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There is one thing in particular that is preventing us from being raped, tortured, and brutally murdered in our own front yards: local Law Enforcement (LE), all through the will of God.

The following is an excerpt from a recent article in the New York Times:

Across the country, calls to defund, downsize or abolish police departments are gaining new traction after national unrest following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer pressed a knee into his neck for nearly nine minutes on a busy Minneapolis street. [1]

If that doesn’t get your attention, nothing will.

If you live in the United States of America, your local and state police are the hands of a justice system, at the heart of which is the very unique American Constitution. Do they make mistakes? Of course they do. Do they have ability to abuse their authority? Yes, but the vast majority don’t.

Those who live in America should be very thankful for the American Constitution. Many other countries modeled their own constitutions after the American Constitution after witnessing not only the resulting freedom, but also the prosperity once afforded our great nation.

Our Constitution is viciously, maliciously, and persistently being attacked by the forces of evil because it is a force for good. Somehow, as of the writing of this article, most of the protections and freedoms afforded to Americans by the Constitution are amazingly (perhaps miraculously?) hanging on by a thread. Even those with dull senses can now see even that will not last much longer.

We all know just how easy it was for millions of Americans to be deceived into giving up their First Amendment protections. What will be next?

Unfortunately, we are witnessing a growing trend in which Satan wants to take those who are, by and large, being protected by LE and turn them against LE. Satan only wants to bring about our pain, suffering, and violent deaths. He couldn’t care less about our freedoms and our prosperity, except to bring them to ruin.

Focusing on the very few bad apples in LE with the goal of abolishing all local LE is outright insanity.

I have to admit that it’s still absolutely stunning for people to look at the exact same thing I see, and yet the very thing I see as evil, they call good, and the very thing I see as good, they call evil. I’m in complete shock at the absolute and total depravity of humankind.

Right is now wrong, and wrong is now right (Isaiah 5:20).

Human beings are completely lost without the Holy Spirit of God, and their minds are completely controlled by Satan. The most amazing part of that is, they are completely blinded of their own path to destruction.

Most Americans are aware, thanks to Hollywood and their local news, that power is sometimes abused and corruption exists. Just because a bully might be wearing a uniform who disrespects your constitutional protections doesn’t mean it makes sense for you to disrespect the bully. Again, this for our own protection. We’ve heard it before: “Two wrongs don’t make a right.”

If you happen to be pulled over for whatever reason, what difference does it make if LE does not end up harassing you (or worse) because you were polite and courteous?

Yes, that’s a bit sarcastic, but we all know that God does not advocate disrespect and disparagement toward those in authority, just because they have the potential to abuse their authority.

Think of the respect Daniel must have had to show such ‘bully” kings as Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar. Remember “the writing on the wall”? Hopefully, none of us would have despised Moses or Aaron if we happened to believe that they were abusing their authority.

I’m sure we can all at least come together in agreement that we don’t want our families to be violently tortured or murdered. Currently, by and large, American LE is the force that is restraining all-out mob rule in America.

Mob Rule: Control of a situation by those outside the conventional or lawful realm, typically involving violence, intimidation, and murder.

Think about this: When the rare circumstance of the violent physical abuse of power by a law enforcement officer does occur, people usually get upset because the particular officer in question stepped outside the bounds of the law, right? They were acting outside of the protections provided by our Constitution. They operated according to their own human judgment and not according to the law. In other words, for a brief period of time, they acted like a lawless man or woman.

We all know what the Lord said about the dangers of lawlessness (Matthew 24:12).

So, what would you rather have, a system of law and justice that is still held in place by our Constitution, or the complete removal of that system, thereby leaving your neighbors, and LE, up to the will of their own conscience?

I believe the movement to “defund” local police departments is part of the plan to finally do away with the U.S. Constitution and implement world law enforcement in America. It’s quite obvious what the result of a greatly reduced (or absent altogether) local police force would mean: mob rule.

By holding back all-out rebellion against LE, we are holding back all-out rioting by barbaric and cruel mobs ruling the streets. Just take a look at certain lawless places around the world to see what the erosion of our justice system would look like.

Actually, just take a look at the streets of America right now.

If the streets of America end up like the streets of Bagdad, then the door will be wide open to allow a world police force to rule our streets, without the U.S. Constitution to restrain them. That would be the final nail in the coffin of American freedom and prosperity.

Even though things are not looking good for our future while we remain here on earth, God is still in absolute control over what His true children and their families will experience. Just when things look hopeless to the human eye, God can change everything.

“He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision” (Psalms 2:4).

Although many of God’s cherished believers have died violent deaths in past generations, and still are in this generation, it is still possible for God not to will for you and other servants to die that way.

Regardless of what the future holds, Jesus told us whom we need to fear:

“Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).

All of us of like faith continue to have this blessed hope: “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye” (1 Corinthians 15:51b-52a).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/defund-police-floyd-protests.html

Doesn’t it seem as if we’re living right in the middle of the “valley of the shadow of death”? If it feels that way to you, it’s because, in a very real sense, we are. I dare say that none of us ever thought we would be living through the death throes of the once-great-soon-to-be-late United States, watching in horror and sorrow as our once beloved nation lies mortally wounded, gasping her agonal breaths.

We are living in unprecedented times. We are living through the death of a nation as well as the end of a dispensation. We are living at the very end of the Dispensation of Grace – the Church Age, that began at Pentecost 2,000 years ago. Just as the early Church was birthed in persecution (see Acts), so too will the last days Church exit this world through waves of rising persecution. The closer we draw to the time of the rapture, the more dangerous and precarious our tenuous sojourn through the dying world system will become.

Jesus Himself likened the coming Tribulation to be like birth pains. As every woman who has ever given birth knows, once real labor begins, there’s no going back; a delivery must happen. Every contraction gets stronger and closer together to the point that the contractions are almost one on top of the other. That’s when we know the birth is imminent.

The time we are living in is a paradox. On one hand, we are living through the death agonies of this fallen world system ruled by the usurper Satan — the six-thousand-year degradation and systematic destruction of God’s perfect order by Satan’s successful ruination of Paradise and fall of mankind.

When Eve allowed herself to be deceived and Adam chose to rebel, Satan’s usurpation was complete. Adam and Eve’s fatal choice plunged all future humanity into spiritual ruin and doomed everyone conceived from them to an eternal Hell. Mankind’s rescue was made possible only when God the Son wrapped Himself in human skin, and by His great unfathomable love, chose to suffer, die, and be bodily resurrected, thus paying in full the infinite penalty that fallen, sin-infected mankind could never have paid – the infinite penalty for sin that condemns to an eternal Hell every person on earth whose sins are not cleansed by the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God.

All who refuse God’s great salvation, like Adam before them, choose to rebel and remain eternally doomed. All who reject God’s salvation through Jesus Christ, reject the only One who can save their eternal souls (Acts 4:12). This precious gift of pardon, offered freely to “whosoever” is willing to believe and accept it, is man’s only hope of redemption. There is no salvation outside of or in addition to that paid for by Jesus, God in the flesh, and by Him ALONE.

The six-millennia destruction, Paradise lost, is now coming to an end. The defeat of Satan and his final destruction is closer than just “at hand.” Right up until the nanosecond we followers of Christ are raptured out of here, we are caught in the death agonies of a depraved, reprobate, and demonically charged world that is heading inexorably into the seven-year Tribulation and Satan’s final defeat.

However, on the other hand, we who are the bride of our Lord Jesus know that what is also on the cusp, the event that is coming BEFORE those last seven years, is the birth of our new bodies – the culmination of the instant justification of our immortal spirits – justified completely and eternally the very instant we believed and accepted Jesus’ gift of eternal salvation, when we believed on Christ as our Savior and Redeemer – all through the lifelong struggle of being sanctified – changed to be transformed into His image, right up to the instant that we are caught up to meet Him in the clouds. In that instant, we will be birthed into our glorious new bodies – immortal, incorruptible, and as eternal as are our already justified, sanctified souls are eternal!

Yes, the times we are living through ARE perilous. There is no denying that fact. We are witnessing on an hourly basis now, absolutely horrific things being done. We are watching, not just our own beloved nation crumbling under the weight of rampant sin, but the entire world plunging inexorably into the abyss of the coming Tribulation.

There is great evil afoot, with even more to come. Yet we KNOW that regardless of what Satan may hurl at us, he can do NOTHING to our immortal souls. Our spirits which are already “seated in heavenly places” with our Lord are eternally beyond Satan’s grasp. That’s one reason he hates the Remnant Church so much. (Ephesians 2:6-9). Our God has promised that He WILL deliver His bride BEFORE He roars forth from His emerald-encircled throne in blinding fury to utterly lay waste to this Christ-hating world in righteous vengeance and holy justice (Revelation 3:10).

In these darkening days of the gathering storm, we must keep this truth ever before us, fellow believers. That truth is this: our Deliverer is coming! He IS coming. Until the instant when that trumpet blasts (sooner than we may dare to hope!), we must face the truth that things are not going to improve – not in our nation and not in the world.

The Antichrist system is, for all intents and purposes, complete. It only awaits the arrival of Satan’s “Man of Sin” whom The Holy Spirit, dwelling within the corporate body of the Remnant Church, is restraining. Acting in His function as the Restrainer of the Antichrist and Satan’s final assault, the Holy Spirit, through the members of Christ’s body, the believing Remnant Church, is yet restraining, hindering the Antichrist’s arrival on the global public stage. Until the Church is removed, the Antichrist cannot reveal himself and begin his reign of terror.

The global infrastructure of the beast system is already set and is ready to go the instant the Church is removed so that the man who will be the Antichrist can be revealed. The end-time players in the Middle East – Israel, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Libya, et al, are in place, politically poised, ready to fulfill their destined end-times roles. Europe is rising, as the prophesied 10 kingdoms of the last days are already coalescing, maneuvering into position. In our own nation, America MUST and WILL Fall. There is no escaping this fact. We need to understand and accept that truth. America plays NO PART in end-times eschatology. We either will not be able to assist Israel, or we will have those in power who will choose NOT to defend Israel.

In truth, we have already betrayed Israel and incurred the wrath of God by our national leaders’ blatant and purposeful decision to defy God’s covenant and divide God’s land of Israel. Like it or not, accept it or not, America is already under God’s judgment for our arrogance in trifling with the land of Israel upon which real estate God has placed His own name and ownership.

Whether God will allow the Remnant Church to remain here to witness the full collapse of this nation before we are raptured out, or whether God snatches the remnant up at the penultimate moment just before America falls or is taken out completely as THE colossus of world power she has been since WWII, we cannot know. Only God knows.

What we do know is this: the world is already neck deep in the valley of the shadow of death. In America, our culture is already flatlining. We are witnessing day by day and hour by hour the death of our culture, the death of our constitution, the death of our liberties, the death of our peace, the death of our security, the death of all we in America have ever known and once cherished. Still, as always, God Himself has already told us in His Word what is coming so that we will be prepared as we await our rescue (John 16:33). He has also given us His great assurance that even in the depths of the valley of the shadow of death, HE is right there with us.

In fact, unlike King David who had God the Holy Spirit WITH him, alongside him, we in this dispensation have the Holy Spirit actually abiding WITHIN us! So buck up, weary warrior. We may be living through the valley of the shadow that is leading inexorably to the Tribulation, but those last seven years WILL NOT BE our destination! Not at all! We are waiting for our bodies to be reborn – waiting for the redemption of our bodies; the changing of these sin-wrecked bodies into glorified ones where our already redeemed spirits will reside, fit to dwell forever in the presence of our God!

Even now in these vile bodies of flesh, God the Holy Spirit dwells within us. Even now our redeemed spirits are eternally sealed. We only await our glorified bodies (Romans 8:23; 1 Corinthians 15:53-55). We may be living in the valley of the shadow of death right now; but at any moment, in “the twinkling of an eye,” what we WILL be is reborn – changed into glorified bodies, seated around the throne of God!!

Hold on and hold tight to God’s immutable Word, family of God! We are almost home! Keep looking up!

Maranatha!

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me” (Psalms 23:4, KJV).

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