Congress Sneaks in Crypto Currency Legislation

This isn’t a law yet, but we can see how the world continues to move towards everyone being forced away from cash and into an electronic currency. We know that Bitcoin won’t be allowed by the governments of the world for very long. There is no way they can afford to give up control of their currencies. But we can see the movement towards having their own. And yes, there will be a record of everything bought and sold.  And yes, one day you will need to show a mark in order to buy or sell anything.  We are the first generation to have the technology to fulfill Revelation and Daniel prophecies.

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As we saw, the Federal Reserve does not have the power to create Dollars directly. It seem like this power is now to be granted to them. Given that these new Reserve Notes are digital, this strangely merges two distinct forms of money as well.

Next, we saw that the distribution of Dollars was done through member banks. It isn’t clear if this remains the case. It clearly says that these digital Dollars can be issued “in addition” to the current Federal Reserve notes. There is nothing, at least not in this law, preventing the Federal Reserve from taking a more centralized and direct role in distributing the digital Dollar. Perhaps during the next “emergency.”

And finally, the Federal Reserve Board is to be authorized to create and distribute a “ledger-based” digital Dollar that could be used for everyday transactions. There are a few technologies one could imagine, but let us for now assume this will be a blockchain. Blockchains are great for recording transactions; it is what they do.

Perhaps that is why the Federal Reserve will be authorized to do so? However, it is a bit hard to imagine that such a centralized structure would not lead to monitoring of all transactions. And what about privacy? What about security?

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-congress-quietly-sneaks-crypto-bill-amendment-authorizing-central-bank-digital

Postal Workers ARE Part of Vaccine Mandate

 The news had originally come out that postal workers were going to be exempt from vaccine mandate. Some had speculated that the reason for this was the amount of money given by postal union to Biden campaign. This has now been updated as untrue. Postal workers WILL fall under Biden’s mandate.

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USPS has more than 600,000 employees, according to the Pew Research Center.

But the Post reporter later issued an update on Twitter to reflect that the information was incorrect.

"JUST IN: White House official now says USPS workers ARE part of the federal vaccine mandate under OSHA jurisdiction, though technically not under the executive order," Bogage tweeted, adding that he had deleted the previous Twitter thread based on earlier reporting. 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/09/16/fact-check-postal-workers-follow-osha-vaccine-guidance/8295566002/

Supreme Court Sets Date to Hear Abortion Arguments

 As ultra-sounds become 3-D and incubators and technology start saving ever younger babies, it’s becoming harder for the pro-abortion crowd to deny that women are carrying unique human beings in their wombs. They aren’t blobs of cells, as once thought, but have their own hearts, fingers and brains at a very young age. Science is getting harder for the Left to ignore.

Think about this;  today a woman who is 20 weeks pregnant decides she wants the baby dead for whatever reason she decides. So she walks into Planned Parenthood and they kill the baby, she pays them and goes home. But let’s say that same woman carrying the exact same baby goes into early labor and they rush her to hospital and deliver that same baby into an incubator where doctors do everything in their power to keep the baby alive. Later that day the woman decides she doesn’t want to be a mother, she can’t afford all this hospital stuff and she just wants to go home. So she goes to her baby in the incubator and plunges a scissors into its head and flushes it down the toilet.  Now this woman would be charged with murder.  Figure that one out. Same woman-same baby.  

We pray to the God of Creation, that this blight of millions of babies killed in America, sacrificed to the god of Convenience, the god of Mammon and the god of Death, will one day end.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear arguments in a critical abortion case on Dec. 1.

In the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to Mississippi’s law restricting most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, the court will decide the question of whether all state abortion bans pre-viability are unconstitutional. “Viability” is the court’s legal standard from 1973, regarded as the point at which an unborn child can survive outside the womb.

The court on Monday announced the date of oral arguments in the Dobbs case, scheduled for Dec. 1. Both the state of Mississippi and the abortion clinic challenging the law will have an opportunity to present arguments in-person to justices both for and against the law.

The Dobbs case is considered to be the latest and perhaps the best opportunity for pro-life advocates to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. States, the court ruled in Roe, could not ban abortions pre-viability.

https://www.ncregister.com/cna/supreme-court-sets-argument-date-for-challenge-to-roe-v-wade

HHS Whistleblower Saying Big Problems With Vaccine

 We have suspected and heard that many, many doctors ARE NOT reporting adverse reactions that happen when people get their COVID shot.  It takes too long and Doctors and nurses are not going to take the time to fill it out.  They also are concerned that they will get in trouble from co-workers and their employers if they start pointing out negative events around this experimental shot.

"This is evil at it's highest level!", says the nurse/whistleblower.

It's interesting that this nurse says that her faith is in God and not in men.  She also uses the word "evil" which for most believers denotes a spiritual battle.

You can watch this 13 minute Project Veritas video here.  Evidently Facebook is not allowing this video to be shared on their platform.

Crazy what is happening to free speech in this country.  We all need to stand up before it's too late and free speech is gone.

Watch it here;  https://youtu.be/obdI7tgKLtA

Hat tip to Christine P.

War Drums Sound Between USA and China

 After the year of COVIDs and all the confusion and division this has caused, can one even imagine what it might look like in the country if war broke out between China and America? 

China may very well be in big financial trouble and if they are close to collapse they may decide that a war with America might be just the ticket to take people's eyes off their bad decisions.

Remember, China wants Taiwan and America is the only thing standing in their way.

In any case, as far as prophecy goes, this would fall under WARS and RUMORS OF WAR.

Are we in danger of stumbling into a major military conflict?  This week, a couple of startling revelations have really shaken up those that closely watch U.S. relations with China.  

The relationship between our two nations continues to deteriorate, and we are now closer to a war with China than we have ever been since the end of the Korean War.  

This is something that I have been warning about for a long time, and I am extremely alarmed by what has just been revealed.  But for most Americans, a war with China is so improbable that it isn't even worth thinking about.  

In fact, if you put together a list of all the issues that the American people are concerned about, war with China would probably not even make the top 1000.  

Here in the United States, it is pretty much a non-issue, because the vast majority of the population does not think that such a war will ever happen in their entire lifetimes.

But over in China they see things very differently.  In fact, state-controlled media outlets openly talk about an invasion of Taiwan and a future military conflict with the United States.

To the Chinese, reunification with Taiwan is a top national priority, and the U.S. military is the only thing standing in the way of achieving that extremely important goal.

In recent years, the U.S. military has conducted "freedom of navigation" exercises in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea as a "show of strength" to China.

In response, the Chinese Navy is now conducting "freedom of navigation" exercises off the coast of Alaska.  The following comes from Zero Hedge...

The US Coast Guard revealed a significant incident involving Chinese military vessels coming near American waters off Alaska. While the incident was first divulged to the public on Monday, it happened at the end of August.

No less than four People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy ships were spotted and shadowed by US vessels off Alaska's Aleutian Islands, including a guided missile destroyer and guided missile cruiser, as well as an intelligence gathering vessel and auxiliary ship. They stayed in international waters but came within the United States' exclusive economic zone.

Needless to say, this is extremely unusual.

According to a Coast Guard news release, Chinese vessels actually came as close as 46 miles to U.S. territory...

During the deployment, Bertholf and Kimball observed four ships from the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) operating as close as 46 miles off the Aleutian Island coast. While the ships were within the U.S. exclusive economic zone, they followed international laws and norms and at no point entered U.S. territorial waters.

The PLAN task force included a guided missile cruiser, a guided missile destroyer, a general intelligence vessel, and an auxiliary vessel. The Chinese vessels conducted military and surveillance operations during their deployment to the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean.

This "intrusion" made a lot of people angry, but the truth is that the Chinese are only doing this because of what we have been doing to them for several years.

Most Americans don't realize this, but our relations with China have been going down the tubes for a long time.  By the end of the Trump administration, things were so tense that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called his counterpart in China twice to assure him that we were not about to launch some sort of an attack...

Twice in the final months of the Trump administration, the country's top military officer was so fearful that the president's actions might spark a war with China that he moved urgently to avert armed conflict.

Here;  War Drums - The US May Not Be Able To Avoid Conflict With China (prophecynewswatch.com)

Chinese military ships off the coast of Alaska?!  Oh my!

Who knows?  Maybe a war with a foreign enemy would be exactly what America needs to bring OUR Left and Right together?  Most likely videos of Chinese invading Alaska would make Covid vaccine mandates yesterday's news.  How about the Chinese attacking California?  Remember when the city of Berkley denied the US Marines to have a recruiting office in their city?  They thought that the violence of the US Military wasn't a good thing so they wanted no footprint of the nasty US soldiers in THEIR city.  We blogged about that probably 10 years ago and said then, "If the Chinese ever invade California we hope they decide to attack Berkley so the city council will realize that US Marines aren't so bad after all!"

Democrats View Unvaxed Americans as Bigger Threat Than Russia/China

 The divide continues to grow and it very well could lead to violence between the vaxed vs. the unvaxed.

According to a new survey by Scott Rasmussen, more Democrats thought Donald Trump supporters (57 percent) and unvaccinated Americans (56 percent) posed serious threats than any other groups, even foreign adversaries like the Taliban (44 percent), China (44 percent), or Russia (37 percent). 

The survey of registered voters conducted on September 8 asked respondents to indicate which groups they believed constituted a serious threat to the nation.

Meanwhile, Republicans were most likely to consider the Taliban (66 percent), China (58 percent), and Defund the Police activists (62 percent) as serious threats. Voters who belonged to neither party were most likely to identify the same three top threats as Republicans -- the Taliban (46 percent), China (45 percent), and Defund the Police activists (36 percent) -- though to a lesser extent.

These results show partisan polarization is "intensifying" in America, said Rasmussen, and we are returning to "the same kind of dynamic" as 1968. The break between left and right is accelerating. Since the 2016 election, many Americans have lost friends over politics; persuasion is not just impossible, but virtually unimaginable. 

The anti-social behaviors of the past 18 months (lockdowns, masks, "social distancing") have taken their toll. Black-and-white oversimplifications lead many to assume others' political leanings and moral worth based on superficial or trivial decisions. Riots have boosted fears.

That's what drives it all: fear.

When the coronavirus pandemic first broke, "people treated it like it was a death sentence," said Rasmussen. Now that we have four effective vaccines and a dozen effective treatments, "Republicans and independents tend to say, 'If I get it, I'll get over it pretty quickly.'" Heart disease is still killing more Americans than the coronavirus. Although, Rasmussen pointed out, "if you're in the hospital [with COVID], it's probably because you weren't vaccinated. So you're bringing this on yourself."

Meanwhile, Democratic opinion-setters, led by the president himself, still pitch about in a quagmire of their own making, fixing their increasingly irrational fear -- and ire -- on the unvaccinated as potential pathogen spreaders. "I think we have to stop coddling people" who refuse the vaccine, said CNN host Don Lemon last night. He rebuked people saying, "'Oh, you can't shame them. You can't call them stupid. You can't call them silly.' Yes, they are."

While on the subject, it's impossible to ignore the culpability of CNN, Fox News, Facebook, and all the partisan media of both sides build their business on fear. Our partisan media have turned modern American politics into fear games. 

Fear of Hillary Clinton elected Donald Trump, and fear of Donald Trump elected Joe Biden. In Rasmussen's survey, for every single group tested, independent voters considered a serious threat less than the national average, showing that partisans are on average more fearful.

Political division can lead to violence, Rasmussen warned. "Politicians have to make bigger and stronger promises to get out their base. But they don't have the ability to deliver." Electoral margins become slimmer, and compromise becomes impossible. Quoting political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, Rasmussen said the "simple recipe for violence" is "promise people a lot and do nothing." So when will someone stand back from the brink?

Christians should lead the way in seeking peace, although not as the world does it. Quench your fears by sticking your head in the Word, not the sand. As the Lord instructed Isaiah, "Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. But the Lord of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread" (Isaiah 8:12 ESV).

Here;  Democrats View Unvaccinated Americans As Bigger Threat Than Russia/China (prophecynewswatch.com)

Do not fear what THEY fear!  Don't be in dread over what is coming!  Fear the Lord and let him be your dread!"

Remember, our blessed hope is that this major birth pang is moving us one step closer to the Bridegroom calling us all home with the sound of the trumpet!  Let's continue to let the things of this earth grow dim. Let's focus even more on the promises of God and the glorious future he has planned for us.