28 Aug 2023

The Long Arm of the Lawless

I think we’ve all known from the beginning that the crude rockets of Hamas and the crude roadside bombs would not stay crude.

At least when Israel is the target.

The problem in the region, as always, is Iran. The mullahs have the money to develop sophisticated weaponry, much moreso than Hamas or Islamic Jihad.

Now the Iranians have reportedly got a new high-tech drone that is lethal. Flying at 24,000 feet, at 130 miles per hour, the payload is a 600 lb. bomb. To add insult to injury, the device has a message in Hebrew: “Prepare your bombshelters.”

It can stay airborne for 24 hours and is similar in design to the American armed MQ-9 Reaper.

Named the Mohajer-10 (Farsi for “immigrant”), the drone was recently unveiled at a conference. The Iranians said that the drone could carry electronic surveillance equipment and a camera. Iran’s hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, a protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also viewed the drone on Tuesday.

According to a report from Ynet News:

“’Today, we can firmly introduce Iran as an advanced and technologic nation to the world,’ Raisi said in comments aired on state television. He reiterated Iran’s stance about friendly relations with ‘all countries in the world,’ adding that Iran’s armed forces will cut off any hand that will reaches out in an attempt to invade Iran, state TV reported.

“The Associated Press could not immediately verify the claims about the drone’s capabilities, though an arm of state television shared a video of it taking off from a runway. Long-range drones like the Reaper also require ground stations and satellite communications.”

At the same time, an Iranian delegation was in Moscow to visit with Kremlin officials about their own drone program. Iran has supplied the Russians with drones in the fight in Ukraine.

For years, the Iranians (and other Western enemies) have attempted to recover or steal American drones. It’s thought that the country has obtained pieces of drones; in 2011, Iran got control of an RQ-170 Sentinel, a CIA drone that was monitoring Iranian nuclear sites. Launched from Afghanistan, the drone was reverse-engineered by Iran.

In 2019, Iran shot down a U.S. Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk in the Strait of Hormuz amid high tensions over its collapsed nuclear deal with world powers.

Iran is up to more mischief than this, though. This week, an Israeli mother was shot to death near Hebron, in front of her 12-year-old daughter. Netanyahu visited the site and had this to say:

“We are in the middle of a terrorist onslaught that is encouraged, guided, and funded by Iran and its proxies. A significant portion of this wave of terrorism came from external guidance.”

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant added this:

“It is important to understand the significant change that is taking place on the ground – it is related to Iranian funding, and to the proliferation of weapons under the Iranian directive. Iran seeks every means to harm the citizens of Israel.”

In a report from the Jerusalem Post:

“Their decision to accuse Iran is important because it shows how the defense and security establishment is increasingly convinced that Iran is behind the increased attacks in the West Bank. This extends beyond what is already known about Iran’s backing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Hamas. Iran’s hand is seeking to inflame the West Bank. This is also linked to the smuggling of weapons in the West Bank, as the statement noted ‘proliferation of weapons.’”

Iran is also working hard to transfer weapons into Judea and Samaria, something Israel hasn’t seen before. Lately, there have been dozens of terror attacks daily in that area.

Still another front for Iran is to encourage the Syrian regime at the expense of Saudi Arabia, seeking a severing of any ties between Israel and the Saudis, so that Iran continues to exert influence in the region. The overall goal is to threaten Israel on as many fronts as possible.

It’s pathetic that human beings expend so much energy for evil. We that love Israel expend much energy in praying for her and against her evil foes.

 

 

28 Aug 2023

The Fourth Indictment Has Come

Former president Donald Trump has been indicted yet again for felony crimes. This time, indictment fatigue has set in. The liberal media were not as breathless as the first one. I didn’t hear the word “history,” possibly because it draws attention to the lunacy of these charges.

Trump has supposedly committed so many crimes that I have to wonder where he found the time. He has dozens of people charged with him. It’s amazing that he found such a large group of criminals to serve under him. He must have been asked, “Would you like an associate who is savory or one who is unsavory?” Every time, he would say, “Give me the second one.”

We must be massively overmanned in law enforcement because we have a large number of people now investigating Trump. Like most people, I’ve completely lost track of the current indictments. I’ve managed to put together a brief list of them:

  1. He has been charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a series of Trump Organization checks he signed in 2017 to his personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen. The payments were to reimburse Mr. Cohen for a hush money payoff he had made in October 2016 to a porn actress, Stormy Daniels, to cover up a potential sex scandal just before the election.
  2. He has been charged with 40 criminal counts related to accusations that he hoarded sensitive government records after leaving office and conspired to obstruct government efforts to retrieve them, including by defying a subpoena.
  3. He has been charged with four criminal counts related to accusations that he sought to subvert American democracy by trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to Joseph R. Biden Jr.
  4. He is charged with 13 criminal counts related to accusations that he illegally sought to subvert his narrow loss to Mr. Biden in Georgia. A total of 19 co-defendants are charged with helping Trump in his scheme.

The indictments #5 and #6 are likely in the works. The head district attorneys in the states of Arizona and Nevada want to join the parade by creating their own charges.

The fourth indictment seems pointless because it is just a repeat of the third indictment. DA Fani Willis did about 30 interviews over the past couple of years, and it was clear that she had already decided to charge Trump.

Trump may have been delusional in thinking he had won in Georgia, but it wasn’t a crime. He can go to his grave thinking he carried the state. Willis is trying to make it illegal to disagree with popular opinion.

One claim of Trump’s attempt at subversion was his conversation with the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. He asked Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won this state.” Trump could have asked him to call local post offices and ask if they have a bin for lost ballots and also check Goodwill donation boxes in case any poll worker got confused. Trump didn’t ask Raffensperger to forge ballots; he just thought they could easily have been misplaced.

The government will spend well over a billion dollars trying to convict Trump. It is a mockery of the justice system to expect Trump to defend four court cases. If I were in Trump’s shoes, I wouldn’t bother to respond to these indictments.

One thing that really makes my blood boil is the treatment of people around Trump. When Mayor Rudy Giuliani joined the White House, he thought he was just offering his services to Trump. He quickly found himself under attack from the left.

No dispute or conflict in Giuliani’s life is too small to be made into a major legal matter. The goal is to break him to the point where he can be made to turn on Trump. Our nation is doomed not because of the actions of these thugs; it’s hopeless because the American people have lost the ability to care.

There is another guy who doesn’t have any connection to Trump, but he has been given the same treatment by the powers that be. James O’Keefe is the founder of Project Veritas, an organization that uses secret recordings to discredit mainstream media organizations and leftist groups. O’Keefe must have been doing the Lord’s work because it’s amazing the hateful nature of articles written about him by liberal media sites.

After a series of revenge lawsuits, O’Keefe was forced out by traitor underlings who decided they would rather get a paycheck than follow Project Veritas’ mission. It is foolish for any Republican to give money to Project Veritas; it is now a tool of the devil that is helping to destroy James O’Keefe. The board has fired Dorsey & Whitney LLP, the law firm that investigated NRA executive director Wayne LaPierre. It is working with the Westchester DA to find criminal charges against O’Keefe.

I served 20 years in the US Air Force. At this point, I view myself as having defended a nation I no longer recognize. The America of today has abandoned the constitutional values our forefathers left us. Things are so bad that any sane mind in this country is left with praying for death or the rapture.

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18).

–Todd


New Lockdowns: “Battening Down the Hatches”

A couple of weeks ago in my blog article, “Looking Up While Locking Down,” I attempted to foster a bit of comfort. I tried to make the point that while we see the powerful and wicked minions, both human and demonic, going all out to bring all people on the planet into a global gulag, we can know that Jesus’ call to believers in the Rapture must certainly be drawing near. Surely, we are in the time of Luke 21:28 because we’ve been seeing “all these things come to pass” for quite some time.

Jesus said when we see all of these things, we are to “look up,” for our Redemption–Jesus Himself—will be drawing near. Paul told us we should “take comfort” in anticipation of that glorious event.

For those who are “watching” as Jesus admonished (Mark 13:37), the evidence is literally in every direction on the prophetic horizon. All of the signals are converging—in a proliferation of end-times signals that haven’t happened before.

So there is every reason to be “looking up” as Jesus instructed those two thousand years ago when He was sitting atop the Mount of Olives.

And now the ominous reports are beginning to come forth as if they’re paving the way to prepare for the minions’ next major attempt at bringing the populations of earth under the lockdowns that are obviously a part of the blueprint for the Great Reset. It is all within the Luciferian scheme the World Economic Forum and other Ephesians 6:12 powers and principalities intend to implement in establishing their New World Order.

Apparently, this September through December is the time they plan to again bring about the lockdowns that were successful in their previous wicked, freedom-robbing test to see who would and would not comply.

The following somewhat gives a heads-up on what we might be facing before this year is out.

The Biden regime is preparing to reinstate full COVID-19 lockdowns, beginning with masking mandates for TSA and airport employees reportedly as early as mid-September, Infowars first to report.

A high-level TSA official reached out to Infowars, detailing a Tuesday meeting where TSA managers were informed of new memorandums and policies that would reimplement mask-wearing.

These policies will reinstate the mask mandate for TSA and airport employees starting in mid-September.

According to the TSA official, further details on how the policy will escalate will be provided next week.

The official added that by mid-October, mask-wearing will be mandated for pilots, flight staff, passengers, and all airport patrons…

[A trusted Border Patrol source] corroborated the directives, confirming that similar measures were being planned for Border Patrol personnel.

“They were told it was not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’ official Covid numbers will go back up, and they expect by mid-October a return to forced-masking policies that the Biden administration previously only reluctantly ended after massive pressure. (“Biden Regime to Reinstate COVID-19 Restrictions Beginning with Mask Mandate as COVID Cases Rise, Say TSA and Border Patrol Whistleblowers,” Jim Hauft, Gateway Pundit, August 19, 2023)

The lockdowns are apparently going to be used to again influence the US presidential elections in their favor—i.e., steal the election. As we’ve said many times, America must be brought into compliance with the globalists’ plans. This nation is the holdup to their Great Reset blueprint implementation. They can’t allow an administration that believes in national sovereignty and borders to win, as did Trump in 2016. Their plans were upset then, and they are doing all within their power to prevent Mr. Trump or anyone who puts national interests above globalist interests to again attain power.

So, while they think they are locking down America and the world’s populations, they are, in nautical terminology, battening down the hatches for a storm, the likes of which they cannot survive. It will be that great Tribulation storm Jesus said will be the worst time in human history.

Considering that all flesh except for Noah, his family, and the animals aboard the Ark was completely destroyed in the Flood of Noah’s day, Jesus’ description—followed up by His presentation in Revelation, is indeed a terrifying forecast!

Jesus said:

“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matthew 24:21).

There will be no battening down of the hatches… no place to find safety during that future Tribulation storm on earth. You don’t want to be here during those seven years of hell on earth. Here is how to go to the safety of Heaven when the Lord Jesus calls His own from this judgment-bound sphere:

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).

–Terry