Feb 21, 2022

Can Conservatives and Christians Create Their Own Internet Platforms?

Former President Donald Trump will launch his own new social media platform, Truth Social, sometime next month. Trump’s ability to galvanize conservative social media users in support of the venture could soon be tested. So-called experts quoted by Time and Newsweek say the inherent nature of the site—i.e., catering to a specific ideological viewpoint—will likely prevent it from reaching the same heights as mainstream platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube.com.

Joshua Tucker, co-director of NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics, suggested that even if Truth Social does not break into the mainstream, it may “suck the air” of other right-wing platforms such as Gettr, Gab and Parler, and reduce their popularity.

Previous screenshots from an App Store listing showed that the platform appeared to be very similar in design to Twitter, with Trump Jr.’s post appearing to confirm Truth Social will look very much like the social media platform previously beloved by the former president.

Truth Social should be wildly successful, considering that all of the major social media sites are controlled by liberals. Since about half the US population is on the right, millions of people would be happy to join Trump’s platform.

The video site Rumble has had huge gains in its traffic. Rumble’s monthly user count has experienced rapid growth since July 2020, from 1.6 million monthly users to 31.9 million by the end of the first quarter of 2021. In January, Rumble announced that it reached new highs with approximately 10.8 billion minutes watched and averaging 4,383 hours of uploaded video per day. The company also posted 19% growth on monthly active users (MAUs) over the previous month, reaching 39 million viewers.

Rumble prides itself as a neutral video platform that is creating the rails and independent infrastructure designed to be immune to cancel culture. Rumble’s mission is to restore the Internet to its roots by making it free and open once again.

Facebook’s parent company Meta recently delivered an alarming earnings report to Wall Street, which promptly cut an astonishing $250 billion out of the company’s value in a single day — a 26 percent drop. The liberal media tried to blame a host of other reasons for the decline. Facebook has been heavily censoring accounts, and people are leaving for other platforms.

I don’t see it as very likely that any conservative site will be able to dethrone a behemoth like Apple or Google. I like the search engine DuckDuckGo. It processes around 1.5 billion searches every month. Google, for contrast, processes around 3.5 billion searches per day. DuckDuckGo has a single data center, while Google has data farms all over the country.

Google controls 90% of search traffic; it has the most used browser and the most used email service. I was surprised to learn last week that more people get their news from Google than any other source. Google could so easily crush DuckDuckGo, but it doesn’t do so, probably because of monopoly laws. Standard Oil was broken up for being a monopoly in one field. Google has a monopoly in at least four areas.

Trump’s Truth Social could easily be blocked from the market by Apple and Google refusing to put his app on their stores. Google’s Android and Apple’s IOS control 100% of the smartphone market. Any browser can be used to block a website by having it labeled as a dangerous site and warning users not to visit it.

Another way to destroy a freedom platform is to block it from various financial services. When a bunch of people donated $7 million to the Trucker protest in Canada on a GoFundMe page, the company tried to steal the money and give it to a charity. When six state attorney generals got on GoFundMe’s case, it decided to refund the money to the donors. I’m guessing that GoFundMe doesn’t have fine print that states, “if we don’t like the recipient of your donation, we’ll steal your money.”

I think the only reason why we still have access to the Internet is God’s restraining grace. The enemy has the will and the power to take complete control of the web, but so far, it is unable to act. The rapture is the only answer I can think of for why they are being restrained.

“So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies” (Romans 1:24, NLT).

 

–Todd


Righteousness and the Crowns

This past week, the going gome to Heaven of my friend Bob Rogers to be with our Lord brought the impression I believe is from that eternal realm of glory.

Bob was both a gentleman and a gentle man, as the great Paul Harvey used to put it in describing those he greatly honored and respected. We will miss Bob, but only for a very brief time in terms of eternity. In our last conversation, he confided that he and his family loved me and my family. That memory means more to me than I can adequately express. We were—and are—indeed one family, both in terms of here on earth and of eternity.

His passing into glory immediately brought forth my own recollection of dying clinically those three times on Good Friday of 2011. What a magnificent sight I, a blind person, saw each time my heart discontinued its beating. I won’t go into all that again, as I have mentioned it many times. Suffice it to say it all was just…well…glorious!

So, the joy Bob is experiencing now, I perhaps can remember only a brief glimpse of, but to be there in God’s presence forever must be beyond anything any of us can imagine.

And this has me contemplating the time when we will all stand before our Lord Jesus Christ to receive eternal rewards. These we will enjoy in a timeless dimension that will grow exponentially in terms of heavenly exultation.

We who are in Christ and particularly look with great anticipation for the Rapture are told we will receive the crown of righteousness.

There are some who believe all Christians will receive this crown, because all Christians will be thrilled when Christ calls them to Himself. I don’t view this crown this way, because I’m convinced we must look forward with great anticipation now, in this life, in order to be rewarded for our belief that Christ will keep this promise of escape from the time of Tribulation (Revelation 3:10).

Here are the Apostle Paul’s words on this promise of that crown.

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. (1 Timothy 4:8)

Most who read these commentaries, I believe with all that is within my spirit, will be awarded this crown. Rapture Ready–and my personal blog, terryjamesprophecyline.com—are devoted to putting forth the magnificent promise that our Lord will snatch us from this fallen earth just in time to avoid the great trouble that is prophetically scheduled for this planet of rebellious people. Those who love to read these articles and study other materials must have in their spiritual hearts the love for Christ’s appearing, as Paul terms the prerequisite for receiving the crown of righteousness.

Here, again, are the crowns promised to believers who devote themselves to godly living while in this present life on earth.

The Bible mentions at least 5 crowns/rewards:

  1. The incorruptible crown, given to those who master the old nature

1 Corinthians 9:25–27

And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

  1. The crown of rejoicing given to soul-winners

Proverbs 11: 30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.

Daniel 12: 3

And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

1 Thessalonians 2: 19–20

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

For ye are our glory and joy.

  1. The crown of life, given to those who successfully endure temptation

James 1:2–3

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

Revelation 2:10

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

  1. The crown of righteousness for those who especially love the doctrine of the Rapture

2 Timothy 4:8

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

  1. The crown of glory, given to faithful preachers and teachers

Acts 20:26–28

Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.

For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

2 Timothy 4:1–2

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

1 Peter 5:2–4

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

What a glorious prospect—to see our Savior face to face and to hear Him say: “Well done, good, faithful servant.”

Praise God, that is what my great friend Bob Rogers is hearing at this very heavenly moment!

—Terry

 

 

21 Feb 2022

“Weighed In the Balance and Found Wanting [Failing]”

“Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting” (Daniel 5:27). “…for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed” (1 Samuel 2:3).

LAST DAYS OF LOT RETURNED

Massachusetts high school moves to erase ‘gendered terms’ from BIOLOGY class. An overarching theme for this genetics lesson at Needham High School is to try and convince kids that the urge to change one’s sex is common in nature.

Trans-identified swimmer sets record at Ivy League Championships. In other words, a biological male who identifies as a woman competed in the women’s swimming competition and won. He (I refuse to call him a she) previously competed on the men’s team.

ABORTION ABOMINATION

US Senate to vote on legalizing abortion-on-demand. On Feb 28, the Democrat-controlled Senate will vote on legislation that would enshrine abortion-on-demand in federal law, forcing states to allow the practice to go on virtually unregulated regardless of what the Supreme Court may say about Roe v. Wade. 218 House Democrats previously voted for the so-called Women’s Health Protection Act.

The US Senate voted to confirm Robert Califf, Biden’s radically pro-abortion FDA nominee. A handful of Republican lawmakers joined most Democrats to support his confirmation.

THE OCCULT AND OTHER WICKEDNESS

AI Generates Haunting New Tarot-like Cards. The Swedish musician and AI enthusiast known as Supercomposite used an AI to create hundreds of creepy cards and has been blasting them on Twitter for days in a barrage of occult-flavored machine learning. Some cards have humanoid characters with holes for faces, some feature monstrous-looking creatures in bloody shades of red, and some are creepy simply because they seem uncannily like tarot cards at first glance.

Disney-Owned Studio to Release Cannibal Horror Movie’ Fresh’ About Doctor Who Dismembers Women and Eats Their Body Parts.

Satanic After-School Club Takes Aim at Christian Student Groups. The Satanic Temple recently opened an after-school “Satan Club” in a Moline, Illinois, elementary school as part of its nationwide campaign to push back against the Christian Good News Clubs offered to schoolchildren after regular-hour classes.

LAWLESSNESS ABOUNDS

Police Group Blames’ Left-Leaning Policies’ for Deadly Crime Spikes, ‘Vilification of Law Enforcement.’ National Police Association spokeswoman Betsy Brantner Smith said “left-wing policies” are sending crime and anti-police sentiment soaring across the US.

EXPOSING LAST DAYS TRAITORS

Biden Slaps Israel in the Face, Gives Power-Mad Putin a Massive Gift. As tensions between Russia, Ukraine, the US and NATO continue, it is affecting the Mediterranean world as well as Europe’s energy sector. The US is pulling its support for an Israeli underground natural gas pipeline that would run from the eastern Mediterranean to Europe. Many are predicting this will simply cause more problems in the region. Moreover, this decision from the Biden administration undercuts Israel, one of America’s most steadfast allies.

Forbes Contributor Fired Over Investigative Stories on Fauci. Andrzejewski, who recently made headlines with his investigative reporting that Fauci was the highest-paid employee in the entire US Federal government, described how he was targeted for being critical of Dr. Anthony Fauci and exposing his yearly earnings.

Bill Gates’ ‘deeply troubling’ ties to China: excerpt from ‘Red-Handed’ by Peter Schweizer. Gates has cooperated with the regime in ways other tech titans have not. He has lent credence to the claims of the Chinese Communist Party and been rewarded with access, favors, and titles. He has done the bidding of the regime in the tech world and has apologized or made excuses for its aberrant activities. On top of all that, he has invested in companies attached to Beijing’s military-industrial complex.

Blackburn, Tenney, Cotton say “more and more” Democrats connected to Chinese Communist Party. After revelations coming forth fast and furious about the corruption among the ruling class exposed by Peter Schweizer in his bestselling book, “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China,” a number of lawmakers have been weighing in. The latest is Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Breitbart News reports. “More and more Democrats are being connected to Russian oligarchs and the CCP [Chinese Communist Party]. Who else have they partnered with to make millions?” Blackburn tweeted, sharing a Breitbart News story outlining connections between Nancy Pelosi, her husband, and her son with the Chinese communists.

Port of Long Beach cargo facility still not operating 24/7, despite Biden’s promise. In October, Biden promised the crucial American cargo facility would shift to an around-the-clock schedule to help with the backlog of cargo ships that is wreaking havoc on supply chains. However, the port’s executive director revealed this week that this still has not happened.

Judicial Watch Sues CIA Over Communications That Reportedly Targeted President Trump. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said, “It ought to be disturbing to all Americans that the head of the CIA and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs were reportedly conspiring against the President of the United States.”

Durham filing alleges Clinton’s team ‘mined’ White House servers for dirt on Trump.

Stunning video shows Canadian PM Trudeau ADMITTING his favorite country is China. In the video from 2013, Trudeau said, “There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China, um, because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say ‘we need to go greenest fastest, we need to start investing in solar,” he told the crowd.

THE PLANNED-DEMIC

FDA Executive Officer on Hidden Camera Reveals Biden’s Future COVID Policy, also Big Pharma Agenda: The footage, part 1 of 2 on the FDA, also contains soundbites from Cole about financial incentives pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer have to get the vaccine approved for annual usage. “It’ll be a recurring fountain of revenue,” Cole said. “…if they can get every person required at an annual vaccine, that is a recurring return of money going into their company.” Perhaps the most explosive part is where Cole brazenly talks about the impact an Emergency Use Authorization has on overcoming regulatory concerns of mandating vaccines on children. “They’re all approved under an emergency just because it’s not as impactful as some of the other approvals,” Cole said when asked if he thought there was “really an emergency for kids.”

CDC data signaling vaccine catastrophe. In 1976, after 32 deaths were attributed to the swine flu vaccine, the US government halted the mass vaccination campaign. But now, despite the VAERS database run by the CDC and the FDA reporting over 23,000 deaths related to COVID vaccines, the messaging from establishment media and top health officials such as Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Dr. Anthony Fauci essentially is that no one has died or suffered severe adverse effects from the largest rollout of an experimental vaccine in world history.

Will there be ‘quarantine camps’ in New York State? The New York Department of Health is in the process of seeking rule changes to the state, which would include setting up quarantine camps.

Italy Bars Unvaccinated Adults Aged 50 and Older from Workplaces. Starting on Feb 22, all employees in the public or private sector aged 50 and older will need to show proof of COVID vaccination via the country’s “super green pass” in order to enter their workplace.

Did police use sonic weapons against Australians peacefully protesting COVID tyranny? In what appears to be another move towards militarized suppression of legal protests in Australia, there are troubling indications that the Feb 12 Canberra Convoy demonstrations, the biggest in Australia’s history, were targeted by sonic weapons. If so, it amounts to an outrageous attack by the government on its people.

Ottawa Police Clash with Truckers as They Make Mass Arrests – Begin Smashing Windows to Forcefully Remove Protesters from Vehicles – (VIDEO). The authorities are dragging away peaceful protesters who are protesting Canada’s COVID restrictions. Police from other cities have reportedly been brought in. There are other reports of police snipers on rooftops. In one video, officers can be seen forcing a protester to the ground and kicking him once he is down. Also, see Convoy Chaos: Organizers Arrested, Dogs Threatened, Accounts Frozen, and Govt. Sued.

HATRED OF JEWS AND ISRAEL

BLM (Black Lives Matter) activist charged in murder attempt of Jewish mayoral candidate. Quintez Brown, a local political activist, attempted a shooting attack on Craig Greenberg, a Jewish Democrat running for mayor in Louisville.

And The Evil in Islam

Abbas openly calls on “Palestinians” to murder Israelis. After Israel killed three terrorists who had already carried out a number of terror attacks and were planning another imminent attack, “Palestinian” Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (aka PLO terrorist) called on “Palestinians” to “dish out to them twice as much as we’ve received.”

Israeli Mk Moves Official Headquarters to Site of Arab Terror Attacks; Hamas Threatens War. Knesset Member Itamar Ben-Gvir arrived in the Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood after local Arab terrorists attempted to burn a Jewish family in the neighborhood with a firebomb attack. Soon after, a terror car-ramming attack was perpetrated by Arab terrorists against local Jews. The move will necessitate greater police presence in a mixed neighborhood where Jewish residents complain of neglect by law enforcement, even though Israel’s police headquarters is 200 yards from the location. Met by resistance from Arab residents and left-wing Israeli protestors, many funded by the EU, Ben Gvir vowed to protect his “brothers and sisters.”

HATRED OF THOSE WHO SAY THEY ARE CHRISTIAN

The Ignored Pandemic: 360 Million Christians Persecuted Worldwide. The year 2021 “saw the worst persecution of Christians in history”—with an average of 16 Christians butchered for their faith every single day. This is according to the World Watch List-2022 (WWL), which was recently published by the international humanitarian organization Open Doors.

APOSTASY

Ridiculous on a Number of Levels: A priest is said to have incorrectly performed thousands of baptisms for decades – by changing one word; Catholic church now says baptisms are invalid because of it and need to be redone, and even marriages in some cases. First of all, infant baptism isn’t biblical (just one of many unbiblical doctrines of the Catholic church). A baby has no ability to accept or reject Christ as Savior; one must be old enough to understand what they’re committing to. Secondly, because the priest said the word “we” instead of “I,” allegedly it was all for naught.

ANIMAL PLAGUE

Bird Flu Detected in Kentucky, Virginia, Indiana as Outbreak Spreads. The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service didn’t say whether the outbreak involved H5N1, the same highly pathogenic virus found extensively in wild birds and on the Indiana turkey farm, and said, “No human cases of these avian influenza viruses have been detected in the United States. As a reminder, the proper handling and cooking of poultry and eggs to an internal temperature of 165 [degrees] F kills bacteria and viruses.”

EXTREME WEATHER

Storm Ylenia (Dudley) wreaks havoc across northern Europe, leaving at least 5 people dead.

Storm Eunice: at least four die as winds up to 122mph batter UK and Ireland.

Brazil mudslides from torrential rains kill at least 58.

Storm Dumako Leaves 6 Dead, Homes Damaged in Madagascar. Meanwhile, yet another storm is forecast to hit Madagascar’s shores sometime next week.

Tropical Cyclone “Dovi” brought destructive winds to New Zealand after wreaking havoc across Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS

Imminent War? False Flag? Russia and Ukraine exchange claims of clashes, and Biden Throws in His Two-Cent’s Worth. Ukraine says Russia severely damaged a kindergarten, Russia denies it and says it’s pulling back from Ukraine, and the Biden bunch claims Russia is actually increasing troops.

Russian fighter jets buzz 3 US aircraft ‘extremely close;’ one reportedly within 5 feet.

Russia-Ukraine crisis could affect the entire world in a way that hasn’t been seen since World War II, potentially reshaping the balance of power in Europe.

Iran making a sucker of West, Saudi writer warns. Against the backdrop of current talks between Iran and Western powers in Vienna, Saudi political analyst Faisal Al-Shammari compared Iran to Nazi Germany and the nuclear agreement with it to the Munich Agreement signed with Germany in 1938. He argued that, just as the West ignored the evil of Nazi Germany on the eve of WWII and signed an agreement with it, Western states are now ignoring the evil of Iran and seeking to renew the nuclear agreement with it. “Furthermore, just as the Munich Agreement only strengthened Nazi Germany and failed to prevent the war, a new agreement with Iran will boost its global status and will not keep it from developing nuclear weapons or prevent a war. On the contrary, the agreement is bound to increase Iran’s expansionist ambitions and its support of terrorist organizations,” he said.

If Israel strikes Iran, what happens next? Nuclear deal talks are entering the final stage in Vienna. Worrying that a deal with Iran won’t stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, Israel already signaled its readiness to strike Iran. An article in the Jerusalem Post poses these questions: If Israel does indeed attack Iran, as Israeli officials have increasingly implied might happen, what impact would it have on the Middle East? How would the region be any different after such a development? A simulation examining what happens when Israel strikes Iran, featuring some of the world’s top Iran and Middle East experts, looks at the year after such a development. They say such a strike would impact Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, and the United States – but also Israel’s regional position.

These so-called experts need only read Isaiah 17 and Ezekiel 38-39, as God has already told us what will happen in the last days. The invaders of Israel’s Golan, which includes the aforementioned players of Russia and Iran, will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the fields, a feat performed by God Himself. Saudi Arabia will question why Israel is being invaded, as will the merchants of Tarshish [a number of Bible prophecy experts say this is Britain] and all the young lions thereof (if so, that would include the US).

CONCLUSION

“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (Daniel 12:4).

Summary from Jack Kelley, “The Book of Daniel: Chapter 5” (starting at 23:20). The Lord has less patience for those who refuse the Gospel today. The nations have had the lessons of history, the lessons of the Jewish people, and 2,000 years of the church, but they have not learned from them. This is why the Great Tribulation is the worst judgment ever to befall mankind. The worst is reserved for the people of our time because they’ve had the most opportunity to learn from God’s revelations progressively revealed through the ages. The more you are privileged to know, the greater your responsibility. The nations have not honored the Lord God who holds in His hands our lives and who came to Earth in the flesh to die for our sins so that we could be saved and spend a wonderful eternity with Him.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6). “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).