Preface and post.....both from late last year....Voter's Guide from a few weeks ago:
Our intelligence agencies have been severely hampered by the accusations of a 'deep state' coup. Here's part of what these folks do in defense of this nation. They not only monitor but analyze the capabilities of all our potential enemies....and work out scenarios on how one or all might attack us....they make preparations for every possible scenario. It's tough enough even when you have a Reagan in office....but probably near impossible with this living breathing reality show in the White House....and they know this....and our military knows this....and they are doing the best they can under the circumstances. It would be one thing if President Trump's many impetuous moves were just risky....but they are more than risky....they are provocatively dangerous. He is forcing China's hand. This is not wise. News reports today say that Russia and China and Iran are commencing joint war games. This is what I've warned of through these years of Donald Trump. If both Iran and China are pushed to the brink they will give us a two-front war....and North Korea may be involved. Do you feel the draft? These are things we want to avoid....but Donald Trump can only see profits and polls.
You are an analyst for the CIA. You're 64 years old and set to retire at the end of the year so you have seen lot in your career....and developed a sense of spotting trouble when something is not right. Today Putin is being pushed in Russia....and he has a nasty habit of pushing back. Hong Kong may explode. The trade wars may back the Communist Party of China into a corner that they will have to fight their way out of. Both Russia and China have fiercely been stocking up on gold. The Mullahs in Iran are more than willing to go to war....along with their surrogates....provided there are other wars going on. Meanwhile.....Kim Jong-un just commissioned his newest submarine and is testing ballistic rocket systems right and left.
You've got a memo already typed up and ready to push the send button....a worst-case scenario....but no one to send it to....for everybody above you is focusing on Venezuela....on the possibility of a blockade.....for 'humanitarian purposes' of course....certainly not oil. You wonder if you should have included Venezuela to get their attention. You delete the memo from the computer and roll up the printed copy....tossing it the waste can....to be burned later. You decide to vacation out instead of waiting until the end of the year.
They all shake your hand on your last day. You buy a comfortable cabin in the remotest section of Cook Forest, Pennsylvania where there is no WiFi or cable television. You bring a book that you've always meant to read.....page one....by the time that you have read through the book of Daniel you wish that you had sent that memo....by the time you've finished Revelation you think about....and utter the words out loud of the second thief on the cross....from the Gospel of Luke you believe....for you know no other way to put it...."Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
VOTER'S GUIDE
Preface: President Trump has been abusing Pennsylvania Congressman Conor Lamb's last name to put one of his acolytes in Congress in the coming election...."he's running against a lamb..." The concept of a lamb is only weakness in his deranged mind....for he wields only a hammer....attempting to break anything that does not exude power and greed. This man would probably become physically ill if John the Baptist's words...." Behold the Lamb of God...." were explained in depth to him....or John the Revelator's words...."No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him"....for the only sacrifice this man would be interested in would be others being sacrificed for him. Interestingly it is the Lamb that broke the seal that leads to the four horses of the Apocalypse.
"But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people." (2 Tim 3:1-5 ESV)
These words from Paul could almost serve as a Facebook profile for Donald Trump....and yet Christians cop out by saying that he's not perfect...."I love myself more than anything in the world....except maybe money....lots and lots of money....and I am the greatest and the smartest president ever....all my opponents are LOSERS.....like that NBC host who I hear from others that he may have once murdered someone. I laugh at their misfortune....'Is this not America the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?"....nothing will ever satisfy my need for glory....and I'll crush anyone who gets in my way....for revenge is my greatest thrill....and heaven help any country that gets in the way of me and my great powers. 'If you don't support me, you're going to be so g--damn poor'....(direct quote).....and if you do.....'we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning'....for....'the best is yet to come'....because....'We are one glorious nation under God.' (more direct quotes) God bless America....God bless the world.....God bless.....well you know the spiel."
Malachi 1:4...."They may build, but I will tear down."
Our intelligence agencies have been severely hampered by the accusations of a 'deep state' coup. Here's part of what these folks do in defense of this nation. They not only monitor but analyze the capabilities of all our potential enemies....and work out scenarios on how one or all might attack us....they make preparations for every possible scenario. It's tough enough even when you have a Reagan in office....but probably near impossible with this living breathing reality show in the White House....and they know this....and our military knows this....and they are doing the best they can under the circumstances. It would be one thing if President Trump's many impetuous moves were just risky....but they are more than risky....they are provocatively dangerous. He is forcing China's hand. This is not wise. News reports today say that Russia and China and Iran are commencing joint war games. This is what I've warned of through these years of Donald Trump. If both Iran and China are pushed to the brink they will give us a two-front war....and North Korea may be involved. Do you feel the draft? These are things we want to avoid....but Donald Trump can only see profits and polls.
You are an analyst for the CIA. You're 64 years old and set to retire at the end of the year so you have seen lot in your career....and developed a sense of spotting trouble when something is not right. Today Putin is being pushed in Russia....and he has a nasty habit of pushing back. Hong Kong may explode. The trade wars may back the Communist Party of China into a corner that they will have to fight their way out of. Both Russia and China have fiercely been stocking up on gold. The Mullahs in Iran are more than willing to go to war....along with their surrogates....provided there are other wars going on. Meanwhile.....Kim Jong-un just commissioned his newest submarine and is testing ballistic rocket systems right and left.
You've got a memo already typed up and ready to push the send button....a worst-case scenario....but no one to send it to....for everybody above you is focusing on Venezuela....on the possibility of a blockade.....for 'humanitarian purposes' of course....certainly not oil. You wonder if you should have included Venezuela to get their attention. You delete the memo from the computer and roll up the printed copy....tossing it the waste can....to be burned later. You decide to vacation out instead of waiting until the end of the year.
They all shake your hand on your last day. You buy a comfortable cabin in the remotest section of Cook Forest, Pennsylvania where there is no WiFi or cable television. You bring a book that you've always meant to read.....page one....by the time that you have read through the book of Daniel you wish that you had sent that memo....by the time you've finished Revelation you think about....and utter the words out loud of the second thief on the cross....from the Gospel of Luke you believe....for you know no other way to put it...."Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
VOTER'S GUIDE
Preface: President Trump has been abusing Pennsylvania Congressman Conor Lamb's last name to put one of his acolytes in Congress in the coming election...."he's running against a lamb..." The concept of a lamb is only weakness in his deranged mind....for he wields only a hammer....attempting to break anything that does not exude power and greed. This man would probably become physically ill if John the Baptist's words...." Behold the Lamb of God...." were explained in depth to him....or John the Revelator's words...."No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him"....for the only sacrifice this man would be interested in would be others being sacrificed for him. Interestingly it is the Lamb that broke the seal that leads to the four horses of the Apocalypse.
"But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people." (2 Tim 3:1-5 ESV)
These words from Paul could almost serve as a Facebook profile for Donald Trump....and yet Christians cop out by saying that he's not perfect...."I love myself more than anything in the world....except maybe money....lots and lots of money....and I am the greatest and the smartest president ever....all my opponents are LOSERS.....like that NBC host who I hear from others that he may have once murdered someone. I laugh at their misfortune....'Is this not America the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?"....nothing will ever satisfy my need for glory....and I'll crush anyone who gets in my way....for revenge is my greatest thrill....and heaven help any country that gets in the way of me and my great powers. 'If you don't support me, you're going to be so g--damn poor'....(direct quote).....and if you do.....'we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning'....for....'the best is yet to come'....because....'We are one glorious nation under God.' (more direct quotes) God bless America....God bless the world.....God bless.....well you know the spiel."
Malachi 1:4...."They may build, but I will tear down."
