5 Apr 2026

THE COERCED, THE COWARDLY, AND THE CORRUPT

Apostasy and Doctrines of Demons

Australian Group Exposes Infringements of Christians’ Religious Freedom. An Australian Christian advocacy organization launched a database and released a report exposing infringements on Christians’ religious freedom in the country. The Canberra Declaration “on March 11, launched the Australian Christian Freedom Index (ACFI) with a report on anti-Christian currents in 2025.”

Canada Poised to Declare Quoting the Bible a Hate Crime. In what former Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer called “a dark day for free speech in Canada, the House of Commons passed a bill that could criminalize quoting Bible passages if they’re deemed to be hateful. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it will almost certainly be approved since that body primarily consists of appointees of former Liberal PM Trudeau.

Hatred of Jews and Israel

Politico Backtracks After Using Antisemitic Tropes In Cartoon Lambasting Trump, Republicans, and Netanyahu Over Iran. Politico posted a cartoon that drew outrage from conservatives and the Jewish community. Israeli PM Netanyahu is depicted with an exaggerated nose, while dining with President Trump and Republicans at a table covered in blood on a boat going over a waterfall. They’re wearing blood-drenched Jewish prayer shawls.

The Evils of Islam

War on Civilization: ‘Israel Cannot Outsource Its Survival.’ A MUST READ. Israel cannot outsource its survival, and the US can’t pretend totalitarian jihadism can be “managed” indefinitely. Either you dismantle the infrastructure of terror, or it regrows. Israel’s enemies are imposing a war on civilization. The West won’t be defeated by lack of power. It will be defeated, if it’s defeated, by refusal to oppose danger when they see it.

Experts Warn of Homegrown Jihadism and Spread of Sharia Law. In the weeks following the US strike on Iran, there were terrorist attacks by Islamists in four states. “These recent attacks come after 49,000 terror attacks around the world since 9/11. People in other religions don’t carry out terror attacks. Islam calls for warfare against unbelievers. No other religion has anything like that.” Muslims are called to move to other countries but not assimilate. The goal is eventual world takeover.

Syria: Christians, Other Minorities Under Genocidal Attack During Leadership of Ahmed Al-Sharaa. Christians in Syria are under attack by Islamic groups affiliated with the jihadist regime, headed by al-Sharaa, former al-Qaeda leader. Following al-Sharaa’s Dec 2024 seizure of power in Syria, persecution of religious minorities, including Christians, Druze and Alawites, has skyrocketed as Syria undergoes a process of radical Islamization. Also see Christians in Syria cautiously scale back Easter celebrations after violent attacks.

Iran regime uses war to mask ‘brutal’ execution surge against political opponents. Rights groups say the Iranian regime is on track to beat last year’s record number of executions, with 657 in the first three months of this year alone

Egypt’s Dangerous Muslim Brotherhood Organization. Muslim Brotherhood presents itself to the West as a network of charities, activists, community leaders, and political organizers. Yet, everywhere, it’s linked to terrorist activities. By failing to designate it as a terrorist organization in its entirety, Western gov’ts allow it to entrench itself politically, financially, and socially within Western societies.

Pervasive Perversion

Your Therapist Is Being Told To ‘Affirm’ Child Transgenderism. America’s most influential psychological association, The American Psychological Association (APA) still recommends children receive so-called gender affirming medical interventions, despite downplaying its support of child transgenderism in a letter to government officials investigating fraud in pediatric gender medicine.

AMA: We Didn’t Mean It When We Said Kids Shouldn’t Get Gender Surgery. In early February, the American Medical Association told multiple news outlets that “surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.” In a recent newsletter, however, the AMA’s board of trustees categorically denied that the AMA had changed its policy on gender surgery and accused “reporters” of mischaracterizing the organization’s stance.

LGBTQ group rolls out ‘Rainbow Ribbon’ program with curriculum requirements in Maryland school district. Defending Education uncovered ties between a Maryland school district and a local LGBTQ+ advocacy group looking to reward schools for meeting LGBTQ requirements regarding curriculum and affinity groups.

Last Days Traitors

Communists, Democrats use #NoKings rally to call for May Day strike. Communist and socialist activists at the nationwide “No Kings” protests escalated their anti-America campaign and openly called for a nationwide economic strike on May 1, a communist holiday, as key Democratic activists joined their call.

Why Is Today’s Democratic Party So “Heartless”? Today’s Democrats are “heartless” because they prioritize power, and that power lust overrides other considerations. Republican politicians are largely driven by power motivations, too, but cater to a different group: the more patriotic, more traditional Americans. Yet there’s another, deeper difference: morality. It’s apparent that leftists are low-virtue people. And conservatives, though not perfect, are higher-virtue people.

Vance tapped as ‘fraud czar’ as Trump targets blue states over taxpayer theft. VP Vance will address an “unprecedented” problem in Democrat-run states. His fraud task force busted an alleged $50 million hospice and healthcare fraud scheme in Los Angeles. Trump said Vance’s focus would be “EVERYWHERE” but with a special emphasis on Democrat-controlled states.

Plague, Pestilence, and Plandemics

New Study: Myocarditis Affects ONLY Covid “Vaccinated” Youths
Analysis of the first 15 months of Germany’s Covid pandemic found that zero healthy children died of Covid. In this vein, epidemiologist Dr. Knut Wittkowski stated in Mar-May 2020 that children would be largely unaffected by Covid. The response was censorship. Biden admin. authorities insisted even children and babies be given the largely untested Covid “vaccines.”

Economic and Food Insecurity

World food price rise set to continue if Iran war lasts, FAO says. World food prices climbed in March to highest level since ‌last Sept; could rise further if conflict that pushed up energy prices continues. “Price rises since the conflict began have been modest, driven mainly by higher oil ​prices and cushioned by ample global cereal supplies.”

Weather Events

Heat wave smashes 4,000 records; hottest March in 7 states. During the unprecedented mid-March heat wave in the central and western US, over 4,000 daily records and over 1,700 monthly records were broken. Seven states preliminarily set their highest March temps ever.

Wars and Rumors of Wars

U.S. fighter jet downed over Iran, one pilot rescued, one still missing. An Iranian regional governor offered a bounty for its crew. A U.S. aircraft that was mobilized to support the search and rescue mission was also struck by Iranian fire. That aircraft made it to Kuwaiti airspace, where the pilot ejected and the aircraft crashed.

Over 3,500 US Troops Arrive in Middle East as Houthis Enter War. Over 3,500 U.S. troops arrived in the Middle East, officials announced on Mar. 28, as strikes in the Iran war intensified. Iran-backed Houthis launched their first missile barrage on Israel since Operation Epic Fury. Red Sea shipping could once again be under direct threat.

More key US allies block military flights as Iran war rift widens with Trump. More key European allies are restricting U.S. military access as the Trump administration presses ahead with its war against Iran. France and Spain moved to block U.S.-linked aircraft from using their airspace or bases. Their refusals carry operational weight because U.S. bases in Europe are essential for supporting MidEast operations, acting as critical staging and transit hubs for military aircraft.

Trump lashes out at UK & France, telling allies ‘the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore.’ The president has expressed disdain for European allies that have refused to take part in the U.S. and Israel’s military operation. Defense Secretary Hegseth said other countries “might want to start learning how to fight for yourself.” Europe tends to view the Iran war as one of choice and is wary of getting involved.

All critical, essential targets within Iran to be destroyed before Passover, IDF announces. The IDF deemed “critical” targets as those that immediately threatened Israel, such as ballistic missile industry targets, as well as targets at the heart of the mission goals of the war.

IDF to establish security zone 20 miles deep into Lebanon, following its campaign against Iranian-backed Hezbollah. 600,000-plus residents of Southern Lebanon evacuated northward in recent weeks would be barred from returning south of the Litani “until the safety and security of northern Israeli residents is ensured.”

Iran fears Israel’s ‘new strategy’ after major strikes on steel industry. Iran’s largest steel producer has reported heavy losses to its production units following joint US-Israeli strikes on its facilities during the war, with attacks hitting multiple sites in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province.

Trump says US could leave NATO over lack of Iran war support. He also said he expects the US to end its war on Iran within weeks, and a cease‑fire would only be considered if the Strait of Hormuz is open. The remarks come amid a poll showing two-thirds of Americans want the conflict ended. Average U.S. gas prices have risen to over $4 per gallon since the war started.

Gulf allies press Trump to escalate Iran war. Saudi Arabia, UAE, & other Gulf allies are privately pressing Trump to keep prosecuting the war against Iran. They argue that a month of U.S.-led strikes hasn’t weakened Iran enough. Saudi Arabia and UAE are leading calls to intensify military pressure. The Emirates favor a ground invasion. Oman and Qatar push for a diplomatic end.

Iran, Hezbollah launch attacks as Israelis host Passover Seders, sending millions to shelters. Sirens sounded repeatedly in central Israel Wednesday, surrounding start of Passover, as Iran fired a major ballistic missile barrage, and Hezbollah launched rockets from Lebanon, sending millions to bomb shelters and safe rooms as families hosted their Seder meals.

Iran and Lebanon fire at northern Israel as IDF strikes Tehran and Beirut. Rocket fire from Lebanon and missiles from Iran struck northern Israel, causing damage in multiple locations but no reported injuries. Israel Defense Forces began strikes targeting terrorist infrastructure in Beirut. Also, a large-scale wave of strikes was underway in Tehran.

US intelligence said to assess around half of Iran’s missile launchers still intact despite over a month of US and Israeli bombardment, CNN reported Friday, citing three sources. Some of the remaining missile launchers aren’t believed accessible at present, due to being buried under rubble amid airstrikes.

Trump warns Iran: ‘Time is running out’ before ‘all hell’ rains down. “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Time is running out – 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD!” Trump’s warning comes after Iranian air defenses struck down two U.S. fighter jets on Friday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honor Christ :: By Nathele Graham

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:8-9).

And so, we come to Easter. That pagan holiday that celebrates carnal lusts in honor of a pagan goddess who was very sexually perverse. For convenience, Christians took this pagan day of debauchery and say we celebrate the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, whose own blood was shed to take away sin, including sexual perversion. Why do we reject God’s ways?

It seems as if, from the time of Adam and Eve, people have chosen to compromise God’s word. God was very specific when He gave Moses the directions on how to be protected from death.

Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house” (Exodus 12:3).

The month spoken of was Nissan. The chosen lamb was to be unblemished. “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats” (Exodus 12:5).

The word “unblemished” is from the Hebrew “tamim.” Noah was tamim. “These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God” (Genesis 6:9).

Noah wasn’t a perfect man, but he didn’t mingle with the pagans around him, and his blood wasn’t tainted by the genetic tampering of the fallen angels and human women. He respected God. Too many Christians today prefer the ways of the world rather than honoring God. Sadly, that preference shines through when we celebrate the two holidays that say they celebrate Christ: Christmas and Easter. These days are both celebrated on pagan holidays. The two most important events to Christians are wrapped in paganism.

Once the Passover lamb was chosen, it was to be kept for four days. “And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening” (Exodus 12:6).

It became like a family pet, but then it was to be sacrificed. The children must have been heartbroken. Why was the lamb slaughtered? To protect the Israelites who were living as slaves in Egypt. God had sent many plagues to convince Pharaoh to give Israel freedom, but he refused. This final plague would kill all of the firstborn, unless they were protected by the blood of the lamb.

And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it” (Exodus 12:7).

There is much detail about how the lamb was to be cooked and eaten. They were to eat it while being ready to leave Egypt and be free from the pagan ways found there. The blood of the lamb would protect them from death.

For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt” (Exodus 12:12-13).

God went into great detail to be sure they knew when and how the Passover would happen. Only the blood of the sacrificial lamb would save a person from death. If any of the Israelites decided to follow the pagan ways instead of God’s ways, they would die that night. Likewise, if an Egyptian happened to be in the house of a Hebrew, they would be protected by the blood. Death would come if the blood was rejected.

This blood sacrifice was a picture of Jesus. He was born of a virgin, just as prophecy said He would. People rejected that fact because everybody knows it takes a man and a woman to make a child, and they underestimated God. So, when He was actually born of a virgin, many people of that day didn’t recognize Him. John the Baptist did. In fact, when he was in his mother’s womb, he recognized Jesus. Mary had gone to visit John’s mother Elisabeth. When Mary greeted Elisabeth, John leaped:

And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost” (Luke 1:41).

John was never confused as to the identity of Jesus. Many years later, John was baptizing people when He saw Jesus coming toward him. “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).

It wasn’t a bunny dropping eggs that John saw, but Jesus the Christ! The Jewish people had been looking for their Messiah throughout their history, and here He was. He was rejected by the religious leaders because they didn’t want to lose their power. Many people were just blind to their need for salvation. The ones who came to Him were the ones who knew they needed Him. Some came for healing, and some came for forgiveness. Jesus loved them all. Today, we see the same attitudes within the Christian community.

Sin is what separates us from God. We are conditioned to view sin as a big sin or a little sin. God sees all sin as equal, and it all separates us from God. There is no way to atone for our sin except by the shedding of blood. That’s why God included animal sacrifice when He gave Moses the Law.

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins” (Hebrews 10:3-4).

There is no way that animal blood can take sin away, and it had to be done regularly. Only human blood can take human sin away. God doesn’t accept human sacrifices, which is a pagan practice. All human blood is tainted by the sin of Adam. God had a solution for the problem of sin. A virgin would give birth to God’s only Son. In that way, He would be human because Mary was just a human like you and me, but because His father was God, there would be no sin-tainted blood.

Jesus was born of a virgin, and God was His Father. Do you believe that? If not, then you need to examine your faith. Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. He entered His creation for one purpose, and that purpose was to be the final sacrifice for the sin of humans. He went to the cross willingly to be our only way of salvation.

By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Hebrews 10:10).

Only faith in His death, burial, and resurrection makes eternal life possible. Don’t mock Him by celebrating a bunny.

God went to great measures to tell us when Jesus was sacrificed. The Jewish Passover was a foreshadowing of Christ’s sacrifice. It was established in the month of Nissan. He spent three days and three nights in the tomb; but on the third day, which was the Jewish feast of Firstfruits, Jesus arose from the dead, and all who believe are given eternal life with Him.

Christianity and the Jewish faith have much in common, and God hasn’t replaced the Jewish people with Christians. Jesus fulfilled the Law and the Prophets but didn’t eliminate them.

Do you believe in Jesus? Do you believe His blood is the only sacrifice for sin? Do you believe He rose from the grave? If so, then you need to stop glorifying the bunny.

One day, I was shopping and was saddened by the many aisles of Easter eggs, Easter bunnies, Easter baskets, Easter, Easter, Easter. Nothing to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord. This year, they have even degraded this time even more by selling “exploding bunny poop.” I don’t even want to know what that is.

I wrote a poem, and I’ve shared it before, but I’ll share it again. As you read it, I hope you think about what you’re celebrating, and ask yourself if it matters. Teach your children what Christ did for them on the cross. It’s not about a bunny, but it’s about Jesus fulfilling the Passover. It’s about Jesus shedding His blood on the cross to take sin away.

For by grace are ye saved through  faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). Take that seriously.

It’s Not About A Bunny By Nathele Graham

It’s not about a bunny
That hops away so fast.
It is about Christ my Saviour,
Whose love will always last.

It’s not about an egg
With a pretty painted shell
It is about Christ who died
To save us all from Hell.

It’s not about an Easter bonnet
Upon your head that’s worn
It is about Christ the King
Who wore a crown of thorns

Christ’s death was a victory
Over sin, death, and the grave.
Don’t praise a bunny, tell Christ’s story
His life He freely gave.

Celebrate His love for you
In everything you do.
The bunny always hops away
But Christ will dwell in you.

If you choose to celebrate this special day on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox rather than on the 14th day of Nissan, at least call it Resurrection Sunday in honor of what Christ did rather than Easter in honor of a pagan goddess. Remember that all of us were once dead in our sin until we realized we needed to repent and ask Jesus to forgive us.

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; and having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it” (Colossians 2:13-15).

We owe Jesus so much but praise Him too little. If you choose to celebrate His resurrection and call it Easter, I can’t judge your choice. “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ” (Colossians 2:16-17).

Just be sure to honor Christ.

God bless you all,

Nathele Graham
twotug@embarqmail.com

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www.raptureforums.com

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