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COMING APART AT THE SEAMS

Apostasy and Doctrines of Demons

Harris and Walz call them ‘values,’ but they’re ‘doctrines of devils.’ killing unborn babies; cutting up adolescents to alter their sex; open borders followed by giveaways, free stuff, and murders by illegal aliens; giving Afghanistan billions of dollars’ of military hardware paid for by Americans; creating the highest inflation rate in decades; exorbitant cost of food, fuel, and housing; not to mention their lies.

Authorities investigate woman’s death at Burning Man Festival, a yearly drug-infested music and art festival in Nevada. This pagan festival includes an orgy dome.

Hatred of Christianity

Idaho Army National Guard officer removed from his position after voicing his Christian beliefs. Liberty Counsel has filed a complaint, demanding his position be restored.

Insidious Islam

Hamas in the heartland: Indiana mosque’s leadership fuels Islamic terrorism while media and politicians look away. An Imam whose sermon praised Hamas leader Haniyeh as a “martyred mujahid” should send shockwaves across the nation.

Michigan: Army of ‘30,000 Muslims’ march through Dearborn led by radical Imam, revealing unchecked spread of Sharia, alarming alliance between authorities and radical elements, and growing threat of Islamic supremacism, all under guise of a so-called ‘peace’ rally on American soil.

Graphic warning: ISIS Muslims turn Russian prison into jihad zone, killing/torturing guards and inmates’ for the sake of Allah and to establish Islamic law.’ Armed with knives and makeshift explosives, they took several prison staff hostage. The prisoners slashed a guard’s throat, cut another’s stomach open, etc. Slitting throats aligns with Quran verses. Example: Quran 8:12: “…cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike upon the necks…”

ISIS-inspired Syrian commits triple-murder at ‘Festival of Diversity’ in Germany. 8 others were injured. Also see ‘Germany No Longer Safe’: Police Union Chairman Warns’ Greatest Danger Is from Islamists.’ Leftist open-border policies have unleashed a wave of Islamic violence.

Hamas leader calls for suicide attacks in Judea and Samaria.

Taliban government in Afghanistan issues public ban on women’s voices and bare faces. Be covered from head to toe in public, and don’t speak. Sharia Law, anyone?

Pervasive Perversion

Chicago schools’ sex ed teaches elementary kids about gender identity & puberty blockers. As soon as kindergarten: human anatomy; first-grade: “gender identity”; by fifth grade: intro to puberty blockers.

Christian whistleblower nurse fired from Texas Children’s Hospital says it’s a spiritual conflict. She exposed alleged Medicaid fraud related to transgender procedures for minors at the Houston hospital.

Cornell University offers ecological justice course on feminist, queer, & trans perspectives. Other courses are offered from an LGBTQ+ perspective, such as “Queer Classics.”

August 2024’s Fetish Con in St. Petersburg, Florida. Someone from Daily Wire attended to report what goes on after seeing strange sights on the streets and found they were heading to Fetish Con. “Weird” didn’t do it justice. You’ll want to laugh but won’t be able to. You’ll be too busy worrying about your children, schools, our country, the consequences of the internet, and life as we know it. Satanic imagery was scattered throughout the halls, adding an unsettling layer to an already bizarre atmosphere. After seeing more than they could stomach, the Daily Wire attendee and friend made their way to the exits where they were handed a pamphlet promoting a production company with the title, “Have You Accepted Satan As Your Lord and Personal Savior?”

Canada: Pastor convicted of ‘criminal harassment’ after opposing drag queen story hours for children at a city library.

Gillette Intimate ad is extremely inappropriate. The commercial “Respect Your Junk,” “Respect Your Pubic Region,” is entirely too specific and graphic for TV. We’re told that the ad has even aired on a children’s network. Can you imagine what goes through a child’s mind when viewing this ad?

And the Dem Abortion Abomination

At the Democrat Convention, nationwide access to abortion transcended every other issue. This ongoing obsession with destroying human life foreshadows dark and difficult times to come.

Pro-Life pregnancy center vandalized after Democrat Convention.

Iniquity Shall Abound

Sex offender Ronald Syrvud, who threatened to kill Trump at Arizona rally, taken into custody.

3 adults stabbed during Notting Hill carnival as UK records rise in knife attacks. 15 officers were assaulted as the gathering turned violent. 90 arrests were made on various charges. The latest figures show knife-related offenses in England and Wales rose to 49,489 in 2023, up from 46,153 in 2022. In recent attacks, children have been targeted. A few weeks after the Southport stabbing (in which 3 children died), which began mass riots across the nation, an 11-year-old shopping with her mother was grabbed by a Romanian man and stabbed 8 times; she required plastic surgery.

Gunmen killed at least 37 people in 3 separate attacks in Pakistan. Baluchistan has been the scene of a long-running insurgency with an array of separatist groups staging attacks.

Last Days Traitors and Their Treachery

Crazy Nancy Pelosi compares defeating Trump to America going to war against British & Confederacy. She outright alludes to political violence. She said, “We have to defeat a person who was a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen. At the beginning of our country, Thomas Paine said that times have found us, declare war, establish a new nation.” Hateful rhetoric like this already inspired an assassination attempt against Trump. And when Pelosi made these comments, Arizona law enforcement was already engaged in a manhunt for another who made threats to kill Trump.

And Their Pitting of Nation (Ethnic) Against Nation (Ethnic)

UCLA medical school hired students to write curriculum with liberal ideas such as critical race theory.

Deliberate Border Disorder and Its Consequences

Twenty illegal aliens attempted to enter a California school bus as it was picking up students. This is the second time something like this has happened in this school district.

Video: Open borders have turned German women into prey on public transport (warning for America), (video) as open borders policy turn everyday journeys in Berlin into nightmares.

Orwellian Society

Zuckerberg admits Biden admin. pressured Facebook to ‘censor’ Covid and Hunter Biden content. He claimed in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee that he regrets caving to government pressure.

Free speech is in trouble on both sides of the Atlantic. In June, the US Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s decision that barred the government and its agencies from coordinating with social media to censor/suppress views that don’t follow their narrative. Also see Labour Party decides to create fear. Keir Starmer, in a few months, has managed to divide and destroy the United Kingdom. Hardworking, high-tax-paying citizens fear that anything they might think, do, or say could end in a jail term.

Plague, Pestilence, and Planned-demics

Massachusetts: Voluntary lockdowns to combat deadly mosquito-borne disease after a case occurred. [More fear-mongering]: A human case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) occurred, the first since 2019-20. According to the article, there’s no treatment, about half of those infected died, survivors are often permanently disabled, and few recover completely. EEE is a very rare disease. Since first identified in Massachusetts in 1938, less than 100 cases have occurred. Outbreaks usually occur there every 10-20 years, typically lasting 2-3 years. In 2019: 12 cases, 6 fatalities. In 2020: 5 cases, one fatality.

Also see Lockdowns in 4 Massachusetts towns over ‘extremely rare’ virus after single infection. So-called “voluntary” lockdowns after 5-6 pm, at least until winter’s onset. “Voluntary” means if you want to use public land, you must sign a waiver and provide insurance proof to Public Health overseers.

Media Ramps Up Fear For 3 Frightening Diseases. Why suddenly so many news stories about deadly diseases? We’re two months away from November, a perfect time to alarm the public of a coming health crisis, right? But this time, it’s three. When people fear they might die from an extremely deadly outbreak, they’re far more likely to accept measures they’d not usually consider in normal times.

Parents fight back with rising use of religious vaccine exemptions for their children.

Germany: Covid deception induced fear in children for political gain. The Interior Ministry made children fear that unless they complied with regulations, they’d be responsible for grandparents’ deaths.

Economic and Food Insecurity

Socialist uprising: Chicago plans to launch city-run grocery stores as chains such as Aldi, Walmart, and Whole Foods fled due to an increase in theft. HR&A Advisors said the city could establish a 3-store network to fill the food desert for $26.7 million in upfront investment. Government-owned grocery stores. What could possibly go wrong?

Goodwill shutters two Seattle stores amid escalating crime, safety concerns, & rising operational costs. The closures are part of a broader retailers’ exodus from Seattle where rising crime, safety concerns, and high rents have forced many businesses to reconsider their operations. Seattle’s crime rates have contributed to Washington State’s ranking as the most dangerous state to live in for 2024. The city’s police dept continues to face staffing shortages (lowest number of officers since 1950s). As more businesses close, there’s growing concern that Seattle could face a decline similar to San Francisco.

Two-thirds of Americans now believe the American dream is unattainable, a searing indictment of a system coming apart at the seams.

Weather Events

Arizona: Severe flash flood in Grand Canyon National Park; one person killed; extensive damage.

Alaska: Emergency declared in Ketchikan; landslide damages homes; one person killed, 3 injured. The landslide was due to heavy rains. Evacuations were ordered due to fear of a second landslide.

Italy: Two missing after severe flash floods in Talanico. Heavy rains have affected parts of central Italy since Aug. 26.

Sudan: Heavy rains collapsed Dam; dozens killed. 70 villages were affected, 20 of which were destroyed. 50,000 homes and 70 schools were destroyed or damaged; 10,000 livestock are missing.

Guinea: Severe floods in Conakry claimed 2 lives, left 1 missing, and caused substantial damage.

Japan: Typhoon Shanshan turns deadly, brings 30 inches of rain with severe flooding. At least four people have died. The former typhoon is moving slowly, bringing much rain, triggering landslides, and unleashing tornadoes. Flooding rain will continue through Sept. 2 due to the storm’s slow trek.

Cyclonic Storm “Asna” forms in Arabian Sea; Gujarat reports 32 dead, over 32,000 evacuated. The Saurashtra-Kachchh region of Gujarat has been severely impacted by heavy rains since Aug. 25, which intensified into Cyclonic Storm “Asna” on Aug. 30.

Yemen: Floods & landslides killed 33 as of Aug. 29 in Al-Mahwit Province, bringing death toll to 119 since start of the Kharif rainy season.

Brazil: São Paulo wildfires shatter records; 1,886 hotspots in one day. Amazon region: 1,669. Brazil total: 4,928 hotspots. Two firefighters died. 30 cities are on high alert for major fires, with active outbreaks; they’re vulnerable due to low humidity and a heatwave exacerbated by gusty winds.

China: 11 dead, 14 missing as torrential rains strike Liaoning. Floods damaged or destroyed 187 bridges.

Thailand: Large landslide hits Phuket, severely damaging 200 homes, killing at least 13 following heavy rains. Nine villages were declared disaster zones.

Bangladesh: 20 dead, 5 million affected by floods due to relentless monsoon rains & overflowing rivers.

Wars and Rumors of Wars

Russia launched massive air strike on Ukraine’s energy facilities; power/water outages all over.

Israeli soldiers rescue Israeli Muslim Hostage from Gaza. He’d been held alone in a tunnel. An Israeli spokesman said, “Each of our… remaining hostages are dear to us, no matter what their religion…. Our Declaration [of Independence]… makes clear… [we are] always living in peace with the people that live here.” There are still 108 hostages in Gaza, at least half thought to be alive.

Hezbollah ready to launch massive Oct. 7-style attack on Israel following 10 years of planning. The terrorists showed footage of their tunnel network stretching for miles that can be used to launch missiles. The “sheer volume” of weapons in Hezbollah’s arsenal makes it a formidable threat, plus a military force of 50,000 and up to 5,000 elite troops.

Did Israel’s massive pre-emptive strike delay all-out apocalyptic war coming to the Middle East? On Aug. 25, Hezbollah was preparing to fire an enormous number of rockets deep inside Israel (in response to Fuad Shukr’s assassination). Israel found out and launched a massive pre-emptive strike, destroying thousands of rocket launchers in southern Lebanon, including those intended for the main Israeli military intelligence base near Tel Aviv. 210 rockets and 20 drones were launched at Israel by Hezbollah. The largest damage Hezbollah managed to do was to dozens of buildings/homes in Acre and a chicken coop.

Concluding Scripture

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah” (Psalm 46:1-3).

The United States dominated much of this year’s Olympic Games in Paris. More than interesting to me is the gold the American athletes won for the apex nation of the world in relationship to another object of gold. That object is the infamous “golden cup” described in the Bible—first in Jeremiah 51:7 and second in Revelation 17:4.

My fascination centers around the wickedness surrounding the Paris Olympics. The games began and ended with blatant bookends of evil ostentation to anyone watching proceedings from the biblical Christian perspective.

More about my thoughts on all this later.

America burst forth from history’s slow-motion movement with brilliant inventiveness that would mystify if viewed from any perspective other than that of Bible prophecy. The stunning achievements within the mix of that quantum leap continue to engender awe. Human genius almost certainly had to have been infused with supernatural influence in accomplishing the exponential progress humanity has achieved within one hundred years. We have moved, within that time, from traveling at speeds horses can run to streaking at the speed of light through communications technologies.

The United States of America has been the nation at the very heart of the explosion of human technological progress. We have no peer in this regard. Just as God’s hand of providence guided the founding fathers in bringing the country to birth in 1776, so His omnipresence inspired the American genius and industry resident in the nation to achieve things essential to opening the book of end-times prophecy.

The prophet Daniel’s words resonate in our day:

“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).

This ranks as perhaps the foremost signpost encapsulating our generation’s place on God’s prophetic timeline when considering the question about whether America is anywhere in Bible prophecy, even if not mentioned specifically by name.

The prophet’s words tell us:

1) There is a book that has written in it the end of all things regarding the human realm.

2) That book was purposely shut in order to not reveal details about the end.

3) The book was sealed during Daniel’s time, and no one would be able to break that seal.

4) The world would experience a great population explosion near the end.

5) The people of that future time would go at a phenomenal speed, literally to and from points all over the earth.

6) Humankind’s knowledge would increase tremendously.

Many, including myself, believe this detonation of knowledge at the very end includes an understanding about end-of-days prophecies from God’s Word, as well as human knowledge that has erupted like at no other time in history in what we now call the Information Age, which has grown out of the creation of the computer. The major implication in the first part of the prophecy is that the book of understanding end-times matters would be opened at the time of the running “to and fro” and of the exponential increase in knowledge. Therein is the validation of our claims that this generation is bumping up against the very end of the age and that the signals we are witnessing today are, indeed, signs of Jesus Christ’s soon return to the earth.

Again, the United States is inarguably the matrix out of which the geometrical progression of knowledge, thus the spectacular increase in our ability to travel to and from anywhere on earth, has grown. The unsealing and opening of the book Daniel told about by the angel might well have taken place during one specific incident about which we’ve all learned in our rudimentary studies of American history. The occurrence certainly seemed an explosive epiphany, with God reaching down to man in a spectacular fashion. More than coincidentally, I am of the firm conviction that one of America’s most famous founding fathers was the recipient of this brilliant stroke from the heavens.

Benjamin Franklin’s Shocking Experience

Benjamin Franklin, whom we know as one of the key founders of the US, in fact, appropriated through his God-inspired genius the key to the greatest discovery of humankind. His use of a key opened up new vistas dreamed of by only a very few inventive minds in previous history.

Franklin believed electricity could be harnessed from lightning. So, he tested his theory in 1752 by using a contrivance we’ve all become somewhat familiar with by way of our history books.

Mr. Franklin was knocked on the seat of his pants in a shocking discovery, as we know.

American Industriousness on Display

Of course, much groundwork was laid by others as well as Americans for the explosion of modern technological achievements. But it is American industriousness—a genius for taking groundwork laid and rocketing into the future with that foundational creativity—that makes the US unique among the nation-states of history. Electricity and its many fantastic applications have continued to power the still-surging explosion of knowledge and travel in the twenty-first century.

Like ancient Babylon, America has been a “golden cup” in the hand of God:

“Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD’S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad” (Jeremiah 51:7).

What a dichotomy! Babylon was considered a “golden cup” in God’s hand when equating the use of that cup to export wickedness on a worldwide basis, as described by the prophet!

We see that same “golden cup” next in the hand of the whore of Babylon—the false religious system—as she sits astride the Beast:

“And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication” (Revelation 17:4).

In both cases—the nation Babylon and the prostitute astride the Beast—God’s Word speaks to His judgment and wrath because of worldwide rebellion against His governance.

To my thinking, this absolute turning from the God of Heaven was manifest for all to see with the graphic display leading into and out of the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024.

America, which sure looks similar to the Babylon mentioned by the prophets Jeremiah and John, has exported wickedness as have no other people in human history because of the tremendous technologies it has been instrumental in developing.

No such instrumentalities have made this more possible than electricity, computers, satellites, and the burgeoning artificial intelligence. And these are being used by the Ephesians 6:12 minions, both demonic and human, to make the world ready for Satan’s son of perdition, Antichrist.

America could well be pointed to as possibly being that “golden cup.” Certainly our most blessed nation in all of humankind’s history fits the description. And it looks as if the American “golden cup” of exported evil to the rest of the world will be used in God’s righteous indictment as He sits as judge to bring down the anti-godliness described by Jude:

“And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him” (Jude 1:14-15).

Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

2 Sept 2024

America and the Gold :: By Terry James