only give McCain a 16 percent chance of victory. The Obama campaign has already spent $2 million on a lavish victory celebration in Chicago.
There is a huge amount of denial or exasperation on the part of Christians. I’ve received dozens of messages from people who think the liberal media is concocting the poll numbers, and they doubt Obama is going to win. Some woman even sent me a vision from the Lord that points to a surprise McCain victory:
I keep hearing God say – regarding the elections
"I will move them in the right way when it comes Election Day.
The polls and the trends may look one way,
But when it comes to election day,
I'll move them the right way.
I'll move them the right way.”
I hear God saying:
“McCain, McCain, McCain
McCain and Palin, McCain and Palin,
McCain...”
An equal number of people can’t believe that Obama is being taken seriously as a candidate. Here is an email that offers an example of the frustration I see every day: “HAVE WE LEARNED ANYTHING SINCE 9/11? We either turn this country over to a man who patriotically and proudly has served his country in war and in peace ~or~ do we face the consequences of electing a man with a checkered past, a man who has counted domestic terrorists among his friends, and a man who spent 15 years in a church where his pastor regularly damned and condemned the United States. We need to investigate [who] BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA's friends and mentors have been over his lifetime and this is not negative campaigning when he is wanting to be elected commander and chief of this country!!"
I don’t think alarm or even anger is called for here. If we are in the last of the last days, we should expect the world to begin to reflect the dark picture painted by Bible prophecy. The Word of God says the end times will be marked by moral decline, apostasy, and global economic peril.
We should not withdraw from the world just because things don’t go our way. If we fail to engage the enemy, we will end up with a nation that is all the more repulsive to us. At some point, our right to freedom of religion will come into question.
I’ve noticed that Christians are mostly absent from the political process. Nearly all the Christian conservative political organizations from previous election years seem to be sitting this one out. Since believers are said to be the salt of the earth, their absence is going to be quickly reflected in the types of new laws that will come out of Washington D.C.
“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men” (Matt. 5:3).
God never said that our main goal should be centered on achieving victory in the political process. We have been charged with the task of saving a remnant of the general population. One good thing about the pace of recent events is that it gets believers out of their comfort-zone mentality. The fact that we find ourselves living in a nation we no longer recognize should indicate it’s time to turn our hearts to the place of our true residence.
We rarely hear the term "pilgrim" applied to believers these days.
"Pilgrim - One who stays in a place as a stranger or visitor; to describe Christians whose
final citizenship is in heaven and who are regarded as temporary dwellers on earth"
(Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia Of The Bible). As America gets
further from core biblical values,
my hope is that more Christians realize that we are ultimately just visitors here.
"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" (Romans 12:2 (NIV).
-- Todd
Globalist Gathering Portends Prophetic Possibilities
World leaders will come together November 15 in Washington, D.C. to try to resolve the first truly global economic crisis in history. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the first of what might be a series of meetings will address the crisis as to its underlying causes, the global response, and the principles that should guide in dealing with the financial upheaval.
The first of these summits will bring together the leaders of nations that participate in the G-20 finance process to discuss current economic challenges. The G-20 consists of leaders of Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, the United States, the European Union, China, Brazil, India, Russia, South Korea, and other major economies.
The Bush Administration says the winner of the November 4 U.S. presidential election will be welcome to join the process between the election and the inauguration on January 20. Both of the major candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, have acknowledged that the meeting is crucial. At this point, Obama has not decided whether to attend if he is elected, saying, “We have only one president at a time.” No word has yet been given by McCain on whether he might attend, if elected. The following excerpt of a report on the summit gives insight.
“[U.S. President] Bush, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, who met at the Camp David, Md., presidential retreat last week, announced the series of summits, saying the international community must work together to address the credit crisis that has shaken markets the world over.
"Bush has supported the steps European nations have taken to fix the financial markets and is willing to listen to a range of ideas from both developed and developing nations. But he hasn't signed onto the more ambitious, broad-stroke reforms that some European leaders have in mind to avoid a repeat of the market crisis that rippled around the globe…” (Deb Riechmann, Associated Press, "World leaders to meet on economy in Washington," 10/22/08).
It is more than interesting–at least to this observer—that a meeting of this scale involving a group that is seemingly of uncooperative, even antagonistic, mindsets in most matters of governance can be arranged with such swiftness. It is out of character to have such consensus (for so many to sit down together) while practically every other issue so profoundly divides world leaders that they can hardly abide sitting together on such things as lifting or imposing trade barriers and/or sanctions on bad actors on the geopolitical landscape. Certainly, getting even a minimum number of such leaders to sit down together is nigh impossible on such crucial matters as stopping nuclear proliferation.
The power of money has strange effects on man, or, as the Bible puts it, “the love of money" is at the root of all of the evil within mankind. The gathering--its quick arrangement and the high level of interest shown by total participation--should alert us to the magnitude of the economic earthquake that continues to reverberate. This worldwide financial quake has initiated what might become a quantum leap in Bible prophecy yet future.
One becomes sure, after months and years of observing developing worldwide movements, that prophetic things are indeed afoot. Thinking on these developments includes:
1) Knowing the U.S. isn’t mentioned by name in Bible prophecy, the U.S. must diminish and reviving Rome must emerge as a major power.
2) Believing that there is a global agenda brewing, the financial elite must assert/insert themselves in some profound way in order to change nationalism to global thinking, especially in matters of economic interaction.
3) Understanding that Antichrist’s regime will be based upon his ability to control economy on an instantaneous, planetary basis, computers and EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) is, within some hybrid computer/satellite/internet linkage technology, the likely vehicle through which to bring to fruition the beast system of control foretold In the 13th chapter of Revelation.
It is critical to keep in mind that the EU is a prototype for the other developing regional economic unions. The North American union has been on a fast track for some time, with a regional currency--the amero--apparently scheduled for future use. That, in conjunction with the other such unions developing around the globe, brings us to seriously consider whether the ten-toes vision Daniel the prophet interpreted for Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel, chapter 2) might be but one twinkling of an eye away.
Even more relevant to the late hour, watching while the dynamics of the economic convulsions rearrange the way the world does business, is the prophecy given John for the very end of the age: “And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast” (Rev. 17:12-13).
--Terry
