Chicago Bond Rating Reduced to Practically Junk

What happens when liberal Democrats run things for too long?  A financial mess is usually the result.

We have seen Detroit...now let's watch Chicago.

Moody's downgrades Chicago's rating to 2 levels above junk, citing $20 billion pension debt

CHICAGO –  Moody's Investors Service has downgraded Chicago's credit rating to two levels above junk status, citing the city's $20 billion mountain of unfunded pension liabilities.

The agency said Friday that it lowered the rating on $8.3 billion in general obligation debt from Baa1 to Baa2. Moody's also maintained its negative outlook for Chicago, indicating another downgrade could occur even if recent efforts to address the city's pension problems survive legal challenges.

"Regardless of outcome of the legal challenges to pension reforms, we expect Chicago's unfunded pension liabilities — and the costs of servicing those liabilities — to continue to grow, placing significant strain on the city's financial operations," Moody's said.

The announcement thrust the pension issue back to the center of Chicago's mayoral campaign. Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces Cook County Commissioner Jesus Garcia in an April 7 runoff after failing to get enough votes for an outright win on Tuesday despite millions of dollars in campaign funds and support from business leaders.

Emanuel's office also sought to cast Moody's as out of step, noting that other ratings services reaffirmed Chicago's bond rating.

Chicago has the worst-funded pension system of any major U.S. city, with a roughly $20 billion hole in four accounts. Legislation approved last year seeks to eliminate a $9.4 billion shortfall in two of those pension systems by cutting benefits and increasing contributions for both the city and employees.

Here;  http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2015/02/28/moody-downgrades-chicago-rating-to-2-levels-above-junk-citing-20-billion/

Friends, please don't get hung up in the Democrat vs. Republican dramas that play out constantly. They have both had (we have all had) a hand in leading this nation into financial disrepute.  A political party IS NOT going to save this nation.  Only a revival of the Holy Spirit, faith in Christ and continued support of Israel will prolong the collapse that is certainly coming.

However, we have no doubt that Apostle Paul would be a CONSERVATIVE were he in America today.

"If a man won't work, he shouldn't eat." says Paul.

Opposing Paul would be a liberal who says, "If a man won't work, he still needs food, clothing, housing, healthcare, cable TV, cell phone and decent transportation...and it's governments job to give him those necessities he is entitled to!"

When asked HOW they would like to pay for all these freebies they FEEL so strongly about, they say, "We will tax people who do choose to work, tax business that is profitable and BORROW the rest!  How can you Neo-Cons always insist on putting a price on FEELINGS?!  Feelings are priceless!!"

Sadly, many people who call themselves Christians have bought into the lie that they will earn a better spot in heaven if they do good things for others WITHOUT EVER DREAMING of doing those things in the name of Christ and telling the recipients about salvation through Christ.

"Dennis, I would never dream of telling people about Jesus while working at the community food shelf.  They might be good Muslims, Buddhists or atheists just choosing a different path to heaven....and who am I to judge?"

"Because you are LUKEWARM I am about to spit you out!" says Jesus.

Putin's Main Opponent Murdered

If you live in Russia and you don't like Dictator Putin....you best keep your mouth shut.

On Friday evening, Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition leader and former first deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, went on a prominent Moscow radio station to exhort his fellow citizens to come out to protest President Vladimir Putin’s policies. There would be a rally on Sunday, a spring march, to demonstrate against the deepening economic crisis and Russia’s involvement in Ukraine. The most prominent Russian opposition leader, Aleksei Navalny, had been put in jail for 15 days, which just happened to be long enough to keep him from attending the rally. Nemtsov, who was older and, by now, less influential, had handed out leaflets in the metro and encouraged people to come anyway.

After the radio show, on which Nemtsov warned that too much power in the hands of one man would “end in catastrophe,” he met Anna Duritskaya, his girlfriend of three years — and, as the police would later pointedly note, a citizen of Ukraine. They had dinner and then headed home, strolling across Red Square and past the swirling domes of St. Basil’s Cathedral, adjacent to the Kremlin. Just before midnight, as they crossed the bridge toward the historic Moscow neighborhood where Nemtsov lived, a white car pulled up, and, according to investigators, someone inside fired seven or eight shots. Four of them hit Nemtsov in the head, heart, liver and stomach, killing him on the spot.

Duritskaya was unharmed and immediately taken in for questioning. Nemtsov, a big, broad man, was left on the pavement in the rain, his shirt yanked up to his chin.

On Russian social media, liberal Moscow has struggled to wrap its head around something that seemed like it simply couldn’t happen, until it did. It had been years since Nemtsov, a rising star in Yeltsin-era politics, had been the standard-bearer of Western liberalism, and he could be a silly bon vivant. But he was deeply intelligent, witty, kind and ubiquitous. He seemed to genuinely be everyone’s friend; when I lived in Moscow as a journalist, he was always willing to jaw over endless glasses of cognac. And he was a powerful, vigorous critic of Vladimir Putin, assailing him in every possible medium, constantly publishing reports on topics like the president’s lavish lifestyle and the corruption behind the Sochi Olympics.

Here;  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/magazine/after-boris-nemtsovs-assassination-there-are-no-longer-any-limits.html?_r=0

It's getting easier all the time to imagine that Putin could end up being Gog of Magog spoken of in Ezekiel 38.

Of course I'm not saying that he is....but it's getting easier to see the possibility.

In previous posts we have reported how Iran and Turkey have already drawn closer into Russia's military net...now all we need is Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Ethiopia and the Ezekiel coalition would be complete....for the very first time in human history.

As one prophecy blogger likes to say, "You can almost hear the footsteps of Messiah."

Zero Water For Central Valley

We have blogged quite a bit as of late on the headlines reporting where in the world they are running out of water.

Today we find another one....from California.

Feds: Zero water for Central Valley farms

Hundreds of farmers in the Central Valley were told Friday they can expect zero water deliveries this year from the federal government, the latest fallout from what is likely to be a fourth straight drought year in California.

The announcement came from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which operates a system of reservoirs and canals that make up the Central Valley Project. It mirrors a similar announcement last year that led to hundreds of thousands of farm acres being fallowed.

“We are bracing for a potential fourth year of severe drought, and this low initial allocation is yet another indicator of the dire situation,” David Murillo, Reclamation’s regional director, said in a statement.

Thad Bettner, general manager of the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District, said the announcement was not a surprise given the dry weather that has stricken California again this winter.

“My expectation is, based on the drier forecast, that it will become more critical this year,” she said.

The water allocation could improve if the weather brings more moisture to California. There are still several weeks left in the official winter period, and wet March storms have been known to help ease droughts in the past.

A relatively cold storm is bringing critical snow to the Sierra Nevada today and Saturday, although it is not expected to be a big snow producer.

“We’re hoping for a March miracle, but it would need to be a big March miracle to impact this drought,” Lorance said.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/environment/article11355200.html#storylink=cpy

God controls the rain.  If He wants to dry out California for His reasons...blessed be the name of The Lord.

We already know that 40% of America's edible food comes from California....so if this drought continues it WILL affect us all.

"There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven."--Jesus

Witch Hunt in Tanzania

Africa has been called the "Dark Continent"...but have you ever wondered why?  Is it because that's where black people are from?  Is it because there isn't any electricity in many parts of it?  Or is it because Satan has continued his rule unfettered in many parts of it?

Witch hunts increase in Tanzania as albino deaths jump

TABORA, Tanzania — Many women are living in fear in this rural part of northwestern Tanzania because they are increasingly being targeted by witch hunts — literally.

This East African country is grappling with an upswing in vigilante justice as villagers attack women they believe are witches responsible for the murders of albinos, whose white skin some believe possess magical powers.

Last month, some 200 angry villagers — mostly youths carrying axes, machetes and knives — grabbed Jane Faidha Bakari, 58, in Tabora, hacked her with sharp weapons and burned her alive while her helpless husband watched.

"They came around midnight banging on the door," said Moses Bakari, her husband. "They broke into the house and hacked my wife with machetes and knives. They burned the body of my wife and later set fire on my house. They claimed that my wife was practicing witchcraft and killing albinos."

The villagers believed the woman was using body parts from albinos — people born with the absence of pigment in their skin, eyes and hair — to practice witchcraft. Bakari fled with his three children and took refuge in a neighbor's house.

Tanzanian police admit witchcraft-related killings are common in the country's northwest but say catching the culprits is difficult. The lynchings tend to occur after someone dies unexpectedly in the community or when albinos go missing, said police spokesman Ignas Mtana.

Often, he said, sorcerers identify other witches as the perpetrators of the misfortunes. Because the same people who attack witches often consult with other enchanters and potentially also deal in albino body parts, it's hard to get to the bottom of the cases, Mtana said.

"The family members will go to soothsayers to find out the cause of death and the responsible person," Mtana said. "The soothsayers will say the name of a witch as the cause of death."

Here;  http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/02/26/tanzania-witchcraft/23929143/

Sorcerers?  Soothsayers??  Witches??  What....are we still living in the dark ages...killing albinos to gather mystical power??

Nope!  Satan is very much in power...and so are his demons.

Jesus called his followers to be salt and light to a dark, rotting, ignorant, fallen planet.  Salt is the preservative that DELAYS meat from rotting.  Light illuminates the darkness.  Sadly, Satan has maintained his strongholds and has slowed the advancement of the Kingdom of Light...and this story out of Tanzania shows where one Satanic stronghold still exists.

I find it utterly amazing that while one group of humans is controlling remote-control robots sent to Mars on a rocket....another group of humans with the EXACT DNA MAKE UP....are still hunting and gathering, living in mud huts, and haven't yet mastered the two-story building!!

How do you explain that?

Charles Darwin told us it was because of EVOLUTION....claiming that black people had only recently descended from the apes and had not yet evolved into smart, white people....

Bible readers know that it all has something to do with a story that happened a long time ago....after the flood....at the Tower of Babel....when God scattered everybody.

Genesis 11
8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Others have wondered if the descendants of Ham, whom Noah cursed, eventually were settled in Africa?... and have been the main source of slaves to many other people groups for centuries?

Most folks from Africa have NEVER been able to keep up with technology...so anyone with guns, knives, horses and ships was free to sail to Africa, round up some black people, ship them home and sell them as slaves!!

Genesis 9
20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.

24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,

“Cursed be Canaan!
    The lowest of slaves
    will he be to his brothers.”

"But Dennis!....That is probably the most racist thing I have ever heard!!  You are a hater!  And even worse you are HamOPhobic!"

No I'm not....I'm just reading the Bible and reading headlines from USA Today...

Muslims Predict Jesus Will Defeat ISIS

Friends, you simply can't make up these headlines....

Muslims Predict Jesus Will Defeat ISIS, Beginning in 2015

All right, it might not start until 2016, these things can be awfully hard to predict exactly. However, surprising as it may seem, one way or another the end of ISIS is in sight, and it's all resting securely in the hands of Jesus, peace be upon him.

There has been a great deal of mainstream media attention lately, both video and print, regarding the fact that ISIS is recruiting based on the promise that their fighters are actually participating in the rapidly approaching end of the world.

At the same time, mainstream orthodox Muslim websites are already predicting Jesus' return as early as 2022, starting an Islamic prophetic clock set to run over the next 7 years, in the purportedly rapidly approaching run-up to Armageddon.

The good news is that even if they're wrong, those claims ISIS is making about their own role in Islamic end-time prophecy spell their own certain end. Because even though ISIS claims they're fighting on the side of the angels, it's obvious they're not, and it should become progressively clearer to even the most misguided Jihadi that either ISIS is wrong about Armageddon or that they're on the wrong side, because of all the things Muslims know are supposed to happen.

And if it turns out they're right, then we can all rest assured that by the time the dust has finally settled there will be no question left about who's side they are really on, because it's all going to be about Jesus.

I think you'll all have to admit, that's a lot to pack into the next seven years and it's going to be hard to miss. 

And with that 7 year clock running, if it all doesn't start happening soon, you can expect to see ISIS supporters starting to slip away.

Here;  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-david-liepert/muslims-predict-jesus-def_b_6725486.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

Did you catch that??  "7 year clock running."

This article is from the uber-liberal Huffington Post and is clearly ridiculing some of these Muslim prophecies...but see if you can pluck out some "truths" as you read the article.  See if you can see how Islam and the Koran has taken some events prophesied in the Bible and twisted them into lies.

There can be no doubt that the world is being prepped for a massive deception.

Can you even imagine the crazy ideas they will come up with to explain where all the followers of Christ went after the trumpet blows and calls us all up into the sky to meet Jesus?

Jihad-John's Identity Revealed

Last week Team Obama hosted an International Conference on Terror.  The joke of the week is that they refused to say "Islam" or "Muslim".  They also repeated their willfully ignorant lie that the radicals who affiliate with Islam aren't true Muslims. And finally, they came up with the idea that we need to get the radical people some jobs and education to combat terrorism.

Ha!

As if on ironic cue, we find out today that the man who has been cutting people's heads off for ISIS videos is from London. He's also a college grad and a computer programmer!

What???  Team Obama thinks there must be some mistake!!  It can't be!!!  If he's cutting people's heads off...doesn't that mean he HAS to be an uneducated dweeb??

The British Isis militant suspected of appearing in videos showing the beheading of Western hostages has been named in reports as Mohammed Emwazi from London.

Emwazi, or 'Jihadi John' as he became known, is thought to have appeared wearing black robes and a balaclava in a series of disturbing videos depicting the killing of journalists and aid workers.

Emwazi, 27, grew up in a suburb of west London. The University of Westminster confirmed he had been a student there, graduating with a degree in computer programmng.

On Thursday, The Washington Post published a lengthy article naming him, quoting a friend who said: “I have no doubt that Mohammed is Jihadi John."

An international manhunt led by the FBI was launched in August 2014 when he was thought to have appeared in video footage showing the beheading of American photojournalist James Foley.

Here;  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-fighter-jihadi-john-named-as-mohammed-emwazi-from-west-london-10071805.html

Poor liberals....they just must be so confused!!  They believe education and money is the answer to happiness and peace.  They don't believe in evil or Satan so they simply can't fathom a world in which educated, financially sound people drop everything to go cut heads off in Syria with ISIS.

Folks who read their Bibles know that Satan is the Prince of this Earth.  The only protection from the evil one is the power of Jesus Christ given to us through the Holy Spirit.  When Muslims read the book of lies, call the Koran, inspired by the Father of Lies, they can very quickly fall into the deception of the Evil One.  And once that happens, all the money and education in the world won't stop you from doing all sorts of heinous, Satanic things....like burning people alive in cages, cutting off their heads with steak knives, raping and torturing little kids, etc....

If you know a liberal, like Obama, you had best pray for them.  Their eyes are blinded since they have refused Jesus Christ as Savior, God and King.

South Korea Legalizes Adultery

More evidence that we MUST be in the Last Days....  Here is the headline:

Condom maker’s share price rises as South Korea legalizes adultery

A South Korean court on Thursday abolished a 62-year-old law that criminalized extramarital affairs, and the stock price of a prominent condom maker immediately shot up 15 percent.

The Constitutional Court’s ruling that the law suppressed personal freedoms could affect many of the more than 5,400 people who have been charged with adultery since 2008, when the court earlier upheld the legislation, according to court law.

Any current charges against those people could be thrown out and those who have received guilty verdicts will be eligible for retrials, according to a court official who declined to be named, citing office rules.

Under the law, having sex with a married person who is not your spouse was punishable by up to two years in prison. Nearly 53,000 South Koreans have been indicted on adultery charges since 1985, but prison terms have been rare.

The stock price of South Korean condom maker Unidus Corp. shot up after the court ruling, surging by the daily limit of 15 percent on South Korea’s Kosdaq market.

Debate over the adultery ban, which has been part of South Korea’s criminal law since 1953, intensified in recent years as fast-changing social trends challenged traditional values.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article11202152.html#storylink=cpy

Did you catch that?...."fast-changing social trends challenged traditional values."

"We hate your traditional values!!  We hate whatever book or whatever God gave you those stupid values!!  We want to screw whom we want, when we want, where we want and we could give a rat's rear what you think of it!!  Now tear down these laws!!!"

And God says, "Thou shall not commit adultery."

"Screw you!  If there is a God I don't want anything to do with some God who wants to limit my fun!  In fact, if there is a hell, that's where I want to go because all my friends will be there!"

So do you think there is a time when God finally says, "OK.  You want me to leave you alone?  You want to have your conscience seared? You want to run fast down the road that leads to hell?  Here you go.  I'll be waiting for you with open arms if you ever come back."

Romans 1
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.

Yep.  God will give them over to a depraved mind.  The Bible tells me so...

More Evidence of Global Warming

As we all know by now, the East Coast and Southern states are experiencing record breaking cold and snow.

On the other side of the world, Afghanistan is suffering through awful snow and cold too.

KABUL: Avalanches triggered by heavy winter snow have killed more than 100 people in mountainous areas of northern Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday, as rescuers clawed through debris with their hands to save those buried beneath.

The avalanches buried homes across four northeast provinces, killing those beneath, said Mohammad Aslam Syas, the deputy director of the Afghanistan Natural Disaster Management Authority. 

Almost all of the victims were in Panjshir province, approximately 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of the capital Kabul, acting governor Abdul Rahman Kabiri told AFP.

Officials said 100 people have been killed in Panjshir province, while a further 11 people lost their lives in the provinces of Bamyan, Badghis, Nangarhar and Laghman.

Kabiri said rescuers used their bare hands and shovels in an effort to reach survivors.

The avalanches came after two days of heavy snow destroyed more than 100 homes in the province and blocked main roads, making it difficult for rescue workers to reach the stricken villages.

“Ordinary people and government employees are using shovels and bare hands to rescue those who are still trapped under the snow,” Kabiri said, warning that the toll could rise without emergency help.

“We have gathered 300 people to help with the rescue, but we don’t have the equipment we need,” he added.

Officials warned of an imminent humanitarian emergency in areas most severely hit by the bad weather, with snow sweeping through villages and blocking off roads.

“We haven’t seen this much snow, or this many avalanches, for 30 years,” said Kabiri.

Here;  http://gulftoday.ae/portal/382add8c-2b0b-4c2c-89ed-2a95a9783d83.aspx

"But Dennis, you are clearly mistaken!  It's not called global warming, it's called Man-Made-Climate-Change!  And if you don't agree with me and the thousands of other scientists that are saying that humans are causing all the cold, hot, wet, dry, quakes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, fish deaths, bee deaths, bird deaths and everything else bad happening on planet earth....then you are just an ENEMY OF SCIENCE!!  You and your kind should probably be locked up for stupidity!!  All you DENIERS are exactly why this world is coming apart!!"

Have you seen the March 2015 issue of National Geographic yet?  It says in large letters; THE WAR ON SCIENCE.  And then in smaller letters it says; Climate Change Does Not Exist, Evolution Does Not Exist, The Moon Landing Was Fake, Vaccinations Can Lead to Autism, GMO Food is Evil.

Oh my goodness people!!  Do you see what is happening here?!?!  The liberal elites, most of whom are atheists, are taking people like me and you who question evolution and global warming and putting us in with the same group of folks who DENY THE MOON LANDING!!!

So what do we do??

Continue to pray that Jesus comes for His Bride.
Pray that we will stand up to the persecution coming.
Reconcile ourselves that the world is going to hate us even more in these Last Days.
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ as often as you can.
Do our best to live sober and clean lives while we await the Groom.

Las Vegas May Be Out of Water....Soon

Nothing new here....just more evidence and headlines that America may have made a huge mistake by encouraging/allowing 60,000,000 to move into the desert...knowing that all those folks want green golf courses, swimming pools, car washes, lazy rivers and flush toilets.

The news out of the American Southwest continues to worsen. This drought is going to change everything, not tomorrow, and not next year, but at some point in the next few years. Before the decade ends, we’ll probably see climate refuges and the beginning of mass migrations.

"The Colorado is essentially a dying river. Ultimately, Las Vegas and our civilization in the American Southwest is going to disappear, like the Indians did before us,” said Rob Mrowka, a Las Vegas-based scientist at the Centre for Biological Diversity…

“The situation is as bad as you can imagine,” said Tim Barnett, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “It’s just going to be screwed. And relatively quickly. Unless it can find a way to get more water from somewhere, Las Vegas is out of business. Yet they’re still building, which is stupid."

We’re feeling it where I live in a big way. Not nearly as bad as Vegas and LA, but it’s bad. If you want a vision of the future, look at Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the taps are running dry.

My guess is like running out of water is like running out of money: at first it happens slowly, then all at once.

- See more at: http://www.alloutdoor.com/2015/02/20/southwestern/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=2015-02-24&utm_campaign=Weekly+Newsletter#sthash.fK9ziyrX.dpuf

Can you imagine the cries coming from the residents of Las Vegas if (when?) this happens?...."Why God, why?? Why did you not send the rain to this beautiful city??  Why have you bankrupted us as we were forced to walk away from our $1 million dollar home whose toilets won't flush?  It's not fair!!!"

Let's think, for a second, of what kind of unclean spirits are hovering over Las Vegas...the spirits of gambling, pornography, drunkenness, drugs, strip clubs, legal prostitution, meaningless wedding chapels, "sin city", debauchery, fornication, etc....  There is a reason that the phrase, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" has become famous....because the city has sold itself to America and even the world, as THE PLACE to go to enjoy their sin!  To revel in their sin!

Vegas went from a dusty little town to the capital of hedonism in just a few short years.

One day, maybe soon, it will revert to a dusty little town sitting full of empty homes, empty strip joints, empty wedding chapels and empty casinos.

Can you imagine the unrest that would ensue as 100,000,000 Americans try to leave CA, AZ, NV, NM, etc...  and attempt to relocate someplace that still has flush toilets and showers?

Hat tip to Guy B.

"America is Morally Crumbling From Within"

Billy Graham was a favorite at the White House for decades...an honored and respected guest.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that his son, Franklin, will not be welcomed by the Team Obama White House any time soon.

As for Giuliani....we can guarantee he will never be invited to the Obama White House.

(CNSNews.com) – Reverend Franklin Graham said he did not know whether President Barack Obama dislikes America, as “America’s Mayor” Rudy Giuliani stated last week, but Graham said it is true that Obama “defends Islam and chastises Christians,” denies the “religious freedoms” of those who oppose abortion and gay marriage, and added that our nation is “morally crumbling within” and that “we have turned our back on God.”

“Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has taken a lot of heat from the media for his remark that he's not sure if President Obama really loves America,” said Rev. Graham in a Feb. 24 Facebook post.

“I don't know if that's true or not, but I do know that the president defends Islam and chastises Christians, rebukes our allies and befriends our enemies, and fully supports gay marriages and abortion but denies the religious freedoms of those who don't agree,” said the reverend, who oversees the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

“Our nation is ridiculed abroad and morally crumbling within,” he said.  “We are in trouble. We have turned our back on God.”

At a private dinner gathering on Feb. 18 at the 21 Club in New York City, Giuliani, a Republican, said “I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America.”

Back on Feb. 13, speaking before an Iranian-American Community Symposium in Arizona, Giuliani referenced numerous acts of terrorism by radical Muslims, including the 9/11 attacks and the shooting slaughter at Ft. Hood, and stressed they all had one thing common.

“They have in common a movement the president of the United States will not recognize,” said Giuliani.  “They have been murdered, they have been slaughtered, they have been raped, they have been tortured, they have been beheaded, they have been burned by a movement that the president of the United States will not recognize.”

“What is wrong with him?” said Giuliani. “Is there no passion? Is there no passion for the lives of these innocent people? Is there no caring for them? Do you know what the slaughter at Fort Hood was described as? Workplace violence. Workplace violence.”

“This is a captain [Nidal Malik Hasan]  in the United States Army who had become a jihadist two years before, who was communicating with Afghanistan and Pakistan and Yemen,” said Giuliani.  “Doesn’t take a genius to figure out the cause for which he was murdering. He told us, ‘Allahu Akbar.’”

“But the president of the United States doesn’t see the connection,” said the former New York City mayor.  “Just the other day he called the slaughter of those Jewish people in France a random act. Mr. President, wake up! Come off the golf course. Come back on earth!”

Here;  http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/rev-graham-america-morally-crumbling-within-we-have-turned-our-back

Wow!  Let me remind you that Malik's murders were ruled "workplace violence" by Team Obama.

“Doesn’t take a genius to figure out the cause for which he was murdering. He told us, ‘Allahu Akbar.’”

Preach it Giuliani!

 No wonder Giuliani is taking so much heat....BECAUSE HE IS TELLING THE TRUTH!!

The darkness hates the light!  The liars hate the truth!  The Bible tells me so.

Please say a prayer for Franklin and Rudy.  The purveyors of darkness are going to continue to hit them hard.

We all better reconcile ourselves in these Last Days....are we going to stand for truth even knowing that family, friends and co-workers will ridicule us?

4 in 10 Americans Are One Bill From Disaster

Hey!  Did you all know that the stock market is at record highs?  Housing starts are up!  New car sales are up!  Credit card use is up!  Confidence is up!  The deficit is no longer a problem!  Good times are here to stay!  We fixed the problems of 2008 and they are never coming back!

Not so fast....

Almost four out of 10 Americans are living on the edge of financial ruin, given rainy-day funds that either match or are lower than their credit card debt.

About 24 percent have more credit card debt than emergency savings, while another 13 percent have neither credit card debt nor emergency savings, a new survey from Bankrate.com found.

While Americans have never been particularly great savers, at least in recent decades, many workers are finding it harder than ever to sock away money for emergencies. That's because wages have been stagnant or falling for most. The country's lowest-paid workers are the only segment to see a significant pay gain last year, thanks to minimum wage hikes.

"People don't have enough money for unplanned expenses, and if they have more credit card debt than emergency savings, it's a double whammy," said Bankrate chief financial analyst Greg McBride. "In the event of unplanned expenses, their options are limited."

People between the ages of 30 to 49 were in the worst shape, which is likely due to the financial stresses of that age group, such as saving or paying for their children's tuition and paying for higher expenses such as mortgages and child care.

Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/February24/241.html#HkpSX72uetYIqiWP.99

Wow!  It seems that millions and millions of Americans don't have the ability or the desire to save for their futures.  I'm sure glad we have social security and Obama care to provide everyone a happy and healthy retirement!! (insert sarcasm)

Can you feel a train wreck coming?  Who do you suppose is going to pay for all these people when they can no longer work?  How many jobs are really out there for 70 year old folks to be greeters at Walmart?  Does that job even pay enough for food, rent, clothes and Medicare deductibles?

Nope!  I'm sure glad we have Food Stamps and Section 8 housing!  (more sarcasm)

The "Incarnation of Hell on Earth"

ISIS has reportedly taken another bunch of hostages from a Christian town in Syria.

Beirut: The dreaded Islamic State (IS) militants have abducted 70 to 100 Christians from villages in northeastern Syria, as per reports on Tuesday.

Here;  http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/isis-militants-abduct-70-100-christians-in-northeastern-syria_1551916.html

We have one author who is telling us all that we better understand who the ISIS Muslims are and what their apocalyptic goals are for planet earth.

As the Islamic State continues to shock the world by exhibiting and illustrating the sheer depths of its depravity, author Johnnie Moore is sounding the alarm on the dangers that the radical terror group poses, not only to Middle Eastern Christians, but to the world at large.

In his forthcoming book, “Defying ISIS: Preserving Christianity in the Place of Its Birth and in Your Own Backyard,” Moore, who is attending the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville, Tennessee, this week, offers stories of “horror and hope,” taking readers into some of the heart-wrenching and disturbing first-person accounts of the atrocities carried out by the Islamic State.

Moore, who doesn’t mince words when talking about the terror group, warns in the book that a Christian genocide is underway in the Middle East, as the Islamic State drives Bible-believers from their homes, seizes their possessions and brutally murders children and families.

“ISIS is the incarnation of hell, itself, on planet Earth,” Moore told TheBlaze in an interview.

He brought a film crew with him last year when he went to capture some of their stories. He was horrified by the number of children who have been killed by the terrorists, as well as the tactics used to desensitize them.

“They force children to hold the severed heads of children to desensitize them to the violence,” Moore said of the Islamic State. “There’s nothing beyond these people. They are doing it and they will do it to us if they have the opportunity.”

But despite their struggles, the Christians he encountered were still sticking to their Christian roots.

“They’re still committed [to their faith]. You go to these camps and you see crosses everywhere,” Moore said. “It was the cross that almost had these people killed.”

Here;  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/02/24/the-incarnation-of-hell-on-planet-earth-author-reveals-why-everyone-should-fear-the-islamic-state-and-its-apocalyptic-worldview/

Meanwhile we have Team Obama and a bunch of other liberals refusing to use the word "Islam" or "Muslim" and instead forcing us all to pretend that Islam has nothing to do with the evil that is being foisted upon the world by the death-cult ruled by Allah...and his prophet Muhammad.

Certainly the world needs some moral clarity....but don't hold your breath because the world can have no morals without the Word of God as its foundation....and we all know for certain that the Word of God is being jettisoned from public conversation at all levels.

Lord have mercy....

Shariah Coming for Brussels?

We had a rabbi speak at our church this past weekend.  He is a completed Jew, meaning he has accepted Jesus as his Savior.

He spent a little bit of time talking about the Muslim problem that seems to be plaguing the world at present.  He confirmed much of what we have been saying about radical Muslims vs. moderate Muslims.

Moderate Muslims don't really read the Koran and don't really believe it anyway.  They could believe in democracy or they could be a Congressman from Minnesota!  They check the box "Muslim" when asked in a census, but they may not beat their wives or be advocates for stoning a woman for adultery and killing any Muslim who leaves Islam.

A radical Muslim is really the TRUE Muslim.  He reads the Koran, he believes the Koran and he understands that no laws made by man can hold up against laws given to them by Allah.

So when Obama says that ISIL or Al Shabab doesn't represent TRUE Islam.....he is telling another massive lie.  That's exactly what TRUE Islam looks like.

Today we ran across this video interview of some true, faithful Muslims in Belgium. Islam is taking over Belgium and unless Christ intervenes, it will probably soon become Europe's first Muslim nation.

Watch this short video here;  http://www.cbn.com/tv/embedplayer.aspx?bcid=1509282970001

Also please remember that most people who call themselves "Christians" in America would also fall into the category of "moderate Christians"....they don't read their Bibles, they seldom go to church to fellowship with other believers and they don't believe much of what's in the Bible.  Most importantly they also might reject the words of Christ in His exclusive claim of being the ONLY way to heaven.

Radical Christians, on the other hand, would be the TRUE Christians.  They read their Bibles, they believe that the Word of God can transform lives, they believe Jesus in the ONLY way and they love their church family and exercise their spiritual gifts often.  They also are keenly aware that most people around them are on the road to hell and use every opportunity to witness to people about Christ.

Jesus said that on judgment day many people would tell Jesus that they thought they were Christians and that they claimed to know Jesus....but Jesus will correct them and say that they never knew Him and He never knew them....and then will send them away to a Christ less, terrifying eternity.

So what are you?....a moderate or a radical?

Why Is Israel Such a Big Deal?

God said that in the Last Days He would regather the Jews to the Holy Land of Israel.  Never in the history of the world has such a thing happened....where a people group had been gone for 2000 years and were miraculously brought back and even resurrected their long forgotten language of Hebrew!!

Pastor Greg Laurie had this to say today in his daily devotional;

"I will make Jerusalem like an intoxicating drink that makes the nearby nations stagger when they send their armies to besiege Jerusalem and Judah. On that day I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock. All the nations will gather against it to try to move it, but they will only hurt themselves"
—Zechariah 12:2–3

Why is Jerusalem such a big deal in world news? Why aren't we talking about Los Angeles, Paris, Rome, or some other major capital in another part of the world? Why this little city?

I will tell you why. Because God said that in the last days, Jerusalem would play a key role: "I will make Jerusalem like an intoxicating drink that makes the nearby nations stagger when they send their armies to besiege Jerusalem and Judah. On that day I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock. All the nations will gather against it to try to move it, but they will only hurt themselves" (Zechariah 12:2–3 NLT).

Scripture also foretold in Ezekiel 37 that the Jews would be regathered in their land, and this prophecy was fulfilled when Israel became a nation on May 14, 1948. After Ezekiel 37 comes Ezekiel 38, which speaks of an attack against Israel by a large nation to the north of the Jewish homeland, accompanied by a number of allies invading Israel from every direction. Scripture emphasizes multiple times that this will happen in the last days. This is still in the future.

In speaking of Israel's enemies, Ezekiel 38:8–11 offers an interesting detail:

"A long time from now you will be called into action. In the distant future you will swoop down on the land of Israel, which will be enjoying peace after recovering from war and after its people have returned from many lands to the mountains of Israel.

"You and all your allies—a vast and awesome army—will roll down on them like a storm and cover the land like a cloud.

"This is what the Sovereign Lord says: 'At that time evil thoughts will come to your mind, and you will devise a wicked scheme. You will say, "Israel is an unprotected land filled with unwalled villages! I will march against her and destroy these people who live in such confidence!"'" (NLT).

These people who live in such confidence? Can you imagine that statement being made right after the Holocaust? Hardly. Can you imagine that statement being made after Israel was established as a nation, or even after the 1967 war? Not really. But today Israel has one of the most powerful and effective military forces on the face of the earth. They are not the largest, but they are known for their military prowess and for their military intelligence. And for quite a long time now, they have had nuclear weaponry. That is why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stood before the United Nations and made it very clear that, if necessary, Israel will exercise a military option to protect herself. So I think Israel does live within a certain degree of confidence today that they have never known historically.

In an address to the United Nations, Prime Minister Netanyahu said, "Iran's apocalyptic leaders believe that a medieval holy man will reappear in the wake of a devastating Holy War, thereby ensuring that their brand of radical Islam will rule the earth. That's not just what they believe. That's what is actually guiding their policies and their actions."

And that is true. Because in his address to the United Nations, Iran's former leader Ahmadinejad stated, "God Almighty has promised us a man of kindness, a man who loves people and loves absolute justice, a man who is a perfect human being and is named Imam A1-Mahdi, a man who will come in the company of Jesus Christ. Peace be upon him and the righteous."

This Islamic messiah, this 12th Imam, according to their beliefs, will bring about an Islamic kingdom. But also according to their beliefs, the Judeo-Christian civilization must be destroyed first. For this 12th Imam to come, they believe, there must first be chaos.

Could this be what brings about the scenario predicted in the Old Testament book of Ezekiel (see chapters 38 and 39)? No one can say with certainty. But this much we must acknowledge: It certainly could be. We see how things are lining up.

Up to this point, the United States has been a staunch ally of Israel's. And I believe that one of the reasons God has blessed our nation is because of our continued support for Israel. But it would appear these days that we are backing away from her. And according to Bible prophecy, one day, there will be no great ally behind Israel. She will stand alone when she is attacked by an enemy from the north and its allies.

The Bible also predicts that a national revival will come to Israel, when God will once again pour out his Spirit upon the nation. But this will happen after the rapture of the church. Romans 11:25 predicts, "Some of the people of Israel have hard hearts, but this will last only until the full number of Gentiles comes to Christ."

I have met people who can quote chapter and verse and give a good overview of the proper chronology of events of the end times, yet they are not living godly lives. And they are missing the point. If knowing what the Bible predicts about the last days doesn't impact us in the way that we live, then we have missed what God is trying to say. Jesus didn't say, "When these things begin to happen, argue about it." Rather, he said, "When these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near" (Luke 21:28 NKJV).

Friends, there are MANY Bible-teaching pastors who are seeing the same things we are.  God is doing amazing things in preparation of sending His Son, Jesus, back to earth to claim His Bride. One day, maybe soon, a loud trumpet will sound and the dead in Christ will rise from their graves to be given their glorified bodies and then will fly to the clouds to meet Jesus in the clouds.  Then those of us who are still alive will also snap out of our current flesh-costumes and be given our glorified bodies...all in the twinkling of an eye!!

Certainly we don't know the day or the hour that this amazing thing will happen, BUT with all the happenings going on around us we shouldn't be surprised if it were to happen at any time.

"But you, brothers, are not in darkness that this day should surprise you...."