Apr 27, 2009
A Better Crown Awaits
The Miss USA pageant is a lesser known cousin of the Miss America pageant. Contestants compete for the opportunity to become the autocratic ruler of county parades and mall openings. The winner is selected by her performance in swimsuit and evening gown modeling contests, and by her response to a question asked onstage.
Normally, the scepter of power is passed from one winner’s reign to the next without any trouble. For this year's contest, however, there is a bit of controversy. Carrie Prejean, already crowned Miss California, caused a stink when she failed to give the proper politically correct answer to a question on gay marriage by Perez Hilton.
The question:
“Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?”
Prejean’s response:
“We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite. And you know what, I think in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised.”
Her answer obviously caused her to lose the contest. All indications before she answered that question had her as the front-runner--even ahead of the winner, Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton.
Her reply didn't sit well with some folks in the audience. It was one of those rare occasions when a pageant contestant garnered boos from the crowd.
Prejean had no regrets about her answer. "It is a very touchy subject and Hilton is a homosexual, and I see where he was coming from and I see the audience would've wanted me to be more politically correct. But I was raised in a way that you can never compromise your beliefs and your opinions for anything. I feel like I'm the winner. I really do."
Perez Hilton is a creep who makes a living following the lives of those who qualify today as celebrities. Oh yes, he is gay--very gay. So gay, in fact, he calls himself "the queen of all media." Hilton has a fixation on outing alleged closeted celebrities. He has been sued several times for making false claims about people.
Hilton appeared on NBC's "Today" show and proved he was a man with an agenda. First, he said he demands a Miss USA winner be "politically savvy." Then, he said he had a problem with Prejean being a Christian. He doesn't want her "talking about Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, because that's offensive."
In the aftermath of the uproar, Hilton turned to Britney Spears for moral support. Hilton asked her on Twitter what she thought about gay marriage, and she responded with: "Love is love! People should be able to do whatever makes them happy! -Britney" Because Spears’ moral judgment is already well-known, I won’t get into that.
Hilton and all gays’ fixation on their sexual preference reminds of me of an old Second City comedian skit that involved Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame. Comedian Dave Thomas played the Colonel in a panel discussion that had him asking a woman repeated questions about chicken. The lines, "Madam do you like chicken?" and “Does your family eat chicken?” still stick in my memory after 25 years because the skit was so absurd.
Nothing is humorous about the bizarre obsession that homosexuals have about all things gay. The trouble with immorality is that sinners don't just want to be accepted in society, they want approval and they want others to even join them in their perversion. When these people argue for tolerance and equal rights, they undermine their own cases when they vent hatred against those who choose to disapprove of their behavior.
At the rate our moral foundation is crumbling, one might expect the following questions for future Miss USA pageants:
2010 "Should a 13-year-old and a 40-year-old be allowed to marry?"
2011 "Is there anything wrong with bestiality?"
2012 "What is your view of necrophilia?"
Going forward, I doubt any participant will stand up for what she believes. If you don't approve of Perez Hilton’s perverse lifestyle, you have no reason to enter the contest.
Like everything in this life, the Miss USA pageant has no lasting importance. Someday soon, the twisted values that apply to this world will be swallowed up by the standards of the Kingdom of God. Carrie Prejean will receive a crown of righteousness for standing up for truth. Unless Mr. Hilton comes to faith in Jesus Christ, he might as well change his name to the Queen of Hades.
-- Todd
Moving Toward 666
Bible prophecy students who hold to a literal interpretation of prophecy yet future–futurists, as we are sometimes termed—have long speculated how America might figure into the ultimate system of control of the beast regime. That Antichrist economic/worship system is foretold in the following:
“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six” (Revelation 13:15-18).
America–but not Al Gore, as he has claimed--was at the heart of developing the internet. The internet is a type of medium that more and more looks to be one a hybrid of which might deliver on the globalist elite’s ambition to intricately link everyone on the planet in a person-to-person system of governance. More than coincidentally, such an internet hybrid will almost certainly produce, through electronic bondage, the Antichrist dictatorship that will enslave everyone on the planet.
We should expect, based upon the many proliferating end-of-days signals now occurring in birth pang-like frequency and intensity, that there should also be found on the prophetic horizon such an enslavement system in the making. Sure enough, there is such a system developing, and, again, the United States of America is at the forefront, just as the nation is at the forefront of the gush toward globalism.
The once mighty U.S. dollar is being systematically rendered the equal of all other of the world’s currencies. This is being done through printing trillions of dollars that have nothing of substance backing them whatever, and by U.S. leadership intentionally melding America’s sovereignty with a swiftly changing global monetary order.
The great tax-and-spend powers that be have been turning up every stone known to the fiscal world to find a way to exact tax revenues from use of the internet. Believe me when I tell you that they will be able to do this at some point in the near future. The voracious tax grab must first, of course, be shown to have a dramatic reason to be done. A crisis must be at hand, you see, in order to justify such invasion into the individual liberty intrinsic within the internet. No doubt, the crisis must involve national security so that we the people will be afraid not to go along.
Try this on for size, my fellow citizens…
“The President has likened threats to the internet to that of a nuclear attack. The White House should take direct control of US cybersecurity, the woman tipped to be President Obama's net security czar has said. Melissa Hathaway told a conference in San Francisco that the net had not been built with safety in mind.
She has just completed a review of cybersecurity for the President.
‘This poses one of the most serious challenges of the 21st century. Cyberspace won't be secured overnight on the basis of one good plan,’ she said…
President Obama has made the issue of cybersecurity a top priority and ordered this 60-day review to determine how the government should dramatically restructure how it handles the internet and security… Recent breaches have targeted the US power grid and the Pentagon.
To date, the government has kept its own counsel on the shape of its new cybersecurity establishment. However it has been reported the administration has finalized plans for a new Pentagon cyber command to coordinate the security of military computer networks…” (“US ramps up cybersecurity focus,” Maggie Shiels, BBC News, RSA Conference San Francisco, 4/24/09).
The American administration’s determination to bring the internet–and all involved within the medium--under strict government control proves there are plans for new bureaucracy on the drawing board of ever bigger government. It is only a matter of time–a very brief time, I suggest—until such bureaucracy will be constructed globally. It is just such a construct from which I believe the 666 mark and numbering system of Revelation 13:15-18 will ultimately emerge.
The super internet will have at its core the use of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) monetary units. Such will eliminate, the developers and implementers will claim, theft of money that the hard currencies have presented. The problems that are part of national currencies will also be eliminated, or at least made controllable, they will assure, such as problems involved with the rates of exchange of one national currency against another.
The ultimately evolved super internet system will have at its heart a computer marking and numbering system that will electronically link the individual with a central controlling entity whereby all people can be monitored and instantly dealt with as necessary. Bible prophecy foretells this whole diabolist ball of wax will revolve around worship of the beast–Antichrist. This will take place during the tribulation era, the time of God’s wrath against rebellious earth dwellers (Rev. 6: 17). However, Satan’s scheme to ultimately have all of humanity worship him will not touch saints of the Church Age (Age of Grace).
Jesus said that the gates of hell would not prevail against his Church (Matt. 16:16). The Apostle Paul said: “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do” (1 Thess. 5: 9-11).
--Terry
