There was a time not all that long ago when Lindsey Graham was one of the more sensible senators in our Congress....this when John McCain was around. He has since lost his abilities to think through things.
So right now Senator Graham is boasting a bill in the works that will give Trump the ability to put up to 500% sanctions....a "sledgehammer"....on countries that do business with Putin....that includes India and Brazil and a lot of countries....particularly on oil and gas and uranium....because that is where Putin gets the money to fund the war in Ukraine.
China is too far along on its plans to invade Taiwan to sit and watch its economy totally collapse. It is now or never.....and Putin is rearming as fast as he can for his role in the war....he is not going to let NATO build up their militaries....and Kim Jong-Un is just going to do what he is told.
Our intelligence agencies....or what's left of those there who are professionals at what they do....they know that war is coming. God's Word tells those who have ears to hear that judgment is coming right now.....and war is part of that judgment.
It's not that if this 500% tariff bill is not passed that there will be no war. The war is coming. Nineveh had forty days....and we in America have had at least forty years of warnings.
Is there something inherently or even biblically wrong with a Christian saying that war is coming? Jeremiah told the king and the priests and the princes that Babylon was coming. Jesus told the Pharisees that they could discern the weather but not the signs of the times. Daniel and Ezekiel and Isaiah and all the others laid it out for us....but you wouldn't....and we don't....know anything about it from what comes out of our pulpits.
The following was posted in August of 2019....probably as the coronavirus was germinating:
Good-bye Langley
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 a 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 Wi-Fi 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."
