17 Jul 2023

The Worst President in American History

It is quickly becoming obvious that Joe Biden is the worst Chief Executive we’ve ever had in the White House. The forces backing him have to be insanely evil and determined because a normal person would have long walked away from this mess.

The Biden family is completely corrupt. Everything Biden touches turns to trash — the economy, the failed banks, inflation, the ruined Mexican border, and the killer drugs. Biden’s thugs in the FBI, D.O.J., and New York have taken to arresting his political opponents. The modern Democrat party is turning America into a Banana Republic police state.

The most scary part is not that Biden has clear signs of dementia. Nobody in authority is willing to step in and resolve this problem. Joe Biden wandered around lost on stage at July 4th celebrations after barely slurring his way through a teleprompter speech.

“I don’t, man! I want to say hi to him!” Biden blathered, adding, “You’re trying to get me off stage! You’re afraid I’m gonna start singing!”

When a bag of cocaine was found at the White House, the story was not covered by the four major nightly news shows. If this discovery had occurred during the Trump administration, they would have broken into regular programming. Biden was asked questions about the cocaine, but he just ignored them because he knows he was not accountable.

Joe Biden’s mantra has always been that ‘the absolute most important thing is your family.’ It is the heart of his political narrative. Biden’s White House has been instructed not to acknowledge Hunter’s illegitimate daughter, which is why Biden has stated several times that he only has six grandchildren.

Milking family tragedies for political gain has long been his stock in trade. The moral tragedy of his son’s doing should be an opportunity to show how he really cares about family. His treatment of his granddaughter Navy just shows his true callous nature.

Up until now, the worst president in history was Jimmy Carter. He had the lowest poll numbers of any president since Harry Truman. Carter is the only Chief Executive to reach an approval rate that was in the 20s. Carter’s ratings wildly moved around. By the start of Carter’s four years, his approval rate had recovered to 57%. He left office with his ratings near his all-time low.

The approval rates for Biden have been in a steady decline the whole time he has been in office. He started out at 55%, and his rating quickly declined in the lower 40% range. The fourth year typically is the worst year for a president, but Biden may soon take out Carter’s record low.

James Howard Kunstler is a type of political writer who does not suffer fools gladly. At times, he is a harsh critic of both Republicans and Democrats. With most of the liberal media unwilling to say anything negative about Biden, it was refreshing for me to run across some of Kunstler’s remarks about the man:

Consider for a moment and be grateful for how perfect “Joe Biden” is as president of this foundering republic. He and his family project the rectified essence of every depravity now driving the life of our nation to some murky bottom, where it may be forced to assess its sorry state, repent, and perhaps recover (or just give up and die). There he stands, without ambiguity or conscience: “Joe Biden,” the personification of a failed state.

What we’re witnessing is an order of magnitude greater than Greek tragedy: the implacable drive to destroy not just the father, who happens (by the sheerest electoral subterfuge) to be president, but to take down the nation with him. And it’s working. The Biden family is crashing into smoldering wreckage, and so is the USA — as acted out in the sad-sack nation of Ukraine, a festering hub of Biden family moneygrubbing going back more than a decade, now being needlessly sacrificed as part of a massive criminal cover-up, with America’s geopolitical prestige on-the-line.

I know, the complexity of this melodrama is overwhelming. How can one bumbling political idiot wreak so much havoc? It’s a wonder, all right. But it’s all playing out before us in real time. “Joe Biden” — who (let’s face it) is only partly there.

If you have ever wondered how the American people could be so foolish to elect a man like Biden, you can credit God for this decision. The Lord gives a nation the leadership it deserves. Having a president that doesn’t know where he is half the time is a clear sign that God is very unhappy with our nation. I hope Jesus comes for the Church before the 2024 election. Since Trump will likely be the Republican Candidate, I greatly regret having to vote for him a third time. Trump is a deeply flawed person, but he is ten times better than someone like Biden.

“If you will fear the LORD and serve Him, and listen to His voice and not rebel against the command of the LORD, then both you and also the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God” (I Samuel 12:14).

–Todd


Restraint, Derision, and Reprobate Minds

In looking at the surface of evil in the world taking place, the conclusion often reached is that this world is out of control. And one can’t be faulted for such a view of world conditions.

When we see such things as young children being considered legal/legitimate fodder for sexual predators (now called Minor Attracted Persons instead of by the pedophile designation), things look out of control – totally out of control.

When you see one of the two major political parties championing those who push agendas such as those like the MAP advocates embrace, what other conclusion can be drawn by those of sound mind other than that this world is going or has already gone insane?

Without meaning to get political, in the sense of promoting one political party over another, we remember a biblically pronounced end to such turning of the back on the God of Heaven.

We can recall during a convention of a decade or so ago when a person asked the Democrat Convention attendees whether God should be mentioned within the proceedings; the loud and definite answer by all in attendance was a resounding NO! There was left no doubt whatsoever that they wanted any mention of God left out of proceedings.

As mentioned numerous times in these commentaries, here again is what God says about those who turn their backs on Him. And the same results/judgment is true whether applied to groups or to individuals.

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient” (Romans 1:28).

Again, not intending to stray far into politics, the facts of what I observe through the prism of God’s Prophetic Word must be interjected here. Anyone truly being honest in reflecting upon what they observe as they watch this presidential administration surely has questions like those in my mind. How is it that we have reached such a place in this once soundly thinking nation that the top three people in the presidential administration are seemingly without the ability to demonstrate cognitive function in a normal fashion?

These — the president, the vice president, and the press spokesperson — have actually become almost a laughing stock to observers not in their political party, within their leftist ideology, or within the mainstream media – which, mentioning in the same breath, is perhaps being redundant. Their mental acuity is, it seems to me, inadequate to the challenge in addressing legitimate issues on the national and international scene.

These are avid adherents of the platform presented by the political party, which verbally shouted God out of their midst.

Of course, kicking God out of anything isn’t possible with the Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent God of Heaven. And to that end, He continues to have that anti-God party in derision, just as indicated He will do to anyone against Him in the following.

“The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, ‘Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.’ He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision” (Psalms 2:2-4).

A careful dissection of things going on over the past recent years shows time after time that the Lord has intervened to slow down the minions, both demonic and human, of Ephesians 6: 12 in their effort to hurry the bringing of Antichrist to the end-times world stage.

One of the signals that the Restrainer was involved in the American political process is illustrated, I believe, by the following observation by one prophetic writer.

Apparently, the evil forces behind these arenas of the falling away believe that as long as America stands, their cause will not climax in victory. Thus, we see a concentrated effort to bring America down to an entity without sovereignty.

One cannot deny the true meaning of that statement muttered by President Obama at the annual DC Correspondents’ Dinner on April 30, 2016: “The end of the Republic has never looked better!” He was so caught up with anticipation that Hillary Clinton would be the winner of the 2016 presidential election that he could not contain himself. Thus, the goal of destroying the United States from her perch at the top of the nations is Satan’s plan in his drive to pose as God in the place of the God of the universe…

Topple the United States, and the whole world will go down. Why? America is the only nation which allows its citizens the freedom of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as individual rights coming from God, not the state. That arrangement just cannot be allowed by those who envision a New World Order and a one-world government where no such freedom is planned-except for the elite. – Source: Is the Real Restrainer Now Restraining? By Gene Lawley, 6/11,2019

The Lord Intervened in that 2016 presidential election in ways that drove those thinking they had things that would “fundamentally transform America” insane and spewing forth every sort of vitriol against the candidate who won that election. And the insanity continues to this moment, as indeed, the anti-America as founded forces seem to be making significant headway in their drive to fundamentally change this nation.

Despite the growing wickedness that certainly must make this like the days of Lot in Sodom in the Holy Eyes of God, His Judgment and Wrath continue to build, reserved for that Promised twinkling of an eye Moment –The Glorious fraction of a second when Christ Calls the Church –all born-again believers—to Himself.

Here is how to be part of that Call so that you can, along with all Saints of this Age of Grace, have Joy in the Heavenly Father’s Presence Forever.

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).

–Terry

10 Jul 2023

The Total Polarization of the Government

The Democratic Party and the Republican Party—together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress since 1856. Since most political issues are two-sided, one party is generally for something and the other opposes it.

A few decades ago, Democrats and Republicans worked together on many issues. On July 30, 2014, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4810, known as the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014. The bill, co-sponsored by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Arizona Senator John McCain, passed the House on a vote of 420-5. When the United States declared war on Japan, only one person voted against it.

Today it has become common to have votes that completely follow along party lines. The House recently passed a resolution that directs the House Homeland Security and House Judiciary panels to examine any evidence of wrongdoing related to the president’s immigration policies. It was approved because 219 Republicans outvoted 208 Democrats.

During the Trump years, the Democrats had control of the House, and they did several things that were politically motivated. Now that the Republicans have a majority, they clearly plan to perform similar stunts.

A couple of weeks ago, there was a censure vote against California Rep Adam Schiff, which was a rebuke of a vocal Trump critic by the House Republican majority. Years ago, it would be a significant rebuke of a member of Congress. Today it is seen as a badge of honor.

As House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) tried to read out the resolution, House Democrats, gathered on the floor in solidarity with Schiff, repeatedly shouted him down.

They chanted “shame!” and cheered Schiff, jeering at McCarthy as a “spiteful coward” and “weak.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called for him to be ousted. One Republican shouted back, “Jack***es!”

The House of Representatives approved a resolution referring articles of impeachment against President Biden to two committees. The resolution directs the House Homeland Security and House Judiciary panels to examine any evidence of wrongdoing related to the president’s immigration policies. It was approved 219-208 along party lines.

There is zero chance of getting enough votes to convict Biden in the Senate. I don’t see any indication that Republicans share the fondness for political theater that the left enjoys.

I think the best idea in Republican circles is a vote to dissolve Trump’s previous two impeachments. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he supports the idea of expunging the impeachments of Donald Trump as Republican allies of the former president introduce a pair of proposals to declare it as though the historic charges never happened.

McCarthy told reporters that he agrees with Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Elise Stefanik, who want to erase the charges against Trump from the former president’s impeachments of 2019 and 2021.

“I think it is appropriate,” said McCarthy, the Republican from California. “Just as I thought before — that you should expunge it because it never should have gone through.”

The political divide can really be seen in the Supreme Court. Justices are there to simply vote if something is constitutional or not. The change in the political environment has caused the conservative court to strike down a series of rulings that liberals hold dear.

I like the recent rulings, but I think there is a great danger to the nation in the long run. When Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a Supreme Court candidate, everyone knew she had a leftist background. The vote to make her an Associate Justice was 96-3 because there was still a vestige of civility in the Senate.

Even during the Clarence Thomas fiasco, he still managed to have 11 Democrats vote for him. When Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to be the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 2020, it quickly became apparent that she was an excellent Justice. The vote was straight down party lines.

My biggest fear is what will happen when the Democrats gain full control of the government. It was as recent as 2016 that they had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. If this was today, the Democrats would pack the Supreme Court, suspend all voting rules in the Senate, and they would remove Republican members by vote.

If people love power more than truth and our nation, tyranny will eventually prevail. We could have a dictator come from both parties because most despots come to power under the promise of saving the country from the opposition.

“First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way” (1 Timothy 2:1-2 ESV).

–Todd


 

Last Days Hurricane

Deadly winds are beginning to blow. Not the literal type of wind, but wind like that prophesied by Jesus for the last of the last days of the age before the Tribulation’s beginning.

Jesus foretold the following upon being asked what would be the sign of His coming.

“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring” (Luke 21:25).

While we observe how near we are to the midnight hour of human history, this foretelling by the Lord is front and center. It is most prominent in view with the current snapshot of the land, which some believe the future Antichrist rules at present.

It is hard to fathom how this fellow could be that future ruler of most of the world –destined to be worshipped. He certainly is not worshipped at present by the people of France.

While he attended an Elton John concert, one of his chief cities as well as others was, like Nero’s Rome –burning. He apparently stayed at the concert despite knowledge that Marseille was on fire.

France has increasingly become known as a nation in which chaos and anarchy are out of control. President Emmanuel Macron, if not oblivious to the carnage, certainly hasn’t seemed until very recent days to consider things serious enough to crack down full force on those perpetrating the riotous damage.

Jesus’ words about the seas and waves roaring are interpreted by many top scholars to mean the seas of humanity being in extraordinary tumult at the time Christ is on the verge of returning.

The winds stirring the seas and waves in that regard have reached hurricane status in Macron’s nation, it would seem. The following frames conditions as of this writing.

President Macron was last night facing calls to impose a state of emergency after marauding gangs of rioters – some armed with stolen rifles – clashed with police in a fourth night of mayhem resulting in nearly 1,000 arrests.

Looters ransacked some of France’s major cities as local police declared they were now at ‘war’ with ‘savage hordes of vermin’ – with officers from two of the country’s biggest policing unions now threatening to revolt.

Britain’s Foreign Office issued an alert to tourists thinking of travelling to France, as the violence continued to deepen following the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, who was ‘executed’ by French police during a traffic stop on Tuesday.

The teenager’s funeral is being held today against the backdrop of large parts of France being engulfed by fires, violence and devastating riots, with police reporting 994 arrests overnight…

There were more than 3,800 fires on public roads last night, while more than 500 buildings were set alight.

Emmanuel Macron green-lit the use of armoured vehicles and riot police, as 45,000 officers were deployed in a desperate attempt to regain control. But the French president has been blasted for not acting fast enough.

[France on red alert: Macron faces calls to impose ‘state of emergency’ after marauding gangs with GUNS are seen rampaging in Marseille and police HQ is ransacked in fourth night of chaos, By George Iddenden and Arthur Parashar and Peter Allen In Paris, Daily Mail Online Published: 18:40 EDT, 30 June 2023, Updated: 04:06 EDT, 1 July 2023]

It would seem that this candidate for becoming the prophesied world’s most powerful dictator –according to some– has some distance to go in attaining the abilities which Bible prophecy predicts that man of sin will possess. He has the name that is most interesting. It might be a moniker appropriate for the Antichrist, but that seems to be the extent of his potential for achieving that level of infamy.

I probably shouldn’t be so facetious in tone in making that statement. Who knows? The man whose name means “God with us” might yet be the guy the new world order sort is looking for to implement their Great Reset plans.

One thing is sure; Macron is in the middle of what is becoming a full-blown humanity-generated hurricane across his country and the world. We who observe developments believe we sense such a human sea and waves roaring that is indicative of Christ’s answer to His disciples that day while sitting atop the Mount of Olives.

America has, in the recent past, endured weeks and even months of destructive such winds as such perpetrators as Black Lives Matter and Antifa have reeked. With the society and culture in such a tumultuous and divided condition, and with deliberate efforts to stir wickedness, the hurricane of Luke 21:25 is almost upon this generation.

This all means, of course, that the same Lord who gave that seas and waves roaring prophecy will soon fulfill the following prophecy, through which He also promised believers great hope and comfort.

“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).

–Terry