Biggest Western Drought in History

 Stay tuned to what is happening out West with the drying up of Lake Mead and Lake Powell and the Great Salt Lake.  If these places go dry and millions of Americans are forced to relocate, that event would put enormous stress and pressure on a nation that is already at each other’s throats.  Violence would almost be guaranteed. Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas and Los Angeles all get their water from Lake Mead.  That’s millions of Americans.

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The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is a series of stories examining the dire effects of the drought on the states most affected — as well as the solutions Americans are embracing.

Nowhere is the Southwest’s worst drought since the year 800 more  evident than Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the pair of artificial Colorado River reservoirs whose plunging levels threaten major water and power sources for tens of millions of people.

Already, the region is being forced to adapt to the sweeping effects of climate change, and the lakes and their surrounding area are nearing an environmental point of no return.

The retreating waters have revealed everything from World War II-era boats to multiple sets of human remains, including one in a barrel, a morbid reminder of Las Vegas’s history of organized crime.

Lake Mead is projected to get down to 22 percent of its full capacity by year’s end, while Lake Powell is expected to drop to 27 percent, according to estimations from the federal Bureau of Reclamation. Both now sit at record lows.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3587785-dried-up-lakes-mead-and-powell-are-at-the-epicenter-of-the-biggest-western-drought-in-history/

This Can No Longer Be Covered Up

The disclosure, by governments from around the world, that “aliens” have come to us from out of this world, is happening.  People are talking about what they witnessed and governments are no longer trying to deny or cover up what is happening.

This story, which is a soon-released movie, tells about a UFO that landed in Brazil and the people of the town captured 2 “off world” beings.  Please remember this is a demonic deception, but the world is being prepped to believe they are actually beings that “evolved” on a far away planet. Ultimately they will believe the lie that these beings are here to help us.

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 Watch movie trailer here;  https://youtu.be/pE7hVSlk7Zw

China and Russia, With Help From Biden, Attack the Dollar

 Control the currency and you control the people.

As we have said numerous times over the years, America has had a huge advantage since WWII in that we have the world's only reserve currency.  And we own the printing press to the most important currency on the globe for the past 75 years!!

Of course the other powers on planet earth are not happy about this unfair advantage.

"The issue of creating an international reserve currency based on a basket of currencies of our countries is being worked out," said Vladimir Putin in June, at a meeting of the BRICS—Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa—grouping.

Russia and China have launched another attempt to develop a "new global reserve currency." In other words, they are again attacking the dollar.

A "coordinated global challenge taking place to the U.S. dollar... would be the biggest news story in decades," writes "Tyler Durden," the pseudonym for in-house staffers at the ZeroHedge site. Durden is "stunned that nobody seems to care that arguably the largest shift on the global macroeconomic playing field over the last half century may be taking place."

Hold the "shift" language. There's only one country that can dethrone the dollar, and it's not a BRICS nation. It's the United States. President Joe Biden is China's and Russia's biggest ally in "dedollarizing" the world.

The BRICS currencies are weak. Russia's ruble, although showing surprising strength of late, is tied to a country in long-term—and seemingly irreversible—decline. Moreover, the Russian Federation, thanks to its aggression and barbarism in Ukraine, is cementing its role as a pariah.

South Africa is a country going into reverse. Brazil, where a leftist is leading in the polls ahead of October's presidential election, is also not bound for economic glory. India, certainly large and arguably headed for riches, is just not ready for economic or financial leadership.

The success of the BRICS reserve currency, therefore, depends on the Chinese renminbi.

Many are optimistic about the "redback," as some now call it. David Goldman, for instance, talks about China "Sino-forming" the Global South and argues that renminbi usage will grow as a result.

Beijing touted the increase of usage of its currency in May, when the yuan, as Chinese money is informally known, accounted for 2.15% of global currency payments, according to the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, better known as SWIFT. That made it the world's fifth most-active currency.

Yes, May usage was up. In April, the comparable figure was 0.01% lower.

The overall trend is negative, however. The renminbi accounted for 3.2% of global transactions in January, making it the fourth most-used currency. In prior periods, the yuan was even more widely used.

There's a reason the renminbi is an international pipsqueak. What China especially lacks is the most important attribute for reserve currency status: free convertibility into other currencies.

Chinese leaders have consistently failed to make their money freely convertible. Before the Asian financial crisis of 1997, they promised to do so by the turn of the century. In January 2011, Yi Gang, then chief of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, promised China would make the renminbi convertible on the capital account—in other words, allowing the free repatriation of investment capital—in five years.

At the end of 2015, it was widely believed the Communist Party's Fifth Plenum would announce the abolition of all capital controls by 2020, the end of the country's 13th Five-Year Plan. The Party failed to make that promise, however. China is no closer to free convertibility now.

There have been, during the course of decades, small liberalizations in China, but the advances have often been formally reversed or not implemented. Beijing, for instance, in 2015 stopped outbound transfers of cash that were permitted by Chinese law, a move to reduce capital flight.

China under Communist Party rule cannot allow free convertibility. Beijing's economic model is dependent on cheap cash for state enterprises and state banks, which means the central bank severely depresses interest rates on deposits. If depositors had a choice, they would chase higher returns outside China. The country could not withstand the resulting stampede of cash leaving.

At the moment, cash is desperately trying to leave. The debt crisis—Beijing has accumulated debt in an amount equal to, say, 350% of gross domestic product—looks as if it will take China down. Evergrande Group and many other large property developers are defaulting on obligations; homeowners across the country are participating in the "mortgage boycott," refusing to pay banks on loans for apartments; suppliers to property developers are similarly refusing to pay bank loans; and banks are unable to honor deposits so depositors are protesting in the streets. As a result, foreign investors are withdrawing money from the bond markets, which are imploding. July marked the sixth straight month that money exited the country's bond markets. Who wants to hold a weak Chinese currency that is racing toward the edge of the cliff?

Furthermore, Xi Jinping, the Chinese ruler, believes in "absolute" control of every aspect of society. The idea of free convertibility, therefore, is almost certainly anathema to him. So until China completely abandons its model of economic development and removes Xi as ruler, the renminbi cannot dethrone the dollar. The Chinese failure to make their currency widely acceptable means, as a practical matter, the BRICS currency will never get off the ground.

The Russians and Chinese have been wanting to attack the dollar for decades, but now, despite everything, they see a real opportunity to succeed.

What are the attributes of a global reserve currency? It must be stable, it must be underpinned by a large and strong economy, it must be freely convertible, and it must be used widely.

Biden's policies undermine these attributes of the American currency. His insane spending plans will eventually weaken the dollar and therefore undercut its attractiveness as a store of value. That spending is made possible by issuing debt. America's national debt is now a staggering $30.64 trillion and climbing fast. Eventually, investors will turn their back on an ailing dollar. No one wants to keep their wealth in a currency constantly losing value.

Moreover, Biden has already pushed the American economy into two quarters of negative growth, a "recession," and his policies seem designed to continue and deepen the downturn.

Also, his imposition of dollar sanctions on Russia undercut one of the main advantages of the greenback: its near-universal acceptance and usability for transactions. As a result, the Chinese and Russians are trying to trade with each other in renminbi. Furthermore, the Chinese are working to get Saudi Arabia to accept the redback in payment of oil.

Meanwhile, Biden looks as if he is trying to kill the dollar. In Beijing and Moscow, they cannot believe their good fortune. An American president is undermining what Tucker Carlson correctly calls a "core American interest": maintaining the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency.

Americans should not remain overconfident. The only reason the greenback is still the world's reserve currency is because there is no practical alternative. China and Russia, however, are busy trying to figure out how to engineer a replacement. That is why they are at this moment pushing for a BRICS currency.

Here;  China and Russia—With Help from Biden—Attack the Dollar :: Gatestone Institute

Notice this paragraph;  What are the attributes of a global reserve currency? It must be stable, it must be underpinned by a large and strong economy, it must be freely convertible, and it must be used widely.

If you want a massive trigger for unrest in America, just toss out our privilege of owning the reserve currency.  You could do away with "free college" and "free health care" and issuing trillions of Government Bonds to pay for huge infrastructure investments.  If one day the USA had to come up with another currency in order to pay for anything, all of our lives would look totally different.  We have been living off a huge credit card with an unlimited credit balance!!

This of course could put enough strain on US citizens that our hatred and mistrust of "the other party" could spill into violence.

Certainly it could provide enough hatred pointed at each other to start the next Civil War that so many see coming.

We continue to be hopeful that Jesus will come for His bride before any of this actually happens.

That is "our blessed hope."

Trump Refuses to Answer NY Attorney General

 There seems to be a small firestorm burning around the Trump Mara-lago search and also his subpoena by the NY Attorney General.  Some believe that the FBI has been weaponized to go after anyone that those in power want them to go after.  Trump always said, "They'll be coming after me."

Former President Trump on Wednesday announced that he would not be answering questions in his court-ordered deposition in New York Attorney General Letitia James' three-year probe of his organization.

After arriving just before 9 a.m. at the AG's NYC headquarters, Trump released a statement which reads in part: "accordingly, under the advice of my counsel and for all of the above reasons, I declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution."

"I did nothing wrong, which is why, after five years of looking, the Federal, State and local governments, together with the Fake News Media, have found nothing," the statement continues. "We cannot permit a renegade and out-of-control prosecutor to use this investigation as a means of advancing her political career."

"I once asked, ‘If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?" Now I know the answer to that question," the statement continues.

James had insisted that Trump be deposed in person, Insider reports, after her office issued its original subpoena in December while investigating whether the Trump Organization misstated the value of various properties on financial documents - which James alleges were then used to obtain tax breaks and bank loans.

James' office is considering whether to file a civil suit against Trump, claiming in court filings that they have "uncovered substantial evidence establishing numerous misrepresentations" regarding Trump's financial statements to banks, insurers and the IRS.

Trump's legal team fought the December subpoena for more than six months - losing in both the State Supreme Court and in a Manhattan appeals court - after which the Trumps (Trump, Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump) agreed to sit for depositions - which were delayed by the death of Ivanna Trump on July 14. Both Trump Jr. and Ivanka sat for depositions last week.

Trump's refusal comes two days after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida - reportedly to find boxes of materials that the former president may have removed from the White House upon leaving office.

Trump's statement can be read below:

Here;  Trump Refuses To Answer NY AG's Questions At Deposition | ZeroHedge

Click on the link above and scroll down to read Trump's official statement on the matter.

It's interesting to ponder how parties seize power in other nations around the world.  Typically they try and silence their opposition.  They get the media on board to badger those with whom they disagree.  They will then use the "secret police" to try and find something arrest-worthy on their opposition. 

Could this be happening in America?  Some seem convinced that's exactly what's happening with Trump.  The establishment hates him so much that they are willing to spy on his campaign, make up phony charges about Russia collusion and finally they will try and pin a crime on him so that they could put him in jail or make sure he could never hold public office again.

If Trump did do something illegal then he needs to help accountable.  We simply don't know at this time what is going on.  No doubt his ego is so large that he maybe feels like he is above the law.  But just maybe Trump is a guy who desperately loves America and his 4 years in office was all about exposing the Deep State and now the Deep State is fighting back because they want him, and ultimately anyone with whom they disagree, silenced.

Stay tuned....

Implosion Coming for America?

We folks in America can see and feel the massive divide that has happened.  Folks on the Left literally hate folks who voted for Trump, the same folks who then cheered for SCOTUS throwing out abortion and refusing to pretend that a woman is man or a man is a woman just because they declare it.

But what does the rest of the world see when they look at America?  They see the mass shootings.  They see the political divide.  Europe hated Trump and they think his election points to the dire straights that has befallen America.

Check out what some in Europe are saying about America's implosion as they grind their teeth wondering WHO would be around to protect them from the boogey man if America implodes.

A peculiar cognitive dissonance seems to have taken hold in the world. The Western response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—led and propped up by the United States—has reminded the world that the international order is, if anything, more dependent on American military, economic, and financial might now than only a few years ago. Yet everywhere you turn, there is a sense that the U.S. is in some form of terminal decline; too divided, incoherent, violent, and dysfunctional to sustain its Pax Americana. Moscow and Beijing seem to think that the great American unwinding has already begun, while in Europe, officials worry about a sudden American collapse. “Do we talk about it?” Michel Duclos, a former French ambassador to Syria who remains well connected within Europe’s diplomatic network, told me, somewhat indignantly, after I asked whether an American implosion was ever discussed at the highest levels of government. “We never stop talking about it.” 

Again and again, when I spoke with officials, diplomats, politicians, and aides in Britain and Europe over the past few weeks, the same message came back. “It’s weighing on people’s minds, big time,” one senior European Union official told me, speaking, like most of those I interviewed, on condition of anonymity to freely discuss their concerns. From outside the U.S., many now see in America only relentless mass shootings, political dysfunction, social division, and the looming presence of Donald Trump. All of this seems to add up in the collective imagination to an impression of a country on the brink, meeting all the conditions for a descent into civil unrest.

Many Europeans have long considered American decline an inevitability and have looked to prepare themselves for such an eventuality. Pushed by Germany and France, the EU has sought out trade and energy deals with rival global powers, including Russia and China. The idea was that as the U.S. disengaged from Europe, the EU would step up.

But then Russia invaded Ukraine, and everything changed. Suddenly, Europe’s grand strategy was in tatters, and American strength seemed to reassert itself. Europe discovered it had not become more independent from the U.S. but more dependent on it. In fact, Europe was dependent on everyone: Russia for its energy, China for its trade, America for its security. In pursuing a slow, cautious disengagement from the U.S., Europe found itself in the worst of all worlds. And in a desperate bid to reverse out of the mess, it was forced to rush back into the arms of the very leviathan it fears might be not only slowly losing its power but in danger of suddenly imploding.

This, then, is the difficult situation of America’s protectorates today. Worried about the decline of the U.S., much of the American-led world has clung even more tightly to Washington than before. In Asia, the U.S. remains the only power capable of balancing against China’s bid for regional hegemony. In Europe, something similar is true with regard to Russia. To the continent’s eternal shame, as one senior British official told me, the apparently divided, dysfunctional, and declining power of the U.S. has still managed to send drastically more lethal aid to save a European democracy than any other NATO power.

Such is America’s continuing dominance, in fact, that the world’s fixation on the idea of its impending demise seems both a dramatic overreaction and a dramatic underreaction. The depth of America’s military-industrial complex and the scale of its imperial bureaucracy mean that they are simply too heavy for a single president or Congress to remove in one go. To an extraordinary degree, American power has been vaccinated against its own political dysfunction, as Trump’s time in office showed.

And yet the very weight of this Pax Americana means that if the vaccine ever stopped working, the consequences would be globally historic. In Poland and Japan, Taiwan and Ukraine, the very basis of the world order today rests on American supremacy. But besides talking about the fragility of these foundations, no one is actually doing anything to secure them.

Russia’s invasion has revealed the extent of Europe’s weakness, but this very weakness means that for most countries on the continent, the only rational thing to do is to avoid anything that might undermine American commitment. This, in turn, further increases Europe’s dependence on the U.S., and further entrenches the continent’s weakness, resulting in a vicious circle. “Ukraine has made it easier to read the writing on the wall,” as one senior EU official put it to me. “But it has also made it harder to do anything about it.”

Here;  https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/08/europe-america-military-empire-decline/670960/

Again, this article is interesting because it's talking about the implosion of America.  We know that one day America will implode.  We also know that when it does, the earth will become a very dark place because there isn't a line of really nice nations who love freedom, law, order, transparency and "innocent until proven guilty."  Nope!  Only despots, dictators and authoritarian regimes stand in line.

Some Americans hate America. Brittney Griner, WNBA pro, imprisoned in Russia on a drug charge, used to take a knee to the national anthem because she hated America and most likely supported the BLM false rhetoric. But guessing she would LOVE to come back to the country she hates!  I actually think she got some poetic justice.

"Civil War" Trending on Twitter After FBI Raid on Trump

 For the folks who think a Civil War is impossible to ever happen again in the USA, I would say to read your history books.  Right now it would take a certain trigger, like may economic collapse or empty food shelves or maybe a solar storm knocking out electricity.  But the anger and tension out there between the folks who can't say what a "woman" is even when they are marching at a "woman's rights" parade and the folks who know there have always been two genders, is getting palpable.  We will no co-exist much longer if we can't even speak the same language.  Something will someday have to give.

FBI agents raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla. on Monday night. Among the wide ranging reactions from the public, “Civil War” began trending on Twitter.

By about 9:30 p.m. EST – approximately three hours after Trump announced the FBI raid on his social media platform, Truth Social – “Civil War” had been tweeted more than 35,000 times and became trending in the Political figures and Politics categories.

Other users said the FBI’s actions were akin to waging civil war. Some who supported the raid accused Trump supporters of using the raid as an excuse to start civil war.

“National Divorce” was another trending keyword.

Here;  'Civil War' trending on Twitter after FBI raids Trump's Mar-A-Lago (americanmilitarynews.com)

Trump's House Raided by FBI

 This is pretty big news.  It definitely could be a turning point in America where those in power seek to harass and intimidate those whom they disagree with.  This would put America into the realm of banana republic...where political opponents are put in prison or maybe just disappear?

It wasn't enough for The Regime to concoct claims of treasonous Russian collusion to spy on his campaign, and then use the subsequent "investigations" to divert and destabilize his administration while covering up its misdeeds.

It wasn't enough for The Regime to execute two farcical impeachments and sabotage his every act in open insubordination and contempt—effectively forestalling a peaceful transfer of power, and depriving Americans of a full four years from which we would have all more richly benefited.

It wasn't enough for The Regime to do everything in its power to "fortify" the 2020 election against him, just as it wouldn't be enough for The Regime to disqualify him from the 2024 ballot—in defense of "democracy," of course—under the fraudulent pretext of an "insurrection."

The Regime wants President Donald J. Trump arrested, shackled, and left to rot in prison.

It is vengeful, rabid, and out for blood.

Monday's raid of Mar-a-Lago by the FBI—the latest in a string of third-world acts by an agency that considers itself so untouchable that its leader apparently deemed it acceptable to cut short a Senate oversight hearing days before the raid to jet off to a mountain retreat—is the first in a series of events poised to culminate in the attempted prosecution of Trump.

The specific legal grounds for the raid, like the grounds for the coming indictment, are really beside the point.

Trump's crime was, and always has been, that he threatened The Regime's power and privilege—in so doing, representing tens of millions of Americans who The Regime considers an impediment to its total control, and who it holds in utter contempt.

That's all the "predication" The Regime needed to pursue him from the day he emerged in Trump Tower to declare himself an unprecedented political force, and, since, treat all manner of like-minded Wrongthinkers the same.

The pretense of the rule of law is gone, and to delude oneself into thinking otherwise after the two-tier, Soviet standard of justice we have seen applied again and again over the last six years would be dangerous folly.

Having suffered what it perceived to be a near-death experience in the election of Donald Trump, The Regime must now show that anyone and everyone from the lowliest of non-violent January 6-ers held in pretrial detention to Trump himself can, and will, be crushed if they dare to not submit.

Those celebrating the Mar-a-Lago raid are condoning the very authoritarian behavior they claim to decry.

They are cheering on the transformation of America into something beneath a banana republic, into something even more demoralizing and devastating: the greatest nation in the history of mankind being reduced to a decaying and decadent dictatorship of the Woketariat.

We find ourselves in a dire circumstance in which our every critical institution is being, or has been turned, against itself, and trained on the very public it was supposed to serve.

The raid of the estate of a president by a lawless security apparatus on behalf of his successor represents the crossing of a civilizational Rubicon.

This is a time for choosing far starker and more precarious than the last time the phrase was used, because we have for so long chosen wrong.

Today, the choice is this: You either stand with our totalitarian regime, or you stand with the Americans it seeks to bring to heel.

Those who are silent will be complicit in the horrors to which our nation will be subjected.

Here;  FBI's Mar-a-Lago Raid Presents a Time for Choosing: The Regime, or America | Opinion (newsweek.com)

I have the very uneasy feeling that America is crumbling right before our eyes.  While it is true that God is no respecter of nations and sets up or tears down any that He chooses, it is still very hard to watch.  I feel bad for our kids and grandkids who will have to navigate in a nation that doesn't know who it is or where it is going.  They will need to work and live in a nation that can no longer define what marriage is, what a woman is, what a family is or who can even give birth anymore.

When you reject God, this is where you end up.

Churches Who Have Abandoned Scripture Are Collapsing

 The story from yesterday where a drag-queen show was performed in a church with children in attendance is the epitome of where our churches are going.  The push to preach the sermons that people want to hear remind us of the Last Days warnings from scripture of "tickling ears".  The number of congregations that ordain gay, lesbian and transgender ministers is appalling. 

When Jesus returns will he be able to find any faith on the earth?  Faith in the Word of God?

America is bad, but Europe left the reservation about 100 years ago.

When he ran for president in 2004, then-Senator John Kerry famously said of a vote to fund the Iraq war, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it."

Verbal gymnastics aside, Kerry's embarrassing attempt to explain himself pales in comparison to the statements coming out of this week's annual Lambeth Conference in Great Britain. The conference is a once-a-decade meeting of the world's Anglican bishops, convened by Anglicanism's leader, Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury. 

The incoherence emanating from this gathering of Anglican leaders is not isolated to a single offhand remark by an obscure churchman. As one British news headline put it, "Anglican church still tying itself in knots over same-sex marriage."

First, the Archbishop of Canterbury has affirmed the "validity" of the Anglican Communion's 1998 statement on human sexuality, which states, "in view of the teaching of Scripture, (the Communion) upholds faithfulness in marriage between a man and a woman in lifelong union, and believes that abstinence is right for those who are not called to marriage" and "(rejects) homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture." 

The document says Anglican leaders "cannot advise the legitimizing or blessing of same sex unions nor ordaining those involved in same gender unions."

The Archbishop also notes that "for the large majority of the Anglican Communion," questioning the traditional understanding of marriage "is unthinkable."

So far, so good. But then Archbishop Welby, long associated as a committed evangelical, takes with one hand what the other just offered. Referring to his call to the bishops to come to the Lambeth event, Welby writes, "other (church) provinces have blessed and welcomed same sex union or marriage, after careful theological reflection and a process of reception." 

He continues that these theological outliers "have not arrived lightly at their ideas that traditional teaching needs to change. They are not careless about scripture. They do not reject Christ. But they have come to a different view on sexuality after long prayer, deep study, and reflection on understandings of human nature."

And then, referring to the American and Canadian churches, Welby says, "For these churches not to change traditional teaching challenges their very existence."

First, if fidelity to Scripture means a loss of members or even ecclesiastical collapse, then "let God be true and every man a liar" (Romans 3:4). Is the survival of a denominational organization more important than obeying our Redeemer? Welby knows better.

Second, the "very existence" of the Episcopal Church in the United States already seems doomed. Researcher Ryan Burge, writing in 2019, reports that "The (median) age of an Episcopalian in 2019 was 69 years old. With life expectancy around 80, we can easily expect at least a third of the current membership of the denomination to be gone in the next 15 or 20 years."

The Episcopal Church itself notes that its membership is in rapid decline. As of 2019, there were about 1.8 million members -- down from 3.4 million members in the 1960s. "Average (Sunday) attendance fell to 518,411. ... Median attendance dropped from 53 worshippers to 51, while 61% of parishes saw attendance declines of 10% or more."

"The overall picture is dire -- not one of decline as much as demise within the next generation unless trends change significantly," according to Episcopal priest and denominational scholar Rev. Dwight Zscheile. "At this rate," he says, "there will be no one in worship by around 2050 in the entire denomination."

There is one overriding reason for this massive loss: People don't want to belong to a denomination that is Christian in name only. The American Episcopal Church, as a denomination, long ago abandoned steadfast allegiance to historic Christian orthodoxy. Rev. John Yates, for many years the rector of the large Falls Church Episcopal Church in Virginia left the denomination because of its failure to adhere to basic Christian doctrine.

So did the noted Christian scholar Os Guinness. In a 2007 Washington Post op-ed, they wrote, "The American Episcopal Church no longer believes the historic, orthodox Christian faith common to all believers. Some leaders expressly deny the central articles of the faith -- saying that traditional theism is 'dead,' the incarnation is 'nonsense,' the resurrection of Jesus is a fiction, the understanding of the cross (as an atonement for sin) is 'a barbarous idea,' the Bible is 'pure propaganda' and so on."

Is it any surprise, then, that traditional Anglicanism, which is evangelical in conviction, is thriving in the United States and around the world?

In his statement, Welby concludes, "We are deeply divided. That will not end soon. We are called by Christ himself both to truth and unity." This is true, but Welby should know that unity flows from a common commitment to the truth. When that commitment is forsaken, unity becomes an idol and an end unto itself. This is not the scriptural understanding of what oneness in Christ truly means.

John Kerry, in his losing presidential campaign, found out that you can't have things both ways. We can pray that Justin Welby and his senior advisors will come to acknowledge the same thing. There is no middle ground between truth and error. Good feeling is not unity, and turning from the Bible's teaching for the sake of even a cherished denomination is far too high a cost when it comes to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Here;  Churches That Have Abandoned Scripture Are On Road To Collapse (prophecynewswatch.com)

To the failing churches that deny scripture, we would say, "good riddance!"  They are most certainly filled with lukewarm "christians" who want to invent their own religions where doing nice things while never preaching about human depravity, is going to save their souls...if they even believe in hell anymore.

Gay Couple Arrested for Using Adopted Children to Make Porn Movies

 In a perfect world a loving father with his loving wife would adopt children and raise them with as much love as they would give to their own.

In a fallen world fathers and mothers divorce all the time and let the kids suffer the consequences.

In a really fallen world that has lost it's common sense, gay men (perverts) are allowed to adopt children because they can now legally marry and are considered a "perfectly normal couple".  This is wrong.

This story popped up today and I just feel sorrow for the kids involved.  

A Georgia couple has been charged with using their two adopted children to record child pornography, police said.

Walton County Sheriff’s Office raided a home in Loganville July 27 on reports that a man there was downloading child porn.

After interviewing the suspect, who was not identified, police said they learned there was another suspect in the county who was “producing homemade child sexual abuse material with at least one child who lived in the home,” the sheriff’s office said Thursday.

Around 11:30 p.m. that same night, executed a search warrant in Oxford at the home of William Dale Zulock, 32, and Zachary Jacoby Zulock, 35. 

Walton County’s Division of Family and Child Services joined deputies in responding to the home to help protect the two brothers who lived there.

During their search, deputies found evidence the pair, who were the children’s adoptive fathers, “were engaging in sexually abusive acts and video documenting this abuse,” the sheriff’s office said.

Both men were charged with aggravated child molestation, sexual exploitation of a child and enticing a child for indecent purposes, WSBTV reported. William Zulock was additionally charged with child molestation.

Here;  Georgia couple William Zulock, Zachary Zulock charged with using their adopted children to make child porn (nypost.com)

I can only imagine the difficulty these young boys will have in overcoming the demons that would have been let loose when their adoptive fathers were sexually abusing them.  Jesus can heal all things but this is just nasty and tragic.  We don't believe gay men should be able to adopt children.  It's not a normal lifestyle and it certainly is not a God-honoring lifestyle.

They Aren't Even Trying to Hide it Anymore

 Satan and demon worship has always been with us since Nimrod in Babel.  But recently it seems to have taken on some brand new momentum.  A handful of years ago we posted the bizarre opening ceremony of a tunnel linking France and Switzerland and that was taken right out of some strange vision of hell.  Today we find out about the opening ceremony at the Commonwealth Games and it appears to be another demon worshipping event.

They aren't even trying to hide it anymore.  During the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England on July 28th, a giant mechanical bull with glowing red eyes was rolled out into the center of Alexander Stadium.  The bull was approximately 10 meters high, and it took more than five months to build.  It had been given the nickname "Raging Bull", and it absolutely dwarfed all of the human participants that were involved in the performance.  

The "hero" of the opening ceremony, a character known as Stella, calmed the creature down and then all of the human performers gathered around the giant bull and literally began to bow down and worship it.  I have seen a lot of really weird things in recent years, but I have never seen anything quite like this.

A total of 72 nations participate in the Commonwealth Games, and so this opening ceremony was being viewed on countless television screens all over the planet.

The symbolism in this "ritual" was well planned in advance, and the organizers knew exactly what they were doing.

But they were also counting on the fact that the vast majority of the general population would not consciously catch on to what was actually taking place.

The bull has always been a symbol of an ancient deity from the Middle East known as "Baal".  The following comes from Christianity.com...

In artistic depictions and archeological finds, Baal took the shape of a bull or ram and had associations with fertility.

This god also, apparently according to Canaanite lore, defeated El and had associations with the sun and thunder. And of all the foreign gods the Israelites came into contact with, they appeared to struggle the most with worshipping this one.

If we could go back thousands of years and roll out a giant bull with glowing red eyes for the people of the ancient Middle East, they would instantly understand what was going on.

Nobody would need to tell them that it was a statue of Baal and that they were intended to worship it.

An article that was posted on WorldHistory.org details the period of time in which the symbol of the bull first started to become associated with Baal...

Baal Hadad originated in Mesopotamia under the names Adad in the north and Iskur in the south. He is attested as early as the time of the Akkadian Empire (2334-2218 BC) but became more popular after the fall of the Third Dynasty of Ur (2047-1750 BC) during the First Babylonian Empire (c. 1894 to c. 1595 BC). Even so, at this time, he was not a major deity and was often associated with the storm god Ninurta as a subordinate or with the great god Enlil as a kind of personal secretary. It was during this time, however, that he came to be associated with the bull as his sacred animal, which would become a prominent aspect of his iconography later.

It has also been announced that this giant bull will have a permanent place in Birmingham once the games are over.

The elite love to use opening ceremonies, awards shows and other public spectacles to mentally and emotionally condition us.

And when they pull stunts like this, they know that only a very small fraction of the general population will ever object.

We live in very strange times, and I believe that they are only going to get weirder.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of the population is still dead asleep.

They have no idea what the elite are doing, even though it is happening right in front of their eyes.

Here;  Disturbing Symbolism As Commonwealth Games Recreate Worship Of Baal (prophecynewswatch.com)

We would agree wholeheartedly that we live in very strange times.  And yes, they are only going to get weirder because more and more people are choosing to reject their Creator, Jesus Christ.  And as the world closes in on 8 billion people, ALL OF THOSE 8 BILLION are sinners.  The weight of sin on the world grows ever larger.  And of those 8 billion, how many do you suppose have surrendered their lives to Jesus Christ and have been born again with the Holy Spirit dwelling inside of them?  The Holy Spirit in these few folks can RESTRAIN evil on earth but cannot conquer or do away with evil on earth.  But when you start to have only 6% of Americans left with a biblical worldview, the evil and sin will begin to swamp the boat.  We are seeing this in America and Europe is at least 100 years ahead of us in their rejection of Christ.