Big Brother’s Booming Business

The FBI and Apple Corporation have been locked in a legal battle over the encryption features of the iPhone. The Feds want Apple to build a backdoor into the device so it can access information on the iPhone 5S, which was used by the radical jihadist, Syed Rizwan Farook—before he and his wife killed 14 people in San Bernardino in early December of last year.

There is no indication that the Farook’s iPhone contains any vital information that would relate to a future terrorist attack. All the news outlets are essentially saying the world will come to an end if we do not access that iPhone. (After all, the families of the victims need answers!) Since 51 percent of the public agrees with the FBI, Apple is being compelled to surrender the iPhone’s secret contents.

The FBI has won a series of court battles by claiming it only wants Apple to unlock this one single iPhone. However, the Wall Street Journal has confirmed that there are actually 12 other iPhones the FBI wants to access in cases that have nothing to do with terrorism.

There is nothing in the Constitution that requires us to exchange liberty for security. Today, merely mentioning “terrorism” in a bill causes even the most conservative member of Congress to vote in favor of it. One of the most profound views on this subject came from the late Justice Antonin Scalia:

“There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.”

The U.S. government has proven it can’t be trusted with any type confidential information. Recently learned that Chinese hackers have stolen the personal information of 21.5 million current and former federal employees. Our military secret technology has also been fumbled by the government.

We are set to spend $1.5 trillion on the F-35 jet fighter, and last week, photos emerged of a new fighter in China that looks suspiciously similar to the F-35. The data from over 100 million people would be put at risk the day we give this same group of bumblers a magic key to unlock their smartphones.

Our nation’s spy agencies have built massive data centers to store information that relates to terrorism. One of the largest is the Utah Data Center, near Bluffdale, Utah. This facility was designed to collect exabytes of raw data.

Whistleblowers like William Binney and Edward Snowden have given us a basic understanding of the capability of these facilities, but it remains a mystery what type of information is being stored. The mainstream media has had little interest revealing the true mission of these data centers.

Another way the government invades our lives is with regulation. Each year, thousands of new guides becomes law. The prize for the most absurd regulation would be a proposal in California to make it mandatory for anyone who serves alcohol to take a course to help identify customers who may be drinking too much and intervene.

The legislation aims to cut down on DUIs and alcohol-related deaths. This law seeks to turn moral responsibility on its head. A person being tried for a booze-related crime could say, “Your honor, I wouldn’t have T-boned that school bus if the bartender had cut me off after my tenth Rum and Coke.”

It wasn’t that long ago when nearly every governmental effort to creep into our lives was met with a rebuff. One of the most vocal defenders of freedom were liberals. Today, every time Big Brother asks for another chunk of freedom, he generally gets what he wants. Oddly enough, liberals are now the ones most active in saying the government knows what is best for us.

A key factor that has facilitated this change is the “spirit of antichrist;” the demonic forces that will eventually enable the Antichrist to take over the world. The world is going crazy on so many fronts. Any true believer should know that that the forces of evil are getting stronger by the day. The more power the devil gains, the greater his ability to grab more.

“This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world” (1 John 4:3).

–Todd

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The Crisis Awaits

President Obama recently made the statement, in effect, that anyone who tells us the economic situation in the United States is not getting better is “peddling fiction.” This he said despite the fact that the debt clock is ticking at a rate that will soon have Americans and generations to come owing beyond $20 trillion. Extrapolated out over an extended number of years, some economists are saying unfunded liabilities of this nation amount to in excess of $200 trillion.

Like it or not, believe it or not, you and I are being swept along by the tide of human history toward something profoundly ominous. Hourly news accounts, no matter how much they’ve been doctored to try to present a recovering national and global economic picture, engender fearful concerns about things to come. It is almost impossible to grasp the causes and effects of the evil shaping and moving America and the world toward a destiny the supposed best minds on the planet can’t determine. However, that inability to define the problems, much less find solutions, doesn’t stop them from making seemingly wild stabs at trying to channel all of us into a drastically changed economic national and world order.

But, are their attempts really wild stabs, or is there method to their madness? History is replete with attempts to reshape national and even global economic realities. Money equals power and power exerts control upon this fallen planet. Power is the ultimate endgame of all who seek it for themselves. Henry Kissinger put it this way: “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”

The declaration can be understood in recalling the most ancient of accounts of an infamous personality seeking the greatest of all power:

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (Isaiah 14:13–14)

Humankind’s determination to do the same—acquire the power to which the angel named Lucifer aspired—hasn’t changed since the serpent first told Eve that she and Adam would be like God if they ate from the fruit of the forbidden tree (see Genesis 3:5). Tracing the serpent’s trail of power madness to a later time recorded in the Bible (Genesis chapter 11), Nimrod was the would-be one-world- order builder of his day, following the Great Flood of Noah’s time. He, like every megalomaniac since, lusted for God-like power.

Man’s lust for power continues to grow; he has not learned the lessons of the past because, as a whole, he regards the Word of God as irrelevant to the governance of the earth. One philosopher of renown, George Santayana, put it this way: “He who does not remember history is condemned to repeat it.”

The corruption that God saw and condemned in antediluvian times, which caused Him to destroy all upon the earth except eight people, has again reached a dangerous level. Dictators prove the truth of another bit of philosophical wisdom, this by Lord Edward Acton: “All power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

In my estimation we see this level of power being sought in the words and actions of the current presidential administration. Circumventing the U.S. Constitution at every opportunity because this president has “a phone and a pen” poses a danger to this republic. To at the same time have another branch of government that is supposed to act as a check and balance to an out-of-control executive, yet does nothing to present opposition, creates real and present danger to this nation.

While mainstream media types of network and cable seemingly sway acceptingly in the mesmerizing economic flute notes of the charmer — the real peddler of fiction — the immediate future looks ominously bleak, according to true financial experts who are without the benefit of the mainstream’s ubiquitous microphones and cameras to get out their warning. The nation and the world are about to experience economic collapse the likes of which has never occurred, is their message.

These are most all in agreement. There will come a trigger point, or a tipping point. This will be one moment in time, and it will prick the immense financial bubble that the money powers that be have manipulated to this point of crisis we face.

My own belief continues to be that it is God’s great hand of control rather than the would-be economic masters that has prevented the bubble from bursting. The crisis awaits the moment in time when the Lord, Himself, will burst the bubble. If one studies carefully the news of late, it becomes clear that the term “cashless system” is coming more and more into vogue. The economic gurus at the highest levels — in human terms and in supernatural, satanic terms — seem to be preparing a system of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). They want to do away with physical currency and go to the cashless, computer system so they can carry out their sleight-of-hand, monetary machinations electronically.

The marks-and-numbers system of economics of Revelation 13:16-18 is more than just on the drawing board. We are seeing it come to pass in our daily news. All that is required for its implementation is the crisis that will bring it forward. I am convinced that crisis will be created by the Rapture of all who name the name of Christ.

–Terry

Supreme Court About to Become a Kangaroo Court

The sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is devastating news to all who cherish the U. S. Constitution. When I saw on Yahoo News the report of his passing, I equated it to the moment American Airlines Flight 11 flew into the north tower of the World Trade Center. In an instant, everything changed.

For the past several years, Justice Scalia has been part of a 5 to 4 majority that has blocked efforts to swing the Supreme Court toward a leftist agenda. Without his vote, gun ownership would have been abolished as an individual right, partial-birth abortion would now be legal and funded by taxpayers, and the death penalty would be banned in all but a few states.

Now that Obama has an opportunity to nominate someone to replace Scalia, there is little doubt that he will choose a liberal to push the court toward a liberal majority. Once that happens, the country we knew as the United States of America will be over.

It has been suggested that since this is an election year, the Senate should hold up any appointment until we have a new president. Since the Senate is controlled by the Republicans, this should be their option. A young Senator Obama was all for obstruction when Judge Samuel Alito was nominated by President George W. Bush. He spoke boldly about restraining executive power and respecting the Constitution’s checks and balances:

When it comes to how checks and balances in our system are supposed to operate, the balance of power between the executive branch, Congress, and the judiciary, Judge Alito consistently sides with the notion that a president should not be constrained by either Congressional acts, or the check of the judiciary. He believes in the over-arching power of the president to engage in whatever policies the president deems to be appropriate.

Now that Obama is president, he is shocked that the Senate would dare to block any of his selections. The biggest hypocrite in this area would have to be New York Senator Charles Schumer. He has been vocal in his denunciations of Republican obstructionism. Schumer sang a very different tune when he spoke at the July 2007 convention of the American Constitution Society, months after the Democrats had reclaimed the majority in the Senate:

“With the respect to the Supreme Court at least I will recommend to my colleagues that we should not confirm any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court, except in extraordinary circumstances.”

The liberal media has total amnesia when it comes to the efforts of the Democrats to use their Constitutional tools to defeat Republican nominations. Right now, they are working to turn public opinion against the Republicans by whining about how horrible it would be if we only had eight Supreme Court Justices.

History is on the side of a GOP controlled Senate taking its sweet time on the appointment of another Supreme Court justice. The longest vacancy in the Supreme Court was 29 months when the Senate kept rejecting President Tyler’s choices.

With so much at stake, Conservatives should be declaring that they will oppose any nominee that has the slightest hint of liberal bias. Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, who in my mind is the worst Senate majority leader in recent memory, always comes across like he is a weak pushover.

He has already fumbled the nomination process. He knows the sitting president has the right to fill the vacancy. Constitutionally there is no time limit to this process. But McConnell foolishly showed his hand by saying, “This vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”

There is no way Obama is not going to jump on this opportunity to appoint a liberal activist judge. McConnell’s strategy to prevent the appointment should have been done diplomatically in a manner that would steadily delay the matter. Instead, he decided to go down a strange road by stating Obama should not even have the opportunity to make the replacement. He might as well have requested that Obama step down from the presidency a year early.

I am amazed at how quickly our nation is unraveling. We have a president acting like an autocrat, and a Supreme Court legislating law from the bench. The members of Congress who should be keeping these other branches in check are not fulfilling their promises to the American people; the Republic which they have taken oaths to defend.

Another indication that something is wrong occurred with the South Carolina Republican debate. I watched the highlights of the event, and I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was like a pie throwing fight from an old Three Stooges movie. These men should be united in stopping Hillary Clinton but they are so fixated on personal attacks, that we may soon be facing our third Democratic presidency in a row.

The scariest thing is the lack of alarm about our predicament. A key problem is we don’t care enough about biblical values to fight for them. People complained bitterly when they took prayer out of schools and legalized abortion. After much of our medical field was socialized under Obamacare, the outrage lasted only one election cycle. When the Supreme Court said gay “marriage” is a Constitutional right, there was barely a whimper from the Christian community.

Things are horribly bleak, but there is something positive about this point in time. Jesus said He would come for His Bride right before the forces of darkness are about to gain full-control of this world. We may be responsible for the hold-up. Once we leave, Obama can put his buddy Al Sharpton on the highest court of the land.

“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh” ( Luke 21:28).

–Todd

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Supreme Decision

Just as suspected, the year 2016 is on track to be a pivotal year in the shaping of biblically prophetic destiny. The sudden loss of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will produce ramifications far beyond those posed by this sitting president further stacking that court with yet another justice of likemindedness to his own ideological bent.

The ultimate decision involving replacement of the constitutional champion that was Scalia will perhaps, in one way or another, help determine the future course of all of mankind.

American Founding Fathers, whether fully aware in every case that they were listening to the directives of the Almighty, gave Americans yet unborn a republic based upon Judeo-Christian principles. And, indications are overwhelming that almost all of them–even the deists like Franklin and Jefferson–knew that Providence had a divine hand in winning the War of Independence and in composing the liberty-laden document that is the U.S. Constitution.

Moving on from the producing of that founding document, the writings of the founders show they recognized that it was not merely an existential deity that started the national ball rolling then left America to its own devices. It is more than obvious that the one and only God’s mighty hand has been on this most materially blessed nation to ever exist throughout its coming up 240 years of nationhood.

Antonin Scalia was consistently a Supreme Court justice who, with each decision he rendered, demonstrated that he believed that our God-influenced Constitution should be defended and preserved. With his passing, we are faced with the possibility that it is a document in danger of degeneration to ineffectiveness at best and to complete disregard at worst.

The Supreme Court has teeter-tottered on the fulcrum of cultural dichotomy, particularly since 1963, with the decisions to eliminate Bible reading and prayer from public schools. By this, I mean the traditional, God-fearing part of America was on one side and the America that wanted no such constraint on the other. Anti-God, humanistic gravity has consistently been tugging the nation downward with succeeding Supreme Court decisions. We witnessed a dramatic increase in the latest such tugging during the year just past.

And, now we face action by a president who, immediately upon Scalia’s death, announced he will nominate a replacement within the ten plus months left of his presidency. We don’t have to wonder very deeply about the sort of nominee that will eventuate. All that is necessary is to consider Mr. Obama’s ideological forays into jurisprudence at the Supreme Court level over the past seven years.

With decisions of the land’s highest court steadily slanting toward the anti-Constitutional side, and now the loss of perhaps that court’s strongest voice for preservation of the document the Founders gave us, we indeed face perilous times.

America, I put to you, is now moving rapidly downward on the slide into national oblivion. It is agonizing to have to say it. But, the facts are staring us in the nation’s rebellious face.

America’s Supreme Court and its problems are but a reflection of that rebellion. We have sown to the winds disregard for God’s biblical guidelines for upright comportment. We are beginning to reap the whirlwind of reprobate thinking and conduct warned about by the apostle Paul in Romans chapter 1.

Perhaps the final straw for Heaven’s Supreme Court is we the people allowing a wicked leadership to turn America against Israel and take up the cause of those who are vowed to destroy the Jewish state. What are even more compelling as evidence of the nation’s rebellion are the so-called Christian churches of America joining in the cursing of Israel. We hear every day of those churches that have joined in the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction) movement to punish Israel for “occupying” land that these say doesn’t belong to Israel.

To add insult to injury, these proclaim that they–the church–have replaced Israel as inheritors of the promises God gave Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Israel, they declare, has forfeited the claim to the promises and is no longer God’s chosen people. The Lord is finished with that people.

That is what these would-be usurpers of God’s promises say. But, here is what the Lord God of Israel says in His Holy Word:

This is what the Lord says, “He Who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar–the Lord Almighty is His Name; Only if these ordinances vanish from My sight,” declares the Lord, “will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before Me.” (Jeremiah 31:35-36)

Just as the above promise is still in effect, so is God’s warning of Genesis 12:3. America, if national repentance is not forthcoming, faces a Supreme Decision far more serious than the replacement of a U.S. Supreme Court justice.

–Terry