19 Jun 2023

Published on: June 18, 2023 by RR7 Category:Nearing Midnight

The Death of Justice in America

Once again former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a leftist court system. He faces 37 counts as part of the probe into Trump’s document handling and whether the former president tried to keep the records from being returned after the end of his White House tenure.

The liberal media noted that Trump is the first former U.S. president to face federal criminal charges. He is also the first president to be wiretapped by the FBI in a case. He is the first president to be banned on social media. He is the first president to have his phone raided.

Earlier this year, Trump also became the first former president to face state criminal charges when he was indicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney.

He also faces charges related to the Stormy Daniels affair. In April he was charged with 34 separate counts by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The alleged crime was falsifying business records to cover up the hush money payments he paid to the porn actress.

The latest case against Trump is extremely weak. There is no indication that Trump destroyed or edited classified documents. He is of the belief that he can declassify documents at will. The Espionage Act was not mentioned in the indictment because it’s clear that Trump was not planning on providing classified material to anyone.

His treatment shows that there is a two-tier legal system in America, one for Democrats and one for Republicans. When Hillary Clinton was found to have classified information on private email systems in her house, she got a pass from the Justice Department. Never mind that Clinton destroyed evidence and made it possible for our enemies to hack her server.

Of the roughly 30,000 emails turned over by Clinton’s representatives, the FBI has said, 110 emails in 52 email chains were found to have classified information, including some at the top-secret level.

The White House disclosed in January that a lawyer for Biden had a “small number” of classified documents from his time as vice president during a search of the Washington office space of Biden’s former institute. The documents were turned over to the Justice Department.

Lawyers for Biden subsequently located an additional batch of classified documents at Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and the FBI found even more during a search of the property. There is zero chance that the Delaware District Attorney would launch an investigation regarding why Biden would have classified documents in his home.

In a poll of Republican voters, 61 percent said the indictment “won’t change” their view of the former president. Seven percent said the indictment might change their view “for the worse,” and 14 percent say “for the better.” Eighteen percent said it “depends.”

Trump now has 22 investigations against him, and it should be obvious that it is because he is the leading candidate to run against Biden in 2024. The reason why Trump is constantly getting into legal trouble is that an activist leftist lawyer goes to an activist leftist Judge, saying they want to charge Trump with a new crime. The liberal media does the final step by acting like these are such a shocking historic chain of events.

The Justice Department is so busy with Trump, real criminals must be getting a huge break. Trump has already had a Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He was impeached twice for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

The Trump Foundation: This was a charitable foundation established by Trump that was accused of using donated funds for personal and political purposes. The New York Attorney General’s office filed a lawsuit against the foundation in 2018, and in 2019, the foundation agreed to dissolve and distribute its remaining assets to other charities.

He was even invested under the emoluments clause: This is a provision of the Constitution that prohibits federal officials from receiving gifts or payments from foreign governments. Trump was accused of violating the emoluments clause by continuing to profit from his businesses, which have international dealings while serving as President. Several lawsuits were filed against Trump on this issue, but they were dismissed by the courts on various grounds.

One of the greatest injustices here is using Trump’s own lawyers against him, which rips the heart out of the attorney-client privilege. Trump’s legal fate could now hinge on testimony and evidence from two men he paid to defend him: M. Evan Corcoran, who is still a member of his legal team, and Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for Trump.

If Trump is knocked out of the race and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis becomes the lead candidate, the criminal probe machine will focus on him. There is one indication a partial switch is in the works. When DeSantis flew illegal immigrants to California, the left said this was a kidnapping. One reporter asked California Gov. Newson if DeSantis should be arrested the next time he visits the state. Newson backed away from the question because the timing is not yet right for such a bold move.

We could soon reach the point where your legal chances are solely based on your voting record. We’ll be back to the days of the old West where justice came out of the barrel of a gun. Your prospects of winning a case will strongly relate to how much money you paid the judge. The few judges that use constitutional principles as their guidelines will end up in shallow graves.

Several times the Bible describes the last days as a time of lawlessness that will be run by the man of lawlessness. The insane number of legal actions against Trump shows us that the tribulation hour is very near.

“Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

“Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way” (2 Thessalonians 2:3–7 NIV).

— Todd

This Power Grab

Do you trust anything coming from government mouthpieces these days? I must say that I do not. Every level of federal officialdom is observably steeped in Luciferian prevarication, so far as I am concerned.

There is simply nothing biblical about this grab for power and control by a government inebriated on the dollars it can print and spend almost by presidential fiat. If it truly were a biblically correct–rather than a politically correct–effort, I would have no problem with it.

Now to look more deeply into the reason Christians shouldn’t support this or any such grab for control that ultimately will enslave.

Human governance, we must remember, is not God’s Idea. It is man’s idea–to do things apart from the Creator. We see this from history given us in the Bible–and that’s the only history that counts in God’s dealing with us, in my understanding of the matters involved.

Adam’s first decision to disobey God and instead accept Lucifer’s way was rebellion against God’s governance, and it came to a crisis point when the whole world became filled with violence and was corrupted in every other way–producing total anarchy. The Flood provided a new beginning.

Then came the crisis on the Plain of Shinar with Nimrod and the tower of Babel. Again, God dealt with the crisis, and the whole of humanistic government was destroyed and the people scattered–Peleg and the peoples of earth were geographically redistributed, and all of the rest…

Israel was the next example. The chosen of God–the Jewish people–wanted human government, not God’s reign over them. The Lord let them have Saul. That is because He is a God who gave mankind volition. He wants His creation to love Him unconditionally; He doesn’t want robots engineered to adore Him.

Lying, humanistic government is again building to a supreme crisis point. It has always built to crises points. Every civilization, empire, etc., has come apart, dissolved, or been destroyed because of the rebellion and determination to live apart from God.

This time, it is building like the Vesuvius of all rebellions. America is the apex nation of all nations and is the head of this gargantuan boil that is filling with explosive corruption that will one day blow. All nations of the world have, through being linked to the dollar, been tied inextricably to the U.S. –the most materially blessed of all nations to have come to power upon the planet’s surface. Now America is the hold up to the new world order the globalist minions want to create. They are in the process of doing all within their power, through the World Economic Forum and other such one-world organizations, to destroy America as founded. Those within the American government at the highest levels are in cahoots with their new world order cabalists, doing all they can to change America from its founding in order to turn it over to the likes of the World Economic Forum and other anti-God forces.

All of this corruption constitutes the Babylonian system, which Daniel and John prophesied in presenting the strange beast that comes up out of the sea in Revelation 1 and lumbers about in Daniel 7.

America is bound to Israel in a supernatural way, and it is all tied together by the incessant call for peace–not God’s peace and the Prince of Peace, but humanistic peace. The result is going to be exactly as God gives it in Psalms 2, then the “kings of the earth” will achieve the “peace” they desire, as given in Isaiah 28:15 and 18.

Man will get his humanistic government; the ultimately “evolved” man will be earth’s master for a brief time, God letting man have his desire to do what is right in his own eyes.

This current bubble of humanistic effort to build utopia, which supposedly can be achieved through a drive for humanistic socialism (that’s the only kind of socialism there is), will explode when the rapture occurs and the top is knocked off the boil. Only God’s staying hand has kept things from imploding–economic collapse, etc.

So, I am against man-made efforts in wanting to micromanage our lives. Such efforts comprise the grist for tyranny. You see where it’s going. It is nothing more or less than a Luciferian grab for power–a voracious lust for control by his human agents and agencies.

God gave man, through the Bible, the formula for living life the way He intended. His Word says, in effect, that we should “let those who won’t work, not eat” (see 2 Thes. 3:10, 12). He gave us the way to take care of the widows, orphans, and the infirm–even the legitimately indigent. This is to be done through the largesse of God’s people, those who fully accept His way of governance. The Lord Jesus Christ is that only way. Man long ago decided to dispense with God’s prescription in dealing with matters of societal interaction. Burdensome, enslaving, lying government seeks power through promising deliverance from social ills it can never produce. What it will produce, however, we can see in Bible prophecy’s description of humanistic government’s final attempt to usurp the throne of God. (Read Revelation 13:16-18.)

–Terry

19 Jun 2023

Published on: June 17, 2023 by RR7 Category:Israel Watch

The God That Answers

It blows my mind that I’ve written this column for almost 17 years, and Todd and Terry are great to me, allowing me this platform. I hope to continue writing it until Maranatha! I am also trying something new, and if you’ll indulge me, I’d like to take the space this week to tell you about it. One of the best outcomes of this gig is the personal feedback I get (good AND bad!). All of it helps me learn and hopefully grow.

Most of you are aware of an injury I had a few years ago. It took a while but I am back to the level of writing schedule I was at before that happened. I tried a couple things but couldn’t maintain them and then I had a serious talk with myself and decided that if I could recover my old writing workload, I could fulfill a dream I’ve had for some time, stretching back decades to my time as a Christian book editor. That perch gave me a marvelous gift: the ability to see the whole landscape of American Christianity. I had access to the best Bible prophecy teachers in the world. I had the privilege of working with authors that speak to origins issues, creation vs. evolution. Men like the peerless Henry Morris. I also did quite a bit of advocacy for Israel, inspired by my late friend and mentor, David Allen Lewis. Of course, Terry James’ books fast-tracked my learning, as well.

Over time, I came to a firm belief that Bible prophecy was perhaps the most-attacked doctrine in the Bible, in our culture. (Ironically, not so much abroad; there I find many clergy and rank-and-file believers are very solid in their biblical beliefs. Perhaps we’ve been too spoiled in America and we got lazy. Biblical illiteracy in this country is stifling.)

There are many reasons for the decline in Bible prophecy teaching in our country. And please don’t think I am making a blanket statement; many great teachers are out there. The problem, as it were, is the change in how Americans “do church.” The overall culture bears no resemblance to what it did even two decades ago. Or ten minutes ago. This is another subject for another time—and I’ve written a lot about it already—but the Church Growth Movement I think is largely responsible. Because I think it was prophesied in the New Testament (see Jude, for starters), the Church Growth/Seeker Driven Movement was hatched by men and women that were either dupes or complicit in negatively changing the American Church. In short, the goal was to gut Bible teaching from individual congregations. Paul Smith’s New Evangelicalism is perhaps the best resource for studying this, in my opinion.

In any event, we are in a place where prophecy is not often taught in pulpits across the country. Whole denominations have checked-out from teaching it, at least at the top levels. Again, I’ll deal with this important subject more later, but I want to establish that in my lifetime, we have gone from what I’d call the “Hal Lindsey Era” to the Andy Stanley Era, in which congregants are encouraged—incredibly—to stop reading the Old Testament.

Most importantly, then, how are we to understand who God really is if we don’t read His Word?

In the Word, He has talked a great deal about prophecy, which we can say is history written in advance. A dear friend of mine recently said to me, “Prophecy is proof that God exists!” Most of you have heard variations on that sentence. It is indeed true.

Okay, now to my own personal solution. I believe each of us as individual believers can participate in ministry, even if we have not been called to pastor or otherwise serve in an organized entity.

Six months ago, I decided that I wanted to teach Bible prophecy “in a new way” using social media. I will maintain the perspective I’ve had since I was a boy, that is, all the Bible is true and we are to be looking for the soon return of Jesus. How I talk about that now will change somewhat from classical methods. I want to make Bible prophecy accessible to all people, regardless of religious or no religious affiliation. For people that don’t understand our terminology or concepts. For those that don’t quite understand why the identity of the antichrist fits her life, crammed as it is with raising children or advancing a career, etc. People today are so busy, so stressed in our chaotic world. I came to a place where I had to accept that most people will not read a 700-page book written by a Dispensationalist. Please understand, I am neither dissing this “author” just described, nor am I advocating jettisoning the concepts and truths revealed I believe in a plain-sense reading of Scripture, particularly as it relates to predictive prophecy.

To that end, I am launching this weekend a new project, “The God That Answers.” It is largely a Patreon page, with an upgrade of my already existing website (which I was struggling in the past to maintain due to factors mentioned above).

I’m back and ready to go with the time I have left.

Patreon is a “content creator” site that allows writers, artists, etc. to offer “product” to an audience interested in their area of expertise. Most of these pages have several “tiers” in which a patron (like in the old days, with artists) pays for access to that material. This solves a problem for me: I have never liked, for myself, the concept that someone just gives me money so that I can pursue my interest. If I’m not offering something tangible in return…why should someone just give me money? It works for some just fine and that’s great, but Patreon gives me a chance to maintain my Bible prophecy teaching model.

Most of these pages offer multiple “tiers,” separate amounts someone pays each month. Along with that, many of these content creators really don’t offer anything! This makes it, again, for me, more akin to a “Go Fund Me” site. I don’t expect anyone to pay my bills while I sit and do nothing, or offer nothing in return (for the record, some Go Fund Me efforts are legitimate; I get that). Many Patreon pages ask for a serious chunk of money each month, over the multiple tiers.

I don’t need to be that complicated.

I am offering two tiers, the standard lowest of $5 per month, and one more that gives patrons a chance to pledge any amount they want above that. I believe this is the fairest, because I want all participants in this community to have access to what I’m offering.

Speaking of, here it is:

To be part of my The God That Answers community, you will receive access to my weekly 30-minute podcast (which I think won’t tax anyone’s busy schedule); a substantive, monthly newsletter; two brand-new, downloadable books each year; “out-of-the-box” articles on a variety of subjects, and a monthly online chatroom where we can discuss what you want to talk about. I am also in the process of creating what will be a YouTube channel using images and video taken on my trips to Israel.

And please don’t think I’m being crass in talking about this; ministry in our world is too often all about marketing and revenue. What I am talking about is basically a business venture that will fund my model for teaching Bible prophecy. One of the positives for you is that the choice is totally up to you. You can participate or not participate.

My fundamental goal is to introduce Bible prophecy to people trying to fill their spiritual void. I want to reach people that have no peace but would like to find God. My little corner of the world I sincerely believe can help nudge them in that direction.

In my monthly offerings, I might write a column about Humphrey Bogart movies, a musician, a current event. I will relate prophecy to Darwinian philosophy. I will show you images from Israel (and other places) that will boost your faith.

Bible prophecy is very, very simple. We have made it complicated. Millions and millions of people want to know more about it. I am going to present it in a way that will intrigue you. And if you are already a believer and solid in your understanding of Bible prophecy, I will provide resources that will help you reach friends and family that are not where they need to be spiritually.

Last month when I was in Israel, I was standing in the very dry streambed that David stopped at to pick up five stones before meeting an invincible foe just over the hill. The idea that the Bible is very easily defensible settled over me in an incredible way. We can have total confidence in standing up for the historicity of the Bible. It’s the critics that don’t have a leg to stand on. Also, I visited the site in Jerusalem where Zechariah 2:4 was fulfilled, literally, in great detail. This is what I call the most obscure-but-huge prophecy in the Bible. I have done original research on this and other prophecies and am excited to share that with you.

I will be talking a lot about such things in the days to come. I firmly believe fulfilled prophecy reveals the power and majesty of the Living God. Either you or someone you know needs to hear that.

Thanks for listening, and as always, thanks for reading each week. That is appreciated!

Jimfletcher761@gmail.com