Denmark, Fully Vaccinated, Lifts Covid Restrictions

 So Denmark has lifted all restrictions but the liberals will point to this news and say, “It’s because the whole country is vaccinated!”  One reason Denmark might have things under control is that they are far less obese and unhealthy than American culture.

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Denmark has become one of the first countries in the European Union to ease all of the domestic restrictions that were put in place to control the spread of Covid-19.

Government officials lifted the country’s remaining restrictions Friday, including the requirement that people show proof of vaccination through a vaccine passport to enter nightclubs. Denmark’s health ministry said high vaccine uptake has allowed the country to roll back the pandemic control measures.

More than 83 percent of eligible people over the age of 12 in Denmark are fully vaccinated, according to the Danish Health Authority. The Scandinavian country has recorded an average of around 500 new cases each day for the past week, but the health ministry said mitigation efforts and widespread support for the vaccines no longer require Covid-19 to be categorized as a “socially critical disease.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/denmark-lifts-covid-restrictions-including-requirement-people-show-proof-vaccination-virus-no-longer-considered-socially-critical-disease/?utm_source=Gab&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons

China Vows to Show Up on America's Doorstep

 How about we throw in a multiple-pronged attack from some of America's enemies to go along with America's COVID terror, Black Lives Matter, Defund the Police, $32 trillion national debt and a drug and porn epidemic?

For years now, China has been dredging up sand off the ocean floor and piling it in one place, cementing over it and claiming the new "land" as Chinese territory.  They next demand that we can't sail by it or fly over it.  This is happening in the South China Sea.  America sends ships and planes to continually fly and sail through the area to make sure that freedom of navigation continues on these open seas.

Chinese state-run Global Times media outlet published an op-ed from its editorial board on Wednesday vowing that China’s military will soon confront the U.S. in a hostile exchange.

“The US will definitely see the PLA show up at its doorstep in the not-too-distant future,” the op-ed said. “The two sides’ warships and aircraft on the seas will carry huge mutual strategic hostility, and the two countries will not yield to each other.”

“Once the situation gets out of control and triggers military clash between China and the US, we must give full play to our home field advantage. China will definitely win once there is a war,” the Global Times op-ed said.

The op-ed came in response to U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold conducting a freedom of navigation operation near the Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea on Wednesday.

“What the US has done is a naked provocation, and this is obvious to all,” the Global Times op-ed said, adding that the ship “posed a threat” to the “many Chinese people and facilities” on the island.

The op-ed further called on China to take action. “Only by making the US have a taste of its own medicine can we touch the nerves of the US and its allies, and reshape the Western world’s understanding of US bullying in the South China Sea,” it said.

The U.S. Navy 7th Fleet said the U.S. warship sailed in accordance with international law “within 12 miles of Mischief Reef,” an area that China has heavily militarized and reportedly began flying military flights out of earlier this year.

“The land reclamation efforts, installations, and structures built on Mischief Reef do not change this characterization under international law. By engaging in normal operations within 12 nautical miles of Mischief Reef, the United States demonstrated that vessels may lawfully exercise high-seas freedoms in those areas,” the U.S. Navy said.

The U.S. has repeatedly denounced China’s militarization of artificial islands in the South China Sea, as well as its construction of military bases and other industrial facilities in the region, and aggressive behavior toward other nations’ ships in the region.

China claims most of the mineral-rich South China Sea, including areas that reach the shores of its smaller neighbors. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan also have overlapping claims to the maritime region. The U.S. has vowed to continue its freedom of navigation operations to ensure free passage in the South China Sea despite China’s threats.

In July 2020, the U.S. released its first official statement rejecting most of China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea as “unlawful.”

Here;  https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/09/chinese-state-media-vows-military-will-show-up-at-us-doorstep-soon-and-china-will-win/

A long, long time ago one of my clients with level 5 military clearance told me, "Everyone talks about the powder keg of the Middle East being where WWIII will start, but mark my words, it will start in the South China Sea."

Time will tell if he proves to be correct!

One other tidbit that's of interest.  China communicates with Russia.  During a recent conversation with a stranger from Idaho, he told me that from the chatter he reads and hears is that when China decides to take Taiwan will be the same day that Russia decides to hit Alaska to reclaim it.

One thing for sure, I don't know how many more punches this divided, morally bankrupt society with a debt of $200,000 for every man, woman and child, can take before she folds up in a heap.  We pray that Jesus comes for His bride before this day comes.

Nurses Are Refusing Vaccine

 We hear figures that about 1/3 of Americans who are eligible for the vaccine have NOT been vaccinated.  Since we know you can stop in at any Walmart, State or County Fair, Walgreens, CVS and numerous other places to get your Covid shot, we can assume that these 90,000,000 folks simply don't want to get jabbed with the experimental vaccine.

We are hearing from nurses themselves who have witnessed the problems that some of their patients are experiencing immediately following the shot that now as many as 20% of the nations nurses (in some localities) are refusing to get jabbed.

As hospitals and nursing homes start requiring all their employees to get the COVID shot and nurses start resigning, this situation could further tax the already stretched-thin nursing staff.

A nationwide shortage of nurses and health care workers may soon worsen as thousands of medical staff face losing their jobs by refusing to obey new COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

“It will be really terrible. We’re already understaffed,” said one veteran registered nurse who works at a health care facility north of Seattle.

She said she will lose her job after her employer’s Aug. 31 mandated vaccine goes into effect unless she complies with the requirement.

She estimates that as many as 400—20 percent—of the health center’s 2,500 employees refuse to take the vaccine. That number will likely shrink due to the financial hardship of job loss, she said, though “even losing 5 percent would be devastating to the community,” she told The Epoch Times.

The nurse, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said her only solution is if her employer grants her a religious exemption, which appears unlikely at this point.

“It looks like they’re going to reject my religious exemption. They need more information, but they’re not telling me what information they’re going to need. It puts me in a really tough situation,” she said. “I have two [elderly] parents who live with me. It would be extraordinarily disruptive to move them. It’s extremely scary trying to start again somewhere else.”

Stephanie Thorpe, a registered nurse in the UCHealth Colorado system, is also stuck between an employee rock and a medical hard place over her company’s pending vaccine mandate.

Thorpe said she, too, could lose her job if her application for a religious exemption is denied.

UCHealth reports more than 92 percent of 26,000 employees systemwide are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

That leaves a reluctant 8 percent who refuse the shots.

These medical professionals—Thorpe included—will have until Sept. 1 to comply with UCHealth’s Oct. 1 vaccine mandate, or else they will face disciplinary action up to and including termination.

“We do allow if there is a religious exemption or a medical exemption as well,” said UCHealth spokeswoman Kelly Tracer. “UCHealth has been facing the same staffing challenges that hospitals around the country are, definitely. It’s a national shortage.”

Thorpe estimates “a couple hundred” staunch opponents to the vaccine mandate “are willing to walk away” because of the vaccines.

“Right now, [UCHealth] is working short-staffed at many facilities,” she told The Epoch Times.

Thorpe said that even if a small percentage of UCHealth employees are fired or walk off the job, their departure could be significant.

“I’m concerned that the people who are vaccinated and are going to stay are going to take the majority of the workload,” Thorpe said. “We can’t even get people now to fill positions. It could get very scary.”

Here;  Nurses Warn of Staff Shortages Due to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates (theepochtimes.com)

The Prince of This World is certainly prepping all inhabitants of earth to "do as you are told".  The liberals seem to have ignored their own battle cry of "My body!  My choice!" that they have been trumpeting around abortion laws.  I guess that doesn't apply when THEY want everyone to get injected.

We know one thing with absolute certainty...this shot is further dividing families, friends and even church bodies.  And Satan has to be really pleased with this division.

God’s Name Appears on Temple Mount

 The Jews are still waiting for their Messiah to come. They are getting very expectant. The signs are appearing to them from every side that they are living in the Messianic age.  Of course we know that today they are temporarily blinded until the fullness of the gentiles comes in. We also know they will be surprised when the bride of Christ suddenly vanishes. Most of them will believe the lie that Antichrist brings and will willingly follow him for the first 3 1/2 years following the confirming of the peace agreement.  Today we find one more sign that is leading the Jews to believe Messiah is close. Vines have grown on the Eastern wall of the Temple Mount that spell out God’s name that can only be used in the Temple.  Check out the video here and remember that before Antichrist can come and deceive the Jews, Jesus is coming for us, his bride!

https://youtu.be/y5WnvMKsg90

God's Appointed Times

 Many of you know that Jesus fulfilled the first 4 Feasts of Israel when he came the first time.  He was the Passover Lamb and died on the cross at exactly the right time to fulfill His role as the perfect spotless lamb sent by God as the final sacrifice for all sins of those who accept Him.

Jesus will fulfill the Feast of Trumpets when He shows up with the sound of the trumpet during the rapture.  While no man knows the day or the hour of our Lord's return, that is the exact saying that the Jews used to blow the trumpet on the Jewish new year called Rosh Hashana which is happening soon during the month of September.

Under Jewish tradition, when two witnesses could make out the tiny sliver of the new moon, they would blow the Trumpet and announce the start of the New Year.  But no man knew the exact day or hour that would happen....but they knew ABOUT when it would happen.

So we should all have a heightened expectation during the month of September.

In recent years, an increasing number of Christians have started to celebrate these appointed times.  Every single one of them throughout the year tells part of the story of Jesus, and when you understand how God orchestrated very elaborate prophetic patterns centuries in advance it will greatly strengthen your faith.

As we move into the upcoming appointed times and the remainder of 2021, there are certain things that I will be watching very carefully.

Once again, I will have my eyes on Israel.  It has been described as God's timepiece, and it will be the center of so much that happens during these last days.

In the months ahead, I will also be watching for war.  I think that Israel and Iran are so close to military conflict, and there are other hotspots around the globe that could suddenly erupt as well.

We are moving into very chaotic times, and most people will be absolutely blindsided by the events that are coming.

But the Bible warned us about all of these things in advance so that we could have hope.  In the end, Jesus will return to this planet and set everything right, and that is definitely a future that we can look forward to with great joy.

Here;  https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=4946

All eyes on currently on Israel.  Biden met with the Israeli leader right about the time hurricane Ida came rolling in.  America has been hit with many natural disasters over the past 70 years shortly after our leaders were making plans regarding Israel. They can't all be labeled as "coincidences".

With this new Covid passport and the push for everyone on planet earth to get jabbed, we pretty much know the direction this earth is going, so it shouldn't surprise us if Jesus were show up in the clouds and summon all followers, past and present, to join Him in the clouds.

Encourage each other with these words. 

Taiwan Scrambles Jets Against China

Let’s remember that USA has promised to come to Taiwan’s aid if China were ever to attack. We have just made a miserable pull out of Afghanistan and the world is viewing us as week.  China is adamant about taking back Taiwan as part of its own territory. China may soon make a bet that USA will not honor its promise to defend Taiwan. The world will become even more dangerous if USA becomes weak or our enemies view our President as weak and inept...which he is.

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 Taiwan's air force has once again scrambled fighter jets to repel a largescale Chinese military aircraft incursion of the island's defense zone.

Though this has become a near weekly occurrence at this point, Sunday's Chinese incursion was notably large, with 19 aircraft including nuclear capable bombers entering Taiwan's air defense identification zone. 

"The latest Chinese mission involved 10 J-16 and four Su-30 fighters, as well as four H-6 bombers, which can carry nuclear weapons, and an anti-submarine aircraft, Taiwan's Defence Ministry said," according to NBC.

The report continues of Taiwan's response: "Taiwanese combat aircraft were dispatched to warn away the Chinese aircraft, while missile systems were deployed to monitor them, the ministry said."

The breach reportedly happened near the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Island, which is the northernmost islet of the South China Sea.

While 19 Chinese aircraft is among the larger incursions, it comes just short of the 20 that breached the island's defense zone last March. 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taiwan-scrambles-jets-against-renewed-large-scale-chinese-aerial-incursion

Once Covid is Over the Elites Will Go to War

 Are we living in the relative “calm before the storm?”  Do we really believe that America can print money forever without any consequence? Do we really believe we can keep interest rates at 0% forever which basically makes using borrowed money free? Do we really believe that our politicians can give out trillions of dollars in Covid relief, forgive student loans, prop up Social Security, pay for health insurance for everyone and pay the nursing home costs of millions of baby-boomers all the while keeping a massive military stationed all over the globe?  It’s real simple folks. No, we can’t.  It seems real evident that we are nearing the end point.  This Marc Faber dude isn’t a Christian but he is a historian and economist.

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Legendary investor, economist and market forecaster Dr. Marc Faber thinks central banks (CB) are not going to cut back the money printing.  Just the opposite. 

He predicts CBs are going to print even more money at a faster pace to hold the failing economic system together for a little while longer.  Dr. Faber explains,

“What is perceived to be safe, namely cash, isn’t safe anymore.  It is unsafe.  You ask me what is safe?  I don’t know what is safe anymore when you have money printers who print money indefinitely.  I don’t think they can stop.  I actually think they have to accelerate their money printing.  So, stocks may go up, but in real terms, it doesn’t mean your standard of living will go up.  Maybe the standard of living of the 50 richest people in the world will go up, but not the standard of living of the typical American . . . or the average American.  That standard of living will go down. . . . All the money printing is a desperate measure to keep the voters from rebellion.”

Dr. Faber predicts that not only are we going to see more asset inflation, but dramatic wage inflation too.  Dr. Faber, who holds a PhD in economics, says,

“What I think will happen, and most people have not really considered, we will get wage inflation.  For the first time since the late 1970’s, we will get accelerating wage inflation, and in some cases, quite dramatic.   In some states, the minimum wage is $15.  I could see that going up to $30 per hour very quickly.  I don’t think inflation is ‘transitory’ (as the Fed proclaims).  We will not have stagflation.  We will have something worse.  We will have rising prices and a depression in the standard of living of most people.”

Dr. Faber says the U.S. stock market is “overpriced and over-owned.”

He likes stocks in foreign countries, real estate “far outside the cities” and physical gold, silver and some cash.  Faber also likes some crypto currency in one’s portfolio.

Dr. Faber is less worried about the economic picture and more worried about the rise of socialism and communism in the western world. Faber contends socialism destroys economies and liberty.  Faber points out,

“I can tell you one feature of all the socialist countries I have visited in my life, and all of them had less freedom, less happiness than we have, and the standards of living were substantially, not a little bit, but substantially lower than they are in the free capitalistic world. . . . I am sorry to say that I think the western world has gone down a very dangerous path where essentially, through zero interest rates, everything is free.  Then you get the unintended consequences.”

So, with inflation going up and the standard of living going down in the West, is the possibility of war going up?  Faber says,

“Correct.  I think once this Covid19 thing is over, the elite, the ones who make the money, will go to war.  That is the last recipe to keep the population together.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/central-bankers-are-criminals-marc-faber-warns-once-covid-over-elites-will-go-war

Abraham and America

This post comes from the weekly commentary of Rapture Ready published every Monday. It would sure seem that America is approaching the level of wickedness, greed, perversion and godlessness that Sodom must have had. It is our prayer that the Lord removes the righteous from America with the rapture. And who are the righteous?  Only those covered by the blood of the lamb, those with the Holy Spirit in dwelling them. We can’t guarantee we will be removed before America suffers a collapse but it continues to be our blessed hope.  And looking around at the condition of America and the world, we sure hope He comes for us soon!

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What does Abraham have to do with America? might be the question. No, not Abraham Lincoln, but Abraham, the progenitor of the Jewish race—one of the great, Old Testament fathers of faith in the One, True, Living God.

Thousands of years separate the United States of America from the time of Israel’s founding father, yet the linkage couldn’t be more apparent. Let’s explore what I mean.

We’ve examined the matter in various ways in our time together in these commentaries. Yet I sense it’s now most necessary to look more deeply into the connection. I believe the commonality of Abraham’s time to ours is undeniable.

Sodom’s Lot and Us

The comparison of Lot’s time in Sodom to us (believers) and our time in the present-day USA is astounding, really, in my view.

Sodom and Gomorrah were perhaps among the most highly successful commercial centers of the world at the time when Lot served in the gates of Sodom. He was apparently a city official—a judge—who rendered verdicts of various sorts in contested matters among the citizenry. It seems that just beneath the civility and smoothly operating society and culture of the time, however, there beat the heart of wickedness that emerged into violence and debauchery once the sun set each day.

We can only imagine what level of depravity could cause God, Himself, to come to earth and get a firsthand look at things going on.

Now, we know the Lord—the Creator of all that is—knew exactly what was going on in Sodom and Gomorrah. But He came, we can be almost certain, specifically so that there would be a record of the visit. I believe part of the reason for the visit was so you and I could consider the record of it these thousands of years later.

The chief sin of those cities—Sodom in particular—almost with a doubt, according to the scriptural record, was sexual activity of the most egregious nature.

God the Son, in a theophany appearance to Abraham, addressed the matter of Sodom and Gomorrah:

And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. (Genesis 18 20–21)

Particularly, sensual evil of every kind had progressed to sexual perversion of every sort. We know that the Apostle Paul reflected on the perverse nature of the activity thousands of years later:

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. (Romans 1:26–27)

Abraham, Lot’s uncle—when he finally figured out that he was in the presence of God, Himself—was terribly worried about what the Lord was about to do. Abraham, no doubt, knew about the evil going on in those heathen cities. He must have known that the Lord already knew all about it, too.

Abraham carefully and reverently approached the Lord, asking if He would spare the cities if the Lord could find first fifty righteous there, then thirty, then twenty, then ten.

The Lord said “yes” in every case. Abraham then must have concluded that his nephew and family were the only ones who were considered righteous in God’s holy eyes.

We don’t know what the population of those towns was, but the percentage of “righteous” within the total population must have been infinitesimally small. There just weren’t enough people who believed in God’s way to prevent destruction of the whole area.

In considering America and the degree of the wicked and perverse society and culture our nation has devolved into, here’s an interesting question that is relevant. We’ve heard it asked before:

“Might the Lord relent on our own nation’s well-deserved judgment and perhaps destruction if enough “righteous” (true believers in Christ) inhabit our land?”

We remember the quote attributed to Ruth Bell Graham, evangelist Billy Graham’s wife: “If God doesn’t judge America [for all the wickedness Mrs. Graham saw] He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.”

The Lord didn’t get angry at Abraham when He rather meekly sought God’s agreement to relent from His decision to destroy those depraved people. Surely there are more “righteous” in America, percentage-wise, than there were in Sodom and Gomorrah in Lot’s day.

On the other hand, in some ways, America, the most God-blessed nation in human history, materially speaking, and one of the most blessed, spiritually, has exceeded any other civilization in wickedness. Considering the slaughter of millions upon millions of the unborn—and the murder of babies even after birth—as well as the twisting of God’s natural order through LGBTQ and other perversion-engendered venues, can the Righteous Lord of Heaven even entertain our prayerfully issued question as He did Abraham’s?

Or is it time for Him, like in Lot’s day, to remove the righteous like He did in that troubled time of antiquity?

Perhaps, thinking on all the things we see developing, we are about to find out.

 https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/