Everyone is dissecting the latest failure of a Democratic President—Joe Biden and Afghanistan. The media is already towing the Democratic Party line that it is former President Donald Trump’s fault that the terrorist group Taliban has easily overrun and taken control of Afghanistan.

Biden, in a White House statement, started the Trump blame game rolling when he said on Saturday, August 14:

“When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor.”

This is in stark contrast to Biden’s July 8 statement referring to 1975 Saigon:

“There’s going to be no circumstance where you are going to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan.”

But he sent troops to evacuate the Embassy.

Biden, in that same July 8 presser, said the Taliban was not competent enough to take over Afghanistan. He emphatically said several times that the Taliban was no threat to a military takeover. Today, he is hiding out at Camp David on some sort of “vacation” while thousands of Americans are stranded in Afghanistan, the Afghani president has run for his life, and the Taliban have captured the country, now named the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. That was the name of the country when the Taliban were in control 20 years ago.

Lest we forget, the Taliban was in cahoots with al-Qaeda in orchestrating the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers in New York and on the Pentagon. Today, every decent person in Afghanistan is fearing for their lives; all the sacrifice by American soldiers appears to be in vain, and Biden is hiding out at Camp David, blaming Trump.

Trump set the record straight in a Saturday statement, saying,

“Joe Biden gets it wrong every time on foreign policy and many other issues. Everyone knew he couldn’t handle the pressure. Even Obama’s Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, said as much. He [Biden] ran out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our Administration had left for him—a plan that protected our people and our property and ensured the Taliban would never dream of taking our Embassy or providing a base for new attacks against America. The withdrawal would be guided by facts on the ground. After I took out ISIS, I established a credible deterrent. That deterrent is now gone. The Taliban no longer has fear or respect for America or America’s power…. This is complete failure through weakness, incompetence, and total strategic incoherence.”

Here is the kicker: What is it with Democrat Presidents and radical Islam? Jimmy Carter destabilizing Iran in favor of the terrorist-sponsoring Ayatollahs and supporting terrorist Yasser Arafat… Bill Clinton’s support for the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army… Barack Obama’s support of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood’s Arab Spring that destabilized the Middle East… and now Biden looking the other way as the Taliban take over Afghanistan in a week.

Do these Democrat leaders ever learn? Or do they favor evil? Or both?

Proverbs 17:13 says, “Whoso rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.”

Is this specific to America’s leaders, or to those voting them into office, or to America as a nation when these enemies of God are favored? All the above? Remember, it rains on the just and the unjust alike. What’s next?

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Some Bible teachers are saying that we are well into the Revelation prophecies because COVID was like one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Let us not be confused concerning this.

Revelation 6 describes six of the seven seals opened by the Lamb of God, each passing a judgment on the earth. The White Horse is ridden by a conqueror; then a red horse symbolizing war; then a black horse of inflation; then the pale horse ridden by Death, empowered to kill with sword, hunger, death, and the beasts of the earth. None of these horsemen are COVID because of the many prophecies that must take place before these final seal judgments. But COVID is certainly a type and shadow of things to come.

In Matthew 24, Christ prophesies the chronology for the end of the age, beginning with verse 4, “Take heed that no man deceive you.”

Summing it up [Matthew 24]:

• There will be false Christs, wars and rumors of wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes—which Christ calls the beginning of sorrows.
• Then there will be persecution, betrayals, false prophets, and the gospel preached in all the world.
• After that, the Abomination of Desolation will be seen as the beast (who many call the antichrist) who will desecrate the temple.
• After that, there will be great tribulation. “And except those days be should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.”
• After that, Christ says there will be darkness, the Son of Man will come in the clouds, and, at the sound of a trumpet, the elect will be gathered.

As we look at COVID from a prophetic lens, never in history has there been a worldwide shutdown because of a disease. In addition, we can see how quickly the world can be brought under the control of political forces. Lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports are all indicative of not only a great pestilence but also of not being able to buy or sell, eat or travel without a COVID vaccine. It is eerily similar to Revelation 13:17, “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” What is missing is the beast.

COVID is not the beast, but it certainly lays the groundwork for the beast and demonstrates how fast the beast could rise to power and mandate his worship by locking down commerce and killing all who refuse to abide in his blasphemy.

These indeed are perilous times. But remember we are not given a spirit of fear, but of power, and love, and of a sound mind. Be careful to not be deceived. Bible teachers sometimes are quick to jump to conclusions based on what they think a verse means, or want it to mean, rather than taking it in context.

Don’t take what I am saying or anyone else without studying it for yourself. When you compare what the prophets say about the end times with Christ’s very specific teaching in Matthew 24 and Luke 21, you will see how the events of the end will unfold.

Do not be deceived. Neither fear. But gain understanding and peace that you might discern the events of our time to bring others to Christ.

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