17 Oct 2022

The Great Evil of Our Time: Mutilation of Children

The topic of this week’s Nearing Midnight article is so unpleasant, I’ve put off writing it for several weeks. One reason for the delay is partly disbelief. I find it hard to believe that this evil act is taking place in our nation. Thousands of Children are being medically mutilated to change their sex to one that is different from the gender they had at birth.

Our society has become so depraved that not only have we given God the middle finger, but we’ve also given common sense the same gesture. Children do not have the ability to take out loans, sign work contracts, or get married; yet, they are regularly authorized to agree to medical procedures that will last a lifetime.

There was once a time when severe punishment would be handed down to anyone who tried to instruct children about nontraditional sexual relationships. It was generally viewed that the only people who should talk to kids about sex are their parents.

In my early years, I had a friend that was a horrible negative influence on me. We were both around 12 years old, and this guy was pure evil. For some idiotic reason, I thought he was cool, and I looked up to him. We would go into stores, and he would constantly steal things. I didn’t agree or participate in his acts of thievery. I was amazed at his profound levels of criminality. We weren’t even teenagers, and he was trying to talk me into getting a girl pregnant so I could get on welfare.

As I reflect back now, I’m mystified that I contemplated the notion of getting free money from the government. At such a young age, I didn’t have the ability to realize what a dumb move it would be to have a child out of wedlock. Welfare is a bondage that destroys lives. I thank God that my so-called friend soon moved away. I’ve done a web search of his name, and nothing has ever come up. My best guess is that he reformed his ways or he is simply dead.

We are no longer in the days where advocates of sex change operations for Children could only operate in the shadows. These people are proud of their view and are pushing hard to make it a criminal act to resist them. They claim you are abusing your child by denying them sex therapy. The AMA is working to force all doctors to agree to the left’s policy on the mutilation of children.

I’ve read several news articles about drag queens going to schools to meet with children. The article presents the purpose of the visit as just innocent fun, where the drag queen is there to read the kids a story. The reason why a man in women’s clothes is at the school is to advocate for his lifestyle.

Most parents would be outraged if a school had a career day and a bank robber showed up to advocate for his criminal occupation. And yet we have teachers thinking they have the right to tell our children that they can change their gender through surgery and chemical castration.

There are lots of cases where a parent is trying to impose a different sexuality on their own children. In about every example I’ve seen, it has been a mother who is advocating a change for their son. I’m sure it happens with girls in which both parents are involved, but I’ve strangely only witnessed the interaction with a mother and son. If some of these women are putting their children into a harmful situation because they are insane, we no longer have a legal system that protects them.

This mutilation of children is one more example of why I could never doubt the existence of the devil. This is clearly planned by an evil mind to corrupt our natural sex roles. To go after children just shows how Satan’s nature works.

It is not possible to change the sex of someone through a medical procedure. You can slice off the breasts of little girls or the penises of little boys, but they are still the sex they had at birth. Caitlyn Jenner has had all types of surgery and has taken all manner of hormones, but I can still take one look at him and tell he still has the body of a man.

The root of all evil – money – has strong ties to why a growing number of hospitals are promoting sex change operations for children. It is a very profitable business. Since most children’s hospitals have huge endowment funds, the willingness to spend money is the only limit in operations that involve children. With sex change operations the new fad, these types of surgeries easily get the green light.

The hottest part of hell is reserved for anyone who promotes the mutilation of children. Jesus warned that offending children is enough to earn his wrath. I can only imagine that people would curse the day they were born that dared to damage the body of a child.

“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea” (Matthew 18:6).

–Todd


Computing Putin, Politics and Prophecy

The first thing I input in our computation postulation is the politics of the matters involved. The mid-term elections at this point of time are 3 weeks away. If looked at through a prism based on sanity, things do not bode well for the political party in power as Election Day, November 8, approaches.

Some, perhaps many, say that the culture in the nation is so corroded by the woke inculcation by corrupt educators that hope is lost. The anti-God, anti-America voter base, plus the expertise the election cheaters wield means reestablishing an America anything like patriots desire just isn’t going to happen.

These will, it is feared, find a way to retain all three branches of government, thus keep the bureaucracy entrenched to continue taking America down the road to totalitarianism.

Some believe that to avoid being thrown out of power, those bent on shutting down all opposition and resistance will invoke one executive order or another to cancel the mid-term elections on November 8. One possible such executive action is indeed steeped in genuine concern that has arisen almost on cue as Americans get ready to step into the voting booths of the nation.

We have considered previously the great fear associated with the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. I, as a young man in college, experienced it first hand, and at that young age was extremely worried that the U.S. was about to go to war because of Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev secretly placing nuclear-tipped missiles only 90 miles from the U.S. mainland. I can’t imagine what adults of the era must have thought, being much better able to assess the situation and the threat to themselves and those they loved and for whom they were responsible.

Such fear, it seems to me, is at present being deliberately generated by those in the current American government. The most profound example of this is the current occupant of the White House saying outright and publicly that Russian President Vladimir Putin is serious in saying he will launch tactical nuclear weapons in his war against Ukraine. –Thus because Putin’s conventional forces are woefully inadequate to carry out their conquest in the war. Mr. Biden said that it is the greatest threat of all-out nuclear war and Armageddon since the Cuban Missile crisis.

This is a thing no president or anyone within his administration would have done previously, given the panic that might ensue among the American public.

My question, wrapped within the title I’ve given this commentary, Computing Putin, Politics, and Prophecy, is: Why is this president allowed to make such a statement publicly and neither his administration underlings, the U.S. State Department, nor the mainstream media are walking back such a likely panic-inducing declaration?

Does it come down to the possibility that those who are determined to maintain power are willing to go so far as to make people think nuclear war is inevitable? If so, why?

Could it be that they seek the suspension of this mid-term election? And are they willing to use the most fear-producing geopolitical diplomatic tool at their disposal to suspend these mid-term elections that many political experts believe will be overwhelming in going against the present make-up of U.S. and state governments across America? Are they willing to declare a national emergency and go to Defcon One (the highest alert of impending nuclear war) in order to keep people from going to the polls to throw the rascals out?

The prophecy part of the computation

While it is very possible that such a tactic could work, that is, the political strategy, wicked as it might be, could lead to the result the perpetrators desire, the worldwide nuclear war wrapped up within their election suspension blueprint, to my way of understanding Bible prophecy, isn’t probable –or even possible. –That is, a global nuclear exchange that would eventuate in fulfilling man’s greatest fear of thermonuclear war consequences isn’t possible. Such a conflict, as I study Bible prophecy from the preTrib view –and that is the only view God’s prophetic Word puts forth, I’m convinced—just isn’t scheduled.

Thermonuclear war that decimates the world is not scheduled this side –the Church Age side— of the Rapture of the Church. (And I’m not saying there won’t be a tactical nuke unleashed at some point, just that massive nuclear war just isn’t prophetically scheduled, as I see it.)

When Christ’s Bride is in the Heavenly Clouds of Glory, all bets are off, as it is said.

I believe this is seen in fore-type by John’s being called into the Presence of the Lamb of God as presented in Revelation chapter 4. Then, when the Lamb (Jesus Christ) unseals the scrolls, things on earth begin playing out in order.

The false peacemaker comes forth (Antichrist on the white horse Rev 6:1). That rider is followed by the red horse rider who takes peace from the earth. This is, quite likely, nuclear war en masse. Yet it will still be controlled by God, else there would be no flesh left on the planet, according to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

Another and most important computation to plug into all of this cogitation… seeing all these things beginning to come to pass, what is your and my part, as Royal Ambassadors alive on this darkening planet at this time?

We are, of course, to be looking up (Luke 21:28) for our blessed hope (Titus 2:13). But more than that Command by the Lord Jesus, we are to be salt and light in these dark times, so the Gospel can Shine forth.

Jesus Spoke to this precise time in human history. He is the Alpha and the Omega –the Beginning and the End. He Knows all things –from Eternity past through Eternity future. He Spoke directly to us who are witnessing all these things of end times import.

About these reports we are getting of impending nuclear war –for whatever purpose they serve—Jesus said the following in answer to His Disciples’ question about the end of the age.

“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet” (Matt 24:6).

Do you truly understand Jesus’ words about these rumors of wars and even wars we hear in the news at present? He does not tell us to prepare to fight or defend ourselves. He says plainly, “see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.”

The word for troubled is terrified. We are not to be terrified by these wars and rumors of wars. The end is not yet upon us, and prophecy will play out.

Figured Magnificently in our Computation, then, is the Rapture of believers before that end comes. I, like many believers, sense that moment of Christ’s Call, “Come up here!” must be near indeed.

To be part of that Call by the Savior and Lord, here is what you must do.

“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

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17 Oct 2022

Perilous Times: Perfidiousness, Perversion, and Pandemonium

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come” (2 Timothy 3:1).

This sums up the times in which we are living:

Perilous: Very hazardous or dangerous.

Perfidiousness: Betrayal, especially of a moral obligation.

Perversion: A practice or act, especially one that is sexual in nature, considered abnormal or deviant.

Pandemonium: Wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar.

INIQUITY SHALL ABOUND IN THE LAST DAYS

5 dead, 2 wounded in North Carolina neighborhood shooting spree; shooter is 15 years old; one of the victims was his brother. Those killed: James Thompson, 16 (shooter’s brother); Gabriel Torres, 29 (off-duty police officer); Mary Marshall, 34; Susan Karnatz, 49; Nicole Conners, 53. A neighbor described the shooter, Austin Thompson, as unusual. “I used to see him at 4:30, 5 in the morning with a bookbag on. Buses don’t run till 7 in the morning.”

THE EVILS OF COMMUNISM

China Conducting ‘Race-Baiting’ Social Media Campaigns to Polarize Americans. [And the Marxists/Communists in our own government are doing the same thing.]

ORWELLIAN SOCIETY

Now they want to screen EVERY American child over age of eight for anxiety – even if they have no symptoms. US Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF), one of the most influential bodies in US health care, issued the new guidelines Tuesday. It also is pushing for doctors to screen all children over the age of 12 for depression no matter their reported symptoms. Experts have expressed concerns, fearing it could lead to an over-medicated population and another opioid-like crisis.

LAST DAYS TRAITORS AND HYPOCRITES…

Income Inequality Far Worse in Dem-Run States. Liberals claim to promote “equity,” but their policies prove otherwise.

In California: Democrat stronghold of Los Angeles reeling from corruption, scandal, and chaos.

The US has a mentally-disabled president. He’s a puppet, but no doubt, that was the plan. Latest among many gaffes: Biden said his son died fighting in Iraq. Yet, his son died of brain cancer years later.

Biden executive order allows spying on Americans to assess [so-called] ‘political instability,’ climate ‘threats.’ It provides a kind of legal ‘backdoor’ to surveil Americans under extremely broad pretexts.

Biden’s Secret Promise to OPEC Backfires. In 2020, Trump proposed to buy American oil at $24 a barrel. Democrats blocked the proposal; now it’s come back to haunt them. This past week, Biden secretly tried to keep OPEC+ from cutting oil production by offering to buy OPEC+ oil at $80 a barrel. Saudi Arabia refused, and Biden is threatening retaliation. Dems foolishly and/or deviously decreased US domestic oil production. Now look at the mess we’re in! Perception of the US by OPEC has weakened while Putin’s influence has strengthened.

LA Democrat Steps Down as City Council President After Comparing Black Child to Monkey in Leaked Audio. Yet, Nury Martinez still remains on the council.

Cattlemen Pressured to Shut Up with their exposing how the meat industry operates, including shipping meat from foreign countries to the US and putting a US label on the packages.

Soros-backed NGO says it wants to ‘save democracy’ by influencing national elections.

American college students are extremely biased, out of touch. The Communist plan has been working for quite a while. Colleges are churning out more people with no understanding of half the country; a horrifying stain on academia.

…AND THE ABORTION ABOMINATION (WITH FBI TYRANNICAL ARRESTS OF PEACEFUL PROTESTORS)…

FBI Arrests 87-Year-Old for Peacefully Protesting Abortion, Along With 10 Others. Shocking reports of FBI agents with assault rifles (1 ½ years after the peaceful protest occurred) loudly banging on doors before parents get their children off to school, with children cornered by the FBI and questioned as they watch their parent being handcuffed and arrested. Gov’t Claims that these protestors blocked people from entering the abortion clinic, etc., are exaggerated. Besides, local police arrested the group on trespassing charges at the time, which have been resolved. If convicted on the latest charges, they could be imprisoned. Yet, there have been no arrests of abortion supporters who vandalized pregnancy resource centers and churches, including fire bombings.

IN THESE LAST DAYS OF LOT RETURNED…

Democrat Supervisor Kenny Boddye, part of Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger’s team, said authorities should “look into” taking children from parents who do not “affirm” their child’s gender identity.

Virginia Democrat Delegate Elizabeth Guzman announced plans to introduce a bill where parents could face a felony or misdemeanor charge if they do not affirm their child’s sexual orientation and/or gender identity.

California School District Promoting Flyer for ‘All-Ages’ Halloween Drag Show Sponsored by Gender Surgery Center.

Mother shames ‘groomer’ school board with graphic description of drag show. Brittany Mayer is among mothers across the US who’ve confronted school officials for agendas harmful to children. Mayer described exactly what goes on at drag shows where children are present, as documented countless times with videos posted on social media.

Child rapist and murderer praised by leftist media as a ‘transgender woman, feminist, and advocate’ for incarcerated LGBTQ Rights. Yet, this biological male (goes by “Patricia Elaine”) is in prison for raping two 9-year-old girls. He also murdered a developmentally disabled cellmate.

Democrat Former Oregon Mayor and Boy Scouts Citizen of the Year Recipient Pleads Guilty in Child Porn Case. Dennis Doyle possessed pornographic images of children under age 12 who’d been identified as known sexually exploited minors by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. He commented, “You know, we make mistakes.” That’s an understatement. Doyle and others like him need to read Matthew 18:6 to see what God has to say about those who commit offenses against children.

“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”

…AND LAST DAYS APOSTASY AND DOCTRINES OF DEMONS

Methodist Church features drag queen in kids’ sermon. Drag Queen Isaac Simmons (aka “Ms. Penny Cost”) is also in the process of becoming ordained in the United Methodist Church. The so-called church pastor twisted Romans 12:2 by telling the children, “One of the things I think is great about Ms. Penny Cost is she reminds us that we follow a God who calls us not to conform to things of this world, that we’re supposed to be transformed by the renewal of our minds. That means what I think today may have to change tomorrow if I continue to renew my mind.” He continued, “It’s so cool that we serve a God who calls us to continue to grow and continue to change into something new, and to not be bound by the ways that the world confines us sometimes. That we’re supposed live differently.”

One Million Moms Website reports: The satanic animated series “Little Demon” has not been canceled as reported last week. You can sign the petition urging sponsors not to support it.

THE PLANNED-DEMIC

The list of complications, conditions, and diseases resulting from COVID shots is nearly endless and can affect any organ system in the body. Pfizer knew. Here’s their document. Look at the last 8 pages, which list over 1,100 serious side effects and life-threatening illnesses Pfizer knew would happen.

OB/GYN Dr. James Thorp laments COVID jab’s massive, unprecedented side effects for pregnant women, babies.

Dr. Stephanie Seneff: How mRNA Vaccines Induce Brain Diseases. Dr. Seneff, a senior research scientist, explains the deadly mechanisms by which mRNA-induced spike protein wreaks havoc in the human body, and the brain in particular.

Judicial Watch Uncovers Biden Administration Propaganda Plan to Push COVID Vaccine. Also, through the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act), Judicial Watch has uncovered a substantial amount of information about COVID issues.

ECONOMIC AND FOOD INSECURITY

US: Food prices will continue to rise. The rise in food prices this year helped drive US inflation to its highest levels in 40 years. California’s drought withered summer crops like tomatoes and onions and threatened leafy greens grown in winter. Hurricane Ian ravaged citrus and tomato crops in Florida. This is likely to push food costs even higher. Drought in an area known as the US salad bowl has impacted fresh produce and pantry staples like pasta sauce and premade dinners.

US: California’s Salton Sea Drying Up. As it dries, salt and chemicals in remaining water have increased dramatically, causing mass die-off of fish and birds.

US: Trans-Pacific Shipping Plunges as US Retail Demand Falters. Spiking inflation means paying more for the same amount of goods. And people are cutting their retail budgets. The US is entering a stage of implosion in demand, to be followed inevitably by rising unemployment. Instability is much worse than during the stagflationary event of the 1970s.

US: Even Banksters Now Admit the US Economy Is Really Starting to Come Apart at The Seams.

Europe: Globalist-Driven Manufactured Energy Crisis Has Put Europe on Brink of Freezing, Widespread Food Shortages. Suppression of fossil fuels by “greenists” and “globalists” inevitably drives up costs of food. “We’re actually beyond the precipice at this point…. There’s going to be famine, and the question is, ‘How big and how many people are going to get hit?'”

Europe: A Reeling Europe Lashes Out at The Fed For “Bringing Us to A World Recession.”

The World: The IMF (International Monetary Fund) reports that the world’s biggest economies will continue to stall in 2023, and the worst is yet to come.

WEATHER EVENTS

Dozens died after Hurricane Julia pummeled Central America, Mexico with torrential rain, flooding.

Worst floods on record hit Nigeria; over 1.4 million people affected and about 500 dead.

Massive landslide Venezuela; at least 30 dead, 54 missing. Possibly caused by heavy rainfall in the hills.

In Southeast Australia: Flooding inundated homes and businesses due to heavy rainfall, and rain is expected to continue for weeks to come. At least one person is dead, and two are missing. About 500 homes are flooded in Victoria, and the numbers are expected to rise. Tasmania is experiencing flooding as well, with north coast residents moving to higher ground as rivers rise.

THE EVILS OF ISLAM

Iranian police have killed nearly 200 people in rights protests — including children.

HATRED OF JEWS AND ISRAEL…

Jerusalem: The Heathen Rage as Jews Celebrate Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles). The violence seen in the city by Muslim mobs is almost unprecedented. Israeli security forces are deployed throughout the country.

…AND THE AGENDA TO DIVIDE GOD’S LAND

US Ambassador to Israel working to “eliminate” growth of Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria. Thomas Nides said, “We do not support settlement growth. Period.” Nides also strongly advocates for the so-called two-state solution.

Israel/Lebanon Deal Supposedly Finally Reached (aka Israel giving territory to Lebanon) in the maritime dispute – a deal Lapid calls “a historic achievement that will strengthen Israel’s security.”

MARK OF THE BEAST SYSTEM

Excerpt from Daymond Duck’s latest article: The Canadian government signed a $105.3 million contract with the World Economic Forum to create a digital ID system for travelers. They want every Canadian in a national ID System. And the Gates Foundation has pledged $1.27 billion to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals with the understanding that $200 million will be spent on creating a global ID system. The goal is to get everyone on earth into a single global database by 2030 with information on what they do, say, write, buy, sell, etc., that can be used to control them. This sounds like the prophesied Mark of the Beast system that will end freedom on earth (the Rapture will occur a minimum of 3 ½ years before that).

WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS

In Military Drill, US Marines and other countries storm a beach in South China Sea of which China claims ownership. The Philippines participates in this annual drill, but for the first time, it involved South Korea and Japan.

US State Dept spokesman Ned Price said the US is not currently focused on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, adding that the Islamic Republic has shown little interest in moving ahead with negotiations. [Editor’s note: It was a worthless deal then, anyway, and would be again.]

Iran is rapidly expanding its ability to enrich uranium using advanced centrifuges.

Iran To Hold Joint Naval Drill with Russia, China, Others.

Russian Massive Missile Struck Cities Across Ukraine on Monday. Critical civil infrastructure and densely populated cities were targeted. At least 11 killed, scores injured. Ukraine has suspended electricity exports to Europe as it now tries to end blackouts across the country.

NATO staging nuclear exercise in Europe amid Putin nuclear threats.

Russia issued chilling threat to Western nations engaged in aiding Ukraine, stating that further action by NATO members could lead to a nuclear World War III that “will be catastrophic for all mankind.”

Russia-Iran drone axis is now a global threat.

It’s a Time of Desperation; That Means Anything Is Possible. As Russia’s leader is further weakened, he’s more likely to lash out with nukes. The US is even stockpiling antiradiation drugs. Putin, who seems in poor health and showing increased mental instability, controls the world’s largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Putin said he wasn’t bluffing when he warned he might use nuclear weapons against the West. He said the very existence of Russia is at stake in Ukraine. He’s desperate, and that’s very dangerous.

[Editor’s note: And what with the US military numbers down due to disastrous Dem policies, and the US giving away much of our weapons stockpile, the US is in no position to successfully defend itself. However, massive nuclear war is not prophesied to occur until the Church age ends and the Tribulation begins. We Church-age believers are not destined for the wrath that will soon come upon the unbelieving world.]

“Perilous times” have come, just as the Bible said they would. Stay close to the Lord in prayer and Bible reading. We must not despair but walk in faith — getting the Gospel out in every way we can, for as long as we can.