thankfulness at God's mercy on someone such as I....and on the eternal souls of family and friends....and on a world writhing as in birth pangs....and on the Lord of Glory....along with His powerful angels....mounted and just waiting for the command. This was normal thinking in days long gone by. How can a Christian not see the ever-increasing pain and suffering....and torture....all around this world....and the vacuum of where technology is taking us....a vacuum tailor-made for the horror of the Antichrist....and not cry out...."Maranatha....Lord Jesus Come!"? Are we soldiers for Christ or not? Where is our mind? Or have we become so like the world that we actually like our upper-middle class 'blessings?'
OK....the three people on the Fox morning show....can't tell you their names....I haven't been programmed by cable news yet...they are aghast at the response (according to Fox Internet) to a baseball player.....can't tell you his name.....who wore a red MAGA hat. Let me give them a clue why the fringe on the other side might act like whatever they acted like....as opposed to the fringe on our side who act the same way. They are going to have to come out of their bubble for a minute to hear this. President Trump has poked and jabbed and stirred and incited and ridiculed and lied....and manipulated his supporters as effectually as any cult leader America has ever seen....thousands of times.....constantly.....daily....almost hourly....not to mention bullying and arm-twisting anyone who doesn't bow down to him....all the while showing signs of malignant narcissism....among other psychological disorders....in the almost three years he has been president....and these three folks at Fox can't understand what's going on? Get real.....do they read anything other than their own script? It serves the other side right....the mainstream media....as they gave us totally biased news for decades....outright lied at times into the camera....and now that they can clearly see something for once in their career....that our guy in the White House is a tyrant in the making....with serious problems....and a cult following....and they scream this from the rooftops.....but we don't believe anything that they are screaming.....as we yell...."Fake news!" Yes....it serves them right. It serves us all right as we played at church....'happy hour'....and ignored God's warnings.....the thunder of which alone.....from those ministers who weren't entranced in their own anointing....should have had us looking for a storm on the horizon..
Conservatives....and others....were fighting for conservative judges and business expansion for decades while Donald Trump was pro-choice and pro-open borders and pro-most everything else that we were against. He transitioned....elbowed everyone else out of the way....and now exalts himself as some kind of champion....and we accept that exaltation....and join in!
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A couple of the radio talk show hosts were scornful.....50 American military were removed.....big deal! Syrian King Antiochus IV....(anyone remember him?)....was in the midst of invading Egypt who had appealed to Rome. The Roman Senate sent Gaius Popillius Laeras and about a dozen men with a message for Antiochus IV....stop your invasion and go home. Gaius arrived in Alexandria and met the king....and gave him his orders from Rome. The king hesitated....as he wanted to consult his advisers. Gaius Popillius Laeras took a stick and drew a circle around the Seleucid king in the sand.....and told him to make up his mind before he leaves the circle. Hmm....only a dozen Roman soldiers.....but then again they were soldiers from Rome....He turned to the east....(according to some sources)....and walked out of the circle....to return home.
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"As I have strongly stated before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I've done before!) They must, with Europe and others, watch over the captured ISIS fighters and families. The U.S. has done far more than anyone could have ever expected, including the capture of 100% of the ISIS Caliphate. It is time now for others in the region, some of great wealth, to protect their own territory, THE USA IS GREAT!" The person who said this is obviously unbalanced....and it is to our shame that we utterly refuse to admit it.
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Donald Trump is judgment on America...on the Republican Party....on conservatives in particular....on me for a lifetime of dalliances with the world....and on evangelicals and good men such as Franklin Graham specifically....as they had taken their eyes off the Lord Jesus Christ as our troubles mounted....and trusted in princes and military might....and are now blinded....following a disreputable charlatan.....who in previous years would not have been given a second thought.
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CBN News is reporting that President Trump has let them know that he will attend this weekend's Values Voter Summit in Washington D. C. as thousands of mostly Christians will gather to hear dozens of speakers. Donald Trump is a genuine....biblical....false prophet....but not one person at this summit will realize this. He had consistently prophesied from the beginning that the best is yet to come for America....(taking full advantage of the evangelical's anointing for him)....whereas God's Word says something different. The man is the very personification of an American media creation meant to mesmerize for a while....and make some money for his creators....but certainly not to come to life like Frankenstein's creation. He is right now trying to shut down an impeachment inquiry....not deal with it....but shut it down....which leaves Richard Nixon's actions in the dust. Most recently....as his impetuous mind spun out of control for an evening and he decided to let Turkey move into northern Syria....and as usually happens at times such as this his supporters read him the riot act....he is now attempting to walk back or possibly undo the problems that he caused....thus the Values Voter Summit....where he will most likely be blindly cheered once again.
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Politico is reporting that Ralph Reed is scheduled to have a book released in 2020 titled...For God And Country...The Christian Case For Trump....but that the original title for it was Render To God And Trump. According to Politico the book will argue that Christians "have a moral obligation to enthusiastically back Trump." First we had the Billy Graham evangelical....which degenerated into the Ralph Reed evangelical....and now has hit rock-bottom with the President Trump evangelical where being 'born again' has been upstaged by 'making America great again.' The new title is bad enough but the original would have laid the problem out clearer.
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Here's a question that republicans should ponder at least once: Everyone now acknowledges that Donald Trump lies. It took a year but I've heard even Rush and Sean and Mark admit it.....although they all had some kind of excuse for it. President Trump's lying.....literally thousands of times over a few short years....is now legend. The question for republicans who after initially being embarrassed by it...but now just chuckle over his lying....is this....hey....if he lies to everyone else....all the time....with a straight face.....what's makes you think that he's not lying to you also....Rush and Sean and Mark.....because he is....it's not a strategy.....it's an illness!
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It was President Trump's finest moment. He had sent a three-carrier strike group flotilla to the waters around Korea.....this in late 2017. As bad and dangerous that the situation revolving around North Korea had been....if there was ever to be moment to stop the nuclear buildup of Kim Jong-un....this was it. I posted one of my concerns at the time and it was the potential of Kim building a submarine capable of carrying and launching nuclear missiles....for if that was to be the case then he could theoretically park one right off of our shore. Well in August of this year it was reported that it appeared that Kim was building that submarine.....and even preparing to test a ballistic missile that could be launched from it. A few days ago he launched again....from the land....and it appears that it may be that submarine capable missile. The situation with North Korea is much changed since 2017. Kim Jong-un has made a lot of progress....and probably a lot of changes....as well as China. Our military build-up can happen again but it would be much more difficult now.
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The American economy had been hamstrung by prohibitive business regulations and taxes. Conservatives had been fighting these issues for decades.....and there were a number of candidates in the 2016 primaries who were going to do something about it if elected....yet Donald Trump acts as if these were his ideas. He takes credit almost every day for something he was but a part of....but there is something even worse than that....we believe him. The same situation exists with conservative judges...we would have had every one of them with the other conservative candidates.
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The Ukraine is in a life-and-death struggle with Vladimir Putin. They naturally look to the United States for military assistance....but President Trump had more important things on his mind if they were to get that assistance....he needed a political opponent to be smeared. This is not dissimilar to his words over NATO where it was asked of him...on a few occasions....if the U. S. would defend NATO if push came to shove with Putin. In one of his rallies the President related how a president of one of the NATO countries called him and asked...."Would you leave us if we don't pay our bills?".....his answer....."So I said, 'Yes, I will leave you if you don't pay your bills." A couple of things about this.....first....the gist of the conversation probably happened but one always has to keep in mind that nothing that President Trump says....ever....ever....is to be believed without outside verification! Second...he made a statement concerning America using the first person....he does this all the time.....as if there are no other branches of government....yet on our side we continue to ignore the plethora of evidence that there is an extreme problem here. Third....this demonstrates that Donald Trump has no real passions on issues such as totalitarianism....for he wouldn’t extol the praises of Putin and Xi Jinping and ‘fall in love’ with Kim Jong-in if this were not the case. We should keep this in mind on the Middle-East and Venezuela and all the other conflicts where noble ideas are piously expressed by President Trump....which are mere words from speechwriters....for in his world it’s money that brings more power....and power that makes more money.
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It is literally gut-wrenching for many Americans to every day watch President Trump's actions....listen to his words....and see first-hand how he manipulates everyone under him....yet his stronger supporters revel in what others weep over. If Donald Trump really cared anything for America he would admit that for this reason alone he should quit seeking a second term....but malignant pathological narcissism gives no quarter to foes and friends alike.
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It's a sad article to read....The Atlantic's.....Unfit For Office....by George Conway....(Kellyanne's husband.) Conway repeats issues that not only I had posted on for a long time but that many others....professionals and non-professionals....had observed and also written on....this because these mental issues concerning President Trump are so obvious that any observer should be able to spot them easily. The article is sad....to me anyway....because at 30 pages long....it misses almost nothing in the problems that we face with Donald Trump's presidency. When read in such a barrage format it should have a sobering effect well beyond political biases. You can read it easily by Googling the title.
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Update: It had been my hope that President Trump would eventually see that he is literally tearing the country apart....that the universe does not revolve around him....that he would as did LBJ in 1968 announce that he would not seek reelection....and that he would retire with the great achievement of becoming the 45th President of the United State....but that's not him....he desires some form of deity....and it now appears that he needs to resign.
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This is serious stuff folks....it's not the typical 'we've got to win back the House' type of stuff. You cannot let yourself be swayed by the optics of the Trump rally crowd....any leader of a large cult can draw people from any major city....and any one of a number of popular but false teachers in the church today could fill up Pittsburgh's biggest arena. Trump immediately responded to criticism of his abandonment of the Kurds with the Tweets below which are absurd as to almost being unbelievable that an adult made them! Consider thoughtfully these tweets folks! There is still time....Lord willing that is....to get another candidate to face the socialists. Update: The President's behavior and tweets are becoming increasingly erratic. Surely Republicans are noticing this..
@realDonaldTrump....two hours ago...."This is a great day for civilization. I am proud of the United States for sticking by me in following a necessary but somewhat unconventional path. People have been trying to make this "Deal" for many years. Millions of lives will be saved. Congratulations to ALL!"
@realDonaldTrump....Two hours ago...."This deal could NEVER have been made 3 days ago. There needed to be some "tough" love in order to get it done. Great for everybody. Proud of all!"
@realDonaldTrump....Three hours ago.."Great News out of Turkey. News Conference shortly with @vp and @SecPompeo. Thank you to @RTErdogan. Millions of lives will be saved."
Brothers and sisters in Christ....we need to go to 24/7 prayer....not the typical prayer that we hear for President Trump’s political opponents to fail....but that God might give us sight to see through this man....and to view our own culpability in this collapsing nation.
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The President this past June said that we were 'cocked and loaded' after Iran shot down our drone....but he wanted to know how many would die if we responded. He was told 150 so he used that and moved on. I wonder if he asked how many Kurds would die if he opened the way for a Turkish invasion of Syria? Of course he didn't. This man has no conscience.
Something to consider....it might surprise you.....and you probably won't like it: It's probably his greatest campaign boasts.....jobs and unemployment statistics. 'How can you argue with good 'people' statistics like that? This is why we have to keep President Trump!' Well I'll give you two reasons but there would be more. I think that I watched about seven seconds of the Mississippi rally last night.....enough to hear Donald Trump brag about all the stifling business regulations that he got rid of. Folks.....we have been fighting for this for decades....while Donald Trump was pro-choice and pro-open borders and flirting with Miss Universe contestants....and horsing around with Vince McMahon....and building his genius reputation with The Apprentice....and who knows what else. He elbowed his way in and now claims this was all his idea. It wasn't! The same goes with all the originalist judges he brought in. But secondly and more importantly.....the jobs statistics make it look like life in America is much better....and that's what we are supposed to be so thankful to him for....but what he indeed has done on his own....is turned our country into a war zone....with people hating each other....and threatening civil war. He has been a divider his whole life....and he devilishly enjoys it.....fifty books on Donald Trump showed me this very clearly. He is a troubled individual.....a manipulator and a con man's con man who certainly cannot be trusted. So those jobs statistics have to be weighed against the turmoil that his personality and lack of character generates. One last thing....he has essentially destroyed any effect that evangelicals may have had on our society. He gathers 'ministers' around him in the Oval Office....mostly charismatics and megachurch pastors and presidents of Christian politically social activist organizations.....their heads bowed and hands extended.....while he stands in the middle....with fake humility....thinking that he's pulled one off on God.
Former Fox News on-air personality Tobin Smith has a new book out titled Foxocracy...Inside the Network's Playbook of Tribal Warfare....in which he gives an insider account on how Fox cable regularly manipulates or programs listeners.....basically forming their opinions for them or at least pushing those opinions to an extreme. I may read the book later but would fully realize that all of cable television media at least attempts to do the same thing....but it sparked my thinking on the subject....for as I've mentioned numerous times in these posts....I have never had the cable news networks in our home....no idea who Tobin Smith is....never saw Bill O'Reilly on television.....or rarely.....on vacation maybe....saw Hannity or any of the other evening hosts.....and I also rarely saw the now famous morning group of three Fox news personalities.....no Napolitano....no Judge Jeanine....(is that her name)....no one!
I've also posted extensively on how I have been a radio talk show listener since the 1960s! I had two decades in before Rush Limbaugh began....although he was just down the road spinning 45s at an am Pittsburgh pop music station. So theoretically....talk radio may have shaped my thinking....but cable news didn't....and that may be part of the reason why....please excuse my choice of words.....I'm not a robot for President Trump? I haven't been programmed! I have to note this....talk radio has fundamentally changed over the past three years. Long gone are the decades of genuine debate where you didn't know who will call in next. There is no longer genuine conversation anymore....no give and take....as today it is just programs the mind of the listener.
We are a people of the image today....as opposed to a people of the written word. Our son was less than a year old when I noticed his incessant staring at the pixels in the television so I put the TV in the basement for the next nine years. As you may know....I read....at least a couple of books a week....52 weeks a year. There is hardly a day when God's Word is not opened up. How can anyone who believes that the Bible is God's direct word to us.....not take it and read.....even devour....on a regular basis? We are not taught classic literature as we once were and therefore our conversation and our thoughts suffer. We also....as a Grove City College professor theorized his book Why Johnnie Can't Preach....no longer sit down with paper and pen and write a letter....wherein we were forced to think before we put the words down on paper. I'm concerned about this as it affects these posts as I type fast but always have to go back and rewrite or reform my thoughts.
Another influence on the formation of my own opinion stemmed from this weak age of preaching that we have today. In order to compensate I listen to at least three....sometimes four and five sermons a weak....through the Internet....from men who preach like men of the past.
I don't think that it is possible to listen to sermons by Martyn Lloyd-Jones and O. Palmer Robertson and D. A. Carson and Michael Horton and R. C. Sproul and Iain Murray.....just to name a few....(I'll be finding another sermon in a few minutes as I head to the gym)....and not see very clearly how we have devolved in preaching the cross of Christ. Thus these posts....these warnings. I've recommended....more than recommended.....challenged....even more than challenged....warned the average pastor of today to take advantage of this resource....or they may not fulfill their responsibility to feed the sheep....these sheep who today are malnourished to such a degree that they wander everywhere for food that is more often than not poison....filling arenas and megachurches to listen to a prosperity gospel....and falling head-first in love with a genuine false prophet in Donald Trump and his 'travelling salvation show.'
Rush Limbaugh this afternoon is essentially indicting the entire intelligence community. Reason? They don't think that Donald Trump knows what he is doing....Donald Trump who didn't want to go to daily intelligence briefings because he said that he knew more than all the generals.....Donald Trump and his failed reality television summits with Kim Jong-un.....(they fell in love).....Donald Trump who seems to favor Vladimir Putin over NATO....Donald Trump who took everyone by surprise by turning on the Kurds....greatly increasing the risk of war.....after a phone call with Erdogan....Donald Trump who has Jared Kushner out there solving the world's problems.....Donald Trump who uses the Justice Department to purge his political opponents....Donald Trump....who his own people wouldn't let him testify in person because he can't help but lie...now who could have a problem with all that? It's obvious! Deep Staters and Never-Trumpers!
President Trump's chief defenders....talk radio hosts....tell us constantly that what we see in Donald Trump is a fighter....he's fighting for us....and that's why so many people don't like him....couldn't be further from the truth. He is despised not because of his policies....he's despised because of who he is. He certainly didn't fight for a wall for the first two years....and he surrendered right away on repealing and replacing healthcare. They are celebrating today our formally leaving the Paris Accords but he had to be dragged to the table a while back when Ivanka had his ear and there was still a chance he would cave....but that was an issue that couldn't be avoided. You can't really say he surrendered on the national debt because he never really cared about that anyway. What this is....is that he has made so many horrendous mistakes in abusing the power of his office that his back is to the wall. He's not fighting for us....he's fighting for himself.
It is my opinion that Donald Trump didn't love America back in the 1960s nor does he love it today. Fifty books on him (seventy today) since he showed his cards in early 2017 on who he really was showed me that....but we think that all these books are fake news don't we? It rings cavernly hollow in my ears when at rallies he will so softly and gently say...."we love our country." A better man would see how nearly half of America literally despises him....and for the betterment of this country that he supposedly so loves.....would at the very least take himself out of the 2020 race. Even LBJ...the biggest back-room brawler of them all did that. That was my hope anyway.d when anyone builds a wall, behold, the plaster it over with whitewash...that he would just let someone else take the helm....that he would retire gracefully with the great personal accomplishment of becoming the 45th President of the United States....but the charade gets worse as time goes on. Imagine for a moment.....free if possible of the fear of a President Warren or any of these candidates....imagine a second term for Trump....he being free then of any commitments to conservatives....this a mbler.....finding fault....arrogantly flettereing people for the sake of gaining advantage......divisions....worldy minded....devoid of the Spirit....causing man who demands total loyalty but possesses none? Force yourself to at least consider this....he won't need you at all! This fear of losing Trump....absurd in itself....in place of common sense....is dominating our life and destroying our discernment....this when we have no fear of God....nor of standing before Him in Judgment....nor of His many warnings....and when we are anything but...."looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus. " (Titus 2:13)
Folks...I vented a little in this following opening paragraph....and probably here also....and I'll tell you why. I'm on a treadmill at a gym fairly often and can see but not read from a distance....Fox And Friends on the wall TV....or whatever they are called....and I may catch a glimpse in the mornings on vacation.....and all I ever see is a pair of legs in the middle and three laughing faces on top. Sometimes there are three frowns as a horror story might be in the news as it was today in Mexico....then a commercial and three laughing faces again as baby turtles waddle to the surf.....or some such story. We have successfully compartmentalized the news and everything in our lives.....war bad.....Steelers....yea! Church....hallelujah....politics....boo! All this while we apparently haven't the slightest idea what God has been saying to us for fifty plus years.....let alone 2000 years. So that story headline about the three Fox news personalities not understanding how a baseball team going to the White House can be controversial was hard to digest. We have a man in the White House who thinks that he is some kind of God. Do you read his tweets? This is not a normal person. There is trouble here. It doesn't matter what I'm doing on any day....raking leaves....watching a movie....in the car.....visiting with friends....(I think I have three left)....at these times and all times my mind is never far from thankfulness at God's mercy on someone such as I....and on the eternal souls of family and friends....and on a world writhing as in birth pangs....and on the Lord of Glory....along with His powerful angels....mounted and just waiting for the command. This was normal thinking in days long gone by. How can a Christian not see the ever-increasing pain and suffering....and torture....all around this world....and the vacuum of where technology is taking us....a vacuum tailor-made for the horror of the Antichrist....and not cry out...."Maranatha....Lord Jesus Come!"? Are we soldiers for Christ or not? Where is our mind? Or have we become so like the world that we actually like our upper-middle class 'blessings?'
OK....the three people on the Fox morning show....can't tell you their names....I haven't been programmed by cable news yet...they are aghast at the response (according to Fox Internet) to a baseball player.....can't tell you his name.....who wore a red MAGA hat. Let me give them a clue why the fringe on the other side might act like whatever they acted like....as opposed to the fringe on our side who act the same way. They are going to have to come out of their bubble for a minute to hear this. President Trump has poked and jabbed and stirred and incited and ridiculed and lied....and manipulated his supporters as effectually as any cult leader America has ever seen....thousands of times.....constantly.....daily....almost hourly....not to mention bullying and arm-twisting anyone who doesn't bow down to him....all the while showing signs of malignant narcissism....among other psychological disorders....in the almost three years he has been president....and these three folks at Fox can't understand what's going on? Get real.....do they read anything other than their own script? It serves the other side right....the mainstream media....as they gave us totally biased news for decades....outright lied at times into the camera....and now that they can clearly see something for once in their career....that our guy in the White House is a tyrant in the making....with serious problems....and a cult following....and they scream this from the rooftops.....but we don't believe anything that they are screaming.....as we yell...."Fake news!" Yes....it serves them right. It serves us all right as we played at church....'happy hour'....and ignored God's warnings.....the thunder of which alone.....from those ministers who weren't entranced in their own anointing....should have had us looking for a storm on the horizon..
Conservatives....and others....were fighting for conservative judges and business expansion for decades while Donald Trump was pro-choice and pro-open borders and pro-most everything else that we were against. He transitioned....elbowed everyone else out of the way....and now exalts himself as some kind of champion....and we accept that exaltation....and join in!
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A couple of the radio talk show hosts were scornful.....50 American military were removed.....big deal! Syrian King Antiochus IV....(anyone remember him?)....was in the midst of invading Egypt who had appealed to Rome. The Roman Senate sent Gaius Popillius Laeras and about a dozen men with a message for Antiochus IV....stop your invasion and go home. Gaius arrived in Alexandria and met the king....and gave him his orders from Rome. The king hesitated....as he wanted to consult his advisers. Gaius Popillius Laeras took a stick and drew a circle around the Seleucid king in the sand.....and told him to make up his mind before he leaves the circle. Hmm....only a dozen Roman soldiers.....but then again they were soldiers from Rome....He turned to the east....(according to some sources)....and walked out of the circle....to return home.
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"As I have strongly stated before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I've done before!) They must, with Europe and others, watch over the captured ISIS fighters and families. The U.S. has done far more than anyone could have ever expected, including the capture of 100% of the ISIS Caliphate. It is time now for others in the region, some of great wealth, to protect their own territory, THE USA IS GREAT!" The person who said this is obviously unbalanced....and it is to our shame that we utterly refuse to admit it.
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Donald Trump is judgment on America...on the Republican Party....on conservatives in particular....on me for a lifetime of dalliances with the world....and on evangelicals and good men such as Franklin Graham specifically....as they had taken their eyes off the Lord Jesus Christ as our troubles mounted....and trusted in princes and military might....and are now blinded....following a disreputable charlatan.....who in previous years would not have been given a second thought.
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CBN News is reporting that President Trump has let them know that he will attend this weekend's Values Voter Summit in Washington D. C. as thousands of mostly Christians will gather to hear dozens of speakers. Donald Trump is a genuine....biblical....false prophet....but not one person at this summit will realize this. He had consistently prophesied from the beginning that the best is yet to come for America....(taking full advantage of the evangelical's anointing for him)....whereas God's Word says something different. The man is the very personification of an American media creation meant to mesmerize for a while....and make some money for his creators....but certainly not to come to life like Frankenstein's creation. He is right now trying to shut down an impeachment inquiry....not deal with it....but shut it down....which leaves Richard Nixon's actions in the dust. Most recently....as his impetuous mind spun out of control for an evening and he decided to let Turkey move into northern Syria....and as usually happens at times such as this his supporters read him the riot act....he is now attempting to walk back or possibly undo the problems that he caused....thus the Values Voter Summit....where he will most likely be blindly cheered once again.
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Politico is reporting that Ralph Reed is scheduled to have a book released in 2020 titled...For God And Country...The Christian Case For Trump....but that the original title for it was Render To God And Trump. According to Politico the book will argue that Christians "have a moral obligation to enthusiastically back Trump." First we had the Billy Graham evangelical....which degenerated into the Ralph Reed evangelical....and now has hit rock-bottom with the President Trump evangelical where being 'born again' has been upstaged by 'making America great again.' The new title is bad enough but the original would have laid the problem out clearer.
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Here's a question that republicans should ponder at least once: Everyone now acknowledges that Donald Trump lies. It took a year but I've heard even Rush and Sean and Mark admit it.....although they all had some kind of excuse for it. President Trump's lying.....literally thousands of times over a few short years....is now legend. The question for republicans who after initially being embarrassed by it...but now just chuckle over his lying....is this....hey....if he lies to everyone else....all the time....with a straight face.....what's makes you think that he's not lying to you also....Rush and Sean and Mark.....because he is....it's not a strategy.....it's an illness!
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It was President Trump's finest moment. He had sent a three-carrier strike group flotilla to the waters around Korea.....this in late 2017. As bad and dangerous that the situation revolving around North Korea had been....if there was ever to be moment to stop the nuclear buildup of Kim Jong-un....this was it. I posted one of my concerns at the time and it was the potential of Kim building a submarine capable of carrying and launching nuclear missiles....for if that was to be the case then he could theoretically park one right off of our shore. Well in August of this year it was reported that it appeared that Kim was building that submarine.....and even preparing to test a ballistic missile that could be launched from it. A few days ago he launched again....from the land....and it appears that it may be that submarine capable missile. The situation with North Korea is much changed since 2017. Kim Jong-un has made a lot of progress....and probably a lot of changes....as well as China. Our military build-up can happen again but it would be much more difficult now.
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The American economy had been hamstrung by prohibitive business regulations and taxes. Conservatives had been fighting these issues for decades.....and there were a number of candidates in the 2016 primaries who were going to do something about it if elected....yet Donald Trump acts as if these were his ideas. He takes credit almost every day for something he was but a part of....but there is something even worse than that....we believe him. The same situation exists with conservative judges...we would have had every one of them with the other conservative candidates.
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The Ukraine is in a life-and-death struggle with Vladimir Putin. They naturally look to the United States for military assistance....but President Trump had more important things on his mind if they were to get that assistance....he needed a political opponent to be smeared. This is not dissimilar to his words over NATO where it was asked of him...on a few occasions....if the U. S. would defend NATO if push came to shove with Putin. In one of his rallies the President related how a president of one of the NATO countries called him and asked...."Would you leave us if we don't pay our bills?".....his answer....."So I said, 'Yes, I will leave you if you don't pay your bills." A couple of things about this.....first....the gist of the conversation probably happened but one always has to keep in mind that nothing that President Trump says....ever....ever....is to be believed without outside verification! Second...he made a statement concerning America using the first person....he does this all the time.....as if there are no other branches of government....yet on our side we continue to ignore the plethora of evidence that there is an extreme problem here. Third....this demonstrates that Donald Trump has no real passions on issues such as totalitarianism....for he wouldn’t extol the praises of Putin and Xi Jinping and ‘fall in love’ with Kim Jong-in if this were not the case. We should keep this in mind on the Middle-East and Venezuela and all the other conflicts where noble ideas are piously expressed by President Trump....which are mere words from speechwriters....for in his world it’s money that brings more power....and power that makes more money.
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It is literally gut-wrenching for many Americans to every day watch President Trump's actions....listen to his words....and see first-hand how he manipulates everyone under him....yet his stronger supporters revel in what others weep over. If Donald Trump really cared anything for America he would admit that for this reason alone he should quit seeking a second term....but malignant pathological narcissism gives no quarter to foes and friends alike.
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It's a sad article to read....The Atlantic's.....Unfit For Office....by George Conway....(Kellyanne's husband.) Conway repeats issues that not only I had posted on for a long time but that many others....professionals and non-professionals....had observed and also written on....this because these mental issues concerning President Trump are so obvious that any observer should be able to spot them easily. The article is sad....to me anyway....because at 30 pages long....it misses almost nothing in the problems that we face with Donald Trump's presidency. When read in such a barrage format it should have a sobering effect well beyond political biases. You can read it easily by Googling the title.
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Update: It had been my hope that President Trump would eventually see that he is literally tearing the country apart....that the universe does not revolve around him....that he would as did LBJ in 1968 announce that he would not seek reelection....and that he would retire with the great achievement of becoming the 45th President of the United State....but that's not him....he desires some form of deity....and it now appears that he needs to resign.
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This is serious stuff folks....it's not the typical 'we've got to win back the House' type of stuff. You cannot let yourself be swayed by the optics of the Trump rally crowd....any leader of a large cult can draw people from any major city....and any one of a number of popular but false teachers in the church today could fill up Pittsburgh's biggest arena. Trump immediately responded to criticism of his abandonment of the Kurds with the Tweets below which are absurd as to almost being unbelievable that an adult made them! Consider thoughtfully these tweets folks! There is still time....Lord willing that is....to get another candidate to face the socialists. Update: The President's behavior and tweets are becoming increasingly erratic. Surely Republicans are noticing this..
@realDonaldTrump....two hours ago...."This is a great day for civilization. I am proud of the United States for sticking by me in following a necessary but somewhat unconventional path. People have been trying to make this "Deal" for many years. Millions of lives will be saved. Congratulations to ALL!"
@realDonaldTrump....Two hours ago...."This deal could NEVER have been made 3 days ago. There needed to be some "tough" love in order to get it done. Great for everybody. Proud of all!"
@realDonaldTrump....Three hours ago.."Great News out of Turkey. News Conference shortly with @vp and @SecPompeo. Thank you to @RTErdogan. Millions of lives will be saved."
Brothers and sisters in Christ....we need to go to 24/7 prayer....not the typical prayer that we hear for President Trump’s political opponents to fail....but that God might give us sight to see through this man....and to view our own culpability in this collapsing nation.
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The President this past June said that we were 'cocked and loaded' after Iran shot down our drone....but he wanted to know how many would die if we responded. He was told 150 so he used that and moved on. I wonder if he asked how many Kurds would die if he opened the way for a Turkish invasion of Syria? Of course he didn't. This man has no conscience.
Something to consider....it might surprise you.....and you probably won't like it: It's probably his greatest campaign boasts.....jobs and unemployment statistics. 'How can you argue with good 'people' statistics like that? This is why we have to keep President Trump!' Well I'll give you two reasons but there would be more. I think that I watched about seven seconds of the Mississippi rally last night.....enough to hear Donald Trump brag about all the stifling business regulations that he got rid of. Folks.....we have been fighting for this for decades....while Donald Trump was pro-choice and pro-open borders and flirting with Miss Universe contestants....and horsing around with Vince McMahon....and building his genius reputation with The Apprentice....and who knows what else. He elbowed his way in and now claims this was all his idea. It wasn't! The same goes with all the originalist judges he brought in. But secondly and more importantly.....the jobs statistics make it look like life in America is much better....and that's what we are supposed to be so thankful to him for....but what he indeed has done on his own....is turned our country into a war zone....with people hating each other....and threatening civil war. He has been a divider his whole life....and he devilishly enjoys it.....fifty books on Donald Trump showed me this very clearly. He is a troubled individual.....a manipulator and a con man's con man who certainly cannot be trusted. So those jobs statistics have to be weighed against the turmoil that his personality and lack of character generates. One last thing....he has essentially destroyed any effect that evangelicals may have had on our society. He gathers 'ministers' around him in the Oval Office....mostly charismatics and megachurch pastors and presidents of Christian politically social activist organizations.....their heads bowed and hands extended.....while he stands in the middle....with fake humility....thinking that he's pulled one off on God.
Former Fox News on-air personality Tobin Smith has a new book out titled Foxocracy...Inside the Network's Playbook of Tribal Warfare....in which he gives an insider account on how Fox cable regularly manipulates or programs listeners.....basically forming their opinions for them or at least pushing those opinions to an extreme. I may read the book later but would fully realize that all of cable television media at least attempts to do the same thing....but it sparked my thinking on the subject....for as I've mentioned numerous times in these posts....I have never had the cable news networks in our home....no idea who Tobin Smith is....never saw Bill O'Reilly on television.....or rarely.....on vacation maybe....saw Hannity or any of the other evening hosts.....and I also rarely saw the now famous morning group of three Fox news personalities.....no Napolitano....no Judge Jeanine....(is that her name)....no one!
I've also posted extensively on how I have been a radio talk show listener since the 1960s! I had two decades in before Rush Limbaugh began....although he was just down the road spinning 45s at an am Pittsburgh pop music station. So theoretically....talk radio may have shaped my thinking....but cable news didn't....and that may be part of the reason why....please excuse my choice of words.....I'm not a robot for President Trump? I haven't been programmed! I have to note this....talk radio has fundamentally changed over the past three years. Long gone are the decades of genuine debate where you didn't know who will call in next. There is no longer genuine conversation anymore....no give and take....as today it is just programs the mind of the listener.
We are a people of the image today....as opposed to a people of the written word. Our son was less than a year old when I noticed his incessant staring at the pixels in the television so I put the TV in the basement for the next nine years. As you may know....I read....at least a couple of books a week....52 weeks a year. There is hardly a day when God's Word is not opened up. How can anyone who believes that the Bible is God's direct word to us.....not take it and read.....even devour....on a regular basis? We are not taught classic literature as we once were and therefore our conversation and our thoughts suffer. We also....as a Grove City College professor theorized his book Why Johnnie Can't Preach....no longer sit down with paper and pen and write a letter....wherein we were forced to think before we put the words down on paper. I'm concerned about this as it affects these posts as I type fast but always have to go back and rewrite or reform my thoughts.
Another influence on the formation of my own opinion stemmed from this weak age of preaching that we have today. In order to compensate I listen to at least three....sometimes four and five sermons a weak....through the Internet....from men who preach like men of the past.
I don't think that it is possible to listen to sermons by Martyn Lloyd-Jones and O. Palmer Robertson and D. A. Carson and Michael Horton and R. C. Sproul and Iain Murray.....just to name a few....(I'll be finding another sermon in a few minutes as I head to the gym)....and not see very clearly how we have devolved in preaching the cross of Christ. Thus these posts....these warnings. I've recommended....more than recommended.....challenged....even more than challenged....warned the average pastor of today to take advantage of this resource....or they may not fulfill their responsibility to feed the sheep....these sheep who today are malnourished to such a degree that they wander everywhere for food that is more often than not poison....filling arenas and megachurches to listen to a prosperity gospel....and falling head-first in love with a genuine false prophet in Donald Trump and his 'travelling salvation show.'
Rush Limbaugh this afternoon is essentially indicting the entire intelligence community. Reason? They don't think that Donald Trump knows what he is doing....Donald Trump who didn't want to go to daily intelligence briefings because he said that he knew more than all the generals.....Donald Trump and his failed reality television summits with Kim Jong-un.....(they fell in love).....Donald Trump who seems to favor Vladimir Putin over NATO....Donald Trump who took everyone by surprise by turning on the Kurds....greatly increasing the risk of war.....after a phone call with Erdogan....Donald Trump who has Jared Kushner out there solving the world's problems.....Donald Trump who uses the Justice Department to purge his political opponents....Donald Trump....who his own people wouldn't let him testify in person because he can't help but lie...now who could have a problem with all that? It's obvious! Deep Staters and Never-Trumpers!
President Trump's chief defenders....talk radio hosts....tell us constantly that what we see in Donald Trump is a fighter....he's fighting for us....and that's why so many people don't like him....couldn't be further from the truth. He is despised not because of his policies....he's despised because of who he is. He certainly didn't fight for a wall for the first two years....and he surrendered right away on repealing and replacing healthcare. They are celebrating today our formally leaving the Paris Accords but he had to be dragged to the table a while back when Ivanka had his ear and there was still a chance he would cave....but that was an issue that couldn't be avoided. You can't really say he surrendered on the national debt because he never really cared about that anyway. What this is....is that he has made so many horrendous mistakes in abusing the power of his office that his back is to the wall. He's not fighting for us....he's fighting for himself.
