“What Difference Does it Make?” :: by Gene Lawley

We can borrow that exclamation from Hillary Clinton and apply it to the issue the liberal left media and the Democratic campaign of Barack Obama’s place of birth that Donald Trump and many others have questioned.

Hillary Clinton exclaimed, “What difference does it make at this point”” at her hearing on the Bengasi tragedy before the congressional committee. It was when four Americans died, one of them an ambassador who was directly under her watch. Their defense and support needs were clearly ignored, and they were left to die helplessly. It displays the callous disregard the Clintons have had for those who stand in their way of self-indulgence since their days in Arkansas.

the unanswered questions surrounding the deaths of Secretary of Commerce Ronald Brown in 1996 and her close aide, Vince Foster in 1993? And there are so many more, of which all are surprisingly covered-up by government officials and the leftist media.

The veteran at her recent press event, who shouted out, “Had I done what you’ve done, I would be in jail,” left her rather speechless, but it was appropriately and timely made. It pinpoints the problem voters have when they want to “Dump Trump” because they don’t like his “tone” and personality and she is the only choice left, whether they vote directly for her or not.

As for Obama’s background, did you notice in those months of the 2007 and 2008 campaign, no one was allowed to vet  (question) his origin, upbringing, school records, teaching of law students—anything? Yet, John McCain and Sarah Palin were swarmed over by dozens of reports continually. Why are the media and the liberal leftists so sensitive about Obama’s identity being searched out?

Even those at Fox News seem to be dedicated to the given line of response and have no consideration for any contrary evidence. Obama claimed his administration would be the most transparent of any ever before him. Like all the other claims of integrity and virtue he has made, they are all empty as a waterless well.

And this is not stated or even believed because he is a black man. He is one-half Caucasian, you must remember. The white men who are guiding him in this New World Order achievement agenda are actually far more guilty of the studied destruction of the United States of America.

If the future of this country truly is hanging in the balance with the prospect of four more years of the Obama agenda, the choice should be very clear. In regard to President Obama, however, it does not matter either whether he is black, white, red, yellow or brown. It does not matter, now, whether he is Muslim, Hindu, Catholic, Baptist or Presbyterian.

What he has done in these past several plus years tells a tale that is more crucial and revealing than any other matter. In his 2008 campaign, he repeatedly called for people to join him in “Fundamentally transforming America forever!”

Recently, at the Annual Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., on April 30, he blurted out this isolated statement in a totally unrelated context, “The end of the Republic has never looked better!”

None of the front-line news sources picked up on that statement and inquired about his meaning, that I can tell. Why not? Is the news media complicit with the goal he has had of destroying the core foundations of the American Republic? (“Complicit” is defined as, “choosing to be involved inan illegal or questionable act, especially with others.”)

Or, are they fearful of hurtful repercussions from the backers of President Obama and his tactics? It could well be some of both, for there is evidence of covert maneuvers of such over these past decades if anyone really wants to look for it.

A brief overview of his “accomplishments” is rather telling. Under his administration our national debt has doubled in size from $9 trillion to now $19 trillion, and climbing. That, in seven years, is more than the total debt accumulated since the beginning of the nation 240 years ago! The military has been depleted to a level of that before World War II, when America was no way near the efficiency needed to fight such a war.

Add to that the loss of economic well-being—unemployment, additions to government welfare in food stamps and other entitlements. Loss of manufacturing facilities, energy production, and a crumbling infrastructure—the picture grows more bleak the longer we think about it. A big question is, where was that $10 trillion net additional debt increase spent?

Now this is the program Hillary Clinton is running on. She intends to extend it even further, so it is no wonder that thoughtful people are looking for a leader who is not part of that insider establishment cartel that does not care who is elected so long as their long-term agenda remains intact and brought forward.

The leftists, with Hillary Clinton their spokesperson, want the population to think of Donald Trump as a blundering idiot, the same way they identify the total voting public who are awake to the reality of where they want to take the country. “A basket of deplorables,” she said! If Trump is so deplorable, how could he have accomplished so well all of the building developments and other ventures he has achieved as a businessman? There is no comparison with her dismal record

Perhaps Trump is at this time in history, as Cyrus the Great of Persia was in his day. Two hundred years before Cyrus was born Isaiah recorded these words of the Lord God regarded Cyrus, by his future name:

“Who [God] says of Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd, And he shall perform all My pleasure, Saying to Jerusalem, ‘You shall be built,’ and to the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid’” (Isaiah 44:28).

Cyrus the Great of Persia issued the decree to Ezra 200 years after that prophetic statement to authorize the restoration of Jerusalem and the temple. Cyrus was named in a prophecy in Isaiah’s time, 740 to 681 BC. Cyrus issued that decree during Ezra’s time, 480 to 440 BC. It is clear, then, that God is able to bring events into place to further His plan for the ages. Certainly we are on the front row to see and even be a part of God’s plans for this time and season.

Although intently ignored by the media, the agenda of the globalists has become an open secret. The cat is out of the box. When Donald Trump, an outsider, came on the scene, the globalist elite were terrified. And then, when their handpicked runners for president got nowhere in the primary campaign, the pretenders showed their true colors. The unveiling continues as that massive “basket of deplorables,” as Hillary Clinton calls those voters “who have had enough of their empty promises and destructive policies” gather behind the Trump campaign.

Surprisingly, it was Henry Kissinger who made the announcement that Obama’s election was the beginning of a new era for America when he said, “He has been primed to lead us into a New World Order.” Coming from an assumed conservative as Kissinger was, it also makes known the complicity that has prevailed in higher levels of our government for many, many years.

For a New World Order to come into effect, American sovereignty must be destroyed, for that identifying label is merely the operative term for the development of a one-world government where no nation state will retain its sovereignty. It is the seventh head of the Beast of Revelation, as introduced in Revelation 13:1-2.

Therefore, it is clear that we are on the very brink of that prophetic development, as many, many Bible students and prophecy watchers attest. If God would answer our prayers according to 2 Chronicles 7:14, as laid out there, what would the result look like? He would “forgive our sins and heal our land.”

The first we can easily understand and even picture, but how would “healing the land” be seen? Most likely, it would be a restored economy, a return to the principles of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” as laid out in our Declaration of Independence, as well as many other positive results.

Will you vote the way you have prayed, or should be praying?

It could well come to pass, however, that if the likelihood that there appeared to be no way that the agenda of the globalist elite could continue, then Plan B would be activated. That could be the creation in some manner of a situation whereby the election could be postponed, and Barack Obama would continue in office. Most likely, it would be a situation that would require the activation of martial law to take control of the nation.

Speculation it is, but every news program on television or radio is heavily loaded with speculation—what does this or that guest think this candidate ought to do. Or what should the government do now. Or, which candidate do you think looks more likely to be the winner now? The news day is filled with speculation.

The Bible declares, however, that prophetic events and historical events will come together in a vortex of sudden destruction, like a thief in the night, and none of those who have not believed in Jesus Christ will escape it:

“For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. But you, brethren [believers], are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief” (1 Thessalonians 5:2-4 emphasis added).

Whether or not this happens within the next few weeks, several events that only God’s timing could bring them together must take place. It is certainly time to wake up out of our drowsiness, for “we do not know what hour our Lord may come!”

And if the Lord tarries, and we have the opportunity to vote in November, let’s not neglect our God-given stewardship of turning our land toward righteousness and freedom! That does make a difference, and we can be a part of it.

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Nicodemus and the 3-3 Principle :: by Gene Lawley

It was beyond his imagination. How totally ridiculous to even think of it— being born-again? How can a man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again? Jesus had laid it on him without hesitation, as Nicodemus came secretly at night, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” That was recorded in John 3:3, thus we have the 3-3 Principle coming into focus here.

There is a way of looking at it more than just a Scripture verse reference. When God created Adam, He breathed into him the breath of life and Adam became a living soul or being (Genesis 2:7). That soul was living because it had the life of God in it, that eternal life from God. He created a garden with all kinds of trees that were pleasant to see and good for food. In the midst of the garden was the tree of life and also, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:8-9).

He put the man in the garden to tend it and  keep it, and told him, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:16-17).

But after He had created a help-mate for Adam, she fell prey to the tempting of God’s advisory, Satan, and ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and enticed her husband to eat of it also, and they were aware of their nakedness and made coverings of fig leaves for themselves. (Genesis 3:1-7).

There is no statement made that they died that day; they did not fall to the ground dead, but one thing they were aware of and that was that they did not want to encounter God in that place. But He sought them out and made clothing for them with the skins of animals to cover their nakedness or sinfulness, the first blood sacrifice made to cover the sins of mankind.

So what actually died at that moment? The spiritual life God had breathed into their bodies and their bodies carried that physical death to their graves. For Adam it was 930 years (Genesis 5:5). Romans 5:14 tells us that death reigned over all men, even though they did not actually commit the same transgression that Adam had done.

In other words, all mankind after Adam were “born dead.”  Paul echoes that when he writes, in Ephesians 2:1, “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,” giving us a forward look at how it can be when the 3-3 Principle is in place.

Nicodemus was totally encased in the leaven or doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees, as Jesus explained later to His disciples in Matthew 16. It was the doctrine of the efforts of “flesh and blood,” doing the works of the law, not the belief of faith. Knowing Jesus for who He really was had to be revealed by God, for Peter was not able to know that on his own ability: “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you [His identity], but My Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 16:17).

In Luke 5:36-39, Jesus explains why the new birth is a “must,” as well as why man has a hard time of accepting that principle:

“No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old.  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, ‘The old is better.’”

(To the unsaved person, works, not faith, makes more sense for it is impossible for him to comprehend the concept of faith, just as it was with Nicodemus. Spiritual death abounds within them.)

Actually this was not a new idea that popped up when Jesus came on the scene, for Ezekiel wrote of this as a future event (Ezekiel 36:26-27) and it was confirmed by what happened at Pentecost:

“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh, and I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.”

But when Jesus came with this message to His own Hebrew people, unlike a few like Nicodemus, they did not accept Him and this new concept:

“He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him, but as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:11-13).

No one can rely on being born of Christian parents or in America (of blood), or by being baptized and joining a church (of the will of the flesh), or by being confirmed by a priest or pastor (of the will of man), but only of God. It is a one-on-one connection with Him; god has no grandchildren.

Jesus further explained to Nicodemus what He meant and why:

“That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again’” (John 3:6-7)

The 3-3 Principle comes together like this:

An unsaved person is a spiritually dead person living in a dying body, destined for an eternity in outer darkness where “their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:44). In a spiritual sense, only one-third of the person is here, the body, and that only temporarily.  When he accepts Christ and is born again, three things happen

1.      He is redeemed from spiritual death, the eternal dying of the soul;

2.      The Spirit of God indwells his body, joining his spirit: “But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him” (1 Corinthians 6:17);

3.      His body is redeemed in the promise of its resurrection: “…In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality” (1 Corinthians 15:52-53).

Also Romans 8:11, “But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”

There you have three thirds, a completeness that Paul describes this way:

“For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power” (Colossians 2:9-10).

Perhaps this was what Paul had in mind, the total completeness of the redeemed person, as he was moved to write the following by inspiration of the Holy Spirit (the 3-3 Principle):

“Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it” (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24).

You must be born again!

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