The 2018 Midterm Election Looks Very Grim for Republicans
In a normal election year where there is no presidential race, April would be way too early to be talking about voting that doesn’t take place until November. Since we now live in a time of continuous campaigning, I’m desperately behind in commenting about an election that is quickly becoming a done deal.
I’ve been closely watching elections since the Carter administration, and I’ve never seen one that looked so bad for the Republicans. I’ve also never seen an election where the Democrats were so fixated on taking control of Congress.
Some Democratic candidates have already raised incredible amounts of money. El Paso Rep. Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat hoping to defeat Sen. Ted Cruz in November, raised a record-setting $6.7 million in the first quarter of 2018, according to his campaign. Texas has been such a solid red state that, in the past, any Democratic challenger would be lucky to raise a few thousand dollars.
A wave of retirements by prominent Republicans in Congress also suggests good fortune for Democrats, making it harder for Republicans to hold some competitive seats. A much bigger factor is the 80% historical average of the sitting President’s party losing 20-30 seats in the midterm election.
The Democrats only need a swing of 24 seats for them to gain control of the House. The current forecast calls for the Republicans to lose between 40 and 50 seats. I know some of these polls are the same ones that had Hillary Clinton 15 points ahead in the 2016 race. Because House races are all a direct vote, they tend to defy the oddities of one candidate getting three million more votes and still losing the election: 65.8 Clinton vs. 62.9 Trump.
There has been a series of massive political changes in the key political state that could play a major role in a democratic win. Here is a list of them:
Florida – Hurricane Maria had such a devastating impact on the Island of Puerto Rico that a large portion of the Island’s residents has relocated to the state of Florida. Since 70% of Puerto Ricans vote for the Democratic Party, this change in demographics could doom several Republican seats.
Pennsylvania – The state’s Supreme Court has redrawn the map of the state’s congressional districts, overturning a Republican gerrymander that’s been used in the past three congressional elections. The new map more closely reflects the partisan composition of the state, all but ensuring that Democrats will pick up seats
Wisconsin – Governor Scott Walker warned that his state could see a wave of Democratic victories in the 2018 midterm elections. Walker’s comments came after liberal Judge Rebecca Dallet overcame conservative Judge Michael Screnock in the race for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat.
California – The Golden state is in open revolt to the authority of the federal government. Leftist radicals are actively seeking to flood the state with illegal immigrants that will give their support to the Democratic Party.
Texas – People who are sick of all the rules and taxes in California and other Western states are moving to Texas in large numbers. They are not in Texas to support policies that have made Texas prosperous. They have brought with them the same political beliefs that will turn Texas into another California.
I think the only chance that Republicans have at retaining the House is voters rejecting the possibility of putting Nancy Pelosi back in as the Speaker of the House. The press has been very active in hiding her medical problems, but I think there is clear evidence that she is suffering from an advanced form of dementia. I don’t know why they don’t replace her as minority leader. My guess is that insanity is so pervasive in the Democratic Party, it’s longer possible for them to comprehend that Nancy is losing her marbles.
The outcome of this election will clearly be the will of God. It would be an amazing accomplishment for the Republicans to retain both houses of Congress, despite this massive effort on the part of Democrats. I know this endless stream of rage is coming from the pit of hell, and it’s clear that the devil is not going to stop until he achieves victory. It is my hope that the rapture comes as an October surprise. Right before the November election, we could disappear and join the Lord in laughing the left to derision.
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision” (Psalm 2:1-4).
–Todd
Turkey on End-Times Table
A major leg of the Ezekiel 38-39 Gog-Magog coalition is coming into view. The Turkey leg is now, undeniably in the estimation of many students of prophecy, on the end-times table of Bible prophecy.
We are given the nations that will make up that attacking force by the prophet Ezekiel.
Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. (Ezekiel 38:2-6)
Modern-day Turkey covers most of the territory that made up ancient Togarmah. Ezekiel was told to prophesy that the house of Togarmah will be among the horde from the north of Jerusalem that will assault Israel near the time of Christ’s return.
Many things have been written in recent months and years that analyze developments to Israel’s north. It is as if those with spiritually attuned eyes and ears are being given a play-by-play unfolding of this coalition.
Russia is pared down from its configuration as the nucleus of the former Soviet Union. It more or less once again covers territory that it encompassed during the time of Ezekiel’s giving the Gog-Magog prophecy. Meshech and Tubal comprised that territory. The “Gog” demonic spirit will, according to this prophecy, inhabit the chief prince, or leader of Russia. This leader is also destined to be the leader of the entire coalition.
Developments toward these prophesied have been nothing short of phenomenal as of late.
Russia, after falling apart as the USSR, is again a powerful force. It has inserted its influence, including a considerable military presence, into the region directly north of Israel.
Iran, which is the central-most territory today that once was called Persia, has joined Russia as a close ally–again, just to Israel’s north. Russia’s and Iran’s military assets co-mingle in the region to influence Syria, another end-times player.
Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, as we’ve said many times, looks to be the prototype for the leader who will be Gog of the Gog-Magog force prophetically scheduled to invade toward Israel to the south.
The prophet Ezekiel was told to foretell that God, Himself, will put hooks into the Gog-leader’s jaws and jerk him southward like a fisherman would set hooks into a big fish’s mouth and reel him in.
There is good reason to believe, upon watching all that has been transpiring to Israel’s north, that the “hooks” are about to be set. The evidence of this certain eventuality mounts. The latest evidence is that the third major leg of the three main Gog-Magog invasion force diabolists now seems to be solidly within the evil coalition.
The transformation of Turkey–ancient Togarmah–from being friend of America and the geopolitical west to being increasingly hostile is amazing to witness. Turkey is a NATO member that is rapidly changing allegiance from the western defense conglomerate to cozying up to Putin, Iran, and what seems to be the coalescing Gog-Magog force.
Turkey’s leader, who recently has made moves within the nation’s government that make him virtually a dictator, now almost daily expresses his hatred for Israel. This, when Turkey for decades, if not exactly in a warm, fuzzy, relationship with Israel, was nonetheless in a cordial, live-and-let-live relationship with the Jewish state.
Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently called Israel’s actions against the violence in Gaza “inhumane” and referred to the Jewish state as “terrorist state and occupier,” and to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu as a “terrorist.”
According to Turkey’s Daily Sabah, Erdogan–speaking at a meeting of his ruling Justice and Development Party in the southern Adana province–said, “I do not need to tell the world how cruel the Israeli army is. We can see what this terror state is doing by looking at the situation in Gaza and Jerusalem.”
The Turkish leader was referring to the actions taken by Israeli forces in answer to the largest uprising of Palestinians along the Israeli-Gaza border in recent years. The protesters were carrying out acts of violence, demanding a right of return for refugees to what is now Israel. More than 3,000 gathered at five locations along the fenced 40-mile frontier where tents were erected for a planned six-week protest, it was reported.
Israeli troops finally had to use force in order to stop the enraged attackers. Reportedly, 17 protesters were killed and more than 1,400 were injured.
Netanyahu, in answer to Erdogan’s accusations against Israel’s actions to put down the violent demonstrators, said: “I am not used to receiving lectures about morality from the leader who bombs Kurdish villagers in his native Turkey, who jails journalists, who helps Iran go around international sanctions and who helps terrorists, including in Gaza, kill innocent people. That is not the man who is going to lecture us.”
Along with Israel, itself, being prime indicator of just how near might be the Gog-magog attack are these swiftly moving developments to her north. The end-times table is indeed in process of being set!
–Terry