Note: The bold highlighting in the paragraph on Ben Sasse below was just added to emphasize a point....and was not in the original posts.
BEN SASSE....In October of 2022 I posted this...."Ben Sasse is about to be offered the job as President of the University of Florida.....and he is probably going to take it if that offer is extended to him. Senator Sasse and I are of the same theological persuasions....although there may be a...."distinction without a difference"....in that he is very heavy in that Christians must join in to make a difference in the culture.....while I agree with that....until the chief engineer tells the captain that the ship is going down. We are going to need our best minds in the Senate....and there are not that many....Sasse's expected decision lowers that number by one....and what do we get out of it.....a 'Gator nation' president."And then on November 2 or 2022 I posted this...."Senator Sasse has one more university vote to get by to officially be offered the President of the University of Florida....and that vote will likely pass....and then Senator Sasse would presumably resign from the Senate. Don't do it Ben. Stay in the fight. There's a line in David Mamet's 1999 film the Winslow Boy....I'm sure you've seen it....where Sir Robert turned down the office of Lord Chief Justice....describing it this way...."The robes of that office would not have suited me." The robes of this office would not suit you. Remember this also Senator....likewise from the film...."Easy to do justice....very hard to do right." Ben Sasse this past week resigned from his position as President of the University of Florida. There are family health matters involved....(that we can all pray for!)....but there are other issues. He never should have left the United States Senate.
"I'm reading a book right now about the Russian revolution and the year 1917 in Petrograd. Central to what I've read so far are the dispatches from foreign journalists back to their newspapers and magazines in their home countries. The word 'dispatches' sat very well with me when I read it as that's what I look upon many of these posts as....dispatches.....eye witness accounts so to speak....sent to others who because of time and circumstances view these things from afar. I've sent these posts back week after week and month after month and year after year to everyday Americans, detailing the unravelling conditions in our government and our society in general. The Russian autocracy, clad in their furs, feasting and travelling in their elegant automobiles and troikas, enjoyed their ballet and theater right up to the moment that their country collapsed.
The above was the first paragraph in a July of 2017 post. I've posted about a hundred DISPATCHES posts since then. The book mentioned was Helen Rappaport's....Caught In The Revolution....Petrograd, 1917-A World On The Edge.
ISRAEL is a bellwether....indicating where the world is going. They are in a fight for their lives right now....and just about every bit conflicted and divided as we are. When Jesus talked about....A house divided....He was warning us of what it would be like before He returned.
RUSSIA....who woulda thunk it....that conservatives would become the useful idiots that we warned about for decades?
CONSERVATISM as it has been known in America is gone....replaced by an Ayn Rand extreme selfishness....modified and now known as Trumpism.
EVANGELICALISM has been rendered powerless by Trumpism....taken in by a genuine biblical false prophet.
THE NEWS MEDIA....right now we have no legitimate news media....so we are in effect as a Civil War general....blind without its cavalry. CNN and ABC and NBC and CBS are long gone....FOX only recently....within the past few years....has abandoned fair news reporting.....and Drudge....who once served as a buffer....has instead taken sides....and Breitbart....as well as all the smaller independent news organizations....are worse than all the above.
TALK RADIO....conservative talk radio as we once knew it....a major source of our information....has been taken captive by Trumpism. I listened once again to Rush Limbaugh's very last caller. He defended Trump right up to the very end. He was such a nice man....but completely taken in. He thanked Mark Steyn at the end of the program for being on call....and said...."See you tomorrow."
FRANKLIN GRAHAM.....learned nothing from his father on the quicksand of politics and the gospel. The Rev. Billy....according to Franklin....could not even converse in his last year. I have to believe that he could see what was happening....and only prayed for us.
JOHN MACARTHUR....has not been in his pulpit for the last eight weeks. He made his share of mistakes also since Trump came on the scene....but we need his voice in that pulpit!
AS FOR THIS ELECTION....these two candidates are God's judgments on all of us. We evangelicals are as the princes of Jerusalem who ridiculed Jeremiah's warnings. The wooden yoke of Babylon would be broken....the false prophet said....but Jeremiah rebuked him and said that an iron yoke would take its place.
SUPERMOON....PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE....and BLOOD MOON....(sort of)....tonight....Tuesday the 17th....all three of these will be viewable....(weather providing)....here in North America. Technically it is not a blood moon but should appear red enough that some have labelled it as such. 10:44 is the time that you should be out there. The next total lunar eclipse and legitimate blood moon will be March 14 of 2025. On a side note....Trump was born on a blood moon on June 14, 1946. April 15, 2014 to September 28, 2015 evidenced the now infamous blood moon tetrad. It is almost forgotten today as if nothing happened....but Trump came down that escalator during of that tetrad....June 16 of 2015....if anybody is interested.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO....Psalm 1: 1,2?
"Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night."
